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The Latest Breaking News from Harold Pinter

Gawn Grainger obituary

Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier

The Guardian - UK

Danny Dyer plunged into a 'spiral of madness' after Harold Pinter's death

Actor Danny Dyer plunged into a "spiral of madness" following the death of his mentor Harold Pinter in 2008 - admitting he felt like a "lost soul" and was "angry at the world".

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Danny Dyer says Harold Pinter’s death sent him into ‘spiral of madness’

Actor tells BBC about his relationship with the playwright, his ‘mentor’, and how he went ‘off the rails’

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Danny Dyer says death of mentor Harold Pinter sent him into ‘spiral of madness’

Dyer said he would stay at the playwright’s house and learn about famous writers and poets like WH Auden and CS Lewis.

Evening Standard

Abuse, witch-hunts and hangings: why Arthur Miller’s masterpiece The Crucible still haunts us

What’s behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meanings that address our times

The Guardian - UK

Danny Dyer emotionally reveals why wife controls their finances in ‘most honest interview’ he’s ‘ever done’

‘She controls everything now,’ actor said

The Independent UK

Danny Dyer developing play about his friendship with Harold Pinter

Actor Danny Dyer is developing a new play called 'When Harry Met Danny' about his friendship with legendary playwright Harold Pinter who describes as his "mentor".

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Danny Dyer plans stage tribute to mentor Harold Pinter

‘When Harry Met Danny’ is still in its early planning stages

The Independent UK

John Lithgow and Lesley Manville take home acting gongs at starry Olivier Awards

Imelda Staunton and Romola Garai were among the winners of the night

The Independent UK

Olivier awards 2025: full list of winners

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Giant and Fiddler on the Roof were among the big winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’

The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Guardian - UK

‘Cocaine is classless ... everyone’s at it’: Danny Dyer on fame, aliens, love and male violence

He went from Harold Pinter’s protege to barely scraping a living to roaring success in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. With the release of his new film Marching Powder, he talks about his journey from national joke to national treasure

The Guardian - UK

Jared Harris: ‘I didn’t like what my family had in mind for me’

INTERVIEW: The ‘Mad Men’ actor speaks to Louis Chilton about his new production of ‘Hamlet’ at the RSC, reinventing himself in the US, and the ‘extreme’ response to his theatrical comeback

The Independent UK

National Theatre’s shift from repertory plays risks ‘eroding culture’, says David Hare

Playwright calls for return to theatre’s founding vision and to stop ‘angling for West End’

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Ben Elton: ‘I fancied Olivia Newton-John. It’s all right to say that about a third cousin, right?’

The standup talks about tensions behind the scenes of Blackadder, his Wiggles movie that never happened and his opinions on hecklers

The Guardian - UK

Eileen Diss obituary

Designer of meticulous, poetically imagined sets who collaborated many times with Harold Pinter and won six Baftas

Evening Standard

Danny Dyer is a Bafta winner: How Rivals woke audiences up to the TV hardman's acting talent

The Cockney actor has spent his life written off as a ‘geezer’ but with a Bafta award now under his belt, he’s showing how good he really is

The Guardian - UK

The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’

The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny

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The Guardian - UK

The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade review – comic novel or conceptual art project?

The author’s alter ego is on a quest to uncover the life and work of his playwright idol in this whimsical debut

The Guardian - UK

‘“Mad” Frankie Fraser told me how to get someone to talk’: how we made The Shadow Line

‘The psychopath is terrifying. The scene where he almost drowns a cat held the record for complaints for a while. But there is a humanity to the show, too’

The Guardian - UK

Is the theatre interval becoming a thing of the past?

Lasting Covid impact and need to attract audiences behind move to performances running straight through

The Guardian - UK

The Birthday Party – Pinter’s strangeness reframed

Director Richard Jones tries to capture the menace felt by the play’s first audiences, but the result is overmannered

The Guardian - UK

The Birthday Party review – Jane Horrocks hosts in a house of horrors

Inviting macabre surrealism and terror by torchlight on to a brown 1950s set, Richard Jones leaves room for interpretation in Pinter’s early play

The National (Scotland)

Mark Brown: Here's my biggest picks for this year's Fringe

IT’S that time of year again, when many a well-heeled Edinburgher departs for three-and-a-half weeks in Provence, renting out their home for the…

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s been a mad old journey’: Danny Dyer on family, royalty and his tough guy image

Danny Dyer is working-class actor with royal blood in his veins, a tough guy in a pink dressing gown, a tearaway who’s embraced family life… He talks about where it all went right

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