18 stories by "Alex Clark"
The Guardian's theatre critic's imaginative exploration of life in the shadows
Arifa Akbar, chief theatre critic of this newspaper, is used to working at night: the journey from curtain cal…
In this forthright account of his diagnosis and treatment, Steel wrings humour from the horror while honouring friends found and lost " and the significance of the NHS
It starts with a lump …
Irish author Colm TóibÃn tells Alex Clark about swapping novels for plays, his writing process with Lisa Dwan on Pale Sister, why
The celebrated actor is returning to theatre and the role of Mark Rothko " this time at Wyndham's. He tells Alex Clark how
The multi-award-winning and now Oscar-nominated star guiltily accepts that at 61 her career is soaring " unlike that of many other actresses
As his new tour kicks off, the Irish stand-up reveals his loathing of cosy British comedy, and why he's still laughing at those who threaten our freedom of speechDylan Moran is an energetic …
As the acclaimed US director prepares to bring Tony award-winning play Oslo to the National Theatre, he talks to Alex Clark about
We highlight hidden treasures and encourage the arts to flourishWe all know you have to suffer for your art, but should you suffer for someone else's? Two examples from my brief stint as an …
The dry-witted US essayist talks about how he went from working as an elf in Macy's to becoming 'the American Alan Bennett'David Sedaris's partner of 25 years, Hugh Hamrick, calls the f…
(Fiction)The poet without borders delivers a second album that places its rich cast of characters against a backdrop of global crisisKate Tempest's refusal to recognise genre boundaries " he…
With his show, My Family, due for a West End transfer, the comedian tells us why he has no regrets about sharing his parents' intimate secrets on stageDavid Baddiel's one-man show includes b…
The 29-year-old playwright talks about the pressures of early success, hanging out with Lena Dunham " and co-writing a horror film set in the LA fashion worldPolly Stenham wrote her first pl…
Charing Cross theatre, London This musical biography of Dusty Springfield is forlorn and misguidedIf you can't get the wigs right, you're in trouble, which is not as flippant as it sounds: t…
As his new tour kicks off, the Irish stand-up reveals his loathing of cosy British comedy, and why he's still laughing at those who threaten our freedom of speechDylan Moran is an energetic …
Aldwych, LondonKatie Brayben belts out Carole King's greatest hits with verve by in a big-hearted show based on the songwriter's life Continue reading...
The actor, 49, on having a sunny disposition, buying a dressage horse, and finally going to MadagascarI live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's real…
The actress on her 60-something year-old career, cake making and dodging the pressMy parents were not theatrical at all. My father was a doctor and my mother a musician. I think somebody sp…
'I really enjoy inhabiting a male perspective. I wanted to write as a clever man, and it was very liberating to do it'It would be an overstatement to describe Tessa Hadley as a writer w…
