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Enigmatic playwright best known for Making Noise Quietly and German Skerries whose natural habitat was the studio theatre

Tributes paid to British dramatist acclaimed for works including German Skerries, Across Oka and A Breakfast of Eels

David Hare: Covid-hit UK theatre needs a John Osborne-inspired revolution Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian British theatre must take inspiration from John Osborne and make itself essential to a mass audience if it is to thrive in a post-Covid world, according to David Hare, who says the artform is in need of a “revolution”. Osborne is being honoured with a blue plaque from English Heritage, which will be placed at 53 Caithness Road in Hammersmith, west London, where he wrote his seminal play ...

In California, airlines move to smaller airports, vacation routes Tim Jue FacebookTwitterEmail Carriers at SFO have had to adapt to the massive changes in pandemic travel.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Eric Yen of Millbrae is the kind of frequent flier the airlines need to pay the bills. He’s a high-yielding, high-value passenger the carriers fight to keep. When Yen needs to get somewhere for work, his presence is non-negotiable — he has to be there. Then the pandemic hit. Mass gatherings were out, and the exhibition industry he makes a living off of pulled the plug on in-person events. In ...

Clara Sargent and James Maddix, Ronald Perrault's birth parents. Angela Raven read the story last year about Ronald Perreault, who was left as a baby in a parked car in Portland 83 years ago, and considered reaching out to him. “I had been doing some (genealogy) research in my own family and I just thought I might be able to help,” said Raven, who lives in North Yarmouth. Clara Sargent and James Maddix, Ronald Perrault’s birth parents, and his younger sister. Photo courtesy of Donna Woodward She didn’t call, but Perreault’s story continued to rattle around in her head. It was fa...