Yasmina Reza's 2008 play God of Carnage was a worldwide hit. Here she talks about working with director Roman Polanski on the film adaptation and the year she spent with Nicolas SarkozyIn la…
Ahead of appearing in stage play Neville's Island in the West End, Ade Edmondson reflects on his life and work, and on the recent deaths of three close friends, including his Young Ones co-s…
When the actor forgot his lines, he almost made me warm to this stilted, overrated art formI went to the theatre last week to see the newly knighted Lenny Henry in a production of Educa…
Even before it opened, a play about the notorious paedophile sparked controversyWhen Karin Ward was told by the journalist Jonathan Maitland that he planned to write a stage play about Jimmy…
The screen and stage star's unpredictability has made him one of Hollywood's greatest character actors " and a famously tricky interviewee. On the eve of his London stage debut in a David Ma…
Ahead of appearing in stage play Nevilles Island in the West End, Ade Edmondson reflects on his life and work, and on the recent deaths of three close friends, including his Young Ones co-st…
The comedian discusses his literary hero and the pratfalls of fame but is too polite to mention the attempted jewel heist going on outsideThe first restaurant David Baddiel suggests for lunc…
The man behind the hit sitcom on Catholic guilt, the power of Twitter and how he put The Ladykillers on stageThe Ladykillers, the play you wrote based on the 1955 film, has returned to the W…
The standup, who plays Peep Show's Dobby, on her two new shows examining affairs of the heartWhen Isy Suttie was training as an actress at college, she fell asleep one night and woke to find…
Cush Jumbo belongs to a new generation of actors more interested in classical theatre than Hollywood stardom Continue reading...
Cush Jumbo belongs to a new generation of actors more interested in classical theatre than Hollywood stardomIn 2009, Cush Jumbo was late paying her rent. Her landlord didn't know it then, bu…
Since Una Stubbs's film debut half a century ago, she's never been out of work. With a string of memorable TV series to her name, from Till Death Do Us Part to Sherlock, how does she feel no…
Inspired by his friend Dave Eggers, Irish novelist Roddy Doyle set up Fighting Words to nurture the creative skills of deprived children " with a little help from some big namesIt is a Monda…
Yasmina Reza's 2008 play God of Carnage was a worldwide hit. Here she talks about working with director Roman Polanski on the film adaptation and the year she spent with Nicolas SarkozyIn la…
Yasmina Reza's 2008 play God of Carnage was a worldwide hit. Here she talks about working with director Roman Polanski on the film adaptation and the year she spent with Nicolas Sarkozy Cont…
Kenneth Branagh's returned to his native Belfast for a play that proves he can do slapstick and ShakespeareThe first thing Kenneth Branagh did when he returned to his home town of Belfast a …
The award-winning playwright Polly Stenham is opening an art venue with her college friend, Victoria WilliamsPolly Stenham and Victoria Williams are, by their own admission, wearing unsuitab…
The star of Never Let Me Go on being chippy, playing a bad girl and making Carey Mulligan cryYou play Ruth in Never Let Me Go. Had you read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel before getting the part?I …
Stand-up Lenny Henry on single-mindedness, speaking in tongues and black faces at the BBCYou've just started a stand-up tour, Cradle to Rave (nationwide). Has there been any heckling yet?No,…
Rory Kinnear's award-winning Hamlet topped a year of acclaimed roles on stage and screenRory Kinnear likes to be undressed backstage. It is not to do with a particular penchant for nudity, h…