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The  Royal Shakespeare Company's stage adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling novel Hamnet, a tale of love and heartbreak concerning Agnes Hathaway and her beloved one William Shakespeare, has taken the unheralded step of announcing its West End transfer before it has has even opened in the famous…

EXCLUSIVE: House of the Dragon star Milly Alcock tells me that she will make her professional theater debut for London's National Theatre playing the vengeful Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's powerful drama The Crucible. The 22-year-old admits that she's "mortified” at the prospect of treading the…

EXCLUSIVE: Toheeb Jimoh, who plays AFC Richmond's goal-scoring Sam Obisanya on Ted Lasso will tackle rhyming couplets when he and Red Rose actress Isis Hainsworth play William Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in what's expected to be a sizzler of a Romeo and Juliet production in London this…

There's always a reckoning. There has to be. A studio chief tells me that next awards season they're going to recalibrate how they screen to voters “because there are a bunch of movies that people did not bother to see. Good movies that people did not watch because they were drawn to the noise. And the…

Vanity Fair’s annual Oscar party took place Sunday at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. I have all the details from inside the event, which as usual attracted the most elite of the Hollywood set who poured in after watching Everything Everywhere All at Once score seven…

The All Quiet on the Western Front cast and crew began trooping into the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts as the clock was about to strike 1 a.m. Monday  They were brandishing gold statuettes. "This is the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. We were were curious about this place," the partner of…

It's transfer time for Phil Dunster, who has played AFC Richmond's star striker Jamie Tartt on the Emmy-winning comedy drama Ted Lasso for three seasons. The actor is joining Gugu Mbatha-Raw on Season 2 of her psychological thriller Surface, Breaking Baz can reveal. Both Ted Lasso and Surface are…

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham lifted up her arms and proudly showed off the bruises she received, not on the soccer field at AFC Richmond, but doing "kick-ass" stunts on David Leitch's action movie The Fall Guy. The bruises "are a badge of honor" she boasts. "You should see the other guy,"…

Comedy is what we need right now, says Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George), who ran London's National Theatre for a decade. It's fine to have heavy-lifting dramas by Ibsen or Schiller, but boy-oh-boy laughter is an increasingly uplifting necessity. Which is where Guys…

Barbara Broccoli is perplexed as we grab a moment alone (well, not exactly alone alone; we were surrounded on all sides) at the swanky soirée Saturday for BAFTA Film Awards nominees at the National Gallery just off Trafalgar Square. Far classier than the clumsy awards show the following…

Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was released from prison over the weekend, according to Iranian news outlets. Rasoulof, who won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2020 for There Is No Evil, was arrested last July with fellow filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad. He was detained after signing a…

The makers of Call Me Dancer are going from coast to coast to unveil the documentary about the struggles and triumphs of astonishing talent Manish Chauhan. The film directed by Leslie Shampaine and Pip Gilmour held its world premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Thursday and last…