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Hollywood Reporter
April 28, 2018
A native of London, Anderson called the shots for such British leading men as Michael Redgrave (Dam Busters, 1984, The Wreck of the Mary Deare), Alec Guinness (Operation Crossbow, The Quiller Memorandum), Peter Ustinov (Logan's Run), Richard Todd (Chase a Crooked Shadow), Laurence OlivierÃâà...
Mendocino Beacon
April 28, 2018
David Harrower, noted Scottish playwright, received the Laurence Olivier Award for “Blackbird.” A master craftsman, he shaped the tale. Ann Woodhead, director, fine-tuned it, crafting for the audience, a production for the times in which we live; and a multi-dimensional love story. The heart wants what theÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 27, 2018
The only thing missing is a bit of English rain, but not for long: they're soon sheltering in the home Plowright once shared with Laurence Olivier, her late husband. We're treated to much of their between-takes laughter, faffing about and (in Smith's case) mock-scorn for the filmmaking team. It's a bit like one ofÃâà...
The Guardian
April 26, 2018
It is nothing more nor less than an acerbic round-table chat between four of British theatre's most famed dames: Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, which takes place at the country home Plowright shared with her late husband, Laurence Olivier (I seem to remember it being the siteÃâà...
Advocate.com
April 20, 2018
And out actor -activist Alan Cumming, who has starred in Hamlet onstage, will be on hand to introduce Laurence Olivier's 1944 adaptation of the Shakespeare drama. Among other highlights, director Martin Scorsese, an advocate for film preservation, will receive the first Robert Osborne Award, named forÃâà...
Ashland Daily Tidings
April 20, 2018
Dorfman has received the Sir Laurence Olivier Award and the Yoshiko Yuasa Prize for Best Foreign Play in Japan for “Death and the Maiden,” among other significant awards. Genise, who is a former artistic director of Camelot Theatre in Talent and a steady fixture on the regional theater scene, hasÃâà...
DC Theatre Scene
April 20, 2018
Grand Hotel didn't win the Tony for Best Musical — though it was nominated — but a 2005 revival won the Laurence Olivier Award in London. From April 2 through May 12 of next year. The short stories of Zora Neale Hurston form the basis of Spunk, an adaptation by George C. Wolfe (The Colored Museum)Ãâà...
The Daily Herald
April 19, 2018
When Lord asks Giacometti how he achieved a magical touch with the painting, the artist says, “I have no idea”— something Laurence Olivier famously uttered after giving a commanding stage performance. Clearly, Tucci appreciates that mystery. It's a shame this movie isn't quite strong enough to sustain it.
Deadline
April 14, 2018
He worked with such actors as Sir Laurence Olivier, George C. Scott, Edward G. Robinson, Jessica Tandy, Maximilian Schell, Vincent Price, and Boris Karloff, among others. Arriving in Hollywood in 1965, O'Connor moved to Santa Monica, California, and gained national recognition as one of the stars ofÃâà...
NZCity
April 11, 2018
'Hamilton' was the big winner at this year's Laurence Olivier Awards at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sunday night (08.04.18). The hip-hop musical - which tells the story of US founding father Alexander Hamilton - won seven gongs from its 13 nominations, including Best New Musical and OutstandingÃâà...
Variety
April 10, 2018
The National's first artistic director when it opened in 1963 was Laurence Olivier. This year's Olivier Award for best director was awarded Sunday night to Sam Mendes for his production of “The Ferryman,” a new play by Jez Butterworth, the writer of “Jerusalem.” The Society of London Theatre said it is nowÃâà...
Times Colonist
April 8, 2018
Named for the late British actor Laurence Olivier, the prizes honour achievements in London theatre, musicals, dance and opera. Winners in most categories are chosen by a panel of stage professionals and theatregoers. ___. 10:55 a.m.. Women's rights activists are due to join stage stars on the red carpetÃâà...
The Times
April 4, 2018
6 On September 15, 1976, Laurence Olivier opened the Royal Exchange Theatre in which English city? 7 Ray Bradbury's story A Sound of Thunder imagines the consequences of killing which insect in the late Cretaceous? 8 Radio 4's More or Less found that which TV town had the world's highest…
The Delta Statement
April 2, 2018
Olivier, a festive, traditional New Year's Eve salad, is one of the most popular salads of Russian cuisine. In the 1860's at a French restaurant called Hermitage in Moscow, there worked a cook, Laurence Olivier. He invented the salad, which later became a classic in the countries of the former USSR. AmongÃâà...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
Laurence Olivier, at 76, and weakened by numerous serious illnesses, could never have attempted the role in theatre, but was able, with sensitive filming schedules, to record a performance at the ITV Granada studios, screened by Channel 4 in 1983, in which he displayed a poignant frailty that would haveÃâà...
48 Hills
April 2, 2018
This British movie by Bullet Boy director Saul Dibb is an adaptation of an already oft-filmed 1928 play by R.C. Sherriff—the first and most famous prior edition was a 1930 film debut for the great James Whale, who had directed it on stage (giving young Laurence Olivier an early triumph), and who wouldÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 2, 2018
After making his criticallylauded acting debut in the 2005 film Mrs Henderson Presents he spent the following years balancing his pop career with screen and theatre roles until in 2013 he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, for his turn in Cabaret in London's West End.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
April 2, 2018
Yet there was a time when this institution was characterized by a high degree of excellence and refinement, and to which stars like Laurence Olivier, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland bore such glowing testimony. It is no mere coincidence that, at that period, America came closest to fulfilling its promise ofÃâà...
Pocono Record
April 1, 2018
"Journey's End," a 1928 play by the British writer R.C. Sherriff, isn't well known to American audiences, although it's been a part of the English repertory for generations (a young Laurence Olivier starred in the first London production). The story of a group of soldiers and officers tensely awaiting an oncomingÃâà...
The Guardian
April 1, 2018
Actor Jamael Westman was brought up in Croydon, London, by a Jamaican father and an Irish mother. He is currently playing the title role in the West End production of Lin‑Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical Hamilton, for which he has been nominated for this year's Laurence Olivier award for best actor in aÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 25, 2018
Anyone who has seen the original “Wuthering Heights” movie by William Wyler, the 1939 black-and-white version starring Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Catherine, will remember a fairly irreproachable love story sans the overdoses of violence, revenge and animal cruelty that existedÃâà...
WBUR
March 22, 2018
(Laurence Olivier and Dorothy Tutin star in an enchanting 1953 film version directed by Peter Brook.) Following Gay, Brecht turns traditional personal and political morals upside down. The Peachums don't mind their daughter Polly sleeping with the notorious criminal Macheath (Mack the Knife) but don'tÃâà...
Broadway World
March 19, 2018
ARCADIA was the recipient of the 1993 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, recognized by the Royal Institution of Great Britain as one of the best science-related works ever written, and nominated for a Drama Desk Award and Tony Award. In January, the Conservatory presents Henrik Ibsen'sÃâà...
The Sun
March 19, 2018
Jason trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He got his first role in the 1993 film Buddha of Suburbia playing the part of Terry and went on to have small parts in Hotel Babylon and Blue Murder. Jason also started to develop a stage career and in 2001, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier AwardÃâà...
The Boar
March 19, 2018
Born in 1939 and a teenager by the mid-fifties, the young Billington was immediately bewitched by the on and offstage glamour of what he refers to as the 'Heroic Acting' period: a time in which the theatre was dominated by stars of the bravura of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave andÃâà...
ABC News
March 18, 2018
... Duane Henry (TV: "NCIS") is 33. Actress Lily Collins is 29. Actress-dancer Julia Goldani Telles is 23. Actress Ciara Bravo is 21. Actor Blake Garrett Rosenthal is 14. Thought for Today: "I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it." — Laurence Olivier, British actor (1907-1989).
Kent Online
March 16, 2018
Former EastEnder Rita Simons returns to the Canterbury stage, after her appearance in panto two years ago, in the all-singing, all-dancing comedy musical Legally Blonde. The new production of the Reese Witherspoon film, which sees college sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods triumph in theÃâà...
Brantford Expositor
March 16, 2018
This book has never gone out of print since first being published in 1938 and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock that starred Sir Laurence Olivier. This is a great chance to read and discuss one of the most famous books of the last century. The Brantford Public Library also offers theÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 16, 2018
... Marvel — out March 8, 2019 — marks the biggest role to date for Lynch, a Shondaland alum, who starred in the short-lived ABC period drama Still Star-Crossed. Lynch, who was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary while a student at AES, has also appeared in indie features Fast Girls and Brotherhood.
Broadway World
March 16, 2018
Okay, stop me if you have heard this one: Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, and Vivien Leigh walk into a rehearsal space... No? Turns out this actually happened. Watch what drama unfolds in Cyrano's Theatre Company's adaptation of Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton, directed by J. David Dahl. Orson'sÃâà...
The Economist
March 15, 2018
With these cerebral abilities, says Ms Stern, Shakespearean actors need a “physical litheness and grace”, as Laurence Olivier epitomised. The plays, after all, were “written for whole-body acting,” not “a twitching eyebrow and bobbing Adam's apple”. Mr Kinnear (now 40) has some of that mime-artist'sÃâà...
Devon Live
March 14, 2018
The impressive and heart-warming musical smashed theatreland records when it scooped a total of seven awards at the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards, report the Plymouth Herald. The musical has a ... This secured its place in the Book of Guinness World Records for Most Laurence Olivier award wins.
TIME
March 14, 2018
Tickets were in high demand; Gemze de Lappe, a dancer in the original London show, told the BBC: “The Oliviers came [Laurence Olivier and his second wife, Vivien Leigh] and Noel Coward — anyone who was anyone wanted tickets.” However, on opening night, the guests of honor were none other thanÃâà...
AV Club
March 14, 2018
This tremulous war-is-hell melodrama has served as a sort of boot camp for multiple generations of English actors: Laurence Olivier starred in the original stage production; a 1930 film adaptation featured Colin Clive (who would reunite with its director, James Whale, for Frankenstein the following year);Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 14, 2018
He turned to find it was Laurence Olivier, congratulating him on his performance. Britain's most esteemed thespian was in an adjoining studio doing post-production shots. Past legends adorn the wall to the studios. Past legends adorn the wall outside the studios. Olivier respected Coronation Street andÃâà...
Vogue.co.uk
March 14, 2018
It's also not the first time Cuthbertson has been dressed in Erdem - she wore one of his gowns to attend the Laurence Olivier Awards in 2015 - so this collaboration is born out of friendship as well as mutual admiration. But why was he drawn to this ballet in particular? “I think it was the idea of doing aÃâà...
Broadway World
March 12, 2018
CHICAGO won the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for 'Outstanding Musical Production' as well as the 1998 Critics Circle Drama Award for 'Best Musical'. CHICAGO transferred from the Adelphi Theatre to the Cambridge Theatre in April 2006, where it ran for five years until 27 August 2011. The show thenÃâà...
Variety
March 12, 2018
(Yes, the romantic fantasy's awards season began with Bening and ended with Warren Beatty.) Not counting Laurence Olivier's 1948 “Hamlet” — which triumphed on the Lido when the festival had a different awards system in place — it's the first Golden Lion champ to ultimately land the best picture Oscar.
The Guardian
March 12, 2018
I claimed, when I interviewed Ken on his 90th birthday, that he and Laurence Olivier were the two performers in my theatre-going experience to be kissed with genius. But of what did that genius consist? For a start, a love of language that enabled him to usher us into a world of grotesque fantasy: a place ofÃâà...
WAMC
March 12, 2018
One of its stars, by the way, was a 21-year-old actor by the name of Laurence Olivier, and it ran on the West End for two years. The success of JOURNEY'S END resulted in stage productions mounted across the globe. Its first screen version, a U.S.-UK co-production, dates from 1930. It is the first featureÃâà...
Bloomington Pantagraph (blog)
March 11, 2018
A cat, cat, his kingdom for a cat? Laurence Olivier with man's, or at least Hamlet's, best friend, circa the 1948 film version. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ Email; Print; Save. Let's face semantic facts: "Bard" is just "bark" with a different consonant at the end. So it makes sense that the two terms would eventually findÃâà...
The Times
March 10, 2018
At last, the secret of Laurence Olivier's acting talents is revealed. Speaking to Total Film magazine, Sir Michael Caine recalls appearing in Sleuth with Olivier in 1972. The first week of rehearsals went badly and Caine could not believe that such a famous actor should struggle so much. For the second week,Ãâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 2, 2018
Laurence Olivier's bare bones take on the tragic tale of the titular Danish prince with substantial daddy issues is the one they should flock to. Anyone who knows anything about Olivier and his regular troupe of actors wouldn't be surprised that his Hamlet contains the finest performance of the play ever putÃâà...
Spectator.co.uk
March 1, 2018
The necrophilia is evident in the form, also, as biographies inevitably hasten from birth and ancestry and conclude with last illnesses, the funeral and memorial tributes. I never thought this a very interesting way of telling the story. In my biography of Laurence Olivier, he doesn't get born until the final page.
Bloomington Pantagraph (blog)
March 1, 2018
... "Love Among the Ruins," opposite Laurence Olivier ... who'd played Marcus Crassus in 1960's "Spartacus," directed by Stanley Kubrick ... who four years later gave us "Dr. Strangelove" ... whose President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), was modeled after B-N's most revered native son, Adlai Stevenson II.
The Guardian
March 1, 2018
With Corbyn-supporting Stormzy calling out Theresa May at the Brits, the party is in desperate need of its own charismatic youth spokesperson, ideally one who will grab the mic at the Laurence Olivier awards to remind the public of Corbyn's questionable bowing at the Cenotaph – perhaps yelling: “OIÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 1, 2018
Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin, and has been presented to many of the film industry's most notable talents, including Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Federico Fellini, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton, MerylÃâà...
The Guardian
March 1, 2018
It is a gripping romantic mystery with superb performances from Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier — and an influence, incidentally, on Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Phantom Thread. Olivier is the saturnine widower Max de Winter who marries Fontaine's shy and mousy lady's companion and bringsÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 28, 2018
The son of vaudevillians, Gilbert performed in silent films as a child and appeared with Laurence Olivier in the romantic comedy "The Divorce of Lady X" (1938) before stepping behind the camera. He became an assistant to director Alfred Hitchcock and leading British film producer Alexander Korda, andÃâà...
The Guardian
February 26, 2018
According to Kenneth Tynan, Laurence Olivier – who played Macbeth opposite his then wife, Vivien Leigh, in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1955 – offered a world-weary soldier's response: “Far from recoiling … he greeted the air-drawn dagger with sad familiarity as a fixture in the crooked furniture of his brain.
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