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Why mince words? This is an exceptionally fine production a ' the most moving performance of the play I have seen since the war.

Kate O'Mara and Frank Barrie star as Marlene Dietrich and her good friend Noel Coward in Chris Burgess's Lunch With Marlene and Noel at the Yvonne Arnaud Lunch with Kate O'Mara and Frank Marrie November 05, 2009 AUDIENCES are in for a real treat as Kate O'Mara and Frank Barrie recreate a charming encounter between the legendary Marlene Dietrich and ...

A new review of Brian Dillon's Tormented Hope appears today in The Guardian : Dillon's subject, though, isn't simple physical deterioration but rather the tricks the mind plays on the body - or hypochondria.

Published: Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 1:14 p.m. After roughly 40 years of playing just about every role possible in the plays of William Shakespeare, you might think that Michael Pennington knows just about everything an actor can about the Bard.

I agree with our Emmy prognosticators Chris "Boomer" Beachum and Robert "Rob L" Licuria , who say that the race for best actor in a TV movie/mini is between three rivals: Kevin Bacon Brendan Gleeson and Ian McKellen .

Director Liv Ullmann confers with Cate Blanchett. Latest related coverage Object of a new desire The latest Blanche faces an 'absolutely daunting' task, writes Elissa Blake.

Main classically trained English stage actress who gained worldwide fame during the 1960s in the television series The Avengers .

A tall, incisive British leading lady and sometime character player with admirably high cheekbones and a crisp style of line delivery, Rigg came to specialize in icy villainesses such as the ungrateful daughter Regan in.... A tall, incisive British leading lady and sometime character player with admirably high cheekbones and a crisp style of line ...

SHAKESPEARE may be all about the words, but it's the images and music you remember most from "The Bard Goes Global," a well-curated film series starting Wednesday at the Walter Reade Theater.

Ken Reynolds / For MT Director Peter Brook acknowledging the crowd's applause after speaking in Wroclaw, Poland, late last month.

Going global: Helen Mirren stars in 'Phedre' enlarge Tonight, when Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre production of Racine's Phdre, starring Helen Mirren, is broadcast via satellite from the Lyttelton to 70 cinemas in the UK, and 200 around the world, a 21st-century solution will be provided to a perennial question.

Are theatregoers becoming more disruptive, as one writer has suggested? Not really, our embattled thespians have had a lot to endure over the centuries Benedict Nightingale An odd thing happened at the National Theatre last week.

What's cooking? Table Manners from The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic, now on Broadway.

The tingling sensation in his right arm began one day in March, before he was to go on yet again as a brooding Richard M. Nixon on the Los Angeles leg of the national tour of 'Frost/Nixon.' Despite the warning his body was giving him, he did go on. Because that's the stage actor's reflex. And because Stacy Keach is Stacy Keach.

He did call his doctor, who told him to come in, though there was a party for the entire cast on the day of the proposed appointment, a Monday. Now, how could Keach be a no-show for his fellow actors? The party, too, must go on!

The Fool , right, is the only person who can tell King Lear the truth in the tragedy that opens this year's Tulane Shakespeare Festival.

"Thor" director Kenneth Branagh has already cast one of his previous co-stars in the upcoming Marvel Studios film - and if rumors are to believed, he's about to do it again.

Some consider Laurence Olivier to be Britain's Marlon Brando: he changed the landscape of theater and film in his time, and made Shakespeare exciting and accessible.

James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad are set to star in the West End revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .

THE season of films celebrating all things Shakespeare, to coincide with Derby's Shakes in the City festival, continues with a unique chance to dip into the BFI archives.