Rowan Atkinson News

Cash in on a few laughs with Windsor community theatre

David Furr is the stuffy club president in The Explorers Club, a shot of Marx Brothers and a dash of Monty Python, served over the top.

The Queen's Birthday Honors were published today, June 15, 'in recognition of the achievements and service of extraordinary people right across the United Kingdom.' Among the honors is a knighthood for Ambassador Theatre Group's owner and producer Howard Panter, who heads ATG's group of 39 theaters, including the recent addition of Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre, which houses SPIDER-MAN.

Rowan Atkinson is currently leading Simon Gray's Quartermaine's Terms at Wyndham's Theatre. Set in the 1960s in an English language school for foreigners, this tragicomic play is a humourous but ultimately moving account of several years in the lives of seven teachers. Check out photos of Atkinson in action below!

Rowan Atkinson will be joined by Conleth Hill, Will Keen, Felicity Montagu and Malcolm Sinclair in the first major West End revival of Simon Gray's play ‘Quartermaine's Terms', from tonight, 23 January 2013 at Wyndham's Theatre, London.

2013 is the year when some of the big Broadway hits of recent years head to the West End - but there are also lots of plays and new work opening in the UK.

Rowan Atkinson, famed actor and screen-writer, has found his fervor for stage acting again. According to Whats On Stage, he may leave his famed tv show, Mr. Bean to do more stage acting. Currently he is preparing to take on Simon Gray's QUARTERMAINE'S TERMS, bound for West End.

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is pleased to announce that Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, co-chairmen of Working Title Films, will receive the 2013 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. The award recognizes a producer's, or a producing team's, outstanding body of work and is the PGA's highest honor for motion picture producers.

Rowan Atkinson will be joined by Conleth Hill, Will Keen, Felicity Montagu and Malcolm Sinclair in the first major West End revival of Simon Gray's play 'Quartermaine's Terms', from 23 January 2013 at Wyndham's Theatre, London.

HBO/Cinemax has released the 2012-13 programming overview.

Theatricality does not come on a scale much grander - and available to an audience much wider and larger, natch - than by way of the heady and hallucinogenic images concocted by visionary, Academy Award-winning British director Danny Boyle for the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony tonight. A hill, a heath, dozens of sheepherders and milkmaids below a large, looming tree set the scene for the start of the big, big show - and it was definitely very, very big. All of this countryside accoutrement signaled the entrance for Sir Kenneth Branagh, with sharp top hat and lit cigar, portraying noted industry king Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as he physically and metaphorically ushered in the new age in this culturally and historically-inspired phantasmagoria - setting the proceedings into high gear with a particularly impassioned and spine-tingling reading of one of the most moving and memorable passages from all of literate in a thrilling Prospero moment from Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST. And that was just the first five minutes!

THE LION KING definitely roared into Houston.

According to the Daily Mail, Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) is set to star in Simon Gray's Quartermaine's Terms at Wyndham's Theatre. The show will go on a short tour before opening at Wyndham's on Jan. 23.

It's the Olivier Awards next Sunday - look back at the 2010 ceremony with us!

Following sell-out performances in 2007, BAFTA®-award winning actress Miriam Margolyes returns to Adelaide from 15 - 18 February to present her one-woman tour-de-force, Dickens' Women in the Dunstan Playhouse.

Audiences have 11 weeks left to see Graham Linehan's adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers, directed by Sean Foley, as the production closes at the Gielgud Theatre.

The stage production of The Ladykillers has broken all known box office records at the Gielgud Theatre. Booking has now been extended until 14th April 2012.

Directed by Michael Garces, NE 2ND AVENUE depicts the lives of eight distinct characters: a Puerto Rican small-time drug dealer, a deprived African-American young lady, a Haitian jitney driver, a Cuban-Jewish grandfather, a Rasta Man, an African-American adolescent trying to find his footing in life, a Cuban rafter and a gay man, who each take the audience on a memorable journey through the intense streets of Miami. Through its characters, NE 2ND AVENUE brings voice to Miami's marginalized urban populations, exploring underlying issues of racism and social injustice, acknowledging the differences among us and ultimately discovering the common threads that bind us together.

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN is coming to theaters this Friday, October 21, 2011 starring Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson and Pierce Brosnan.

Talk show listings for Monday, October 17.