Maggie Smith News

Sexy nun on the run: Could Beyonce take the lead role in a film of the stage version of Sister Act? Beyonce's got religion - showbiz style - and wants to star in a movie version of the stage musical Sister Act.

The film crew remaking the Hollywood blockbuster Clash of the Titans have chosen a quarry in north Wales for some of its scenes.

The title alone told you that you needed to read no further in the Rebecca Wells novel.

Force of habit: Patina Miller is on blistering form as Deloris in 'Sister Act' enlarge Those wacky old nuns on Wimple Street are leaping about like nobody's business, as if this theatre's previous incumbents in The Sound of Music had been given a blessing to boogie.

Three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Anthony Powell began his professional career as a teenager touring with his handmade marionettes.

Comedy, Musical, Minority Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith Whoopi is a second rate lounge singer who witnesses her boyfriend gun someone down in cold blood.

Alan Bennett, who turns 75 on Saturday, is a writer who captures the nuances of English life like no other.

Emma Thompson will return in the lead role of Nanny McPhee, while Rhys Ifans will play Phil, the brother-in-law of Mrs.

Ever since the 1960s I've been a fan of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. I was fortunate enough to see them in several London stage productions in the 1960s, when they were in their mid- to late-20s. Judi Dench was in the first performance of a Shakespeare play that I saw in England: A Midsummer-Night's Dream .

Finally! Despite a snowy break late Sunday, the day has arrived that many of us marked on our new 2009 calendars last fall.

When: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $20 - $40 Age limit: Not available Theatre Three is continuing its self-styled World Tour Season with Murder on the Nile , a 1946 play by the prolific and popular Agatha Christie, based on her earlier novel, Death on the Nile .

Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the recipient of the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

David Copperfield - Part One Charles Dickens's beloved novel gets all-star treatment in this encore presentation of David Copperfield.

In the latest issue of The Believer , Brock Clarke has a piece on the use of artifice and metafiction in Muriel Spark's novels.

Raleigh The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Raleigh Little Theatre - I admit to watching the 1969 film of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie on AMC a few times when I was a teenager, and not completely ...

Charles Dickens fans won't have to ask for more when PBS' Masterpiece Classic serves up four of the English novelist's works over the next three months.

Dressed for success ... Douglas Hodge and the Cagettes in the Olivier-nominated La Cage aux Folles.

LOUTH Playgoers has been packing in audiences with some first class entertainment this season and the trend is set to continue with February's play, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Sheila Hancock is to star in a West End version of the Hollywood film Sister Act, as theatreland looks for another feelgood musical to emulate the success of Mamma Mia! Hancock, 75, will play the formidable ...

East Finchley resident Liz Smith has been awarded an MBE for services to Drama. The 87-year-old actress got her first major break at age 50 playing a down-trodden mother in Mike Leigh film Bleak Moments.