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Hannah Cabell in “Grounded,”

George Brant’s play about a fighter pilot assigned to drone duty.

Photograph: Damon Winter

The New York Times

Pulled Down From the Sky, Still Lethal

‘Grounded,’ a Fighter Pilot’s Story

The New York Times

JAN. 17, 2014

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/
theater/grounded-a-fighter-pilots-story.html

Sophie Okonedo UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2023/jan/11/
sophie-okonedo-stage-from-the-rsc-to-broadway-medea-in-pictures

David Tennant UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2022/oct/11/
david-tennant-on-stage-good-west-end-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/16/
richard-iii-review-ralph-fiennes-almeida-theatre

Michael Fassbender Germany, Ireland

https://www.npr.org/2015/12/03/
458276393/michael-fassbender-is-the-latest-actor-to-take-on-macbeth

Forest Whitaker USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/
theater/gambling-on-oneill-forest-whitaker-makes-his-broadway-debut-in-hughie.html

Benedict Cumberbatch UK

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/
theater/benedict-cumberbatch-a-hamlet-whos-one-hot-ticket-in-london.html

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2015/jul/15/
benedict-cumberbatch-as-hamlet-the-first-rehearsal-photos-in-pictures

Anne Hathaway USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/theater/
anne-hathaways-solo-turn-as-a-fighter-pilot-in-grounded-at-the-public-theater.html

Chiwetel Ejiofor UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2015/apr/27/
chiwetel-ejiofor-everyman-national-theatre-rufus-norris-in-pictures

Brian Blessed UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/30/
brian-blessed-withdraws-from-king-lear-due-to-heart-condition

Jessica Barden UK

Jessica Barden as Cate in Blasted:

‘[She] makes the cipher of her character credible.’

Photograph: Mark Douet

Blasted review – Sarah Kane’s debut revived

Sunday 15 February 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/15/blasted-review-sarah-kane-debut-richard-wilson

Maxine Peake UK

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/maxine-peake

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/21/
hamlet-maxine-peake-royal-exchange-review-delicate-ferocity

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2014/sep/15/
maxine-peake-hamlet-theatre-in-pictures

Martin Freeman UK

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/13/
richard-iii-martin-freeman-trafalgar-studios-review

Terrence McNally

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/
theater/mothers-and-sons-an-aids-tale-starring-tyne-daly.html

Simon Russell Beale

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/simon-russell-beale

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/
theater/king-lear-on-an-epic-scale-starring-simon-russell-beale.html

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jan/24/
king-lear-olivier-theatre-review

Frank Langella

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/
theater/frank-langella-roaring-at-defiance-in-king-lear.html

Jude Law

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/dec/03/
henry-v-review-jude-law

Leonardo DiCaprio USA

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/01/
movies/soft-what-light-it-s-flash-romeo.html

David Suchet UK

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2022/jan/05/
beyond-poirot-david-suchet-on-stage-in-pictures

Helen Mirren UK

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/08/
390465649/helen-mirren-extends-her-elizabethan-reign-in-the-audience

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/
theater/helen-mirren-goes-back-to-the-palace-in-the-audience.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/mar/05/
the-audience-review-helen-mirren

James McAvoy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/feb/24/
macbeth-review-michael-billington

Tom Hanks USA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/apr/02/
lucky-guy-review

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/
theater/tom-hanks-in-lucky-guy-his-broadway-debut.html

Denzel Washington USA

Denzel Washington, left,

and Charles Brown

the original 1981 production.

Photograph: Bert Andrews

Charles Fuller Never Expected Broadway.

At 80, He’s Arrived.

The creator of “A Soldier’s Play” has largely written for black theaters.

But now he has the chance to remind the biggest audiences:

African-Americans served, too.

NYT

Feb. 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/
theater/charles-fuller-a-soldiers-play.html

Philip Seymour Hoffman USA

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/
theater/reviews/death-of-a-salesman-with-philip-seymour-hoffman.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/
theater/philip-seymour-hoffman-stars-in-death-of-a-salesman.html

Mark Rylance USA

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
mark-rylance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/24/
mark-rylance-broadway-jerusalem-johnny-rooster-byron

Anne-Marie Duff

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/apr/24/
anne-marie-duff-interview

Kenneth Branagh Ireland, UK

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/
kenneth-branagh

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/theater/
branagh-brings-his-visceral-macbeth-to-the-armory.html

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar/25/
how-we-made-another-country-kenneth-branagh-rupert-everett

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/oct/09/
kenneth-branagh-the-painkiller-interview

Jessica Raine UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/04/
hotlist-actor-theatre-jessica-raine

Simon McBurney

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/nov/17/
simon-mcburney-endgame-beckett

Derek Jacobi UK

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/
derek-jacobi

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/oct/17/
derek-jacobi-on-age-ego-igglepiggle-and-unrequited-love

Willem Dafoe USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/theater/25itzk.html

John Douglas Thompson USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/theater/04drak.html

Michael Emmet Walsh USA 1935-2024

(Walsh) performed in regional theaters

early in his career

before making his Broadway debut in 1969,

the same year he began making movies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/
movies/m-emmet-walsh-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
M._Emmet_Walsh

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/
1239795654/m-emmet-walsh-dead

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/
movies/m-emmet-walsh-dead.html

Glenda Jackson UK 1936-2023

Glenda Jackson was born in Birkenhead in 1936.

After working in Boots for two years,

she took up a scholarship to Rada in 1954.

Here she is in September 1964,

just after she had joined

the Royal Shakespeare Company

Photograph: Photoshot/Getty Images

Glenda Jackson: a life in pictures

The actor, politician and activist

went from the Royal Shakespeare Company to parliament.

Here’s a look at her life through the decades

Thu 15 Jun 2023 11.55 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2023/jun/15/
glenda-jackson-a-life-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
glenda-jackson

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/17/
in-memory-of-glenda-jackson-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2023/jun/15/
glenda-jackson-a-life-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/15/
glenda-jackson-tributes-politicians

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/15/
fierce-sensual-cerebral-how-glenda-jackson-brought-class-to-cinema

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/15/
glenda-jackson-oscar-winner-and-former-labour-mp-dies-
aged-87

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/15/
glenda-jackson-died-aged-87

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/
1145035827/british-star-glenda-jackson-has-died-
after-a-shimmering-life-on-stage-and-in-pol

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/
world/europe/glenda-jackson-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/16/
glenda-jackson-answers-your-questions-
i-think-thats-a-gross-insult-about-politicians-and-actors-frankly

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul/26/
glenda-jackson-interview-i-am-an-antisocial-socialist

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/08/
elizabeth-is-missing-review-glenda-jackson-shines-in-this-heartrending-whodunnit

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/7
16305342/glenda-jackson-on-playing-king-lear-gender-barriers-crack-with-age

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/
magazine/glenda-jackson-king-lear.html

Albert Finney UK 1936-2019

https://www.theguardian.com/film/albert-finney

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/
albert-finney-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/aug/08/
krapps-last-tape-barry-mcgovern-edinburgh-samuel-beckett-harold-pinter-john-hurt

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/dec/30/
art-review-finney-stott-and-courtenay-are-a-blistering-trio

Kenneth Haigh UK 1931-2018

Kenneth Haigh as Jimmy Porter

at the Royal Court theatre, London, in 1956.

Photograph: Picture Post/Getty

Kenneth Haigh obituary

Actor who took the role of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger,

the groundbreaking 1956 play by John Osborne

Tue 13 Feb 2018 13.21 GMT

Last modified on Tue 13 Feb 2018 14.36 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/
kenneth-haigh-obituary

Actor who took

the role of Jimmy Porter

in Look Back in Anger,

the groundbreaking 1956 play

by John Osborne

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/
kenneth-haigh-obituary

Rick Cluchey USA 1933-2016

Rick Cluchey performing in his play “The Cage”

in 1970 at a Pennsylvania prison.

Photograph: Jack Manning

The New York Times

Rick Cluchey Dies at 82;

Prison Theater Was His Redemption

The New York Times

JAN. 9, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/
theater/rick-cluchey-dies-at-82-prison-theater-was-his-redemption.html

born as Douglas Charles Cluchey

Rick Cluchey

had never been in a theater

— “not even to rob one,”

as he was fond of saying —

before he was convicted

of armed robbery when he was 21

and sentenced to life in prison.

But his life began

to change for the better

when the San Francisco

Actors Workshop performed

“Waiting for Godot,”

directed by Herbert Blau,

at San Quentin State Prison

in November 1957.

Thus began

the unlikely redemptive arc

of Mr. Cluchey’s adulthood,

one that led him out of jail

and toward a career

as an actor and playwright,

most notably as a protégé

of Samuel Beckett

and an interpreter

of his cryptic work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/
theater/rick-cluchey-dies-at-82-prison-theater-was-his-redemption.html

Elizabeth Margaret Ross MacLennan UK 1938-2015

actor, writer

and co-founder of 7:84,

the touring company

that left an indelible mark

on British theatre

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jun/29/elizabeth-maclennan

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jun/29/
elizabeth-maclennan

Alan Mackenzie Howard UK 1937-2015

celebrated English actor

whose regal bearing

and imposing voice

gave life to a spate

of Shakespearean kings

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/
theater/alan-howard-actor-with-royal-shakespeare-company-dies-at-77.html

Geraldine McEwan (McKeown) UK 1932-2015

Geraldine McEwan

(...)

could purr like a kitten,

snap like a viper and,

like Shakespeare’s Bottom,

roar you as gently

as any sucking dove.

She was a brilliant, distinctive

and decisive performer

whose career

incorporated high comedy

on the West End stage,

Shakespeare

at Stratford-upon-Avon,

Laurence Olivier’s

National Theatre,

and a cult television following

in EF Benson’s

Mapp and Lucia (1985-86).

She was also notable on television

as a controversial Miss Marple

in a series of edgy,

incongruously outspoken

Agatha Christie adaptations

(2004-09).

Inheriting a role

that had already been inhabited

at least three times “definitively”

– by Margaret Rutherford,

Angela Lansbury

and Joan Hickson –

she made of the deceptively

cosy detective a character

both steely and skittish,

with a hint of lust about her, too.

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/31/geraldine-mcewan

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/31/
geraldine-mcewan

Barrie Stanton Ingham UK 1932-2015

Stage and screen actor

versed in Shakespeare,

musical theatre

and television

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/12/barrie-ingham

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/12/
barrie-ingham

Billie Honor Whitelaw UK 1932-2014

English actress who became

both acolyte and muse

to the playwright Samuel Beckett

and one of the foremost interpreters

of his austere and deeply

unsettling work

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/theater/billie-whitelaw-longtime-beckett-muse-dies-at-82.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/
theater/billie-whitelaw-longtime-beckett-muse-dies-at-82.html

Eli Wallach USA 1915-2014

one of his generation’s

most prominent

and prolific character actors

in film, onstage and on television

for more than 60 years

(...)

A self-styled journeyman actor,

the versatile Mr. Wallach

appeared in scores of roles,

often with his wife,

Anne Jackson.

No matter the part,

he always seemed at ease and in control,

whether playing a Mexican bandit

in the 1960 western

“The Magnificent Seven,”

a bumbling clerk in Ionesco’s

allegorical play “Rhinoceros,”

a henpecked French general

in Jean Anouilh’s

“Waltz of the Toreadors,”

Clark Gable’s sidekick

in “The Misfits”

or a Mafia don

in “The Godfather: Part III.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/
movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html

Peter O'Toole Ireland, UK 1932-2013

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/16/
peter-o-toole-theatre-performances

Eamon Gerard Murphy UK 1948-2013

Passionate actor

who commanded the stage

at Glasgow's Citizens theatre

and the RSC

Gerard Murphy

(...)

was a rare sort

of full-hearted actor,

always on the front foot.

He could flood

a theatre with passion

and squeeze the juice

out of the most recalcitrant prose.

Barrel-chested

and large- (but not big-) headed,

he looked and sounded

like a rampaging farmer,

with his distinctive carrot-coloured hair

and stinging, musical, sardonic,

Northern Irish vocal inflections.

He once said that acting

was like a drug

and that doing it was an

"inexplicable fusion

of need and possession".

The ferocity of his acting

was all part of his

intellectual valour;

he loved debating

at school and university,

and could stand up

and argue with anyone,

usually having the last word.

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/28/gerard-murphy

Helen Hanft UK 1934-2013

actress whose mastery of camp humor,

surreal scenarios and roles too risqué

for mainstream comfort made her

the acknowledged queen

of the Off Off Broadway stage

during a golden age

for experimental theater

in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/
theater/helen-hanft-master-of-camp-way-off-broadway-dies-at-79.html

Frederick Carl Neumann USA 1926-2012

actor and director whose affinity

for Samuel Beckett’s works

and his friendship with the man himself

helped forge the distinguished

New York experimental troupe

Mabou Mines

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/theater/frederick-neumann-actor-and-director-dies-at-86.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/
theater/frederick-neumann-actor-and-director-dies-at-86.html

Margaret Tyzack 1931-2011

a stalwart British actress

who won myriad awards

for her stage performances,

including a Tony,

but who was best known

in the United States

for her roles

in the public television series

“The Forsyte Saga”

and “I, Claudius”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/arts/margaret-tyzack-british-actress-dies-at-79.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/
arts/margaret-tyzack-british-actress-dies-at-79.html

Corin William Redgrave UK 1939-2010

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/apr/06/
corin-redgrave-obituary

Paul Scofield UK 1922-2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/movies/22tudo.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/movies/20cnd-scofield.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/mar/20/theatre1

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/obituary/0,,2266899,00.html

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2008/03/paul_scofield_19222008.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2008/mar/20/1?picture=333194495

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/
oscar-winner-scofield-dies-aged-86-798551.html - 20 March 2008

Harold Pinter UK 1930-2008

John Gielgud UK 1904-2000

Actor John Gielgud

in production of "School For Scandal."

Location: New York, NY, US

Date taken: 1963

Photograph: John Dominis

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=58f4fb45d814987c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John_Gielgud

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/02/alain-resnais

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/22/news.obituaries

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/
movies/al-pacino-slouching-again-toward-shakespeare.html

Laurence Olivier UK 1907-1989

Laurence Olivier (Coriolanus, 1959)

Photograph: ERICH AUERBACH/GETTY IMAGES

One CD, 40 years of theatre's greatest hits:

· Live recordings resurrect legendary RSC moments

· Tapes were previously only heard by academics

Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent

The Guardian

p. 3

Wednesday October 26, 2005

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/26/arts.artsnews

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh

in Mr. Brook’s production of “Titus Andronicus.”

Photograph: Pierre Vauthey

Sygma, via Getty Images

Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97

He was called “the greatest innovator of his generation,”

leaving an indelible mark with plays, musicals, opera and a relentless curiosity.

NYT

July 3, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/
obituaries/peter-brook-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/
olivier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Laurence_Olivier

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/
obituaries/peter-brook-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/apr/06/
laurence-olivier-in-the-entertainer-great-performances

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/may/15/
olivier

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/26/
arts/tv-olivier-at-76-stars-in-a-british-king-lear.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/25/
archives/talking-with-olivier.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1966/02/02/
archives/the-screen-minstrel-show-othelloradical-makeup-marks-oliviers.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/22/
archives/olivier-triumphant-in-debut-as-othello.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/08/
archives/olivier-performs-coriolanus-role-stars-in-stratfordonavon.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1955/01/30/
archives/now-olivier-acts-a-shakespeare-villain.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1951/12/20/
archives/oliviers-present-antony-to-night-acting-team-will-take-leads-in.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1948/09/30/
archives/laurence-oliviers-hamlet-bows-at-the-park-avenue-theatre-saxon.html

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/
movies/bestpictures/hamlet-ar1.html - September 19, 1948

https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/18/
archives/the-screen.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/12/
archives/the-present-and-future-of-shakespeare-laurence-olivier-talks-of-the.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/10/
archives/the-play-in-review-laurence-olivier-and-vivien-leigh-act-the-title.html

George Orson Welles USA 1915-1985

https://www.theguardian.com/film/
orsonwelles

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2014/apr/23/
orson-welles-voodoo-macbeth-shakespeare

Richard Burton USA 1925-1984

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/06/
obituaries/richard-burton-58-is-dead-rakish-stage-and-screen-star.html

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