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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…
Royal Opera House, LondonNot even the Royal Ballet's finest can make the brutal subject matter of the choreographer's final work palatableKenneth MacMillan choreographed The Judas Tree for t…
That's how Kathy Burke describes herself. But the famously outspoken actor and director has proved she can't be pigeonholed. Stefanie Marsh meets her Midday at a café in Finsbury Park, nort…
More than 150 accounts of harassment submitted anonymously to Royal Court read at London event aiming to shine a light on abuses of power in theatre For more than five hours, stories of sexu…
As Debra Ann Byrd begins residency at Stratford-upon-Avon she says 'colour-blindness' only possible with closed eyesThe head of a US mixed-race theatre company will never forget the racism s…
Theatre Royal, YorkThe Touring Consortium was established in 1996 to produce curriculum-based drama, during which period it has presented To Kill a Mockingbird no less than three times. Thou…
From the Wildlife Photographer of the Year show to Beowulf on stage, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
Alexander Waugh says secret clues confirm that author of world-famous plays was Edward de Vere, who lies in Poet's CornerWilliam Shakespeare was in fact Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxfo…
Tom Stoppard's fierce, unrelenting opposition to the abuse of human rights makes him the ideal recipient of the Pinter/PEN prizeIn Antonia Fraser's book, Must You Go?, detailing her life wit…
The committee of the Casting Directors' Guild of the UK & Ireland responds to Sarah Solemani's experiences of auditioning for roles. Plus Robert Sanderson highlights the inventive settin…
My father, Patrick O'Connell, who has died aged 83, was an actor for 40 years. He first made his name in social realist drama, and went on to work with the RSC and on television.Paddy, as he…
Antonia Fraser, the playwright's wife, is always being asked what he would have made of Trump. Now we know " thanks to her discovery of a sketch about a gung-ho 'Pres' unleashing a nuclear a…
The Brummie comic fails to see the funny side of the Channel 4 TV series. Plus, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David go for theatrical gold and a planned Richard Pryor biopic moves a step closerOn…
The comedian, actor and musician on being part of a strong, close family, his parents' high expectations, and discovering he could write good riffsMy granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm tha…
The actor-director's latest film, Murder on the Orient Express, boasts a stellar cast, including Branagh himself as Poirot. He discusses magnificent moustaches, moral brooding and the passio…
The master comedian's off-the-cuff routine gets more laughs than most scripted standup. But he's hardly breaking sweat. Will Skinner ever pull out all the stops?Is Frank Skinner a restless s…
The 80s-inspired sci-fi series is back for a second season, while the first official showcase of the Purple One's paraphernalia opens at the O2 in LondonA Bad Moms ChristmasThis sequel to 20…
A revival of David Henry Hwang's audaciously imaginative play lands on Broadway but with the delicate poise between illusion and truth unbalancedCort Theatre, New YorkMost theater is a seduc…
The Bridge, LondonLondon's first commercial theatre for 80 years opens with a pugnacious comedy about the early days of the political visionary " and shameless sponger Given the abundance of…
Premiered just before the revolution, Parade was Les Ballets Russes' most radical work. This dazzling update, with a robot politician and a silver wall-walker, captures its spirit " and the …
The theatre director may be frail now, but his inappropriate behaviour is not new. He was disinhibited, objectifying and disrespectful back in 1992' Tracy Ann Oberman is an actor and writerL…
Exclusive: EastEnders and Doctor Who actor Tracy-Ann Oberman is one of five women to complain about Stafford-Clark's behaviour' Max Stafford-Clark pestered me for sex long before his strokeA…
A new era is dawning at London's Tricycle theatre under Indhu Rubasingham, its first new artistic director in three decades. Her inaugural play " starring Adrian Lester, and written by his w…
With a new production of A Doll's House about to open at the Donmar in London, AS Byatt looks again at Ibsen's tragic heroine - whose plight she once thought so shocking - and finds her sill…
Kevin Bannon writes: Roy Dotrice took a leading role in the BBC television comedy series AP Herbert's Misleading Cases (1967-71). He played the litigious, self-representing Albert Haddock, w…
