Her career was almost ended by a vocal cyst, but – after a laying on of hands – it disappeared. Now this former church singer is upending musical stereotypes with a showstopping performance in Guys and Dolls
Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James take centre stage in the playwright’s new drama Lyonesse, which explores power, abuse, and why things haven’t changed as much as people hoped
Her latest play, A Mirror, mixes her keen eye for human behaviour and her experiences in North Korea, but there’s another influence that the writer has never spoken about – her autism diagnosis
The Enron playwright felt her career was floundering when the call came from Jesse Armstrong’s acclaimed series and changed everything. She talks about why writing is a lonely calling, and the problem with ‘grandparent-pleasing’ theatre
Phoebe Batteson-Brown is archly comic as the clueless Perdita but it’s the subplot about a queer teenager and the hypocrisy of politics that has real depth to it