Olivier Awards 2014 nominees

THE GUARDIAN
theguardian.com, Monday 10 March 2014 08.01 EDT

Best actor

Henry Goodman – The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Duchess theatre

Tom Hiddleston – Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse

Rory Kinnear – Othello at the National Theatre, Olivier

Jude Law – Henry V at the Noël Coward theatre

Best actress

Hayley Atwell – The Pride at the Trafalgar Studios

Anna Chancellor – Private Lives at the Gielgud theatre

Judi Dench – Peter and Alice at the Noël Coward theatre

Lesley Manville – Ghosts at the Almeida theatre & Trafalgar Studios

Best actor in a supporting role

Ron Cook – Henry V at the Noël Coward theatre

Mark Gatiss – Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse

Jack Lowden – Ghosts at the Almeida theatre & Trafalgar Studios

Ardal O'Hanlon – The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse & the Wyndham's theatre

Best actress in a supporting role

Sharon D Clarke – The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, Olivier

Sarah Greene – The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Noël Coward theatre

Katherine Kingsley – A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Noël Coward theatre

Cecilia Noble – The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, Olivier

American airlines best new play

1984 at the Almeida theatre

Chimerica at the Almeida theatre & Harold Pinter theatre

The Night Alive at the Donmar Warehouse

Peter and Alice at the Noël Coward theatre

Best new comedy

The Duck House at the Vaudeville theatre

The Full Monty at the Noël Coward theatre

Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's theatre

The Same Deep Water As Me at the Donmar Warehouse

COMPLETE LIST OF NOMINEES: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/mar/10/olivier-awards-2014-full-list-nominations

Kenneth Branagh live Q&A – ask your questions now! (THE GUARDIAN) Andrew Dickson guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 July 2013 06.21 EDT

The star of stage and screen will be joining us live online on 18 July to talk Macbeth in Manchester. So what do you want to know?

Scottish power ... Kenneth Branagh in Macbeth at the Manchester international festival Photograph: Johan Persson

Since he burst on to the scene as an impetuous Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid-1980s, there isn't much Kenneth Branagh hasn't done: directed, written and starred in big-budget Hollywood movies, set up his own touring theatre troupe, rivalled Olivier in popular, cinematic Shakespeare – not to mention brought a touch of glowering Scandinavian noir to these shores in the British version of Wallander.

Branagh currently bestrides the stage as Macbeth at the Manchester international festival, his first time doing live Shakespeare in a decade: it's a visceral production for which a deconsecrated Victorian church has been stripped bare and filled with churning mud (the fight scenes are so full-blooded that one of the cast ended up in A&E last week). The Telegraph called it a "thrilling, cinematically fluid account"; the Guardian's Michael Billington compared Branagh's own performance to Olivier. Tickets for the live performance have long since sold out, but the production will be streamed live to cinemas in the UK and Ireland this Sunday, 20 July, and to cinemas around the world in October.

READ ABOUT THE LIVE Q & A HERE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/jul/17/kenneth-branagh-live-q-and-a

Playing ‘normal’ was War Horse actor Tom Hiddleston's biggest challenge (LONDON EVENING STANDARD)

Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent

05 November 2012

After a year playing a vampire, a Shakespearean king and a supervillain, War Horse star Tom Hiddleston relished his new “incredibly normal” role.

The star of Thor and the BBC’s Henry V has just finished shooting a cameo role in the as-yet unnamed new film by Joanna Hogg.

The London director gave Hiddleston his first big-screen break in low-budget drama Unrelated, which scooped her the most promising newcomer Evening Standard British Film award in 2009.

They made Archipelago together, a tale of middle-class family angst, and when Hogg embarked on her third movie Hiddleston came to Kensington, where it is set, from a volcano in Iceland, where he played villainous Norse god Loki in the third Thor film adventure, The Dark World.

READ MORE: http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/film/playing-normal-was-war-horse-actor-tom-hiddlestons-biggest-challenge-8281905.html