592 stories from Daily Mail
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The premise is a simple one. A fictional West End musical entitled Dogs is to be turned into a feature film. What could possibly go wrong?
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: When I decided to leave the Daily Mail after almost 38 years writing about showbusiness, I thought back to my past to figure out what might have inspired this career.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: A Different Stage recounts the ups and downs of the Take That singer's life to the backdrop of his hits.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Creative executives behind the show Call My Agent have struck a deal with two London producers, who aim to have Call My Agent - The Musical up in lights by the end of 2024.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: David Harbour has signed on to star in the world premiere of American playwright Theresa Rebeck's play Madhouse, for a 12-week season at the Ambassadors Theatre.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Millicent Simmonds turns 19 on Sunday, but already her extraordinary presence on screen is one of the reasons the Quiet Place movies made such a big noise at the box office.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: An A-to-Z of stars - or, to be more precise, a B-to-W (Michael Ball to Hannah Waddingham) - are to honour musical legend Stephen Sondheim.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Amara Okereke, 25, has been chosen by Broadway director Bartlett Sher to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum in May.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Scottish singer-songwriter K.T. Tunstall wants audiences at her musical - based on the film Saving Grace - to leave the theatre high... on her songs.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The widow of legendary funnyman Ken Dodd has licensed all theatrical rights to his material to a top West End producer to create a theatre show about his life.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Judi Dench, theatrical dame of the realm, lamented that due to failing eyesight she is no longer able to sew her famous saucy tapestries
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Now, Washington has revealed that he has his eye on another great Shakespearean role: King Lear. And this time, he wants to play him on stage.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: As a child, Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain thought larger-than-life televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker was a silly woman with over-sized eyelashes.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Although Belfast has brought Caitriona Balfe fame, the highlight has been working with Judi Dench, 'and it will be, forever', she insisted.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Gary Oldman is prepared to come in from the cold to play the unobtrusive but brilliant spymaster, George Smiley, again.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Despite Covid winter turmoil, the West End got a shot in the arm today with news that one of the biggest shows of the year will go ahead... two years after it was due to open.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Ariana DeBose got the biggest break of her career while she was having a manicure, when Steven Spielberg rang to ask if she wanted to be in his film of West Side Story.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: I can reveal Ruth Wilson will star in Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Cocteau's 1930 'voice play' about an abandoned woman's one-sided telephone conversation.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Pack your bags for the stage play based on the book by Deborah Moggach (pictured) that spawned The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: A sumptuous production of the musical My Fair Lady will arrive in the West End next year with some crucial updates for modern audiences.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Founding member of Monty Python Terry Gilliam is in talks with a new theatre about staging his production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Into The Woods.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Andrew Lloyd Webber is revamping his Cinderella musical after the production was savaged by the new New York Post theatre critic Johnny Oleksinski.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The story of Passing is based on a 100-page novella by Nella Larsen, published in 1929 at the height of what's known as the Harlem Renaissance.
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Dame Judi Dench, one of the few grand acting dames still working, insists that, at 86, she has absolutely no intention of slowing down. She stars in Kenneth Branagh's 'Belfast…
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Osmondmania is revving up again - 50 years after the boy band were at the height of their success - with a new musical showing the flip side of fame.
