16.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 19.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I have a darkness I didn’t have before’ … Ben Chaplin at the National Theatre in London. Photograph: Rii Schroer/Eyevine Sitting in the Los Angeles sun in a T-shirt and a hoodie, Ben Chaplin has a coffee […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 20.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olly Alexander: ‘You can see how easy it is for a party lifestyle to turn into something negative.’ Photograph: Hugo Yanguela; Styling: Nick Royal Olly Alexander was so certain he was destined for success that he saw […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 10.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It sees the Regency period through American eyes’ Lanre Bakare Christmas 1995 was one to forget. I was ill and mostly confined to the sofa, trying to keep down mince pies as my big sister made her […]
09.56 GMT Last modified on Mon 4 Jan 2021 09.58 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Geoff Stephens, pictured circa 1970. Photograph: Ronald Spencer/Daily Mail/Rex/Shutterstock Geoff Stephens, the prolific Grammy-winning British songwriter behind hits such as Winchester Cathedral and The Crying Game, has died aged 86. In a message confirming the news to […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 09.32 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A mirror on the world … Mark Rylance in Jerusalem at the Royal Court. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian When the UK entered its first lockdown in March, there was a lot of talk about using this enforced […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 2 Jan 2021 19.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email For Those I Love The disbelieving, punch-drunk stare of the grieving has rarely been so vividly evoked as on the debut album by the Dublin artist David Balfe, written before and after the death of his best […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 17.39 GMT Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon by Sarah LeeThe two comedians filming on set in Greece. In a joint interview in Weekend magazine, Brydon told writer Laura Barton: ‘I’m a proper fan of [Steve], he’s terrific. Career-wise and work-wise, he’s kind of faultless. On a personal level, […]
18.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Courttia Newland in West Ham Park, east London, December 2020 Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer Courttia Newland, 47, grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in […]
06.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs The title of Sleaford Mods’ sixth album is apparently an oblique reference to the fatalities in the first wave of coronavirus: “Human lives are always expendable to the elites,” in the words of vocalist Jason Williamson, “we’re in a constant […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 12.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Regé-Jean Page: ‘It takes so little imagination to include people, as opposed to how much thought and effort it takes to keep people out of these stories.’ Photograph: Joseph Sinclair “As an artist, you have to constantly […]
17.00 GMT Dan Leno as Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1896 Photograph: Wikipedia / Public domain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Buttons (Will Evans) and one of the ugly sisters (Stanley Empire) in Cinderella at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1919 Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Derek Roy as the nursemaid in […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From the series Sleepless in Soho by Joshua K Jackson. Photograph: Joshua K Jackson Windows are almost ever-present in Joshua K Jackson’s pictures of late-night Soho. Misted up, or rained on or red-lit, glass often separates the restive men and women in his photographs from […]
06.00 GMT Kat B as Denzil the Dragon in Sleeping Beauty, Hackney Empire, London, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Derek Elroy as the Nurse in Robin Hood at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, 2015 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarred Christmas with Priscilla Presley as the Wicked Queen and Lee Carroll in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at […]
07.00 GMT Lawrence Hodgson-Mullings as Dick WhittingtonDick Whittington is at the National, London, until 23 January. The show will be free to stream on the National’s YouTube channel from 3pm GMT on 23 December until midnight GMT on 27 December Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Checkley as PRMP Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amy Booth-Steel as Queen Rat Facebook […]
19.50 GMT Studio rehearsals with Matthew Ball (the Prince) and Yasmine Naghdi (the Sugar Plum Fairy). The Nutcracker is at the Royal Opera House, London, from 11 December until 3 January Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will Tuckett choreographs a new battle scene during rehearsals Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romany Pajdak lifts the flag as Clara Facebook Twitter Pinterest […]
11.22 GMT Dining With Alice, Elsing Hall, Norfolk, part of Norfolk and Norwich festival, 2011 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tobias Menzies, Amy Lennox and Cat Simmons in Headlong’s Decade, Commodity Quay, London, 2011 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hofesh Shechter’s East Wall, Tower of London, 2018 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Les Enfants Terribles’ United Queendom, Kensington Palace, London, 2020 Facebook […]
10.03 GMT Last modified on Fri 4 Dec 2020 10.42 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Nadine Shah at the BBC Radio 6 music festival at the Roundhouse, north London, 8 March 2020. Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images Musicians are revolting. They’re rising up around the world to draw attention to the microscopic earnings […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 3 Dec 2020 15.04 GMT Boy George on the dancefloor at AmnesiaThe bold and the beautiful: great pattern clashing from Boy George and the gang at Amnesia. This was Dave Swindells’ first visit to the island and his last chance to capture the spirit of Ibiza before Ku and Amnesia were […]
06.00 GMT Matt Smith and Ben Aldridge in American Psycho, Almeida theatre, London, 2013 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Cooper in Singin’ In the Rain, Palace theatre, London, 2012 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cuba Gooding Jr in Chicago, Phoenix theatre, London, 2018 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Audrey Brisson in Amélie, Watermill theatre, Newbury, 2019 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Loserville, West […]
07.00 GMT Hallway, 2008, by Julia Fullerton-BattenArt on a Postcard (AOAP) is releasing its first series of photography boxsets from 1 December. The boxsets are designed for photography enthusiasts who want to own limited edition prints at an affordable price. Each box set is priced at £250 with 50% of proceeds going to the Hepatitis C […]
10.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email She’s a bad, bad momma. The matriarch of this bad family. A controlling, violent, violent woman…” says Lesley Manville, who has turned out to be spectacularly good at playing bad. She’s talking about her latest film, Let Him Go, in which she plays Blanche Weboy, […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 27 Nov 2020 08.46 GMT Grace Jones, New York, 1981 Photograph: Adrian Boot/urbanimage.tv Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wham! Photograph: Tony McGee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skepta Photograph: Ki Pharaoh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beth Ditto“Having photographed the likes of Liam Gallagher, Pete Townshend and Beth Ditto, the thrill of making new images and meeting […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 08.31 GMT The Unreturning at the Traverse, Edinburgh, in 2018. Designed by Andrzej Goulding. Facebook Twitter Pinterest wonder.land at the Palace theatre, Manchester, in 2015. Designed by Rae Smith. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Three Hours After Marriage at the Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1996. Designed by Tim Goodchild. Facebook Twitter […]
07.00 GMT Moonraker, 1979Roger Moore is notably dapper in this still from Moonraker, where he’s posing with the MP Lafer sports car that his contact in Rio, Manuela (Emily Bolton), uses to tail him in the early scenes. The Lafer was a Brazilian-built replica of Britain’s MG TD of the late 1940s. Cars on Film: A […]
16.22 GMT First published on Sun 22 Nov 2020 16.01 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Rodney P has been a fixture on the UK hip-hop scene for more than three decades. Photograph: Everynight Images/Alamy Two women who accuse the British hip-hop star Rodney P of domestic abuse have told the Guardian they […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Gabriel Byrne: ‘His love for, and loss of, his parents is palpable.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian “How many times have I returned in my dreams to this hill?” asks Gabriel Byrne in the opening sentence of Walking With Ghosts, immediately setting alarm bells ringing in […]
16.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 18.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Arlo Parks: ‘When you approach the world with vulnerability and openness, people return that energy.’ Photograph: Alex Kurunis Does anyone really want to be the voice of a generation? It’s a question that 20-year-old Arlo Parks is […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 04.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 30. Rude Boy (1965) The ska-era Wailers launch themselves into the 60s Jamaican vogue for singles either praising or condemning the violent Kingston “rude boy” youth cult. Tellingly, given the socio-political songs that lay ahead of him, […]
23.10 GMT Last modified on Mon 16 Nov 2020 10.12 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Front row from left: Malachi Kirby as Darcus Howe, Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Shaun Parkes as Frank Crichlow and Rochenda Sandall as Barbara Beese. Photograph: Kieron McCarron/BBC/McQueen Limited Steve McQueen, the west London-raised son of a […]
08.33 GMT Last modified on Fri 13 Nov 2020 11.19 GMT Damian Lewis in Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1997 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rachel Weisz and Paul Rudd in The Shape of Things, Almeida at King’s Cross, London, 2001 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idris Elba with Megan Dodds in This Is How It Goes, Donmar Warehouse, London, 2005 […]