The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company has announced the full cast for Romeo and Juliet, the fifth production in the inaugural Plays at the Garrick season. Joining previously announced Lily James (Juliet), Richard Madden (Romeo) and Derek Jacobi (Mercutio) will be Meera Syal as the Nurse. Romeo and Juliet will play at the Garrick Theatre from 12 May until 13 August with press night on 25 May. The production will be broadcast live to cinemas on 7 July.
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, in partnership with Picturehouse Entertainment, has confirmed that the date of the next Branagh Theatre Live cinema broadcast will be Romeo and Juliet on Thursday 7 July 2016. Tickets for the broadcast of Romeo and Juliet and details of participating cinemas can be found at branaghtheatrelive.com.
First Cinderella and now a real-life mermaid! Variety writes that CINDERELLA's Lily James will play 'Gertrude Ederle' -- the first woman to swim across the English Channel -- in the upcoming biopic YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA.
It is announced today that the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, in partnership with Picturehouse Entertainment, will broadcast three productions of its year-long Plays at the Garrick season live to cinemas worldwide. The first Branagh Theatre Live production will be The Winter's Tale at 19:00 on Thursday 26 November 2015. Tickets are now on sale.
Disney princes have long played second fiddle to their princess counterparts. Now Variety is reporting a change of tune, with the studio having picked up a spec script for a live-action comedy film called PRINCE CHARMING.
According to the Daily Mail, WAR HORSE's Jeremy Irvine and CINDERELLA's Richard Madden have signed on for a reading of Jake Brunger's new work FOUR PLAY.
Old Vic New Voices announces a brand new festival, celebrating the work of exceptional and emerging playwrights. The event, which is generously supported by The TS Eliot Estate and Arts Council England, will see OVNV alumni join new talent in this five week long theatrical extravaganza.
Derek Jacobi will play Mercutio opposite Lily James as Juliet and Richard Madden as Romeo in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of Romeo and Juliet at the Garrick Theatre. The production will run from 12 May 2016 until 13 August 2016.
According to the Daily Mail, Kenneth Branagh's ROMEO AND JULIET has found its 'Mercutio' in Sir Derek Jacobi, who appeared alongside the play's star cross'd lovers -- Lily James and Richard Madden -- in Branagh's new CINDERELLA film. ROMEO AND JULIET is Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's fourth production in its inaugural season at the Garrick, beginning October 17.
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: Broadway stars lead North Carolina Theatre's NEXT TO NORMAL, DOGFIGHT heads to Australia and more!
Stage and screen vet and director of Disney's smash-hit, live-action CINDERELLA film, Kenneth Branagh has confirmed his new theatre company's inaugural season at the West End's Garrick Theatre.
With its live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST adaptation shaping up and the success of Kenneth Branagh's CINDERELLA, Disney is moving on to another property.
With Disney's recent release of CINDERELLA, it seems that not everyone in fairytale land is pleased. In the video below, watch as Cinderella's Prince and Flynn Rider bemoan their lack of popularity by singing a parody to 'Agony' from INTO THE WOODS.
Imax Corporation and Walt Disney Studios recently announced that the highly-anticipated live-action Cinderella - directed by Academy Award-nominee Kenneth Branagh and starring Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett as the Stepmother and LILY James in the timeless title role - will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive Imax format and released in Imax theatres globally beginning today, March 13.
Walt Disney Animation Studios' all-new short FROZEN FEVER which welcomes Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf back to the big screen, will open in theaters today, March 13, 2015, in front of Disney's 'Cinderella,' a live-action feature inspired by the classic fairy tale.
