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John Osborne

May 2021

  • Jimmy Akingbola and Simon Harrison in a production of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at Jermyn Street theatre in 2008.

    David Hare: Covid-hit UK theatre needs a John Osborne-inspired revolution

    Playwright mulls mass appeal of Osborne, who is being honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque

January 2021

  • John Heilpern, theatre writer and critic

    John Heilpern obituary

    Critic and author of two theatre classics who, over a career of more than 50 years, interviewed many of the greats

April 2020

  • Parasite

    Lockdown culture
    Will the lockdown trigger a new wave of kitchen sink cinema?

    Life under lockdown could inspire new film-makers to revive a genre that thrives on tensions that brew under one roof

March 2018

  • Ian Jack

    How 1960s cinema gave us a glimpse of our future lives

    Ian Jack
  • Arias of self-hate … Mary Ure and Richard Burton.

    Look Back in Anger review – Richard Burton rages in a revealing rerelease

February 2018

  • enneth Haigh as Jimmy Porter at the Royal Court theatre, London, in 1956.

    Kenneth Haigh obituary

    Actor who took the role of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, the groundbreaking 1956 play by John Osborne

December 2017

  • Rachel Cooke

    Spare us the moral hysteria that threatens a new age of censorship

    Rachel Cooke
    The muddle over sexual behaviour is already proving dangerous for free expression in the arts

January 2017

  • Michael Billington

    Theatre blog
    John Hurt: an absolute master at portraying misfits

    Michael Billington
    Hurt, who has died aged 77, was a superb, if too infrequent, stage actor. In plays by Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard, he had an intuitive understanding of outsiders

December 2016

  • Kenneth Tynan

    The Observer at 225
    ‘Kenneth Tynan brilliantly achieved an intellectual slum-clearance of the stage’

    In a decade as the Observer’s theatre critic, Kenneth Tynan helped transform the ailing British theatre and reinvent the part of the reviewer, says Susannah Clapp

September 2016

  • The Entertainer (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company) - Kenneth Branagh (Archie Rice), Greta Scacchi (Phoebe Rice), Gawn Grainger (Billy Rice) Credit Johan Persson

    The Entertainer review – Kenneth Branagh's off-key swan song

  • Max Wall as Archie Rice and Sue Johns as Gorgeous Gladys in The Entertainer at the Greenwich Theatre Max Wall as Archie Rice and Sue Johns as Gorgeous Gladys in The Entertainer at the Greenwich Theatre Max Wall, born Maxwell George Lorimer was an English comedian and actor, whose performing career covered music hall, theatre, films and television. 27th November 1974 Max Wall in The Entertainer at Greenwich Theatre

    Branagh fails the Wall test as Archie Rice

August 2016

  • Mark Lawson

    State-of-the-nation dramas can’t capture the lost state of Britain today

    Mark Lawson
  • Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren in The Long Good Friday, 1980.

    Barry Hanson obituary

  • The Entertainer<br>British actor Laurence Olivier (1907 - 1989) as music hall performer Archie Rice in 'The Entertainer', directed by Tony Richardson, 1960. The film is based on the stage play of the same name by John Osborne. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

    How John Osborne’s Entertainer still speaks to a broken Britain

  • Owen Holder

    Other lives
    Owen Holder obituary

July 2016

  • Matthew Evans, Lord Evans of Temple Guiting, with Lady Antonia Fraser in 2014

    Magificent people like Matthew Evans are few and far between

    Hanif Kureishi
  • John Hurt

    John Hurt withdraws from Branagh's The Entertainer on medical advice

May 2016

  • Jamie Muscato as Mr Holyoake.

    A Subject of Scandal and Concern review – John Osborne wrestles with religion

  • Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Branagh on The Entertainer: 'I've been bending Rob Brydon's ear about standup'

March 2016

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    The Royal Court at 60: look back in wonder

    London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from the Guardian and Observer archive, alongside new recollections from Wole Soyinka, Ann Jellicoe, Amanda Redman, Sally Hawkins and others
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