‘I can’t understand a lyric’: Patti LuPone laments lost art of projection in musical theatre
Award-winning star, who is bringing the concert A Life in Notes to London’s Coliseum, says lyricists’ words are not reaching audiences clearly, due to a lack of training and overbearing sound mixes
May 2023
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Beau Is Afraid review – Ari Aster’s patience-testing shaggy dog story
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Beau Is Afraid review – Ari Aster sends Joaquin Phoenix on an odyssey to nowhere
May 2022
Tony awards 2022: A Strange Loop leads the nominees, while British talents are lauded
Three actors from The Lehman Trilogy go head to head, the musical Six picks up eight nominations and the production MJ – about Michael Jackson – is also recognised
November 2021
'His songs are like a fabulous steak': an all-star toast to Stephen Sondheim
The supreme lyricist and composer has died aged 91. In a piece first published to mark his 9oth birthday, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and many more celebrate the man and his musicals
July 2021
Paul Huntley obituary
Award-winning wigmaker who was always in great demand for Broadway musicals, West End shows, film and television
March 2021
Double acts
Patti LuPone meets Jonathan Bailey: ‘You’re the biggest star in the world!’
The stars of Netflix’s Bridgerton and Hollywood talk about singing in the shower, the alchemy of the theatre – and why no one in Stephen Sondheim’s Company would ask LuPone to dance
May 2020
Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood?
It’s got orgies, arrests, scandals and eccentrics. But is the central story – about gay and black people triumphing in 1940s Tinseltown – realistic? We sift the ugly facts from glossy fiction
April 2019
The Inheritance, Company and Come from Away win big at Olivier awards
Olivier awards 2019: full list of winners
October 2018
Patti LuPone steals the show in 'glorious' reimagining of Company
Actor returns from retirement to give show-stopping performance in acclaimed show that swaps male lead for a woman
Company review – sex-switch Sondheim proves a heavenly fling
Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone star in Marianne Elliott’s intelligent reimagining of the great musical about marriage and the single life
'Print that!' Broadway legend Patti LuPone sounds off
Lloyd Webber? Trump? Madonna? Don’t get her started! As the goddess of the modern musical prepares to star in Company, she settles some old scores – and starts some new ones
August 2016
War Paint review – make-up mavens face off in superficial style
When two cosmetic titans battle, it isn’t pretty – but this musical doesn’t get to the heart of the animosity between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein
June 2016
Sky and Showtime pull plug on Penny Dreadful after third series
Epic gothic fantasy, which stars Eva Green and Timothy Dalton, will conclude with a double bill this week
May 2016
Penny Dreadful is so gory and so great it'd be a crime not to watch
Where other grisly dramas seem to churn out random gruesome imagery, this show is surreal, genuinely uneasy – and full of your horror story favourites from Frankenstein to Dracula
July 2015
Patti Lupone snatches phone from texter during Shows for Days play
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Gloomsday reckoning: Penny Dreadful's bloody, great season-two finale
