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21 January 2025

  • ITV Archive<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (939620qg) 'Strange Concealments' TV Barbara Clegg ITV Archive

    Barbara Clegg obituary

  • Manuel Oliver in Guac

    ‘I’m doing something with my misery’: a Parkland parent takes his grief to the stage

20 January 2025

  • The essence of bright … Claire van Kampen at the opening night party for Farinelli and the King on Broadway in 2017.

    Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe

  • Michael Billington

    In The Seagull, Cate Blanchett and Thomas Ostermeier could make small details seismic

    Michael Billington

19 January 2025

  • They kneel at a table with food & drink in a well-appointed living room

    A Good House review – superb social satire about race, property and gentrification

  • Back-clad cast watch a dancer in a jazzy yellow suit

    Play On! review – a warm, elegant comedy that brings 1940s swing to Shakespeare

  • CIAN EAGLE-SERVICE (OLIVER TWIST) and JAMIE BIRKETT (MRS SOWERBERRY) in Oliver!

    The week in theatre: Oliver!; The Devil May Care review – consider yourself entertained

  • Eline Arbo.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Director Eline Arbo: ‘Theatre is very fake. You have grown up people pretending to die in front of you’

  • La Pendue: La Manékine review: puppets and dreams create an utterly strange fairytale

  • Faith Healer review – Brian Friel revival tests its audience’s belief

18 January 2025

  • Mark Rylance and Claire van Kampen attending the Olivier awards in 2017

    Claire van Kampen, theatre director and composer, dies aged 71

    Wife of actor Mark Rylance worked in various roles at Shakespeare’s Globe and had been diagnosed with cancer
  • British prime minister Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985

    ‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

    New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

    • On my radar
      On my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights

    • You ask the questions
      Send us your questions for Pamela Anderson

    • Going out, staying in
      A Complete Unknown to The Night Agent: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

17 January 2025

  • ‘She sort of glowed’ … Joan Plowright photographed in 1999.

    ‘Impish, tremendously warm, never grand’: Sheila Reid pays tribute to Joan Plowright

    Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, is remembered by her friend and fellow member of the budding National Theatre company in the 1960s
  • Graham Marchant

    Graham Marchant obituary

    Founding administrator of Opera North who went on to become a leading light of the Arts Council, the Southbank Centre and a number of dance companies

    • Dame Joan Plowright obituary

    • The Employees review – monumental event theatre with fragments from a far-flung world

    • Joan Plowright was a dynamic force for change in British theatre

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