Unknown Jamael's star role in Hamilton
Jamael Westman - a 25-year-old actor from Brixton, South London - has won the coveted title role in the eagerly awaited London version of smash-hit musical Hamilton.
Jamael Westman - a 25-year-old actor from Brixton, South London - has won the coveted title role in the eagerly awaited London version of smash-hit musical Hamilton.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The Take That-themed musical The Band, featuring songs by the legendary pop group, has already sold £10 million-worth of tickets " three months before a nationwide tour beg…
When Henrik Ibsen's Nora slams that door shut at the end of A Doll's House, that's it. Close of play. That is, until Lucas Hnath came up with the brilliant idea for A Doll's House, Part 2, w…
Elaine Paige has booked-up concert tours around the globe, television appearances " and she's topping the bill in panto at the London Palladium in December, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
The secret apartment previously belonging to theater giant Roxy Rothafel, hidden within the depths of Radio City Music Hall, previously entertained the likes of Walt Disney and Albert Hitchc…
You might not have noticed Beattie Edmondson in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, or Bridget Jones's Baby, but there'll be no missing her the family comedy Patrick.
Prayers are being said in the hope that the Open Air Theatre's powerhouse production of Jesus Christ Superstar will transfer into the West End.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The story of how Sixties icon Ray Davies coped with the 'mayhem of fame' is being turned into a movie. The project is based on the Olivier Award-winning musical Sunny Afternoo…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Company is coming together! The new production of the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical has already undergone a gender change.
Bette Midler, resplendent in a sequined scarlet gown and with feathers in her hair, leads a line of male dancers in a rousing promenade at New York's Shubert Theatre, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Bette Midler, resplendent in a sequined scarlet gown and with feathers in her hair, leads a line of male dancers in a rousing promenade at New York's Shubert Theatre, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Claflin and Gemma Arterton employ clipped diction and understated glances in Their Finest (which opens in the UK on April 21): a stirring romantic comedy, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emilia Clarke, the dragon-riding queen on Game Of Thrones, will star in a stage play about 'love, sex and marriage', Five Times In One Night, by writer Chiara Atik.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The recent TV casting show Let It Shine was mind-numbingly awful, but the winning band could break the mould by actually appearing in a stage show that isn't bland and boring.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Claire Foy is clear about why the real-life couple who lived life to the full after the husband was paralysed from the neck down by polio stayed together: 'It was love, actual…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Stephen Daldry, the film-maker behind Billy Elliot, is to make a major movie about a teenage swimmer who fled war-torn Syria and competed in the Rio Games.
Emma Watson told Baz Bamigboye that she wanted to make sure that Belle - a French village girl who reads and writes - was imbued with a sense of 'adventure, wanderlust and heroism'.
Screenwriters Robert Wade and Neil Purvis have been contracted to write the story for the untitled film, known as Bond 25, Baz Bamigboye reveals as he wonders who will take on the role of 00…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Australian actress Philippa Coulthard has won a star-making role in a new television version of the E. M. Forster novel Howards End. The 24-year-old from Brisbane will play H…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Felicity Kendal, 70, is to star in Peter Shaffer's comedy Lettice And Lovage, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.
The show, a huge coup for the NT, will be directed by John Tiffany, whose stage hits include Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, and will open in the National's Lyttelton auditorium in Decemb…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Stone managed to carve out a little time during her whirlwind visit to London to look at properties because, in mid-March, she'll be back: starting work on The Favourite.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Efforts to transfer the National Theatre's sizzling new deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler into the West End are proving as complicated as the woman Ruth Wilson pla…
Actress Rebecca Hall (pictured) portrays Chubbuck so compellingly in the film Christine that my eyes were glued to the screen, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Those of you who saw the 1970 hit movie Love Story, with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, will know all too well that a sequel was unlikely to happen, writes Baz Bamigboye.