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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Resistance movement: how a play about penicillin brought the arts, science and politics together by Deborah Linton

Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming's discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the pr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]

Friday, January 23, 2026

Keala Settle on life after the Greatest Showman: 'I ran from fear " I drank, took pills, all of it' by Deborah Linton

The Broadway performer shot to fame without a safety net in The Greatest Showman. The resulting public scrutiny was painful, she says, but it was the ideal grounding to step into the shoes o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]

Friday, November 15, 2024

'I learned to sword fight in heels': how Susie McKenna is rewriting the rules of panto by Deborah Linton

With subversive scripts and a spotlight on local talent, this former principal boy is busy revolutionising pantomime " but there's still room for bawdy gags Few people have their spindle-pri…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM[SHARE]

Monday, August 26, 2024

From Persia with love: the new one-woman play that's good enough to eat by Deborah Linton

When Atoosa Sepehr fled Iran overnight for a new life in London, family recipes helped her stave off homesickness. Now her story has been turned into a drama " with mouthwatering onstage coo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]

Monday, February 5, 2024

'I died in Michael Ball's arms': Lea Salonga on 35 years of West End and Broadway success by Deborah Linton

She was the original Miss Saigon, sent Les Mis stratospheric and sang some of Disney's most memorable songs. She reflects on her legacy, and which of her princesses is best " Jasmine or Mula…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

'Humour is our biggest cultural export': behind the scenes at a groundbreaking Jewish panto by Deborah Linton

A new production in north London is bringing the rhythms of Jewish storytelling, humour and music to the seasonal theatrical staple What else would you call "Britain's first professional Jew…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Matthew Xia: 'Hey Duggee is the most political thing I've ever done' by Deborah Linton

The BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ turned theatre director is celebrated for his progressive, community-minded productions, so why is he bringing a children's TV cartoon about a dog to the stage? The pa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]

Sunday, January 12, 2020

'I secretly thought I was funny': how a brain tumour turned my mother into a standup comic by Deborah Linton

My sixtysomething mother lacked confidence, but has reinvented herself as Manchester's answer to Mrs Maisel Ruth Linton, my mum, is an eternally overdressed, perennially late, sixtysomething…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]

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