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Actor Sir Ian McKellen is joining the cast of ITV1's soap Coronation Street to play a "dodgy novelist".
Irish comedian Dave Allen, famed for his TV routines as he perched on a stool with drink and cigarette in hand, has died in his sleep aged 68.
Dramatist Harold Pinter has said that he is to give up writing plays and focus on other forms of writing.
More than 1.7 million viewers watched Jerry Springer - The Opera on BBC Two on Saturday, despite the objections of protestors.
Jerry Springer star David Soul also defended the screening, saying people had a "right to quality entertainment".
Producers have defended their decision to deter under-sevens from performances of children's musical Mary Poppins.
Jerry Springer The Opera - starring a baritone in nappies - is to be shown on BBC Two.
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Watching Dreyfuss' replacement Nathan Lane recreate his Tony-award winning tour de force on the West End stage, it's hard to imagine anyone else ever performing the role.
UK newspaper critics heap lavish praise on Mel Brook's musical The Producers, which opened in London's West End on Tuesday.
Actor Kevin Spacey has attacked audiences who allow their mobile phones to ring during a theatre performance, saying visitors should learn to behave.
Hip-hop star Sean "P Diddy" Combs has received mixed reviews from US theatre critics after he made his Broadway debut on Monday.
BBC Radio 2 presenter Hubert Gregg, who worked for the BBC since the 1930s, has died aged 89.
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Belfast playwright Marie Jones is being sued for a share of the profits of her hit play Stones in his Pockets.
A theatre group is looking to cast a dead body in the leading role of its next production.
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Hit Broadway musical The Producers is to be made into a film featuring its current stage stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.
Filming is due to start in early 2005, with a release pencilled in by Universal Pictures for the end of the year.
A musical about the life of Mother Teresa has had audiences flocking to a Rome theatre ahead of the late nun's beatification by the Pope.
Quilley was hailed as one of Britain's greatest actors
Actor Denis Quilley, whose movie roles include Evil Under the Sun and Privates on Parade, has died at the age of 75.
He died at his home on Sunday after suffering from cancer of the liver, according to the National Theatre.
His last stage performance had been at the venue in March when he appeared in the musical Anything Goes.
Actors, directors, academics are launching the British Shakespeare Association, first UK society dedicated him.
Impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has unveiled a £35m plan designed to transform theatregoing in London's West End.
He is building a new theatre, The Sondheim, and revamping his other venues in an attempt to boost dwindling audiences.
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