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Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Gillian Anderson are contenders.
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Fancy oysters with your Shakespeare?
Friday, 29 January 2010
Archaeologists discover that theatregoers liked to snack on seafood during performances in Tudor times
From method acting to madness
Friday, 29 January 2010
It was intended as a highbrow theatrical rendition of a Soviet-era poem, but the actors staging it at Frankfurt's prestigious Schauspielhaus took the programme notes – "a crazy depiction of one of the most famous alcoholic benders in world literature" – a little too literally. The performance ended with seriously inebriated actors falling off the stage, and one actor going berserk in an ambulance that was summoned by backstage staff.
Cantona launches stage career as a man facing death
Monday, 25 January 2010
The former Manchester United footballer will make his first live performance off the Champs Elyseés
Frankenstein draws Slumdog director Danny Boyle back to live theatre
Friday, 22 January 2010
After describing his career as a filmmaker as a 15-year "distraction", Danny Boyle, the Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, is set to return to his original role as a theatre director with a "spectacular" production of Frankenstein that he first conceived almost a decade ago.
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Sunday, 17 January 2010
The chance to step into Carlos Acosta's shoes last week was a dream come true for Rupert Pennefather.
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009
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Sunday, 6 December 2009
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Curtain rises on new dawn for Iraqi theatre
Friday, 27 November 2009
As the clock strikes eight, the curtain is raised at the Iraqi National Theatre in what actors hope is a return to regular night-time performances, six and a half years after the US invasion.
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FIVE BEST PLAYS
The Whisky Taster
(The Bush, London)
James Graham’s brilliantly pacey and culturally penetrating new comedy is set in the advertising world. It’s directed with a quick-witted, uncanny flair by James Grieve.
(020 8743 5050) to 20 Feb
The Caretaker
(Trafalgar Studios, London)
Christopher Morahan’s near-flawless staging, with Jonathan Pryce as the tramp surveying the flotsam a shipwrecked life has washed up in a room in Shepherd’s Bush.
(0844 871 7615) to 17 Apr
Greta Garbo Came to Donegal
(Tricycle Theatre, London)
Nicolas Kent’s atmospheric and beautifully acted and designed production of Frank McGuinness’s emotionally rich new play stars Caroline Lagerfelt as the Swedish actress Greta Garbo.
(020 7328 1000) to 20 Feb
Blood Brothers
(Phoenix Theatre, London)
It can be dangerous to parachute a pop star into a much-loved musical, but Mel C, the Spice Girl who could sing, is brilliant as Mrs Johnstone, the beating heart of Willy Russell’s drama and a luminous stage presence even as her character grows more careworn and downtrodden. Stephen Palfreman and Richard Reynard are quite superb as the blood brothers, too, growing up in front of our eyes from catapult-wielding tykes to responsible young men.
(0845 505 8500) to 31 Jul
Sweet Charity
(Menier Chocolate Factory, London)
Tamzin Outhwaite is the eponymous Teflon-coated kook in this genuinely joyous revival of the musical about a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance-hall.
(020 7907 7060) to 7 Mar