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Coventry’s goalkeeper Ben Wilson tells Ben Fisher about local fame, a ‘family’ and hope for an unlikely Premier League future after a club-hopping career

“There’s been no shortage of stage portrayals of real life VIPs in the past couple of years,” said Clive Davis in The Times. Jack Thorne’s “thoughtful, often wickedly droll” new play, about the relationship between Richard Burton and John Gielgud during rehearsals for a 1964 production of Hamlet on Broadway,…

Booker-longlisted in 2018 for their debut novel, In Our Mad and Furious City, the Londoner talks about the follow-up, the slippery life story of a terror suspect, and the fellowship of Ali Smith during a time of stress

An inspiring analysis of Shakespeare and race restores his reputation as a playwright for all

Tennant and Jumbo previously acted together in Channel 4’s Deadwater Fell

Actor will star in production at the Donmar Warehouse

The crime novelist on the allure of Poldark, the power of The Color Purple and joys of Jack Reacher

Elizabeth’s crowning seemed like a new dawn. But the reign of Charles begins in a kingdom under a cloud

Departing artistic director Greg Doran reinvigorates this tale of a royal family in crisis with clarity and intelligence