And What's More . . .

Broadway legend Barbara Cook has been forced to cancel her Sadler's Wells season having undergone an emergency operation at the weekend. She hopes to return later in the year . . . Known in some circles as 'The Cooking Detective', BBC's Pie in the Sky, starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, is to go to a second series . . . Shakespearian scenarios: Rumour hath it that Deborah Warner is writing a screenplay of Measure for Measure while Ian McKellen has been working on a potential screen adaptation of Richard III . . .