31 stories by "Al Senter"
Three decades since its last major staging, George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance is set to be produced at the Orange Tree Theatre. Al
Two decades after Cell Mates unravelled following the disappearance of its lead, Simon Gray's play is being revived at Hampstead Theatre. Al
Built several years before the outbreak of the First World War, Portsmouth's Kings Theatre is delving into its past and reviving a
As a London revival of the seminal musical opens, Al Senter looks back at the lasting impact its explosion of youth and
More than a generation has passed since London first witnessed Angels in America. These plays have now returned to the National Theatre,
It could be 'London bus syndrome' or a sudden flowering of interest in France's favourite playwright, but there is beaucoup de Moliere
It is probably the most famous line in showbiz. The fearsome Julian Marsh, the abrasive Broadway director, towers over quivering chorine Peggy
It was a task worthy of Hercules. How could Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II repeat the phenomenal success of Oklahoma! in
We are probably on safe ground when asserting that Michael Blakemore, an active 88, is one of the oldest stage directors still
It seems paradoxical that the better a character actor does the job, the less they are known and appreciated. A performer who,
Among the many charismatic actors to have been hailed as the new Laurence Olivier down the years, Kenneth Branagh has perhaps been
Home-grown musicals of the 1960s seem to have vanished into some kind of theatrical black hole. The period between Lionel Bart and
With a new production of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea running at the National Theatre's Lyttelton, we are reminded of the
The novelist Graham Greene was apt to call his lighter works "entertainments". Although he did not formally include Travels With My Aunt
The quality of Guys and Dolls, Frank Loesser's masterpiece, was acknowledged almost as soon as it opened on Broadway at the 46th
Rather in the manner of the closing scenes of Shakespeare's The Tempest, the Downton Abbey revels now are ended and the Earl
Nobody is claiming that the struggle is over and the battle has been won, but one may be justified in saying that
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is the ultimate home movie. The 1950 film hailed by Time magazine as "a story of Hollywood at
Rita Davies, who has died after a short illness aged 82, enjoyed a golden autumn as a much in-demand presence on television
Fortified by several hefty mugs of tea against a working day that threatens to extend far into the evening, Janet McTeer is
Regarded by some critics as Harold Pinter's masterpiece, The Homecoming is celebrating its 50th birthday with an anniversary production at the Trafalgar
It is a striking aspect of the history of the theatre that it has tended to pass in and out of fallow
Janet Whiteside was the company member par excellence and for many years a much-loved stalwart of the National Theatre and the Royal
Character actor. It's an expression that seems to damn with faint praise. You could argue that it has outlived its primary function
By the nature of the job, actors have to learn to bond with each other at a much faster rate than in
