Nominations for the Olivier Awards 2018 are announced today. The shortlists are dominated by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton and Jez Butterworth’s latest play The Ferryman. Headlines include: New American musical Hamilton becomes the most nominated production in Oliviers history with 13 nominations The Ferryman, currently running in the West End before transferring to Broadway, is the most nominated new play with 8 …
FosterIAN Awards for Best Actor
It is great news indeed that this Orange Tree production will be gaining further life in 2018 with a transfer to the National Theatre in the summer. I really hope that as much of the original cast comes with it, especially Nwosu.
NEWS: The Ferryman dominates Standard Awards; Garfield, Jackson & Riley win performance gongs
The winners of the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced tonight (Sunday 3 December 2017) at a ceremony at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: three of the nine awards went to the premiere of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman
NEWS: The Ferryman, Follies & Ink dominate 2017 Standard Awards shortlists
Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, James Graham’s Ink and the National’s revival of Sondheim’s Follies dominate the shortlists for the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
News & interesting titbits: Broadway & West End casting round-ups
The announcement of the new cast for Broadway’s hugely lauded Hello, Dolly! has been a most strange affair – names trickling out one by one, rather than one big splash.
NEWS: National’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway with Lane, Garfield & Gough
Marianne Elliott’s sell-out National Theatre revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway in the new year with original stars Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane and Denise Gough.
NEWS: National’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway with Lane, Garfield & Gough
Marianne Elliott’s sell-out National Theatre revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America transfers to Broadway in the new year with original stars Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane and Denise Gough.
Andrew Garfield & Denise Gough’s thoughts on Angels in America
I was lucky enough to attend a talk chaired by Kate Bassett, as Andrew Garfield, who plays Prior Walter, and Denise Gough, who plays Harper Pitt, discussed their experiences of performing in the epically relevant show.
ANGELS IN AMERICA – National Theatre
The show is big. The glossy A4 programme is big, the set is big, the cast names are big and the length is big.
ANGELS IN AMERICA – National Theatre
In the many aspects of Angels in America that there are to enjoy and appreciate, the richness of Tony Kushner’s writing was not one that I was particularly expecting. But at several points throughout the many, many hours of the two-show press day, it felt like Kushner was almost writing in pull-quotes, such was the vividness of the language that was resonating from the stage of the Lyttelton.
PHOTOS: Full galleries of #AngelsInAmerica’s Millennium Approaches & Perestroika
#AngelsInAmerica has been trending on Twitter during today’s theatrical marathon press day (4 May 2017). Ahead of the critics delivering their judgment on Marianne Elliott‘s 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner‘s two-part epic, we’re celebrating with the full photo galleries of both parts of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes – Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part …
NEWS: Final #OlivierAwards presenters announced, including Lin-Manuel Miranda
The final line-up of guest presenters have been announced for this year’s Olivier Awards, which take place this Sunday 9 April 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall.
How to get tickets for the sold-out Angels in America
Tickets for Angels in America sold out very quickly- a mark of the excitement for this 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner’s epic, but the folks at the National have come up with three ways that you can still catch the show.
PHOTOS: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Denise Gough & Angels in America cast in rehearsal
Rehearsal photos are released today of the National Theatre’s forthcoming 25th anniversary revival of Tony Kushner‘s two-part epic Angels in America, which opens at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre on 4 May 2017, following previews from 11 April America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, …
Photos & quotes: First look at Andrew Garfield & his Angels in America co-stars
The National Theatre has today released first-look images and quotes for the stars of its upcoming revival of Tony Kushner’s epic ‘gay fantasia on national themes’ Angels in America, which opens in the NT Lyttelton Theatre on 4 May 2017, following previews from 11 April. Public booking opens 20 January. America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS …
No more missing out: 5 shows to see at the National Theatre in 2017
I’ve had double cause to reconsider what I’ve been missing at the National Theatre recently. First, a gushing round-up in the Evening Standard looking back; second, a reminder of five shows to look forward to 2017: Twelfth Night, Ugly Lies the Bone, My Country, Mosquitoes and Angels in America.
NEWS: Further casting for National’s Angels in America confirmed
The National Theatre has confirmed further casting to join Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Denise Gough and Russell Tovey for Marianne Elliott’s revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, running at the theatre from 11 April 2017.
NEWS: Rufus Norris announces 2017 National Theatre season
artistic director Rufus Norris announced the flagship institution’s 2017 season which will include four world premieres – including a current work-in-progress on the state of Brexit Britain – two European premieres and new work by Inua Ellams, Yaёl Farber, DC Moore, Lindsey Ferrentino and Nina Raine.
NEWS: Nathan Lane joins Garfield & Gough in NT’s Angels in America, May 2017
The National Theatre confirms today that American stage and screen star Nathan Lane (pictured) – as well as Susan Brown, James McArdle, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett – will join the previously announced Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough and Russell Tovey in the cast of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.