Keira Knightley News

The first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles officially opens tonight, March 19, 2015, at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street). Scroll down to learn more about the cast and watch interviews with the company!

London previews begin for the new British musical Bend It Like Beckham on 15 May 2015 with opening night on 24 June 2015. In January a further 200,000 tickets were released for sale at the Phoenix Theatre, taking bookings to 24 October 2015. Check out the opening number below!

Walden Media, producer of such hit films as 'The Chronicles of Narnia” series, “Bridge to Terabithia,” “Charlotte's Web,” and the 'Journey to the Center of the Earth” series, will co-finance and co-produce DreamWorks Studios' “The BFG.”

The West End cast of Bend It Like Beckham spent the day in Southall, West London, where the story of the musical is set. Check out the photos below!

Saturday night's annual TWC Oscar Nominees Dinner previewed several performances from upcoming projects produced by Weinstein Live Entertainment. They included selections from Finding Neverland, the highly anticipated Broadway musical beginning previews on March 15, and a sampling of songs from the just-announced new stage adaptation of the Academy Award®-winning 1956 film, Around The World in 80 Days.

Adam Levine and his band Maroon 5 took to the Oscars' stage with the Best Original Song nominee 'Lost Stars,' from the film BEGIN AGAIN, which not only starred Levine, but this year's nominees Keira Knightley (THE IMITATION GAME) and Mark Ruffalo (FOXCATCHER).

Hollywood takes center stage this weekend with the 87th annual Academy Awards, but this year's Oscars have a decidedly Broadway vibe to them. Not only will the star-studded event be hosted by Tony and Emmy-winner Neil Patrick Harris, but theatre and movie-musical producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are back at the helm for the third straight year.

The BroadwayWorld family of sites has Oscar night covered. Below, check out photos of this year's nominees for Best Supporting Actress!

The 87th Oscars will be held TONIGHT, Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m., ET/4 p.m., PT. The Oscars, produced by Zadan and Meron, also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you ALL the nominees and winners.

Hollywood takes center stage this weekend with the 87th annual Academy Awards, but this year's Oscars have a decidedly Broadway vibe to them. Not only will the star-studded event be hosted by Tony and Emmy-winner Neil Patrick Harris, but theatre and movie-musical producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are back at the helm for the third straight year.

The Seattle Shorts Film Festival returns in 2015 to celebrate great films and filmmakers. In 2014, the one-day festival packed the SIFF Film Center with three sold out screening blocks and 28 filmmakers and actors attending from across the country. This year, the jury will be adding four bright new minds to its all female cohort. Seattle Shorts Film Festival recognizes the huge impact women have had in the film industry, and believes that celebrating female voices is vital. The festival is proud to have an all female jury for the second year in a row. Joining the 2015 Jury will be actress Alicia 'Lecy' Goranson, whose career spans two coasts, indie film, television and New York theater. Well known for her role as Becky Conner on ABC's Roseanne, she was also in Boys Don't Cry, The Extra Man, Ludlow, Sex and The City, Fringe, Damages, Law and Order: SVU, and is currently a member of Ensemble Studio Theater NY. Actress Lucy Walters gained notoriety as the Woman on the Subway in Steve McQueen's Shame, and was also in The Brass Teapot, Growing Up and Other Lies, B- Side, Big Words, Bastards of Young, and Lies I Told My Little Sister. Lucy has appeared on Bones, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, and Gossip Girl, and currently plays Holly Weaver on Starz' Power. Actress Shannon Maree Walsh made a splash playing opposite Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, and Adam Levine in Begin Again, which premiered at Toronto in 2013 and closing the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. When she isn't acting, Shannon works with kids with special needs and has a long-running relationship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Seattle based film publicist and communications professional Ryan Davis has worked in almost every aspect of the film business, as well as for local nonprofit indie arts organizations including Northwest Film Forum and Northwest Folklife. Ryan is assistant director of Couch Fest Films, serves on the jury for the International Documentary Challenge, and is a film content contributor to the online magazines American Standard Time and examiner.com. She has placed stories in CNN and The New York Times, and Co-founded Smarthouse Creative, an agency focused on promoting and amplifying the work of independent filmmakers. The festival call for entries is currently open. Films from 5-30 minutes in length can be submitted through Withoutabox and Film Freeway till June 30th. Submission categories are Narrative, Documentary, Animation, and College Student Shorts, which features a entrance fee of just $10. The 2015 festival will expand to 2-days, November 14th and 15th. Queen Anne's beautiful Marqueen Hotel will be returning this year as the official hotel sponsor. The Seattle Shorts Film Festival brings Seattle film lovers the very best of short films from around the globe. The festival is held at the SIFF Film Center, a state-of-the-art 95 seat jewelbox cinema inside the Seattle Center. For a full listing of films, special events and upcoming announcements visit the official Seattle Shorts Film Festival website.

All right, guys, it's confession time: there was a time, when I was but a young lass, that I wanted desperately to be Keira Knightley. She was in Pirates of the Caribbean (which I may or may not be able to quote from beginning to end), she was ridiculously talented, she wasn't that much older than me, and she was British (which, for some strange reason, I always wanted to be when I was young). Then, in 2006, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role of Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, and that made her even more awesome. As I got older, I began to recognize how good she actually was in all of those movies - a thought which ran through my mind once again when I saw her performance in The Imitation Game, for which she received her second Oscar nomination.

At the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards 2015, presented in London on February 8, BOYHOOD won best film, GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL took home five awards, and more. Check out the full list of winners and nominees below!

Oscar nominated film THE IMITATION GAME was the recipient of the Ally for Equality Award from Human Rights Campaign.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the performance schedule for the world premiere of Significant Other, a new play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews) directed by Trip Cullman (Murder Ballad).

AACTA today announced seven winners nominated across the following categories – Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress – for the 4th AACTA International Awards.

SAG-AFTRA presented its coveted Actor® statuettes for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2014 at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® in ceremonies attended by film and television's leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 25, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The 21st Annual SAG Awards® was simulcast live coast-to-coast by TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT). A primetime encore presentation immediately followed on TNT. A live stream of the SAG Awards® was also available for viewing at the TNT and TBS websites, and the Watch TNT and Watch TBS apps for iOS Android.

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.

A further 200,000 tickets are released for sale today for this year's new British West End Musical Bend It Like Beckham taking sales at the Phoenix Theatre to 24 October 2015. London previews begin on 15 May 2015 with opening night on 24 June 2015.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners of the 20th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards tonight, live from the Hollywood Palladium. The show aired on A&E at 9pm ET/6pm PT and was hosted by Michael Strahan. Scroll down for the full list of winners!