Patti LuPone

Beau Is Afraid review – Ari Aster’s patience-testing shaggy dog story

Joaquin Phoenix plays a hapless middle-aged man on a tortuous journey to see his mum in the Midsommar director’s three-hour black comedy of Oedipal angst

Mark Kermode

21, May, 2023 @7:00 AM

Beau Is Afraid review – Ari Aster sends Joaquin Phoenix on an odyssey to nowhere

This three-plus-hour tale of Oedipal misery sees Phoenix on uncharacteristically boring form, and ultimately collapses into silliness

Peter Bradshaw

18, May, 2023 @9:35 AM

Tony awards 2022: A Strange Loop leads the nominees, while British talents are lauded

Three actors from The Lehman Trilogy go head to head, the musical Six picks up eight nominations and the production MJ – about Michael Jackson – is also recognised

Chris Wiegand Stage editor

09, May, 2022 @2:03 PM

'His songs are like a fabulous steak': an all-star toast to Stephen Sondheim

The supreme lyricist and composer has died aged 91. In a piece first published to mark his 9oth birthday, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and many more celebrate the man and his musicals

Interviews by Chris Wiegand and Alexis Soloski

26, Nov, 2021 @10:45 PM

Paul Huntley obituary

Award-winning wigmaker who was always in great demand for Broadway musicals, West End shows, film and television

Veronica Horwell

20, Jul, 2021 @5:46 PM

Patti LuPone meets Jonathan Bailey: ‘You’re the biggest star in the world!’

The stars of Netflix’s Bridgerton and Hollywood talk about singing in the shower, the alchemy of the theatre – and why no one in Stephen Sondheim’s Company would ask LuPone to dance

Chris Wiegand

16, Mar, 2021 @6:00 AM

Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood?

It’s got orgies, arrests, scandals and eccentrics. But is the central story – about gay and black people triumphing in 1940s Tinseltown – realistic? We sift the ugly facts from glossy fiction

Pamela Hutchinson

21, May, 2020 @5:00 AM

The Inheritance, Company and Come from Away win big at Olivier awards

Subsidised theatre’s impact on West End highlighted by winning productions

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

07, Apr, 2019 @8:15 PM

Olivier awards 2019: full list of winners

The Inheritance, Come from Away and Company are among the shows that have triumphed at this year’s ceremony

07, Apr, 2019 @6:58 PM

Patti LuPone steals the show in 'glorious' reimagining of Company

Actor returns from retirement to give show-stopping performance in acclaimed show that swaps male lead for a woman

Aamna Mohdin

18, Oct, 2018 @6:09 PM

Company review – sex-switch Sondheim proves a heavenly fling

Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone star in Marianne Elliott’s intelligent reimagining of the great musical about marriage and the single life

Michael Billington

17, Oct, 2018 @10:30 PM

'Print that!' Broadway legend Patti LuPone sounds off

Lloyd Webber? Trump? Madonna? Don’t get her started! As the goddess of the modern musical prepares to star in Company, she settles some old scores – and starts some new ones

Hadley Freeman

11, Oct, 2018 @5:00 AM