Stage & Screen

Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals?

The Simpsons is the world's most popular entertainment phenomenon, regularly voted on both sides of the Atlantic as the best TV show ever made.Simpsons Confidential is the uncensored, unauthorised oral history of the show from the people who made it happen.

Offers a defining portrait of Sean Penn, the actor and activist hailed by Time magazine as 'a worthy heir to Brando and Dean'. Long considered the finest American screen actor of his generation, he has never courted Hollywood's approval, or wasted a minute being anything but his own man.

A deluxe collector's edition exploring the second season of the acclaimed Star Wars TV show, now streaming on Disney+.

This special edition celebrates the action-packed second season of The Mandalorian by producers Jon Favereau and Dave Filoni, and starring Pedro Pascal as the titular bounty hunter, ...

'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly

'Riveting' Sunday Telegraph

'Behind every great interview is a great booker - Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers Morgan

She is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew, described as 'a plane crashing into an oil ...

'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly

'Riveting' Sunday Telegraph

'Behind every great interview is a great booker - Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers Morgan

She is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew, described as 'a plane crashing into an oil ...

The true story of how a seemingly down-and-out company made Steve Jobs an overnight billionaire

When you wake up in a cold sweat at night and you think someone is watching you, well it's me. I'm watching you. And that cold sweat on your body, those are my tears.When the Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with the Dermots, closure is on the menu but recrimination becomes the main course. As their ...

Includes plays that span from the sinking of the Titanic to the lingering aftermath of the Troubles in twenty-first-century Belfast.

Hail, Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one.

In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling of his camera and projector - a year before Thomas Edison announced that the had invented a motion picture camera - Le Prince stepped on a train in France - and disappeared without a trace.

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character ...

Brings together four key plays that include - "Outlying Island", "San Diego", "Pyrenees" and "The American Pilot". This collection also includes a trilogy of short plays - "Being Norwegian", "Kyoto" and "Brewers Fayre".

I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.

Suitable as a present, this slip-cased edition contains over 500 line illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, which are coloured by Barbara Frith.

This is a book about three things:
1. A room called the Comedy Cellar.
2. Who gets to speak in that room.
3. What they get to say.
The Comedy Cellar is a tiny basement club in New York's Greenwich Village. Run according to the principles of its owners, the Dworman family, it became a safe place for stand-ups ...

A look at the making of "Velvet Goldmine" through the eyes of its creator, the independent film-maker Christine Vachon. Starring Ewan McGregor, Christian Bale, Jonathon Rees Meyers and Toni Collette, the film is a camp, retro-kitsch ride through the origins of glam rock in 1970s London.

Presents a dark and powerful play for television that concerns a Nationalist teacher whose attempt to prevent his pupils beating at a pheasant shoot held in honour of the British Ambassador leads to a shockingly violent incident.

Two brand-new monologues in the Talking Heads series, as seen on BBC1 and iPlayer 'Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise.

Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this study investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema, showing how European films represent these cities across old and new Europe. It tackles changes wrought under the effects of political change.