British actress Maxine Peake chatted about starring in the new movie “Words of War,” where she played slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Maxine Peake in 'Words of War.' Photo Courtesy of Rolling ...

In our house, there wasn’t much music. My mum was into Billy Joel and Frank Sinatra and my dad liked Randy Crawford and The Drifters. Then there was the New Romantic scene, which I didn’t really like.

Plans at acclaimed actress and now Herefordshire local, Maxine Peake's home have been approved- despite opposition from a neighbour.

Maxine Peake will star in a new production of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. The actress will star as fading belle Blanche DuBois in Sarah Frankcom's production at the Manchester ...

Maxine Peake has been nominated for both an acting and a writing award in the Manchester Theatre Awards. Peake is up for best actress, for the second year in a row, for her role in The Skriker which ...

Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright, producer, director and political activist, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A Catholic school in the Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, the strong-minded ...

Proctor, of King's Gardens, Bedworth, pleaded guilty to a charge of stalking. He was fined £300 and ordered to pay £205 in ...

Maxine Peake is to play Hamlet in a "radical re-imagining" of the play at Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre. The Shameless actress will reunite with Royal Exchange artistic director Sarah Frankcom, ...

The BBC has announced a new commitment to arts programming, which will include a new four-part series called Artsnight. The weekly arts and culture magazine show will have a different guest editor ...