The celebrated actress is 'considering' returning to the London stage for the central role of Martha in Edward Albee's seminal 1962 play, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, writes BAZ BAMIGBOY…
Amanda Holden will be flying around the London Palladium as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella after she signed a deal to star in the Palladium extravaganza, which will run from December 9.
Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey " two of our most talented young actors " will be exploring the shifting sands of love in a radical way in the musical The Last Five Years.
A new television drama about how men in Rochdale sexually abused vulnerable teenage girls over a ten-year period will begin filming next week.
Judi Dench will star as the Empress of India in Victoria And Abdul, which is based on the real-life friendship that developed between the widowed queen and Abdul Karim, writes Baz Bamigboye.
Colin Firth who won an Oscar for The King's Speech plays Donald Crowhurst: an amateur round-the-world yachtsman in new film The Mercy, writes Baz Bamigboye.
Amber Riley will be joined in the musical Dreamgirls (about a fictitious girl group in Sixties Detroit based loosely on The Supremes) by London-based Ibinabo Jack and American Liisi LaFontai…
Andrew Lloyd Webber is planning a musical based on the love match between Seretse Khama, the man who became Botswana's first president, and Ruth Williams, a white English woman.
Miss Saigon's West End run may be over. But the show's appeal lives on, with not one, but two Miss Saigon films in the works " one of them directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle.
Once upon a time, Celia Imrie was a teagirl for Glenda Jackson. And now, 40 years later, she will take on the role of the Oscar-winning star's daughter, playing Goneril in King Lear.
The actress Ruth Negga may have been cut out of 12 Years A Slave, but she appears in practically every frame of the film Loving, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Mark Rylance, who won an Oscar and a Bafta for his work in Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies and the BBC drama Wolf Hall, will star in a play he co-wrote with poet Louis Jenkins about ice fishing.
The Voice's Ruth Brown, and X Factor's Karen Mav will star as alternates to leading lady Amber Riley in the musical Dreamgirls, at the Savoy Theatre from November 19.
The actress, a mother of two sons, will star in a modern adaptation of the classic play Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma - which she called a 'sad yet beautiful observation of men and women'.
The show Lazarus - a sequel of sorts to The Man Who Fell To Earth - will land in London before long, with talks of an 800-seat temporary theatre being built in Kings Cross to house it.
British director Hooper, who won an Academy Award for The King's Speech, has started a research and development process for his take of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
The Affair star Ruth Wilson will take on the iconic role of Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
The actor will be playing King Lear's Fool in a production of Shakespeare's tragedy that marks Glenda Jackson theatrical comeback, writes BAZ BAMINGBOYE.
Former Labour MP Glenda Jackson, 79, will have the support of Harry Melling when she performs before a theatre audience for the first time in more than a quarter of a century in the autumn.
Harington plays Jon Snow, in Game Of Thrones, and the last time we saw him, his fate was in the balance. On stage, in the lead role of Faustus, he's in trouble, too, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Florence Foster Jenkins is directed by Stephen Frears and co-stars British actor Hugh Grant alongside Meryl Streep, as the much-maligned singer's husband.
Denise Gough is currently in Duncan Macmillan's dynamite drama People, Places And Things, which transferred to Wyndham's Theatre last month after a sold-out season at the National Theatre.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Amber Riley has told how she went through the agony of an operation on her vocal cords a fortnight before she was asked to audition for one of the biggest roles in musical the…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Kenneth Branagh is not ready to say goodbye to detective Kurt Wallander, even though the final three murder mysteries in the series begin screening on the BBC in May.
Baz Luhrmann has contracted hot British choreographer Drew McOnie to direct his 'baby' - the stage musical version of Strictly Ballroom - in Britain and give it a fresh perspective.