WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 12/12, show airs 18, 19 and 20/12
We’re sat behind Jack Whitehall for this chance to see two of three new League Of Gentlemen episodes and an opportunity to ask questions of the cast.
WHERE: Olivier Theatre, National
WHEN: 11/12, show runs to 3/1/18
Follies has about 25 performances left of a near 100-show run when we encounter one of its stars, Imelda Staunton, for a Q&A on the Olivier Theatre stage where she met her husband, Jim Carter, in a production of Guys And Dolls.
WHERE?: BFI
WHEN: 3/11
It’s hard to believe that Jodie Foster wasn’t the first choice to play rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling but it was a part she lobbied hard to play.
WHERE?: BFI
WHEN: 30/10
‘It’s every Shakespeare play you’ve ever seen in 30 minutes’: Steve Pemberton, author and star of BBC2’s Inside No 9 is describing Zanzibar, the opening episode of the fourth series.
WHERE: National Theatre
WHEN: 22/8
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was in his 20s when he wrote the words for Gypsy in 1959 and is here tonight at the National Theatre for the first preview of the revival of his hit Follies starring Imelda Staunton.
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 8/4
He’s midway through shooting the second series and Tom Hughes has his head in his hands as key scenes from it are shared with this Q&A audience.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 28/3, film released in the UK 7/4
‘Straight in, no messing,’ jokes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Riz Ahmed as the first question the audience asks is his thoughts on Brexit.
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 15/2
On 29/3 in 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles Jaye Davidson (pictured above) sat with fellow nominees including Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino to see who had won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT IN THE UK: 10/2
WHERE: National Theatre
WHEN: 8/2
Leads Denzel Washington and Viola Davis won Tonys in 2010 for their roles in August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play and the film, also directed by Washington, is up for four Oscars this month.
WHERE?: BFI
WHEN: 23/1
Last year’s production of The Boys In The Band (Park Theatre) was one of our top five theatre revivals of 2016, earning itself a monsta nomination.
