13 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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21 h. ago Melania's private torment on first UK state summit and why she's finally emerged victorious over the 'thorn in her side'

It comes as the First Lady takes her star turn on the world stage during her husband's historic second state visit to the United Kingdom this week.

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27 h. ago Neil Morrissey to star in stage version of A Christmas Carol

It is the third run of the Mark Gatiss adaptation of A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story.

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44 h. ago Ivanka Trump's 'inappropriate' demand that left Melania reeling on the last UK state visit... this time, insiders tell how the First Lady has triumphed over the 'thorn in her side'

It comes as the First Lady takes her star turn on the world stage during her husband's historic second state visit to the United Kingdom this week.

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47 h. ago How Melania Trump finally won war against 'thorn in her side' Ivanka: She once had a cruel nickname for her meddling stepdaughter... now she's humbling her in a more public setting

It comes as the First Lady takes her star turn on the world stage during her husband's historic second state visit to the United Kingdom this week.

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5 d. ago Katie Price reveals she was 'booted out' of hotel just hours before show with Kerry Katona

In the middle of their tell all tour, Katie Price has revealed she and Kerry Katona were kicked out of their hotel just hours before heading on stage with the Celebs Go Dating star

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6 d. ago Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles

Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in MarchFifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role, Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is to play a raging rock star in a West End revival of Teeth ’n’ Smiles by David Hare.It will take Taylor back to the Duke of York’s theatre, where she performed a four-night “theatrical presentation” of her third album, A Complicated Woman, in April. In Hare’s 1975 play she takes the lead role of a singer, Maggie, in an imploding band who put on a concert for a Cambridge University May ball at the end of the 1960s. The mood is summed up by the band’s closing number, Last Orders on the Titanic. Taylor will contribute additional music and lyrics to original song by the brothers Nick and Tony Bicât respectively. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago NTAs stars head home! Maura Higgins lets loose as she leaves solo after awkward reunion with Danny Jones following THAT kiss as takeaway

The Love Island star, 34, and the McFly singer, 39, went on stage together when their show I'm A Celebrity scooped the prize for Best Reality Competition.

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7 d. ago 'I'll never forget what Ryan Reynolds did after Wrexham lost – it's a true mark of the man'

Ryan Reynolds has earned praise for showing humility after Wrexham lost a game on the big stage as the Deadpool star stayed to congratulate and chat with the winning team

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7 d. ago NTAs stars head for home! Maura Higgins leaves solo after very awkward reunion with Danny Jones following their post

The Love Island star, 34, and the McFly singer, 39, went on stage together when their show I'm A Celebrity scooped the prize for Best Reality Competition.

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1 week ago Olly Murs pays emotional tribute to Caroline Flack before surprise Anastacia debut

Former X Factor star Olly Murs brought Anastacia on stage at Radio 2 in the Park for a surprise duet and shared an emotional tribute to his late friend Caroline Flack

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1 week ago The Paper review – this spinoff of the US Office is dated, mediocre TV

Domhnall Gleeson stars as a clueless local newspaper editor in the mockumentary comedy’s latest creation. His talents can’t outdo the one-note dialogue and lack of hilarityTwo years after the British version concluded with a second brilliantly mortifying Christmas special in 2003, American viewers got their own take on The Office. Set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, it was very much in the spirit of the original, at least initially: a deadpan mockumentary centred on a megalomaniac manager (Steve Carrell’s Michael Scott), who like Ricky Gervais’s David Brent before him was “a friend first, and a boss second and probably an entertainer third”. The Office: An American Workplace ran for nine seasons, setting aside some of the original’s cringe comedy aspects in favour of something with a little more heart. By the time it ended in 2013, it was an award-winning sitcom juggernaut in its own right – hugely popular but bearing little resemblance to its Slough-b...

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1 week ago Jessie J in 'positive' update after 'second surgery' news as she prepares for stage return

The 37-year-old pop star first underwent surgery for early-stage breast cancer in June

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1 week ago Jessie J health update as she prepares to return to work after cancer diagnosis

Pop star Jessie J is preparing to return to the stage following her breast cancer treatment as her pal Scott Mills reveals how she is doing before her BBC Radio 2 in the Park show

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2 w. ago Tour of Britain star Zeb Kyffin admits it's 'incredible' to be back on home roads

EXCLUSIVE It's been over 12 months since Zeb Kyffin last raced on British roads - and he opened up on his return to Daily Star Sport after the first stage of the Tour of Britain

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2 w. ago ITV Vera star tipped to replace detective in Midsomer Murders

EXCLUSIVE: One Vera star is tipped to join the Midsomer Murders stage play

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him | Editorial

England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated betterFor a limited season this autumn, Christopher Marlowe will become a star of the London stage again. Enjoy it while you can, for Marlowe has become an ephemeral figure in Britain’s national culture. His plays, once staples, are now produced only intermittently, if at all. Today, Marlowe is probably better known for his dramatic death, stabbed in a London riverside tavern, than for anything he wrote or for being the literary pioneer that he was.From next week, however, the sexy and brilliant figure of Kit Marlowe will be the centrepiece character, played by Ncuti Gatwa, in Liz Duffy Adams’s two-hander, Born With Teeth, which is currently in previews in the West End, with its offical opening next week. The play teases with the possibility, first reported in this newspaper in 2016, that Marlowe and William Shakespeare, played by Edward...

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3 w. ago Former BBC Breakfast star shares 'out of the blue' and devastating cancer diagnosis

A former BBC Breakfast star has opened up about his stage four cancer diagnosis and is urging men to get screened for the disease

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3 w. ago Sky News star says Stage 4 cancer was 'bolt from the blue' after holiday illness

The former Sky News host appeared on his former channel as he called on men to "demand" a prostate cancer test

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3 w. ago What Time Is Chappell Roan on stage? Here's everything we learned from the star's first Edinburgh gig

If you are heading to Chappell Roan tonight, we’ve already got the tips you need thanks to going to the Tuesday concert.

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