Internationally acclaimed play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will open at Tokyo’s TBS Akasaka ACT Theater in Summer 2022, marking the second non-English production of the play, and the first production opening in Asia.
Read MoreIt's the heartwarming TV series about the adventures of a Yorkshire vet which charmed families in the Seventies and Eighties.
Now All Creatures Great and Small is returning to our screens after a 30-year absence – with an Oscar-winner among the cast.
The show, based on the books of James Herriot, originally ran on the BBC from 1978 to 1990 with Christopher Timothy as the Dales vet and Robert Hardy as his boss.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Little Women and King Lear producer Playground Entertainment have teamed on a major fantasy project – a television adaptation of Tamora Pierce’s expansive Tortall Universe series.
The Orange Is the New Black studio and Colin Callender’s production company, which was also behind Jodie Comer’s The White Princess, have optioned the rights to the 22 book series from Donald Laventhall of Folio on behalf of Pierce.
Read MoreNicolas Ralph will make his television debut playing the lead in the remake of the popular British series “All Creatures Great and Small.” Ralph will play James Herriot, a handsome and compassionate veterinarian who brings his practice to the country. Christopher Timothy portrayed Herriot in the original series, which ran for seven seasons and 90 episodes from 1977 to 1990 on BBC1 and PBS.
Read More“Wolf Hall” producer Playground is developing a series for the BBC based on James Fenimore Cooper’s historical series of novels known collectively as the “Leatherstocking Tales,” which includes “The Last of the Mohicans.”
Playground, run by former HBO exec Colin Callender, is working on a pilot script for the project, which is being set up as a returning series. “The Last of the Mohicans” is the second and most famous of Fenimore Cooper’s five-book series and has been adapted for the big screen several times, including the 1992 film by Michael Mann starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Starz has ordered a reboot of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic 18th Century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons). The premium network has handed the series, from Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment and Tony Krantz’ Flame Ventures, an eight-part order.
The tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge is being written and showrun by Harriet Warner, the showrunner of TNT’s forthcoming drama Tell Me Your Secrets, who has also worked on The Alienist and long-running BBC drama Call The Midwife.
Read MoreSonia Friedman Productions have today released production images for Rosmersholm which began previews at the Duke of York's Theatre on 24th April.
Read MoreThe television drama All Creatures Great and Small is making a comeback. The series, based on the real-life adventures of the Yorkshire vet James Herriot, originally ran on BBC1 from 1978 to 1990, and is now being given a fresh interpretation by Channel 5.
Read MoreStarz has handed The Spanish Princess a second run of eight episodes, with the Lionsgate broadcaster saying Monday that will bring to an end the limited series telling the story of Catherine of Aragon.
Read MoreWhen Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica launched at the Almeida Theatre in 2013, it was hailed as a dazzling survey of geopolitics and macroeconomics compressed into a five-act play. The historian and Sunday Times columnist Niall Ferguson’s coinage of “Chimerica” — a portmanteau of China and America — had already highlighted the global dominance and latent antipathy of the world’s two superpowers. Kirkwood’s play brought it all to life.
Read MoreNothing says the impending arrival of spring like a timely political thriller, so here's our first-look at Channel 4's brand new drama set to launch in the coming months.
A four-part adaptation of Lucy Kirkwood's Olivier Award-winning play of the same name, Chimerica is the channel's latest series to tackle some of the most urgent issues affecting society today. Political unrest included, of course.
Read MoreStarz’s The Spanish Princess showrunners came to TCA to acknowledge taking some license with the historical figures’ ages and timelines in the drama, so as to not wind up with kids in little crowns.
The limited series centers on Catherine of Aragon, the teenage princess of Spain who becomes Princess of Wales. When her husband Prince Arthur dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to her. That is, until she claims her marriage was never consummated and that, as a virgin, she may set her sights on the new heir: charismatic, headstrong Prince Harry, who will one day rule as King Henry VIII.
Read MoreThe Tony-winning Best Musical Dear Evan Hansen has set dates for its previously announced London debut. Previews will begin at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End October 29 with an official opening scheduled for November 19 at 7 PM.
Read MoreThink you know the story of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII? Think again.
“By the time we meet Catherine in most [stories], she’s already the frumpy, grumpy ostracized wife stuck in exile,” notes The Spanish Princess co-showrunner Matthew Graham. “What people don’t realize is that he was married to her for twenty-plus years, and they were in love.”
Read MoreFollowing a record-breaking, sold-out engagement in Los Angeles, the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen will play a return L.A. engagement in Center Theatre Group’s 2020–2021 season at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Read MoreHulu has landed Tender Is The Night, a limited series adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, sources said. The project, from Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment, which had optioned the rights earlier this year, is in early stages in development.
Read MoreMany film fans associate Emma Thompson with Jane Austen — the image of her traipsing through the English countryside as Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, or taking the stage at the 1995 Oscars to accept the Best Adapted Screenplay award for that same movie.
Read MoreDotted around the set of Amazon's new production of King Lear is the unlikely sight of several bowls of Altoids.
Next to one is a note: "Lose a voice, lose the show."
Watching the filming at Hatfield House near London, you soon see what the mints are for: Sir Anthony Hopkins, playing Lear, is absolutely belting it out. It's the moment in Act Two of Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy when Lear's daughters Goneril (Emma Thompson) and Regan (Emily Watson) finally reveal their treachery.
Read MoreSAMPHIRE HOE, England — High above the sea, on the white cliffs of Dover, soldiers hoisted equipment and secured tents in what looked like a military encampment. A man appeared at the edge of a tent, his white hair close-cropped, his grizzled face shadowed by a ragged beard. “Shall we get on with it?” Anthony Hopkins said.
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