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Rachel Whiteread: 'I've done the same thing over and over'
Rachel Whitereading From The Independent
As an exhibition of drawings by the Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread opens at Tate Britain, John Walsh meets the artist in her studio and tries to get to the…
3 September 2010
Michael Gambon: I feel wrong if I don't plan a play a year
Michael Gambon From Evening Standard
“I hope I'm telling you the truth,” says Sir Michael Gambon. The hooded eyes in that great bloodhound face flicker thoughtfully. “Yeah, I am.” I am meeting the 69-year-old —…
2 September 2010
Elena Roger: 'I don’t play normal women’
Elena Roger From Daily Telegraph
After starring as Evita and Piaf, the actress explains the challenges posed by her latest West End role in Sondheim's Passion at the Donmar.
1 September 2010
Tim Vine: The man with the funniest one-liners in Britain
Tim Vine From Evening Standard
'I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what — never again.' It comes as no surprise that the best joke at the Edinburgh Festival comes from the…
24 August 2010
Backstage Banter: Jim Jefferies
Jim Jefferies From The Times
In the latest installment of our Backstage Banter video series, we catch Australian comedian Jim Jefferies after a gig and discuss his worst performances, nerves and hitting back at hecklers.
17 August 2010
Stewart Lee: Comedy was supposed to be the new rock 'n' roll in the 90s
Stewart Lee From Metro
Comedian Stewart Lee, 42, was one half of a successful 1990s double act with Richard Herring. He co-wrote Jerry Springer: The Opera before returning to stand-up in 2007 with a…
17 August 2010
Willy Russell, playwright and composer
From Daily Telegraph
The 62-year-old playwright discusses starting out, being mistaken for Alan Bleasdale and being nicknamed Woolly Rissole by Paul McCartney.
12 August 2010
Whoopi Goldberg: Mel Gibson is a bonehead, not a racist
Whoopi Goldberg From Metro
Actress Whoopi Goldberg, 54, made her name in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film adaptation of The Color Purple before going on to appear in Sister Act and Ghost, for which she…
10 August 2010
Simon Russell Beale: Some people say that I’m a national treasure. I'd rather be a Bond villain
Simon Russell Beale From Evening Standard
Simon Russell Beale shows me a horrendous bruise from a torn muscle in his arm. Was it sustained in a fight rehearsal for his forthcoming turn in Ira Levin's complex…
10 August 2010
Edinburgh Festival 2010: Simon Callow interview
From Daily Telegraph
Simon Callow invites audiences in Edinburgh to journey with him through the Bard's "landscape".
10 August 2010
Starlight Express, Les Miserables, I was the toast of Broadway... until the day I gave birth to Eliza
Frances Ruffelle From Mail on Sunday
Frances Ruffelle’s daughter, Eliza, was just 12 years old when she announced she wanted to be a pop star. ‘It was the last thing I wanted to hear,’ says Frances.…
1 August 2010
Jean Reno
Jean Reno From Metropolitan
From Casablanca to Hollywood, arthouse to mainstream, outsider to established star, Jean Reno's life has been a series of unlikely journeys. Graeme Green meets the actor on the release of…
1 August 2010
Sir Peter Blake: why I chose Pop over pot
Peter Blake From Sunday Telegraph
The pioneer of Pop talks to Roya Nikkhah about being the grandfather of British art, shunning the Sixties' drug culture – and the anguish caused by his most famous work,…
25 July 2010
Is Ben Eine the new Banksy?
Ben Eine From Evening Standard
Ben who? That's what we all thought when David Cameron gave Barack Obama a £2,500 painting, Twenty First Century City, by Ben Eine on Tuesday. Until then, the 39-year-old Londoner…
23 July 2010
Simon Callow, actor, director and author
Simon Callow From Daily Telegraph
The 61-year-old actor on his love of Shakespeare, dressing up with his grandmother and playing Gareth in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
22 July 2010
