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Tom Holland's 'Romeo and Juliet' production is heading to Broadway later this year. The 27-year-old actor is starring as Romeo in the 12-week run of William Shakespeare's tragedy in London from next month and the demand for tickets has been so overwhelming that the show is going to head across the Atlantic as fans of the 'Spider-Man' star clamour to see him tread the boards once again. A source told The Mirror: "'Romeo and Juliet' will head to Broadway after its London run, with details to be announced in due course. "While director Jamie Lloyd has made a name for himself for his minimalist ad...
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Dame Helen Mirren says she has made an “endless litany” of mistakes in her decades-long career. The Oscar-winner, 78, who got the acting bug after seeing a production of ‘Hamlet’ as a child, is laden with awards and was made a dame for services to drama in 2003. But she is quoted in the new issue My Weekly magazine saying about how she got to the top by trial and a lot of error: “I turned down projects I should have said yes tom doe projects I should have said no to, had relationships with people that I shouldn’t have had relationships with, got drunk at times that I shouldn’t have got drunk a...
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Geri Halliwell says being told her dad had died during an English class woke her up to her “mortality”. The 51-year-old singer’s father Laurence died from a heart attack in 1993, a year before Geri joined the Spice Girls and in a new interview she said she “ironically” learned of his death during a lesson William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ – which tells of the titular Prince of Denmark’s anguish when his uncle slaughters his father and marries his mother. Geri told the Sunday Times: “They pulled me out of the English class to say my father was dead, which was so ironic. “It suddenly woke me up to ...
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Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are in talks to star in 'Hamnet'. The duo are set to join the cast of Chloe Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling historical fiction novel. The tale imagines the story of Agnes – the wife of the world's most famous writer, William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son Hamnet. The story charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of the loss and brings to life a human and heart-stopping tale as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare's most famous play, 'Hamlet'. Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris an...
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Chloe Zhao is to direct 'Hamnet'. The Oscar-winning director will helm an adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel and is adapting the script alongside the author. The best-selling historical fictional novel imagines the story of Agnes – the wife of the world's most famous writer, William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son Hamnet. The story charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of the loss and brings to life a human and heart-stopping tale as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare's most famous play, 'Hamlet'. It is not known whe...
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A songwriting course based on the work of Taylor Swift is to be offered at the University of Texas at Austin. The 32-year-old pop star is thought to have solely written more than 50 songs since her childhood and now The Taylor Swift Songbook will be "read" alongside classics such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge at the North American university and will strive to "introduce literary critical reading and research methods-basic skills for work in English literature and other humanities disciplines" to students. A description on the university's website reads:...
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Denzel Washington was unfamiliar with Macbeth before his latest film role. The 67-year-old actor has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of the titular character in Joel Coen's movie 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' and believes that his lack of knowledge about Shakespeare's play was a "blessing in disguise". Denzel told the BBC: "(I'd) never read Macbeth and never seen Macbeth, which was I think a blessing in disguise. "I picked up one of the films, looked at about two minutes of it and turned it off. Didn't want to be affected by what I saw." The 'Training Day' star plays th...
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Ariana DeBose has fired back at a critic of her ‘Saturday Night Live’ hosting debut. The ‘West Side Story’ star - who is dyslexic - got the date wrong during her opening monologue on the late-night sketch show, due to nerves, and she has hit back at a social media user who pointed out the mistake, insisting they had no idea how much "pressure" she was under fronting live primetime television. In the clip posted on the official 'SNL' Instagram page, Ariana says: “2020 has already been an exciting year”, and the troll commented: “She know its 2022 not 2020 right???? (sic)” The 30-year-old star r...
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Moses Ingram has praised the diverse cast in 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'. The 'Queen's Gambit' actress portrays Lady Macduff in Joel Coen's new take on the William Shakespeare play and felt that the inclusion of a number of black stars makes the flick particularly "timely" and feels that the story has become more accessible for audiences as a result. Speaking to Variety at the LA premiere of the movie, Moses said: "I remember feeling that Shakespeare wasn't for me, for somebody who looked like me. "But I think it's important to see people of all ages in different colours tapping into the stories ...
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Joel Coen "missed" working with his brother Ethan on 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'. The 67-year-old filmmaker has helmed the new adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy – which features Denzel Washington and Joel's wife Frances McDormand as Lord and Lady Macbeth – and it marked the first time one of the brothers has worked on a film without the other's involvement, which left Joel at a loss. Asked about directing the movie without his younger sibling, he told The Guardian newspaper: "Very strange. I missed him. That's the bottom line. Of course I missed him. I've worked with him for over 35 yea...
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