Great Scotts!
There’s a pleasing pattern to Ross Anderson’s character choices: all interesting Scottish men. There’s his big-screen debut as Fionn in The Silent Storm, followed quickly by Blackie in Unbroken and Rosse in 2...
About a girl
Glass is talking music with 28-year-old actress Jill Winternitz, but it’s not all musical theatre from the female lead of Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s Once, based on a much-loved, low-budget indi...
Starstruck
If we’ve ever felt spurred to revisit any one of the rising talents that Glass has interviewed over the past few months, Christina Chong is certainly going to be one of them. Great things are on t...
Keeping it together – Glass meets actor Yasmin Paige an acting career and university life
Originally from London, Yasmin Paige’s career in acting started at a young age on stage and the small screen with her appearances on The Sarah Jane Adventures and Secret Life. In 2010, Yasmin also gai...
All that Jazzy
Actor Jazzy De Lisser is not yet another example of the current wave of the young Britpack taking London, with their glinty eyes set on Hollywood – there is more to her than mere ambition. She is also keen to ...
Glass talks Comic-Con, on-set antics and secret aspirations with Defiance star Stephanie Leonidas
For London-born Stephanie Leonidas, performance runs in the family. She has three siblings, two of whom are also established actors, but she’s stepped out on her own – and all the way to Canada – ...
Enter through the forest and arrive in utopia – Green Man Festival
Buying a festival is scarcely heard of, but nine years ago Fiona Stewart decided to purchase Green Man when it was in desperate need of rejuvenation. Stewart had previously been the manager behind...
A stand-up guy – Actor Eros Vlahos talks about having 15th century hair and how he never really grew out of playing dress up
A stand-up guy – Actor Eros Vlahos talks about having 15th century hair and how he never really grew out of playing dress up
At only 19, London-born Eros Vlahos has racked up an impressive list of big-deal a...
Glass talks to actor Christine Bottomley about kissing Maxine Peake and what it’s like working on a low-budget British film
A twenty-something who gets abducted by a sex trafficker, wife of “the first modern lesbian” Miss Anne Lister, a battered wife, a lawyer defending her dad, and – in an upcoming BBC drama series In Th...
The body politic
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...
Glass speaks to three masters of Chinese Opera – Professor Tsai Tsan-huang, Man Chin-sui and Pai Hsien-yung
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...
Glass interviews Marianne Oldham the star of BBC WW1 drama The Crimson Field
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...
Glass talks with Tom Riley to share his experiences of playing the lead role in Da Vinci Demons
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...
Glass talks to British actor Laura Haddock about playing Da Vinci’s lover in the day, and finding solace in cooking at night
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...
Fables of fame – Glass speaks with up-and-coming Scottish actor James McArdle
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 2014 promises strong musical line-up
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...
Piping up about Pippa
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...
Acting on instinct – Glass talks to British actress Amy Beth Hayes
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 ...
London International Mime Festival – Where boundaries between reality and the imagination are merged
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...
Who I am – Glass talks identity to emerging British actor John Boyega
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...
Finding my voice – Glass interviews British actor James Norton
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...