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Celebrity drama was just as intense!

Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Unimaginable suffering has already been inflicted on both sides in the Israel-Hamas war

John Masefield wrote poem for 1932 opening of Shakespeare Memorial theatre, which is now staging The Box of Delights

Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

From classic West End musicals to exciting new work by emerging voices, London's theatre scene is stronger than ever

It’s very hard to get excited about Taylor Swift and her rumoured American footballer love interest, while Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are a snooze, and the less said about Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, the better. Celebrity couples never used to be this dull, writes Jessie Thompson

The actor talks about his new movie Dance First, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles

Texas-born actor who made her home in the UK and was known for her roles in TV’s Fall of Eagles, The Golden Bowl and Dallas