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He’s the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks about dashed Hollywood hopes, the dangers of modernising Roald Dahl and feeling out of step with his prog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, June 13, 2021
It’s half a century since Sir Ian McKellen first played Hamlet. Now he’s starring as the Dane again – at 82. He talks about his extraordinary life, why he’ll never write his memoir �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, May 20, 2021
Nish Kumar considers himself a mild-mannered British Asian man who does comedy. So why does he attract so much rage from the rightwing press and social media?
Hide your commemorative Brexit …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSaturday, November 3, 2018
She was a rising star, but silently struggled with alcohol and panic attacks. The actor tells all about her breakdown and her hard-won recoverySheridan Smith arrives at the restaurant with a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMMonday, February 27, 2017
Tarell Alvin McCraney's plays have seen him feted here and in America. And now he's turning his writer's eye on London lifeIn a room on the top floor of a rehearsal studio in south London, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32AMSunday, August 30, 2015
Could gamblers do with a little help from God? Would a rich spiritual life improve a rugby team? And does faith have a place in the theatre? With church attendance in decline, Tom Lamont mee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMSaturday, August 15, 2015
Three years ago the actor was on the verge of giving up. Then Homeland came calling. He talks about the CIA, leaving London for the US and why he really misses the pubThe sun is out in north…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Mat Horne has had a rocky time since Gavin & Stacey. A bit of Chekhov will cheer him up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThe Mad Men star on being Peggy Olson, taking to the West End stage with Keira Knightley, and Ricky Gervais's winning ways at the Golden Globes
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSunday, March 1, 2015
It took the Essex actor a decade to fully regain his confidence after falling victim to a knife attack at 18. And a decade, too, to be comfortable portraying his own sexuality on stage and s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, August 16, 2014
Running around in the dark, peeing on stage and not knowing your lines every single night makes for pretty riveting theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, August 9, 2014
The simple pleasures of going down the boozer, randomly selected protagonists and 1990s TV on an endless loop Stephanie Merritt's Edinburgh comedy round-up Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSaturday, August 2, 2014
The myriad theatrical novelties of the fringe may be seductive, but they invariably leave you feeling disappointed. Surely this year would be different Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, August 10, 2013
Ballad of the Burning Star; Nirbhaya; Our Fathers; The Islanders; Have I No Mouth; On the One Hand; Stuart: A Life BackwardsNot a lot separates performers from spectators at the fringe. You …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSaturday, August 3, 2013
Blam!; On the Beach; Kubrick3; High Plains; Oh My Irma; Gardening for the Unfulfilled and AlienatedGive or take the odd cancellation – a four-hander about a prison break, called off; an op…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Adam Buxton's solo show Bug pokes fun at the casual brutality of online discourse"It's a steep curve in the net age," says comedian Adam Buxton, "learning to deal with a new type of casual, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
The young British actor loved the film and now stars in the musical. But his co-star took some persuading…Declan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitesic signed up to play the leads in Once, the acclai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 30, 2013
His score for the stage version of Roald Dahl's Matilda has transformed the one-time struggling standup into a leftfield Andrew Lloyd Webber. Next month, the production reloca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
After three weeks, the Crucible's production of My Fair Lady, starring Dominic West and the 24-year-old revelation Carly Bawden, has become one of the hottest tickets in the countryThe cast …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
The set designer reveals how his scribbled ideas in notebooks become the 'brains' of a hit West End productionPeter McKintosh designed the set for the recent revival of the Michael Frayn far…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMWhy the woman behind the Spice Girls musical is indebted to the humble Post-ItCraymer produced Viva Forever!, the musical about the Spice Girls that opened at the Piccadilly theatre this mon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Boris and Sergey's Vaudevillian Adventure; The Fantasist; Grit; Rubies in the Attic; The Sewing Machine; Dirty Great Love StorySometimes a show has "a good Edinburgh". Enthusiastic early hou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTristan makes a stand for the NHS, facts and fictions on a walking tour, and there's life in Shopping Centre yetHow do you like your scones?Trouble on the World's Greatest Walking Tour of Ed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, August 4, 2012
Peep; Still Life; Coalition; After the Rainfall; One Hour OnlyOn the first day of the Edinburgh festival fringe last week – "preview Wednesday", when venue staff are still wallpapering eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, June 23, 2012
Old Vic, LondonPolitical coalitions come and go, a central character in Democracy is warned, but your party is for keeps; so don't ever be so foolish as to risk the latter for the former. Mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Wonderground, London Is it risky to clap (a possible cause of distraction, disaster, death) when a circus performer is mid-routine? Balanced on a stiff, trembling arm over broken glass,&nbs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 12, 2012
Lyric, London W6Two British detectives, Stone and Lee, interrogate a suspect. The head of a decapitated prostitute has been found in the Thames, and this pair seek the killer. A procedural! …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 14, 2012
Johnny Flynn on his role in the hit play Jerusalem, a troubled tour of the US and the problem of achieving a work-life balance…Hours back from a working trip to New York, hours away from a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Duke of York's, LondonA study of personal discontent, written by and starring the American actor Zach Braff, All New People gets under way with a visual gag about suicide. Silent, delicate, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
Trafalgar Studios 2, LondonA Saturday-night pull is the starting point for Stefan Golaszewski's new play, bleakly funny business when presented as forensically as this: a Lynx Africa-scented…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
