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24 June 2024

  • Original Film Title: THE GIRLS OF PLEASURE ISLAND. English Title: THE GIRLS OF PLEASURE ISLAND. Film Director: FREDERICK HUGH HERBERT; ALVIN GANZER. Year: 1953. Stars: AUDREY DALTON; JOAN ELAN; DOROTHY BROMILEY. Credit: PARAMOUNT PICTURES / Album<br>P2HRT0 Original Film Title: THE GIRLS OF PLEASURE ISLAND. English Title: THE GIRLS OF PLEASURE ISLAND. Film Director: FREDERICK HUGH HERBERT; ALVIN GANZER. Year: 1953. Stars: AUDREY DALTON; JOAN ELAN; DOROTHY BROMILEY. Credit: PARAMOUNT PICTURES / Album

    Dorothy Bromiley obituary

    One of three British ‘starlets’ picked to play sisters living on a Pacific atoll in the 1953 US comedy The Girls of Pleasure Island

23 June 2024

  • Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Maria Friedman at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in 2012.

    The Guardian view on the right to fail in the arts: a principle that must be upheld

  • Two women, one tied with rope, embracing in front of a mural of the Derry Girls

    Yes festival review – a marvellous appreciation of Molly Bloom

  • Fizz … Gabriel Akuwudike (Roy) and Tiwa Lade (Peace) in My Father’s Fable.

    My Father’s Fable review – a slick delve into identity and complicated family relationships

  • Amalia Vitale, centre, as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe

    The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

22 June 2024

  • At the heart of the exhibition hall are the Folger’s crown jewels: its 82 copies of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

    ‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation

  • Jodie Comer and Austin Butler in The Bikeriders.

    Going out, staying in
    From The Bikeriders to The Bear: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

21 June 2024

  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

    Letters: Readers respond to a call from theatre leaders to challenge the erosion and devaluation of artistic subjects
  • Brutal … Sitting in Limbo.

    Sitting in Limbo review – a rallying cry for the Windrush outrage

    Philip J Morris’s stage adaptation of the Bafta-winning film tells it straight as Anthony Bryan’s life is ripped apart
  • Jonathan Bailey as Richard II.

    Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

    Nicholas Hytner has shared details of his forthcoming production, which will give the actor his highest profile Shakespeare role to date

20 June 2024

  • The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, by John Taylor.

    Disputes about Shakespeare’s authorship are much ado about nothing

    Letters: Oliver Kamm, Adrian Blamires and Rik Edwards respond to Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson’s argument that The Merry Wives of Windsor was really penned by Edward de Vere. And Peter Nockolds suggests another Shakespeare theory
  • Savoy Theatre, Monmouth

    Ignore the West End critics – there are plenty of cheap theatre seats

    Letter: Patrick Gracey of the Society of London Theatre says media reports that highlight the most expensive tickets of a few hit shows can be misleading

    • Ian McKellen’s understudy to perform in final London dates of Player Kings

    • The Importance of Being Earnest review – Algernon et al get a 21st-century makeover

    • ‘We needed this’: UK audiences thirsty for black British love stories, says playwright

19 June 2024

  • Belvoir Street theatre's Counting And Cracking, which premiered at Sydney Town Hall in January 2019

    Counting and Cracking: how a three-hour Sri Lankan war epic became one of the great Australian plays

  • Charlotte Higgins

    Levelling up has failed in my home town of Stoke-on-Trent. For hope there, look to the arts

    Charlotte Higgins

18 June 2024

  • Ian McKellen as Falstaff in Player Kings

    Ian McKellen ‘looking forward to returning to work’ after falling off stage

    Player Kings to reopen on Thursday and producers say they look forward to actor ‘returning as soon as he is ready’
  • Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican.

    Kiss Me, Kate review – glorious music, falderol frivolity and Adrian Dunbar

    Cole Porter’s musical variation on The Taming of the Shrew gets an exhilarating revival, even if the Line of Duty star’s singing is less than sensational
  • Ian McKellen as Falstaff, with Geoffrey Freshwater, in Player Kings (adapted by Robert Icke from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2).

    I was Ian McKellen’s understudy – I know how he must feel after his accident

    David Weston
    Sir Ian prides himself on never missing a performance. I too fell off stage in a version of Henry IV and was taken to hospital – I didn’t want to go in case my understudy was better than me
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