Thursday, April 2, 2020
How better to liven up lockdown than to stage the entire Shakespeare canon online? Our writer reports on his role in the webcam drama
‘Would you like to take part in a livestreamed perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMFriday, October 18, 2019
Inspired by remarks made by a unionist MP, an incendiary opera is about to unleash gay cake and drag on Belfast. Will Arlene Foster be in the front row? We meet its creator
The Newtownards R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PMMonday, January 28, 2019
The Cherry Orchard has been given an absurdist reboot – with blood transfusions, a beach party and a bed-hopping sex maniac. And thanks to Chelsea’s oligarch, it’s coming to BritainOh …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMFriday, July 20, 2018
The writer of The Vicar of Dibley and Mrs Brown’s Boys discusses the funny side of living with the illness and his new Edinburgh show, Incurable Optimist“Good news,” the comedy writer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMMonday, October 23, 2017
Agatha Christie's whodunnit is 60 years old. What's the secret to its longevity? Stephen Moss goes behind the scenes, into 'the snow room' and off to the pub for a sing-song with the castQue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, August 21, 2017
Tony Timberlake has turned his lifelong fascination with the champion figure skater and 1970s gay icon into a heartbreaking one-man show In 1976, John Curry won the figure-skating gold medal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMFriday, January 20, 2017
What is art and how do we judge its value? As Yasmina Reza’s play is revived at the Old Vic in London, Stephen Moss asks Guardian critics Adrian Searle and Skye Sherwin if the price is rig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
It wasn't exactly a heckle, but Hall's outburst from the stalls on the opening night of a starry West End Chekhov starring Laura Carmichael and Anna Friel was clearly critical of the product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
A new play about the 12th-century monarch is at the heart of plans to raise the artistic profile of a town best known for its IT companies and shoppingSomething is stirring in Reading, hithe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Ant and Dec? Perpetual laughter. Boris Johnson? Strangle the vowels. Andy Murray? Just growl. Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner try and make a mimic of Stephen Moss Alistair McGowan immediat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMStephen Moss learns the art of impersonation from two masters: Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner. Will Moss impress his tutors with his Boris Johnson? Can he manage to stretch his words and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
He cites Hegel as a key influence and compares his music to TS Eliot. The pop-star turned symphonist discusses his plans to bring the first world war’s legacy of ‘mass-mechanised butcher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMWednesday, February 10, 2016
There’s no such thing as an easy ride with Bartabas. His horses once performed Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Now they’re stamping into Sadler’s Wells. We meet the horse whisperer at h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
When Houdini got lowered into water, who padlocked his trunks? A British carpenter and locksmith called Jim Collins. Now a magician has written a play about the forgotten hero of escapology�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16AMMonday, November 2, 2015
He has won three Oliviers yet a film career has always eluded him. Will playing Alan Bennett in The Lady in the Van bring Alex Jennings the breakthrough he craves?Alex Jennings is Alan Benne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PMSunday, February 22, 2015
Her dramas deal with violence and the impossibility of life under occupation, but Dalia Taha insists there’s more to her plays than Palestinian politics“I wasn’t prepared for questions…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMTuesday, August 19, 2014
Vines Hoover gag has been named the best at the Edinburgh festival. Tell us your all-time favourite Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMMonday, July 14, 2014
He was the king of improv comedy. Now he's playing second fiddle to a dancing dog. What happened? John Sessions talks about stage fright, voting Ukip and life after the 'twinkly years'John S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
How did an auteur who started out working with Tarkovsky end up being fired from Tango & Cash? Andrei Konchalovsky talks about $90m flops, being mentored by Billy Wilder and killed by D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMMonday, April 21, 2014
The veteran stage actor sometimes has difficulty memorising scripts. But some roles are easier for forgetful thespians than othersThe actor Michael Gambon, who for some years has been strugg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
The Anatomy of Melancholy has been called the 'book to end all books'. But can Robert Burton's vast 17th-century classic really work as a play? Stephen Moss finds outIn a draughty industrial…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Witty, urbane and indefatigable to the last, Chéreau was one of the great directors of the past 40 years, a man whose creative integrity was his professional hallmarkThe last time I met the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Chess was one of Samuel Beckett's great obsessions, touching everything from Murphy to Endgame. Perhaps this game of fierce purity and life-or-death stakes is the key to all his workI am som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
It took 10 years – and 9/11 – for Ayad Akhtar to realise what he needed to write about. As his play Disgraced comes to London, he reveals allThere are some people you interview you feel …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMIt took 10 years – and 9/11 – for Ayad Akhtar to realise what he needed to write about. As his play Disgraced comes to London, he reveals all Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
As they prepare lock horns as Othello and Iago at the National Theatre, the actors talk about jealousy, the horrors of war – and who Shakespeare's play is really aboutAdrian Lester and Ror…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Agatha Christie's whodunnit is 60 years old. What's the secret to its longevity? Stephen Moss goes behind the scenes, into 'the snow room' and off to the pub for a sing-song with the castQue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMAgatha Christie's whodunnit is 60 years old. What's the secret to its longevity? Stephen Moss goes behind the scenes, into 'the snow room' and off to the pub for a sing-song with the cast Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Beckett's estate insists All That Fall, his play about a woman going to meet her husband, be staged as a radio drama. So how are Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins getting on?Eileen Atkins is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
What's the right way to do Chekhov? With lace tablecloths and endless cups of tea – or a blast of Nirvana? Stars from three new productions, including Anna Friel and Ken Stott, talk to Ste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Indhu Rubasingham, successor to Nicolas Kent, has to cope with £350,000 cut in theatre's grant, a third of its subsidyThe Tricycle theatre on Kilburn High Road, in north-west London, is opp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39AM 
