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Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play about the criminalised mathematician is revised, with a new epilogue by Neil Bartlett, to reflect his 2013 pardoning

The new musical film Juliet and Romeo arrives on screen with lavish visuals, saccharine pop songs and a reworked Shakespearean plot that tries to dazzle. With its vivid colour palette and dreamy masquerade aesthetic, this is Verona as filtered through a Eurovision lens: glittering, melodramatic and frequently overwrought.

Gladiator 2 stars reflected on working with Sir Ridley Scott as they walked the red carpet at the film’s London premiere on Wednesday, 13 November.

The theatrical giants will raise money for one of London’s newest theatres

Letters: Oliver Kamm, Adrian Blamires and Rik Edwards respond to Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson’s argument that The Merry Wives of Windsor was really penned by Edward de Vere. And Peter Nockolds suggests another Shakespeare theory

Stage and screen actor known for his political campaigning, both in his choice of roles and his personal life

In Extraordinary season 2, Sir Derek Jacobi narrates a string of Jen's lies in her "mind library". Here's how creator Emma Moran felt sending him his lines.

The list of alumni speaks for itself but how will today’s young talent find its way onto our stages when the arts are being so comprehensively kicked from all sides?

TV and film producer who started in business with rights to the Poldark and I, Claudius novels acquired by Alexander Korda