Welsh actor Michael Sheen joined the likes of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway at last night's in Leicester Square.
Alice in Wonderland stars Michael Sheen (the voice of the White Rabbit) and Matt Lucas (Tweedledum and Tweedledee) at the royal world premiere © Claire R Greenway/Getty Images for Disney
Sheen, who voices the character of the White Rabbit in the Walt Disney Pictures/Tim Burton adaptation of Lewis Carroll's novel, was among a wealth of British stars who also feature in the film - set to be released on 5 March.
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Doctor Who fans crowded a London auction room earlier this week in a bid to snap up some iconic props and costumes from the Â鶹Éç sci-fi show.
Lots on offer at Bonhams in Knightsbridge ranged from Daleks and Cybermen to the waitress outfit worn by Kylie Minogue in the 2007 Christmas special and Paul Smith suits worn by David Tennant.
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Welsh photographer is to have his emotive portrait of a Welsh miner, entitled End of Shift, featured in a Best of Worldwide Photographic Artists volume by American publishers Kennedy.
Known for his portraiture work, Morris has snapped some of the most famous Welsh celebs for his collection , working with Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Tom Jones, Rhys Ifans and Ioan Gruffudd to name a few.
One of his most recent commissions was by Port Talbot-born Hollywood icon Sir Anthony Hopkins, who's recently appeared in new film The Wolfman.
Four contemporary Welsh artists have donated works for an auction to help raise funds for the .
Artists Gareth Parry, William Selwyn, Catrin Williams and Eluned Tudor Grant have donated works for the festival to be held in Caernarfon between 4-10 April.
Profits from the will be used to fund masterclasses and workshops by harpists who will work with young competitors from all parts of the world. The artwork is due to go on sale on eBay from 1 March 2010.
Merthyr-born fashion designer Julien Macdonald has unveiled his latest collection at .
Macdonald revealed his autumn/winter 2010 collection last night at the London Banqueting House in Whitehall. It features chunky knitwear, intricate spiderweb-like detailing on dresses and a nod to underwear as outerwear.
Meanwhile, fellow Welsh designer Eliott J Frieze unveiled his debut solo collection at the annual fashion event. on Â鶹Éç Local and from London Fashion Week.
The will play host to the internationally-acclaimed musical Mamma Mia! this winter.
The musical is set to run for 10 weeks at the iconic arts venue in Cardiff Bay, from 16 November to 23 January 2011.
Judy Craymer, the musical's creator and producer commented; "It's so exciting that the show is coming ... the production has been so embraced by audiences around the world and I'm sure the people of Wales will have a fantastic time at the show."
Welsh stars have been doodling away ahead of next month to raise money for two UK neurological charities, Epilepsy Action and The Neurofibromatosis Association.
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Tickets for one day of this year's National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale will be free, it has been announced.
From 1 March residents of Blaenau Gwent can apply for a free ticket to enter the maes on Sunday 1 August 2010. People elsewhere in Wales can apply for the remainder of the 10,000 free tickets from 1 May.
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National Eisteddfod website.
Charlotte Church has been announced as one of three judges on Andrew Lloyd Webber's forthcoming Â鶹Éç TV talent show Over The Rainbow.
The panel of judges, which also includes John Partridge and
Sheila Hancock, will help decide who'll play Dorothy in a new stage
production of The Wizard Of Oz.
"I'm so looking forward to
working with Andrew - he's an icon of the music industry, and a real
hero of mine," said Church. "My career started with Pie Jesu, which was
of course written by Andrew, so it feels like I've come full circle."
More on Over The Rainbow can be found in the .
Artworks including pieces by Rolf Harris are set to go on display in a new exhibition at the in Cardiff this weekend.
The exhibition, entitled Modern Masters, will feature original paintings and limited editions from contemporary artists including Rolf, Doug Hyde, Phillip Gray and Sherree Valentine Daines.
The exhibition takes places on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 February.
Welsh photographer has captured some of the UK's most famous faces for an exhibition supporting action on climate change. (Image © Cambridge Jones)
Jones, originally from Llanidloes in Powys, has photographed the likes of Michael Sheen, Cerys Matthews, Richard E Grant, Gary Lineker and the Archibishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams for the exhibition at London's City Hall, which runs until 19 March.
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Catherine Zeta Jones has revealed that she was turned down for a role at the age of 19 for being 'too old'.
Jones, who is currently starring in the Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, has told how she was refused the role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love by director Trevor Nunn (who is directing her on Broadway at the moment).
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A documentary focusing on the landscape and community of mid Wales village Trefeurig has beaten the likes of District 9, Katalin Varga and Synecdoche, New York to win the Guardian First Film award.
Sleep Furiously, directed by Gideon Koppel, was funded by the UK Film Council and the Film Agency for Wales. As the reported, Koppel said of his win: "I am absolutely delighted. I think that there is a great pleasure that cinema of a more lyrical and poetic nature still has a place and can still compete with big budget, more digestible forms of work."
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Welsh writer and director Keri Collins has been handed the opportunity of a lifetime: to shadow Kenneth Branagh on the set of his new Hollywood blockbuster film Thor.
Filming began last month on Branagh's latest project, based on the Marvel comic book, and features stars such as Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman. The actor, writer and producer has been acting as Collins' mentor as part of a scheme for emerging UK talent.
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Acclaimed Welsh novelist
Dick Francis CBE has died at his Caribbean home in Grand Cayman at the age of 89.
Francis was born in Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire in 1920. He found fame initially as a jockey, famously riding the Queen Mother's horse, Devon Loch, in the 1956 Grand National.
The following year he published his first book, an autobiography titled The Sport Of Queens. It was the beginning of a literary career that resulted in over 40 thrillers in 38 years, and worldwide sales of 60 million copies in more than 20 languages.
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Less than a year after it opened as a B&B, Dylan Thomas' former family home in Laugharne is being put up for sale, reports the today.
Sea View, which was built in 1845, is being sold by the Abergavenny architects who bought it in 2007. After extensive renovations it opened as a B&B, but future owners would be able to revert the four-storey Georgian building to a family home.
According to co-owner Jan Milsom: "We are selling Sea View
because it's not the business we're in. Six months after we bought it
the recession hit, yet we have renovated and restored a very important
building that will be around for the next 100 years."
Dylan and Caitlin Thomas lived in the house for 18 months from August 1938, renting it for a weekly fee of seven shillings and sixpence. It is being sold with a guide price of £750,000.
As Valentines Day approaches, research staff at Aberystwyth University are putting love poetry to the test - to see if reading verse causes blushes or a fevered brow.
University researchers are using state-of-the-art thermal imaging cameras to record the faces of volunteers reading love poems, to establish if reading the poetry raises body temperature.
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Six new members have been appointed to the Arts Council of Wales after the three-year term of existing members expired.
The new members, who take up office on 1 April, are: John Geraint, Osi
Rhys Osmond, Richard Turner, Alan Watkin, Gerwyn Williams and John
Carey Williams.
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Two promising young Welsh actors have been shortlisted for the most prestigious awards in London theatre, the Laurence Olivier Awards.
Aneurin Barnard has been nominated in the category of best actor in a musical or entertainment (for his role as Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening) alongside seasoned performers including Rowan Atkinson, Bob Golding, Tony Sheldon and Alexander Hanson.
Meanwhile, his Spring Awakening co-star Iwan Rheon has received a nod in the best supporting performance in a musical or entertainment class - and will battle it out against Sheila Hancock, Maureen Lipman and Kelly Price for the gong.
One of Britain's most famous photographers is exhibiting some of his celebrity pictures, including one of Richard Burton in the bath that was taken on the set of film Staircase.
Terry O'Neill is displaying a collection of his work in London later this month, including the picture of Burton that was taken during the height of his relationship with Elizabeth Taylor.
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Ahead of the long-awaited release of his new film The Wolfman, Anthony Hopkins has spoken about how he once asked for Richard Burton's autograph as a 17-year-old - and how the Hollywood star teased his knowledge of rugby.
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An exciting new season of drama begins on Sunday on Â鶹Éç Radio Cymru.
Listeners can expect to hear specially commissioned original works, plays by new young writers and an adaptation of controversial Welsh tragedy Blink by playwright Ian Rowlands.
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Fancy watching a play written in 415 BC? If so, the Riverfront in Newport is the place to go between 10 and 13 February.
The play is The Trojan Women written by the great Greek tragedian, Euripides but the production by Theatr Pena is a translation and version by the poet Brendan Kennelly. As the show's director, Erica Eirian said on this week's Radio Wales Arts Show, it's a play that's very relevant to 21st Century audiences as it deals with the horrors and aftermath of war.
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Anglesey-born actor Julian Lewis Jones stars in new Hollywood blockbuster Invictus - directed by Clint Eastwood - which is released in UK cinemas today. (Photograph: Craig Sugden)
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Congratulations to Philip Gross on winning the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. It's seen as the prize most poets want to win and the Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University is delighted that his book, The Water Table earned him the £15,000 first prize.
The TS Eliot prize is in its 15th year now and is awarded to the author of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland each year.
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A Welsh artist has been granted permission to recreate images from one of Beatrix Potter's most famous works, so that blind children will get to appreciate some of her characters that were created over 100 years ago.
Colin Antwis, from Mold in Flintshire, makes illustrations using swell paper, which in his own words: "is a kind of relief pattern, which really brings the characters to life in 3D."
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Rolf Harris is set to open a new exhibition of Sir Kyffin Williams' portrait work at the Oriel Ynys Môn in Llangefni, Anglesey later today.
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The nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards have been unveiled this afternoon, ahead of the glittering red carpeted, prize-giving night in March.
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