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

Shrewd intelligence and impeccable comic timing were the hallmarks of the late-flourishing film career of the great theatre star Dame Joan Plowright ... for her defiant Beatie in Arnold Wesker’s 1959 ...

Joan Plowright's legacy as one of the most subtly powerful inventors ... In 1959, she played the lead in Roots by east London's Arnold Wesker at Coventry's Belgrade and London's Royal Court and West ...

"Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan." Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker.

LOS ANGELES – Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decadeslong career included an Oscar-nominated turn in “Enchanted April” and films “The Entertainer” and “Stalin,” has died.

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 ...

“We are so proud of all Joan did and who she ... Barbara” and “Saint Joan.” Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... brief appearance in the Arnold Schwarzenegger self-referencing satire “Last Action Hero” in 1993. Plowright became one of ...

Joan Plowright, an era-defining English actress, is dead at 95. Plowright died Jan. 16 surrounded by her family, according to a family statement reported by the BBC and other British media outlets ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey and Enchanted April, died Thursday. She was 95.