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 10:24AMHe’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 03:18PMLarry 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 02:24AMFrom 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 01:31PMSharpen 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 09:54AMExcitement 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 01:12PMThe 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 12:08PMLaura 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 04:30PMThe 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 10:08PMThe 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 09:58AMMeet 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 07:44AMHer 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 02:27PMFive years ago, Sherlock propelled him into the stratosphere. Now he’s photobombing the Oscars and selling out Hamlet a year in advance. Friends and co-stars reveal why the world is wild f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMThe Man Down star and comedian has had a hard year, with both the death of his father and onscreen dad Rik Mayall and a breakup with Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMShe may be playing a prostitute in a bawdy remake of Fanny Hill complete with love truncheon jokes, but Caroline Quentin wants to show the horrors of the trade too. She explains why sex is g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PMLaura Wades 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 explains why she feels sorry for Cam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMAs The Mistress Contract opens at the Royal Court, Emine Saner talks to its writer Abi Morgan about our fascination with 'the other woman' – from Victorian victim to modern vampIf there's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PMJaime Winstone is getting jumpy, Catherine Tate isn't bovvered – and Lesley Sharp is doing the crab. Emine Saner goes behind the scenes at the Old Vic's annual challengeIt's 10 o'clock on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMA US study has found that people with dementia not only react to music, but that it can help them improve their mental abilityKathryn Smith, director of operations at the Alzheimer's So…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMCarlos Acosta rose from humble beginnings in Cuba to become one of the greatest ballet dancers of his generation, and now he's written his first novelIt wasn't until he was well into hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMChannelling an 18-stone drunken loudmouth made him a national icon – but endangered his health, his reputation and his family. Michael Pennington tells Emine Saner how he escaped John…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTheatre was David Morrissey's first love, making him a star at home, and now in the US, via a major role in hit zombie drama The Walking Dead. But is acting becoming a closed profession?When…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMTamara Rojo spent 12 years as the Royal Ballet's prima ballerina. She explains why she walked away, at her peak, to take a new job as artistic director of the English National BalletIt shoul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15PMComedian, playwright, novelist, TV personality: Sandi Toksvig is a one-woman cottage industry. She talks about coming out, panel shows and why she's turned her back on the Lib-DemsA few year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMSusan Calman has not had it easy. Growing up gay in Glasgow was like being 'a vegan abattoir worker'. At 30 she gave up the law to become a comedian, and it's starting to pay offThe lucky th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMThe 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 07:04PMProducer attributes Wizard of Oz sequel's five-year run to 'untold story' angle – and social networking sites"I'd rather see The Wizard of Oz 20 times than this ersatz show once," said the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMAfter 50 years playing everything from Gandalf to gangsters, the beloved 'national institution' explains why acting keeps him saneNext week, it will be 50 years since Sir Ian McKellen first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59PMHe divides audiences like no other comedian, his fans hanging on every word of his rambling monologues, his critics raging at the lack of laughs. Stewart Lee explains his pleasure at being h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMIn the second of a new series of weekly columns, leading comedians choose their favourite performer of all time. Coming up: playwrights and lead vocalists. Reginald D HunterThe standup who h…
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