Olivia Ovenden

The Emmy-tipped actress discusses the toxic dynamics between Ava and Deborah and how emotionally difficult it was to play that death fake-out

The riotous Irish band – fans include Paul Mescal, Cillian Murphy, and Harry Styles – owned this summer by doing something nobody expected: softening up

Novels this year, from Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Miranda July’s All Fours, are reconfiguring the love triangle for the age of polyamory

The Irish band has an acclaimed new album, a hyped tour, and a growing cadre of celebrity fans

London’s best restaurants are embracing fatty, aged beef, imported to the UK for a big hit of indulgence on the plate. With the first of Northern Spain’s Rubia Gallega breed born on British soil this summer, a decades-long project for sustainable, delicious, local beef has begun

Desperate couples are turning to the party drug famous for increasing empathy and lowering inhibitions to see if it can fix their relationships. Can therapy without a therapist really work?

Anya Taylor-Joy – whose career of playing satanic witches and demigods from dusty planets has apparently armed her against the elements – touches down on earth in the spectral gloom of Hyde Park’s rose garden. It is a miserable March afternoon. Even the ducks are exhibiting symptoms of late-onset seasonal affective disorder. We leave in search of shelter, my umbrella contorting inside out. Emerging through the mist are two bedraggled children, clinging onto their ponies in a scene spun from the…

In the 'Euphoria' star’s harrowing new film, 'Immaculate', everybody wants a piece of her body. As in real life, Sweeney has other ideas

Hollywood’s eternal good guy on sex positivity, the Hulk's future in the MCU, and his new thing for playing eccentric villains

The series creator and writer on the madness of grief, technology manipulating our emotions, and the uncanny valley where those two ideas meet

What do the most obsessively watched TV series of the last five years and 2023’s buzziest play have in common? The dark and daring mind of Lucy Prebble

“This is a ridiculous place to be standing,” says Andrew Scott, in front of a poster of Andrew Scott, bearing the words ‘ANDREW SCOTT.’ It is October, and we are outside the Duke of York’s theatre in London, where Scott is in the middle of an acclaimed run of the Anton Chekhov adaptation Vanya. Scott himself is a little delirious. You could put it down to the eight times a week that he stands alone on stage here for 100 minutes. He wakes up every morning with these giant puffy eyes, his body fra…

20 years after it first aired, the soap opera storylines and empty, theatrical drama is the perfect balm to an era of too much clever TV

What has the acclaimed British actor, on the cusp of global stardom, been doing living in a van?

Arsenal were top of the Premier League for nine months, then it all came apart. This time, their tenacious young manager is determined to go all the way

Speaking at GQ Heroes 2023, Apple Music’s creative director and flagship anchor for Apple Music 1 weighed in on what makes a hit record

For Jen Robinson, the human rights lawyer and co-author of “How Many More Women?”, the cultural silence that was broken has been followed by something darker still

At Matt Healy’s big London show, fans screamed, sang and pretended to cry. Like their hero, they just wanted to get noticed

Crisp Pizza has made a slice that’s not Italian, not New York, but entirely, deliciously its own thing

The elusive British-Indian singer’s career has been defined by scarcity. On stage 12 years after his breakthrough song “BTSTU”, he didn’t disappoint