Saturday, June 13, 2015
If the honours system is used to award individuals, its other job is to provide an aspirational marker for the country as a whole. This, it tells us twice a year, is who we want to be: inclu…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:12AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
Patricia Clarkson is about to bare all on stage in The Elephant Man
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 05:01AMMonday, May 25, 2015
What made Glee star Jonathan Groff want to share the stage with a great classical actor?
SOURCE: Telegraph at 05:58PMAfter starring as Evita and Piaf, the actress explains the challenges posed by her latest West End role in Sondheim's Passion at the Donmar.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 05:58PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
The TV veteran reveals he was snubbed by Sid James and Kenneth Williams when he appeared on This Is Your Life
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:11PMMonday, March 30, 2015
One night in Cape Town, I was caught in a power cut. Like an untenanted theatre, the city went utterly dark, darker than perhaps it had been since settlers first arrived three centuries earl…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
The 81 year-old actress tells Jasper Rees about her latest role as an Auschwitz prisoner, her love of acting and life with the late Peter O'Toole
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 04:00AMThursday, February 19, 2015
Welsh Rugby player Gareth Thomas on having his life turned into a play
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 03:00AMThursday, February 12, 2015
Michael Wood's documentary was intriguing with chilling moments, says Jasper Rees
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 05:00PMFriday, January 23, 2015
Veteran actor and raconteur Michael Pennington has written a rambling almanac to the stage
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:00AMSunday, January 11, 2015
It’s been quite a journey for Ayub Khan Din. Born in 1961, the acclaimed playwright grew up in a crowded Salford household, the youngest child of a Pakistani father and a white English mot…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00AMSaturday, December 6, 2014
When writers research, it’s not all about digging for facts. Feelings also count. When Nina Raine spent three months visiting hospitals for a play about the medical profession, she found a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00AMSaturday, November 15, 2014
Meera Syal on starring in a new play set in a Mumbai slum
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 05:00AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
The actress explains the challenge of Made in Dagenham
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 09:45AMSunday, October 26, 2014
Kathy Clugston's new musical features John Humphrys and James Naughtie
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:05AMFriday, October 24, 2014
As The Kinks' musical Sunny Afternoon heads to the West End, Ray Davies tells Jasper Rees that a reunion looks unlikely
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMMonday, September 8, 2014
This year the nation has been spirited back to 1914. Every aspect of the First World War has been explored - its causes debated, the horrific conditions on the front revisited. And yet there…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
Sofie Gråbøl as Danish royalty: it hardly stretches credulity. The face of Nordic noir has been a star in her home country ever since appearing in Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror in 198…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00AMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Interview: Alan Ayckbourn explains what makes comic plays work
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 09:00AMThursday, July 3, 2014
Since 1982 it’s been open season on the great and the good of Broadway musicals. It was in that very year that a chap called Gerard Alessandrini created Forbidden Broadway and from the hit…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:20AMThursday, June 26, 2014
TV's Victor Meldrew on Scottish independence
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:00PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
As of next year, John McGrath will be the most senior artistic director of a national company in the land. Rufus Norris will be freshly installed at the National Theatre of Great Britain on …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:07AMSunday, June 1, 2014
Jonathan Kent was an actor before he was a director. Indeed, he had not directed a single play when in his mid-40s he assumed control of the Almeida Theatre in 1990. By the time he and his c…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00AMSaturday, May 10, 2014
Kathleen Turner talks about starring in a new play in the West End
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 04:00AMSunday, May 4, 2014
This Dylan Thomas-inspired landscape-cum-installation pleasantly absorbs the audience into its canvas, says Jasper Rees
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:38AMFriday, April 4, 2014
After years as a jobbing actress, people are starting to notice Nicola Walker. Jasper Rees meets her as she prepares for Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic &n…
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:00AMSunday, March 30, 2014
It won’t have escaped the attention of anyone with an ear for poetry that Dylan Thomas turns 100 this year. He was born in a suburban house on a hill overlooking Swansea Bay a few months a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:27AMThursday, March 27, 2014
Pop didn't work out, so the singer of Torn turned to Alan Ayckbourn comedy
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 01:30PMUnder Milk Wood took Dylan Thomas nearly 20 tortured years to bring to life. On his centenary, three theatrical productions pay homage to the greatest ever radio drama
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 03:00AMUnder Milk Wood took Dylan Thomas nearly 20 tortured years to bring to life. On his centenary, three theatrical productions pay homage to the greatest ever radio drama
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 03:00AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
When Julian Mitchell wrote Another Country in a couple of months in 1980, Anthony Blunt had just been exposed as one of the Cambridge spy ring. Donald Maclean and Kim Philby were still livin…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:04AM 
