Leisure/Entertainment news & information for Madrid

LIVE entertainment planned across Madrid this summer will kick off with an open-air gig by the Brexit Big Band and will include a talk by the new science minister, astronaut Pedro Duque.

OLD costumes used on programmes by Spain's national television company TVE – including suits worn by Queen Letizia when she was a news reporter – have been stolen from a storage building in Madrid.

HEAVY rock legends Metallica have pledged to donate €1 from every ticket sold to its concerts on Saturday and Monday this week (February 3 and 5) to the homeless charity run by actor Richard Gere's partner...

AN INDOOR theme park based upon Mad Men and The Hunger Games will open in Madrid next year – the only one in Europe and the second in the world, with another due to launch later in New York.

MICHAEL Jackson is back on stage in Madrid – at least, in spirit – eight years after the box-office smashing musical Forever King of Pop first aired in the capital in tribute to the artistic legend a year after he...

LEGENDARY Irish rockers U2 have announced a one-night-only stop-off in Spain as part of their European tour.

A THREE Kings parade in a Madrid neighbourhood had to be stalled midway through after the Magi ran out of sweets, according to the local fiesta committee.

HARRY Potter fans should make a beeline for Madrid in the next few months – the official exhibition, gradually working its way around the world, is set to land in the capital tomorrow (Saturday, November 18).

CHILD and adult actors alike are being sought for a brand-new musical about the late legendary pop sensation Michael Jackson.

THE 'official' Harry Potter exhibition will reach Madrid in November, allowing the young wizard's biggest fans to admire hundreds of props used in the blockbuster film series.

ACTOR Viggo Mortensen has just revealed he was assaulted by radical Real Madrid supporters 11 years ago because they mistook him for a Barça fan.

TODAY'S 'grand parade' for World Pride has seen the streets of Madrid filled with the colours of the rainbow as hundreds of thousands of people from all over the planet celebrate love in all its formats.