“There’s been no shortage of stage portrayals of real life VIPs in the past couple of years,” said Clive Davis in The Times. Jack Thorne’s “thoughtful, often wickedly droll” new play, about the relationship between Richard Burton and John Gielgud during rehearsals for a 1964 production of Hamlet on Broadway,Continue Reading
The first semi-final for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has seen Ireland fail to qualify for the main event. Wild Youth, the Dublin indie rock band, were among five acts eliminated during the 15-strong first live semi-final of the week at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool. Ireland has notContinue Reading
Pioneering singer and actor turned activist who campaigned against the apartheid has died aged 96Continue Reading
The rise in popularity of staycations has “reinforced something books have been teaching us for centuries”, said Olivia Emily on Country & Town House. “You don’t have to travel far to feel like you’re in another world.” As somewhere that has produced some of the “most celebrated literary figures throughoutContinue Reading
Tartan may well be “the most categorised textile on Earth”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. There are more than 11,000 recognised varieties of this grid of “geometric patterns of coloured thread”, each one of them loaded with symbolism. Over the centuries, tartan has been “a source of pride,Continue Reading
This six-part drama reportedly cost Amazon Prime “somewhere north of $250m”, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. So was it worth it? “You betcha. It’s Mission: Impossible meets The Bourne Identity meets James Bond while glancing off Indiana Jones a few times along its irresistible way.” Richard Madden stars asContinue Reading
Ryan Calais Cameron is having quite a year, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. This spring, his breakout play For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy completed its journey from fringe to West End. Now he has given us something utterly different, andContinue Reading
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is going on strike for the first time in 15 years after negotiations with major studios, including Disney and Netflix, over higher pay broke down. The move could disrupt TV programming and lead to a delay of the autumn TV season, Reuters reported. TheContinue Reading
A rlo Parks said cancelling a string of concerts last year was a “really difficult decision” as there is “always that fear of disappointing people”. The Mercury Prize and Brit Award winning musician in September scrapped some of her US tour dates before saying she would fly home for a periodContinue Reading
T om Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have celebrated 35 years of marriage with a yellow-frosted cake. The acting couple, who married in 1988 and have one of the longest marriages in Hollywood, marked their Coral wedding anniversary on Sunday. Posting on Instagram, Wilson wrote: “35 years of marriage.Continue Reading
