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SHOCKING: 4 | Mind Blowing Facts

Actor whose blond hair and fine-boned looks saw him cast equally as dandy, devil or – in A Room With a View – heart-throb

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Stephen Tompkinson stars as playwright Samuel Beckett in first show since trial

The British actor was cleared of inflicting GBH earlier this month.

The Independent UK

Dennis Potter script discovered that casts new light on The Singing Detective

Unknown work The Last Television play found in writer’s archive features scenes that later appeared in BBC series

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Dame Joan Bakewell discovers benefits of lunchtime nap after turning 90 amid cancer fight

Veteran broadcaster and journalist Dame Joan Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is currently 12 chemotherapy sessions into ongoing treatment following an operation to remove colon cancer

Daily Mirror

‘We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences

On Good Friday, police were called to a performance of The Bodyguard – and there have been numerous other examples of audiences behaving badly. With crowds heckling, screaming, livestreaming and even copulating during shows, what can be done?

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2023: full list of winners

My Neighbour Totoro, A Streetcar Named Desire and Prima Facie were among the winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

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Irving Wardle obituary

Distinguished critic who chronicled the development of British theatre through a postwar golden age

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Olivier awards 2023: complete list of nominations

My Neighbour Totoro leads the way with nine nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running

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John Malkovich on best friend Julian Sands: ‘Jules was such a storyteller, and so, so funny’

The actor reflects on the pair’s new film together, Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes, as ‘a pretty fitting tribute’ and shares memories of the ‘boy who grew up wild on the moors’

The Guardian - UK

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons play – how silence and body language can communicate as much as words

When we talk to each other, there’s what we say out loud, what we wish we could say, and what we’re saying without saying anything at all.

The Conversation

Hampstead theatre director quits after Arts Council 100% funding cut

The London venue known for nurturing Mike Leigh, Harold Pinter, Hanif Kureishi and Abi Morgan ‘can no longer continue solely as a new writing theatre’, says outgoing artistic director Roxana Silbert

The Guardian - UK

My father’s films changed how British cinema saw the poor. Today, they repay a second look

With films such as 1960’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Karel Reisz was a pioneer in reshaping perceptions of ordinary Britons. I think there’s still lots to learn from them

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Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman to star in drama about a word-rationed world

The actors will bring a revival of Sam Steiner’s 2015 play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons to London, Manchester and Brighton, directed by Josie Rourke

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James Roose-Evans obituary

Founder director of the Hampstead theatre club who brought landmark productions to the London stage

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Mark Brown: Powerful dramas from Perthshire to Hungary

May Sumbwanyambe has made a particularly excellent contribution to Scotland’s reckoning with its too often neglected role in the horrors of the…

The Guardian - UK

Stumped review – at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

Shomit Dutta’s play imagines the two cricket-obsessed Nobel prize winners as waiting batsmen in an enjoyable spin on Waiting for Godot and The Dumb Waiter

The Guardian - UK

Guz Khan: ‘I didn’t have an agent, I just had my mates’

The comedian talks about his hunt for fresh talent, the new series of Man Like Mobeen and how one disastrous standup gig led to multiple arrests

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Beckett batting, Henry VI and a South African dance-off

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes an intelligent political drama, a reimagined As You like It and a play about Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s passion for cricket

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The Guardian - UK

Batting for Godot: the play about Beckett and Pinter teaming up for a game of cricket

The two titans of modern drama were both cricket obsessives. What if they had faced the fast bowlers together? Playwright Shomit Dutta explains why he made it happen – with darkly comic drama Stumped

The Guardian - UK

‘The first time I did cocaine, I thought: That’s expensive’ – Keith Allen on his wild years

He blazed through the 90s, an explosive mix of hellraising laddishness and sheer comic talent. As the 68-year-old resurfaces in Rehab, a musical about a drug-addicted pop star, he hits the Groucho to relive his triumphs and ponder his regrets

The Guardian - UK

Joan Bakewell: ‘Life hasn’t got duller as I’ve got older. Less thrilling, perhaps’

The grande dame of broadcasting has, at 89, a new TV series and a book due out. Here she discusses painting, politics and swapping hot dishes with her lockdown neighbours

The Times of India

Malorie Blackman awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2022, becomes first children's and YA author to win it

Author Malorie Blackman is awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2022, which makes her the first children’s and Young Adult writer to win the award. Blackman has penned over 70 children and YA books.

The Independent UK

Malorie Blackman becomes first young adult author to be awarded PEN Pinter Prize

Blackman has written more than 70 books for children and young adults, including the popular Noughts And Crosses series.

The Guardian - UK

Malorie Blackman’s ‘dynamic imaginary worlds’ win her the PEN Pinter prize

Noughts & Crosses author praised by judges for ‘challenging issues of injustice in a way that is totally engaging’

Daily Mirror

Danny Dyer opens up on new show as wife reveals her fears when he left EastEnders

Danny Dyer and Jo Mas share a laugh as the actor prepares to exit Eastenders after spending nine years playing Mick Carter on the long-running soap opera, and Danny has plenty plans for the future

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