Sam Attwater set for Dreamboats & Petticoats

Sam Attwater, recent winner of Dancing on Ice will join the cast of Dreamboats & Petticoats the Bill Kenwright production from July 18, 2011. He will play Norman a lovable rogue. Attwater is known as Leon the Eastender’s heartthrob to millions across the UK. Earlier this year he won Dancing on Ice the celebrity competition for [...]

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War Horse rides over the Tony’s

War Horse the UK export won five Awards including best play at the Tony Awards show in New York Sunday evening and the top acting award was won by Briton Mark Rylance for his role in Jerusalem. War House opened at the National Theatre moved to West End and Broadway also earned a directing award for [...]

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Olivier Theatre Awards honours After the Dance

Even with seventy years of neglect and an early closing, one play by Terence Rattigan came back to life, thanks to the National Theatre, and became the top winner at the 2011 Olivier Theatre Awards. Additional note goes to Stephen Sondheim’s achievements and Legally Blonde, the Musical.

Rattigan’s After the Dance, watching a [...]

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Grammy Awards performers announced

The first listing of stars performing at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards came out in the morning of the 13th January. The lineup looks like the who’s who of pop music stars.

By Wednesday MTV had already let the cat out of the bag that Eminem would top off the best of his years in his entire [...]

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Jeff Goldblum to be West End prisoner

Jeff Goldblum is scheduled to be the star of his second West End Play at the Old Vic; it will be The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon.

The play is scheduled to open on July 13th at the Vaudeville Theatre with the Old Vic to be put to use in the Sam Mendes’ Bridge Project.

This [...]

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Brits receive many Tony nominations

Two small theatres in London, the Donmar Warehouse and the Menier Chocolate Factory, received a big boost when they led the nominations for the Tony theatre awards, which were announced this week.

La Cage aux Folles from Terry Johnson leads the list of top nominations along with Fela!, with 11 nominations crowning a life that began at [...]

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All surprises at Olivier Awards

Although the world of theatre should be used to fate reversals and plot twists, most of the British stage stars were still surprised by the outcome of the Olivier Awards as many unexpected winners made it up to the podium, while some previously predicted shoe-ins such as Keira Knightly and Jude Law stayed in their seats.

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Hollywood stars lead West End award nominations

Yesterday the West End’s power to get A list talent was once again proven by the fact that many of the Laurence Olivier Awards nominees could just as easily been nominated for an Oscar.

Among those on the list for Best Actress and Best Actor are Jude Law, James Earl Jones, Rachel Weisz, and Imelda Staunton.  Each [...]

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