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The showman behind pantomimes around the country has warned that unless the Government is clearer about how theatres can reopen, the season will be cancelled. Michael Harrison, who controls his own production company and is co-owner of Qdos Entertainment (the UK’s biggest panto producers), said many regional theatres — including some in Greater London — depend … Read more
Judy Craymer, the brains behind the phenomenally successful celebration of the music of Abba, told me she will be inviting ‘NHS and frontline workers to see the show when we get the West End back’ The Mamma Mia! musical will lay all its love on doctors, nurses and hospital staff when it reopens in London as … Read more
Oscar-nominated star Florence Pugh ‘dropped everything’ to narrate a hard-hitting BBC documentary about medical staff at an Italian hospital battling to save lives in the early days of the pandemic. ‘I can barely cry,’ says Dr Francesca Mangiatordi, her haunted face staring into a laptop at the Cremona Hospital in Lombardy, Northern Italy. Documentarian Sasha … Read more
Welsh actress Morfydd Clark won’t be seeing the green, green grass of home any time soon. Clark has been in New Zealand since October, working on the billion-dollar-budget new Lord Of The Rings television series. ‘I was expected to be back in Britain,’ Clark told me, while the show was on a planned hiatus. ‘But … Read more
Bel Powley had to learn how to ‘tawk’ like a proper Staten Islander for her latest role. In a sort of reverse Pygmalion, the 28-year-old star of independent films, from West London, spent time living in the New York City borough to pick up the local dialect for her part in Judd Apatow’s new picture … Read more
For Reggie Yates, the chance to direct his first feature was like a ‘super surreal dream come true’. And then, with just a few days of shooting remaining, the corona – virus struck. Now, the filmmaker and his creative collaborators are zooming in on ways to get the picture completed in the safest possible way. … Read more
The actor Sope Dirisu is right at the centre of the bone-crunching action in television thriller Gangs Of London, in which he’s shot at, stabbed — and stomped on, just for good measure. The nine-part crime series has become one of Sky’s biggest hits. Shown at the height of the virus shutdown, it features Dirisu as … Read more
He may be famous for the riotously anarchic books that entranced generations of children. But the private life of Roald Dahl was one punctuated by tragedy as he raised his family amid the rolling fields of Great Missenden in the Chilterns. Now, that fascinating life — and especially his marriage to the Hollywood star Patricia … Read more
Richard E. Grant is ready for his closeup…as a drag queen. The Oscar-nominated actor has undergone a head-to-toe transformation for the feature film version of stage hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie: hair concealed under what he described as a ‘Folies Bergere meets Mrs Thatcher 80s-style wig’, feet squeezed into a pair of Jimmy Choo’s. … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Can Christopher Nolan’s new picture top the Box Office when cinemas eventually re-open? By Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail Published: 23:14 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 01:53 BST, 8 May 2020 Christopher Nolan wants his spectacular looking new picture Tenet to be the first film audiences see when cinemas reopen. Nolan … Read more