When Octavia Spencer was asked to be in a film about black women who worked as 'colored' computers on the early NASA flights, she thought it was fiction, writes Baz Bamigboye.
Composer Stephen Sondheim has given permission for an award-winning director to change the gender of the main character in his musical, Company, writes Baz Bamigboye.
Katherine Jenkins and Alfie Boe have been selected as the leads for the new run of the musical Carousel, reveals Baz Bamigboye. Jenkins will play Julie Jordan and Boe will play Billy Bigelow.
The producing team at the Old Vic has joined forces with producers Sonia Friedman, Bob Bartner and Scott Rudin to explore theatre availability in both the West End and in New York during 201…
Cynthia Erivo, who went from the West End to Broadway, where she picked up a Tony Award, is now heading to Hollywood for a role in a big-screen version of the Linda La Plante series Widows.
Sheena Easton will make her West End debut in an all-singing, all-dancing revival of the musical 42nd Street " except she'll be the one not kicking up her heels.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Jim Steinman created the music and lyrics for the 1977 album, which made a star of Meat Loaf, and which celebrates its 40th anniversary next year with a stage version.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The version that will run at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, from August 26, will be almost unrecognisable from what people saw in New York when it ran on Broadway.
The show " which is a solid-gold hit in New York " uses music from the late 20th-century (hip-hop) to tell the story of 18th-century U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton.
Sophie Okonedo read Edward Albee's play - The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? - twice, and found herself transfixed by the study of love without boundaries.
The National Theatre has signed Imelda Staunton to head a big new production of the musical Follies " featuring a landmark score by Stephen Sondheim " next year.
Imelda will star as Martha (confirming my earlier scoop), boisterous wife of university lecturer George (Conleth Hill, from Game Of Thrones) in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Gemma Arterton (pictured) says she regrets not having been more discriminating in her choice of film roles in the past, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE reveals how songster Gary Barlow was given a challenge by the leading ladies from the musical The Girls: get your kit off, like us!
La La Land, which follows would-be actress Mia (Emma Stone) and jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) on the bumpy road to love, is a rare piece of movie magic, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Gemma Arterton talks to BAZ BAMIGBOYE about her new role in Their Finest, where she plays Catrin, an advertising copywriter hired by a propaganda film unit during World War II.
It's as if I've been sent back in a time machine to view " first hand " the early years of Her Majesty's reign, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE after viewing part of the filming of the first series of …
'There will be 24 beautiful girls. That's 48 legs,' writes BAZ BAMINGBOYE. We were discussing 42nd Street and, with all due respect, a showgirl's legs are synonymous with the show.
Once the two-part blockbuster play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child has its official opening tomorrow, talk will turn to how to apparate it to Broadway.
The actress, currently appearing in The Go-Between in the West End, has been cast in Strictly Ballroom, the stage musical version of Baz Luhrmann's breakthrough 1992 movie.
Eva Noblezada played Kim, the title character, when Cameron Mackintosh revived Miss Saigon, the musical set against the backdrop of the war in Vietnam, in the West End two years ago.
BAZ BAMBIGBOYE: Creator of the classic BBC TV shows Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister - is writing a show about Johnson and rival ministers Liam Fox and David Davis cohabiting.
Vikander plays Heather Lee, a cyber ops chief at the CIA " and unlike the well-mannered Alicia, it's made immediately clear that Heather is not to be trifled with writes Baz Bambigboye.
A new booking period will be launched during the first week of August. It's being organised now by producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callende, writes Baz Bambigboye.
Gemma Arterton will portray the virgin warrior in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, which will be staged at the Donmar Warehouse in London's Covent Garden from December until February.