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 performan…
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…
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 my goo…
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 Paul M…
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…
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…
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 right…
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…
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…
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…
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 butchery' t…
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 his eccen…
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'…
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…
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 like …
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 all Continue reading...
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 you'…
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 Rory …