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Michael Blakemore

February 2024

  • Timothy West and Prunella Scales in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Bristol Old Vic in 1991.

    Long Day’s Journey Into Night: a grand masterpiece and an ordinary family drama

    Eugene O’Neill’s mighty drama, returning to the West End with Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, has drawn generations of stage greats and casts its spell with a story we can all recognise

December 2023

  • Michael Billington

    From Joe Egg to Noises Off, Michael Blakemore was a superb craftsman of theatre

    Michael Billington
  • Michael Blakemore.

    Michael Blakemore, venerable theatre director, dies aged 95

December 2016

  • Toss you for it … Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams contest the crown in Mary Stuart.

    Theatre blog
    Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets

    Mary Stuart flips a coin at the Almeida, Gemma Arterton becomes Saint Joan, Jack and the Beanstalk gets a Bollywood twist, and the festive spirit touches everyone from Robin Hood to Hansel and Gretel

June 2016

  • Peter Shaffer in 1977.

    Sir Peter Shaffer obituary

    Playwright best known for The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and Amadeus

February 2016

  • 'Noises Off" Play by Michael Frayn performed at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 1982<br>Jan Waters as Belinda Blair, Patricia Routledge as Dotty Otley, Paul Eddington as Lloyad Dallas, Rowena Roberts as Brooke Ashton

    How we made
    How we made Noises Off

    Patricia Routledge: ‘I kept bashing into doors and they kept bashing into me. I got through two bottles of arnica in rehearsal alone’

October 2015

  • Dame Angela Lansbury

    Lithe spirit: Dame Angela Lansbury at 90

  • Arthur Miller at his desk, c.1955.

    Guarding Arthur Miller: when writers' estates say no

July 2015

  • John Simm leads the cast of Three Days in the Country by Patrick Marber.

    Theatre blog
    Plan your week's theatre: top tickets

    Patrick Marber reimagines Turgenev at the NT, the 247 festival starts in Manchester, there’s Happy Days for Beckett in Enniskillen and Ben Whishaw is at the Almeida

June 2015

  • Singer Adele performs onstage during the Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best… stage fright sufferers

    Pianist Sara Solovitch shares her fears in Playing Scared. Here are some other stars who have famously been afflicted

May 2015

  • Lord Birkett was chariman of the British Film Academy in the 1960s and the National Theatre in the 7

    Other lives
    Lord Birkett obituary

    Other lives: Key figure in the world of British cinema and theatre across three decades

February 2015

  • 'A Challenge for Robin Hood' film stills - 1967

    Barrie Ingham obituary

    Stage and screen actor versed in Shakespeare, musical theatre and television

December 2014

  • David Ryall

    David Ryall obituary

    Character actor with a distinguished stage, TV and film career that included a Harry Potter cameo

October 2014

  • marian seldes

    Marian Seldes obituary

    Renowned Broadway star associated with the work of Edward Albee

August 2014

  • The Boy Friend at the Players' theatre, London, in 1953

    Sandy Wilson obituary

  • John Gielgud

    In Search of Gielgud: A Biographer's Tale by Jonathan Croall – review

July 2014

  • Dorothea Myer-Bennett (Carol) and Jamie De Courcey (Edward) in This Was a Man

    This Was a Man review – first ever outing for Coward's once-banned play

    There's much to enjoy watching the bad behaviour of a generation swigging cocktails in the wake of the first world war, writes Lyn Gardner

May 2014

  • Joshua McGuire in Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    Paying to play: the rise and risks of audience participation

  • Noel Coward

    Why Noël Coward's shows must go on

April 2014

  • Zach Braff, Helene Yorke and Lenny Wolpe in the stage version of Bullets Over Broadway

    The backstage dramas behind Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway musical

    It is one of Woody Allen's finest films, a screwball thriller written and shot as he battled Mia Farrow in court and faced accusations of child abuse. As Bullets Over Broadway hits the stage, Peter Bradshaw examines how the director's personal traumas fed into the story

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