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The Way Old Friends Do at the Criterion Theatre review: one for the ABBA-solutists

This odd play directed by Mark Gatiss starts from an implausible premise and gets steadily dafter

Evening Standard

Would you let Rishi Sunak look after your dog?

More Brits would trust dog rescuer Keir Starmer to pet sit for them

Evening Standard

Mark Gatiss among stars bringing the curtain down on the King’s Head Theatre Pub for the last time

Mark Gatiss was among the performers saying goodbye to the King’s Head Theatre Pub as it closed its doors on its home of half-a-century ahead of moving to a new building.

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What does Mycroft actually do in the government? What’s it like to work with Tom Cruise? And is there any Doctor Who role he hasn’t played? Ask all this and more of the actor and writer

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Paintings from Mark Gatiss and John Lithgow among exhibition of actors’ art

Stars’ paintings go in show in London next month, with proceeds going to struggling actors

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast: Mark Gatiss on playing Sir John Gieldgud in The Motive and the Cue

And how he got a little help from his famous friends...

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review

Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity

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Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Silo to Ed Sheeran

A guide to the new releases over the coronation weekend

The Independent UK

I relate to Hollywood star’s love affair with theatre, says Tuppence Middleton

Tuppence Middleton is joined in The Motive and the Cue by Johnny Flynn as her husband Richard Burton and Mark Gatiss as Sir John Gielgud

Evening Standard

The Motive and the Cue review: Burton/Gielgud luvvie-off will give you goosebumps

Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s affecting play about Hamlet rehearsals with Richard Burton

The Independent UK

The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out

Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet

The Guardian - UK

The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre review: Sam Mendes’s elegant production is a love letter to theatre

In this look at Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud’s staging of Hamlet on Broadway, the play is not the thing

Evening Standard

Taking the knees in Jerusalem

My mother’s contribution to perhaps the most overlooked British folk art of the past 90 years: the canvas-work church kneeler

The Guardian - UK

Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

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Nolly review – Helena Bonham Carter is brilliantly camp in Russell T Davies’s impeccable drama

The actor is flamboyant, frank and funny as a Crossroads legend. It’s a joy to watch this warm, thoughtful tribute to soaps, fabulous older women – and showbiz itself

Irish Independent

Russell T Davies and Helena Bonham Carter on protecting Noele Gordon’s legacy

Russell T Davies said the late star of soap and TV Noele Gordon has no living family – which made him and Helena Bonham Carter “extra protective” of her legacy and determined to do her “justice” on their latest project.

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Mark Gatiss: ‘I’m genuinely terrified that we are losing the caff for ever’

The actor and director on his fears for a British institution, the day he stopped being vegetarian and why he’s a fast eater

Evening Standard

Steven Moffat says friend’s true story inspired West End play The Unfriend

The Unfriend stars Reece Shearsmith and Amanda Abbington as a timid couple too polite to stop a brash American, played by Frances Barber, from inviting herself to stay

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The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre review - Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat give us a riotous bit of fun

An uproarious comedy of English embarrasment

The Independent UK

Mark Gatiss: ‘Christmas is the perfect time for ghosts’

Glad tidings of comfort and joy? Not if Mark Gatiss has anything to do with it. David Barnett meets the man who haunts Christmas

Irish Independent

Top TV picks for the festive couch potato – the critic’s choice

Christmas television is a bit of a busman’s holiday for TV critics. For a change, we get to enjoy the view without any of the stress. No making notes, no keeping an eye on the deadline clock.

Irish Independent

Helena Bonham Carter: Russell T Davies champions society’s rejects

Helena Bonham Carter said Russell T Davies champions society’s rejects as she stars in an upcoming series about a soap star who was sacked in the 1980s.

Daily Mirror

Helena Bonham Carter explains why her unusual new character is her 'dream role'

Helena Bonham Carter has spoken of her joy at playing Crossroads icon Noele Gordon, who was famously sacked from the soap in 1981, describing the role as a "gift"

Irish Independent

BBC Radio to celebrate life of Bernard Cribbins over Christmas period

The life of Bernard Cribbins will be celebrated by the BBC over the Christmas period.

The Guardian - UK

Mark Gatiss: ‘The way the government has embraced cruelty as a badge of honour is horrible’

From The League of Gentlemen to last year’s A Christmas Carol, the writer, actor and director never seems to stop. He discusses mortality, the Tories, and the (brief) fear his career was over

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