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Dateline: 13th November, 2005

The Late Henry Moss publicity image

Almeida Casting
The Almeida has announced that Brendan Coyle and Andrew Lincoln will co-star in Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss, which opens on 19th January (previews from 12th) and runs until 4th March. The other members of the cast are Flaminia Cinque, Trevor Cooper, Simon Gregor and Jason Watkins. Michael Attenborough directs.

This is the play's European premiere and the first Shepard play to be produced by the Almeida.

The half price ticket booth in Leicester Square

TKTS Booth is 25
On Wednesday the official half-price ticket booth in Leicester Square celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Since opening way back in 1980, the tkts ticket booth, which is the only free-standing building in Leicester Square, has sold almost 9 million tickets to over 1,200 shows containing 3,346 songs.

Many of these tickets have been for Blood Brothers, which has been offering discounted tickets at the booths for seventeen years and is tkts’s most sold show. Other shows making it into the ticket-tastic tkts top ten include current long-runners The Woman In Black, Chicago, Fame, Les Misérables and We Will Rock You.

The only free-standing building in Leicester Square, it was for many years the only official reduced price ticket outlet in London, until summer 2004 when another branch opened up at the Canary Warf Docklands Light Railway station.

Basic Training Cancelled
Kahlil Ashanti's Basic Training, the Edinburgh Fringe hit that was to run at the Trafalgar Studios from 9th to 28th January, has been cancelled.

Elizabeth Taylor Sean Connery

Brit Superstars Win Hollywood Awards
Two British-born Hollywood superstars have been honoured with major awards. Elizabeth Taylor won the Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in International Entertainment at the British Film and Television Academy/Los Angeles Cunard Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills, whilst Sean Connery is to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award next year.

Past recipients of the AFI award, which was established in 1973, include Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep and George Lucas.

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©Peter Lathan 2005