9 h. ago Paul Mescal Will Star in A Whistle in the Dark and Death of a Salesman for London's National

Paul Mescal Will Star in A Whistle in the Dark and Death of a Salesman for London's National  Playbill

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10 h. ago Paul Mescal to make National Theatre debut in two 20th century plays

It comes after it was announced the actor is play Sir Paul McCartney in four films directed by Sir Sam Mendes about The Beatles.

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11 h. ago Paul Mescal, Letitia Wright, Monica Barbaro And Nicola Coughlan To Make Star Debuts At London’s National Theatre

Paul Mescal, Letitia Wright, Monica Barbaro And Nicola Coughlan To Make Star Debuts At London’s National Theatre  Deadline

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38 h. ago Jurgen Klopp breaks silence on Liverpool title triumph with message to Arne Slot

Liverpool won their 20th domestic title on Sunday to cap a fine debut season for Arne Slot and the Dutchman's predecessor, Jurgen Klopp, has now reacted to their success

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5 d. ago Lau's Martin Green on Keli, his new National Theatre of Scotland show: 'I fell in love with brass bands'

Telling the story of a tenor horn player from a fictional Central Belt mining village who heads to London for a brass band competition, Keli has been a complicated balancing act for its creator Martin Green, who both wrote the script and composed the score. Interview by Mark Fisher

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2 w. ago Paul Mescal, Emma Corrin, & Many More Celebrate Cartier Exhibition at London’s V&A

Paul Mescal, Emma Corrin, & Many More Celebrate Cartier Exhibition at London’s V&A  Just Jared

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2 w. ago Emma Corrin oozes sophistication in a sheer tulle gown as they join dapper Paul Mescal at the Cartier VIP dinner at London's V&A Museum

An array of stars headed to London's V&A Museum on Thursday for the lavish dinner in South Kensington.

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2 w. ago Emma Corrin oozes sophistication in a sheer tulle gown as they join dapper Paul Mescal at the Cartier VIP dinn

Emma Corrin oozes sophistication in a sheer tulle gown as they join dapper Paul Mescal at the Cartier VIP dinn  Daily Mail

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2 w. ago Fresh embarrassment for Rachel Reeves as she is forced to admit accepting another lavish freebie

The Chancellor had to declare under parliamentary rules that she was given a free dinner and tickets, worth £265 in total, to see a play at the National Theatre in London.

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2 w. ago Scarlett Johansson, Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor set for Cannes 2025 as lineup announced

Premieres of new movies by Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier and Jafar Panahi to screen at film festival – as well debuts by actor-turned-directors Johansson and Harris Dickinson The Cannes film festival looks set to cement its reputation as the world’s ultimate springboard for serious films with an eye on box office success, with new works by auteur heavyweights Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt and Richard Linklater all set to premiere on the Croisette this May.Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch announced this year’s lineup at a press conference in Paris on Thursday morning. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jack Lowden Filmography 2025: Here are all 14 films the Scottish star of Slow Horses has starred in

Since making his professional stage debut in the National Theatre of Scotland's critically-acclaimed play 'Black Watch' in 2010, Jack Lowden has become a major star.

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3 w. ago No forgetting my encounter with two giants of the stage | Tim Lewis

Old pals Ewan McGregor and Michael Grandage prepare for their new play, My Master Builder, by chuckling about everything that could go wrong and hasFor today’s Observer New Review I had the not-exactly-onerous assignment of spending an hour with the actor Ewan McGregor and director Michael Grandage, as they prepared to put on a new play, My Master Builder, in London’s West End. The two men go way back, and mostly they were cracking each other up with knockabout old stories – much of which there wasn’t room for in my article. McGregor recalled one of his first roles on stage, as Orlando in As You Like It, and how when Simon Callow – multiple Olivier and Bafta award winner – played the part in 1979, he walked out on stage at the National Theatre only to promptly forget the first line of the play.“If you’re a woman and you’re about to have a baby, everybody tells you nightmare stories about childbirth,” said McGregor. “And when you’re an actor about to do a play, everybody tells you te...

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3 w. ago Paul Mescal 'will undergo drastic lifestyle change' to play Paul McCartney in Beatles biopic

The Normal People star will appear in the Beatles biopics in April 2028

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3 w. ago Paul Mescal 'told to get less ripped' as he gears up for role of Sir Paul McCartney in Beatles biopic

It was announced this week that the actor will be starring in the movie alongside Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.

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3 w. ago Michael Sheen's Welsh National Theatre announces its first two plays

Michael Sheen has announced the first productions from his new theatre company

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3 w. ago Michael Sheen says 'I'm not getting paid for this' as he launches most ambitious project yet

Welsh National Theatre is a new creative force for Welsh culture and Michael Sheen is one of the people behind it

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3 w. ago Carl Hooper’s life in sport: from West Indies to Australia via county cricket

The West Indies batter on his effortless style, playing with his idols and how leadership brought out the best in himBy Wisden Cricket MonthlyBorn in Georgetown, Guyana, Carl Hooper, 58, played 102 Test matches for the West Indies between 1987 and 2003, scoring nearly 6,000 runs, taking 114 wickets with his wily off-spin and captaining the side in 22 of those appearances. Known as one of the most stylish, if not necessarily most consistent, batters of the era, he also played 227 ODIs and had five prolific seasons with Kent, making 22 first-class centuries in 85 matches for the club.Hooper returned to the county game with Lancashire in 2003 and is one of only three players to have scored a first-class century against all 18 first-class counties. “He was so talented, yet he didn’t understand just how good he was,” wrote Brian Lara of his former teammate. “People would ask why he didn’t do full justice to his brilliance, and you know what, there is no clear reason for it.” Continue rea...

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3 w. ago Michael Sheen unveils plans for new Welsh National Theatre as he takes on role of a lifetime

The actor revealed the company's first two productions, which will be Owain & Henry and Our Town

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4 w. ago Help! Why are none of the new Beatles cast from Liverpool? | Peter Bradshaw

So Sam Mendes has cast his Beatles tetralogy, but none are from Merseyside. Don’t worry, I’ve just invented the Beatles Cinematic Universe Sam Mendes has announced the cast for his colossal four-film Beatles extravaganza: Harris Dickinson as John, Paul Mescal as Paul, Barry Keoghan as Ringo and Joseph Quinn as George – and to tumultuous acclaim he brought his Fab Four on stage at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, a now well-established affair in the film world, incidentally, satirised in a forthcoming episode of Seth Rogen’s TV comedy The Studio.I’m sorry to say, however, that Sam has almost entirely ignored the casting suggestions that I made in February last year. For what this is worth, I went with Leo Woodall as Paul, Finn Wolfhard as George, Harry Melling as Ringo and Barry Keoghan as John (though Barry got Ringo in the end). But I like to think that Sam Mendes and his producer Pippa Harris were thinking on more or less the same lines as me. Interestingly, there are no American...

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4 w. ago Beatles biopics cast revealed: Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan and Joseph Quinn to star in Sam Mendes movies

The highly anticipated lineup includes Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon

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