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Rufus Wainwright

June 2024

  • Linda Thompson seated with an acoustic guitar

    Linda Thompson: Proxy Music review – rueful songs of love and ageing with an all-star cast

    The extended Thompson clan, the Proclaimers and Rufus Wainwright are among those lending their voices to a moving set from a folk great

May 2024

  • Opening Night’s Rufus Wainwright, left, with Sheridan Smith and Ivo van Hove. Filling seats for the West End musical has been difficult.

    Brexit didn’t bring down the curtain on Rufus Wainwright’s show. The play’s the thing

    David Benedict
  • Sheridan Smith and Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop

March 2024

  • EMBARGOED UNTIL 1AM  WEDS MARCH 27 2024.. OPENING NIGHT. Sheridan Smith (Myrtle). Photo Jan Versweyveld (3)

    Opening Night review – Sheridan Smith’s boozy meltdown shakes up musical theatre

    Smith plays a Broadway star in the midst of a mental crisis in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s glittering and extravagantly original musical adaptation of the Cassavetes film

February 2024

  • ‘I need to prove I’m not that person’ … Smith as Myrtle Gordon in Opening Night.

    ‘It’s so close to the bone’: Sheridan Smith on her very public meltdown – and reliving it on stage

    Eight years after self-doubt, anxiety, alcohol and grief caused her to unravel, the Olivier-winner is now playing an actress trapped in a similar nightmare. She explains how she is taking back control of her ordeal

November 2023

  • ‘An intense marriage of film and stage’ … Sheridan Smith will star in Opening Night.

    Sheridan Smith to star in Rufus Wainwright musical Opening Night

    Ivo van Hove will direct the West End production based on John Cassavetes’ 1977 film about theatre

September 2023

  • black and white photo of a bearded man

    ‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog

    The eccentric musician, dressed like a Viking playing songs on the streets of New York, is being celebrated by names such as Rufus Wainwright and Jarvis Cocker on a new album
  • ‘He looks splendid and sounds better’ … Rufus Wainwright with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

    Rufus Wainwright: Want One and Want Two review – double-Prom epic is magnificently opulent

    As Wainwright hops from grand piano to acoustic guitar, the BBC Concert Orchestra knows when to roar and when to whisper
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    Observer New Review Q&A
    Rufus Wainwright: ‘I call Yorkshire Gold the crystal meth of teas’

    The singer-songwriter on writing his first musical, being inspired by fatherhood, and revisiting his work in two Proms in a single night

June 2023

  • portrait of Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright: Folkocracy review – an illustrious feelgood duet party

    The songwriting polymath (and some surprising guests) goes back to his roots on this mellifluous set of folk classics

October 2022

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    Carly Rae Jepsen: ‘Lockdown was me, my cat, and a lot of questions about my life decisions’

    After Call Me Maybe became a hit, the Canadian star could have spent her career churning out manufactured chart tunes. Instead, she has created an album that’s her most experimental and personal yet

September 2022

  • Loudon Wainwright III in New York.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I was promiscuous – that’s murder on marriage’: Loudon Wainwright III on sex addiction, booze and family feuds

    The singer-songwriter fought with his father, fell out with children Rufus and Martha and drove away his first wife before the honeymoon was even over. At 76, has he finally made some kind of peace with the world?

June 2022

  • Skin of Skunk Anansie performing at the Glastonbury festival, 1999, in golden light, with glittery trousers

    ‘We came and we conquered’: the Glastonbury I’ll never forget, by Skin, Rufus Wainwright and others

    In the first part of our series, musicians and journalists recall their most memorable years at Worthy Farm – mud, romance, royalty and all
  • Podcast Grace Dent Guest Rufus Wainwright comfort eating

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S3 E6: Rufus Wainwright, musician

    Grace has a call from across the pond as she and legendary singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright talk all things Comfort Eating
  • observer magazine cover 22 June 2008

    From the Observer archive
    The 20 most powerful celebrity makers of 2008

    The music PR legend Barbara Charone and others reveal their secrets. By Chris Hall

March 2022

  • Martha Wainwright

    Martha Wainwright: ‘Forget rock excess, life on the road was a juggling act for me’

    The Canadian-American singer-songwriter on why she needed to tell a different story in her candid autobiography

October 2021

  • Rufus and Martha Wainwright

    Flashback
    Rufus and Martha Wainwright: ‘When Mum died, we sewed ourselves together again’

    The famous musical siblings revisit their fractious childhood relationship and recreate an old photograph

March 2021

  • Christine and the Queens at Hammersmith Apollo, November 2018.

    'Magic happens, often': Christine and the Queens, Haim, Nile Rodgers and more on the joy of live music

    Musicians on the thrill of playing live – and what we can expect when gigs return

February 2021

  • Carole King performing in 1972, the year after Tapestry was released.

    'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry

    James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece

January 2021

  • Rufus Wainwright livestreaming from his LA home, January 2021.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Retro-Wainwright-Spective live stream review – perfectly at home

    Glimpses of his domestic life add an extra frisson to the singer-songwriter’s latest living room gig
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