Category: Editor’s Picks

Has Rihanna signed on to play Poison Ivy in the DC Universe? The singer-songwriter fuelled rumours she was playing the iconic villain after uploading a close-up of her Fenty boots on Instagram alongside the caption: “bat-mobile, but make it fashion! get into this matte leather-rubber fusion tho.” “Oh that? Are you serious? No, that has nothing to do with Poison Ivy,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “That has a lot to do with Batman [because] I have separate obsessions. I have a bigger obsession with Poison Ivy. I’m just being honest.”…

Is this another alternate reality storyline like Centennial Charmed? (If you know you know.) The power of two are coming to Grey’s Anatomy. Former Charmed stars, icons and legends Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs are reuniting on-screen for the first time since the show’s conclusion on the long-running medical drama – and once again, they’re playing sisters! They will play the sisters of a patient who becomes braindead after an accident at a construction site; unfortunately, Leo won’t be on standby to heal their sibling, so they’ll have to…

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s intelligent docu-drama, based on a real-life cover up of a blood contamination scandal in China, has opened at the Hampstead Theatre, directed by Michael Boyd. The King of Hell’s Palace is based on the story of Dr Shuping Wang, a whistleblower who exposed an HIV and Hepatitis epidemic in the Henan province in China in the 1990s. Local farming communities, eager to make a quick buck, found that selling their blood for use in cosmetic products was far more lucrative than growing produce; however, the practices weren’t…

This new, abridged production of Harvey Fierstein’s 1978 trilogy has opened at the Turbine Theatre, directed by Olivier award-winner Drew McOnie. Torch Song is the Turbine Theatre’s inaugural play; this cosy space, nestled in a railway arch in the shadow of the Battersea Power Station redevelopment, provides a wonderfully intimate setting for Fierstein’s landmark play. Over the course of three acts, it offers a trio of snapshots into the life of Arnold Beckoff (Matthew Needham), a fierce New York drag queen on a quest for love in 1970s Manhattan, touching…