3 d. ago Deep Cover review – Bryce Dallas Howard leads improv actors into London’s underground

Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed star in an entertaining odd-trio crime caper with turns by Sean Bean and Paddy Considine Producer and screenwriter Colin Trevorrow has co-created this amiable, high-concept action comedy about three hapless improv actors dragooned into going into deep cover to bust a drug ring. It’s entertaining, though I think some of the cast understand comedy better and more instinctively than others. It’s set in London (though Trevorrow might originally have imagined it set in LA or New York) and the credit is shared with his longtime writing partner Derek Connolly, and also with Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen, the funny British double act known as the Pin, who also amusingly appear as two squabbling coppers with a Mitchell and Webb energy. The director is the talented Tom Kingsley, who has a substantial TV career and with Will Sharpe got a Bafta nomination in 2012 for the dark comedy Black Pond.Bryce Dallas Howard plays Kat, an American actor whose caree...

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1 week ago Dominic Cooke appointed as the Almeida theatre’s artistic director

Cooke, who ran the Royal Court for several years, will succeed Rupert Goold at the illustrious London venue in 2026Dominic Cooke has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Almeida theatre in London, succeeding Rupert Goold in 2026.Cooke ran the Royal Court for several years and is an in-demand director with recent hits in the West End and at the National Theatre. “Twelve years after leaving the Royal Court, I couldn’t be more excited to be returning as an artistic director and to be taking the reins of this unique theatre,” he said. He described Goold’s Almeida as “a beacon of quality and innovation” and added: “I’m hugely grateful to him and his team to be handed an organisation in such good health. I look forward to building on this legacy and to future adventures in this magical space.” Continue reading...

Society

1 week ago Eerie footage shows diver's horrifying final moments after huge mistake underwater

Yuri Lipski plunged into the depths of the Blue Hole in the Red Sea, Egypt and never resurfaced despite being warned not to attempt such a dive without proper training

Culture

1 week ago Chilling footage after diver ignored warnings and recorded his final moments

Yuri Lipski's body was recovered the next morning after he plunged to his death in the Blue Hole in the Red Sea, Egypt, and his helmet camera was found intact

Events

1 week ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Fiddler On The Roof's first night at the Barbican Theatre: Topol made the film sing, but this Fiddler dances to its own tune

The show is surely still best known from the 1971 film starring Chaim Topol as the hard-working, God-fearing milkman Tevye with five feisty daughters to marry off.

Culture

2 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Marriage Material at the Lytic Theatre: Catherine Cookson meets The Kumars in a sweet Sikh sitcom

PATRICK MARMION: For sheer intensity of generational bonds, they are hard to beat - as we discover all over again in the new stage adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera's epic Marriage Material.

Society

3 w. ago Tiny island 3.5 hours from UK named Amalfi Coast 'dupe' with crystal blue sea

The Amalfi Coast may look beautiful online, but with over-tourism resulting in eye-watering hotel prices, constant traffic and never-ending crowds - you may want to check out this stunning dupe

Politics

3 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at Minerva Theatre, Chichester: A tearjerking musical trek...go armed with Kleenex

Rachel Joyce's highly emotional 2012 best-seller which has now become a musical about Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage to make up with an old friend dying in a hospice 500 miles away.

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3 w. ago Scotland's oldest working theatre launches £30,000 fundraising campaign to avoid cutting programme

The Theatre Royal in Dumfries is seeking financial help after missing out on multi year funding from Creative Scotland.

Economics

4 w. ago Tamsin Greig: ‘What is the worst thing anyone’s said to me? “And for you, sir?” It happens a lot’

The actor on being a high-functioning introvert, her ‘wild man’ husband and why she loves Nick CaveBorn in Kent, Tamsin Greig, 58, studied drama at the University of Birmingham. Her television work includes Black Books, Green Wing, Episodes and Friday Night Dinner, and she won the 2007 Best Actress Olivier award for her role in Much Ado About Nothing. Until 21 June, she stars in The Deep Blue Sea at Theatre Royal Haymarket in London. She is married to actor Richard Leaf, has three children and lives in London.Which living person do you most admire, and why? Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life. Continue reading...

Politics

last month PATRICK MARMION reviews The Deep Blue Sea at the Theatre Royal: Tale of romantic regret hidden by veil of primness

Was there ever a play that craved intimacy like Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea?

Politics