Nottingham Playhouse celebrates its 50th aniversary with a night of little-known worksLost short plays by Harold Pinter, John Mortimer and Shelagh Delaney are to be performed again for the first time in more than 50 years at the Nottingham Playhouse th…

The ventriloquist daughter of Tom Conti is in the running for a Bafta – just as her latest show premieres in the USSunday night is a big night for Nina Conti. The actor and comedian is up for a Bafta for her documentary Her Master’s Voice, while her …

Head Over Heels, an 11-minute film made on a shoestring budget in Britain is up against Disney for an animation Oscar. Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park loves it – but can it beat the favourite?Call it the Wallace & Gromit effect. A quirky British…

The world’s leading female architect says women in the UK are pushed away from leading big projectsIn a damning indictment of the prevailing culture of her own profession, Dame Zaha Hadid, the world’s leading female architect, says she has faced “more …

The world’s leading female architect says women in the UK are pushed away from leading big projectsIn a damning indictment of the prevailing culture of her own profession, Dame Zaha Hadid, the world’s leading female architect, says she has faced “more …

Claerwen James’s new show marks her as a cultural force in her own rightClive James has predicted that he will one day be known not as a television critic and author but simply as “Claerwen James’s father”. On the eve of his elder daughter’s new solo s…

With The Vagina Monologues, the activist and writer celebrated women’s strength. Now her new project, a global street party that launches this month, aims to raise awareness of abuseIn July 1518, Frau Troffea began to dance feverishly in the streets of…

The director who set Verdi’s Rigoletto in mafia Manhattan hits out at West End habit on the eve of his own revival of a neglected Edwardian playJonathan Miller, the elder statesman of British theatre who will stage his first play for six years this mon…

As one half of Everything But the Girl, she spoke to lovelorn, idealistic students. Now her new memoir reveals a fine writer attuned to the vagaries of family life as much as fameFor those who live elsewhere, Hull might well mean John Prescott or, perh…

As one half of Everything But the Girl, she spoke to lovelorn, idealistic students. Now her new memoir reveals a fine writer attuned to the vagaries of family life as much as fameFor those who live elsewhere, Hull might well mean John Prescott or, perh…