Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Dressed in capes and drinking Corpse Reviver cocktails, audiences explore a crypt and a vampire’s boudoir in the film company’s atmospheric theatre showFor anyone who grew up in the 1960…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMThursday, August 31, 2017
In Outlaws to In-Laws, seven short plays chart how gay lives have changed decade by decade since the 1950s, from a time of blackmail to a world of dating apps. Three writers – Jonathan Kem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
When Bogosian’s king of the trolls took to stage and screen in the 80s, subversive radio hosts were fun – then they led to Trump. The actor and playwright talks about punk pranks, harass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
The Canadian comic may look like she needs ID to get into her own shows, but her Fringe show is her frankest (and funniest) yet‘I love being gut-wrenchingly honest,” says elfin comic Mae…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, August 14, 2017
Actor, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who took the part of the tyrannical comedian King Kaiser in the 1982 film comedy My Favourite YearTough cookies with soft centres were the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Playwright, actor and director who exposed the gap between myth and reality in American lifeSam Shepard, who has died aged 73 from complications of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease, exce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, July 23, 2017
US stage and screen actor best known for Cutter’s Way, Home Alone and DeceivedJohn Heard, who has died aged 71, was an engaging, intelligent character actor in American film, television an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
He was the original online prankster who married Drew Barrymore and got fired by Trump. As he returns to standup, he talks about not getting his dues – and where you draw the line in comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Tom Marshman’s raw one-man show uses lip-synching and dancing to remember the lost pubs and clubs where LGBT people partied and campaignedDolled-up clubbers clattered through dimly lit str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
He’s one of Britain’s bravest screen actors. Now Paddy Considine is making a high-stakes stage debut in The Ferryman. Samantha Morton, Olivia Colman and others look back at his extraordi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMFriday, February 24, 2017
With The Godfather and Chinatown, Robert Evans revolutionised the movie industry. Now, Simon McBurney is staging the mogul’s scandalous memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture. They talk abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, February 2, 2017
He’s the ex-cleaner who ended up playing a pirate in Game of Thrones. Now Lucian Msamati faces his biggest challenge yet – as the RSC’s first black Iago. He talks to Ryan GilbeyLu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMMonday, November 28, 2016
The apprentice witch – created by Eiko Kadono and featured in Hayao Miyazaki’s movie – is coming to Southwark Playhouse in a new stage adaptation. But first they need to work out how t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Our writer gets 15 minutes to prepare for a starring role in A Girl and a Gun, a drama that takes film noir into the wild westI am dressed in cowboy gear and closing my hands around a woman�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Actor best remembered as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s Do the Right ThingThe actor Bill Nunn, who has died aged 63 of leukaemia, was a gentle giant who appeared frequently as a supporting pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMMonday, September 19, 2016
He rules kids’ TV with Gigglebiz, Something Special and Justin’s House – and now his jazzy clown creation Mr Tumble is about to storm the stage in Manchester. But Justin Fletcher still…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, September 15, 2016
The Vaults, LondonRodent goujons and nettle cocktails are on the entertainingly monstrous menu but this immersive theatre show is far from fillingIn the Ghastly Garden a troupe of skittish c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMMonday, August 29, 2016
Mel Brooks's 1968 film makes even greater sense on the stage – especially with the peerless Nathan Lane in the lead roleI adore Renoir. I revere Bergman. I bow at the altar of Tarkovsky. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMThursday, August 18, 2016
Bill Murray’s deadpan misanthrope is now a jock belting out showstoppers. So does this stage replay bring new shine to the quirky love story – or kill a classic?In the 23 years since Gro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:50AMMonday, August 15, 2016
She was a poet laureate at 11, starred in The Archers as a teen and played Caitlin Moran in Raised By Wolves. Now the 23-year-old is taking her own show to Edinburgh – about the perils of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSaturday, July 23, 2016
Lucy Punch has made a career of being nasty. So who better to play a power-crazed tabloid news editor in hit play Great Britain?Lucy Punch is sitting in a cramped corner office above the Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14PMFriday, July 15, 2016
The audacious Australian star, known for emotionally open Hollywood performances, proves that she’s more than ready to take on lead rolesPerformers often remark on the reserve of British t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Jeremy Corbyn, pervy sexual tension, tiny horned hamsters ... improv comedy star Proops chucks anything into the mix on Whose Line Is It Anyway? As its London stage run begins, he reveals th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AMThursday, May 19, 2016
In a show inspired by men she met on Tinder, with supporting roles for her family and her dog, the Invisible Dot’s Natasia Demetriou elevates her anxieties to an art formWithin the opening…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55PMMonday, May 16, 2016
She’s acted in every edgy show going, from Jam to Ashes to Ashes to State of Play – and written many of her best lines. As her own hit play Di and Viv and Rose reaches the West End, Amel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46PMMonday, April 25, 2016
For his new theatre show, Greg Wohead plays the King at his peak – only there’s no quiff and no hip-swivelling. It’s more seance than rock’n’roll concertElvis Presley’s 1968 NBC …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
As the Game of Thrones star prepares to read James Joyce’s 16,000-word The Dead, he talks about getting on the boat from Dublin at 18 – and never looking backAidan Gillen is perched on a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Her career depends on her ‘wiggly’ face and her most memorable TV character was built on a repertoire of snorts and whinnies. Now, in her latest stage role, the Episodes actor is talking…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMMonday, December 7, 2015
EastEnders, Shameless, Shakespeare: she’s done the lot. But it’s her tea-foisting role in Father Ted she’ll always be remembered for – and it almost didn’t happenAll is calm and qu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:58AMThursday, November 12, 2015
He’s been a prehistoric bird in Pan and a killer plant in Little Shop of Horrors. But there’s one role puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew will never escapeHoused in a musty-smelling former tempera…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50AMThursday, October 15, 2015
He packed out a gig by pretending Frankie Boyle was performing. His new show settles a score with Jack Whitehall. And this unpredictable standup even hijacks the interview processJack Whiteh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM 
