A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

Playwright David Hare has accused the National Theatre of ’angling for the West End’ rather than focusing on presenting truly ...

Dame Joan's early career was more focused on stage than screen work ... garden of the home she had shared with Olivier, Dame Joan spoke candidly about how she had tried to avoid playing Cleopatra at ...

The National Theatre has put on more than a thousand main stage productions in its lifetime, but less than one fifth of those directing these performances have been women, data originating from the ...

Olivier was “entranced ... moving across the well-remembered stage where the National Theatre had begun its life nearly three decades earlier “like a procession of one”, as one observer ...

A star first in theatre and later on screen ... Festival Theatre and then launched the National Theatre. This included performing alongside Olivier -- on stage she received plaudits for her ...

She made her professional stage debut in a 1948 production ... Plowright would eventually join Olivier at the National Theatre, which he founded in the early 1960s. At the National she appeared ...