Kara Tointon won last year's Strictly Come Dancing thanks to polished routines. She now brings some of the same hardworking assurance to her West End debut, in George Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion... more
Theatres and galleries are bracing themselves for huge cuts — but that does not mean they should sacrifice their integrity, argues Mike Bradwell.... more
Toby Stephens is finally stepping out of the shadow cast by his acting parents to make his debut at the Old Vic, where they first starred together — and he’s working with his hero, Tom Stoppard.... more
Rachael Stirling, who has opened to critical acclaim in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, on her genetic inheritance, and starring opposite her lover.... more
It was Lumley wot won it. Years of government intransigence over the rights of Gurkhas was finally overturned this week by an actress most famous for playing the reeling, chain-smoking, toyboy-shagging drunk Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous... more
It’s a YouTube phenomenon with 50 million hits worldwide – the story of the three-month-old cub bought from Harrods who became a King’s Road star of the Swinging Sixties ... more
There's nothing sadder than a bunch of unemployable has-beens rising up like the witches in Macbeth and moaning 'TV is unfair to us because we're old'.... more
This week, as the George Lazenby-Pam Shriver marriage imploded, the pair began slinging mud - and much more - at each other as the battle for custody of their three young children picked up pace.
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New Bond girl Gemma Arterton, 22, wears nothing more than a linen sheet as bare-chested 007 actor Daniel Craig kisses her bare back in the forthcoming adventure Quantum of Solace.
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Cabaret, All About my Mother, The Emperor Jones and the last chance to see John Simms's terrific performance in Elling are among the theatrical highlights.... more
Playwright Samuel Adamson has taken on the characters of Barcelona's seedy underbelly to adapt Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother for the stage.... more
Lesley Manville is taking on the lead role in a stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother - alongside transsexual prostitutes, lesbian divas and a pregnant nun.... more
Dame Diana Rigg is to star in the stage version of the Pedro Almodovar film All About My Mother. The play has its premiere at the Old Vic later this year.... more
If it is conventionally made and a little too long, The Painted Veil has much to commend it. And in Edward Norton it has one of the best and most versatile actors America can muster at present.... more
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe today admitted his West End debut - in which he appeared nude in front of a packed first night audience - was a terrifying experience.... more
As Daniel Craig dons the famous tuxedo for the 21st film in the "official" 007 canon, Casino Royale, our experts pick their favourites Bond film so far.... more
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