Thursday, 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 04:00AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Soothing Sounds for Baby is the result of hours spent rummaging in record shops and listening to Radio 4’s castaway show. Its star took us on a vinyl spreeGrace Jones’s Private Life is t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMMonday, July 20, 2015
She ducks auditions, doesn’t call agents back and says she was upstaged by her outfit in Star Wars. Yet Ayesha Dharker has a career that spans everything from soaps to Shakespeare. Near th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09AMWednesday, July 8, 2015
He rules kids’ TV with Gigglebiz, Something Special and Justin’s House – and now his jazzy clown creation is about to storm the stage in Manchester. But Justin Fletcher still can’t s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34AMWednesday, July 1, 2015
It was a clash of two massive egos. As Orson’s Shadow makes its European premiere, its playwright Austin Pendleton about how he turned Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier’s famous theatric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMSunday, June 14, 2015
He’s one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but these days you’re more likely to find Tim Robbins on stage. He talks about shouting at Fox News, punk Shakespeare and finding common cause wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMMonday, May 25, 2015
He’s been sober for 13 years after almost dying in a drunken car crash. But Rob Delaney can still be savage on stage. The standup and star of Catastrophe talks about jail, rehab and the jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMMonday, May 18, 2015
The film starring Tim Robbins as a mailroom sap was a resounding flop for the Coens but now they’re supporting a play based on their boardroom comedyWhen I heard that a stage version of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
In Loot he made castanets from Orton’s dead mum’s teeth. For The Homecoming Pinter cast him as a liar and a butcher. As he dons pyjamas for The Father, the veteran actor considers half a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
In Standby for Tape Back-Up, Ross Sutherland unspools hidden meanings from the programmes on a fuzzy video left to him by his grandfatherIt’s extraordinary how potent cheap videotape is. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
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 01:36PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Into the Woods and Frozen have a new generation putting aside their smartphones and tablets to sing along together Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMThursday, January 15, 2015
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 02:29AMSaturday, December 27, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
The Invisible Dot star is making a name for himself with an offbeat, supernatural solo show, Odessa, and a Jane Austen-themed improv group Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
In a show inspired by men she met on Tinder, with supporting roles for her family and her dog, the Invisible Dots Natasia Demetriou elevates her anxieties to an art form Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:35PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
The Electra star on sharing the stage with Kristin Scott Thomas, never taking the job home with him and his small-screen appearance with Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
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 Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMMonday, August 11, 2014
The confessional tales aired on stage in Outings are changing all the time as LGBT people post fresh stories on the web Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMTuesday, June 3, 2014
The Clerks director, who is touring a stage-show version of his podcast, says he's a born storyteller rather than a film-makerOf the indie directors who emerged from the US in the early 1990…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMMonday, May 26, 2014
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. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
His first work Bash got him excluded from the Mormon church. Now, as its three plays are revived in London with a modified script, Neil LaBute talks religion and R-rated moviesIt is common f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMMonday, May 5, 2014
We sent architecture, film and comedy critics to review the hip-hop festival at Sadler's Wells. Ryan Gilbey found traces of Jacques Tati among the powerhouse performances Read architecture c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Actor who played FBI agents, cops and traditional fathersAnyone looking for an actor to play an unyielding martinet could hardly have done better over the last few decades than to cast Jame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:51PMThe tomboyish daughter of movie stars, Martha Plimpton never got the pretty-girl parts. But by 15, she was in The Goonies and dating River Phoenix. The actor talks to Ryan Gilbey about her l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMMonday, February 3, 2014
Actor and director who could imbue the many wretches, prigs and braggarts he played with a wrenching humanityPhilip Seymour Hoffman, who has died aged 46 of a suspected drugs overdose, had t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AMFriday, January 31, 2014
The Donmar's production starring Tom Hiddleston was a thriller in the cinema but it didn't need all the DVD extras with itStage productions broadcast live in cinemas have been a fixture in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
It's been 10 years since Kathy Burke stuck two fingers up at stardom. Here she talks about loving theatre, hating writing – and why Richard Dawkins gives her the hump'Don't write about how…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMMonday, November 4, 2013
Before Jerusalem, a 24-year-old Jez Butterworth electrified British theatre with a swaggering story of pill-popping Soho gangsters. Nearly two decades on, he tells Ryan Gilbey why it's&…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
What's the best way to shake off a wholesome image? Take your clothes off – as Daniel Radcliffe well knows. So why is the one-time boy wizard now saying no to nudity?As London Fashion Week…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
In his new film, Alan Cumming plays a colourful cross-dresser looking to adopt a neglected child. The star talks about his own plans for parenthood – and his dreadful dancingEarly in our c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM 
