Thursday, March 27, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe warns about the U.S. government’s interference in the arts. He expresses surprise in President Trump, who “for someone that supposedly wants to limit government, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02AMMonday, March 17, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Tate, the beloved British comedy queen and actress best known for Doctor Who, The Office and her scorching eponymous television show, will top the bill at this year’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMFriday, March 14, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Zegler, star of Steven Spielberg’s screen version of West Side Story and the soon-to-be-released Disney live-action Snow White, will make her London theater debut as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The stage adaptation of musical movie The Greatest Showman, which starred Hugh Jackman portraying the early life of entertainer P.T. Barnum, will have its world premiere in the B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:03AMWednesday, February 19, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Luke Thallon is in good company when it comes to playing Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Toby Stephens, Alex Jennings, David Tennant, an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:13PMWednesday, January 29, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book The BFG, which Steven Spielberg turned into a 2016 movie starring Mark Rylance, now is being adapted into a stage spectacular by the Roya…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:55AMThursday, January 23, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: John Lithgow, who played Winston Churchill in The Crown and scores of major roles on stage and screen, is having the time of his life. He has a hit play on the London stage t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:04PMSaturday, January 18, 2025
Claire van Kampen, a composer of music for plays and television dramas, as well as a director, writer and frequent collaborator of her Oscar-winning husband Mark Rylance, died Saturday mor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PMFriday, December 20, 2024
Tennessee Williams sets Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his 1955 play about sexual repression, at a cotton plantation on the Mississippi Delta. You can feel the heat in director Rebecca Frecknall�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:50AMSaturday, December 7, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: It’s quite something when Andrew Lloyd Webber, the West End’s biggest theater owner, taps you on the shoulder and says he has something to tell you. Even more so when he leads…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMFriday, November 29, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: The Emma Thompson-penned musical adaptation of fantasy movie Nanny McPhee, about a witch who possesses magical powers wielded through her walking stick, is being primed to hit Lo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16AMTuesday, November 12, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Remember when geeky tween Jenna Fink was magically transformed into glamorous Jennifer Garner in the classic rom-com 13 Going on 30? That was two decades ago. Now that role’s b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58AMWednesday, October 30, 2024
Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:59PMMonday, October 28, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled his new West End and Broadway musical: a magical romance called The Illusionist, directed by Sunset Boulevard’s Jamie Lloyd. During a privat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses star Gary Oldman is stepping back on stage in April 2025 for the first time after an absence of nearly four decades to star in Samuel Beckett’s celebrated one-man …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15PMTuesday, October 8, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli, with her theater hat on, is transferring the Sing Street musical to London. The play is based on John Carney’s charming 2016 coming-of-age movie about a group…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMFriday, October 4, 2024
Emma Corrin, hot from playing villainous Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine, will join Cate Blanchett in the eagerly awaited new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at Lo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59AMFriday, September 27, 2024
Maggie Smith was a constant in the life of producer Robert Fox for half a century. She could “make grown men cry,” says Fox, because “if you weren’t 100 percent on top of your game, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:12PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn, Wheel of Time) will make her debut at London’s National Theatre in 2025, and they’ve given her the starring role in the world premiere…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59AMMonday, September 16, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Irish rock knight Bob Geldof and the producers of Just For One Day, the musical about the Live Aid rock concerts in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985, will transfer the sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30AMSaturday, September 14, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: David Oyelowo says he wants to use his star power to make more films in Africa and help boost the continent’s movie-making prowess. But he assures “there’s not going to be a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:57PMFriday, August 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Back in the summer of 1995, you were either team Oasis or team Blur. There was no sitting on the fence as the rival Brit bands clashed over which group’s single would top the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AMSunday, August 18, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lloyd, director of the Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard musical led by an incandescent Nicole Scherzinger center stage as Norma Desmond, is making a move into the world of m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:24PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Sigourney Weaver will make her West End stage debut as storm-creating sorcerer Prospero in The Tempest and Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will play sparring lovers Benedick an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will be joined by fast-rising West End actress Molly Osborne, who will play Desdemona opposite them, in the spring 2…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58AMFriday, July 19, 2024
Jim Carter, who famously played Carson the master butler on Downton Abbey, clearly was taken by the leading artist giving a terrifically moving performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi upon th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36AMWednesday, July 10, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Imelda Staunton, swathed in glamorous red taffeta, descends a staircase on the London Palladium stage to lead a line of eager waiters in a chorus of “one of our favorite songs…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PMAli, the Broadway-bound musical about boxing titan and 20th century icon Muhammad Ali, who sought to use his fame to champion human rights, is headed for a springtime rumble in Chicago. The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: The West Wing actor Joshua Malina will make his London stage bow in the fall playing a “secular, sarcastic, anti-religious Jew” who says “the unsayable” about Israel in …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30AMFriday, June 21, 2024
As far as the three young women sitting in row E at London’s Bush Theatre were concerned, the name of the character Tosin Cole was playing in Benedict Lombe’s “spicy” love story Shi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London. It’s quite a thing to bring the play, considered a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:59PM 
