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She cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre critic, an early champion, about her next move

The Oscar winner has been cleared of nine charges by a court in London after years of ‘crushing’ claims that left his career in tatters

Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

In dramatic evidence Spacey called one of the sexual assault allegations against him ‘madness’ and told jurors another stemmed from a ‘lovely’ consensual encounter

Oscar-winning star Kevin Spacey smiled and waved as he arrived at his trial on allegations that he sexually abused four men during his glittering Hollywood career.

Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t be more timely; and Groundhog Day, once more with feeling

Stephen Sondheim once thought about turning the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” into a stage musical. He gave up on the idea, saying: “It cannot be improved. It’s perfect the way it is.” And he may have been right about that, said Clive Davis in The Times – but this “glorious…

A revival of the musical at the same venue where it premiered combines clever staging, impeccable performances and Tim Minchin’s lyrical brilliance into a reassuringly familiar and enjoyable package

If this show doesn’t quite escape the shadow of its source material, it adds dimension and depth to it

The most disconcerting element of watching The 47th last autumn at the Old Vic, a satirical comedy on Trumpian politics, is that Bertie Carvel’s brilliant turn as Donald Trump left me disappointed. This was despite Carvel expertly capturing the former US president’s bizarre finger pointing, his other tics and inflections,…

He’s the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks about dashed Hollywood hopes, the dangers of modernising Roald Dahl and feeling out of step with his progressive fanbase