The Lord of the Dance was always fanatically driven, practising for sixteen hours a day in his teens. His body now bears the damage of that era. But he still wants more. He discusses love, p…
The broadcaster and comedian has been delighting and outraging audiences for almost 30 years. Off-air, his life has lurched from crisis to crisis. Has he finally found peace? It's nearly thr…
Driving through Manchester one Sunday, at the wheel of a Nissan Micra, Foot suddenly woke from decades of anxiety, anger and misery. He talks about the friends who tried to help him, and the…
Anabel Graetz has always known she had an interesting and unusual face. At the age of 80, it's now paying the bills Anabel Graetz has always worked in the arts, but she won her first screen …
Frank Farrell had loved magic since he was a child. But it was only after retiring that he began to perform professionally. Now he is living exactly the life he wants to live When Frank Farr…
As a child, Tina Leverton dreamed of being a ballet dancer, but her parents couldn't afford the lessons. Learning to dance decades later has been joyful " and transformed her life Tina Lever…
Julian Bird was a psychiatrist when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer " and began daydreaming about being an actor. Seventeen years later, he is playing the lead at a London theatre When …
Nikki Kenward had a troubled childhood with little opportunity for play. But in her 60s she entered the world of the circus, where 'anything goes and anything is possible' When Nikki Kenward…
The Eton-educated, non-binary British Iraqi had always struggled with their identity, until they discovered drag. Yet the 29 year old says the performances come at a high price There is nowh…
Magicians are under fire for claiming they use neurolinguistic programming to read people's mindsSome psychologists are upset at the deployment of purported scientific techniques in magic tr…
Jonathon Young's dance-theatre show Betroffenheit explores his grief after a family tragedy. The author Max Porter, comic Jayde Adams, performer Mojisola Adebayo and Young himself discuss th…
The Chicago-born writer has teamed up with director Nadia Latif to combat the tradition of 'endlessly complicated men and very straightforward women' with her new play, OctagonPicture the st…