The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their ...
Theatres across London’s West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of ...
She won many accolades — and was honored with a damehood — during a seven-decade career on the London stage, in film and on Broadway. By Anita Gates Joan Plowright, a British actress who ...
Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier met in the cast of “The Entertainer” at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1956. Jan. 1, 1993 Her first marriage was to Roger Gage in 1953; they divorced in ...
She was 95. Plowright died Thursday in London, her family said in a statement to the BBC. “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she ...
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 ...