118 stories by "Jasper Rees"
Jason Hughes belongs to an influential generation of actors who emerged from South Wales in the 1990s. A promising rugby player as a teenager, his head was turned by theatre. Ruth Jones and …
Frank Sinatra is back in London in the centenary of his birth. His disembodied voice is returning in a show called Sinatra: The Man & His Music. At the London Palladium, where he made hi…
Is there more than one Michael Longhurst? As sometimes happens in theatre, a rising young director seems to be everywhere at once. His calling card is the modestly universal Constellations. …
Gruff Rhys has called it as the Great Welsh Media Gang-Bang. This year everyone who is anyone (who can get funding) has hopped on a plane for Argentina to follow in the footsteps of the 150 …
The director tells Jasper Rees why she's turned her hit 2002 film into a West End musical
If the honours system is used to award individuals, its other job is to provide an aspirational marker for the country as a whole. This, it tells us twice a year, is who we want to be: inclu…
Patricia Clarkson is about to bare all on stage in The Elephant Man
What made Glee star Jonathan Groff want to share the stage with a great classical actor?
After starring as Evita and Piaf, the actress explains the challenges posed by her latest West End role in Sondheim's Passion at the Donmar.
The TV veteran reveals he was snubbed by Sid James and Kenneth Williams when he appeared on This Is Your Life
One night in Cape Town, I was caught in a power cut. Like an untenanted theatre, the city went utterly dark, darker than perhaps it had been since settlers first arrived three centuries earl…
The 81 year-old actress tells Jasper Rees about her latest role as an Auschwitz prisoner, her love of acting and life with the late Peter O'Toole
Welsh Rugby player Gareth Thomas on having his life turned into a play
Michael Wood's documentary was intriguing with chilling moments, says Jasper Rees
Veteran actor and raconteur Michael Pennington has written a rambling almanac to the stage
It's been quite a journey for Ayub Khan Din. Born in 1961, the acclaimed playwright grew up in a crowded Salford household, the youngest child of a Pakistani father and a white English mothe…
When writers research, it's not all about digging for facts. Feelings also count. When Nina Raine spent three months visiting hospitals for a play about the medical profession, she found a s…
Meera Syal on starring in a new play set in a Mumbai slum
The actress explains the challenge of Made in Dagenham
Kathy Clugston's new musical features John Humphrys and James Naughtie
As The Kinks' musical Sunny Afternoon heads to the West End, Ray Davies tells Jasper Rees that a reunion looks unlikely
This year the nation has been spirited back to 1914. Every aspect of the First World War has been explored - its causes debated, the horrific conditions on the front revisited. And yet there…
Sofie GrÃ¥bøl as Danish royalty: it hardly stretches credulity. The face of Nordic noir has been a star in her home country ever since appearing in Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror in…
Interview: Alan Ayckbourn explains what makes comic plays work
Since 1982 it's been open season on the great and the good of Broadway musicals. It was in that very year that a chap called Gerard Alessandrini created Forbidden Broadway and from the hithe…
