Sentences with phrase «olivier awards»

Women's rights activists are due to join stage stars on the red carpet at British theater's Olivier Awards, where «Hamilton» leads the race for trophies with 13 nominations.

She has won numerous awards for acting, both for the stage and for film, including five BAFTA Awards, two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two SAG Awards, and a Tony Award.

Much Ado About Nothing star Tamsin Greig Green Wing star Tamsin Greig is the toast of theatreland after being named best actress at the Laurence Olivier Awards.

Hollywood stars Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Gillian Anderson were today nominated for Laurence Olivier Awards, theatre's top accolades.

Imogen Poots at the 2018 Laurence Olivier Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

That source material was nominated for the Olivier Awards» Play Of The Year, and original star Maggie Smith, who was also nominated for her performance in the theatrical run, returns as the titular character for this big - screen adaptation.

Eddie Izzard - The Olivier Awards held at the Royal Opera House - Arrivals at Royal Opera House Covent Garden - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 3rd April 2016 (1 Picture)

He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards for his London stage productions The Glass Menagerie and Company in 1996, and Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya in 2003.

THE LION KING has also earned more than 70 major arts awards including the 1998 NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the 1999 Grammy ® for Best Musical Show Album, the 1999 Evening Standard Award for Theatrical Event of the Year and the 1999 Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.

Hodge's last show is on May 17 and Jennings, who won one of his many Olivier awards for playing Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, starts his run on May 19.

Penelope Wilton poses in the winners room at The Olivier Awards at The Royal Opera House on April 12, 2015 in London, England.

Michael Sheen attends The Olivier Awards with Mastercard at Royal Albert Hall on April 8, 2018 in London, England.

He has won Olivier Awards for his performances in Macbeth (1976 - 78), The Alchemist (1977), Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1990), as well as Evening Standard Awards for his work in Coriolanus (1984) and Othello (1989), and for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre (2009).

After graduating he was nominated and went onto win «Most Promising Newcomer» at the Laurence Olivier Awards.

Wilson is a mainstay on the British stage, where she has won two Olivier Awards for her performances in two Donmar Warehouse productions: Tennessee Williams» A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, where she portrayed the character Stella and Anna Christie, in which she starred opposite Jude Law and portrayed Anna.

His roles in Our Country's Good, Serious Money, and Another Country helped those dramas win Best Play Laurence Olivier Awards in the 1980s.

In support of theatre in New York and London, Anthony has produced and co-produced several successful theatre productions, including the Laurence Olivier award winning 2010 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

On Fri., Sept. 16th, join The Public Theater's Mobile Unit for a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, from 6:30 p.m. — 8:30 p.m. Olivier Award...

With Olivier award - winner David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral) in the lead role, expect a powerful depiction of Hanoverian lunacy.

Nominated for a 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play, and after two sold - out runs, the critically acclaimed Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida Theatre production of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, 1984, transfers to the West End's Playhouse Theatre for a strictly limited season from 28 April.

Adapted for screen by Ian McEwan from his 2007 novella, this debut feature from four - time Olivier Award - winning theatre director Dominic Cooke is, at its heart, a deceptively simple tale.

Golden Globe and two - time Olivier Award - winning actress RUTH WILSON stars as Alison in SHOWTIME's hit drama series THE AFFAIR.

She is also recognized for her work on stage, most recently Neil La Bute's REASONS TO BE PRETTY and her Olivier Award - nominated performance for Best Actress in THE EFFECT for London's National Theatre.

Her subsequent West End appearances include the world premiere of SUNSET BOULEVARD in which she created the role of Norma Desmond (Olivier Award nomination) and MASTER CLASS.

In 2011, Cumberbatch returned to The National Theatre alternating the roles of creature and Dr. Frankenstein in Danny Boyle's production of FRANKENSTEIN, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award and an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.

For the latter role he has also picked up an Olivier Award — an award he previously won (Best Supporting Actor) for his performance as Sir Fopling Flutter in THE MAN OF MODE in 2008.

For that performance, as well as for a reprise of her performance as Moll in a West End engagement of THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, she was the first American actor to win London's coveted Olivier Award.

On stage, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as Norman in THE NORMAN CONQUESTS on Broadway, and most recently, he and Matthew Macfadyen starred as Jeeves and Wooster in PERFECT NONSENSE, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.

Notable theatre credits include AS YOU LIKE IT, for which McCrory received both an Olivier Award nomination and a nomination for Best Actress from the Theatregoer Choice Awards.

She also won an Olivier Award for her performance in the West End production.

Quartet also stars Olivier Award - winning Sheridan Smith (Legally Blonde, The Musical) and four - time BAFTA winner Michael Gambon (the Harry Potter series, Gosford Park).

This 2016 version is an Olivier award - winning production that follows three children, Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter, who are uprooted when their father is mysteriously taken away.

He made some highly acclaimed National Theatre appearances including in Tom Stoppard's «Arcadia» in 1993 opposite Felicity Kendal, and in Joe Penhall's «Blue / Orange» in 2000 which landed him an Olivier Award nomination.

Kinnear (Skyfall, Penny Dreadful), who recently won an Olivier Award, the British version of the Tony Awards, for best actor, will portray a character by the name of Barry Fairbrother.

She also recently earned an Olivier Award for her role in Yerma at the Young Vic, which then transferred Off Broadway.

The Tony - nominated, Olivier Award - winning playwright has single - handedly taken Tarantino's visceral, blood - and - guts filmmaking style and transported it to live theater, exploding the possibilities of the stage like a lightning bolt.

The actor, who has built a career starring in musical adaptations of iconic films (Saturday Night Fever, The Wedding Singer, Legally Blonde and Rocky), was preparing for the Broadway debut of the production following a successful London run that earned him a Laurence Olivier Award when he inexplicably tore his ACL during a preview performance on April 14, just three days before the show's official opening.

Also in «The Seagull» are Corey Stoll, who was Golden Globe nominated for «House of Cards,» and newcomer Billy Howle, who was a standout in Richard Eyre's Olivier Award - winning production of «Ghosts.»

Lucy Kirkwood's critically - acclaimed and Olivier Award - winning play «Chimerica» is to be adapted into a series for Channel 4.

The film itself was originally an Olivier Award - winning play of the same name written by David Harrower.

Splayed across the cushions to chat up the new film was writer - director and Tony and Olivier award winning - playwright extraordinaire, Martin McDonagh.

2001 saw her land a Laurence Olivier Award for Arthur Miller's «All My Sons» and she won a BAFTA award and an Oscar nomination for portraying the ballet teacher in «Billy Elliot» opposite Jamie Bell.

It is directed by Dominic Cooke (The Hollow Crown), four - time Olivier Award winning and BAFTA nominated theatre, TV and film director and writer.

Written by one of Britain's best - loved playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys), this epic play stars Olivier Award - winners Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough.

(That previous iteration won the 2007 Olivier Award for Best Musical.)

Earlier this year, she collected an Olivier Award — London's equivalent of the Tony Award — ...

By 1991, he'd won his first Olivier Award and soon became a familiar face to U.K. audiences.

Choreographer Drew McOnie won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for his work on In The Heights, and is currently Choreographer on Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.

Directed by Tony ® - winner Diane Paulus (Pippin, Hair) with book by Olivier Award ® - nominee James Graham, music and lyrics by Gary Barlow (Take That) and Grammy Award ® - winner Eliot Kennedy, and choreography by Emmy Award ® - winner Mia Michaels («So You Think You Can Dance,» Cirque du Soleil's Delirium), this new musical, packed with mesmerizing visuals, irresistible songs and plenty of laughs, is a timeless story about the power of imagination... and spectacular proof that you never really have to grow up.

Featuring her much loved songs, TINA - The Tina Turner Musical is written by Olivier Award - winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd.