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Sheridan Smith

May 2024

  • Opening Night’s Rufus Wainwright, left, with Sheridan Smith and Ivo van Hove. Filling seats for the West End musical has been difficult.

    Brexit didn’t bring down the curtain on Rufus Wainwright’s show. The play’s the thing

    David Benedict
    Word of mouth is vital if a costly West End production is going to succeed, and Opening Night had the wrong kind
  • Sheridan Smith and Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop

    Exclusive: Audience had ‘vitriolic reaction’ to European tone of musical, forced to close early
  • Steve Pemberton and Susan Wokoma in Inside No 9.

    The watcher
    Inside No 9: dark, funny and totally riveting – this is the best comedy the UK has ever created

    The ninth and final series of the ever-inventive black comedy is packed with stars and cements its status as a classic. It’s such a shock America hasn’t tried to copy it yet

April 2024

  • Sheridan Smith at the press night for Opening Night in London.

    Opening Night starring Sheridan Smith to close two months early

    Producers of West End musical say premature end is due to ‘challenging financial landscape’

March 2024

  • Sheridan Smith as Broadway star Myrtle in Opening Night.

    The week in theatre: Opening Night; MJ the Musical – review

  • EMBARGOED UNTIL 1AM WEDS MARCH 27 2024.. OPENING NIGHT. Sheridan Smith (Myrtle). Photo Jan Versweyveld (3)

    Opening Night review – Sheridan Smith’s boozy meltdown shakes up musical theatre

February 2024

  • ‘I need to prove I’m not that person’ … Smith as Myrtle Gordon in Opening Night.

    ‘It’s so close to the bone’: Sheridan Smith on her very public meltdown – and reliving it on stage

  • Sheridan Smith arrives at the Savoy Theatre, London, 28 Jan 2024; she has long, straight blonde hair and is wearing a black jacket with low-cut black top; she has gold earrings, a gold chain around her neck and a chain-detail strap to her handbag

    Sheridan Smith says ADHD diagnosis helped her ‘make sense of a lot of things’

December 2023

  • Serving up the unexpected … Ian McKellen in Player Kings and comedian Julia Masli

    2024 culture preview
    The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024

    The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

November 2023

  • ‘An intense marriage of film and stage’ … Sheridan Smith will star in Opening Night.

    Sheridan Smith to star in Rufus Wainwright musical Opening Night

    Ivo van Hove will direct the West End production based on John Cassavetes’ 1977 film about theatre

April 2023

  • Best actress nominee Jodie Comer arrives at the Olivier awards

    Olivier awards 2023: the stars arrive for theatre’s big night – in pictures

    Jodie Comer, Beverley Knight and Sheridan Smith are among those attending the ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall

March 2023

  • Leo Bill and Alison Oliver in Women, Beware the Devil.

    The week in theatre: Women, Beware the Devil; Romeo and Julie; Shirley Valentine – review

  • Sheridan Smith as Shirley Valentine at the Duke Of York’s theatre.

    Shirley Valentine review – Sheridan Smith disarms and dazzles with heart and soul

January 2023

  • Sheridan Smith in Legally Blonde, 2010

    Sheridan Smith on stage: from Hedda Gabler to Elle Woods – in pictures

    As she returns to the West End to star in Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s theatre, revisit some of the Olivier award-winner’s theatre roles

December 2022

  • In Lost for Words, Chris Kamara comes to terms with his recent diagnosis.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Chris ‘Kammy’ Kamara opens up about his rare condition

    This moving documentary shows the former player/manager grappling with his diagnosis for apraxia of speech. Plus: Children of the Taliban is essential viewing. Here’s what to watch tonight
  • Sheridan Smith.

    Sheridan Smith to star as Shirley Valentine in the West End

    Smith will take on the role of ‘theatre’s best-loved mum’ in Willy Russell’s play in London in February
  • Sheridan Smith in a disco setting as the title character in Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything.

    TV review
    Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything review – it’s gags galore in Sheridan Smith’s hilarious new comedy

    The actor’s captivating turn as an out-of-control hedonist has a script stuffed with jokes – and a Father Ted reunion!

October 2022

  • Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Cannes, 2015

    Portraits by Chris Floyd: from Sheridan Smith to civil rights icon Claudette Colvin – in pictures

    In his latest book, Not Just Pictures to be published by Reel Art Press, the celebrated British photographer shares more than 250 images of extraordinary people: Hollywood stars, artists, actors, athletes and musicians. Here, he tells the stories behind some of those shots

July 2022

  • Beau Gadsdon, Zac Cudby, Austin Haynes and Eden Hamilton in The Railway Children Return.

    The Railway Children Return review – family classic sequel stays on track

    Plot riffs on the original story include a black US serviceman on the lam in this earnest but likable homage to the beloved 1970 kids’ adventure

February 2022

  • From left: Adam Lambert, Sheridan Smith, Olly Murs, Beverley Knight and Jason Manford in Starstruck.

    The watcher
    Starstruck: the bizarre twist on Stars in Their Eyes that will make your soul feel empty

    Three strangers all pretending to be the same celeb! One of the oddest judging panels ever! Olly Murs! ITV’s bombastic new singing contest is very, very bad
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