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Claire Armitstead

Claire Armitstead is associate editor, culture. She writes across the arts for the Guardian and Observer and is a member of the leader team

July 2024

  • ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY - press film still - Orlando trio

    ‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

    He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, and his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary

June 2024

  • ‘I have to be as hands-on as a sculptor’ … Barbara Kasten.

    ‘Bewilderingly evanescent’: how a darkroom allergy made Barbara Kasten see the light

  • Erica Tremblay in New York City.

    ‘We’re really funny people’: Native American director Erica Tremblay on Lily Gladstone, laughter for survival and breaking Hollywood

  • 'GREEN BORDER by Agnieszka Holland

    ‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right

  • A Child of Science at Bristol Old Vic

    The week in theatre: A Child of Science; Wedding Band; No Love Songs – review

  • Naomi Klein: ‘Nobody’s perfect – but that’s not an excuse for doing nothing’

  • ‘White supremacy was never hidden from me’: Jeremy O Harris on bringing Broadway hit Slave Play to the UK

  • Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh: ‘All this solidarity from the world – yet nothing has changed’

  • Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

May 2024

  • Actor and writer Paterson Joseph

    ‘I was told I was stupid’: Peep Show’s Paterson Joseph on his debut novel – and writing three operas

    He starred in Peep Show, Green Wing and Wonka – and his first novel won an award. Now the star is making operas with 64 homeless people. Not bad going for someone who was written off by his teachers
  • About much more than a single family … Pieces of a Woman.

    Pieces of a Woman review – shame runs riot after a home birth ends in disaster

    Netflix turned Kata Wéber and Kornél Mundruczó’s play into an Oscar-nominated film. Now a world-class ensemble from Poland’s TR Warszawa bring it out its nuanced brilliance
  • Huppert, in severe black, holds a lit candle and a letter

    Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert dazzles in a one-woman tour de force

    The final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville–Paris

April 2024

  • ‘It is a museum for – and of – the world’ … the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    ‘A crazy can-do mentality’: what made New York’s Met one of the world’s mega museums?

    It has 1.5m artefacts, 6m visitors, 2,000 staff – and gets by on donations. Max Hollein, the Met’s Austrian-born boss, relives his first five years, when he faced accusations of hoarding, narco-philanthropy and male dominance

March 2024

  • Suppressions and alterations … from left, Rhiannon Clements, Gemma Whelan and Adele James in Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.

    Wuthering fights: the play that shows the Brontës were bigger backstabbers than the Kardashians

  • Charithra Chandran.

    ‘I have big ambitions’: Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran on her West End shocker – and building solar-powered factories

  • Edward Bond in 2016.

    Edward Bond, blazingly original British playwright, dies aged 89

  • Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.

    ‘Women have libidos too!’: Ethan Coen and wife Tricia Cooke on their raunchy new lesbian road movie

February 2024

  • Portrait of Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley ahead of the release of Wicked Little Letters. Photographed at Rosewood Hotel in London on 11 February 2024. Photograph: Alecsandra Dragoi for the Guardian

    Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley: ‘Never repress a woman – because it will come out’

  • Viggo Mortensen.

    ‘You play the cards you’re dealt’: is Viggo Mortensen Hollywood’s most versatile star?

January 2024

  • AK Golding and Rebecca Banatvala in Northanger Abbey at Orange Tree theatre.

    Northanger Abbey review – Janeites, be warned! Austen gets a fanfic makeover

    Writer Zoe Cooper and director Tessa Walker reignite Jane Austen’s early novel with hilarious physical storytelling and a fizzing cast, though the romance sputters out too soon
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