National treasures Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi will star in a new film based on a play by another legend, Alan Bennett. The playwright’s last work, hospital drama Allelujah!, has been adapted by Heidi Thomas, creator of the BBC’s award-winning period drama Call The Midwife. Thomas, the brains behind the BBC1 series set … Read more
There’s a mirrored cocktail cabinet on the wall behind Rafe Spall as he chats to me from his home in the Cotswolds. Light bounces off the crystal tumblers and the bottles of spirits. ‘A lot of people, when they do Zooms, have books behind them,’ Spall says, ‘but this is much more representative of my … Read more
Come to the Cabaret. The doors are set to open on a show that will be dusted off, shaken vigorously, and explored anew. As a starter, Eddie Redmayne is back at the Kit Kat Klub, after a 20-year absence. The Oscar-winning star has wanted to return to the decadent dive ever since he played the … Read more
There’s a mirrored cocktail cabinet on the wall behind Rafe Spall as he chats to me from his home in the Cotswolds. Light bounces off the crystal tumblers and the bottles of spirits. ‘A lot of people, when they do Zooms, have books behind them,’ Spall says, ‘but this is much more representative of my … Read more
Come to the Cabaret. The doors are set to open on a show that will be dusted off, shaken vigorously, and explored anew. As a starter, Eddie Redmayne is back at the Kit Kat Klub, after a 20-year absence. The Oscar-winning star has wanted to return to the decadent dive ever since he played the … Read more
Broadway and television star Sutton Foster has kept the shipboard musical Anything Goes afloat. She has taken over from Megan Mullally, who’s had to withdraw from the show bound for the Barbican, just weeks before rehearsals, because of a foot injury. Mullally was to have starred as Reno Sweeney, the evangelist turned nightclub siren, opposite … Read more
Willkommen! Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne is close to fulfilling his dream… of playing the decadent master of ceremonies in the classic musical Cabaret in the West End. And he is tipped to share the stage with Jessie Buckley, who will play Sally Bowles. This column can reveal that a new production of Cabaret — starring the powerhouse … Read more
Willkommen! Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne is close to fulfilling his dream… of playing the decadent master of ceremonies in the classic musical Cabaret in the West End. And he is tipped to share the stage with Jessie Buckley, who will play Sally Bowles. This column can reveal that a new production of Cabaret — starring the powerhouse … Read more
Thirty years after Linzi Hateley first clapped eyes on Jason Donovan — looking ‘gorgeous, stuffed into his loincloth’ — as Joseph, the pair will reunite in the same show, on the same London Palladium stage. Linzi will return as the Narrator — the part she played opposite Donovan (and later Phillip Schofield and, briefly, Darren Day). … Read more
Thirty years after Linzi Hateley first clapped eyes on Jason Donovan — looking ‘gorgeous, stuffed into his loincloth’ — as Joseph, the pair will reunite in the same show, on the same London Palladium stage. Linzi will return as the Narrator — the part she played opposite Donovan (and later Phillip Schofield and, briefly, Darren Day). … Read more