Sir Peter Hall apologises to Downton Abbey actress Laura Carmichael after he "unintentionally disrupted" her West End debut in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre.

BBC: Theatre review of 2012: An Olympian year

If you still feel like driving, another half hour and you will hit Uniontown, where the State Theatre Center for the Arts (www.statetheatre.info), a 1922 movie and vaudeville theatre designed by architect Thomas W Lamb, puts on concerts, musicals and classic films.

BBC: From Warhol to Wright: An arty trip through Pennsylvania

Some of the silent actors were theatre- or vaudeville-trained, some were just good-looking people who were drawn to Hollywood, and did what they were told to do or imagined that they needed to do.

NEWYORKER: The Artists