196 stories by "Ryan Gilbey"
She's acted in every edgy show going, from Jam to Ashes to Ashes to State of Play " and written many of her best lines. As her own hit play Di and Viv and Rose reaches the West End, Amelia B…
The Invisible Dot star is making a name for himself with an offbeat, supernatural solo show, Odessa, and a Jane Austen-themed improv group Continue reading...
In a show inspired by men she met on Tinder, with supporting roles for her family and her dog, the Invisible Dots Natasia Demetriou elevates her anxieties to an art form Continue reading...
The Electra star on sharing the stage with Kristin Scott Thomas, never taking the job home with him and his small-screen appearance with Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall Continue reading...
Lucy Punch has made a career of being nasty. So who better to play a power-crazed tabloid news editor in hit play Great Britain Continue reading...
The confessional tales aired on stage in Outings are changing all the time as LGBT people post fresh stories on the web Continue reading...
The Clerks director, who is touring a stage-show version of his podcast, says he's a born storyteller rather than a film-makerOf the indie directors who emerged from the US in the early 1990…
Mel Brooks's 1968 film makes even greater sense on the stage especially with the peerless Nathan Lane in the lead roleI adore Renoir. I revere Bergman. I bow at the altar of Tarkovsky. But …
His first work Bash got him excluded from the Mormon church. Now, as its three plays are revived in London with a modified script, Neil LaBute talks religion and R-rated moviesIt is common f…
We sent architecture, film and comedy critics to review the hip-hop festival at Sadler's Wells. Ryan Gilbey found traces of Jacques Tati among the powerhouse performances Read architecture c…
Actor who played FBI agents, cops and traditional fathersAnyone looking for an actor to play an unyielding martinet could hardly have done better over the last few decades than to cast Jame…
The tomboyish daughter of movie stars, Martha Plimpton never got the pretty-girl parts. But by 15, she was in The Goonies and dating River Phoenix. The actor talks to Ryan Gilbey about her l…
Actor and director who could imbue the many wretches, prigs and braggarts he played with a wrenching humanityPhilip Seymour Hoffman, who has died aged 46 of a suspected drugs overdose, had t…
The Donmar's production starring Tom Hiddleston was a thriller in the cinema but it didn't need all the DVD extras with itStage productions broadcast live in cinemas have been a fixture in t…
It's been 10 years since Kathy Burke stuck two fingers up at stardom. Here she talks about loving theatre, hating writing " and why Richard Dawkins gives her the hump'Don't write about how&n…
Before Jerusalem, a 24-year-old Jez Butterworth electrified British theatre with a swaggering story of pill-popping Soho gangsters. Nearly two decades on, he tells Ryan Gilbey why it's&…
What's the best way to shake off a wholesome image? Take your clothes off " as Daniel Radcliffe well knows. So why is the one-time boy wizard now saying no to nudity?As London Fashion Week d…
In his new film, Alan Cumming plays a colourful cross-dresser looking to adopt a neglected child. The star talks about his own plans for parenthood " and his dreadful dancingEarly in our con…
Actor who made her name in comedy films as an acid-tongued, gravel-voiced tyrantEileen Brennan, who has died aged 80, had been a stage actor since the late 1950s, but it was as a largely com…
Triple Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis has cited the vanity-free actor Phil Davis as a key inspiration, alongside Brando and Streep. Is it time the star of Quadrophenia and Whitechapel was rec…
The way Hugh Jackman tells it, he had to be stopped from giving Wolverine jazz hands. He tells Ryan Gilbey about his boyhood fight with his brother to be allowed to danceThe day before I am …
