theater

the secrets of Britain’s haunted theatres

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Catherine Tate stars in The Enfield Haunting – Marc Brenner Recently, British theater has suffered from stage fright due to an increase in the number of shows with supernatural themes. The successes of A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic and the spooky thriller 2:22 A Ghost Story (now on tour), not to mention the … Read more

Richard Pilbrow, doyen of stage lighting who shaped the design of the National Theater – obituary

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Richard Pilbrow in front of the unfinished National Theater on the South Bank in 1974: ‘my heart still aches that our National Theater will contain more actor-friendly spaces’, he said later – Evening Standard Richard Pilbrow, who has died aged 90, was the doyen of British theater lighting designers and one of the last survivors … Read more