EXCLUSIVE: Remember when geeky tween Jenna Rink was magically transformed into glamorous Jennifer Garner in the classic rom-com 13 Going on 30? That was two decades ago. Now that role's being played by West End star Lucie Jones in a stage musical adapted from the beloved 2004 movie. The show is…

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is a play much-loved by his father Richard Harris, who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies and…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled his new West End and Broadway musical: a magical romance called The Illusionist, directed by Sunset Boulevard's Jamie Lloyd. During a private audience at his penthouse office adjacent to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of six theatres controlled through…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Edward Berger says that Ralph Fiennes' sublime performance as the cardinal charged with overseeing the election of a new pope in awards-season contender Conclave has a "whisper" of the inscrutability Anthony Hopkins displayed in his portrait of a veteran butler in James Ivory's 1993…

EXCLUSIVE: Denis Villeneuve says that his "break" is over and that he will "go back behind the camera faster than I think" to film the third instalment of his "deep" immersion into Frank Herbert's Dune universe. "I'm in the writing zone right now," the filmmaker says, referring to Dune: Messiah…

EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses star Gary Oldman is stepping back on stage in April 2025 for the first time after an absence of nearly four decades to star in Samuel Beckett's celebrated one-man play Krapp's Last Tape for a limited season at the British theatre where the actor began his professional career in…

EXCLUSIVE: Thomasin McKenzie says that because of her youthful appearance — she's 24 — it has been "a bit of a struggle" to play her own age or older, but those worries are banished with her latest role. In the wonderful movie Joy, she delivers a remarkable portrait of Jean Purdy, one of the founding…

EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli, with her theater hat on, is transferring the Sing Street musical to London. The play is based on John Carney's charming 2016 coming-of-age movie about a group of skint schoolkids in 1982 Dublin who form a rock band to help them find love and forget their troubles. The…

EXCLUSIVE: There was a top-secret code name on the sides Ruth Bradley was sent to prepare for an audition. "I didn't know who the characters were, I didn't know what the show was, but I was like, this dialogue is some of the best dialogue I've ever read." Bradley immediately emailed her agent: "Who…

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Howle is so at home playing characters wading through pools of anger and angst that he had an “alien feeling" while playing idle rich boy Benji Winbury in Netflix hit The Perfect Couple. The British actor, almost as a counterpoint to the Nantucket frippery on display in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie says that roles such as her portrayal of Maria Callas — arguably the greatest prima donna assoluta soprano of all time — in director Pablo Larraín’s Maria, come along “once in a lifetime.” The Academy Award-winning artist laughs, then adds, “I mean, it’s certainly the most…

EXCLUSIVE: When Plan B's Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner handed RaMell, the visual artist and filmmaker, Ross Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Nickel Boys — the story of Black boys beaten, tortured and worse at a notorious state-run reform school in the Florida Panhandle — he knew he was…