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It's early days, but informal talks have begun between Nolan, his representatives and the powers behind the James Bond pictures, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G .Wilson. Nolan, who made the Batman trilogy Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises - and had time for Inception in between - would be a cool choice after Sam Mendes decided ... (more)

John Simm is the perfect foil to Simon Russell Beale in this pithy political farce written half a century ago What you need to know A revival of Harold Pinter's political farce The Hothouse has opened at the Trafalgar Studios, London.

The TV Bafta awards belonged to Olivia Colman after the Broadchurch star picked up two awards for two very different roles.

The TV Bafta awards belonged to Olivia Colman after the Broadchurch star picked up two awards for two very different roles.

We really are spoiled for big-name actors giving wonderful performances in London right now.

The Hothouse is part of an exciting season of work for Trafalgar Transformed , a joint initiative between director Jamie Lloyd and Howard Panter .

Roddy Doyle's The Commitments is coming to the West End 25 years after being first published with the Dublin author himself adapting it for the stage.

Our greatest living stage actor is a Shakespeare specialist, but he's made an exception just so he can throw whisky in someone's face, twice.

Jamie Lloyd: 'I've never been so excited about a plate of radishes in my life.' Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features Theatre director Jamie Lloyd studied acting at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and had his big break directing Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Sheffield Crucible in 2006.

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RESTAURANTS in Stratford-upon-Avon are gearing up to hold a series of lunches across the town today, to mark William Shakespeare's 449th birthday.