Jim Broadbent News

Terry Johnson tells us of his lifelong friendship with Ken Campbell, an eccentric giant of English Theatre, in a funny, poignant and beautifully performed production.

LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) announces that Benedict Cumberbatch CBE has been appointed as the Academy's new President. He will take up the position immediately, succeeding Timothy West CBE who steps down after 31 years in the role.

Review Roundup: Critics Weigh In On PADDINGTON 2

Following the worldwide hit PADDINGTON, one of the most successful family films of all time, this much-anticipated sequel finds Paddington (Ben Whishaw) happily settled with the Brown family in London, where he has become a popular member of the local community, spreading joy andmarmalade wherever he goes.

Following Martin McDonagh's success at the Venice, Toronto and London film festivals with his critically acclaimed Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri the London Theatre Company announces, in advance of its next programme, the world premiere next autumn at the Bridge Theatre of a new play by McDonagh.

This Christmas, a new musical production of The Chimes, inspired by the biting wit and moral outrage of Dickens's 1844 novel, and prompted by the harsh realities of poverty in 21st-century Britain, will play at St John's Church in Cardiff from 7 to 16 December and St John's Church in Waterloo from 19 to 30 December.

Universal Music Enterprises is set to release, for the first time, a double-vinyl LP edition of MOULIN ROUGE! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film, the 2001 soundtrack which accompanied the release of his acclaimed motion picture on October 6th.

BBC Two, Golden Globe, BAFTA and RTS Award-winning drama producer Playground and Olivier and Tony Award-winning producer Sonia Friedman Productions announced that Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson reunite in their third collaboration and lead an all-star cast for their upcoming production of Shakespeare's KING LEAR

The record-breaking phenomenon is back with a season that proved to be well worth the wait! Action-packed from start to finish with the series' most epic battles yet, the HBO drama series Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season will be available for Digital Download September 25th and on Blu-Ray and DVD December 12th.

Underground Railway Theater will present Nick Payne's Constellations from September 7 - October 8, 2017. Constellations is directed by Scott Edmiston.

How much of our identity is created by our minds and our memories? Award-winning playwright Nick Payne (Constellations) explores this question in the Southern California Premiere of his dazzling new play about what it means to be human. Four actors play 21 characters in interwoven stories (some based on true events) that examine the extent to which our identities and our choices are governed by the complex and delicate mechanisms of the brain. Payne's moving and deeply profound play seeks to make sense of the relationship between the physical and metaphysical. Directed by Indy Award-winning director Katharine Farmer (The Nibroc Trilogy),

Daenerys Targaryen has finally set sail for Westeros with her armies, dragons and new Hand of the Queen, Tyrion Lannister. Jon Snow has been named King in the North after defeating Ramsay Bolton in the Battle of the Bastards and returning Winterfell to House Stark.

Daenerys Targaryen has finally set sail for Westeros with her armies, dragons and new Hand of the Queen, Tyrion Lannister. Jon Snow has been named King in the North after defeating Ramsay Bolton in the Battle of the Bastards and returning Winterfell to House Stark.

The Daily Mail has reported that deals are currently being finalized for a BBC TV adaptation of Shakespeare's classic, King Lear, which will star Sir Anthony Hopkins in the title role. He will join a cast which also includes Emma Thompson as Goneril, Emily Watson as Regan and Florence Pugh as Cordelia, as his daughters.

The Sense of an Ending features three great British actors.

Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill star in a new production of multi Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by James MacDonald. The production opened at London's Harold Pinter Theatre last night.

DHX Media (or the 'Company') (TSX: DHX.A, DHX.B; DHXM), the world's leading independent, pure-play children's content company, has licensed exclusive U.S. broadcast rights for 30 brand-new half-hour episodes of TELETUBBIES which will begin airing on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. preschool channel in 2017.

The story of boy meets girl is turned on its head as playwright Nick Payne launches it into the quantum multiverse in Constellations. The possibility that multiple versions of our world exist is drawn out through the relationship of theoretical physicist Marianne and beekeeper Roland.

Just after the news that fellow theatre vet Jim Broadbent will appear in the final season of HBO's GAME OF THRONES, Express writes that stage and screen legend Angela Lansbury is in talks for a guest role for the 7th installment of the cult series.

Oscar winner Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of HBO's GAME OF THRONES for the final season.