Watch out for . . .

KEVIN McNally, who has been working in the U.S. for several years, starring in TV drama Turn: Washington’s Spies. The actor (pictured with his wife, Downton star Phyllis Logan) is heading back home to play King Lear in a production Nancy Meckler will direct at Shakespeare’s Globe (performances begin on August 10). He will also be seen on screens soon when Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales opens here on May 26.

Samuel West, who will play Brutus in rob Hastie’s production of Julius caesar, which runs at the crucible theatre, Sheffield, from May 17. It’s a great gesture by West to appear in Hastie’s first play as artistic director — a post held by West, for two seasons, between 2005 and 2007. Hastie, who has directed several plays at the Donmar, has also cast Elliot cowan as Mark Antony, Zoe Waites as cassius, and Abigail thaw as trebonius and titinius.

ARCHIE Madekwe, who has kicked off what could be a brilliant career by making a remarkable debut as the offspring of Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo in Edward Albee’s dark, absurdist (and highly provocative) play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? which has become a hot topic of conversation at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. I remember Archie telling me how nervous he was about working with his stage ‘parents’. Well, he’s spot on in this production directed by Ian Rickson. He and his fellow thespians ignite Albee’s metaphorical study of marital disharmony.

ANA ularu, who was in Francis Ford coppola’s film Youth Without Youth; and ron Howard’s movie Inferno. ularu (right) will appear with Keanu reeves in diamond-smuggling thriller Siberia, which up-and-coming director Matthew ross will direct. one of ross’s films was the charming Frank & Lola with Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots.