Liza Minnelli

From My Fair Lady to Grease 2: Guardian writers on their favourite movie musicals

To celebrate the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upbeat musical In the Heights, Guardian writers have picked their favourite examples of the genre

Pamela Hutchinson, Peter Bradshaw, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Catherine Shoard, Charles Bramesco, Radheyan Simonpillai, Adrian Horton, Benjamin Lee, Guy Lodge and Andrew Pulver

09, Jun, 2021 @2:18 PM

Cabaret's Joel Grey: 'Life is tough. But it's also beautiful'

From winning an Oscar to starring opposite Rock Hudson – and coming out at 82, the theatre legend has done it all. But he came close to giving up acting to work on a hotdog stand

Chris Wiegand

02, Dec, 2020 @6:00 AM

The enduring legacy of 70s disco designer Halston

He created clothes for Bianca Jagger, Iman and Studio 54 regulars, and his collections predated modern minimal glamour. Now this Great Gatsby-like figure is the subject of a documentary

Lauren Cochrane

05, Jun, 2019 @7:00 AM

Fosse/Verdon review – showbiz miniseries is stylish but scatterbrained

The new FX series, which boasts magnetic lead performances from Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams, has highs and lows like its subjects’ partnership

Jake Nevins

08, Apr, 2019 @2:46 PM

Singled out: the Top 40 formats that fell by the wayside

Remember when a pop rookie and grandee would team up? Or when a soap star could call in Beyoncé to guest on their single? We pay tribute to the song types consigned to chart history

Michael Hann

18, Sep, 2018 @1:31 PM

Liza Minnelli: I do not approve of Renée Zellweger's Judy Garland biopic

Performer describes reports that she has bonded with the actor who will play her mother in Judy as ‘100% fiction’

Andrew Pulver

15, Jun, 2018 @9:24 AM

A brief history of the Oscars in viral moments they want you to forget

The shocks, the cockups, the stumbles … and anything involving John Travolta. We relive the moments everyone secretly hopes for

24, Feb, 2017 @12:00 PM

David Gest: from impresario to star of British reality TV

After divorcing Liza Minnelli, the former music promoter, who died aged 62, found his metier in the jungles, dining rooms and diary rooms of UK reality TV

Julia Raeside

12, Apr, 2016 @9:26 PM

David Gest, TV celebrity and producer, dies

Music producer who appeared in Celebrity Big Brother found dead in east London hotel at age of 62

Mark Tran

12, Apr, 2016 @5:56 PM

Jenna Russell: my life in five shows

Liza Minnelli singing Aznavour, Lia Williams doing Mamet and Eartha Kitt nailing a Sondheim classic … Jenna Russell picks some of the performances that shaped her own career

Interview by Catherine Love

25, Feb, 2015 @3:41 PM