Vanessa Redgrave News

TVGuide.com confirms that talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will guest on tonight's August 15th episode of WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE! The show airs at 11/10c on the Bravo Network.

The Bletchley Circle is returning to PBS for a second season, it was announced today. The four-part series will air on Sunday nights in spring 2014. A production of World Productions (United, 'Line of Duty') and distributed worldwide by Content Television, the series premiered in the U.S. last spring to critical acclaim. The show will top off an evening of destination drama on Sunday nights on PBS, including season three of Call The Midwife at 8:00 p.m. and season two of MASTERPIECE 'Mr. Selfridge' at 9:00 p.m.

The gorgeous first poster for Tony Award-winning actor and passionate director Mark Rylance's new UK production of William Shakespeare's classic comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING starring Hollywood/Broadway/West End icons James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave has been unveiled. Depicting two embracing lovers in silhouette astride suitcases packed and ready for travel, the mostly sepia-hued, monochrome image expertly depicts the romantic allure of the oft-performed canonical comic trifle.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the Broadway cast of The Winslow Boy, starring Tony nominee Michael Cumpsty as 'Desmond Curry', Academy & Tony Award nominee Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as 'Grace Winslow', Alessandro Nivola as 'Sir Robert Morton' and Tony Award winner Roger Rees as 'Arthur Winslow'.

TVGuide.com confirms that talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will guest on the Thursday, August 15th episode of WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE! The show airs at 11/10c on the Bravo Network.

Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, announces the release of the unconventional and haunting thriller, The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, available on DVD and digital download today, July 30, 2013

Mark Rylance directs James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave in Shakespeare's timeless comedy Much Ado About Nothing opening on 19 September 2013 with previews from 7 September. Further cast includes Tim Barlow, Penelope Beaumont, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Katherine Carlton, Beth Cooke, Alan David, Michael Elwyn, Lloyd Everitt, James Garnon, Melody Grove, Trevor Laird, Leroy Osei-Bonsu, Mark Ross, Peter Wight and Danny Lee Wynter.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today programming premieres including new summer episodes of 'Oprah's Next Chapter.'

As a dramatist, Shakespeare was the consummate master of love stories. ROMEO AND JULIET is his iconic tale of young love. His tragedy ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA concerns the ill-fated midlife romance of its real-life hero and heroine. Now, Beatrice and Benedick, the sparring adversaries of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, will be re-imagined as senior citizens in The Old Vic's upcoming production, which stars Vanessa Redgrave (76) and James Earl Jones (82) in the lead roles.

According to the New York Times, a slew of new plays are setting their sights on Broadway for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced might move to Broadway, starring Aasif Mandvi, who also led the LCT3 production. Additional casting is currently underway.

Join director Kip Fagan (The Revisionist with Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg; Grand Concourse by Heidi Schreck) and playwright/actress Halley Feiffer (I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard) for Cape Cod Theatre Project's third StageTalk of the season. The conversation takes place tomorrow, Tuesday, July 16 at 10 a.m at Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA.

To kick off its third production of the season, 'Loot' by Joe Orton, Westport Country Playhouse will host a free film screening of 'Prick Up Your Ears,' the 1987 film adaptation of Orton's biography, starring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, and Vanessa Redgrave, and directed by Stephen Frears, today, July 14, 4 p.m., in The Playhouse's Sheffer Studio.

The Furman Film Series offers a unique opportunity to get a first look at a top selection of advance sneak previews and hot-off-the-festival-circuit independent and foreign films

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company is sponsoring its 12th annual London Theatre Tour, visiting the capital of the English-speaking theatre world from November 5 to 14, 2013. An informational reception will be held in the Weston Playhouse living room today, July 3 at 4:30pm; the registration deadline for the trip is August 5.

Stage regular and screen superstar Liev Schreiber announced plans to return to the stage in one of Shakespeare's most timely and violent tragedies, CORIOLANUS, while appearing to promote his new Showtime series RAY DONOVAN on CBS THIS MORNING earlier today.

To kick off its third production of the season, 'Loot' by Joe Orton, Westport Country Playhouse will host a free film screening of 'Prick Up Your Ears,' the 1987 film adaptation of Orton's biography, starring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, and Vanessa Redgrave, and directed by Stephen Frears, on Sunday, July 14, 4 p.m., in the Playhouse's Sheffer Studio. The screening is free-of-charge by reservation through the Playhouse box office at 203-227-4177. Free popcorn and beverages will be available.

Prae Se Ferre/The Producing School, a newly established resource designed to teach the 'ins and outs' of producing live theater in Los Angeles, offers its first workshop, 'LA Theater Producing Intensive,' on July 6 from 10 am - 4:30 pm at the MET Theatre in Hollywood.

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company is sponsoring its 12th annual London Theatre Tour, visiting the capital of the English-speaking theatre world from November 5 to 14, 2013.

Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, announces the release of the unconventional and haunting thriller, The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, available on DVD and digital download July 30, 2013

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced the company's 2013-14 season-its 19th-will include world premieres by Halley Feiffer, Charles Fuller, Samuel D. Hunter, Craig Lucas, Lucy Thurber, and Ken Urban.