Wednesday, May 17, 2023
As 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 12:18PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
The 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 11:13AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
From 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 07:37AMTuesday, May 10, 2022
The 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 04:06AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
He’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 05:48AMMonday, April 11, 2022
For 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 02:18AMMonday, March 7, 2022
They 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 03:07AMThursday, February 17, 2022
As 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 03:33AMThursday, January 6, 2022
Having 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 09:18AMMonday, September 6, 2021
She 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 03:18AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
As 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 07:24AMTuesday, December 31, 2019
The 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 08:12AMThursday, October 17, 2019
The 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 02:07AMMonday, July 8, 2019
The 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 02:12AMWednesday, August 15, 2018
The 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 10:48AMMonday, July 2, 2018
Fetishised 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 10:36AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
He 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 01:18AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Drama 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 08:42AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
The 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 02:42AMFriday, October 6, 2017
The 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, August 4, 2017
He’s not a TV favourite, but the actor and comedian has built one of the most diverse audiences of any current standup, partly through the subversive use of social media. Now he’s writte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMFriday, March 24, 2017
Larry Lamb played Archie Mitchell in EastEnders for two years, basing him on his bullying father. What's he going to do next?The rehearsal room for Educating Rita sits high up on a corner of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMFriday, November 25, 2016
From all-female Shakespeare trilogys to hit musicals and films, she has a gift for works that focus on – and resonate with – womenWhen Phyllida Lloyd took on Shakespeare, it was never go…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Sharpen up your low-light photography skills, recite poetry and sing along to Messiah – or the MuppetsWhen darkness falls at the 19th-century Waddesdon Manor, the grand house and gardens p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, November 4, 2016
Excitement greets new play The Ferryman by a writer as at ease writing for theatre as writing Bond films It will come as no surprise to those who have followed Jez Butterworth’s career tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, October 17, 2016
The Humans and IT Crowd actor is about to star in a play about the world of humourless comedy fans. Good job she has experience in that field …It’s break time at a rehearsal space in sou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Laura Wade’s play Posh ushered in the Tory government in 2010. Is the film version, The Riot Club, here to bury the Bullingdon boys’ era of inequality? She tells Emine Saner how she got …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMSunday, September 4, 2016
The Vagina Monologues shot writer Eve Ensler to stardom. Now she is a global campaigner who plans to call a billion women out on strike against rapeWho could have predicted what an effe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:08PMMonday, June 13, 2016
The Faction’s writer and director are putting women centre stage in their new production of a Maxim Gorky play In one rehearsal of Vassa Zheleznova, the new adaptation of the Maxim Gorky p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMFriday, December 4, 2015
Meet the actors and puppeteers behind the creatures from this year’s top Christmas shows – including the BFG, the Lorax and the Cheshire CatIronically for a show set largely in the froze…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Her steely, understated approach won praise when playing Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall and now Foy is taking on the role of Queen Elizabeth II in a new dramaSome castings seem so obvious in retro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27PM 
