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Pierce Brosnan regrets quitting theatre after landing James Bond role

Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan has confessed he regrets turning his back on the theatre after landing his career-defining role as James Bond and applauds his successor Daniel Craig for treading the boards again after playing 007.

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‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts

The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club goes for a stroll in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?

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Richard Thomas dons wig and mustache to play icon Mark Twain in one-man play touring the US

Richard Thomas has taken on the role of Mark Twain in a one-man show originally performed by Hal Holbrook

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Mother Play review – Sigrid Thornton is terrific as a gin-soaked, monstrous matriarch

Melbourne Theatre CompanyThornton, Yael Stone and Ash Flanders give beautiful performances as a miserable family, but startling tonal shifts send this American play into silliness

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Ruth Wilson and Michael Shannon are mesmerising in A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Almeida Theatre

4/5 Rebecca Frecknall stages a surprisingly funny revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Prohibition-era romantic tragedy

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Tom Cruise Is a Violet? Tramell Tillman's Metaphor Explains Everything About Mission Impossible's Humanity and Boxoffice Sucess

After working in Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning, the stage trained actor is ready for the next era in his career. Tramell Tillman loves flowers, travelling and working with Tom Cruise.

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Pamela Anderson to return to stage in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real

Pamela Anderson is set to return to the stage in a revival of Tennessee Williams' 'Camino Real' after appearing in Broadway's 'Chicago' in 2022.

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Pamela Anderson announces return to the stage in Tennessee Williams play

The Baywatch star made her Broadway debut three years ago in ‘Chicago’

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The Glass Menagerie: the haunting beauty of Tennessee Wiliams’ play endures in this Sydney revival

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest playwrights. A prolific and unabashedly autobiographical writer, Williams’ career spanned four decades of the 20th century.

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The Glass Menagerie review – exquisite, utterly devastating take on Tennessee Williams’ classic

Jay Miller’s production raises the ghosts of troubled memories with powerful intimacy in this final show before the venue gets a grand refit

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Little Foxes; The Invention of Love – review

Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the prowl; Anne-Marie Duff channels Bette Davis; and Simon Russell Beale gleams in the literary afterlife

The Guardian - UK

Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2024

Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

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Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is a force of nature in this striking revival

4/5 Director Rebecca Frecknall’s vivid interpretation makes a hazily-remembered classic feel new and strange

Evening Standard

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Daisy Edgar-Jones is full of angry energy in a stylish family face-off

Rebecca Frecknall’s stark production brings out the rage in Williams’ play through powerful performances, but fails to plumb all its emotional depths

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Christmas culture guide 2024: the very best of what to see on stage and screen this festive season in London

The very best of what to do in film, TV, theatre, panto, dance and more...

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Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – from fish out of water to Hollywood star

The method actor traces his path to success, spending as much time on the films that flopped as the greatest hits

Marie Claire

32 Iconic Photos of Elizabeth Taylor

Including the glitz, the glamour—and the weddings.

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Daisy Edgar-Jones on the advice Paul Mescal gave ahead of her return to stage

The actress is starring in a Tennessee Williams play in December

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Dame Maggie Smith: Oscar-winning Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star dies, aged 89

Giant of stage and screen was one of Britain’s most successul stars

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Leigh-Hunt obituary

Highly expressive actor of impeccable technique that could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy

The Guardian - UK

Daisy Edgar-Jones to star in new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Rebecca Frecknall will direct Normal People actor in Tennessee Williams classic at Almeida theatre in London, opening in December

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‘It was a true privilege to witness his talent firsthand’: readers on James Earl Jones

From memorable meetings to seeing him on stage, and learning late that he had voiced Darth Vader, Guardian readers remember a great and generous actor

The Guardian - UK

Strange Relations by Ralf Webb review – brave new queer world

A richly rewarding account of how four literary giants created an erotic revolution in post-war American culture

The Guardian - UK

Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

The Guardian - AU

A Streetcar Named Desire review – Nikki Shiels is majestic but she’s no Blanche

Melbourne Theatre CompanyShiels often uses her extraordinary voice for comedic effect under direction that seems determined to wrest the classic away from poeticism to the almost ribald

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