Tindersticks singer on Nottingham, TV Personalities cover, Eimear McBride and new lp

John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate

Actors often take their characters’ painful experiences – repeated night after night – with them off stage. Kate Fleetwood, Michelle Terry and Ben Miles explain how playing murderers, heroin addicts and monarchs marked them deep inside

Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre

As she gears up for a Christmas reunion with her extended family back in her native Wexford, Charlie Murphy pauses to chat about a ridiculously busy year

Noomi Rapace certainly knows how to make an entrance – and how to talk. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Prometheus star discusses her love of Iceland, life as a 15-year-old wild child in Stockholm, and how acting saved her life

Mark Ravenhill says he has a ‘desperate need to be liked’, but when it comes to provocation the playwright can’t seem to help himself