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Soho Theatre has announced the appointment of Farzana Baduel to its Board of Trustees. 

No matter how carefully you try to shop for Christmas, inevitably there will be a glut of uneaten treats. So how long can you safely store it all? And will it remain palatable?

REMEMBER LORNETTE Harley? The Voice 2023 One To Watch has just been appointed to the Soho Theatre Board of Trustees.

Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur Miller

The director has admitted to improper remarks, but lamented his removal from theatre’s front row. His legacy will be fiercely contested

Ewan McGregor, Danny Boyle and others on the 'crazy' process of turning Irvine Welsh's cult book into an unlikely landmark of British cinema

Trainspotting, Danny Boyles generation-defining adaptation of Irvine Welshs cult novel, just turned 25 – and it remains a landmark British film, packed with iconic images, characters, and scenes that left an indelible mark on the medium. Across two-and-a-half decades, it catapulted its director and stars to greater heights, spawned belated sequel T2 Trainspotting, and remains one of the most important films of the 1990s. Originally published in March 1996, in issue #81, Empire presents the fu...

Yet Ewan McGregor almost failed to make the cut in Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, it has emerged. Andrew Macdonald, who produced both movies, tells tonight’s The Years That Changed Modern Scotland that casting the actor for Trainspotting had been “very controversial” at the time. “Lots of people thought Trainspotting had to be really grungy and they thought Ewan was too handsome, too attractive, too pretty,” says Macdonald. He had previously encountered friction over McGrego...