Maggie Smith News

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the comedy I Hate Hamlet by PAUL RUDNICK, March 20 - April 4, 2015. Visiting guest artist ART MANKE directs the production.

The Theatre Royal Bath has announced its 2015 Summer Season, 1st July - 5th September, comprising three productions and starring Anita Dobson, Stephanie Cole and Janie Dee.

Judi Dench leads an all-star ensemble cast in the new British comedy THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL.

Direct from London's famous West End, Cleveland will be graced with a visit from 'America's Got Downton,' a night of comic spoof on the hit PBS-TV series and hailed by The London Daily Telegraph as 'a remarkable tour de force one-man show. If this doesn't prove a wow in Edinburgh and beyond, then I'm Dame Maggie Smith!'

PEOPLE reports that Princess Kate is heading to West London's Ealing Studios' to visit the set of DOWNTON ABBEY.

On Tuesday, Milk Publicity, which represents the series, told the Associated Press that Smith's comments were meant to be taken lightheartedly

Breaking The Code by Hugh Whitemore will have its Theatre Rhinoceros premiere in this exclusive San Francisco production for a limited engagement - 15 performances only! The show plays tonight, March 4 - 21, 2015.

Dame Maggie Smith in a fabulous new role!

Cost Plus World Market (www.worldmarket.com) is thrilled to announce its collaboration with Fox Searchlight Pictures for its theatrical release of THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, in theaters on March 6, 2015. As part of the collaboration, CRAFT BY WORLD MARKET features a collection of unique, handcrafted items inspired by the movie.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: 'HUNCHBACK' swings into New Jersey and more!

DALLAS, FEBRUARY 20, 2015 – The Dallas Opera is preparing to whisk audiences away to the Latin Quarter of Paris for the blockbuster opera of the season: Giacomo Puccini's 1896 masterpiece, LA BOHÈME, based on Henri Murger's newspaper serial-turned-novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème.

Breaking The Code by Hugh Whitemore will have its Theatre Rhinoceros premiere in this exclusive San Francisco production for a limited engagement - 15 performances only! The show plays March 4 - 21, 2015.

BroadwayWorld previously reported that stage and screen actress Geraldine McEwan passed away earlier this week, and her contemporaries have been voicing their condolences and memories of the award-winner.

Multitalented British actress and director, best known for portraying the Agatha Christie detective Miss Marple, Geraldine McEwan, has died at age 82. The BAFTA Award-winner's family says she died on January 30, due to complications from a stroke suffered in October.

The Buck Creek Players will continue their 41st season of quality theater, LIFE 101: A Season of Life Lessons, with the Indianapolis premiere comedy, QUARTET, by Ronald Harwood.

Jeff Robinov's Fosun-backed Studio 8, together with Chinese distribution company Bona Film Group, will partner with Tom Rothman's TriStar and Film4 on the adaptation of Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, to be directed by three-time Oscar-winner Ang Lee. The deal brings together several members of the family of companies at Sony Pictures, which will distribute the film worldwide, except for Greater China, which Bona Film Group Ltd will handle. Film 4 will have UK free television.

This being a Durang play, the characters have offbeat opinions about everything under the sun, but there's anger and regret underneath the quips, and eventually the deeper emotions come to the surface.

The Buck Creek Players will continue their 41st season of quality theater, LIFE 101: A Season of Life Lessons, with the Indianapolis premiere comedy, QUARTET, by Ronald Harwood.

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 206th season with Noel Coward's honeymoon of a comedy, PRIVATE LIVES. Directed by Bob Carlton, the play begins previews tonight, January 13th, opens on January 21st and runs through March 1st on the WST Mainstage.