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Dame Maggie Smith: Oscar-winning Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star dies, aged 89

Giant of stage and screen was one of Britain’s most successul stars

The Independent UK

Barbara Leigh-Hunt obituary

Highly expressive actor of impeccable technique that could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy

The Guardian - UK

Daisy Edgar-Jones to star in new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Rebecca Frecknall will direct Normal People actor in Tennessee Williams classic at Almeida theatre in London, opening in December

The Guardian - UK

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‘It was a true privilege to witness his talent firsthand’: readers on James Earl Jones

From memorable meetings to seeing him on stage, and learning late that he had voiced Darth Vader, Guardian readers remember a great and generous actor

The Guardian - UK

Strange Relations by Ralf Webb review – brave new queer world

A richly rewarding account of how four literary giants created an erotic revolution in post-war American culture

The Guardian - UK

Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

The Guardian - UK

A Streetcar Named Desire review – Nikki Shiels is majestic but she’s no Blanche

Melbourne Theatre CompanyShiels often uses her extraordinary voice for comedic effect under direction that seems determined to wrest the classic away from poeticism to the almost ribald

The Guardian - AU

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Streetcar is a modern take but keeps to original script

The actors involved in MTC's A Streetcar Named Desire know they have enormous shoes to fill and have risen to the challenge while being sensitive to the theme.

AAP

Dracula review – a clever and playful victory lap for Kip Williams’ gothic cine-theatre trilogy

Zahra Newman is remarkable in the director’s last production with the company

The Guardian - AU

More than a contender: Marlon Brando’s greatest performances – ranked!

Lovers, fighters … and gangsters? On the centenary of the actor’s birth, we pick out his greatest roles

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - London theatreland is about to get the mother of all kicks up the backside

A couple of Fridays ago, a friend WhatsApped me to say she’d been left a free ticket for that night’s performance of Plaza Suite. Her plus one for the West End debut of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick was having her beloved dog put down. I wouldn’t describe the…

Evening Standard

Wish You Were Here director David Leland dies aged 82

The British film-maker also wrote the landmark TV play Made in Britain, starring Tim Roth, and won an Emmy award for Band of Brothers

The Guardian - UK

David Leland: Pierce Brosnan leads tributes to Band of Brothers director after his death aged 82

David Leland died on Christmas Eve surrounded by his family

Evening Standard

Rare Raymond Chandler poem is a tribute to his late wife, with a surprising twist

A rare and newly published Raymond Chandler poem is an ode to his late wife, Cissy, that holds a surprising plot twist

The Independent UK

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Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan: the Evening Standard Theatre Awards Best Actresses on their winning sister act

The pair were gobsmacked when they were both named as joint winners

The Guardian - UK

Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

The Guardian - AU

My Brilliant Career to be adapted into a pop-rock musical as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2024 lineup

‘Joyful’ new show to cap off MTC season also featuring Pulitzer-winning plays Topdog/Underdog and English, and a ‘fresh take’ on A Streetcar Named Desire

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 summer love stories

With holidays, light evenings and heat, it is a season that goes naturally with romance, as authors from F Scott Fitzgerald to Maggie O’Farrell show

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Pitlochry Festival Theatre puts on refined performance of A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire at Pitlochry Festival Theatre

The Guardian - UK

A Streetcar Named Desire review – rage restrained, then turned up to 11

Kirsty Stuart’s Blanche is convincingly respectable in this revival of the Tennessee Williams classic, before she spectacularly unravels

Daily Record

Ex-River City star Nalini Chetty feels 'more avenues open to biracial actors' than 15 years ago

Ahead of starring as Stella in Pitlochry Theatres' A Streetcar Named Desire the actress looks back on a busy couple of years appearing in Karen Pirie, Six Four and upcoming Crime 2.

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Taylor’s 20 best performances – ranked!

As Cleopatra turns 60, and its star’s romance with Richard Burton becomes the subject of a new play at the National, we take a trip down the Queen of the Nile’s finest films

The Guardian - UK

Gays on Broadway by Ethan Mordden review – stage whispers

A gossipy, insightful survey of the (often closeted) gay contribution to American theatre

The Independent UK

Scorsese to stir Cannes again, 47 years after 'Taxi Driver'

When Martin Scorsese premieres his latest film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20th, it will return Scorsese to a festival where he remains a part of its fabled history

The Guardian - UK

Patsy Ferran wins Critics’ Circle theatre award for 11th-hour Streetcar role

Lizzie Annis wins best newcomer and Arthur Hughes wins best Shakesperean performance as actors with disabilities take two prizes

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