The best modern depiction of Sherlock Holmes? Elementary, my dear Watson
Observer New Review Q&A
Trainspotting’s Jonny Lee Miller: ‘If I could make a living being a firefighter, I may well just do that’
September 2023
How we made
‘I had a panic the night my mum came to see it’: Jonathan Harvey on writing Beautiful Thing
‘I wanted to write a play about two boys falling in love and give it a happy ending. During the Aids crisis, it was unusual for a gay character to be alive at the end of a drama’
August 2023
The week in theatre: A Mirror; Next to Normal – review
Sam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder is edgily transfixing
A Mirror review – Pirandellian wedding drama throws a bouquet of unrealities
Sam Holcroft’s drama delights in the theatrical trickery of dual identities and false realities to throw a final surprise punch
Playwright Sam Holcroft: ‘It felt like everyone else got a rulebook that I didn’t’
Her latest play, A Mirror, mixes her keen eye for human behaviour and her experiences in North Korea, but there’s another influence that the writer has never spoken about – her autism diagnosis
November 2022
From Tampongate to the Bashir bombshells: will King Charles III finally hit back at The Crown?
The Netflix hit is now plunging into inflammatory territory. Will the famously outspoken new monarch really simmer in silence? Does he have to – now Prince Harry is on the streamer’s payroll?
October 2022
Jonny Lee Miller becomes John Major in pictures released from The Crown
Images from Netflix series also show Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth and Dominic West as Charles
July 2021
Settlers review – audacious sci-fi western of frontier pioneers on Mars
Wyatt Rockefeller’s Martian-set drama about a family living a lie is a quietly impressive piece of work
June 2021
Pass notes
Y-fronts at the ready! Why the Crown casting Jonny Lee Miller as John Major is discomfiting fans
Sick Boy to Grey Man: Jonny Lee Miller cast as John Major in The Crown
May 2021
Amazon to stream major National Theatre plays in UK and Ireland
Cumberbatch and McKellen among big names to appears in live-recorded stage shows
April 2020
The National Theatre's Frankenstein: 'It was blinding – you felt the heat'
Lockdown culture
Danny Boyle's Frankenstein reanimated for National Theatre streaming service
September 2017
This much I know
Kelly Macdonald: ‘Never mind hangovers on the Trainspotting set, people were still drunk’
The actor, 41, tells Craig McLean about cowboy boots, childbearing, self-sufficiency and being bullied at school
for not swearing
January 2017
Mark Kermode's film of the week
T2 Trainspotting review – still in a class A of their own
Danny Boyle’s long-awaited sequel to the era-defining Trainspotting is a vibrant and welcome reunion
Begbie’s balcony and Spud’s cafe: classic Trainspotting haunts 20 years on
As T2 Trainspotting is released, we rediscover the original film’s gritty locations in Glasgow
Trainspotting review – still a cinematic drug of choice
Trainspotting review – Danny Boyle's classic holds up terrifically well
Unmissable culture of 2017
Robert Carlyle: 'I took out two teeth and suddenly Begbie came back to life'
