Having survived teen shame and the Aids crisis, the Broadway actor " and erstwhile escort " is now blazing a trail for silver sexuality There were things in the first draft of his memoir, sa…
She won a Bafta for Alma's Not Normal " and that was just the pilot episode. As the full series launches, the ex-standup talks about growing up in care, getting the comedy bug in Ibiza and f…
As his new show, Hairspray, leads the return to theatres, the singer talks about his mental health struggles, going back to his mining-town roots " and how the government has let down the pe…
The Line of Duty actor follows in the footsteps of his great hero, though his intriguing film is ultimately elusive. Beckett would surely approve If the work Adrian Dunbar is best known for …
The standup behind Baby Cobra found fame with her candid material on sex and pregnancy. Back with a memoir, she talks about her work ethic, the taboo of miscarriage " and performing in front…
The actor and comedian has been a fixture on British TV for more than two decades. Now, in her first one-woman show, she unpicks the difficult maternal relationship that shaped herEven close…
The comedian is doing a show about her father in Edinburgh. She talks about the sexist LA standup scene, her reconciliation with her dad " and doing jokes about his ex-wivesWith just a hint …
Fetishised nostalgia for a bygone era of cosy domesticity and bake-offs is dangerous, say the team behind new play Home, I'm DarlingJudy Martin is a proud, archetypal 1950s housewife. She wa…
He used to get cast as either a doctor or a terrorist. Now Prasanna Puwanarajah is on stage at the National, starring opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose " and even writing his …
Drama created after Tackroom Theatre teamed up with Barnardo's to conduct the largest piece of research ever done into the subjectThere's no holding back in the rehearsal room, with talk of …
The TV show took the playwright's talents to a wider audience, highlighting his ability to create brilliantly complex womenNobody, observes one of his friends, gets out of a Mike Bartlett wo…
He's not a TV favourite, but the actor and comedian has built one of the most diverse audiences of any current standup, partly through the subversive use of social media. Now he's written hi…
Larry Lamb played Archie Mitchell in EastEnders for two years, basing him on his bullying father. What's he going to do next?The rehearsal room for Educating Rita sits high up on a corner of…
From all-female Shakespeare trilogys to hit musicals and films, she has a gift for works that focus on " and resonate with " womenWhen Phyllida Lloyd took on Shakespeare, it was never going …
Sharpen up your low-light photography skills, recite poetry and sing along to Messiah " or the MuppetsWhen darkness falls at the 19th-century Waddesdon Manor, the grand house and gardens pro…
Excitement greets new play The Ferryman by a writer as at ease writing for theatre as writing Bond films It will come as no surprise to those who have followed Jez Butterworth's career that …
The Humans and IT Crowd actor is about to star in a play about the world of humourless comedy fans. Good job she has experience in that field …It's break time at a rehearsal space in south…
Laura Wade's play Posh ushered in the Tory government in 2010. Is the film version, The Riot Club, here to bury the Bullingdon boys' era of inequality? She tells Emine Saner how she got into…
The Vagina Monologues shot writer Eve Ensler to stardom. Now she is a global campaigner who plans to call a billion women out on strike against rapeWho could have predicted what an effe…
The Faction's writer and director are putting women centre stage in their new production of a Maxim Gorky play In one rehearsal of Vassa Zheleznova, the new adaptation of the Maxim Gorky pla…
Meet the actors and puppeteers behind the creatures from this year's top Christmas shows " including the BFG, the Lorax and the Cheshire CatIronically for a show set largely in the frozen no…
Her steely, understated approach won praise when playing Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall and now Foy is taking on the role of Queen Elizabeth II in a new dramaSome castings seem so obvious in retro…
Five years ago, Sherlock propelled him into the stratosphere. Now he's photobombing the Oscars and selling out Hamlet a year in advance. Friends and co-stars reveal why the world is wild for…
The Man Down star and comedian has had a hard year, with both the death of his father and onscreen dad Rik Mayall and a breakup with Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall Continue reading.…