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Mark Gatiss

July 2024

  • Christopher Villiers and Nancy Carroll

    Actors’ show-stopping art exhibition: ‘We’re used to rejection so nothing was turned down!’

    More than 250 works by 40 stage talents are on display in London for an impressively wide-ranging event that supports the Theatre Artists Fund

April 2024

  • Nicole Scherzinger with the Best Actress in a Musical award.

    Sunset Boulevard wins big at Oliviers as celebrity talent largely overlooked

    Jamie Lloyd’s revival takes home seven awards including for Nicole Scherzinger but film and TV stars in other productions miss out

March 2024

  • portrait of Kathy Kleiner in 1977

    Weekend
    A Ted Bundy survivor on finding happiness, John Crace on the Tories’ Islamophobia problem, and the ‘worst film ever made’ – podcast

    John Crace watches the Tories tie themselves in knots to avoid calling Lee Anderson the ‘R’ word; a Ted Bundy survivor tells Anna Moore how the moment changed her life; and Fergal Kinney looks at how Sex Lives of the Potato Men broke the British cinema industry

February 2024

  • Mackenzie Crook (left) and Johnny Vegas in Sex Lives of the Potato Men.

    ‘The worst film ever made’: how Sex Lives of the Potato Men broke British cinema

    When the puerile comedy bombed, the film-makers blamed the critics and the Tories blamed the UK Film Council. Twenty years on, we reassess the legacy of a cinematic pariah whose champions include Stewart Lee and Mike Leigh

December 2023

  • Freddie Fox in A Ghost Story for Christmas

    TV review
    A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249 review – Mark Gatiss’s camp, creepy tale is absolutely bang on

    The Sherlock creator’s annual festive spookathon is predictably hammy and great. It’s a clever take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s mummy revenge story that’s as tight as a pair of Victorian breeches

November 2023

  • Arifa Akbar

    A Christmas Carol: this safe bet should still startle us – past, present or future

    Arifa Akbar
    There may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise

July 2023

  • Mark Gatiss, standing in front of a red stage curtain and wearing a blue jumper, holds his fists up to his chin.

    The reader interview
    Mark Gatiss: ‘I’d be the first naturist Doctor. That would scare away the Daleks’

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June 2023

  • A portrait of a lighthouse

    Paintings from Mark Gatiss and John Lithgow among exhibition of actors’ art

    Stars’ paintings go in show in London next month, with proceeds going to struggling actors

May 2023

  • Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn in The Motive and the Cue.

    The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out

    Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet

March 2023

  • The actors pose in nylon Abba costumes, all in drag (men with wigs and makeup, women with beards)

    The Way Old Friends Do review – super troupers shine in a fun, frothy comedy

    Two friends put together an Abba tribute band and explore ideas of male friendship, homophobia and family in Ian Hallard’s witty play

January 2023

  • Michael Rosen. British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

  • Mark Gatiss

    Life on a plate
    Mark Gatiss: ‘I’m genuinely terrified that we are losing the caff for ever’

December 2022

  • Mark Gatiss and Rev Richard Coles making Hunting Ghosts for Radio 4 in Coles’s old parish in Northamptonshire.

    ‘Ghost stories are essentially optimistic’: Mark Gatiss leads a spooky on-air Christmas

    League of Gentlemen star’s two programmes are part of a rich seam of shows about the supernatural this year

November 2022

  • Mark Gatiss

    Mark Gatiss: ‘The way the government has embraced cruelty as a badge of honour is horrible’

  • Richard Burton in the filmed version of Hamlet in 1964.

    Johnny Flynn and Mark Gatiss to play Richard Burton and John Gielgud in new play

May 2022

  • Amanda Abbington and Reece Shearsmith in The Unfriend.

    The Unfriend review – manners can be the death of you in Steven Moffat’s comedy

  • ‘None of this has felt insurmountable’ … Amanda Abbington.

    ‘None of it has felt insurmountable’: Amanda Abbington on Sherlock, separation and her fiancé’s nightmare fall

  • Hermione Corfield in The Road Dance.

    The Road Dance review – a sweeping Hebridean weepie

  • Hermione Corfield as Kirsty in The Road Dance

    The Road Dance review – boiling fury in tale of rape and denial in the Hebrides

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