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The actor will play all roles in the Shakespeare play after leading a one-person Great Expectations last year Eddie Izzard is returning to a New York stage this winter for an ambitious version of Hamlet with the actor-comedian playing the only person on stage.

As Emily Maitlis takes over as the lead inquisitor on Newsnight, she talks to Gaby Hinsliff about the stories behind the headlines, getting emotional over Grenfell and her now infamous eye-roll

Singer Chris Brown has handed himself in to Los Angeles police over an alleged assault on an unidentified woman believed to be his girlfriend, the pop star Rihanna. The couple were due to perform at the Grammy awards last night but they pulled out after Brown, 19, was accused of attacking a woman after an

He lost out when 1989s Tim Burton-helmed Superman Lives was canned, but The Flash, Warner DCs first venture into the multiverse, could see the actor finally do his thing in the red cape According to certain scientific theories there are endless alternative universes out there. In one, everything is exactly the same as in this

Rupert Brooke was still an apprentice poet in 1915 when he died, aged 28, of blood poisoning, having never seen the military action he had romanticised in the five sonnets that culminate in The Soldier. He had worked devotedly to perfect his writing since his schooldays, but the various strands of his talent were never