Three Acts of Love review – pain and pleasure in a trio straight from the heart
These one-act plays covering passion, acceptance and obsession are connected by a seasonally warming theme about community
March 2022
Clybourne Park review – property prices and home truths in provocative satire
The acting, by Imogen Stubbs and Eric Underwood among others, is formidable but Bruce Norris’s 2010 play lacks depth
May 2018
The Be All and End All review – intense drama for testing times
Jonathan Lewis stars in his own perceptive play about exam pressures within a family
April 2018
Imogen Stubbs laments 'awful treadmill' of UK education system
The actor attacks the obsession with grades and attainment as she prepares to star in education drama The Be All and End All
September 2016
Things I Know to Be True review – Imogen Stubbs stars in fractured family portrait
This strongly cast British/Australian collaboration is a pleasure to watch but it assumes the strains of domestic life are the same the world over
July 2016
How we staged Shakespeare
Willard White on playing Othello: 'I broke down – I considered walking away'
The opera singer played the jealous general opposite Imogen Stubbs and Ian McKellen in a 1989 RSC version. He remembers the play as a crushing experience
May 2015
Communicating Doors review – Alan Ayckbourn’s time travellers foil murder
It’s Back to the Future, with sex and violence. Wronged women get the upper hand on destiny in a hotel suite that hides a tycoon’s lethal secret
December 2014
Theatre blog
Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets
There are plenty of shows to tide you over the festive period, including a snowy forest in Cardiff and Forced Entertainment’s first children’s show, writes Lyn Gardner
August 2014
Actors' advice to actors: 'Costumes catching fire can be fun'
How do you get over stage fright? Learn your lines? Make the most of auditions? Stars of stage and screen tell their secrets to Laura Barnett, in this extract from her new book, Advice from the Players
August 2013
Theatre blog
Do stage actors mumble too much?
Lyn Gardner: There is nothing more infuriating than going to the theatre and finding you can't hear the actors. But are fears that standards of enunciation are dropping really founded?
June 2013
Imogen Stubbs hits out at mumbling actors
Rada boss and Imogen Stubbs say language is being mangled in bid to imitate American film stars – and audiences are being let down
April 2013
Imogen Stubbs answers your questions – as it happened
The star of screen and stage is visiting the Guardian on Wednesday 3 April 2013 to do a live online Q&A
October 2012
Orpheus Descending – review
Tennessee Williams' 1957 retelling of Orpheus gets a brilliantly atmospheric, bluesy revival, featuring Imogen Stubbs at her best, writes Lyn Gardner
November 2011
Imogen Stubbs: 'There's a world I want to seize while I can'
Imogen Stubbs tells Kate Kellaway why confronting death on stage has made her want to live life to the full
March 2010
Portrait of the artist
Portrait of the artist: Imogen Stubbs, actor
The best performance I've ever seen
Orpheus Descending
June 2007
Theatre blog
Shakespeare and the importance of being Imogen
I was named after the heroine of Cymbeline, which makes me very particular about the way she's portrayed onstage.
