3 h. ago Will Smith slammed over shocking treatment of crew on new music video

The 56-year-old entertainer is facing a protest by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees at Quixote Studios in West Hollywood on Friday according to THR.

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35 h. ago SNP told to take 'tougher approach' to tackle youth knife crime after 'sickening rise'

Carrying a knife is “dangerous” and “damaging”, John Swinney has warned young Scots as he condemned recent violence.

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66 h. ago Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son

Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End Russia’s war in Ukraine has reignited “cold war strategies”, according to the son of John le Carré, who announced that an adaptation of his father’s classic novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is coming to the West End for the first time.Nick Harkaway, who published Karla’s Choice last year, a sequel to the 1963 thriller, said the current geopolitical situation had echoes of the charged postwar period. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago John Le Carre’s ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold’ Sets London West End Bow

John Le Carre’s ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold’ Sets London West End Bow  Variety

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3 d. ago John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold to be staged in West End

After a sold-out production at Chichester Festival Theatre, the stage adaptation will run for 14 weeks in London from November.

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6 d. ago 'I was terrified of one opponent and John Terry feared this silent assassin too'

Jamie Carragher and John Terry opened up on the fear they had of a legendary forward who could give any Premier League defender a sleepless night

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6 d. ago Where you've seen UK Eurovision entry Remember Monday bandmates before

Country-pop trio Remember Monday are repping the UK at Eurovision 2025 but fans may recognise them from The Voice UK, West End stages before their big Basel debut

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6 d. ago 'I was terrified of only one player in my career – and John Terry was also scared of him'

John Terry and Jamie Carragher enjoyed lengthy and successful careers in the Premier League but there was one player in particular that left them frightened to come up against

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8 d. ago Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway audiobook review – a new Smiley from le Carré’s son

Perfectly emulating the tone of his father’s spy novels, this cold war tale also benefits from Simon Russell Beale’s impeccable readingIt is 1963 and, having retired from “the Circus”, spymaster George Smiley is looking forward to a trip abroad with his wife, Anne. But when a Soviet assassin has a sudden change of heart before murdering László Bánáti, a spy masquerading as a literary agent in London, Smiley finds himself back at work. He must find Bánáti and persuade him to become a British asset, a pursuit that leads him to an old foe.Dreamed up as the unflashy antithesis of James Bond, Smiley is, of course, the creation of the late John le Carré. But in Karla’s Choice, he is brought to life by Nick Harkaway, Le Carré’s youngest son. Harkaway, who also completed 2021’s unfinished Silverview, writes in a style barely distinguishable from his father, save for some necessary tweaks – a faster pace and more believable female characters. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Alicia Vikander to make West End debut in Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea

The Oscar winner, 36, admitted she was both ‘thrilled’ and daunted by the challenge, admitting: ‘... it's my first time on stage as an adult’

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3 w. ago The Pretender by Jo Harkin review – a bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue

This fantasia on the life of Lambert Simnel, who finds himself a claimant to the English throne, is a romp through late-medieval identity and historical uncertaintyOne day in 1484, strange men arrive at the Oxfordshire farm where 10-year-old John Collan lives. They’ve come to carry him away to a new life, for he is not, after all, the farmer’s son; in fact, he’s Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, spirited away in infancy to keep him safe ahead of the day he might return to claim the throne of England. That day is now in sight. He can’t call himself John any more, but he can’t yet be announced as Edward, Earl of Warwick. In the meantime he’ll be given a third name: Lambert Simnel.Over the course of this fantastically accomplished novel, the many-named boy will travel from Oxford to Burgundy then Ireland, and at last into the paranoid and double-crossing heart of Henry VII’s court. The tail end of the Wars of the Roses – with Richard III’s crown snatched from the...

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