Nick Clark

Celebrating breakthrough theatre talent, The Stage Debut Awards are moving online this year due to the Covid pandemic. We catch up with last year’s winners to find out how their careers have progressed

Straight after playing a US president on Broadway, Brian Cox is directing Sinners at west London’s Playground Theatre. The acclaimed actor talks about his love of Shakespeare, garnering a new generation of fans with hit TV drama Succession and why he finds conceptual directors so irritating

Discovered while working as a waiter in Benidorm, legendary light-entertainment star Gary Wilmot has had a hugely varied career