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Amy Winehouse musical in development for West End

22 October 2026 at 19:00

Stage show based on late singer reportedly set to feature her best-loved songs with involvement from her father Mitch

A musical based on Amy Winehouse is in development for London’s West End.

The project is still in early stages with Catherine Schreiber, a Tony award-winning producer (Cabaret, Rent), attached to the project, according to Variety. Casting is reported to currently be under way.

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© Photograph: Eric CATARINA/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Scientists turn art detectives to date van Gogh's 'Starry Night' to actual sky from 1889

22 October 2026 at 18:27
A team of South Korean researchers has put forward a new date for the night sky depicted in Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh's famed masterpiece "The Starry Night". Art historians have long assumed the stars were a product of the artist's fantasy or dated the scene to June 1889 based on the artist's location and other details, but astronomical details like the sliver crescent moon don't line up. 

Hollywood stars are lining up for MAGA podcaster’s movies — but they may not know what they signed up for

22 October 2026 at 17:28

Danny Trejo’s son has claimed his 82-year-old father had no idea who conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was before he agreed to star in The Daily Wire’s upcoming Minneapolis movie. The same may or may not be true for fellow Hollywood stars including James Franco, Rob Lowe and Jonathan Majors, writes Kevin E G Perry

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The Ali G sequel is appalling – apart from one fascinating, shocking moment

22 October 2026 at 16:32

Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy creation is back, in a film that sends his postering would-be gangster out into the world of real people, ‘Borat’-style. It’s almost excruciatingly unfunny, writes Louis Chilton. But one stunt might just make the whole thing worth seeing

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