This month, two plays have opened in London’s West-End to critical acclaim. One writer, Mike Poulton, has brilliantly transformed the books Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel’s B...
Passion and prose – Chinese Opera in its many forms is a triumph of spirit and reinvention but can it survive the threat of modernisation? Glass speaks to three masters of this timeless art
For alm...
Life does indeed resemble art when I interview Marianne Oldham in late December 2013. Having just wrapped from two months filming six one-hour episodes of the Sarah Phelps-penned drama The Crimson Fie...
Kent-born, English actor Tom Riley spent his early years writing and directing plays before formally studying English literature and drama at the University of Birmingham. After graduating in 2002, Tom embarked...
Playing the mistress – Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci's lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night
Watching the actress Hayley Mills star in Pollyanna at an e...
Knowing from a very young age that he wanted to become an actor, Glaswegian James McArdle has been feverishly chasing his dream ever since. From this youthful conviction, he joined and became a commit...
Wilderness Festival will be returning for the fourth year at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire. The festival has won many awards since its debut in 2011 and combines live music, theatre, contemporary arts, craftsmans...
Having only graduated from RADA in the summer of 2010, 25-year-old Pippa Bennett-Warner has already trodden the floorboards of stages in some of London’s most prestigious theatres, including the National, A...
The actor Amy Beth Hayes is a rising talent of the UK acting scene, with no time to spare, she’s appearing on the screens at the beginning of 2014 in ITV’s new production, Mr Selfridge, now in its ...
This year marks the 38th year of the London International Mime Festival. With contributions from all over the globe including an Italian take on James Joyce’s renowned 1914 work The Dead from The Cit...
The precociously talented young British actor John Boyega made his film debut in 2011 starring in the critically acclaimed UK hit Attack the Block. Since then he’s gone on to play a variety of roles including B...
James Norton is a part of the new wave of British actors that’s slowly but surely knocking at the door of the acting world. From 2009, his career seems to have hit the ground running; with wor...
AFTER missing out on a place at university and missing the auditions for drama school, Jack Roth was told he should go and audition for Catford Broadway Theatre’s A Clockwork Orange, by a set designer...
London Hidden Interiors is a thrill. The English Heritage book satiates a curiosity, instigates a hunt and strengthens a romance with London, my fair city.
I fancy a great deal of cities: Munich, my anch...
Prepare to be Shakespearified. Now I know that isn’t a word – yet – but changes are afoot at the RSC and perhaps we need a new term to celebrate them. This week, Richard II, starring David Tennant, will be ...
Rory Kinnear is a fine actor. The plaudits have piled in for his both his classical theatre work and film work alike. He has played everything from Hamlet to Iago to Bill Tanner in Skyfall to Dennis Thatche...
Glass is very excited to speak to Tania Harrison, the Creative Director behind Latitude Festival, who gives us an intriguing insight into how it’s put together and the thought process behind this year’s theme...
An exciting prospect for English film and stage, Anglo-Chinese actor, Jing Lusi, has been crazily busy over the last year. Having relished performing in her recently finished run in the play, 4000 Miles, at t...
I was told to open up drawers and let my hands wander. I raised an eyebrow at what this could mean for dreamthinkspeak’s latest production In The Beginning Was The End.
Drawing from Leonardo Da Vinci, Th...
“This girl was the real thing. Someone to stir every pulse in the nation”
F Scott Fitzgerald
Clara Bow was Hollywood’s first sex symbol, predating Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe for being unashamedly fe...