The Briefing.

 

Money off Russell Tovey. That’s pricked up your ears!
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Money off Russell Tovey. That’s pricked up your ears!

Michael Longhurst – Artistic Director of Donmar Warehouse, a place that isn’t afraid of a star turn - has roped in the loveliest gay in showbiz, Russell Tovey, and Omari Douglas off-of It’s A Sin (who we’re sure is also lovely but we haven’t had the pleasure) to star in his interpretation of Constellations at London’s glittering Vauderville Theatre.

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Princess Diana’s wedding dress to gawp at? Too fussy?
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Princess Diana’s wedding dress to gawp at? Too fussy?

It may have emerged from the golden carriage horribly creased (well, they could hardly have a steamer in there, could they? It would have fogged the windows) but up close, in the current Royal Style in the Making exhibition at Kensington Palace, the wedding dress of HRH Diana, Princess of Wales is actually a bit of alright.

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A Tale of Two Exhibitions
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A Tale of Two Exhibitions

Now, we are clearly no experts on the sex lives of the heterosexual but judging by a new exhibition featuring the work of Scandi painter Edvard Munch and our own, our very own Tracey Emin it’s all looking messy, violent and frankly worrying.

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Karen from Will & Grace coming to the West End, you say? What are we going to wear?
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Karen from Will & Grace coming to the West End, you say? What are we going to wear?

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking now heaven knows… Kardashians getting their pudenda out for money and all sorts of carrying on. Makes you hanker for something a little, you know, less. And yet a little more. Which is where the hardy perennial Cole Porter musical Anything Goes written by PG Wodehouse comes in.

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