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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
Glenda Jackson
UK
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/7
16305342/glenda-jackson-on-playing-king-lear-gender-barriers-crack-with-age
Ralph Nathaniel
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes UK
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/16/
richard-iii-review-ralph-fiennes-almeida-theatre
Michael Fassbender GER / IR
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
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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
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.
Feb. 11, 2020
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/
theater/charles-fuller-a-soldiers-play.html
Al Pacino
USA

(l-r) Tisa Chang, Pacino, Anne Miyamato and Don Blakely
in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.
Pacino won another Tony award for his performance
in this Vietnam war drama
at the Longacre theater in 1971.
Photograph: Afro Newspaper/Gado/Getty Images
Al Pacino: the Godfather of Broadway – in pictures
The Guardian
Thursday 5
November 2015 14.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2015/nov/05/
al-pacino-the-godfather-of-broadway-in-pictures
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/
theater/review-in-david-mamets-china-doll-al-pacino-as-an-urban-warrior-in-winter.html
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2015/nov/05/
al-pacino-the-godfather-of-broadway-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/26/
salome-al-pacino-london-stage-30-year-wait-jessica-chastain
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/
theater/reviews/glengarry-glen-ross-by-david-mamet-with-al-pacino.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/
movies/al-pacino-slouching-again-toward-shakespeare.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/15/
archives/drama-al-pacino-plays-richard-iii-exuberant-villain.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
John Hurt
UK

John Hurt switches from comedy to hopelessness with ease
in Krapp's Last Tape at the Barbican in 2006.
Photograph: John Haynes/Lebrecht
Krapp's Last Tape:
six performances from
Pinter to Hurt – in pictures
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Thursday 3 July 2014 17.39 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2014/jul/03/
krapps-last-tape-six-performances-pinter-hurt
http://www.theguardian.com/film/john-hurt
https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2017/jan/28/
john-hurt-diverse-british-actor-dies-77-video-obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/
movies/john-hurt-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/
movies/watch-john-hurt-in-his-most-memorable-roles.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2017/jan/28/
john-hurt-diverse-british-actor-dies-77-video-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/28/john-hurt-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/jan/28/
john-hurt-10-key-performances-alien-elephant-man-doctor-who
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2017/jan/28/
a-life-in-pictures-john-hurt
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/28/
john-hurt-dead-the-elephant-man-alien-harry-potter-midnight-express
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/movies/john-hurt-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2015/jan/29/
john-hurt-shakespeare-romeo-video
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/23/
john-hurt-samuel-beckett-krapps-last-tape
Ian McKellen
UK

Ian McKellen, sporting a Macbeth tartan tie:
‘I think the lad who is sitting there
is
probably the man who’s sitting here.’
Photograph: Raya Jalabi for the Guardian
Ian McKellen portrait unveiled in New York:
'I remember the very moment'
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Friday 7 February 2014
20.28 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/feb/07/ian-mckellen-portrait-unveiled-new-york

Ian McKellen in 1968.
A new biography, out this week,
portrays a devoted actor and campaigner
– and also unearths a romance or two.
Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images
Ian McKellen
In lieu of Ian McKellen’s own memoirs,
a new biography offers revelations
The Guardian
Sun 1 Sep 2019 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/01/
ian-mckellen-memoir-biography-garry-o-connor-john-humphrys-today-peter-pan-white-city-closing-early
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/ian-mckellen
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/01/
ian-mckellen-memoir-biography-garry-o-connor-john-humphrys-today-peter-pan-white-city-closing-early
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2019/jan/11/
ian-mckellen-lifetime-stage-pictures-tour-80th-birthday-career
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/nov/09/
ian-mckellen-to-celebrate-80th-birthday-with-80-date-tour
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/26/
king-lear-review-ian-mckellen-duke-of-yorks
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jul/04/
timothy-west-ian-mckellen-richard-ii-shakespeare
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/commentisfree/video/2016/mar/22/
sir-ian-mckellen-owen-jones-video-interview
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/
theater/ian-mckellen-and-derek-jacobi-virgins-of-the-gay-pride-march.html
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/08/
sherlock-film-mr-holmes-ian-mckellen
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/18/
patrick-stewart-x-men-twitter
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/feb/07/
ian-mckellen-portrait-unveiled-new-york
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jan/21/
monologue-tim-pigott-smith-acting-ian-mckellen
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/25/
ian-mckellen-broadway-production-probably-last
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/dec/09/
ian-mckellen-gandalf-hobbit-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/24/
ian-mckellen-50-years-gandalf
Kenneth Branagh
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
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
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/derek-jacobi
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
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
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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
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/feb/13/
kenneth-haigh-obituary
Rick Cluchey (born as
Douglas Charles 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
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/theater/rick-cluchey-dies-at-82-prison-theater-was-his-redemption.html
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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/theater/rick-cluchey-dies-at-82-prison-theater-was-his-redemption.html
http://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
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/theater/alan-howard-actor-with-royal-shakespeare-company-dies-at-77.html
http://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.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html
Peter O'Toole
IR / 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
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
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/theater/helen-hanft-master-of-camp-way-off-broadway-dies-at-79.html
http://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
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/20/nscofield220.xml
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
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
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/olivier
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/apr/06/laurence-olivier-in-the-entertainer-great-performances
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/may/15/olivier
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
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1110.html
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