Joan Littlewood, the producer-director-author who was one of the most important and original figures responsible for the regeneration of the British theater during the key decades of the 1950s and ‘ ...

Joan Littlewood, one of postwar Britain’s greatest stage directors, whose influential Theater Workshop transformed British drama in the 1950s and ‘60s, has died. She was 87. Littlewood, best known for ...

Click here to hear Murray Melvin describe Joan Littlewood’s pioneering work. The Theatre Royal has stood in the East End neighborhood of Stratford-atte-Bow since 1884, but in 1953, a group of ...

S.R.O. is an unfamiliar condition in London’s West End, where theatergoing is a relaxed and casual matter, seats are cozy, there’s tea at the interval, and no fuss or pushing. Last week at Wyndham’s ...

Phillip Jackson's statue of the legendary theatre director Joan Littlewood was unveiled in London over the weekend. Celebrities turned out to see the moment where the covers were pulled off the ...

Clare Burt will take on the role of Joan Littlewood in the new musical Miss Littlewood, which runs in Stratford-upon-Avon this summer. Directed by the RSC's deputy artistic director Erica Whyman, the ...

A sculpture of pioneering theatre director Joan Littlewood will be unveiled at Theatre Royal Stratford East this October. The bronze sculpture, called The Mother of Modern Theatre, will be located in ...

MENTION Joan Littlewood and those that still remember her may murmur, “Oh! What a Lovely War” and perhaps hum a few notes of its theme tune. The play was first put on in 1963 and some 40 years later ...

Joan Littlewood, often proclaimed the most important figure of modern British theater (along with Peter Brook) and credited with its rebirth in the 1950s and ’60s, died Friday Sept. 20 in London of ...