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Michael Billington (critic)

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Michael Keith Billington OBE (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic. [1]

83 relations: A & C Black, Alan Ayckbourn, Aristophanes, August Strindberg, Barbican Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, BBC, BBC Four, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Third Programme, Belarus Free Theatre, Birmingham Post, Bloomsbury Publishing, Braille, British Council, Caroline Graham, Celebration (play), Country Life (magazine), Death of a Hollow Man, Dion Boucicault, Donald Sinden, E-book, Elizabethan Club, Eugène Ionesco, Europe Theatre Prize, Faber and Faber, Harold Hobson, Harold Pinter, John Murray (publisher), Kaleidoscope (UK radio series), King's College London, Leamington Spa, Lincolnshire, Liverpool Echo, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Macmillan Publishers, Methuen Publishing, Midsomer Murders, National Student Drama Festival, New Haven, Connecticut, New Theatre Royal Lincoln, Nick Hern Books, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of the British Empire, Oxford University Dramatic Society, Oxford University Press, Peggy Ashcroft, Philip French, ..., Pierre de Marivaux, RealMedia, Routledge, Royal Shakespeare Company, St Catherine's College, Oxford, Stockholm, The Bald Soprano, The Birds (play), The Bookseller, The Guardian, The Illustrated London News, The New York Times, The Spectator, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Theatre Book Prize, TheGuardian.com, Tom Stoppard, Turin, University of Leeds, University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Warwick, Warwick, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick School, Web feed, Who's Who, Who's Who (UK), World Wide Web, Yale University, 2013 New Year Honours. Expand index (33 more) »

A & C Black

A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific English playwright and director.

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης,; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Battersea Arts Centre

The Battersea Arts Centre ("BAC") is a Grade II* listed building near Clapham Junction railway station in Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth that operates as a performance space specialising in theatre productions.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Third Programme

The BBC Third Programme was a national radio service produced and broadcast by the BBC between 1946 and 1970.

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Belarus Free Theatre

Belarus Free Theatre is a Belarusian underground theatre group.

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Birmingham Post

The Birmingham Post is a weekly printed newspaper based in Birmingham, England, with a circulation of 6,667 and distribution throughout the West Midlands. First published under the name the Birmingham Daily Post in 1857, it has had a succession of distinguished editors and has played an influential role in the life and politics of the city.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Caroline Graham

Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist.

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Celebration (play)

Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter.

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Country Life (magazine)

Country Life is a British weekly perfect-bound, glossy magazine, based in London at 110 Southwark Street (until March 2016 when it became based in Farnborough, Hampshire), and owned by Time Inc UK.

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Death of a Hollow Man

Death of a Hollow Man is a work of detective fiction by Caroline Graham, the second in her Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which has been adapted into the successful ITV drama Midsomer Murders.

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Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 (or 1822) – 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault (Dee-on Boo-se-koh), was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.

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Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, CBE, FRSA (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author.

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E-book

An electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Elizabethan Club

The Elizabethan Club is a social club at Yale University named for Queen Elizabeth I and her era.

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Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu,; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre.

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Europe Theatre Prize

The Europe Theatre Prize is an award of the European Commission for a personality who has "contributed to the realisation of cultural events that promote understanding and the exchange of knowledge between peoples".

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Harold Hobson

Sir Harold Hobson (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.

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John Murray (publisher)

John Murray is a British publisher, known for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, and Charles Darwin.

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Kaleidoscope (UK radio series)

Kaleidoscope was a BBC Radio 4 arts programme which ran for 25 years from 1973.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Leamington Spa

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or Leamington, is a spa town in Warwickshire, England.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Liverpool Echo

The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror based in Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is a drama school situated in the west of London, United Kingdom.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Methuen Publishing

Methuen Publishing Ltd is an English publishing house.

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Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997.

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National Student Drama Festival

The National Student Drama Festival (or NSDF) was founded in 1956 by the Sunday Times arts columnist Kenneth Pearson, the Sunday Times theatre critic Harold Hobson, and National Union of Students president Frank Copplestone.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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New Theatre Royal Lincoln

The New Theatre Royal Lincoln is a theatre in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

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Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is a London-based independent specialist publisher of plays, theatre books and screenplays.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Oxford University Dramatic Society

The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) is the principal funding body and provider of theatrical services to the many independent student productions put on by students in Oxford, England.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Peggy Ashcroft

Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years.

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Philip French

Philip Neville French OBE (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was an English film critic and former radio producer.

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Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist.

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RealMedia

RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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St Catherine's College, Oxford

St Catherine's College (often called Catz by college members) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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The Bald Soprano

La Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco.

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The Birds (play)

The Birds (Greek: Ὄρνιθες Ornithes) is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Theatre Book Prize

The Theatre Book Prize was established to celebrate the Jubilee of the Society for Theatre Research (founded in Britain in 1948), and to encourage writing and publication of books on theatre history and practice—both those that present the theatre of the past and those that record contemporary theatre for the future.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Turin

Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.

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University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a Russell Group university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a plate glass research university in Coventry, England.

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Warwick

Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England.

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Warwick Arts Centre

Warwick Arts Centre (WAC) is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.

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Warwick School

Warwick School is an independent school with boarding facilities (also known as a public school) for boys in Warwick, England.

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Web feed

On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

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Who's Who

Who's Who (or "Who is Who") is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biographical information on the prominent people of a country.

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Who's Who (UK)

Who's Who is a leading source of biographical data on more than 33,000 influential people from around the world.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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2013 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2013 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Billington_(critic)

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