Thursday, January 18, 2024
Barrino entered American Idol in 2004 as a young single mother who struggled to read, and won over the nation with her powerhouse voice and personality. Now she is starring in her first film…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Comedians will say anything for a laugh – and I’ve given her years of material
Two years ago, my sister was about to turn 50 and I called her spouse to see what he was getting her. He ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMMonday, November 7, 2022
For years the world saw Putin as almost a figure of fun – while in Russia he was already meting out brutality to dissidents and LGBTQ+ activists
Last night I saw Pussy Riot, on the London …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PMThursday, October 20, 2022
After more than 40 years in film and TV, the star of Our Friends in the North is about to share the screen with Harry Styles. She talks about 90s sexism, her start in drama and playing the v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
The actor, who has starred in everything from sitcoms to Shakespeare, talks about his family rows over Brexit, having his phone hacked – and why he did not want to be like Laurence Olivier…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMMonday, April 18, 2022
The Strictly Come Dancing star has left the show that made her name in the UK but her creative, competitive spirit loves a challenge – with three projects on the go, she’s not standing s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMMonday, November 15, 2021
The prolific playwright behind the soaraway hit Dinner, Netflix’s The Dig and Harlots reflects on coming up in the 1990s, her new play Manor and putting her characters ‘through a grinder…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMTuesday, October 12, 2021
The award-winning standup is known for his exuberance, but, as he writes in his memoir, he has had to dodge snobbery throughout his career. He discusses family, fame and being funny
Rob Beck…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
Trans actors, Palestine, Tony Blair, typecasting, socialists with multiple houses … as she stars in Rose, a play that covers everything from the Holocaust to the six-day war, the actor let…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMSunday, June 28, 2020
The first woman to win the UK’s biggest comedy prize has written a guide to the menopause. She discusses HRT, getting sacked and how much she liked her female comedy peers – until their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
Whose Line Is It Anyway? made her a household name. But, more than 30 years on, does the queen of improv also think it held her back? She talks about ambition, sexism and her lucky escape fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
The star of Father Ted and Death in Paradise on his ‘unstable’ personality, his revealing new standup show – and the terrifying bomb scare he endured as a child
Ardal O’Hanlon is too…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMMonday, June 25, 2018
He was standing around, minding his own business, Julian Rhind-Tutt tells Zoe Williams, when he got 'very, very lucky' and became an actor. Couldn't talent, she asks, have had something to d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, February 23, 2018
The world’s anxieties are bleeding into her personal life, but the comedian is done with political despair. Ahead of her new tour, she explains why it’s time to bring something new to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
It’s got a plane, a submarine and hair-frazzling explosions. As the Fast and Furious phenomenon spawns a live show, we go behind the scenes to meet the drivers and crew at the wheelThe Liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, December 8, 2017
He escaped from prison, fled to Russia and – unlike the posh Cambridge spies – didn’t end up a miserable alcoholic. The revival of Cell Mates, the play about George Blake’s betrayal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
It’s hard to poke fun at politicians in an era when they’re held in contempt and every joke is policed for offence, say top television writersIt has become a commonplace to remark on the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, September 30, 2016
He flies, he flips, he falls! Bear Grylls is going on tour – with Endeavour, an acrobatics spectacular celebrating great survivors. But first he gives our writer a crash course on his wall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMMonday, August 8, 2016
The reaction to actor Rhys Ifans's joke at an anti-slavery benefit concert really irks me.Actor Rhys Ifans. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty ImagesRhys Ifans' joke at the anti-slavery benefit co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Director Sally Cookson says she loved the idea of a generous and sweet prince in the title role – but Zoe Williams’ daughter would have preferred a princessThe Bristol Old Vic’s dazzli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Performing on stage at 87, the comedian is still in it for the long haul. And with at least five hours of relentless japery to sit through, so is his audience I hadn’t sat down in Darlingt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMMonday, May 25, 2015
He's a transvestite, heterosexual standup comic and actor who ran 43 marathons in 51 days - as a new DVD documentary makes clear, Eddie Izzard's life has been far from predictable
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMFriday, November 28, 2014
There is sadness on the streets about the closure of the landmark venue – but optimism about the future of the area Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46PMFriday, March 9, 2012
New play shows the divisive language of the miners' strike is still with us, says Zoe WilliamsThe miners' strike in culture is like a listed building: it's preserved, it can't be torn down, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMThursday, July 28, 2011
Nicholas Crane is so enthusiastic a guide he seems about to hug a brick wall as historic as TescoYou know when you're at school, and one day they just dump you all in a shopping centre with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04PMFriday, May 6, 2011
As the hit musical Dirty Dancing prepares to go on tour, our reporter joins young hopefuls at open auditions, and asks how a low-budget film became 'a cultural event that lasted decades'You …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMFriday, November 19, 2010
He's a transvestite, heterosexual standup comic and actor who ran 43 marathons in 51 days – as a new DVD documentary makes clear, Eddie Izzard's life has been far from predictableI notice…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM 
