As an actor and comedian, she has worked with some patronising colleagues and creepy directors – but has always played the game on her own terms. She discusses Botox, nudity, universal cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWokeness, gender fluidity, the audacity of ageing … Madwomen of the West is a play giving ‘women of a certain age’ a voice – and audiences are loving it. We meet two of its outspoken…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AMShe outraged Mary Whitehouse, worked with Tina Turner, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and is up for an Olivier for choreographing a smash hit production of Guys & Dolls. Will she ever s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMWhen he began performing, as a boy in South Africa, he was told he would never win. But Radebe overcame homophobia and homelessness to become a beloved dance pioneer If you watched Strictly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMShe upstaged Croatian punks in Liverpool, said farewell to Ted Lasso – and had her own spectacular festive special. The star talks first love, fear and finding mega fame in her 40s When sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMOne of Britain’s best actors is back on stage as Scrooge. He reflects on his Salford childhood, his rebirth after a breakdown – and why we need to get the Tories out As a child of no mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AMOnce a struggling comedy writer, he is now a highly successful podcast presenter and playwright. His secret? Ghosts Danny Robins has never seen a ghost and it troubles him, even if, he says,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMAs the glitter ball returns, the longest serving Strictly judge talks about ruffling feathers, being fearless, his father’s alcoholism, and why he’s always ready to start over again It i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13AMKrystal Evans was scarred, mentally and physically, by the fire that killed her sister. She blocked out the memories – until she decided to write about them In previous, shorter standup sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMThe Downton Abbey actor loves to keep a low profile. So how does she feel about portraying one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and headline-grabbing stars – and writing a book about her ow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMWhat’s it like to break into television in your 50s? The award-winning standup talks about her new series The Change, her late-blooming career and her issues with Tupperware There is a pho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMAs she joins Greatest Days, the star from Wigan talks about the implosion of Hear’Say, 13 years in Corrie, tabloids raking through her bins – and not being able to afford nappies as a si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThe Kiln theatre’s Handbagged, about the monarch’s meetings with Margaret Thatcher, has opened in a week of mourning. Its stars reflect on the play’s humour and their tears in rehearsa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMFrom songs about slapping dough to scripting the perfect innuendo, the creators of a new musical explain the ingredients for bringing the wildly successful TV show to the stage The first not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMThe Olivier winner on how activism has helped her deal with online abuse, her two years of shielding – and why her life is amazing For most of the past two years, Liz Carr has been shieldi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMHe’s an acclaimed actor and director, but Paddy Considine’s first and enduring passion is music – and on his band’s new album he’s confronting the ghosts of his childhood Were you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFor 50 years, Sylvia Young’s theatre school has trained the likes of Dua Lipa, Nicholas Hoult and a ‘very naughty’ Amy Winehouse. The 82-year-old tells us how it started – and why sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMThey were pigeonholed, derided – and even shot at. With The Marvelous Mrs Maisel back on TV screens, we find out what life was really like for women who dared to be funny in the postwar ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AMAs the Game of Thrones star swaps furs for modern dress to play Shakespeare’s monarch, he reflects on what the play tells us about masculinity, and how it addresses the issues that drove h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMHaving survived teen shame and the Aids crisis, the Broadway actor – and erstwhile escort – is now blazing a trail for silver sexuality There were things in the first draft of his memoir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMShe won a Bafta for Alma’s Not Normal – and that was just the pilot episode. As the full series launches, the ex-standup talks about growing up in care, getting the comedy bug in Ibiza a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMAs his new show, Hairspray, leads the return to theatres, the singer talks about his mental health struggles, going back to his mining-town roots – and how the government has let down the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThe Line of Duty actor follows in the footsteps of his great hero, though his intriguing film is ultimately elusive. Beckett would surely approve If the work Adrian Dunbar is best known for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMThe standup behind Baby Cobra found fame with her candid material on sex and pregnancy. Back with a memoir, she talks about her work ethic, the taboo of miscarriage – and performing in fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07AMThe actor and comedian has been a fixture on British TV for more than two decades. Now, in her first one-woman show, she unpicks the difficult maternal relationship that shaped herEven close…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMThe comedian is doing a show about her father in Edinburgh. She talks about the sexist LA standup scene, her reconciliation with her dad – and doing jokes about his ex-wivesWith just a hin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMFetishised nostalgia for a bygone era of cosy domesticity and bake-offs is dangerous, say the team behind new play Home, I’m DarlingJudy Martin is a proud, archetypal 1950s housewife. She …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMHe used to get cast as either a doctor or a terrorist. Now Prasanna Puwanarajah is on stage at the National, starring opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose – and even writing hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMDrama created after Tackroom Theatre teamed up with Barnardo’s to conduct the largest piece of research ever done into the subjectThere’s no holding back in the rehearsal room, with talk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThe mountains of leaflets, the WhatsApp groups, the election night panic … Harriet Harman, Tracy Brabin and David Lammy on what the play gets right – and wrong Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMThe TV show took the playwright’s talents to a wider audience, highlighting his ability to create brilliantly complex womenNobody, observes one of his friends, gets out of a Mike Bartlett …
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