Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7
Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy
April 2024
Jericho Ridge review – shades of Rio Bravo in tense siege thriller with old-timey charm
Nikki Amuka-Bird gives a powerful performance as a gritty deputy defending her remote sheriff’s office from armed invaders
January 2023
On my radar
On my radar: Nikki Amuka-Bird’s cultural highlights
The actor on a double dose of Greek tragedy, the real-life drama of basketball, and a perfect day in Antigua
July 2021
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
Nikki Amuka-Bird: ‘I’ve found my voice’
March 2020
Stage struck: Tom Stoppard, Cush Jumbo, Brian Cox and more on the magic of theatre
To mark World Theatre Day, leading playwrights, actors and directors share some of their favourite moments
March 2019
Warehouse wonders: Josie Rourke at the Donmar – in pictures
As the artistic director prepares to leave the Donmar Warehouse, we look back over her reign – from City of Angels to the Shakespeare Trilogy
January 2018
My family values
Nikki Amuka-Bird: ‘Mum was on the frontline of diversity, banging on doors’
The actress talks about her dynamic, entrepreneurial mother, journalist father and growing up in Lagos, Antigua and London
November 2017
The spray's the thing: how actors use perfumes to get into character
Playing Thatcher? Dab on Bluebell. Got a part in Hairspray? Reach for the Madame Rochas. We lift the lid on how actors use smells – from the finest fragrances to cheap tinned mackerel – to nail a role
October 2017
'Tear it down and start again': playwright Elinor Cook on sexism in British theatre
Her sharp and funny plays have feted female friendship. As Elinor Cook takes Ibsen to the Caribbean with her version of The Lady from the Sea, she talks about fighting against the industry’s inequality
Albion; A Woman of No Importance; The Lady from the Sea review – gardeners question the times
Mike Bartlett conjures a potent state of the nation address while Wilde and Ibsen’s wronged heroines still resonate
The Lady from the Sea review – Nikki Amuka-Bird is superb in Caribbean Ibsen
Elinor Cook’s new version transposes the story from 19th-century Norway to the Caribbean in the 50s and is directed with panache by Kwame Kwei-Armah
May 2017
Bafta TV awards 2017: full list of winners
All the winners of this year’s Bafta awards, from Happy Valley to Planet Earth II, Adeel Akhtar to Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Netflix royal drama, The Crown, leads the field at Bafta TV awards
£100m series contends with The Durrells, Happy Valley and War and Peace for best drama
Mark Lawson on television
Bafta TV awards 2017: who will win – and who deserves to
Will The Crown sweep the board? Will Bake Off be snubbed? And can anyone beat David Attenborough? Here are our predictions for this weekend’s winners
April 2017
From Miss Trunchbull to Mr Chips: top teachers on stage – in pictures
Mark Lawson on television
Baftas 2017: triumph for the TV shows never shown on TV
The Crown royally sweeps the 2017 Bafta TV awards nominations
Bafta TV awards 2017: full list of nominations
February 2017
So you want to be an artist? Then let the pros show you how it's done
DBC Pierre wrote in a fever, Frank Turner dabbled in thrash and Nikki Amuka-Bird jumped off a cliff. Artists reveal how they got to the top – and how you can too
