Benedict Cumberbatch News

Eva Pope, Martin Marquez, Mark Armstrong, Ruth Ollman, Micah Balfour and Anna Andresen will join the previously announced Sharon Small in Christine Mary Dunford's newly adapted version of Lisa Genova's best-selling novel, STILL ALICE, directed by David Grindley.

Candoco Dance Company will for the first time bring their work to a digital audience through Unspoken Spoken, a new dance film created by the esteemed choreographer Fin Walker. Fin Walker's previous work includes the Olivier award-winning After the Dance with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Equus with Daniel Radcliffe, which was met with critical acclaim on West End and Broadway. Created and filmed with support from digital commissioning body The Space, Arts Council England and the BBC, the film seeks to raise awareness of Candoco's work amongst a digital audience for the first time.

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain and London Writers' Week have announced a writing for video games panel event, which will take place as part of this year's London Writers' Week and which will provide access to advice from some of the UK's leading video games writers.

In this feature, get to know choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - currently working on JAGGED LITTLE PILL at the American Repertory Theatre. Last week, Larbi's work was featured in a music video featuring Beyonce and Jay Z, APES**T.

With news coming earlier this month that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes' Tony-winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS has been slated for a June 26, 2020 big-screen release, let's take a look at the other theatrical properties heading to screens large and small. 

Olivier Award and KAIROS Prize-winning choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, most recently credited for the choreography for the musical adaptation of Alanis Morrisette's album Jagged Little Pill, has a new project that just dropped.

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to the infamous Grinch, who lives a solitary life inside a cave on Mt. Crumpet with only his loyal dog, Max, for company. With a cave rigged with inventions and contraptions for his day-to-day needs, the Grinch only sees his neighbors in Who-ville when he runs out of food.

Multi award-winning star of screen and stage Jonathan Pryce will star as 'Andrei', and three-time Olivier award-winning Dame Eileen Atkins will star as 'Madeleine' in The Height of the Storm, in the UK premiere of a new compelling family drama by Florian Zeller, the internationally acclaimed writer of The Father.

Katrina Lindsay has won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO.

According to Variety, SunnyMarch, the production banner founded by Benedict Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland, has acquired the TV rights to “The Gender Games,” the memoir by best-selling author and trans activist Juno Dawson. The book will serve as a jumping off point to create an original half-hour series picking up Dawson's journey post-transition.

LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) presents its 2018 Summer Season featuring a diverse range of nine productions, playing across its three stages from 30 May. The programme of work will include world premieres, modern musicals and classic plays all performed by the graduating class of 2018 and the next generation of acting talent.

Golden Globe and SAG winner Idris Elba will star, direct and produce the currently untitled film, a modern retelling of Victor Hugo's “Hunchback of Notre Dame” for Netflix. The feature film will be a sonic and musical experience for which Elba will also produce the music.

Watch the new trailer for #Mowgli starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Freida Pinto. Only in theaters October 19.

On last night's SNL, host Tina Fey takes questions from audience members Jerry Seinfeld, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Rock, Robert De Niro, Fred Armisen, Anne Hathaway and Donald Glover, and gets a birthday surprise from Tracy Morgan. Watch the clip below!

FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has announced a first-look deal with Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment. Under the pact, Landscape Entertainment will develop and produce scripted projects for the U.S. and international markets. 

Katrina Lindsay has won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO.

According to Deadline, Benedict Cumberbatch is to star in a Brexit drama for Channel 4 from Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell's House Productions.

 LETTERS LIVE is thrilled to announce Cynthia Erivo, Edie Falco, Ian McShane, James Earl Jones, Katie Holmes, Kyle MacLachlan, Laurence Fishburne, Molly Ringwald and Uzo Aduba as the second wave of confirmed performers for its first ever NYC shows on May 18th and May 19th 2018, at The Town Hall. They will join previously-announced guest Benedict Cumberbatch. Performances begin at 8pm ET and will run for 2 hours and 20 minutes with a 20 intermission. The Town Hall is located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan. Additional celebrity cast members will be announced prior to the shows, while the rest will be a surprise each night. 

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Before they achieved fame as actors, James and Benedict Cumberbatch had a long history of appearing in live theater together, but their fierce competitiveness managed to ruin performances of 'Hamlet,' 'Waiting for Godot' and 'The Crucible.' Check out the hilarious clip below!