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Oscar-winning British screen and stage actress Dame Wendy Hiller has died at the age of 90.
Teenage opera star Charlotte Church has refused a role in the Hollywood movie Phantom of the Opera after bosses told her she would have to lose weight.
James Bond actor Roger Moore has been taken to hospital in New York after collapsing on stage during a show.
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Roman Polanski's The Pianist has taken the best picture and best director award at the 54th Baftas.
Chicago wins 2 awards: Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta Jones) and Best Sound.
Theatres have largely welcomed a £350,000 scheme to provide cut-price tickets at their venues, but they said it will not solve all of their financial problems.
Actor Alan Bates and director Ridley Scott head the entertainment and showbusiness figures in the New Year honours list, becoming knights.
Lord of the Rings star Sean Bean has returned to the West End stage after a 12-year absence, joined by Samantha Bond, Moneypenny of the Bond movies.
The producer of the musical which was abruptly halted when Chechen rebels stormed a Moscow theatre has insisted the show must go on.
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A plan by a theatre to give free tickets to divorced women has attracted complaints from men claiming sex discrimination.
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Actor Leo McKern, who played the TV barrister Rumpole of the Bailey, has died aged 82.
Although he established himself as a stage actor in Britain, he only appeared on Broadway in one play, "A Man For All Seasons."
Hollywood actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have been briefly jailed and released on bail after showing up for a court hearing two weeks late.
One censor said Hair 'extols free love and inveighs against patriotism'
Lionel Jeffries enjoyed a long and varied acting career, most notably in film comedies like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He also wrote the screenplay for, and directed, The Railway Children.
A London theatre is being investigated after it allegedly promoted its production of the Shawshank Redemption by quoting comments about the hit film.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, 61, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, it has been disclosed.
Author and raconteur Keith Waterhouse has died "quietly in his sleep" at the age of 80, a spokeswoman has announced.
