Entertainment / Culture


Telegraph, 24.04.13 07:02 UTC

National Theatre fails to recruit Michael Grandage as Sir Nicholas Hytner s replacement

Michael Grandage, the acclaimed director, has turned down the chance to be the next director of the National Theatre.


Seattle Times, 24.04.13 06:04 UTC

Thailand bans film about Thai-Cambodian border row

Thailand's film censors have banned a documentary about the country's long-running border dispute with neighboring Cambodia as a threat to national security, the filmmaker said Wednesday.


Seattle Times, 24.04.13 04:58 UTC

There's room for the 2 Jimmys in late-night TV

The longtime feud between late-night hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman is the stuff of legend and, apparently, so yesterday.


The Sydney Morning Herald, 24.04.13 04:46 UTC

Voice audition a 'whacko' decision, says Dobson

Former Leonardo's Bride singer Abby Dobson has broken her silence about her unsuccessful audition for The Voice, calling her decision to go on the show "whacko". But the reaction from fans has been ...


Seattle Times, 24.04.13 04:24 UTC

Review: David Byrne revisits disco in new work

Given her legendary reputation for extravagance, Imelda Marcos seems a fitting subject for David Byrne's splashy new disco musical "Here Lies Love," a bright, novel production with a bold disregard for modesty and convention.


Seattle Times, 24.04.13 04:00 UTC

Bombers postings a social-media cornucopia of information

Once the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects focused on Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers social-media postings provided a rich vein of material to mine and sift.


Seattle Times, 24.04.13 03:14 UTC

'M.A.S.H.' regular Allan Arbus dies at 95

Allan Arbus, who played the wise - and wisecracking - psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on TV's "M.A.S.H.," has died at age 95.


Seattle Times, 24.04.13 01:43 UTC

Dwayne Johnson tweets pic after hernia surgery

Dwayne Johnson is home after hernia surgery.


Daily Mail, 24.04.13 01:32 UTC

Tweet of the Day... but it's more relaxing than Twitter: Radio 4 to introduce 90-second birdsong recordings each day

PUBLISHED: 23:11 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 23:53 GMT, 23 April 2013 To a younger audience, the title may seem somewhat misleading. Veteran wildlife expert David Attenborough is among a number of ...