Sunday, December 8, 2024
The comedian, actor and Matilda songwriter on the benefits of quitting social media and why happiness is like an orgasm
Tim Minchin does not arrive at lunch with the highest hopes. He has on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, October 13, 2024
Gielgud theatre; Lyttelton theatre, LondonMark Rylance goes to fabulous extremes in an enjoyable if unbalanced revival of O’Casey’s Irish civil war drama. And a grieving family confronts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, January 21, 2024
This shot of dancers in 1950s Paris is from the archive of a one-time Magnum associate whose photojournalism career was halted by tragedy
This picture of young dancers was taken in the mid-1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMonday, April 17, 2023
The playwright’s evocative series of essays profiles some of the brightest figures he’s met in his life, from Alan Bennett and Bamber Gascoigne to childhood friends and first loves
There…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, March 20, 2022
The comedian on shamanic ceremonies, vegan diets and the catharsis of performance
You can imagine how the prospect of turning 40 was particularly problematic for Simon Amstell. The film-make…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, December 12, 2021
As a starstruck teenager, the Nutcracker choreographer was a keen autograph hunter. And the thrill of the stage has never left him
It’s tempting to see a Hollywood trajectory, a yuletide m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMSunday, September 20, 2020
The actor, relishing his first meal out in months, discusses lockdown, Line of Duty and playing opposite David Tennant in Des
If we’d had this lunch six or seven months ago, Daniel Mays su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMSunday, August 4, 2019
The Enron playwright talks about retelling the murder of the KGB whistleblower, our surreal political era, and how Billie Piper helped her through dark times
Lucy Prebble operates an “elep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
They’ve been a cornerstone of the entertainment industry for more than 200 years, but children are increasingly turning away from them. Why? And will the clowns have the last laugh? By Tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMSaturday, November 11, 2017
From Mamma Mia to Mo Mowlam, Julie Walters brings a unique streak of candour to everything she does. The actor talks to Tim Adams about fame, family and farmingYou don’t so much interview …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMSunday, October 8, 2017
Fiction and drama hold a mirror to the virtues and vices of an age. Here’s our pick of the bestRead the rest of the Observer’s 100 political books series hereRichard Wright wrote to his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSunday, September 10, 2017
Eddie Izzard relishes a challenge. The transgender hero has done standup in French and German, run dozens of marathons, and is now in a period drama with Judi Dench. But, he reveals, hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMSunday, May 28, 2017
Old Vic, LondonThe Star Wars actor is impressive in Jack Thorne’s reworking of George Büchner’s unfinished playGeorge Büchner’s Woyzeck was left unfinished at the playwright’s deat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe outgoing artistic director’s farewell season hits a glorious high as Shakespeare meets Studio 54Twelfth Night reserves its sharpest barbs for purists and p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMThursday, May 25, 2017
When actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah left the UK to become artistic director of Baltimore's Center Stage theatre in 2011 he jumped headfirst into America's racial politics…Kwame Kwei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMSunday, October 23, 2016
Britain’s favourite Dadaist comedians and our last great comedy duo are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a new live show. Tim Adams listens inBob Mortimer has arrived for our interv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:52AMFriday, June 24, 2016
Award-winning playwright Lucy Prebble tells Tim Adams how dramatising the Enron scandal called for high tragedyLucy Prebble puts her faith in the idea that there is nowhere a writer, particu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04PMSunday, June 7, 2015
They’ve been a cornerstone of the entertainment industry for more than 200 years, but children are increasingly turning away from them. Why? And will the clowns have the last laugh? By Tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:34AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
NSFW, Lucy Kirkwood's new play, focuses on the relationship between the media and sexuality. She talks about the exposure of teenage boys to pornography, and about dealing with criticism Con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22PMSaturday, December 20, 2014
A creature from Jewish myth has been deployed in a drama showing the danger of over-reliance on gadgets Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
The former child star has been more famous for her run-ins with the police and the media than anything else in recent years, but a move to the UK and a London stage debut changed all that Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:29PMSunday, February 2, 2014
When actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah left the UK to become artistic director of Baltimore's Center Stage theatre in 2011 he jumped headfirst into America's racial politics…Kwame Kwei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
Chiwetel Ejiofor talks about his return to the London stage to play murdered African hero Patrice Lumumba in A Season in the Congo – and his emotional trip to the Congo to prepare for itYo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, October 20, 2012
NSFW, Lucy Kirkwood's new play, focuses on the relationship between the media and sexuality. She talks about the exposure of teenage boys to pornography, and about dealing with criticismIn r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15PMSaturday, October 15, 2011
Sheila Hancock discusses her stage role as Wallis Simpson's confidante, Suzanne Blum – and her first novel"I have to say," Sheila Hancock is explaining, "I hadn't given the Duchess of Wind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 24, 2011
The Oscar-winning actress discusses her Russian roots, her Oscar-winning role as the Queen, why she never had children and her latest brace of movies'I learned quite early on in life," Hele…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 28, 2011
Kristin Scott Thomas is back on the London stage in Harold Pinter's Betrayal. Here she talks about the appeal of theatre and this remarkable new flowering of her acting careerHarold Pinter's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMSaturday, February 26, 2011
Back with their fourth album, the Unthanks remain true to their Geordie folk roots, even if big sister Rachel has been forced to hang up her clogs''I think," says Rachel Unthank, "that peopl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMSaturday, December 18, 2010
The moral dimension of X Factor brought some questionable debate, but Johnny Vegas's Les Dawson was a class actMoral Maze | R4Chris Evans | R2Afternoon Play: Cheque Book and Pen | R4When did…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, December 4, 2010
How do you follow a film that sweeps the Oscars and wins universal acclaim? If you're Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle, you switch genre, downsize, work harder... As well as dir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM 
