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Love Never Dies – but will Lloyd Webber’s new musical?
The much anticipated follow-up to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, has had mixed notices with the first round of critics.
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Olivier Awards to be broadcast live on Radio 2 and online
The prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 for the very first time.
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Noel Cowards’s Private Lives wins over the critics
Sex and the City temptress Kim Cattrall is the talk of the town as her West End play proves a huge hit.
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Keira Knightley leads the nominations at Olivier launch
Some of the UK’s hottest actors gathered for the launch of this year’s 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards.
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Blog: Vermin plaguing theatres, claim Equity. Is it that serious?
An Equity survey claims more than three quarters of West End performers and stage managers confirm there’s a vermin problem in the workplace.
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Are you ready to take a bite of the big apple?
Launch of the TS Eliot Exchange between the US and the UK, is being launched tomorrow at the Old Vic by Jeremy Irons and James Earl Jones.
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Photos: Surviving Actors first convention proves a huge hit
Surviving Actors, the UK’s first actors’ convention held in central London on 30th January, was a huge success.
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Blog: How irritating are today’s theatre audiences?
How many times have you been to the theatre and had to deal with an extra ‘performance’ coming from the auditorium? What are the audience habits that annoy you?
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Theatre Review: Love Never Dies – Adelphi
Ignore all that spiteful nonsense out there on blogosphere from “Phans” and critics alike that should know better, writes Josh Logan.
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Film Review: Invictus – Cinemas Nationwide
Yet another “man with a mission” film from Clint Eastwood, but without the usual violent outcome, writes John Ayton.
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Theatre Review: King Lear – RSC – Courtyard Theatre
Rupert Bridgwater reviews RSC’s King Lear and discovers a bold and magnificent all round production.
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Preview: Kim Cattrall opens in Private Lives at Vaudeville
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will take centre stage in Private Lives, the Noel Coward 1929 comedy classic.
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New BBC drama about the rise of Boy George
Boy George swept to fame in 80s band Culture Club. The BBC have commissioned a new drama about the singer’s facinating rise to “icon status”.
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Worried About The Boy will air on BBC2 about the rise of 80s icon Boy George. Image: David Levine.Mathew Horne of Gavin and Stacey fame will step into the shoes of Jon Moss, the drummer in 80s band Culture Club who famously had a relationship with Boy George.
Joining him is Hustle actor Marc Warren as the legendary nightclub owner Steve Strange, with The League of Gentlemen star Mark Gatiss taking on the role of music impresario Malcolm McLaren.
But all eyes will be on newcomer Douglas Booth, who has landed the lead role of the pop star himself Boy George, real name George O’Dowd.
The 90 minute drama, Worried About The Boy, will begin filming later this month by Red Production Company and will follow the star from cloak room attendant to iconic star. By the mid-80s however, Boy George was battling an addiction to heroin.
Controller of BBC drama commissioning, Ben Stephenson, spoke about the production: “Worried About The Boy will be an evocative and visually enticing drama about one of our most iconic British pop stars.”
Since splitting, Boy George has carved a successful solo and DJ career.
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Related article: Interview with celebrity photographer David Levine, who captured famous Boy George images in the 1980s.




