Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Nancy Carroll, Rory Kinnear and Peter Hall respectively won awards for Best Actress, Best Actor and the Moscow Theatre's Golden Seagull at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards; whatsonstage has a complete list of the winners.

Guests included Andrea Riseborough, Tom Hollander, Laura Wade, Sam West, Rebecca Hall, Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam. Pictures: Getty Images and WireImage.

Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. Rosamund Pike - Film - Barney's Version. Andrea Riseborough - Film - Brighton Rock. BBC Radio.

Ruth Wilson attended the International Emmy Awards on 22 November (via Momentary Bursts of Enthusiasm). Winners included Small Island (TV movie/mini-series) and Helena Bonham Carter (Enid; Best Performance by an Actress). Pictures: the Telegraph, Rex Features, Getty (press room and arrivals) and WireImage.

Screencaps of Rosamund Pike from the Barney's Version trailer (click thumbnails for full size):



Interviews with Andrea Riseborough from askmen.com and Movieline, and screencaps of her from the Brighton Rock trailer (click thumbnails for full size):



BBC Radio

• Sam West reads the Oscar Wilde poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" {repeat}
• Juliet Stevenson and David Haig star in the Afternoon Play The End of the Alphabet {repeat}
• Bill Nighy stars in A Charles Paris Mystery: Murder in the Title
• Harry Lloyd reads the Afternoon Reading story "Window Washer"
• Tom Goodman-Hill, Derek Jacobi and Harriet Walter star in the Classic Serial I, Claudius 
• Ricky Gervais will be interviewed on Front Row
• John Sessions and Alex Jennings star in series 2 of Electric Ink

Samuel West. Narration - Peer Gynt. Time to Talk. London's 1000 most influential people. Theatre - Zone of Silence. Narration - Warsaw Ghetto. Narration - Lines of Flight. Television - Garrow's Law. Arts funding in Somerset.

(sources: Southampton Philharmonic, Young Vic, channel4.com, Sal Brown - used with permission, artscampaign.org.uk)

Two reminders: narration of Peer Gynt with the Southampton Philharmonic at the Southampton Guildhall on this Saturday, 27 November (previously blogged here); and Time to Talk at the Rose Kingston Theatre on 7 December (previously blogged here).

Sam has been included (among others such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Rebecca Hall, Lucy Prebble, Tom Stoppard, Simon Russell Beale and Ruth Wilson) in the theatre section of the Evening Standard's London's 1000 most influential people.

Ian McKellen, Jude Law and Sam will make guest appearances in Belarus: Zone of Silence presented by Index on Censorship and the Young Vic, at the Young Vic on 5 December (via whatsonstage).

He narrated the More4 documentary Warsaw Ghetto: The Unfinished Film, which was broadcast on 30 October (via his Twitter, @exitthelemming). In other narration news, Lines of Flight won the Jury Prize at the Torello Mountain Film Festival (via the film's Twitter, @LinesOfFlight). Lines of Flight will next be screened at the Fernie Mountain Film Festival in February 2011 (previously blogged here).

Sam plays Thomas Erskine in series 2 episode 4 of Garrow's Law, which will be broadcast on BBC1, 5 December.

On 10 November, Sam attended a council meeting in Taunton, as a representative of the National Campaign for the Arts to protest cuts to arts funding in Somerset. Press coverage: the Guardian and This is Somerset.

Dan Stevens. Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Celebrating Creativity at Tonbridge School. Radio - Orley Farm.

Dan played Curtis in "Late at Night", written by Richard Curtis, directed by Josie Rourke and co-starring Ralf Little, Kelly Brook and Natalie Dormer (with a cameo from Richard Wilson). Press coverage of the 24 Hour Plays includes a video from Ideas Tap; and articles from the Independent, the Evening Standard and the Londoner's Diary. It will also be featured on The Culture Show (via Clemency Burton-Hill's Twitter, @clemencybh). Getty, Rex Features and wooller.com have pictures from the after party; as well as Dan, guests included Andrew Scott and Toby Jones.
Some tweets from Dan about the 24 Hour Plays: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8

Dan will participate in Celebrating Creativity at Tonbridge School, a celebration that will take place 17 February 2011 in the E.M. Forster Theatre at 7.45pm.

Orley Farm, a Classic Serial originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from December 2008 to January 2009, is available for purchase. Dan plays Peregrine Orme.

Hayley Atwell. Television - Any Human Heart. Film - Captain America. Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards, Lanvin for H&M launch.

Some publicity for Any Human Heart - interviews from the Mail on Sunday (via darcylicious), the Herald, the Independent, and the Evening Standard.

An excerpt from Hayley's Herald interview about Captain America:

"Atwell says her Peggy Carter – freedom fighter and Captain America's love interest – is different. 'I likened her character to that famous Ginger Rogers quote. She can do everything Captain America can do, but backwards and in high heels. She’s an English soldier through and through, although she always looks fabulous. She might stand there with a machine-gun shooting Nazis, but she's obviously gone to the loo beforehand and applied a bit of lipstick. She doesn't need to be rescued. That's exciting to me – her strength.'"

and Comic Book Movie has a commentary from director Joe Johnston about some recently released stills.

On 5 November, Eddie Redmayne and Hayley promoted The Pillars of the Earth on Lorraine.

Earlier this month, Hayley attended the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards (1 November; pictures from Getty - arrivals and inside) and the Lanvin for H&M launch (2 November; pictures from the Telegraph, Rex Features and Vogue).

Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer

[updated 19 February 2011]

Source: smh.com.au

• Sam West interview from the Sydney Morning Herald [link]
• A positive review from the Australian (via the ACO Facebook page) [link]
• Interview with Laura Wade and Richard Tognetti from the Daily Telegraph [link]

Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer

Source: smh.com.au

• Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer will be featured on The Music Show (ABC radio national) today [link]
• Interview with Laura Wade and Richard Tognetti from the Australian (via the ACO Facebook page) [link]

Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer

Source: smh.com.au

• Sam West will be interviewed on Mornings with Margaret Throsby (ABC Classic FM) on Wednesday 10 November. Thanks to ACO marketing for the heads up. [link]
• The ACO has made the program for Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer available as a pdf and e-book (via their Twitter, @A_C_O) [link]
• A wall post from the ACO's Facebook page:

  "Rehearsals for the Kreutzer vs Kreutzer tour started this morning. Actors Robin McLeavy and Sam West are in one room with Director Sarah Giles and Playwright Laura Wade while Richard and the Orchestra are in the studio rehearsing the Beethoven. It's a very busy day in the ACO offices!"