Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London has written for 'The Conversation' on Dame Joan Plowright

Actor Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars, passed away at the age of 95 at Denville Hall on January 16, as per her family.

Theatres across London’s West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of renowned British stage and screen actress Dame Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, who died earlier this week at the age of 95. pic.twitter.com/ztTtdJZuIC

Plowright always rated her Saint Joan at London's Old Vic theatre in 1963 as her finest work. "That is the sort of part that all young women want to play," she told the BBC in 2018. "I would always say though that I enjoyed having played it but actually ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday, her family said ...

West End theatres to dim their lights in honour of Dame Joan Plowright - UK Theatre and Society of London Theatre said they were honoured to contribute to the celebration of her extraordinary career.

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play,

Joan Plowright, the celebrated English actor whose career included the films 'Enchanted April,' 'The Entertainer' and 'Spiderwick Chronicles,' has died at 95.

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank among the theatrical nobility and who carved her own considerable and singular place on the British stage,

The lights of London’s West End will dim in memory of the Olivier award-winning actress on Tuesday. Her family said in a statement: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both stage ... To honor Plowright, the Society of London Theatre announced that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. next Tuesday, Jan. 21.

Joan Plowright, the acclaimed UK star of stage ... in 1954 and subsequently co-starred with Olivier in the original London production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer, before appearing in ...