The 29-year-old Bostonian followed a string of racist tweets all the way to a white nationalist meeting " and turned the experience into his new Edinburgh showThe 29-year-old Bostonian comic…
Homos, Or Everyone in America is set in an almost quaint pre-Grindr world. Its writer reveals how his funny, provocative drama was inspired by a hate crimeIn the opening scene of Jordan Seav…
The character comic switches roles like a regenerating Time Lord in her new Edinburgh show, Faces of Grace " from a wannable Love Island contestant to a cat-loving lonerIt became clear to Em…
As her horror comedy Blueberry Toast is staged in London, the Texan talks about how Christianity informs everything she writesIt's a sunny Sunday morning in a middle-American kitchen. Walt w…
It is Britain's favourite type of humour, the go-to gag for everyone from Carry On stars to Bake Off hosts. But are fnarr fnarr jokes just another example of male sexual entitlement?If you w…
His first work Bash got him excluded from the Mormon church. Now, as its three plays are revived in London with a modified script, Neil LaBute talks religion and R-rated moviesIt is common f…
His frenetic hip-hop history The Get Down may have floundered but there's no stopping the director. He talks about his Elvis movie, his boho love life " and resurrecting Strictly Ballroom fo…
After a bedtime story with a giant teddy, you fly with geese and cross rickety rope bridges. Our writer steps into SomnaiImmersive entertainment is so widespread now, from the intimately dis…
With vehicles belching fumes at 7mph, car chase franchise fails to translate to stageOutside of Jaws, it would be tough to think of a movie idea less suited to the theatrical treatment than …
The Electra star on sharing the stage with Kristin Scott Thomas, never taking the job home with him and his small-screen appearance with Mark Rylance in Wolf HallAudiences at the exhilaratin…
A new version of the classic musical moves Damon Runyon's characters to uptown New York, with an all-black cast and a burst of bebop and gospelThe cast of Guys and Dolls are lending some ext…
Dressed in capes and drinking Corpse Reviver cocktails, audiences explore a crypt and a vampire's boudoir in the film company's atmospheric theatre showFor anyone who grew up in the 1960s an…
In Outlaws to In-Laws, seven short plays chart how gay lives have changed decade by decade since the 1950s, from a time of blackmail to a world of dating apps. Three writers " Jonathan Kemp,…
When Bogosian's king of the trolls took to stage and screen in the 80s, subversive radio hosts were fun " then they led to Trump. The actor and playwright talks about punk pranks, harassing …
The Canadian comic may look like she needs ID to get into her own shows, but her Fringe show is her frankest (and funniest) yet'I love being gut-wrenchingly honest," says elfin comic Mae Mar…
Actor, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who took the part of the tyrannical comedian King Kaiser in the 1982 film comedy My Favourite YearTough cookies with soft centres were the…
Playwright, actor and director who exposed the gap between myth and reality in American lifeSam Shepard, who has died aged 73 from complications of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease, exce…
US stage and screen actor best known for Cutter's Way, Home Alone and DeceivedJohn Heard, who has died aged 71, was an engaging, intelligent character actor in American film, television and …
He was the original online prankster who married Drew Barrymore and got fired by Trump. As he returns to standup, he talks about not getting his dues " and where you draw the line in comedyT…
Tom Marshman's raw one-man show uses lip-synching and dancing to remember the lost pubs and clubs where LGBT people partied and campaignedDolled-up clubbers clattered through dimly lit stree…
He's one of Britain's bravest screen actors. Now Paddy Considine is making a high-stakes stage debut in The Ferryman. Samantha Morton, Olivia Colman and others look back at his extraordinary…
With The Godfather and Chinatown, Robert Evans revolutionised the movie industry. Now, Simon McBurney is staging the mogul's scandalous memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture. They talk about …
He's the ex-cleaner who ended up playing a pirate in Game of Thrones. Now Lucian Msamati faces his biggest challenge yet " as the RSC's first black Iago. He talks to Ryan GilbeyLucian M…
The apprentice witch " created by Eiko Kadono and featured in Hayao Miyazaki's movie " is coming to Southwark Playhouse in a new stage adaptation. But first they need to work out how to make…
Our writer gets 15 minutes to prepare for a starring role in A Girl and a Gun, a drama that takes film noir into the wild westI am dressed in cowboy gear and closing my hands around a woman'…