Saturday, June 29, 2024
The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead
Born in Cambridge in 1957, Simon McBurney is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMSaturday, December 2, 2023
The Syrian film-maker on the food that tastes of home, the author she longs to have met and the game she wins by cheating
Born in 1991, Waad al-Kateab is a Syrian film-maker and journalist. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMSaturday, July 23, 2022
In the Regency and Victorian eras, when theatres were filled with melodramatic plays and operas inspired by the gothic revival, children and adults could recreate these dramas in their parlo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PMSunday, June 26, 2022
Ahead of her British stage debut in The Seagull, the Game of Thrones star talks about her self-doubt as the hit show took off, her decision to write about her brain aneurysms – and showing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMSaturday, February 5, 2022
The Starstruck creator and star reveals her passion for Joan Collins, J-pop and all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffets
Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1992, comedian and actor Ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, December 1, 2019
The playwright and director on Middle East musicals, Bob Dylan bootlegs, and walking the Earth as he thinks about playsBorn in Dublin in 1971, playwright, director and screenwriter Conor McP…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, October 13, 2019
The comedian on the history that inspired her new podcast and her favourite new music and theatre
Josie Long began performing standup at 14 and won the BBC New Comedy award at 17. After stud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, June 17, 2018
The British director on the genius of Joan Armatrading, the best organic pub in London, and the film she turns to for inspirationFilm, theatre and opera director Phyllida Lloyd was born in B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSunday, January 14, 2018
The playwright on the renaissance of Hull, ironing to documentaries, and the romance of the Caledonian sleeper trainJames Graham grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. After taking a drama d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMSunday, November 12, 2017
The actor on Dragons’ Den, the jazz improvisations of Brad Mehldau, the Cinema Museum, a south London bus garage, and more…Born in Hammersmith, London, Toby Jones studied at the Universi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSunday, October 29, 2017
The actor on Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, David Shrigley’s unsettling cartoons, designing T-shirts online and getting his dad into RuPaul’s Drag RaceBorn in Harlow in 1988 and raise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSunday, October 22, 2017
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonThe Game of Thrones star comes into her own as an actress who toys with a sexist stage director in David Ives’s forward-thinking but flawed comedySometimes e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSunday, October 1, 2017
The award-winning theatre director, best known for War Horse, on mystical landscapes, Paul Morley’s vision of the north and the enduring appeal of FriendsBorn in London in 1966 and brought…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMThe outspoken Game of Thrones actor on starring in S&M comedy Venus in Fur, the ongoing battles of feminism and society’s search for a panaceaIf the acting thing hadn’t worked out fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, August 27, 2017
The Crazyhead and Chewing Gum actor on a podcast about grief, some mind-blowing electronica, and the perfect pre-theatre venueBorn in Southwark, south London, Susan Wokoma made her acting de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMSunday, July 9, 2017
The actor on a book of ancient wisdom, the effortless cool of Fat White Family, hurling, asparagus and Ken Loach’s I, Daniel BlakeBorn in Alvaston, Derby, in 1990, Jack O’Connell made hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, June 25, 2017
The Palestinian-Irish playwright talks about the challenges of researching The Scar Test, her new play about the plight of women at Yarl’s Wood detention centreHannah Khalil’s new play, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, April 16, 2017
The Breakin’ Convention founder on fantasy horror, rocking out to Slick Rick in his faux fur coat, and rasta pasta to die forAfter graduating from the London Contemporary Dance School, Jon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, February 19, 2017
The Berlin-based actor and star of SS-GB on staying in touch with England through BBC Radio 4, his love for Yorkshire and David Hockney and his weekend retreat on the BalticAfter starting ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, January 1, 2017
The English graduate from south London has gone from open-mic contender to Edinburgh comedy favourite thanks to her one-woman cast of sharply drawn characters• Click here to see the Observ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSunday, December 18, 2016
The W1A and Fleabag actor on the weird humour of Julia Davis, lovely but lethal sandwiches, and Nina SimoneHugh Skinner attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) before b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSunday, November 20, 2016
From knitting and piano-playing to late-night poker games, eight stars including Mark Rylance, Anne-Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack reveal allBrought up in Greenwich, London, Dominic Cooper trai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
Performance poet Hollie Poetry on why always wanting to throw up before a gig is a small price to pay for spreading the wordLong before she quit her day job and adopted the stage name Hollie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57PMSunday, August 28, 2016
The heads of the Serpentine, Secret Cinema, Glasgow International, the Young Vic and others on how they find fresh talent and new ideasSwiss-born curator, writer and art historian and artist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44AMSunday, August 7, 2016
The US radio journalist on a bold coming-of-age movie, Elle King’s singing, podcast Reply All and George Saunders on Donald TrumpThis American Life host Ira Glass was born in Baltimore, Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22AMSunday, March 13, 2016
The author of Far from the Tree on Sue Klebold – brave mother of a Columbine school killer – a play about gay parenthood and the best chocolate in the worldBorn in Manhattan, writer Andr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, January 9, 2016
Before TV and radio, the main way of reaching the public was with large, eye-catching posters. Theatre, silent film and opera would be advertised with colourful images fixed to walls or fenc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMSunday, November 29, 2015
The multi-talented presenter on her favourite cry-laughing comedian, her love of men’s tailoring and her admiration for rapper Little SimzBirmingham-born Brit School graduate Gemma Cairney…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31AMSunday, November 1, 2015
The illusionist on Richard Curtis’s About Time and Chris Lilley’s Summer Heights High, Showstopper! the musical, great coffee houses and a wonderful libraryDerren Brown was born in Croyd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:19AMSunday, August 9, 2015
With early reviews of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet causing a media storm by having broken a press embargo, we look at other times when the urge to review has been more than critics can be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, July 19, 2015
Author Emma Healey, playwright Florian Zeller and other artists talk about how dementia has informed their workWords fail us: dementia and the arts About six members of my family have had so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM 
