Dominic West News

Jude Law, Dame Helen Mirren, Rachel Weisz and Patrick Stewart are among the stars competing at the upcoming Whatsonstage.com Awards, which honour the best in London theatre.

Law received a nomination in the Best Actor category for his role in the West End run of Hamlet, which recently transferred to Broadway.

THE Wire actor Dominic West is to direct an episode of Jimmy McGovern's daytime drama, Moving On.

Dominic West, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Dame Helen Mirren will battle it out for awards celebrating the cream of the theatre world.

Dominic West returns as Baltimore police Detective Jimmy McNulty in "The Wire," the dark, critically acclaimed drama returning Sunday for a second season on HBO.

A SOUTH Devon actor has landed a role alongside one of the stars of an award-winning American TV crime show.

The Wire made a killing at the Crime Thriller awards, picking up two prizes including a best actor gong for star Dominic West.

Good morning! Let's begin this busy day of theater news with a roundup of major new shows from London.

DOMINIC West has taken a mighty stride from TV's The Wire, in which he played gritty Baltimore cop McNulty, to the complex passions of 17th-century Spanish drama.

Kate Fleetwood stars in the Donmar Warehouse's 'Life Is a Dream,' from a new adaptation by Helen Edmundson of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's play.

London, Life Is A Dream Your rating Click on a star to rate Henry Hitchings's rating Reader rating Add your review Description: Helen Edmundson's version of Pedro Calderon De La Barca's drama, starring Dominic West, Rupert Evans and Sharon Small.

Dominic West has impressed critics with his performance in a West End play. The Wire actor treads the boards at London's Donmar Warehouse as lead character Seguismundo in the British version of Spanish play Life Is A Dream.

Wire creator David Simon introduces his new book about the television phemonenon that redefined the way we think about cop shows Click image to download an audio extract from The Wire: Truth Be Told, read by David Simon "We're building something here .

SOME of the best-known faces from The Wire, the American television drama series that has taken the world by storm, are expected in Glin next year when one of the series' stars, Dominic West, marries Catherine FitzGerald, daughter of the Knight of Glin and his wife, Olda.

So it may prove consoling to learn that at least somebody agrees with Grayling, namely Old Etonian Dominic West, who plays the tough-guy detective Jimmy McNulty in the series.

The daughter of The Wire star Dominic West will have her own taste of stardom on Sunday.

Michael K. Williams is outstanding as Omar, the gay stick-up specialist, in The Wire , a show that ain't done Baltimore proud.

Husband and wife stars Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly led guests on the red carpet for the premiere of Creation, which follows a key period in scientist Charles Darwin's life.

London, It's in the genes: daughter of Wire star lands Darwin film role By Louise Jury, Cheif Arts Correspondent Last updated at 10:40am on 11.09.09 Add your view The daughter of The Wire star Dominic West will get her own taste of stardom when she walks the red carpet for her film debut on Sunday.

For hardcore fans of The Wire , watching the show on telly is for kids smoking rather than injecting, as it were.