BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The unlikeliest hit film, Fisherman's Friends, has set a course for the West End. It is based on the true story of the shanty singing fishermen, from the village of Port Isaac.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Lee Daniels capitulated and gifted Andra Day the role of a lifetime, portraying the legend in a new film, The United States vs. Billie Holiday.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Denzel Washington said he's not worried about getting older. Nor is he envious of the leading men lining up behind him (his son John David Washington is in the queue).
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Adarsh Gourav is electrifying in the screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga's bestseller The White Tiger - and he certainly suffered for his art.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: She's been a sitcom favourite, an acclaimed stage actress and strutted her stuff on Strictly Come Dancing. Now Felicity Kendal is to make her musical theatre debut.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Thompson has signed up to play Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a schoolgirl with magical powers, in a new film version of Matilda.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Kate Winslet said there was still a double standard when it came to describing intimacy on screen between same-sex as opposed to heterosexual lovers.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Leslie Odom Jr. became a star six years ago when he portrayed Aaron Burr, the American founding father who shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel, in the musical Hamilton.
'That was all me,' Ms Swinton said proudly, as she arrived at the Focus Features rooftop after-after party for the film. 'I did my own sword play.'
I sat on the Carlton Hotel terrace with the filmmaker and his star Ben Foster, who plays the real-life title character.
The rock superstar told me yesterday how he and the Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears spent the past eight years studying the life and times of Tammy Faye and first husband, preacher Jim Bakker.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Lynn Nottage made multiple visits to Reading -officially one of America's most impoverished districts - when researching her play.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Michael Ball flashed a broad smile and revealed he will be stepping into plus-size frocks once more - as laundress Edna Turnblad, in the joyous musical Hairspray.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Anthony Hopkins will join fellow Oscar winner Olivia Colman in heartbreaking family drama The Father. As predicted in this column a year ago, Hopkins will take the title role.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Bartlett Sher leapt from his ringside seat to suggest how Annalene Beechey might speak a line in The King And I (rehearsals for the London show, pictured) .
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Playwright Lynn Nottage (pictured), winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, told me Jackson was a genius, 'but an immensely flawed human being'.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Scott greeted me at the Ham Yard Hotel in Soho. She'd been resting on a sofa, having arrived from Los Angeles, where she'd been working on Disney's live action Aladdin.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Nkeki Obi-Melekwe sashays on to the Aldwych Theatre stage in London's West End and launches into an electrifying version of Nutbush City Limits.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Producer Stacey Mindich, director Michael Greif, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have been attending auditions all week. Previews start in October at Noel Coward Theatre.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The composer and impresario cut quite a figure in his hi-viz vest, builder's boots and protective glasses. The master builder was showing me around the Theatre Royal Drury Lan…
Josie Rourke is sharing The Rhythm Of Life in the musical Sweet Charity. Tomorrow night is the first performance of her final production as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse.
Nico Parker, aged 14, threw her mother (the actress Thandie Newton) a look and said: 'I'm doing my interview now.' The subtext was simple: 'You stay in the corridor while I go into the room.'
Felicity Kendal said she never had a problem dealing with unwanted advances from men. The actress didn't go into detail but said: 'Let's put it this way: I've never suffered from that situat…
Bianca Del Rio, famous for winning the sixth season of Netflix show RuPaul's Drag Race and for her cabaret act, will take the part, currently played by Shane Richie, from May 6 to June 29.
Anna Gunn leapt up with lightning speed. It was clear from that little display of physical dexterity, in the middle of the lounge at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood, that Gunn has a f…