World reacts to fully AI-generated singer-songwriter Anna Indiana

Final touches of the £16m refurbishment of Rochdale town hall are being carried out ahead of its reopening next year. Work on the Grade I-listed landmark has been ongoing since 2021.

Monty Python’s Spamalot. The spoof, based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is back on the Broadway boards after a critically acclaimed run earlier this year at the Kennedy Center.Whether you’ll look on the bright side with approval or wish that this quest had more grit may depend upon your expectations of production values and your threshold for unabashed silliness.Tony-winner James Monroe Iglehart leads a top-notch cast as the medieval King Arthur, whose aim is to recruit other men to his Round Table and guide them to the utopia of Camelot.Camelot, as it turns out, is a glitzy casino — an ideal setting for a song and dance routine.

Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, has been the go-to holiday getaway for the royal family ever since 1862, when Queen Victoria purchased the home for one of her sons, the future Edward VII.The country home has long been the location for the Windsor clan to gather and celebrate each New Year holiday.The jolly holly festivities are typified by merry traditions that King Charles, Queen Camilla and the rest of the Firm can enjoy as they come together.Despite Sandringham being a place of joyful memories, it also involves some tragic ones as well.

Eddie Redmayne, 41, has starred in some of the biggest films of recent years, having been active in the industry for more than two decades. He’s also featured in roles across stage and TV, and last year his role in a production of Cabaret led him to win the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Eddie is best-known on the big-screen for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, as well as Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts series.

David Benedict “We need something a little theatrical.” Boy, does excited Bob Newby (Christopher Buckley) get his wish. He’s trying to solve a staging problem in “The Dark of the Moon,” the school play he and the other kids are secretly putting on in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959. But audiences watching “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” will likely greet the line with a wry smile because immense, intense theatricality is there for all to see.

the streamer’s freshman attempt at a stage play is a huge, insufferable embarrassment.Mega-fans of the TV series, like me, will be extremely disappointed by how the live show, which opened Thursday night at the Phoenix Theatre in London, epically fails to conjure the magic and small-town charm of the Duffer brothers’ popular creation. Three hours, plus an intermission.

EXCLUSIVE: The Stranger Things stage show, an unbelievably brilliant new blueprint for theatricality that premieres in London’s West End tonight, will be the first instalment in a trilogy exploring the dark underbelly of Hawkins, Indiana.

George Clooney has no shame admitting he does the cooking at home for his family, adding to another list of reasons he is great. The 62-year-old star and Amal Clooney have been married since 2013, welcoming their twins, Ella and Alexander, in 2017.Clooney has a new film he directed, The Boys in the Boat, which is out on December 17. While on the red carpet from the premiere, he told Extra he is the family chef, joking that Amal’s cooking is deadly.

Jeremy Kyle has told how his wife Vicky Burton could give birth to his sixth child on Christmas day. The TalkTV presenter, 58, announced in September that the pair, who married in 2021, were expecting their second child together.The couple welcomed their on Oliver, in 2020 - while Jeremy already has one child with his first wife Kirsty Rowley and three with his second wife Carla Germaine - making the new impending arrival his sixth. The TV presenter has already said the baby is due early in the New Year.

Coronation Street alumni Nicola Thorp became overwhelmed with emotion in her final TalkTV episode before going on maternity leave. The 35-year-old actress and broadcaster, who is expecting her first child with her actor fiancé Nikesh Patel, hosted her final show on the opinion channel this week ahead of her exciting new arrival.

A three-year-old toddler is fighting for his life in hospital after a violent attack by his 12-year-old babysitter.

People in Scotland may wake up to snow on Christmas morning and the run-up to the big day, according to data from weather forecasters.

Todd Chrisley’s prison stay is far from purr-fect. The “Chrisley Knows Best” alum opened up about the alleged “disgustingly filthy” living conditions he’s been experiencing since reporting to Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola, Florida, in January.“The food is dated and it’s out of date by, at minimum, a year. It’s a year past expiration.

EXCLUSIVE: South Indian stars Adivi Sesh and Shruti Haasan will head the cast of an as-yet-untitled pan-Indian action drama that is being produced by leading Telugu production house Annapurna Studios. 

Kelsey Parker has shared an emotional message about grief in the festive season, as she approaches her second Christmas without her late husband. Kelsey tragically lost her husband, The Wanted star Tom Parker, in 2022, two years after he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Since then the mum-of-two, 33, has been open about her heartbreak and feelings of grief, including how she has navigated becoming a single parent and a young widow.

True Detective‘s Anna Lambe and seven-year-old Inuk actress Keira Cooper will lead the untitled Netflix, CBC and APTN comedy series. Additionally Anya Adams (Yellowjackets) has signed on as producing director of the Canadian show.

auction hosted by Julien’s of Beverly Hills Dec. 14-17.Ford’s rope bridge machete from 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” is expected to fetch at least $50,000, the auction house said.Chris Evans’ patriotic shield is poised to sell above the estimate of $50,000 to $70,000.Willis’ stunt MP5 machine gun from the 1988 blockbuster has a “modest” starting price of $7,000.

The search for a missing teenager in Indiana has ended in tragedy.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The year is coming to end, but not without some major original films debuting on Netflix, Prime Video and more top streaming platforms. Whether it’s potential new holiday classics (Prime Video is launching the Eddie Murphy holiday comedy “Candy Cane Lane” this month) or potential new franchises (Zack Snyder returns to Netflix for the start of his space opera saga “Rebel Moon”), streaming is offering up a ton of original fare this month bolstered by star power such as Bradley Cooper, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and more. Disney+ already added the first four “Indiana Jones” movies to its streaming library in May, but now comes the arrival of the fifth installment, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which marks Harrison Ford’s final outing as the iconic archeologist and adventurer.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor MAD Solutions — the Middle East and North Africa region’s leading sales agent and distributor of Arabic-language films — has acquired the world sales rights for Tunisian director Nada Mezni Hafaiedh’s debut feature “Take My Breath,” which world premiered in the International Competition of the Warsaw Film Festival this fall. Hafaiedh’s film, which has found great success in Tunisian cinemas over the past month, follows the life of a young seamstress named Shams, whose tranquil life unravels when their intersex identity is exposed.