A Dry White Season review – Marlon Brando heads starry cast in ground-breaking apartheid drama
This first Hollywood studio feature with a black female director is a compelling account of a South African who turns against the ruling caste
December 2023
The Observer's obituaries of 2023
Michael Gambon remembered by David Hare
The playwright recalls his collaborations with the charismatic actor whose mix of mischief and vulnerability endeared him to everyone from Arthur Miller to Bill Nighy
October 2023
Letter: Sir Michael Gambon obituary
‘Delicate, dangerous, anarchic’: Daniel Craig, Michael Mann, Matthew Macfadyen and more remember Michael Gambon
‘He turned every performance into a masterpiece’: readers pay tribute to Michael Gambon
The actor gave astonishing performances in works by Shakespeare, Beckett and Brecht in the West End – and he was just as unforgettable off stage, our readers remember
Michael Gambon: his most memorable roles on screen and on stage – video obituary
From The Singing Detective to Top Gear: Michael Gambon’s colourful TV career
Michael Gambon graced cinema and made every cameo a star turn
Share your tributes and memories of Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open
Michael Gambon: a life in pictures
Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82
August 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links The Lord of the Rings to Lenny Henry and the Beatles?
As Middle-earth buffs get ready for the new Rings of Power extravaganza, we follow Tolkien down the rabbit hole and find Orson Welles, Michael Gambon and the Fab Four
January 2022
Sons, fathers and clones: Caryl Churchill’s A Number – in pictures
A father is confronted by three sons – two of whom are clones of the first – in Churchill’s classic play, which has a 20th-anniversary revival at the Old Vic this month
October 2020
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Pause for the camera: the best of Harold Pinter – in pictures
Revisit the work of one of Britain’s greatest playwrights in the month that he would have turned 90
September 2020
Knock before entering: stars in their dressing rooms – in pictures
Photographer Simon Annand has been snapping actors backstage for almost four decades. His latest book, Time to Act, is a collection of more than 200 portraits of some of the world’s greatest performers. Here are 12 of the best
April 2020
Happy Bard-day: Shakespeare's plays – in pictures
To celebrate the anniversary of the dramatist’s birth, here is a banquet of images from productions of his works by Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton and featuring Tamsin Greig, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh and Ralph Fiennes
March 2020
Stars in the wings: theatre's massive debt to am-dram
Box-office fortunes have been built on lampooning amateur dramatics’ cliche and incompetence, yet these theatres have had the last laugh
September 2018
King of Thieves review – old lags and old jokes
A cast of heavyweights fails to animate James Marsh’s staid retelling of the 2015 Hatton Garden heist
