Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons brings much-loved characters such as Skimbleshanks and Macavity to life in his reading of TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Show more On Christmas ...

While the musical "Cats" premiered in 1981, the story actually goes back even further, to a 1939 book of poems by T.S. Eliot called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." "Old Possum" was a ...

Based on T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," this wonderfully imaginative show features breathtaking music, including one of the most treasured songs in musical theater- more ...

His 1939 collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats formed the basis of the musical Cats, recently filmed by director Tom Hooper. Eliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915. The union was not a ...