Michael Coveney

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Michael Coveney

Ebullient, pugnacious, larger than life. No single adjective is sufficient to describethe tumultuous, impossible talent of the director Mike Bradwell, who has died aged 76. The success of the Hull Truck Theatre company that he founded in 1971 led, eventually, to the great success of Hull’s year as the European city of culture in 2017.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Michael Coveney

No one who saw Clive Revill, who has died aged 94, on stage or screen thought he was anything less than a superb actor. However, for one who enjoyed such a distinguished career, he was surprisingly little known to the general public. It was as though he operated under the radar. He was twice nominated for a Tony award on Broadway, worked three times in startlingly different productions with the great stage director Peter Brook, and twice with the film director Billy Wilder.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Michael Coveney

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Michael Coveney

The start of postwar theatre in London was signalled by the birth of the Old Vic school in the rubble of the bombed theatre in Waterloo in 1948 and the reopening of the Old Vic itself in 1950. The actor Lee Montague, who has died aged 97, was a founding student at the school and “walked on” in Twelfth Night, the first professional production in the postwar era at the Vic. His subsequent stage career included Old Vic seasons separated by 10 years.

1 month ago | msn.com | Michael Coveney

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