Sunday, October 21, 2018
His films tackled paedophilia, abortion and deadly dachshunds. In his debut play, the barbed laureate of US cinema explores the race and class dynamics of childcare. But his own nanny isn’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMMonday, August 13, 2018
The 29-year-old Bostonian followed a string of racist tweets all the way to a white nationalist meeting – and turned the experience into his new Edinburgh showThe 29-year-old Bostonian com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Homos, Or Everyone in America is set in an almost quaint pre-Grindr world. Its writer reveals how his funny, provocative drama was inspired by a hate crimeIn the opening scene of Jordan Seav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMMonday, August 6, 2018
The character comic switches roles like a regenerating Time Lord in her new Edinburgh show, Faces of Grace – from a wannable Love Island contestant to a cat-loving lonerIt became clear to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
As her horror comedy Blueberry Toast is staged in London, the Texan talks about how Christianity informs everything she writesIt’s a sunny Sunday morning in a middle-American kitchen. Walt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, May 11, 2018
It is Britain’s favourite type of humour, the go-to gag for everyone from Carry On stars to Bake Off hosts. But are fnarr fnarr jokes just another example of male sexual entitlement?If you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, April 29, 2018
His first work Bash got him excluded from the Mormon church. Now, as its three plays are revived in London with a modified script, Neil LaBute talks religion and R-rated moviesIt is common f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMMonday, April 23, 2018
His frenetic hip-hop history The Get Down may have floundered but there’s no stopping the director. He talks about his Elvis movie, his boho love life – and resurrecting Strictly Ballroo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
After a bedtime story with a giant teddy, you fly with geese and cross rickety rope bridges. Our writer steps into SomnaiImmersive entertainment is so widespread now, from the intimately dis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:21AMFriday, January 19, 2018
With vehicles belching fumes at 7mph, car chase franchise fails to translate to stageOutside of Jaws, it would be tough to think of a movie idea less suited to the theatrical treatment than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57PMSaturday, December 30, 2017
The Electra star on sharing the stage with Kristin Scott Thomas, never taking the job home with him and his small-screen appearance with Mark Rylance in Wolf HallAudiences at the exhilaratin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, November 13, 2017
A new version of the classic musical moves Damon Runyon’s characters to uptown New York, with an all-black cast and a burst of bebop and gospelThe cast of Guys and Dolls are lending some e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Dressed in capes and drinking Corpse Reviver cocktails, audiences explore a crypt and a vampire’s boudoir in the film company’s atmospheric theatre showFor anyone who grew up in the 1960…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMThursday, August 31, 2017
In Outlaws to In-Laws, seven short plays chart how gay lives have changed decade by decade since the 1950s, from a time of blackmail to a world of dating apps. Three writers – Jonathan Kem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
When Bogosian’s king of the trolls took to stage and screen in the 80s, subversive radio hosts were fun – then they led to Trump. The actor and playwright talks about punk pranks, harass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
The Canadian comic may look like she needs ID to get into her own shows, but her Fringe show is her frankest (and funniest) yet‘I love being gut-wrenchingly honest,” says elfin comic Mae…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, August 14, 2017
Actor, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who took the part of the tyrannical comedian King Kaiser in the 1982 film comedy My Favourite YearTough cookies with soft centres were the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Playwright, actor and director who exposed the gap between myth and reality in American lifeSam Shepard, who has died aged 73 from complications of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease, exce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, July 23, 2017
US stage and screen actor best known for Cutter’s Way, Home Alone and DeceivedJohn Heard, who has died aged 71, was an engaging, intelligent character actor in American film, television an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
He was the original online prankster who married Drew Barrymore and got fired by Trump. As he returns to standup, he talks about not getting his dues – and where you draw the line in comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Tom Marshman’s raw one-man show uses lip-synching and dancing to remember the lost pubs and clubs where LGBT people partied and campaignedDolled-up clubbers clattered through dimly lit str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
He’s one of Britain’s bravest screen actors. Now Paddy Considine is making a high-stakes stage debut in The Ferryman. Samantha Morton, Olivia Colman and others look back at his extraordi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMFriday, February 24, 2017
With The Godfather and Chinatown, Robert Evans revolutionised the movie industry. Now, Simon McBurney is staging the mogul’s scandalous memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture. They talk abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, February 2, 2017
He’s the ex-cleaner who ended up playing a pirate in Game of Thrones. Now Lucian Msamati faces his biggest challenge yet – as the RSC’s first black Iago. He talks to Ryan GilbeyLu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMMonday, November 28, 2016
The apprentice witch – created by Eiko Kadono and featured in Hayao Miyazaki’s movie – is coming to Southwark Playhouse in a new stage adaptation. But first they need to work out how t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Our writer gets 15 minutes to prepare for a starring role in A Girl and a Gun, a drama that takes film noir into the wild westI am dressed in cowboy gear and closing my hands around a woman�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Actor best remembered as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s Do the Right ThingThe actor Bill Nunn, who has died aged 63 of leukaemia, was a gentle giant who appeared frequently as a supporting pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMMonday, September 19, 2016
He rules kids’ TV with Gigglebiz, Something Special and Justin’s House – and now his jazzy clown creation Mr Tumble is about to storm the stage in Manchester. But Justin Fletcher still…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, September 15, 2016
The Vaults, LondonRodent goujons and nettle cocktails are on the entertainingly monstrous menu but this immersive theatre show is far from fillingIn the Ghastly Garden a troupe of skittish c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMMonday, August 29, 2016
Mel Brooks's 1968 film makes even greater sense on the stage – especially with the peerless Nathan Lane in the lead roleI adore Renoir. I revere Bergman. I bow at the altar of Tarkovsky. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMThursday, August 18, 2016
Bill Murray’s deadpan misanthrope is now a jock belting out showstoppers. So does this stage replay bring new shine to the quirky love story – or kill a classic?In the 23 years since Gro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:50AM 
