Kenneth Branagh
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Actor and former pop star hailed for stage portrayal of woman struggling to conceive in Yerma at the Young Vic
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The embattled actor and Oscar winner will star in Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Daisy Ridley
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Branagh is highly watchable as the music-hall veteran Archie Rice, but John Osborne’s portrait of a collapsing culture is undercut in a misjudged production
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Theatre is pricey and divisive but can a livestream ever capture its flesh and blood thrills? Our film critic decided to find out – by legging it out of Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet at the interval …
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Lily James and Richard Madden certainly look the part, but are doomed by their diction
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Kenneth Branagh returned in an oddly leaden Wallander, while a film on white communities in London’s East End was surprisingly subtle
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Lily James’s Juliet has a boozy balcony scene, Richard Madden’s Romeo seems genuinely inflamed by love and Derek Jacobi is a lounge-lizard Mercutio
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The famously frosty detective is showing signs of warming up – but it hasn’t affected his cold, hard investigative skills
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Rob Brydon is earning great reviews in the West End alongside Kenneth Branagh – and Hollywood has finally come calling. Tim Lewis meets him for a private performance of knockabout comedy…
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Judi Dench! Eddie Izzard! Cyndi Lauper! The toast of theatreland arrive at the Royal Opera House in London – and everyone just wants to have fun
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Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon labour for laughs as hotel guests thrown together by circumstance
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Cumberbatch up against Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance for best actor, while Gemma Arterton and Nicole Kidman vie for best actress
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The comedian and campaigner on great theatre, David Eagleman, the brilliance of Radiohead, TED talks and a thriller you just can’t put down
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Actor will also direct adaptation of 1934 Agatha Christie mystery about a killing on board a long-distance passenger train
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Kenneth Branagh is tremendous in a magical The Winter’s Tale, though Judi Dench isn’t half bad either…
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