Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat, originally scheduled to run for just 16 weeks on Broadway, ...

Following dedicated fans of Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical successfully uncovering the missing pieces of MI5 secretary Hester May Murray Leggatt's life, a plaque in her honour is set to be ...

An early candidate for Broadway’s song of the season has announced itself. “Dear Bill” is sung by the actor Jak Malone playing the character of Hester Leggatt, an MI5 secretary during World War II, in ...

An unsung heroine of the Second World War is finally getting a public acknowledgement of her secret work – thanks to the fans of the West End musical comedy Operation Mincemeat. The show is based on ...

Halfway into Broadway’s new WWII farce Operation Mincemeat, Hester Leggatt, a stern secretary, stops the show in its tracks with “Dear Bill.” The six-minute ode feels like a separate production from ...

A plaque has been unveiled at the Fortune Theatre in memory of Hester Leggatt, a real-life character in Operation Mincemeat, currently running at the venue. The plaque was revealed following an ...

An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies dramas.

A Merseyside actor says his dreams have come true after winning a prestigious award. Jak Malone, 30, from Prenton, received a Tony Award in New York earlier this week for his performance as Hester ...

It’s one of the most incredible stories of the Second World War, when a dead body carrying fake documents tricked Hitler and hastened the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Operation Mincemeat’s ...