118 stories by "Jasper Rees"
TV's Victor Meldrew on Scottish independence
As of next year, John McGrath will be the most senior artistic director of a national company in the land. Rufus Norris will be freshly installed at the National Theatre of Great Britain on …
Jonathan Kent was an actor before he was a director. Indeed, he had not directed a single play when in his mid-40s he assumed control of the Almeida Theatre in 1990. By the time he and his c…
Kathleen Turner talks about starring in a new play in the West End
This Dylan Thomas-inspired landscape-cum-installation pleasantly absorbs the audience into its canvas, says Jasper Rees
After years as a jobbing actress, people are starting to notice Nicola Walker. Jasper Rees meets her as she prepares for Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic &n…
It won't have escaped the attention of anyone with an ear for poetry that Dylan Thomas turns 100 this year. He was born in a suburban house on a hill overlooking Swansea Bay a few months aft…
Pop didn't work out, so the singer of Torn turned to Alan Ayckbourn comedy
Under Milk Wood took Dylan Thomas nearly 20 tortured years to bring to life. On his centenary, three theatrical productions pay homage to the greatest ever radio drama
Under Milk Wood took Dylan Thomas nearly 20 tortured years to bring to life. On his centenary, three theatrical productions pay homage to the greatest ever radio drama
When Julian Mitchell wrote Another Country in a couple of months in 1980, Anthony Blunt had just been exposed as one of the Cambridge spy ring. Donald Maclean and Kim Philby were still livin…
As Other Desert Cities comes to The Old Vic, three theatrical veterans discuss sibling rivalry, standing ovations and power politics
When a book is published, there are broadly speaking three alternative fates which lie in wait. It goes global, it sinks without trace, or it sells modestly and steadily to the readership fo…
The board of Sheffield Theatres has a history of appointing actors to run the show. Michael Grandage had very little directing experience when he became artistic director of the city's three…
Two lanky, totemic marionettes with stern carved faces " one male, one female - coast haltingly around a rehearsal room in Bristol. They are being operated from inside metal framing by actor…
The actor talks about preparing for the most daunting role of them all
The fledgling career of Michael Codron, who has been knighted in the New Year's Honours list at the age of 75, might have ended almost as soon as it began. He embarked on a career as a solo …
Nelson Mandela had a nose for the dramatic gesture. The evidence is there in his speech at the Rivonia Trial in 1964, in his symbolic walk to freedom as he emerged on foot from captivity in …
Ibsen's play has taken Lesley Manville to the depths of grief - and the pinnacle of her 40-year career, she tells Jasper Rees
Ahead of the premiere of American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre, director Rupert Goold, songwriter Duncan Sheik and set designer Es Devlin tell Jasper Rees about the 'worst idea for a musica…
Tom Hiddleston and the stars of today come face to face with the first folio of Shakespeare
In Radcliffe, an early novel by David Storey, one character murders another with a telling blow from a hammer. The author was later advised that Kenneth Halliwell was reading Radcliffe on th…
These celebrations of our yesterdays can easily end up all camembert and wind. But while film people and television people will generally cock such things up, we do still have the odd cultur…
David Storey is the last of the Angry Young Men who, in fiction and drama, made a hero of the working-class Northerner. His father spent his life down a Yorkshire pit, and out of guilt that …
Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem was one of those once-in-a-decade, trade-a-granny-for-a-ticket theatrical events, a swearing, sweating rave with firecracker dialogue hurled in. At the Royal…
