Daniela Barcellona and Joyce DiDonato have won Olivier Awards for Best Achievement in Opera for their roles in The Royal Opera House’s production of Semiramide. Semiramide was also the winner of Best New Opera Production at the annual award ceremony, this year held at the Royal Albert Hall. Barcellona accepted both of the awards on behalf of […]
Olivier Award
Olivier Award 2013 nominations announced: dance and opera
While it’s great to see 87-year-old working choreographer Gillian Lynne get a special award, there is Marianela Núñez in the running for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, a nomination richly deserved by the Royal Ballet’s most radiant and thrilling ballerina. Another welcome name for dance is designer Lez Brotherston who has collaborated with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures from the beginning, […]
British actor John Wood dies at 81
John Wood – who won a Tony award in 1976 and appeared in numerous films and TV dramas and appeared in films such The Madness of King George and Shadowlands – has died at the age of 81. Wood, who was made a CBE in 2007 for services to drama, won the Tony for his role in […]
The ‘new Nureyev’? Can’t that be crossed out of the journalists’ handbook?
Certainly not-to-be-missed, the blurb from the ENO site announces the London performances of Romeo and Juliet with Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova: This July, for 9 performances only, Bolshoi superstars Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova, with sensational Danish ballet star Alban Lendorf, will perform a twenty-first century re-staging of Sir Frederick Ashton’s Romeo & Juliet by Olivier Award winning Choreographer and […]
Twyla Tharp, John Adams, Herbie Hancock and Derek Jacobi to receive honorary doctorates from Juilliard
Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Twyla Tharp and Olivier Award-winning actor Derek Jacobi will receive honorary doctoral degrees at the Juilliard School’s 106th commencement ceremony in May. Tharp (Movin’ Out, The Times They Are A Changing, Come Fly Away) and Jacobi (King Lear, “Gladiator,” “Gosford Park”) will receive honorary doctor of fine arts degrees. Also honored will […]
Angela Lansbury’s tribute to Stephen Sondheim at the 2011 Olivier Awards
At the 2011 Olivier Award ceremony this year Stephen Sondheim was presented with a lifetime achievement award. Part of the tribute to the 80 year-old composer was from his 85 year-old star Angela Lansbury. Lansbury’s first ever Broadway musical was in 1964 with Stephen Sondheim’s short-lived Anyone Can Whistle. In May 1973, the first revival of Gypsy opened in London’s […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert starts previews on Broadway tonight
After its North American début in Toronto, Priscilla Queen of the Desert begins previews on Broadway at the Palace Theatre. The official opening is scheduled for March 20, but don’t hold your breath, with Broadway musicals anything might happen. Olivier Award nominee Tony Sheldon will play Bernadette; Hair Tony Award nominee Will Swenson is Tick/Mitzi; and La […]
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
17 nominations for the National Theatre, 9 for the Royal Court and 9 for the Donmar is hardly a surprise, but Andrew Lloyd Webber’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 […]
Sarting on Broadway tonight: Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Lindsay Duncan and Olympia Dukakis
Tennessee Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore gets an Off-Broadway revival starting tonight, 7 January. Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis plays Flora Goforth, a widow penning her memoirs. Michael Wilson directs the Roundabout Theatre Company staging at its Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels Theatre. Performances play until 3 April. Also starting tonight […]
