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Standup Jon Richardson on turning his dark teenage diaries into a tearjerking memoir: ‘I couldn’t sugarcoat those years’

by The Guardian | Oct 21, 2026 | Autobiography and memoir, Books, Comedy, Culture, Jon Richardson, Stage, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, TV comedy | 0 |

While facing grief, illness and a very public breakup, the comic reached for his diaries – and found a happy kid who spiralled into despair. Inspired by a Nobel laureate, he wrote a frank, funny book about that boy and what he...

‘Gay men keep my ego going – they message me all the time!’ Ed Gamble on Traitors, true love, weight loss and people-pleasing

by The Guardian | Oct 20, 2026 | BBC, Comedy, Culture, Ed Gamble, Podcasting, Podcasts, Stage, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, The Traitors, TV comedy | 0 |

As a Traitors obsessive, Gamble is in his element hosting its hugely popular companion show, Uncloaked. He discusses keeping the show’s secrets, edgelord comics and how he became known as a ‘mega wife guy’Ed Gamble does not like...

‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others

by The Guardian | Oct 13, 2026 | Acting, Culture, Film, Germany, Keira Knightley, Political theatre, Robert Icke, Stage, The Guardian, The Lives of Others, Theatre, West End | 0 |

As the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star Luke Thompson talk about the paranoia at its heart, the cost of theatre tickets nowadays – and their fury at ringtones in the stallsUnpacking...

‘I didn’t expect to be portrayed as a cannibal’: Rachael Stirling on eating her mother Diana Rigg’s ashes

by The Guardian | Oct 11, 2026 | Bereavement, Celebrity, Diana Rigg, Rachael Stirling, Stage, The Guardian | 0 |

When the actor confessed to ingesting a few flakes of her mother’s ashes on opening nights, reactions ranged from recognition to disgust. But, she says, grief makes animals of us allThere have been headlines of late that make me...

‘He punched a polar bear on the nose!’ Ninety glorious years of Brian Blessed – by Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester and more

by The Guardian | Oct 8, 2026 | Acting, Adrian Lester, Brian Blessed, Brian May, Celebrity, Culture, Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson, Film, Flash Gordon, Stage, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, Theatre | 0 |

Peeing in the sink he shared with Derek Jacobi, making a badger video with Brian May, climbing Everest with Alan Hinkes … as the great actor blasts into his 90s, stars celebrate his ‘loudness and madness’Emma Thompson Continue...

‘Like swapping a Bentley for a Ferrari’: can the Harry Potter stage show survive being chopped in half?

by The Guardian | Oct 7, 2026 | Culture, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne, JK Rowling, John Tiffany, Sonia Friedman, Stage, The Guardian, Theatre, West End | 0 |

After a phenomenal decade-long run, the Cursed Child two-parter is being pruned. Will it still work? Our writer swishes her cloak, levitates her luggage – and hops aboard the streamlined Hogwarts Express‘Silencio!” Two dozen...

‘They’ll never bring us dowwwwwwwn!’ Wicked’s stars pick their favourite songs from the smash hit

by The Guardian | Sep 30, 2026 | Broadway, Culture, Idina Menzel, Musicals, Stage, Stephen Schwartz, The Guardian, Theatre, West End | 0 |

The musical powerhouse has spawned huge hits, but which do its troupers love to belt out – even for the 1,700th time? From Broadway legend Idina Menzel to composer Stephen Schwartz, they reveal allIdina Menzel originated the...

Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom

by The Guardian | Sep 21, 2026 | Books, Culture, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Drama films, Film, Film adaptations, Fiona Shaw, George MacKay, Jane Austen, Period and historical films, Romance films, Stage, The Guardian | 0 |

With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’sThere’s no reason for anyone working on a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and...

‘Newsnight’s kindest critic’: Bonnie Greer was always effortlessly in command

by The Guardian | Sep 16, 2026 | Bonnie Greer, Stage, The Guardian, UK news | 0 |

Playwright was an unusual mix of originality and authority and in high demand as a cultural criticBonnie Greer, who has died at the age of 77, moved to the UK from New York in 1986. She grew up in Chicago, had six siblings, her...

‘I thought I would lose my career’: Orville Peck on addiction and creating his best album yet

by The Guardian | Sep 16, 2026 | Cabaret, Celebrity, Country, Culture, Mental health, Music, Pop and rock, Stage, The Guardian | 0 |

Though the masked country singer has a No 1 album and duets with superstars under his belt, his demons and mental health caught up to him Orville Peck was in the middle of a soundcheck when he found out that his idol Dolly...

‘I’ve never been more terrified!’ Carly Rae Jepsen on motherhood, stardom and her horniest album ever

by The Guardian | Sep 14, 2026 | Broadway, Carly Rae Jepsen, Culture, Music, Stage, The Guardian | 0 |

Call Me Maybe made the singer-songwriter famous – but also confused. Who was she? Who was her music for? Fourteen years later, about to release the double album Day and Night, she finally has some answersCarly Rae Jepsen is as...

Man to Man review – Tilda Swinton’s perfect pacing makes this multi-character monologue compelling

by The Guardian | Sep 11, 2026 | Culture, Stage, The Guardian, Theatre, Tilda Swinton, West End | 0 |

Royal Court theatre, LondonStarting in Germany in the 1930s, there is a stinging topicality to Manfred Karge’s play addressing the renaissance of Nazi ideologyEarly autumn London theatre has already featured two Oscar winners:...

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