Animal Farm, George Orwell’s allegorical fairy tale, is being adapted into a musical by Olivier award-winning playwright James Graham. George Orwell is pictured above Animal Farm, George Orwell’s allegorical fairy tale, is being adapted into a musical by Olivier award-winning playwright James Graham. The music will come from Alan Menken, the eight-time Oscar-winning composer behind … Read more
Tuppence Middleton felt very much at home in old Hollywood, where she spent three months filming Mank, director David Fincher’s masterful homage to celebrated screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (a magnificent Gary Oldman). Each morning she’d draw back the curtains in her room at the fabled Villa Carlotta, nestled beneath the Hollywood sign, and gaze out … Read more
Ocean currents will carry Hollywood’s Megan Mullally and her comedic and musical skills to The Barbican Theatre in the spring Ocean currents will carry Hollywood’s Megan Mullally and her comedic and musical skills to The Barbican Theatre in the spring, where she’ll be joined by our own Robert Lindsay for some farcical frolics in the musical … Read more
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu has gained legions of fans thanks to her scene-stealing performance as Sylvie Grateau, Lily Collins’s ultra-cool boss in the much-talked about Netflix show, Emily In Paris Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu has gained legions of fans thanks to her scene-stealing performance as Sylvie Grateau, Lily Collins’s ultra-cool boss in the much-talked about Netflix show, Emily In Paris. … Read more
Emma Corrin has come a long way since she made her debut, aged ten, playing Toad in a school production of The Wind In The Willows. Fourteen years later, the Cambridge graduate is on the brink of her own star-is-born moment. Because I can attest that the 24-year-old’s portrait of Princess Diana, in the fourth … Read more
At 86, Sophia Loren still exhibits the showstoping glamour she had in her golden movie-making heyday At 86, Sophia Loren still exhibits the showstoping glamour she had in her golden movie-making heyday. But she would like you to know she’s not now, and never has been, just a sexpot (or ‘sexy pot’, as she would … Read more
Cameron Mackintosh was in his element, sitting in the circle of the Prince Edward Theatre, surveying a 70-strong company rehearse an important lyric change to the Les Miz anthem One More Day, one which transformed it into a declarative One More Show! ‘One More Day has become a song of survival,’ the theatre-owner and impresario … Read more
Star Wars actor John Boyega is back with The Force. The police force. And Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is delighted to have caught him at just the right moment. ‘He was ready to get back into acting, and not just reacting,’ he said, referring to the South-East London-born actor’s time spent in a galaxy far, … Read more
Tom Cruise is currently filming the seventh instalment in the Mission Impossible film series in Norway No one breathe near Tom! The constant cry goes out, as megawatt Hollywood star Tom Cruise works in Norway on the seventh instalment in the Mission Impossible film series. Cruise, his fellow actors and crew must surely be among … Read more
Even before filming started on Des, the three-part ITV mini-series in which Mays plays Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay, the nightmares began The spectre of serial killer Dennis Nilsen haunted Daniel Mays as he tackled the role of a lifetime: the ‘old school copper’ who helped bring the mass murderer to justice. ‘I watched all these … Read more