Maria, Pablo Larrain’s lavish biopic of the last days of Maria Callas, and The Critic, a dark thriller about a fictional evil ...

English-American actor John Douglas Thompson is travelling to Scotland for the first time to perform in The Merchant of Venice at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum. He tells Fergus Morgan about how being stood ...

Historian Roel Konijnendijk reviews examples of ancient battles in "Gladiator II," "The Lord of the Rings," and "House of the Dragon." ...

Matt Forde will return to the West End with his Political Party podcast, 18 months after his last show featuring Mhairi Black ...

Peter Jackson reveals which of the three Lord of the Rings movie is his favorite, and the director’s choice may come as a ...

The scarf has a much richer history than you might think. In the Second World War, pilots wore scarves for reasons other than ...

The Stage 100 2025: introduction | 1 | 2 | 3-8 | 9-14 | 15-20 | London theatres | Regional theatres | Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland | Opera and dance | Producers (commercial) | Producers ...

Even great films sometimes have a scene that fails to ring completely true, or a sub-plot that lets your attention drift a ...

Ian McKellen faced his deadliest role, pushing him to the brink and questioning survival after battling Balrogs and Magneto's ...

Gandalf has a good reason for changing his staff multiple times in The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, which connects to ...

It might seem difficult to believe at first, but few men lived as extraordinary a life as Christoper Lee, the prolific actor ...

The film (rated 15) stars Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. Based on the 2015 novel Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn, it was described by one reviewer as a captivating ...