Mark Lawson

The real-life dame and on-screen dowager duchess earned fame in her 70s and 80s for tentpole roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

Oscar-winning star of stage and screen has dies aged 89. She earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

Nell Barlow is heartbreaking as the doomed heroine of the alt-reality boarding-school tale, expertly adapted by Suzanne Heathcote

Nick Stevens is remembering the first time he met Delia Balmer, the only known survivor of serial killer John Sweeney , whose story he wanted to dramatise.

In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of Donald Trump

The installation of the Horizon digital till resembles the villain’s entrance in a pantomime

With its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation

The former PM’s brief tenure is raked over to seriocomic effect in Greg Wilkinson’s play, which raises major political questions

Author Ben Macintyre spoke with the Radio Times for the Christmas double issue.

Staged in Ghosts’ Button House, this interactive whodunnit has a lot of fun with detective-story tropes, quick-change characters and a clever solution