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 ...

Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London ...

Plowright was married to actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier. They were married for 28 years until Olivier died in 1989. Actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright first met ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the ...

Joan Plowright, the acclaimed British actress who ... alongside Laurence Olivier, whom she later married. Over her extensive career on stage and screen, Plowright also received nominations for ...

THE lights in London’s West End will be dimmed for two minutes on Tuesday in honour of award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright ... She had married actor Roger Gage just three years earlier ...

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 ...

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New ... Plowright and Olivier were married in Connecticut in 1961, while both were starring on Broadway, he in “Becket” and she in “A Taste ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... Plowright and Olivier were married in Connecticut in 1961, while both were starring on Broadway, he in “Becket” and she in “A Taste of Honey,” for ...

Joan Plowright, an era-defining English actress ... of "The Entertainer" alongside Laurence Olivier, whom she later married. Olivier died in 1989. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword ...

FILE – Joan Plowright, nominated for best supporting ... Plowright and Olivier were married in Connecticut in 1961, while both were starring on Broadway, he in “Becket” and she in “A ...