Play buttonThe Theatre ‘I joked about my life – Ma’s murder, child abuse, gangsters’: how Janey Godley became the queen of comedyThe Guardian - Libby BrooksJaney Godley prods her chin lovingly, as she talks about ageing. “I love putting up pictures on Twitter of me with no makeup. See every wrinkle,” says the Glaswegian comedian, who is 58. For a glancing
OJ Simpson On my radar: Robert Icke’s cultural highlightsThe Guardian - Robert IckeWriter and theatre director Robert Icke was born in Stockton-on-Tees and educated at the University of Cambridge. Since 2013, he has been associate director of the Almeida theatre in London, where his
Jada Pinkett Smith Jada Pinkett Smith: 'The word "wife": it's a golden cage, swallow the key'The Guardian - Sophie HeawoodImagine the scene. You’re a middle-aged woman, sitting around the table with your husband, your mother and your teenage daughter. Your husband is saying how hard he tried to give you the best 40th birthday
Play buttonTrump Tower Seth Meyers on Trump: 'Lying for him is as natural as breathing'The Guardian - Guardian staffLate-night hosts discussed the possibility of an impending recession and how Donald Trump is already trying to shift blame. Seth Meyers: ‘Sounds like a month’s worth of Jeopardy categories’ On Late Night,
Festivals What happens when a festival gets cancelled?The Guardian - David Hillier“It feels like a film set where a film was never shot.” That’s how Houghton festival described its site last week, when it was forced to abandon this year’s event due to forecasts of thunderstorms and
Play buttonEdinburgh What to see this week in the UKThe Guardian - Damon Wise; Michael Cragg; John Fordham; Andrew Clements; Jonathan Jones; Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey WinshipBruce Springsteen might not be to everyone’s taste, but Gurinder Chadha’s cheerfully uncool jukebox romcom makes a good case for his fandom. Newcomer Viveik Kalra steals the show as budding journalist
Melania Trump Trevor Noah: 'I think Donald Trump is trying to deport Melania'The Guardian - Adrian HortonFollowing another immigration crackdown by the Trump administration – this week, it moved to revoke green cards from immigrants deemed likely to use public assistance – Daily Show host Trevor Noah sent
Play buttonEdinburgh What to see this week in the UKThe Guardian - Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey WinshipIs Quentin Tarantino the last Hollywood auteur? Or is he a nostalgia-fetishising relic of the pre-#MeToo Tinseltown? However you feel, this latest – about a washed-up TV star and his stuntman pal in an
Karl Stefanovic Australia's creative industry is shockingly white. Don't be discouragedThe Guardian - Beverley WangI have only had two executives from a CALD background. One of them was Michelle Guthrie, and we all saw how that ended There’s a popular saying among those of us who champion representation: that you be
Play buttonSeth Meyers Seth Meyers on Trump's trade war: hopefully truckers 'return the favor in 2020'The Guardian - Adrian HortonOn Late Night, Seth Meyers checked in on what has traditionally been a source of stalwart support for Donald Trump: trucking. The trucking industry remains a pillar of the American economy, worth over
Play buttonTrevor Noah Trevor Noah: Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal 'was the conspiracy'The Guardian - Adrian HortonNews broke on Saturday morning that Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy and well-connected financier accused of sex trafficking underage girls, was found dead by apparent suicide in his New York jail cell, “which,
Festivals Stranded revellers party in Newquay after Boardmasters festival cancelledThe Guardian - Sarah MarshIn the centre of Newquay, Whiskers, a live music bar, is busier than normal for this time of year. Since Cornwall’s biggest festival, Boardmasters, was called off last-minute due to a severe weather forecast,
Steve Coogan Alan Partridge saves Steve Coogan from lengthy driving banThe Guardian - Jim Waterson and agencySteve Coogan has escaped a lengthy driving ban after successfully arguing that a new series featuring his Alan Partridge character could not be filmed on public transport. The comedian was clocked driving
Burlesque 15 of the best drag nights in BritainThe Guardian - Owen MyersChristeene is less of a traditional drag queen than a pagan punk staging a relentless assault on propriety. In a 12-hour onslaught of heathen pleasures, she will perform electro anthems such as Tears My
Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman: I was fired from film after blackface photo resurfacedThe Guardian - Catherine ShoardSarah Silverman has said she was recently fired from a film after producers unearthed a still of her in 2007 wearing blackface for a comedy sketch. Guesting on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Silverman said
Play buttonTrump Tower 'A brutal dinner': celebrities talk about meeting Donald TrumpThe Guardian - Stuart HeritageIf you think it’s bad enough sharing a planet with Donald Trump, spare a thought for poor Woody Harrelson. Because according to the man himself, Harrelson once shared a dinner table with the president,
Bristol Old Vic On my radar: Emma Rice’s cultural highlightsThe Guardian - Interview by Kathryn BromwichEmma Rice was born in Oxford in 1967 and studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1994, she joined the touring company Kneehigh; her productions included The Red Shoes (2003) and Rebecca (2015).
Martin Freeman Martin Freeman: ‘The detective’s moral dilemma drew me in’The Guardian - Vanessa ThorpeWho, with a life at stake, would really wish Halliwell had been given the opportunity to clam up? Martin Freeman No one who learns how the police got the killer Christopher Halliwell to confess can help
Play buttonDrag Queens ‘Finally! A sport for us gay people!’: how drag went mainstreamThe Guardian - Amelia AbrahamIn the past five years, drag – formerly defined as “dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex”, but now meaning so much more – has permeated many unexpected parts of culture: from office Christmas parties
Play buttonSeth Meyers Seth Meyers to Trump: 'What chemical are you missing from your brain?'The Guardian - Adrian HortonSeth Meyers looked into Trump’s week in response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which has been tepid when it comes to political action and searing when it comes to personal
Judy Garland Joe Longthorne obituaryThe Guardian - Spencer LeighI learnt that the props got in the way of the impersonation. Now I would rather imagine myself as Judy Garland for two minutes instead of hiding in a frock The singer and impressionist Joe Longthorne,
Festivals Boom in wellness at festivals as young people swap hedonism for yogaThe Guardian - Sarah Marsh and Shanti Giovannetti-SinghFestivals are traditionally a mecca for music and hedonism, but a new focus on wellbeing is emerging as young people swap drink and drugs for mindfulness and yoga. In recent years there has been an explosion
Trevor Noah Tez Ilyas: 'Northern, working class comics? You don’t get many on TV'The Guardian - Brian LoganTez Ilyas’s new show has been described as – to quote Channel 4’s publicity – “TRULY anti-establishment”. I’ve seen the 36-year-old’s standup: it’s cheeky, it’s deceptively subversive, it loudly advertises
Play buttonSamantha Bee Samantha Bee: 'Being a racist monster isn't a mental illness'The Guardian - Adrian HortonIt’s been mere days since the back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that killed 31 people last weekend, and the nation is “so sick of living in fear for no goddamn good reason”,
British Museum Minister seeks return of Jamaican artefacts from British MuseumThe Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondentA Jamaican government minister has demanded that the British Museum repatriates objects in its collection taken when the island was a colony. The culture minister Olivia Grange wants the museum to return
Play buttonTrevor Noah Trevor Noah: Fox News ‘seems to forget that guns are everywhere in America’The Guardian - Adrian HortonOn The Daily Show, Trevor Noah continued to address this weekend’s deadly shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, as he debunked conservative commentators’ attempts to distract from the issue of
Documentaries Kathy Burke: ‘After I got sick, the toughest thing was what it did to my mental health’The Guardian - Hannah J DaviesKathy Burke is distracted. It’s the hottest day of the year, and she is desperate for a fag and a brew. “I’m gasping,” she says, disappearing outside for a couple of minutes before we start our interview.
Opinion (UK) Who says Sutton Hoo site was dull?The Guardian - LettersI take issue with the statement by Mike Hopwood, who claims that visitors found the Sutton Hoo experience underwhelming (Lumps in a grassy field transformed into ‘immersive’ tour of riches dug up at Sutton
Play buttonStephen Colbert Stephen Colbert: 'America's gun culture is melting down'The Guardian - Adrian HortonIn the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that killed 31 people this weekend, Stephen Colbert compared America’s gun culture to the melting nuclear core at Chernobyl. Over
