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Last modified on Fri 2 Apr 2021 05.51 EDT What will audiences want after the pandemic? Will it be daft comedies by Noël Coward? Or will they have an appetite for Pulitzer-winning cancer dramas such as Margaret Edson’s Wit? That’s the dilemma faced by Jan Black in Johnny McKnight’s warm-hearted new play. She and her am-dram company have been given the go-ahead for a November run at Ayr’s Gaiety theatre and, with a singing ban ruling out a musical, they must predict the pub...

Letters Supernatural drama The Terror is fictional, but it features real characters from the ill-fated expedition led by Sir John Franklin in 1845 FOR those who have been watching supernatural drama The Terror on the BBC, there are very clear Scottish connections to the ill-fated expedition led by Sir John Franklin in 1845. Commanding ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, he sought a route through a section of the Arctic Ocean known as the Northwest Passage. Hemmed in by pack ice at the norther...

Where The Vicar of Dibley cast are now - shock divorce, Corrie stint and tragic deaths British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley hit our screens in 1994 and won our hearts with Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French, moving to the village of Dibley in Oxfordshire to become its first female vicar Updated The amazing cast who brought a lot of laughter into our homes Daily Stars Inside Hot TV newsletter sees Ed Gleave send you tellys hot takes straight to your inbox every SundayInvalid EmailSomething w...

She also told how she tried to support theatres when they briefly opened last summer.

Jennifer Saunders has said "my hearing is gradually failing as I get older".

The actress, 86, spoke candidly with The Guardian on Thursday about how she navigates her career, and what tricks she uses to make sure shes able to prepare for a role.

4 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and President Reuven Rivlin attend a ceremony in memory of deceased Israeli presidents and prime ministers held at the Presidents Residence in Jerusalem on June 17, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90) President Reuven Rivlin canceled a planned appearance Tuesday evening at the reopening of the Khan Theater in Jerusalem after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to attend. It was the third time in a week Rivlin has scrapped a public app...

Follow Feb. 24, 2021 Udi Ben Moshe, artistic director of Jerusalem’s Khan Theater, paced nervously in the stone courtyard on Tuesday evening. He was preparing for the curtain to rise on the first theater production in Israel – and likely the world – in which the cast, crew and audience were all fully vaccinated against or recovered from the coronavirus. His fears as Noël Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” was about to begin, he said, were not directly connected to coronavirus infections. The...

For the fourth filmed version of Noel Cowards hit stage play "Blithe Spirit," director Edward Hall and his battery of script writers have managed to keep much of the ditzy original flavor of the Coward piece - its still set in 1930s England - but also make it accessible to and funny for modern audiences. The basic plotline is that Charles Condomine, an alcoholic novelist, has been hired to adapt one of his books into a Hollywood-bound screenplay. But hes suffering from writers block, and cant t...

  Leslie Mann Couldnt Remember Her Lines as Shes Sweaty Mess When Filming With Judi Dench Movie The Knocked Up actress recalls working with her acting hero on the set of their new movie Blithe Spirit and admits she struggled to remember her lines due to her jittery. Feb 21, 2021 Judi Dench, it took her two hours to "calm down" and film their scene together. The " Noel Cowards play " Blithe Spirit", and really lost the plot when she got up close and personal with the great Dame. "I was terrif...