All stories by Interview By Kate Kellaway on BroadwayStars

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Harriet Lane: ‘The level of detail – about everything – is extraordinary’ by Interview By Kate Kellaway

The writer on seeing her first novel, Alys, Always, become a stage play directed by Nicholas Hytner Harriet Lane – once a journalist at the Observer – wrote Alys, Always, her thrilling d…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Tracy Letts: ‘Freedom of speech is under attack’ by Interview By Kate Kellaway

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and actor Tracy Letts talks about his childhood, his addictions, and appearing with Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg’s new political thriller The Post, wh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Rachel De-lahay: ‘Being a brown woman is political in itself’ by Interview By Kate Kellaway

The British playwright on changing ‘normal’, holding an audience and getting white people to give a damnRachel De-lahay, 33, has made her name with award-winning plays on subjects as div…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Cush Jumbo: ‘No matter how successful you are, there is always the question – what next?’ by Interview By Kate Kellaway

The British actor on her New York debut in her solo show as Josephine Baker, dealing with racism, and the importance of seizing the momentWhat made you decide to become an actor?I didn’t e…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48AM
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Paapa Essiedu: You can’t live with your heart on your sleeve by Interview By Kate Kellaway

The RSC’s latest Hamlet on growing up in London, tokenism in the theatre, and the lessons he learned from a wise motherTell me about the night that, as an understudy to Sam Troughton, you …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:27AM
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Cush Jumbo: ‘No matter how successful you are, there is always the question – what next?’ by Interview By Kate Kellaway

The British actor on her New York debut in her solo show about Josephine Baker, dealing with racism, and the importance of seizing the momentWhat made you decide to become an actor?I didn’…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15AM