Judi Dench 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.

The Daily Mail writes that Janie Dee will play the title role in the new musical version of MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS at Theatre Royal, Bath, from August 15 to September 5, 2015.

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

On last night's TONIGHT SHOW, guest Judi Dench taught Jimmy a Bollywood dance move that she learned while filming the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

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.

Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis arrives in Sarasota next Tuesday to present an exclusive week-long workshop for the 2016 class of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. The workshop will run today, March 3-7, 2015.

Production is underway on visionary filmmaker Tim Burton's MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, based upon the best-selling novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs.

Northwest Classical is amazingly good at cramming massive historical plays into their tiny Shoebox Theatre, and here director Elizabeth Huffman has worked miracles.

Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis arrives in Sarasota next Tuesday to present an exclusive week-long workshop for the 2016 class of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. The workshop will run March 3-7, 2015.

Broadwayworld.com interviewed Erik Liberman who will play the role of Clopin Trouillefou in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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.

RSC to open new festival theatre, including research, development and rehearsal spaces, and announces a ground-breaking new collaboration with the University of Birmingham

Coventry's Belgrade Theatre will welcome Olivier Award Winner, Tony Award Winner, Variety Award Winner, and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Tom Conti in the new U.K tour of Twelve Angry Men from Mon 9 - Sat 14 Feb. The acclaimed touring production will make its Midlands premiere in Coventry this February following a record-breaking run at the Garrick Theatre in the West End. Tom Conti will be reprising his role as Juror number 8, a role made famous by Henry Fonda in the 1957 Academy award-nominated film of the same name.

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.

According to the Daily Mail, stage and screen veteran and director of Disney's upcoming live-action CINDERELLA film, Kenneth Branagh has created his own theatre company and is currently ironing out its first season of plays in the West End.

Olivier Award Winner, Tony Award Winner, Variety Award Winner, and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee TOM CONTI is to star in TWELVE ANGRY MEN across the UK, following its record-breaking run at the Garrick Theatre in the West End.

John Goodman and Tom Sturridge will join Damian Lewis in the major new revival of David Mamet's gripping 1975 playAmerican Buffalo. Directed by Daniel Evans, American Buffalo will play at Wyndham's Theatre for a strictly limited run from16 April - 27 June 2015.

Harvey Weinstein confirmed rumors that Dame Judi Dench has a tattoo which reads, 'JD loves HW' on her butt as a way of thanking him for the critical role he has played in her successful career and numerous awards.