Harold Pinter News

Members of a university are to perform work by one of Britain's most renowned playwrights.

The tramp Davies is offered shelter in a dilapidated London flat by two strangers who later turn out to be brothers, only to find himself embroiled in power games that are as terrifying as they are comic.

October 22, 2009 at 3:49 pm by Curt Holman in Events , Pop Culture , review , theater The most frightening moments in live theater don't always come where advertised.

James Roose-Evans isn't capable of resting on his laurels. Anyone else who founded a major institution like Hampstead Theatre might put their feet up in their 80s.

Italian composer, whose works include La Traviata and Don Carlo. 1923: Nicholas Parsons.

1900 One of the most famous of all stage performers, Helen Hayes, is born today.

THE much anticipated return of Everyman old boy Jonathan Pryce to the theatre where he began his career started quietly, with a solitary figure seeming to dissolve into the back of the stage.

Tony Harrison, the award-winning poet and playwright whose poems from the Bosnian frontline were published in the Guardian, has been awarded the first ever PEN/Pinter prize for a writer following in Harold Pinter's footsteps Alison Flood guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 22 September 2009 15.51 BST Poet and playwright Tony Harrison has won the inaugural ...

Jonathan Pryce reminisces with Laura Davis, ahead of his return to the Liverpool stage with The Caretaker THERE are more salubrious places for one of Britain's most celebrated actors to be hanging out than a dilapidated church hall in a shabby area of south London.

If legendary playwright Harold Pinter were alive, he might describe "The Caretaker" this way: "It's about a bum and two brothers." "That's what he would've said, so I'm not saying anymore," director John Vreeke joked.

Two brothers and a bum. That's not the start to a bad joke, rather it's the way the late playwright Harold Pinter described his work "The Caretaker." "It sounds flippant to describe it that way," said actor Joe Cronin, "but if you pick one theme you're ignoring the other." Cronin, who takes on the daunting role of the bum Davies, chatted by phone ...

A festival dedicated to the work of, Harold Pinter, one of Britain's leading playwrights takes to the stage in Fishguard next month.

Don't miss tonight's 8:30pm screening of Joseph Losey's 1964 "The Servant" on Turner Classic Movies.

The movie Humpday concerns two straight male friends who get drunk, dare each other to have sex on camera, sober up, and still decide to go through with it.

The movie Humpday concerns two straight male friends who get drunk, dare each other to have sex on camera, sober up, and still decide to go through with it.

I T WAS surprising to see that unusually articulate man of the theatre, Julian Meyrick, this week attacking critics Cameron Woodhead, of The Age , and Alison Croggon, of The Australian , neither of whom had been excited about his Aboriginal production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party .

Everyman And Playhouse Theatres, Liverpool presents The Caretaker by Harold Pinter playing from 2 October to 31 October at 07:30 am.

Television plays and stage plays began as brothers but gradually grew apart. Until the 90s, theatrical hits, such as Trevor Griffiths's Comedians, would regularly be recorded for TV, while a string of different strands pro- duced studio versions of classic dramas.

PEN/Pinter prize will go to British writer who shows exemplary 'engagement with the times' Defender of literature ... Harold Pinter.

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 ...