The Latest Breaking News from Richard Burton

In an extraordinary career on stage and screen, the director has always pushed boundaries – and is now making his debut as a screenwriter. He answers questions from famous fans and Observer readers

The Welsh actor's latest role sees him play a leading barrister in the infamous 'Wagatha Christie' case

The census shows the UK is now a minority Christian country – but inventive blends of the pagan and pious still bring us together in deep midwinter

Openly gay Star Trek actor George Takei - who played Hikaru Sulu in the space exploration TV series and films - tells how his family were thrown into an interment camp after Pearl Harbor atrocity

A "lucky charm" Christian Dior dress worn by Elizabeth Taylor on the night she won best actress at the 1961 Oscars is to be sold at auction next month, after being stored in a suitcase in London for over 50 years. It had been assumed the floral print gown with…

Written by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue is about the famous 1964 production of Hamlet and will open at the National Theatre

And we’re back. Founded in 1955, the Evening Standard Theatre Awards are the UK’s oldest dramatic accolades, an annual recognition by London’s newspaper of the excellence of London’s theatre. Across seven decades, the awards honoured the great and the good both on and off stage in acting, writing, musical performance,…

It’s nail-biting stuff this week, with Harper ‘touching the face of God’ and happier than we’ve ever seen her. But then there are the guns on that disastrous hunting trip …

Liz Taylor used to sleep in the spare room

‘I’m so unimpressed with stardom and mega-stardom... because I’ve seen it up close’

Sometimes the story of a movie’s making is as compelling as the movie itself. Think of the days of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, “Apocalypse Now,” even the recent “Mad Max: Fury Road,” all of which have inspired countless behind-the-scenes tales.