The National, the Donmar and the Royal Court rake in the Laurence Olivier Award nominations — but Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies is up there too

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Feb 072011
 

Tracie Bennett Judy Garland in End Of The Rainbow photo credit Robert Day 500x333 The National, the Donmar and the Royal Court rake in the Laurence Olivier Award nominations but Lloyd Webbers Love Never Dies is up there too17 nom­in­a­tions for the , 9 for the and 9 for the Don­mar is hardly a sur­prise, but ’s much cri­ti­cised Phantom follow-up Love Never Dies has garnered an impress­ive 7 nominations.

Andrew Lloyd Webber can hold his head up high — Love Never Dies, his sequel to Phantom of the Opera, which received, to put it mildly, mixed reviews, has seven nom­in­a­tions (far out-stripping Phantom itself back in the day).

Also, argu­ably the biggest run­away smash of the past year has been a rel­at­ive out­sider: End of the Rain­bow, first seen, in Terry Johnson’s pro­duc­tion, at the Royal Theatre, Northamp­ton. Peter Quilter’s play about Judy Garland’s final appear­ances is up for con­ten­tion along­side Bruce Norris’s liberal-baiting drama about racial pre­ju­dice in Chicago (and Amer­ica), past and present, Cly­bourne Park, Roy Williams’s superb piece about teen­age black box­ers and Eighties cul­tural pres­sure, Sucker Punch, the far less acclaimed com­edy The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane and Tribes, Nina Raine’s invent­ive and insight­ful play about deaf­ness, fam­il­ies and the way we do, and don’t, com­mu­nic­ate with each other.

Faced with such strong com­pet­i­tion, End of the Rain­bow is unlikely to come away with Best Play prize, but Tracie Ben­nett, giv­ing a mes­mer­ising account of Judy Gar­land at her most frail, fal­ter­ing and defi­ant, gets a Best Act­ress nod, while Hilton McRae, as her quietly dig­ni­fied pian­ist, could win in Best Sup­port­ing Actor cat­egory, and Gareth Owen has been short-listed for Best Sound Design too.

via Laurence Olivier Awards 2011: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s pride never dies — Telegraph

2011 Olivier Award nom­in­a­tions (full list­ing by show)

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Zoë Dominic, one of the greatest theatre and dance photographers, has died aged 90

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Jan 192011
 

nureyev fonteyn 482x600 Zoë Dominic, one of the greatest theatre and dance photographers, has died aged 90Dominic was one of the out­stand­ing group of dance and theatre photo– graph­ers – includ­ing Lord Snow­don, Angus McBean and Anthony Crick­may – who flour­ished in the post­war renewal of the Brit­ish per­form­ing arts in the 1950s and 60s. She was a pion­eer in a man’s world and her tal­ent for cap­tur­ing the essence of a per­former endeared her to some of the greatest stars of the age.

Dominic was the “chosen” phở­to­grapher of , Rudolf Nureyev, , and Mag­gie Smith. Her career, which star­ted around 1957, coin­cided with the launch of the Eng­lish Stage Com­pany at the Royal Court in , which she doc­u­mented, and, a few years later, the com­ing of the and the National Theatre.… [con­tinue reading]

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The fall and rise of Terence Rattigan

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Jan 052011
 

rattigan 468x584 The fall and rise of Terence RattiganOnce upon a time, back in the Six­ties, felt so unloved in his own coun­try that he left it to live in Ber­muda. In this, the cen­ten­ary year of his birth, you could say the tables have finally turned. Any­one who doesn’t like his work had prob­ably bet­ter clear off over­seas because an out­break of Rattigan-worship, or at the very least poin­ted and unapo­lo­getic ven­er­a­tion, is about to sweep the nation.
You could say that everything but the kit­chen sink is being thrown at the fest­iv­it­ies – and in that image, of course, lies one hefty reason why this Rat­tigan “moment” is being cel­eb­rated with par­tic­u­lar fer­vour. Few play­wrights in the 20th cen­tury were dis­missed as cruelly from the warm hearth­side of crit­ical approval as Rat­tigan was in the wake of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.… [con­tinue reading]

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