‘Veep’ Creator Armando Iannucci to Adapt Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ for London Stage

Veep creator Armando Iannucci is bringing to London’s West End his first play – a satire on former UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Naman Ramachandran “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci’s first stage play “Pandemonium” is a satire on how then U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government handled the COVID-19 pandemic. The subtitle of the play is: “Being A Scornful Account of the Activities of Mr Boris Johnson and ‘Others’ during the Pandemic and its Aftermath.” The production is described as “a caustic entertainment for the winter months, a funny, wild ongoing history play about how our great leaders grappled first with the Pandemic and then with each other.

An artist at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was left upset when just one person attended one of the first ever performances of her solo show.

Leslie David Baker, part of the ensemble that kept people laughing on the long-running comedy hit “The Office,” is giving up plans to launch a spin-off series featuring his character, Stanley Howard.

Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood have announced a new London art exhibition.The show, which is titled ‘The Crow Flies Part One’, is due to run at the Tin Man Art gallery at Cromwell Place in South Kensington between September 6-10.It’ll feature a series of new paintings that long-term friends and collaborators Yorke and Donwood created together over the past two years.Per a description, the works began as cover artwork for ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’, the 2022 debut album from Yorke’s side-project The Smile, whose line-up is completed by Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet‘s Tom Skinner.“The wider series will be presented alongside a Flemish woven tapestry commissioned by the artists in London to celebrate the album’s one-year anniversary,” the official listing reads.“This exhibition marks a significant moment in a 30-year artistic partnership for Yorke and Donwood, who worked on it together in Oxford and Brighton between 2021 and 2023. It takes its name from Ted Hughes’ poem Crow (1966-69), from which the band name The Smile is also derived, and draws inspiration from the Bodleian Libraries’ collection of Islamic pirate maps and 1960s US military topographic charts.“The works comprise a mixture of gouache, tempera and powdered mushroom on canvas and feature an extensive language of signs and symbols developed by the artists and codified via supporting imagery.”Tickets for the exhibition are available free of charge – you can book yours here.Donwood has created the art for all of Radiohead’s albums and promotional materials since 1994, as well as all of Yorke’s solo records.

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew López, who won the Best Play Tony Award in 2020 for his drama The Inheritance, was at the BFI Imax theater in London’s Waterloo on Thursday night for the premiere of Prime Video’s romantic comedy feature Red, White & Royal Blue, which he directed and adapted from Casey McQuiston’s bestselling novel.

The 1975 frontman, Matty Healy, has finally addressed the aftermath of his headline-making on-stage kiss with bandmate Ross MacDonald during their performance at the Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur, thanking activist Peter Tatchell for coming to his defense. The passionate kiss, which lasted approximately 20 seconds, took a bold stand against Malaysia's anti-LGBTQ+ laws, resulting in a ban for the English musician from the Southeast Asian nation.

The often-sold-out, Stanley H2.0 FlowState Tumbler is back in stock on Amazon right now and is available in vibrant summer colors. A quality water bottle is hard to come by, so there's a reason Stanley Tumblers have been all over TikTok recently. People swear by these cups in 2023 for their ability to keep water cold for up to two days and convenient cup holder compatibility.

London Grammar have teamed up with CamelPhat on a new track called ‘Higher’ – check it out below.The track is taken from a new remix collection that London Grammar was released yesterday (July 21).Discussing the release, vocalist Hannah Reid said: “All three of us grew up listening to electronic music.  I remember buying CDs from a vending machine at Fabric. When me Dan and Dot first met we bonded over so much music – from the most obscure to the most commercial electronic sounds.“Remixes from electronic artists have formed a huge part of our career and success as a band.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively enjoyed some quality time together while across the pond. 

Stanley Kubrick’s great apocalyptic Cold War comedy Dr Strangelove is being brought to the stage by Armando Iannucci, best known for more recent shows Veep and Avenue Five. 

The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci is set to pen a stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film Dr Strangelove.The legendary film – officially titled Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb – hit screens in 1964.Discussing his adaptation, which is the first time the film will be adapted for the stage and will come to the West End in late 2024, Iannucci told BBC News: “As a story, weirdly it hasn’t gone away.“It seems the right time to remind people of the mad logic behind these dangerous games that superpowers play.”While appearing on BBC Radio 4‘s Today programme, Iannucci added: “In these sad times, what better way to cheer the nation up than a stage show about the end of the world.” He added: “We started talking about this adaptation several years ago, but now with the war in Ukraine and the whole nuclear question, it just hasn’t gone away. I think a lot of our art is less about the past and more about the future.”His co-writer and director Sean Foley added: “The themes within it are perennially relevant: the climate catastrophe, the end of the world is somewhere in our consciousness all the time now.”Kubrick’s family also commented on the adaptation, which is the first time his work has been reproduced since his death.His widow, Christiane Kubrick, said: “We have always been reluctant to let anyone adapt any of Stanley’s work, and we never have.

Will Ferrell is seen out with his entire family, but that's exactly what transpired Wednesday in London at the premiere.The 55-year-old funny man was seen out with his wife, Viveca Paulin, dressed to the nine alongside the couple's three sons — Magnus, 19, Mattias, 16, and Axel, 13. Ferrell almost looked like his character in Greta Gerwig's highly anticipated look inside Barbie Land, in which Ferrell plays a human.

Nearly every member of the Barbie cast was in attendance for the European premiere!

Margot Robbie is continuing to slay the fashion game on the Barbie press tour and she gave us another incredible look for the European premiere!

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Over the past weekend, the Weeknd broke London Stadium’s record for highest attendance with his two-night stand at the venue on Friday and Saturday, which drew 160,000 people to his “After Hours Til Dawn Tour.” The tour also holds the record for highest single-night attendance for any show at the stadium with 80,000 fans. According to promoter Live Nation, the tour has already sold more than 2 million tickets for its European and forthcoming South America and Mexico dates — and 200,000 for both England and France. The sold-out 2022 North American leg of the stadium tour grossed more than $148 million dollars. The global tour has now grossed over $350 million dollars to date.

Taylor Swift fans will have a chance to get their hands on the first tickets to watch the pop megastar in the UK.

Fans hoping to catch Taylor Swift on the UK leg of her Eras Tour next year have their first shot at securing tickets on Monday (July 10).

Steve-O was briefly detained by police in London.

Steve-O found a very -y way to promote his upcoming comedy special in the U.K. — by jumping off the famed London Bridge and into the River Thames.The 49-year-old entertainer took to Instagram on Friday and posted the video which shows a countdown before jumping off the bridge and into the river.