A break in the clouds
Richard Griffiths has plenty of reasons to be pleased with life - plays, films, Broadway triumph - so why does he always expect to be disappointed? Oliver Burkeman finds out
Richard Griffiths has plenty of reasons to be pleased with life - plays, films, Broadway triumph - so why does he always expect to be disappointed? Oliver Burkeman finds out
Conor McPherson writes plays to exorcise his demons. He talks to Maddy Costa about religion, alcoholism, painful break-ups - and why there are so few women in his work
Simon Callow was a struggling young actor when a script landed on his doorstep: Amadeus. As a new version opens, he recalls the rows and thrills behind the staging of Shaffer's classic
Why is "world-class Stratford-upon-Avon" such a dump?
No one had heard of Elena Roger before she was picked as the West End's Evita. She got the part, she tells Viv Groskop, because she really did cry for Argentina
Kevin Spacey shrugs off criticism of his theatre tenure
It costs thousands to train a new Billy Elliot - and there's no guarantee they'll get the part in the end. As the hit musical turns one, Emma John meets the boys on the front line
Playwright Michael Frayn talks to Mark Lawson about rumours that he has put down his pen
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Kevin Spacey has been under attack ever since he took over as artistic director of the Old Vic theatre. With his latest play closing early after being savaged by the critics, he tells Michae…
When playwright Bryony Lavery was accused of plagiarism, the furore went worldwide. In her first interview since those 'dark times', she tells Lyn Gardner how writing got her through