Anson Mount will assume the role of Solyony in Classic Stage Company’s forthcoming production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, replacing Glenn Fitzgerald, who is withdrawing due to a television project. The starry revival is set to begin performances on January 12, 2011, and will open on February 3 for a limited engagement through February 20. [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Sheryl Crow have united to help to expose human rights violations in the world, via video and digital media. Witness is currently in its sixth year, and this year the organisation’s gala was hosted by the British rock musician Peter Gabriel. Gyllenhaal described how the use of video images can change the [...]

Marin Ireland and Juliet Rylance will join previously announced husband-and-wife movie stars Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart) and Peter Sarsgaard (An Education) in the Classic Stage Company production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, directed by Austin Pendleton. Ireland will play Natasha, and Rylance will play the role of Irina. Performances will begin on January 12 with opening [...]

“Three Sisters,” a drama by Anton Chekhov, is shaping up to be one of the starrier stage productions planned for the depth of winter in New York. Classic Stage Company, the New York theater that is producing the play, is finishing up casting before rehearsals are scheduled to begin in early December. Previously announced cast [...]

Hollywood star Maggie Gyllenhaal has opened a village for orphaned and abandoned children in India. The Crazy Heart actress, along with her actor husband, Peter Sarsgaard, is an ambassador for the village. Gyllenhaal says she was overwhelmed by the response they received when they visited. “I’ve never been greeted like this by anyone, I’ve never [...]

The BBC didn’t have to look far for a presenter to fill Jonathan Ross’s shoes. All it took was a quick shuffle of the schedules, cross out the word “Monday”, replace it with “Friday” and Hey Presto! The Graham Norton Show is all good to go. We predict his move to the coveted Friday night [...]

Ashley Jensen, Sheridan Smith, Gemma Jones, Felicity Jones and Anna Chancellor are joining the cast of Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria. The romantic comedy starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, which starts filming in London Monday, co-stars Jonathan Pryce and Rupert Everett. Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer wrote the screenplay about a Victorian doctor who created [...]

Totally enthralled. That was the reaction of the children at SOS Children’s Villages in Alibaug, India, when on October 12 Hollywood couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard jumped on stage to dance to a popular Marathi song. Marathi is the language spoken in Maharashtra, the state in which SOS Children’s Villages recently opened SOS-Alibaug, its [...]

Jonathan Pryce has confessed he is loving the reaction he gets when he tells people he is starring in a film about the invention of the vibrator. The Pirates of the Caribbean star is currently filming Hysteria, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy and Rupert Everett, based on the true story of a Victorian doctor who [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal has been nominated as the best actress to win Oscar prize for her outstanding performance in Hollywood movies. However, she has a humanized soul which aches for the destitute and kids who are deprived of parental love and care. Recently, this superstar came to India to sponsor a new housing project for those [...]