A Midsummer Night's Dream News

The latest film to be turned into a stage musical stars Sheridan Smith as a dizzy Californian blonde who heads off to Harvard Law School to win back her man.

Oscar-nominated five times, Olivia de Havilland blazed a trail for British actresses in the 30s and 40s, writes Philip French Tuesday, 22 December 2009 Few actresses have appeared in as many films so regularly revived on TV as Olivia de Havilland, most notably Gone With the Wind , for which she received the first of her five Oscar nominations, but ...

Oscar winning actress Dame Judi Dench celebrates her 75th birthday today, 9 December 2009.

Dame Judi Dench has called for arts funding to be fixed and ring-fenced as film and theatre subsidies are "siphoned off" to pay for the 2012 Olympics.

The trailer for this starry drama about the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life does a good job of flogging the film.

Nicholas Martin will exit his position as the artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival after the 2010 summer season.

Actor Rupert Everett is urging gay stars not to 'come out' and to keep their sexuality a secret as it could end their film career.

Directed by Michael Hoffman. Produced by Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling and Jens Meurer.

Leo and Sofya Tolstoy had one of the great literary marriages - a passionate half-century love affair that resulted in the birth of 13 children, a deep and abiding partnership that inspired and helped to produce some of the most significant works in all of world literature, and a scornful, destructive relationship that drove each of them to the ...

When the young Tolstoy disciple Valentin Bulgakov arrives at the great Russian writer's country estate, Yasnaya Polyana, he has no idea of the pitched battle he's descending into.

THE Rose Theatre in Kingston is offering young budding actresses an exciting and unique opportunity to perform alongside Dame Judi Dench and Oliver Chris in its production of A Midsummer Nighta TMs Dream.

The Last Station is a story loosely based on fact that sees a young man dispatched by the powers that be to, under the guise of an assistant to help chronicle the works of Leo Tolstoy, keep an eye on him and his wife, Sofya Tolstoy, during his final years of life.

Two-time Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning character actor Stanley Tucci frequently found himself cast in stereotypical tough guy roles.

Tony Award-winning actress Zoe Caldwell called Mary Maher last week to say that the chapter about her in Maher's new book was "glorious." Such a reaction may not be the reason writers write, but it doesn't hurt.

BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Lindsay Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on this date in 1950.

Dame Judi Dench's forthcoming stage role as Titania, the queen of the fairies, in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre in Kingston Upon Thames, appears to have given her a new perspective on life.

BroadwayWorld.com's STANDING OVATIONS V at Town Hall will take place on Sunday night, November 1, at 7:30 PM.

By the time Rudolf Nureyev made his leap to the West in 1961, a small, dark, handsome, athletic, college-educated, Italian-American guy from Queens, New York, already was captivating dance audiences as the star of the New York City Ballet.

Mickey Rooney was a little man who enjoyed a big career and a larger-than-life persona.

Although they have friends in common not least the Prince of Wales and Carla Powell Lord Mandelson and Rowan Atkinson have little in common politically.Mandelson was therefore asking for trouble when he went up to the comedian at the Goodwood Revival festival in Sussex over the weekend.