Romola Garai will be exploring the Bard's view on gender politics in Shakespeare's Measure For Measure where she will team up with Joe Hill-Gibbins, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Award-winning theatrical knight Kenneth Branagh is setting up his own theatre company to mount a season of plays in the West End.
Meryl Streep, Imelda Staunton and Catherine Tate have all been associated, to varying degrees, with musical legend Stephen Sondheim, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
X-men's Wolverine is to star as the mentor who tried to achieve lift-off for Olympian Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Oprah Winfrey used tough love to help British actor David Oyelowo (centre) fulfil a seven-year dream to portray Martin Luther King on the big screen, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
The Homeland actor, who won awards for his performance as Nicholas Brody in the TV series, will star in David Mamet's 1975 blistering classic American Buffalo in the spring, writes BAZ BAMIG…
Michael Grandage has gathered a top-flight cast for his big-screen directorial debut, including Jude Law, Colin Firth and Vanessa Kirby, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Nicole's own long, dark hair was concealed under a tangled grey Grizabella locks as she performed a song in the London Palladium for Cats musical director Graham Hurman, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
The X-Men are reuniting. Theatrical knights Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, who starred together in Waiting for Godot, are heading for the West End, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
In order to maintain his impressive physique, Hugh Jackman is usually seen working out. But the 46-year-old Australian actor decided to take a break from his own active life to put his pals…
Tamsin Greig, who won an Olivier award and is the queen of comic timing, plays Pepa in musical comedy Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
One of the greatest American musicals is coming back to the West End for the first time in four decades, with Imelda Staunton in the lead role as Momma Rose says BAZ BAMIGBOYE
McAvoy will star in The Ruling Class, the first revival of Peter Barnes's play since it was staged in Nottingham and at the Piccadilly Theatre in the late Sixties.
Nicole Scherzinger said it will be 'cathartic' to play downfallen moggy Grizabella in the musical Cats - her theatrical debut - which opens at the London Palladium on December 6.
Alex Gaumond will take on the role of Freddy Benson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, opposite the show's star, Robert Lindsay, after Rufus Hound left for various reasons, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Maggie Smith plays Miss Shepherd (the role she created on stage, pictured) in the film adaptation of Alan Bennett's play The Lady In The Van, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Al Pacino has revealed he will lead a full West End production of Oscar Wilde's Salome in 2016 which will be full of decadence, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
In Made In Dagenham, Gemma Arterton (pictured) brings a truthfulness to her performance of Rita O'Grady, a character who goes from forgotten wife and mother of two to a real force for change.
I can reveal that Ms Scherzinger is in early discussions about playing Grizabella The Glamour Cat in the revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
Oscar-winning actress said she is involved in 'complex negotiations' that may see her appearing in two plays 'one after the other', writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
NT's artistic chief Nicholas Hytner said the original intention had been for the play to open a week ago but the National was advised not to begin performances while the court case continued.
I wrote last week that Hiddleston - famous for playing the scheming and vengeful Loki in three Marvel Comic movies - will tackle the part of Hank Williams in a new film.
Tamsin Greig will star in the stage musical of Pedro Almodovar's 1988 film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown at London's Playhouse Theatre, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
The Oscar-winning actress and the Welsh opera singer will lead the English National Opera's inaugural season of musical theatre with a series of performances of Stephen Sondheim's show.
The former Boyzone lead singer will make his West End stage acting debut in the musical Once, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.