BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Mrs Lineker takes centre stage... with a bit of help from Gary
With her looks and background, Danielle Lineker could have taken any kind of fluff role — but she wants to take the thespian arts seriously, writes Baz Bamigboye.
With her looks and background, Danielle Lineker could have taken any kind of fluff role — but she wants to take the thespian arts seriously, writes Baz Bamigboye.
Beverley Knight (pictured with co-star Tristan Gemmill) will play Rachel Marron in the musical, which is based on the movie of the same name, writes Baz Bamigboye.
Helen McCrory (right) has been sharpening her comic timing to portray the other woman in the life of comedy legend Tommy Cooper (left).
Helen McCrory has been sharpening her comic timing to portray the other woman in the life of comedy legend Tommy Cooper.
The actress, who appeared in the recent Disney hit Oz The Great And Powerful, has been offered the role of U.S. navy ensign Nellie Forbush, the hick from Little Rock nursing injured sailors …
Playwright David Hare has adapted Katherine Boo’s prize-winning non-fiction book Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity for the National Theatre.
In Baz Luhrmann’s sumptuous new 3D screen version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age literary classic, Carey plays the selfish golden girl Daisy Buchanan.
The two will play MI5 agents in back-to-back thrillers created by David Hare for BBC TV that will also star Hollywood players Winona Ryder and Christopher Walken.
Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery is in negotiations to play the lead in the movie adaptation of best-selling novel The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, set during and after …
After its London premiere, The Full Monty, which has sold an amazing £7 million worth of seats since it kicked off a nationwide tour in February at the Lyceum in Sheffield, will hav…
Andrew Lloyd Webber will be bringing his new musical, set against the backdrop of scandal and betrayal in the Sixties, into the West End before the end of the year.
Previews have begun for Nicholas Hytner’s terrific Othello, with Adrian Lester as the Moor, giving the performance of his career, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
The actors will lead the Manchester International Festival production of Macbeth, which will be performed in a deconsecrated church in the city centre.
The actress is notable for refusing to be pigeon-holed into simpering English rose roles. She is now due to take part in a 'revolutionary' interpretation of Hardy's classic.
Rafe Spall is in final negotiations to play the ‘other’ man in the high-profile production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal — directed by the legendary Mike Nichols —…
Helen Mirren has revealed she will portray the Queen when Peter Morgan’s smash hit play The Audience transfers to New York in 12 months’ time.
Helen Mirren has revealed she will portray the Queen when Peter Morgan’s smash hit play The Audience transfers to New York in 12 months’ time.
Rafe Spall is in final negotiations to play the ‘other’ man in the high-profile production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal — directed by the legendary Mike Nichols —…
Daniel Radcliffe will take the title role in Martin McDonagh’s black comedy The Cripple Of Inishmaan, in which he plays a boy with a degenerative muscle disease.
X Factor — It’s Time To Face The Musical!, created by Harry Hill and Steve Brown, has been given the go-ahead by joint producers Stage Entertainment and Simon Cowell’s comp…
Award-winning actor Mark Rylance will play Thomas Cromwell in the six-hour adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s best-selling novels that the court of Henry VIII.
Madonna snapped at Life Of Pi director Ang Lee when he introduced himself and tried to initiate a conversation at the Creative Artists Agency's (CAA) pre-Oscar bash in Beverly Hills.
John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston pitched up in a 1960 Rolls Royce Phantom. I’d argue that my ride - a white 1938 Peugeot Eclipse with red leather upholstery - was an even coole…
A global audience will be able to see Helen Mirren’s tour de force as the Queen in the new West End play The Audience, because it’s coming to a cinema near you!
The Oscar nominee will perform a specially written number in new film Song One where she plays an an archaeologist who falls for a rock star.