32 stories by "Kathryn Bromwich"
The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead
Born in Cambridge in 1957, Simon McBurney is…
The Syrian film-maker on the food that tastes of home, the author she longs to have met and the game she wins by cheating
Born in 1991, Waad al-Kateab is a Syrian film-maker and journalist. …
In the Regency and Victorian eras, when theatres were filled with melodramatic plays and operas inspired by the gothic revival, children and adults could recreate these dramas in their parlo…
Ahead of her British stage debut in The Seagull, the Game of Thrones star talks about her self-doubt as the hit show took off, her decision to write about her brain aneurysms " and showing h…
The Starstruck ​creator and ​​star reveals her passion for ​Joan Collins,​ J-pop and all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffets
Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 19…
The playwright and director on Middle East musicals, Bob Dylan bootlegs, and walking the Earth as he thinks about playsBorn in Dublin in 1971, playwright, director and screenwriter Conor McP…
The comedian on the history that inspired her new podcast and her favourite new music and theatre
Josie Long began performing standup at 14 and won the BBC New Comedy award at 17. After stud…
The British director on the genius of Joan Armatrading, the best organic pub in London, and the film she turns to for inspirationFilm, theatre and opera director Phyllida Lloyd was born in B…
The playwright on the renaissance of Hull, ironing to documentaries, and the romance of the Caledonian sleeper trainJames Graham grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. After taking a drama d…
The actor on Dragons' Den, the jazz improvisations of Brad Mehldau, the Cinema Museum, a south London bus garage, and more…Born in Hammersmith, London, Toby Jones studied at the University…
The actor on Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, David Shrigley's unsettling cartoons, designing T-shirts online and getting his dad into RuPaul's Drag RaceBorn in Harlow in 1988 and raised in H…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonThe Game of Thrones star comes into her own as an actress who toys with a sexist stage director in David Ives's forward-thinking but flawed comedySometimes eve…
The award-winning theatre director, best known for War Horse, on mystical landscapes, Paul Morley's vision of the north and the enduring appeal of FriendsBorn in London in 1966 and brought u…
The outspoken Game of Thrones actor on starring in S&M comedy Venus in Fur, the ongoing battles of feminism and society's search for a panaceaIf the acting thing hadn't worked out for Na…
The Crazyhead and Chewing Gum actor on a podcast about grief, some mind-blowing electronica, and the perfect pre-theatre venueBorn in Southwark, south London, Susan Wokoma made her acting de…
The actor on a book of ancient wisdom, the effortless cool of Fat White Family, hurling, asparagus and Ken Loach's I, Daniel BlakeBorn in Alvaston, Derby, in 1990, Jack O'Connell made his fi…
The Palestinian-Irish playwright talks about the challenges of researching The Scar Test, her new play about the plight of women at Yarl's Wood detention centreHannah Khalil's new play, The …
The Breakin' Convention founder on fantasy horror, rocking out to Slick Rick in his faux fur coat, and rasta pasta to die forAfter graduating from the London Contemporary Dance School, Jonzi…
The Berlin-based actor and star of SS-GB on staying in touch with England through BBC Radio 4, his love for Yorkshire and David Hockney and his weekend retreat on the BalticAfter starting ou…
The English graduate from south London has gone from open-mic contender to Edinburgh comedy favourite thanks to her one-woman cast of sharply drawn characters' Click here to see the Observer…
The W1A and Fleabag actor on the weird humour of Julia Davis, lovely but lethal sandwiches, and Nina SimoneHugh Skinner attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) before b…
Performance poet Hollie Poetry on why always wanting to throw up before a gig is a small price to pay for spreading the wordLong before she quit her day job and adopted the stage name Hollie…
The US radio journalist on a bold coming-of-age movie, Elle King's singing, podcast Reply All and George Saunders on Donald TrumpThis American Life host Ira Glass was born in Baltimore, Mary…
The author of Far from the Tree on Sue Klebold " brave mother of a Columbine school killer " a play about gay parenthood and the best chocolate in the worldBorn in Manhattan, writer Andrew S…
Before TV and radio, the main way of reaching the public was with large, eye-catching posters. Theatre, silent film and opera would be advertised with colourful images fixed to walls or fenc…
