Helen Mirren News

In Phedre, Helen Mirren plays a queen who falls in love with her stepson, played by Dominic Cooper.

It's one of the hottest stage shows in London at the moment, but you don't need airplane tickets and a hotel reservation to see Helen Mirren in the National Theatre production of "Phedre." The drama that opened June 11 to excellent reviews -- and sold-out houses -- will be transmitted in high-definition video to Fairfield University's Quick Center ...

AS FAR as the theatre is concerned, however, this is turning out to be a bumper summer and it could be because of the economic difficulties.

How fortunate we are in Macon are to have the Douglass Theatre. For over eight years the Douglass has been the home of the Macon Film Guild, with its monthly films that we are unlikely to see on the big screen unless we're on an out-of-town trip.

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In the classical French play "Phedre" Racine dramatized in theatrical verse the notion that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

In North America these days and nights, the London-born model and actor Robert Pattison, vampire star of the film "Twilight," is all the rage.

By CHRISTOPHER KELLY Theatre buffs have been buzzing about the recently completed season on Broadway, regarded as one of the strongest in years.

There are queens, and then there are queens. Helen Mirren , having won an Academy Award as the emotionally clamped-down Elizabeth II in "The Queen," has donned the purple of royalty again to portray the emotionally unedited title character in Racine's "Phedre" at the National Theater.

A PLAYWRIGHT says he is devastated after discovering his book about Brian Clough would have been made into a film if he had written it two years earlier.

The Music Hall announced today the balance of the 2009-2010 lineup in the new international partnership - National Theatre of London HD Broadcast Series.

"This is not a feel-good play," said the tall, silver-haired woman to the tall, gray-haired man, as they made their way into the Lyttleton Theater, looking like a pair of stately salt and pepper shakers.

Training staffers to read customers' signals can lead to much better, more successful experiences for both customer and bookseller.

La Clique's last hurrah at the Hippodrome is a must, and there are festivals aplenty.

NEWS RELEASE CINEPLEX ENTERTAINMENT ************************** Cineplex Entertainment's first NT Live performance, Phedre, starring Helen Mirren premieres on Thursday, June 25 From London, England via satellite to Cineplex Entertainment theatres across the country WHAT: Cineplex Entertainment is pleased to announce that the first season of the NT ...

London, It's all going on off-stage Dramatic sites: Vagabonds' Voyage uses a stretch of Regent's Canal as its setting Kursk: Part of the Young Vic has been transformed into a submarine's interior Shady territory: Cardboard Citizens' Mincemeat leads the audience through Cordy House in Shoreditch We are in the midst of a mini theatrical boom.

Stuart Blackburn, Alan Brent, Darren Beaumont, Cheska Moon and Christopher Orton, from left, will appear in the Northern Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Madinat Theatre in Dubai.

The Connecticut Critics Circle announced its annual awards for outstanding work in the state for the 2008-09 season.

Sienna Miller may have parted acrimoniously from Jude Law, but his best friend, Jonny Lee Miller, seems to hold no grudge against the 27-year-old actress.

London, June 10 : Actress Bai Ling has revealed that she has landed a role alongside Dame Helen Mirren in 'Love Ranch', a new film about a Las Vegas brothel, despite a bad audition.