Katherine Kelly News

The 36th Olivier Awards with MasterCard will offer a star-studded night of awards and exclusive entertainment at the Royal Opera House on Sunday 15 April hosted by West End stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. The list of presenters includes Hayley Atwell, Douglas Booth, Zach Braff, Jim Carter, Tom Chambers, Tyne Daly, Jack Davenport, Agyness Deyn, Jonathan Edwards, Susannah Fielding, Vittorio Grigolo, Lenny Henry, Ronan Keating, Katherine Kelly, Harry Lloyd, James McAvoy, Natascha McElhone, Laurie Metcalf, Elaine Paige, Dan Stevens, Sir Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Kara Tointon, Will Young, Zoe Wanamaker, Jodie Whittaker and Barbara Windsor with a few more surprises on the night.

Award-winning actor JEREMY PIVEN (Entourage) will lead the cast as American entrepreneur, Harry Gordon Selfridge, in new drama MR SELFRIDGE (working title), about the life of the flamboyant and visionary American entrepreneur, produced by ITV Studios for ITV1.

THE TALK will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of CBS Daytime's Emmy award-winning soap opera THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL on Monday, March 19, 2012, (2:00-3:00 PM, ET; 1:00-2:00 PM, PT), with a special commemorative show featuring cast members John McCook, Texas Battle, Jacob Young, Katherine Kelly Lang, Kimberly Matula and Heather Tom.

National Theatre Live continues its third season with Oliver Goldsmith's SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.

THE TALK will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of CBS Daytime's Emmy award-winning soap opera THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL on Monday, March 19, 2012, (2:00-3:00 PM, ET; 1:00-2:00 PM, PT), with a special commemorative show featuring cast members John McCook, Texas Battle, Jacob Young, Katherine Kelly Lang, Kimberly Matula and Heather Tom.

Highlights of the forthcoming productions at the National Theatre, announced today by Nicholas Hytner, include new plays by Alan Bennett, Stephen Beresford, Lisa D'Amour, James Graham and Lucy Prebble. There will be adaptations of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Simon Stephens, and of The Count of Monte Cristo by Richard Bean. Enda Walsh's Misterman receives its London premiere; classic revivals include Polly Findlay's production of Sophocles' Antigone, Shakespeare's Timon of Athens directed by Nicholas Hytner, Bijan Sheibani's staging of Damned for Despair by Tirso de Molina, and Nadia Fall's production of Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma.

Taking place at the O2 Arena on Wednesday January 25th, the National Television Awards will be hosted by X Factor's Dermot O'Leary and promises to be a spectacular event. The show, which will also be broadcast live on ITV1, is designed to honour the biggest TV stars and most successful programmes from the previous year.

THE 38TH ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY® AWARDS will be broadcast Sunday, June 19 (8:00-10:00 PM live ET/delayed PT) from the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas on the CBS Television Network. This is the second time that the star-studded awards ceremony, celebrating the best in daytime television, will take place in Las Vegas. For the third year in a row, Associated Television International will be producing the telecast.

Fresh from their critically acclaimed production of Twelfth Night, ShakespeareNYC, formerly Shakespeare at Love Creek, presents a double-barreled sampling of The Bard with productions of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and THE WINTER'S TALE. The two works, presented in repertory, will hold court at the Lion Theatre at 410 West 42nd Street on Theatre Row starting March 18th. Both plays are Equity Showcases and each will be helmed by ShakespeareNYC Artistic Director Beverly Bullock.

Viola, a young woman shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, and believing her twin brother drowned, disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Orsino, who has her play cupid for him and the object of his affections, Lady Olivia. The first of many complications arise when Viola falls for Orsino and Olivia falls for Viola's male alter-ego.