Willy Russell's 1980 play "Educating Rita" is all about educating Rita, a disgruntled hairdresser who's decided that ignorance is not bliss, and neither is her job or her marriage. Determined to give ...

Grace Galloway and Richard Conlon make for a poignant pairing in Debbie Hannan’s sharp-eyed production of Educating Rita at Dundee Rep, writes Joyce McMillan ...

Curve’s chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster said: “Rita has been a vibrant and vital part of our culture for the past 40 years and it’s always a pleasure to say hello ...

The Texas Repertory Theatre opens its 2022 Season at beautiful and historic Charles Bender Performing Arts Center with the inspiring comedy Educating Rita. This new production of the Olivier Prize ...

DENVER (CBS4) – The production of "Educating Rita" is underway at the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities. "Educating Rita" is the story of a hairdresser who wants to get an education, and the ...

The 40th anniversary U.K. tour of Willy Russell's Educating Rita, which was suspended in March due to the pandemic, will resume October 28–November 14 at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, with socially ...

A 20-something hairdresser named Rita tries to uplift herself by taking an open university course in Citadel Theatre’s production of “Educating Rita.” Frank, the middle-aged professor who tutors her, ...

Under the gentle and patient guidance of director Jenny Wanasek, actors Jonathan Smoots and Christina Panfilio could have stood on stage and read the phone book and held us just as spellbound as they ...

Curve Theatre in Leicester will stage a new production of Willy Russell's EDUCATING RITA, directed by Associate Director Cara ...

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Willy Russell's venerable intellectual comedy "Educating Rita," featuring an alcoholic poet manque and a sassy hairdresser hungry for learning, ought to be a duet for cello and flute. The Colony ...