Sam Mendes
Barry Keoghan as John Lennon? Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies
Following the news that Mendes will direct four fab films about the Fab Four, our critic picks his fantasy lineup
Peter Bradshaw
21, Feb, 2024 @3:29 PM
‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member
Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison
Catherine Shoard
20, Feb, 2024 @3:45 PM
The Hills of California review – Jez Butterworth’s fractious family of singing sisters
The Jerusalem playwright’s new drama, directed by Sam Mendes, follows four siblings coached as children to become stars and now reunited at their mother’s bedside
Arifa Akbar
08, Feb, 2024 @12:01 AM
‘I’ve become more fearless’: Tuppence Middleton on OCD, motherhood and playing Elizabeth Taylor
The Downton Abbey actor loves to keep a low profile. So how does she feel about portraying one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and headline-grabbing stars – and writing a book about her own mental health?
Emine Saner
27, Jun, 2023 @9:00 AM
Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?
After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates
Arifa Akbar
20, Jun, 2023 @1:55 PM
The best films of 2023 so far
Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date
Guardian film
08, Jun, 2023 @7:15 AM
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
Susannah Clapp
07, May, 2023 @9:30 AM
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
Arifa Akbar
03, May, 2023 @8:42 AM
‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage
The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud’s struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths
Jack Thorne
07, Apr, 2023 @1:00 PM
The Lehman Trilogy review – Sam Mendes’ banking saga returns with dividends
Hadley Fraser, Nigel Lindsay and Michael Balogun are astonishing as the 18th-century bankers who helped to define the American dream
Arifa Akbar
09, Feb, 2023 @1:43 PM
From She Said to Devotion: this season’s ignored Oscarbait movies
While Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin lead, the season saw other films with all the requisite ingredients fail to score
Benjamin Lee
07, Feb, 2023 @9:13 PM
Heavenly powers or something rotten? When Richard Burton played Hamlet
It was a box-office hit directed by John Gielgud and created turmoil on stage and off. Now, the 1964 Broadway staging has inspired The Motive and the Cue, a new play by Jack Thorne
Michael Billington
09, Jan, 2023 @8:00 PM
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