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Outdoor theatre, vintage clothes and Paddington Bear.

Bank holiday and half term fun, museum lates, and outdoor theatre.

The term “diva” rose to prominence with its relation to an operatic background and popularly revolves around the traits of someone’s character. Typically (and misogynistically) attributed to women, it’s used to describe a person whose temperament and self-importance are quite difficult to handle. Traditionally, it’s strikingly negative and obviously patronising. The definition has relaxed these days, defining personalities whose presence in pop culture is of unignorable social and cult...

Ahead of the restoration premiere of the gothic masterpiece The Queen of Spades at the BFI London Film Festival, curator Claire Smith explores the ornate contributions of theatre designer Oliver Messel.

It's Bristol's annual celebration of film restorations and archive gems

Anthony Powell, Oscar-winning costume designer, dies at 85 For Cruella de Vil, in two live-action movies based on a 1961 animated feature, Powell conceived wild, villainy-enhancing ensembles. by Richard Sandomir (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Anthony Powell, an inventive British costume designer who won three Oscars but is perhaps best known for the outlandish clothing he conceived for Glenn Close as the fur-loving Cruella de Vil in “101 Dalmatians” and its sequel, died April 16 in London. He was 85....