EXCLUSIVE: The London Barbican Theatre's scintillating production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, boasting an all-star ensemble led by Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke and Emma Corrin and directed by the estimable Berlin-based Thomas Ostermeier, is setting course for New York in 2026, multiple sources…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivier Award winner James Graham's unmissable, must-see new play of the year, Punch, featuring an unbelievably stunning performance by David Shields as Jacob Dunne, will transfer from the Young Vic theatre into London's West End in the fall, Deadline can reveal. Punch, an…

EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe warns about the U.S. government's interference in the arts. He expresses surprise in President Trump, who "for someone that supposedly wants to limit government, the government has all of a sudden become very invasive," in culture. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Arterton has revealed to Deadline that she will star in the five-part ITV adaptation of Tom Bradby's ITV spy thriller Secret Service. She’ll play a senior UK intelligence officer who goes rogue in order to uncover a Russian mole embedded in the highest echelons of the British…

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Tate, the beloved British comedy queen and actress best known for Doctor Who, The Office and her scorching eponymous television show, will top the bill at this year's London Palladium Pantomime, Sleeping Beauty. Her casting is a fitting way for the festive extravaganza to…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Zegler, star of Steven Spielberg's screen version of West Side Story and the soon-to-be-released Disney live-action movie Snow White, will make her London theater debut as Eva Perón in a revival of the garlanded Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita, director Jamie Lloyd…

EXCLUSIVE: The stage adaptation of musical movie The Greatest Showman, which starred Hugh Jackman portraying the early life of entertainer P.T. Barnum, will have its world premiere in the British West Country city of Bristol around March 2026, ahead of its launch in the West End and on…

EXCLUSIVE: Miles Madison is Mikey Madison's twin brother, and the way he describes it they were "born at the same time.” Family lore, says Miles, is that they had a cesarean birth "and we were plucked out" simultaneously to prevent arguments about who's older. And does that work? Miles…

EXCLUSIVE: Shirley MacLaine wailed during her acceptance speech when she won her Oscar back in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, “I’m gonna cry because this show has been as long as my career!” Spare a thought for three of this year’s Best Actress nominees, Demi Moore, Karla Sofia Gascón and Mickey…

Charles Finch fixes his beady eyes on me in that sort of British professorial manner to make it clear that the cocktail soiree followed by dinner that he and Chanel are throwing Saturday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge "is not about me meeting some famous people."  Actually, Finch…

EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli began making the calls Thursday, London time, to her most frequent and trusted collaborators to tell them news would soon ricochet around the world like a bullet fired from a Walther PPK, the only weapon used by every actor to play James Bond in the Eon film…

Edward Berger, hot from his double-whammy Best Film and Outstanding British Film wins for Conclave at the EE BAFTA Film Awards, wanted to stop by the Searchlight after-party at Soho House's Greek Street to laud Rising Star winner David Jonsson. "He's not a show-off," an impressed Berger tells me…