Monday, October 23, 2023
The set designer and artist on the most extraordinary opera, a gut-wrenching Sudanese-American poet and a writer’s new angle on economics
Artist and stage designer Es Devlin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMSaturday, June 25, 2022
The playwright on the poetry and silliness of Aldous Harding, an inspiring new theatre in Suffolk and binge-reading Saba Sams’s short stories
The playwright and screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSaturday, December 4, 2021
The actor on her hopes for Brixton’s new theatre, an offbeat western and the sophistication of African art
Adjoa Andoh was born in Bristol in 1963 and grew up in Wickwar, Gloucestershire. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMSunday, March 21, 2021
The Sri Lankan actor, who had wowed audiences in Sheffield in Life of Pi, was poised for West End fame when theatres shut up shop. He reflects on a career interrupted
See all our coronavirus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSaturday, September 12, 2020
The actor on Tove Jansson’s adult fiction, eclectic French radio and Gordon Parks’s groundbreaking photography
Indira Varma grew up in Bath and graduated from Rada in 1995. Perhaps best …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMSunday, February 16, 2020
The actor on the resilience of Lemn Sissay, Amy Schumer’s sidesplitting comedy and a fish stew to die for
Rafe Spall was born in Camberwell, south London, in March 1983. He joined the Nati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, June 23, 2019
Our critic reflects on the exciting developments sweeping our stages and below, some of the top new recruits share their stories and ways of working
British theatre is in the process of a ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSaturday, April 27, 2019
His hit 2018 play riffed on black identity and saw the actor and writer hailed as one of British theatre’s most exciting voices. Now he’s starring in a bold new version of Death of a Sal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMSaturday, September 8, 2018
The English dramatist on juggling pregnancy with the opening of two new plays, the joys of YouTube, and how Only Fools and Horses helped her to find loveBorn in west London to actor parents,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
The standup comedian and activist talks about finding humour in unlikely places, such as the NHS… and BrexitMark Thomas is a comedian and activist from south London whose work has tackled …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMSaturday, May 26, 2018
The director on staging The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, why she’s not on social media, and her next ‘project’Born in 1982, Polly Findlay grew up in Wandsworth, south London, and worked …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, May 15, 2016
The actor on getting his voice in shape for The Threepenny Opera, growing up with showbiz parents, and his almost-career as a goalkeeper…You’re playing Macheath in a new production of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50AMSunday, April 17, 2016
The theatre director on Tacita Dean, Happy Valley, Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone, Penelope Fitzgerald and a remarkable documentaryKatie Mitchell was born in 1964 and raised in Berkshire.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMSunday, March 27, 2016
The actor on Harold Pinter, a great Marlon Brando documentary, a Peter Ackroyd murder mystery and Shane Meadows’s This Is England sagaDaniel Mays, 37, grew up in Epping, Essex, and trained…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMSunday, August 30, 2015
Whether it’s the roots of home or a wild escape from the rat race, most creative types have a place that unlocks their imaginative flow. We asked writers, musicians, artists and directors …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AMSunday, 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 04:24AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Shameless and Red Riding star Maxine Peake is known for taking on tough roles, but her latest is 'real acting athletics'
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSaturday, April 26, 2014
Artist Mark Storor brings messy tales of adolescent sexuality to CircusFest at London's RoundhouseA lot of cleaning up is required during Puffball, an intriguing, unsettling, ultimately joyf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, October 26, 2013
Tricycle, LondonMoira Buffini speculates gleefully on what took place between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher at those weekly teasThroughout her 11 years in office, Margaret Thatcher sat dow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 15, 2012
The Extras and Ugly Betty star on why she swapped the Hollywood life for Sir Trevor Nunn and the West EndIt's hard to imagine a less glamorous interview location than the little room where I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 23, 2012
The Borough Hall at Greenwich Dance, Greenwich, LondonThe first incarnation of a crow in this adaptation of Ted Hughes's important 1970 book of poetry is a gasping little wretch of a bird, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 24, 2012
A year ago the Israeli-born director of a tiny theatre in a West Bank refugee camp was gunned down. Now young Palestinians are fighting to save the place where they can voice their anger, fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
St Leonard's Church, LondonDavid Edgar's award-winning 1994 play tries to fit a lot under one roof. It's not merely an art-historical detective story: Pentecost is also a hostage thriller an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Rose theatre, KingstonSo much is established so quickly in Ibsen's 1888 play about free will, female dependence and the ghosts of the past that it takes a particularly strong cast to shoulde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
Barbican, LondonOne murder, according to the puppet-master Mr Harvey in this gleefully nasty piece of work from Improbable, is committed every 1.56 seconds. To help us understand this ghastl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, October 15, 2011
The actor and presenter, aged 37, on celebrity, sex and psoriasisTo me there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure. For some reason I have to feel guilty about liking Def Leppard or Bon Jovi.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, September 24, 2011
Vaudeville, LondonIt's 1938, and in Germany the Nazis are stepping up the persecution of the Jews. Halfway around the world, in Brooklyn, a Jewish woman, deeply affected by images from Krist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
Lyric, LondonA deal struck with the devil rarely has happy consequences, and in this richly entertaining new show from Emma Rice's Kneehigh company the price is a pair of pretty young hands,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31PMSaturday, September 10, 2011
Royal Court, London SW1What happens when aggressors in conflict situations come face-to-face with the relatives of their victims? This is the question posed in this short new play written an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMSunday, July 24, 2011
The actor talks about life after EastEnders and her luck at landing the lead in South PacificSamantha Womack, née Janus, got her break at 19, representing the UK in the 1991 Eurovision Song…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 18, 2011
Tricycle, LondonThe public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, the Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after 36 hours in British army custody in 2003, won't have its findings published until…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
