5 h. ago Dozens of celebrities take stage in London for ‘Together for Palestine’ fundraiser

Dozens of celebrities take stage in London for ‘Together for Palestine’ fundraiser  AppleValleyNewsNow.com

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9 h. ago Together for Palestine concert: Benedict Cumberbatch, Damon Albarn and Neneh Cherry take stage at galvanising and star

Scores of artists, speakers and activists appear at four-hour fundraiser curated by Brian Eno – but it’s Palestinian voices who make the biggest impressionThe sheer scale of it was boggling. A total of 69 artists, speakers and activists were to appear at Ovo Arena Wembley.There were stars of music: Damon Albarn, Bastille, PinkPantheress, Hot Chip and a festival’s worth of others. There were stars of stage and screen: Benedict Cumberbatch, Florence Pugh, Guy Pearce, Ramy Youssef and a huge supporting cast. There were the firebrands, the podcasters, the people you’re sure are important but you have no idea why. And there were the people who, well, you don’t really know what they’re bringing: the former footballer Eric Cantona, the Love Island host Laura Whitmore, the Chicken Shop Dates YouTuber Amelia Dimoldenberg. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Lewis Capaldi's moving gesture leaves fan in tears just hours before concert

Scottish music sensation Lewis Capaldi helped completely change the life of one of his fans just hours before he took to the stage in London for a sold-out concert

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11 h. ago Billie Eilish, Cillian Murphy among dozens of celebrities calling for Gaza ceasefire ahead of benefit concert in London

Billie Eilish, Cillian Murphy among dozens of celebrities calling for Gaza ceasefire ahead of benefit concert in London  CNN

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11 h. ago ‘Together for Palestine’ concert: Dozens of celebrities take stage in London for fundraiser

‘Together for Palestine’ concert: Dozens of celebrities take stage in London for fundraiser  CNN

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2 d. ago High Noon heads for the West End as Billy Crudup takes on Gary Cooper role

The Tony award-winning actor will play the marshal in a London stage adaptation of the 1952 western that won Cooper an OscarBilly Crudup is to take on the role that won Gary Cooper an Oscar in a new stage adaptation of the 1952 western High Noon. Based on Carl Foreman’s screenplay, the production will receive its world premiere at the Harold Pinter theatre in London in December, providing a nail-biting alternative to Theatreland’s jollier festive fare.High Noon, once voted the greatest western ever made, unfolds in real time counting down to the noon arrival of a train in the town of Hadleyville in New Mexico. In the film, Cooper plays Will Kane, a newly married marshal on the brink of retirement, who hears that an outlaw is heading to town seeking vengeance. The drama explores the divide between personal concerns and public duty, not just through the marshal’s dilemma but also through the characters of his wife, Amy, and the townspeople whose support he seeks. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Lewis Capaldi set for triumphant BST Hyde Park headline show after comeback

The Scottish singer will return to the stage next summer for a landmark performance at London’s iconic festival

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3 d. ago ITV Coronation Street star 'buzzing' over major career first away from cobbles

Coronation Street star Sam Aston, who plays Chesney Brown on the ITV soap, is set to take to the stage for An Audience with Coronation Street in London this weekend.

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3 d. ago Coldwater review – Andrew Lincoln’s wild Scottish thriller is top quality nonsense

The Walking Dead star plays a total berk who stumbles into a terrifying confrontation in the woods. It’s like Deliverance in the HighlandsAndrew Lincoln has been Rick Grimes – the leader of a group of survivors of a zombie plague in Frank Darabont’s at first mesmeric and then mesmerically dull post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead – for 15 years. Off and on (and in a spin-off) but mostly on. Now, at last, he is free. He’s had a shower, a haircut and – thank God – cleared his throat after a decade and a half of rattling phlegmily through increasingly ropey scripts and pretending to care about his son Carl, and is appearing on stage in The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge theatre, London and on our screens in the fairly bananas thriller Coldwater.You can see what attracted Lincoln to the part. John is the anti-Grimes. We meet him (once the obligatory opening scene of the character covered in blood and running through some woods is over and we’ve flashed back to “Two months earlier”)...

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3 d. ago Mind the Tech London 2025: Israeli innovation takes the global stage

Mind the Tech London 2025: Israeli innovation takes the global stage  CTech

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5 d. ago ‘I haven’t even googled how to write a play!’: Nima Taleghani bringing rap to the National Theatre

The Heartstopper star’s exhilarating reboot of Euripides is the first debut play to grace the hallowed Olivier stage – but it nearly didn’t happen. ‘Its not in my bones,’ he saysNima Taleghani seems astonished that I know anything about him. This is the man who plays Mr Farouk, quite beautifully, in the phenomenally successful Netflix series Heartstopper. He’s an established stage actor and has featured in a number of director Jamie Lloyd’s recent blockbuster theatre productions, from memorable turns in Lloyd’s bold new versions of Cyrano de Bergerac and Romeo and Juliet – where Taleghani’s skill as a rap artist helped him shine in the director’s stripped-back, miked-up productions.This month, Taleghani will be the very first playwright to have a debut play staged on the vast Olivier stage at London’s National Theatre. To top it all off, the production – a ferociously original, rap-infused take on Euripides’ Greek tragedy The Bacchae – will open Indhu Rubasingham’s inaugural season ...

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6 d. ago Garth Brooks to play first UK gig in nearly 30 years as first BST 2026 headliner

The 63-year-old American singer will take to the stage in London’s Hyde Park on June 27 next year.

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7 d. ago Moment Prince Harry jokes Invictus Games reception guests were 'probably hammered' after waiting for him to arrive late from meeting with King Charles

The Duke of Sussex , 40, took to the stage at The Gherkin in London on Wednesday to deliver a speech outlining the next 10 years of his Invictus movement.

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7 d. ago Moment Prince Harry scolds Invictus Games reception guests after saying they were 'probably hammered' after waiting for him to arrive late from meeting with his father Prince Charles

The Duke of Sussex , 40, took to the stage at The Gherkin in London on Wednesday to deliver a speech outlining the next 10 years of his Invictus movement.

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9 d. ago First cabinet minister enters race to become deputy Labour leader – UK politics live

Bridget Phillipson describes herself as ‘a proud working-class woman’ in statement announcing her bid to replace Angela RaynerWes Streeting, the health secretary, hasn’t just been on the Today programme this morning; he has been doing a media round, promoting the new NHS league tables for England, and in other interviews he has revealed more about why he is not committing to backing Bridget Phillipson for deputy leader at this point. (See 8.35am.)In an interview with Times Radio, Streeting said he would “certainly prefer the next deputy leader to be a woman”.[Phillipson] would definitely be a great deputy leader if she was chosen. There are other women in the race who I think would also be great deputy leaders. So I’m not endorsing anyone at this stage.Without being disrespectful to some brilliant women in London who are standing, like Emily Thornberry [whom] I’ve got a lot of respect for, I can well understand why lots of my colleagues are saying we should have a deputy leader from...

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1 week ago The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return at Southwark Playhouse Borough review: full of sweaty urgency

This play’s poetic eloquence translates badly to the cold light of the London stage

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1 week ago Whoopi Goldberg: Live review – like reading a boomer relative’s Facebook

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe Egot-winning actor presents semi-formed thoughts on things from ageing to AI in an undemanding showBeginning an evening of amiable waffling, Whoopi Goldberg announces that she isn’t about to discuss all the terrible things happening in the world. From an audience not too shy to heckle (albeit mostly with variations on “We love you!”) comes an unsolicited plea to engage with one such inflammatory topic: the current US president. Goldberg doesn’t flinch. “It’s worse than that,” she says. “I’m turning 70.”So begins an undemanding set which often plays like a Grumpy Old Women spin-off and echoes the title of Goldberg’s 2010 book Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There? The Egot-winning actor, host of The View and great-grandmother dispenses semi-formed thoughts on everything from ageing and AI (“Fuck Alexa”) to misbehaving children (she once threatened to eat one). She is sharp on the discomfort of being attracted to “some kid” of 60, her worry being that sh...

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1 week ago Roger Allam and Ian McKellen to Bring London Stage Hit Frank and Percy to the Big Screen

Roger Allam and Ian McKellen to Bring London Stage Hit Frank and Percy to the Big Screen  Broadway Shows

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1 week ago London court sets stage for largest ever divorce case after Russian oligarch’s ex

Vladimir Potanin is estimated to be worth around 20 billion US dollars (£16.5 billion)

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1 week ago London court sets stage for largest ever divorce case after oligarch’s ex wins appeal

London court sets stage for largest ever divorce case after oligarch’s ex wins appeal  The Independent

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