Yes festival review – a marvellous appreciation of Molly Bloom
A two-year celebration of the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses culminates in a female-led, cross-border, multidisciplinary festival dedicated to the protagonist’s wife
March 2024
The magic of audiobooks? Deep down, we still long to be read to
Elizabeth Quinn
An ill-matched narrator can ruin an otherwise rollicking book. But a good one can bring stories to life – and evoke our earliest childhood memories
December 2022
Observer New Review Q&A
Actor Anjana Vasan: ‘We Are Lady Parts is about embracing your weirdness’
The star of Channel 4’s punk comedy on playing reluctant singer Amina and performing with Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire
November 2022
¡Showmanism! review – astonishing lip-sync solo raises spirits
Dickie Beau offers a merry miscellany, featuring stories from Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw, in a meditation on theatre that is closer to possession than parody
September 2022
TV review
Andor review – the best Star Wars show since The Mandalorian
It’s all laser guns and hoverbikes in this gritty, kinetic spy thriller which gives us the backstory to one of Rogue One’s heroes. Once a couple of slow episodes are out of the way, that is …
July 2022
The Tempest review – Deborah Warner’s grimy island engrosses and disgusts
Ustinov, Bath The veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play
July 2021
Fiona Shaw: ‘I got to Hollywood at 28 and they said: You’re very old’
The thrilling star of stage continues her TV takeover. As she joins mercilessly dark drama Baptiste, Shaw talks about Fleabag, American burnout – and marriage as a cure for chaos
‘Life is never what you expect!’ Deborah Warner on theatre, nature and new parenthood
The groundbreaking director’s new project, Arcadia, fills tents with poetry and music in Manchester. She talks about Covid and Brexit, becoming a mother and taking over Bath’s Ustinov
Kindred review – unnerving pregnancy horror delivers on its promise
Fiona Shaw is at her haughty best as a sinister mother-in-law in this racially charged tale of class and captivity
May 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Fiona Shaw’s cultural highlights
The award-winning actor on the genius of Fritz Lang, the human cost of Homer’s Iliad and where to find the best live music in Ireland
April 2021
The Bard in black and white: Shakespeare by Tristram Kenton – in pictures
To mark the Stratford playwright’s birthday on 23 April, here are 23 shots from his plays, with a starry lineup including Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, David Harewood and Toby Jones
October 2019
Electra, Oresteia and an execution: the daring designs of Hildegard Bechtler – in pictures
The theatre designer on creating a family dinner at Agamemnon’s, an election night Oedipus and the night Fiona Shaw got stuck
March 2019
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography
Killing Eve season two review – riveting psychosexual thriller returns
RSVP Nina Simone and Shamima Begum: a dinner party for our times
Fiona Shaw: ‘I’m delighted to be in with the young crowd!’
February 2019
Views of the gods: Alan Rickman, Cate Blanchett and more theatre legends – in pictures
Mother Courage on the long road to Manchester – in pictures
December 2018
2018 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 1 – Killing Eve
Lizzie review – mythic axe murders get an edgy update
