Succession’s J Smith-Cameron to star opposite Mark Rylance in Juno and the Paycock
Actors to play the lead roles in Matthew Warchus’s centenary West End revival of Seán O’Casey’s Irish civil war classic
November 2023
The reader interview
Jane Horrocks: ‘I’d love to be a baddie in a Tarantino movie’
The actor answers your questions on working with Mike Leigh, starring in a New Order video and dressing as a giant Snoopy at Harrods
July 2023
The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Beneatha’s Place; A Strange Loop; Song from Far Away – review
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
June 2023
Inland review – magnificent Mark Rylance powers Forest of Dean folk horror
Playing an enigmatic father figure, the actor is magnificent in young British director Fridtjof Ryder’s low-budget feature debut
You ask the questions
‘Don’t be frightened of chaos’: Mark Rylance answers questions from readers and famous fans
The revered actor, passionate activist and I Ching devotee fields queries on self-doubt, levelling up the arts, and turning loss into beauty
Inland review – Mark Rylance provides ballast for Forest of Dean-set folk horror
Debut director Fridtjof Ryder’s atmospheric mood piece has promising elements but doesn’t quite deliver
May 2023
You ask the questions
Send us your questions for Mark Rylance
Got something to ask the acclaimed actor? Send it our way and we’ll put it to him
February 2023
A love of Shakespeare is one reason to accept an honour. What’s everyone else’s excuse?
Catherine Bennett
Actors aside, only the foolhardy can now say yes to a gong in the debased era of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
‘Mass murder makes money’: Mark Rylance’s campaign for a memorial to Iraq war protester Brian Haw
Haw, who died in 2011, camped on Parliament Square for 10 years, pushing for peace. Now actor Rylance is part of a campaign to honour him with a statue
‘Torture in a tin’: Miriam Margolyes and others urge ban on foie gras imports
Exclusive: Celebrities sign letter to Sunak after reports that proposed restriction on delicacy may be dropped
November 2022
Bones and All review – an elegant lovers-on-the-run road movie, with cannibals
Luca Guadagnino has surpassed himself with this poetic horror balancing threat, humour and emotional weight
September 2022
‘When is it OK to start blowing things up?’ Mark Rylance on families, Hilary Mantel and climate disaster
Bones and All review – cannibal romance is a heartbreaking banquet of brilliance
July 2022
Give rebranded Actors Centre back to actors, say Mark Rylance and others
London venue with long history of offering training and networking has become Seven Dials Playhouse
June 2022
To prove a villain: the many faces of Richard III – in pictures
Arthur Hughes has become the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Look back at other incarnations of Shakespeare’s villain
New London theatre to open with ‘frighteningly vivid’ unfinished Schiller play
Dmitry by Peter Oswald at the Marylebone theatre completes a drama by the German writer that offers a complex historical perspective on Russia
Mark Rylance pulls out of three Jerusalem shows after brother’s death
Oscar-winning actor to attend funeral of brother Jonathan Waters who was hit by vehicle in California
May 2022
Notebook
Will mass trespasses make the Tories reconsider burying their land reform plan?
Tim Adams
Drama should be accessible to all, not just a privileged few
