Harold Pinter News

Boldmere's Highbury Players are inviting anyone who may like to join them for a 'Familiarisation Evening' on Sunday from 7.30pm. The company, based at Highbury Theatre Centre on Sheffield Road, will welcome people interested in just about every aspect of staging plays, including acting, working backstage, costume, props, lighting, sound set ...

IT sounds like a weird prospect: Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party with Aboriginal actors.

The all-indigenous casting of The MTC's The Birthday Party received "the papal blessing" from Harold Pinter.

Bernard Cuffling directs Helen Edmundson's adaptation of the gothic novel about an 18th-century English orphanage.

At least she gives as good as she gets. The Homecoming, originally produced in 1964, is Harold Pinter 's first play in which the male power structure is comprehensively overturned by a woman.

After bestselling biographies of Mary Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette, Antonia Frasier is now turning her professional attentions to her own life, and her marriage to the Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter , who died on Christmas Eve 2008.

A first-rate cast paid tribute to the great playwright last night with a series of readings and scenes at the National Theatre A great understanding of the heart's affections ... Harold Pinter.

Accident , adapted from Nicholas Mosley's novel by Harold Pinter is a subtly poised film of middle-class life in an Oxford academic milieu and is being shown in connection with the Losey centennial retrospective I've curated for the BFI.

Accident Joseph Losey, Harold Pinter; Dirk Bogarde, Jacqueline Sassard. Rating: * * * * * Halfway between The Servant and The Go-Between , also playing in the bfi's Joseph Losey retrospective, he and Harold Pinter teamed up on this prickly drama of extra-marital intrigue among Oxford dons, which begins and ends with the screech of brakes over the ...

Leave the kids at home and treat yourself to a night of theater that's as gory as it is funny, advises Kim Martin, who's directing "Mojo." The final play of the season for the Rep, Point Park University's professional theater company, is definitely not for children, Martin says.

Harold Pinter consigned his early Hothouse to a drawer after the failure of The Birthday Party in 1958.

Thursday , May 28, 2009 at 0354 hrs IST Years after they were first staged, his plays still manage to mystify.

Two World Premieres, two East Coast Premieres, and a New England Premiere are all part of Central Square Theater's exciting 2009-2010 season, which includes a mix of plays, from a psychological drama to a double bill of nostalgic holiday stories to a witty take on our understanding of the theory of evolution! This season, Central Square Theater ...

Harold Pinter: A Celebration , an evening of excerpts and readings from the late playwright's work, will be held at the National's Olivier Theatre June 7 at 7 PM.

A day-long "Tribute to Harold Pinter " on May 2 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York will celebrate the life and achievements of the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist, screenwriter, political activist, and actor.

Salman Rushdie, Emily Mann, John Guare, Brian F. O'Byrne and more will participate in a day-long May 2 "Tribute to Harold Pinter" at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in Manhattan.

Despite the cheerful and celebratory connotations of its title, Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" is existentialist, absurdist, and dark.

Before he became a neo-Stalinist and Milosevic apologist, Harold Pinter wrote some pretty decent plays.

Jonathan Pryce, the two-time Tony Award-winning star of Comedians and Miss Saigon , will return to Liverpool Everyman, where his career began, to star in a new production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker .

CELEBRATED stage screen actor Jonathan Pryce is returning to the Everyman Theatre later this year in a role he says he has always wanted to act.