The star actor returns to the theater where he started almost a half-century ago, with Samuel Beckett’s bleak one-man play.

The production marks Oldman's return to the stage after 37 years but ultimately fails to live up to that homecoming ...

The actor performs Samuel Beckett’s melancholy solo piece at the York Theatre Royal, where he made his professional debut in 1979 ...

The production, running until 17 May, marks a homecoming for Oldman, who began his professional acting career at the venue ...

Here, forty-six years ago, Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut. Not far away, thirty years after that, I sat ...

Happy 69th birthday, Krapp, lothario, writer and recorder of fading memories and failing powers. Time to record that last ...

Back on the stage where he made his theatre debut in 1979, the Slow Horses star pours everything into Beckett’s bleak ...

At journalism school you’re taught to always cover the basics : Who, What, Why, Where, When and How. Meeting Gary Oldman in ...

Krapp’s Last Tape is at York Theatre Royal until May 17, 2025. For more information, click here.

Gary Oldman is a devastatingly stoic Krapp in his own production of the Beckett classic If it takes an actor of a certain stature to attract an audience for this ruminating solo drama, it also ...

Gary Oldman in Krapp's Last Tape at York Theatre Royal. Picture: Gisele Schmidt It’s a fitting choice. Krapp is 69 and while unlike Oldman (who recently turned 67) his life hasn’t turned out ...

Gary Oldman re-enters with a cough from a stairway into a loft thick with dust, papers, boxes and tapes, woozy head stuffed with memories, pockets full of bananas. Happy 69th birthday, Krapp ...