Angela Lansbury wins first Olivier Award at 89
The five-times Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury added an Olivier award to her collection for the play that brought her back to the London stage for the first time in 40 years.
The five-times Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury added an Olivier award to her collection for the play that brought her back to the London stage for the first time in 40 years.
Is 9/11 fit matter for opera? Although Karlheinz Stockhausen provocatively declared that the destruction of the Twin Towers had a Satanic beauty, composers have fought shy of the topic. That Tansy Davies and her librettist Nick Drake have tackled it head-on reflects crazy courage: with an event so dreadful, and with so many survivors and relatives of the dead watching, bathos and accusations of tastelessness would seem impossible to avoid.
Business schools are offering new specialised qualifications in only one industry or field — but appeal to employers is linked to the school's prestige
“What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays.” So opens The Twits, and boy, did Roald Dahl get that right. What would he have made of today’s hirsute hipsters, one wonders. The whole book – with all its horror of hair, of food caught in whiskers and unclean, unseen faces – stemmed from one line in his notebook: “Do something against beards.”
One thing we have learned in the election campaign so far is that Ed Miliband should be taken seriously as a possible prime minister. The Conservative game plan seemed to be that, the more the voters got to know Mr Miliband, the less they would trust him. That is not how things have worked out in the Labour leader’s media appearances.
“We could have been anything that we wanted to be,” sang the young cast of the 1976 movie Bugsy Malone. For some, it was a prophecy of sorts. Jodie Foster, who played gangster’s moll Tallulah, went on to become one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed actresses; several other cast members including Scott Baio, Dexter Fletcher and Bonnie Langford also achieved their share of fame.
A Pakistani activist who dances in defiance of the Taliban has choreographed a new work in the UK which tackles the issue of so-called “honour killings”.
Every man, woman and child in Britain is more than £3,400 in debt – without knowing it and without borrowing a single penny – thanks to the proliferation of controversial deals used to pay for infrastructure such as schools and hospitals.