‘Stupider than everyone else’: one comic’s semi-naked bid to perform dozens of Penguin novels

In a riotous show, Garry Starr dons a tailcoat, flippers and little else to re-enact a bookshelf full of classics. Would you help him bring The Jungle Book to life?

Tom Felton expresses support for JK Rowling despite controversy over her views on trans issues

The actor who played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films says he is ‘incredibly grateful’ to Rowling, and that her books have ‘brought the world together’

The Guardian view on coming-out tales: from A Boy’s Own Story to What It Feels Like for a Girl

Editorial: Groundbreaking memoirs continue to shape the history of LGBTQ+ rights

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o obituary

Distinguished Kenyan novelist, poet and academic who championed writing in African languages rather than in English

Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed review – the poetry, prose and passion of a Scottish modernist

Richard Baron and Ellie Zeegen’s play follows the writer from wide-eyed child discovering nature in rural Scotland to feisty care-home resident

Little Brother review – remarkable migrant memoir falters on stage

Ibrahima Balde’s desperate journey to find his brother should make for essential theatre, but this production lacks the emotional intensity of the book

Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son

Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End

‘Like making whisky’: how The Curious Case of Benjamin Button aged into a timeless musical

F Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of a man who is born old and grows young has become a West End smash. The team behind the musical tell its success story in reverse – from Olivier awards glory back to a Cornish bowling alley

Life and work of Thomas Hardy to be performed at Stonehenge

Readings and performances will be staged at the ‘misfortune of ruins’ that long fascinated the writer

Two Pints review – Roddy Doyle’s boozy banter is a masterclass in comedy

The writer’s gift for gags is on full display in this adaptation starring two men offering up laddish chat along with questions of life and death in an Irish pub

Einkvan review – Nobel-winner’s eerie, evocative study of estrangement and solitude

A sinister, clinical chill permeates this beguiling production of a new work by Norwegian dramatist Jon Fosse, aided by clever lighting and a ghostly piano score

Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is now the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day

‘You have to be taken inside Poirot’s brain’: Ken Ludwig on the secret to adapting Agatha Christie

The US playwright and anglophile behind much-revived comedies has a flair for crime and is following a crowd-pleasing Murder on the Orient Express with Death on the Nile

The Great Gatsby: A New Musical review – what a swell party this ain’t

F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic jazz age novel ought to be a perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this

Stephen Mangan: ‘With three people in a bed, who goes in the middle?’

The Split actor and children’s author on throuples, using his sons as a focus group, and running the London marathon