Stephen Mear will choreograph. Henry Goodman will star in the title role of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, in a translation by George Tabori. Jonathan Church will direct the production, which will play June 29-July 28. Derek Jacobi...

1962 and will be staged again, as will The Way of the World, previously seen at Chichester in a famous 1984 production that featured Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith and now starring Chichester regular Penelope Keith. Smith's son Toby Stephens will...

2004 Ian McKellen revealed he only had two acting ambitions left -- to play a pantomime dame and to appear in Coronation Street. In May 2005 (having spent Christmas as Widow Twanky in Aladdin) he played 10 episodes as conman Mel Hutchwright.It's the one...

Using the turbulent society of Belfast in 1907 as a backdrop, the series depicts the story of budget constraints and merciless demands placed on workers by Titanic owner J.P. Morgan (Chris Noth), the struggle of impractical idealist Lord William Pirrie...

Olivier had much to answer for. The reason he could play the definitive Richard III was because he was similarly as crafty, scheming and deadly. When he was setting up the National Theatre in the Sixties he recruited all the burgeoning talent – O’Toole,...

The professor revealed some of the more spectacular coincidences he has catalogued, like a person having the same birthday as a parent and a grandparent (35,000 to 1 are the odds on this one, by the way), or someone talking about Derek Jacobi and then...