Winston Churchill News

John Lithgow, who recently picked up a SAG Award for his performance as Winston Churchill in Netflix's 'The Crown,' has signed on to the cast of PITCH PERFECT 3

The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia is calling for South Australians with a great idea and a passion to translate that idea into something that can contribute positively to Australia in their field of endeavour, to apply for a2017 Churchill Fellowship.

???????Curve announces full casting for Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw, directed by Curve Artistic Director Nikolai Foster and presented to mark 50 years since the iconic Leicester playwright's death.

Award-winning actors Lisa Bostnar and Gus Kaikkonen will perform readings of famous love letters as part of a dinner and theatre package being offered by Sunflowers Cafe and the River Street Theatre (RST) in Jaffrey on Monday, February 13th.

Fans of The Crown on Netflix will love The Audience. In fact, they share the same writer (Peter Morgan wrote the Netflix series and is the playwright) though the projects are separated by a few years of development. In fact, some of the dialogue from the Netflix show is clearly lifted from the play.

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The International Center of Photography (ICP), the world's leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, today announced the 2017 honorees of its annual Infinity Awards, widely considered the leading honor for excellence in the field. The 33rd annual ICP Infinity Awards will be held in New York City on the evening of Monday, April 24.

A trio of politically charged monologues comes to Australia at the end of the month, appearing in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Award-winning British actor and playwright Pip Utton will be touring three dramas, each of which illustrates one of history's most notorious leaders.

We are culture. We are exploration. We are The New York Science Fiction Film Festival.

To celebrate the festive season, the Royal Albert Hall has recreated the world's first ever commercial Christmas card - designed by Sir Henry Cole, instrumental in creating the iconic venue - using 14 stars from its glittering past.

Nominations for the 23rd Annual SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS were announced live today from the Pacific Design Center. Sophia Bush (Chicago P.D., One Tree Hill) and Common (Suicide Squad, Selma) joined SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris to reveal this year's announce the nominees.

OVATIONS Theatre's performances of the award-winning rock musical Spring Awakening will carry more than just a tune.

As the world alternately mourns or celebrates the passing of one of the most dynamic and controversial leaders of the 20th century, Fidel Castro's legacy is memorialized in his famous words, History Will Absolve Me. Brian Latell, a CIA analyst who studied and tracked Castro since the 1960s, recently released his third book on Cuba and the Castro brothers, which breaks considerable ground with new material provided by declassified files.

Joseph E. Hahn has completed his new book 'Hitchhiking through Europe: During the Summer of 1956': an honest and detailed retelling of a young man who planned and executed a wonderful summer vacation.

Author Corrado Pirzio-Biroli reveals to readers the European history after Bismarck and the biography of Grand Admiral von Tirpitz. 'My Great-Grandfather Grand-Admiral von Tirpitz: German Leader after Bismarck and before Hitler' (published by Archway Publishing) is a reminder that imperialism and nationalism are anti-chambers of war and that the prejudice, paranoia and vanity of certain leaders can lead to arbitrary decisions that are contrary to the interests of ordinary citizens, let alone the leaders themselves.

The four-week countdown is now on until a new commemorative war-time musical is given its world premiere in Liverpool.  Liver Birdsong - The Liverpool Blitz Musical commemorates the 75th anniversary of The Blitz, and is brought to the stage by Birdsong Live Productions CIC. 

OVATIONS Theatre's performances of the award-winning rock musical Spring Awakening will carry more than just a tune.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Jonathan Regis Cray (O'Creagh), 67, passed away on Sunday, October 30, 2016 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City due to complications from a blood clot.

Production has begun in Louisiana on writer/director Sofia Coppola's THE BEGUILED, which reteams the filmmaker with Focus Features.