The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has diedSir Michael Gambon, whose extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National...
Read MorePerformers and producers say arts are being ‘sanitised’ amid more sensitive attitudes towards swearing and sexual politicsAn annual “poster war” has raged between rival promoters for as long as the...
Read MoreThorne played Marjory Frobisher in the sitcom from 1979 to 1981 and voiced the queen in The BFGThe actor Angela Thorne, best known for starring in the popular BBC sitcom To the Manor Born, has died aged 84.Thorne played Marjory...
Read MoreChart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failureHarry Belafonte, the singer, actor and civil rights activist who broke down racial barriers, has died...
Read MoreFamed for personas that also included the vulgar Sir Les Patterson, Humphries became a household name in a seven-decade careerBarry Humphries, the Australian comedian and actor best known for his creations Dame Edna Everage and...
Read MoreResidents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productionsThe BBC and the National Theatre are facing rising hostility over two high-profile productions about the Grenfell Tower fire...
Read MoreAwards for Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley among musical’s wins, with Life of Pi also recognised in several categoriesAn intimate revival of the musical Cabaret, which transformed London’s Playhouse theatre into...
Read MoreTracy-Ann Oberman, Donna Air and Annie Lennox will perform in the one-off fundraising West End dramaWomen’s experiences of domestic and sexual violence will be dramatised in a West End theatre next week to “give...
Read MoreScoring his first big hit with West Side Story at 27, the US composer and lyricist raised the art form’s status with moving and funny masterpieces including Follies and Company‘His songs are like a fabulous...
Read MoreBringing charisma to the hugely successful band, Harding was diagnosed in August 2020 and wrote a memoir during her illnessThe pop singer and TV personality Sarah Harding, who had 21 UK Top 10 singles as a member of Girls Aloud,...
Read MoreLaura Wade, writer of Posh and Home, I’m Darling, criticises government’s attitude to industry as unions fight cuts to performing arts degreesThe government has insufficiently supported the crisis-hit theatre...
Read MoreKwame Kwei-Armah says theatre can never go back to being something that can only be experienced by physically being thereThe Young Vic plans to livestream all of its future productions, its artistic director has said, insisting...
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