Articles about The Pitmen Painters
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I was lucky enough to review the original production of Pitmen Painters at the Live Theatre way back in 2007; since then it has toured, played at the National Theatre, London's West End and …
"The Pitmen Painters" is a cerebral thrill that deconstructs the notion of art and who makes it.
Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, which premiered at Newcastle's Live Theatre and was subsequently brought to London's National Theatre and later to Broadway and then the West End,…
The Pitmen Painters will embark on a national tour this spring. Bill Kenwright Productions will tour the Live Theatre and the National Theatre's co-production of Lee Hall's play from March 1…
The gala 44th Annual Jeff Equity Awards ceremony honoring excellence in professional theatre produced within the immediate Chicago area was held on Monday, October 15, at Drury Lane Oakbrook.
ACT's production of Lee Hall's award-winning docudrama "The Pitmen Painters" covers the biographical and pictorial and then adds philosophical debates about the personal and social nature of…
Vashon Island resident Wally Bell has a close connection to the story of miners who became painters in the hit play "The Pitmen Painters," running at ACT Theatre April 26-May 20, 2012.
The West End runs of The Ladykillers, Absent Friends and The Pitmen Painters all end, as scheduled, April 14, at the Gielgud, Pinter and Duchess theatres, respectively.
The Palm Beach Drama Works presents The Pitmen Painters at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre in West Palm Beach.
Art as an ennobling sanctification for both the artist and the observer whose interpretation completes the symbiotic circle is just one of a dozen themes swirling around Palm Beach Dramawork…
Lee Hall's Olivier Award-winning drama The Pitmen Painters, about a group of miners in Northern England who have their lives transformed by art, will make its West Coast debut beginning …
TheatreWorks will be presenting the West Coast debut of The Pitmen Painters at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, January 18-February 12. Leslie Martinson will direct.
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Lee Hall's play about the miners who discovered the power of painting is as powerful as ever " but I doubt it could happen nowI saw Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters again last week, and althou…
Lee Hall's celebrated play about the 1934 Ashington miners finally comes to the West End. It will run at the Duchess Theatre until January and Extra members can buy top price tickets for …
If the Ashington Group hadn't existed, it's tempting to say that Lee Hall would have had to invent them. For the author of Billy Elliot and undisputed laureate of working-class creativity, t…
Lee Hall's play is a rich, absorbing drama that tells a story well on the importance of culture and learning for all, writes Sarah Hemming
The story of the Ashington Group painters as told in Lee Hall’s play, based on William Feaver’s wonderful book, is one of the most interesting in British painting, and this glori…
What's so remarkable about a group of working-class men learning to paint? You may think there is, or you may think there isn't. You may think that anyone with very little formal education l…
Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, which originally premiered at Newcastle's Live Theatre and was subsequently brought to London's National Theatre and later to Broadway with its or…
Lee Hall Mines the Past For "Pitmen Painters"
http://www.playbill.com/video "The Pitmen Painters", the new play by Lee Hall, writer of "Billy Elliot", tells th…
After giving the world "Billy Elliot," Playwright Lee Hall pulls more innovation out of a coal mining town. "The Pitmen Painters" powerfully tells the real story of coalminers releasing thei…
HEDY WEISS: For a group of coal miners in Ashington, England, a dreary town not far from Newcastle, the 1930s turned into something of a personal Italian Renaissance " an awakening as much a…
From the moment he first heard about "The Pitmen Painters" " Lee Hall's play about a group of miners in northern England who find their expressive spirit with paint and homemade canvases " d…
Ian Kelly, Michael Hodgson, David Whitaker and Brian Lonsdale will all return to The Pitmen Painters in roles that they first created at Newcastle's Live Theatre, then reprised at the Na…
