Chart-topping singer Alexandra Burke, who has carved out a career as a stage star, has been picked to play the Narrator in the musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Her casting marks her London Palladium debut. But more significantly, it is the first time a black performer has taken on the role: a sort … Read more
Cher wants to be in the Mamma Mia 3 movie — sharing a duet with Meryl Streep. The stars, who’ve been friends since they made Silkwood in 1983, played mother and daughter in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again three years ago. Just to clarify: Cher (74) played Ruby Sheridan — mother of 71-year-old Streep’s … Read more
Fans of Abba have been ‘blue since the day we parted’ from the mother of all popular musicals, Mamma Mia! But — here we go again — take heart, because the show is returning, for a limited run, in the 100-acre grounds of one of the country’s grandest stately homes. Judy Craymer, the brains behind … Read more
Up-and-coming young star Darci Shaw was unfazed by the frightening goingson during the filming of Netflix’s riveting supernatural thriller The Irregulars. ‘You’re working with people with blood all over their face,’ she said of shooting the eight-part drama, which will stream from March 26. ‘But then you also see them at the catering truck, eating … Read more
The entente cordiale between the UK and France will surely be improved if Maggie Smith and Nathalie Baye, one of the greatest living French actresses, have anything to do with it. The two screen legends will meet on the set of the Downton Abbey film sequel that’s due to begin shooting in late March or … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Corrin lands a risque role to Di for… opposite hunky Harry Styles By Baz Bambigboye For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 22:28 GMT, 4 February 2021 Emma Corrin, who plays Lady Diana Spencer in The Crown, has bagged a leading role in upcoming film My Policeman … Read more
The unlikeliest hit film, Fisherman’s Friends, has set a course for the West End, and is getting ready to sail into the sometimes choppy seas of musical theatre. It is based on the true story of the shanty singing fishermen, from the Cornish village of Port Isaac, who found fame after being snapped up by … Read more
Denzel Washington said he’s not worried about getting older. Nor is he envious of the leading men lining up behind him (his son John David Washington is in the queue). And he doesn’t care if he no longer cuts the svelte figure he did when Geena Davis handed him his first Oscar statuette three decades … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Thompson has signed up to play Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a schoolgirl with magical powers, in a new film version of Matilda.
The former model, 29, who studied drama at Yale and is known professionally by her middle name, plays heroine Marion Brook For those on the hunt for a good old costume drama to get your teeth into, there is good news on the horizon. Filming resumes imminently on The Gilded Age, the lavish new nine-part … Read more