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Eddie Redmayne lands Tony nomination for role in Cabaret
Eddie Redmayne lands Tony nomination for role in Cabaret
Eddie Redmayne has been nominated for a Tony Award for his starring role in the Broadway production of Cabaret.
The British star has already won an Olivier Award for his turn as the Emcee in the hit show, which he first performed in London’s West End.
He is nominated for the best leading actor in a musical prize at the Tonys, alongside Brody Grant for The Outsiders, Jonathan Groff for Merrily We Roll Along, Dorian Harewood for The Notebook and Brian D’Arcy James in Days Of Wine And Roses.
The revival of the hit show first transformed the West End’s Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club and transferred to Broadway this month.
The show is still running in London, starring Luke Treadaway and Cara Delevingne.
Redmayne starred opposite Irish actress Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles in London, but in New York the role is being performed by Gayle Rankin, who is nominated in the best actress in a musical category.
A number of famous faces are in the running for big prizes at the Tony Awards this year, with Succession’s Jeremy Strong nominated in the best actor in a play category for An Enemy Of The People.
He will compete against Dopesick’s Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots, The Good Place’s William Jackson Harper for Uncle Vanya, Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch and Ray Donovan’s Liev Schreiber for Doubt: A Parable.
The Notebook star Rachel McAdams, Ocean’s Eight’s Sarah Paulson and American Horror Story’s Jessica Lange are all nominated for the best actress in a play prize for their roles in Mary Jane, Appropriate and Mother Play respectively.
The nominations were announced on US morning show CBS This Morning.
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has also been nominated for a Tony.
The actor is recognised in the best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical category for the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along.
British musician Fatboy Slim is also among the nominees for his original score with David Byrne for new musical Here Lies Love.
The 77th Tony Awards will be hosted by West Side Story actress Ariana DeBose on June 16 in New York.
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Ncuti Gatwa cast in National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest
Ncuti Gatwa cast in National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is to make his debut at the National Theatre in London in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Gatwa will play hedonistic bachelor Algernon Moncrieff in Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people” this winter. It marks his first major role in a theatre production since coming to fame on Netflix’s Sex Education and being cast as the 15th Doctor in the BBC’s science-fiction series.
Born in Rwanda, Gatwa grew up in Scotland. He graduated in acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and started his career with half a dozen productions at Dundee Rep including The BFG and Victoria in 2013. Last year he performed a scene from Romeo and Juliet, opposite My Neighbour Totoro’s Mei Mac, for King Charles’s Coronation Concert. His other stage productions have included A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Shakespeare’s Globe, directed by Emma Rice in 2016, and The Rivals at the Watermill in Newbury, directed by Jonathan Humphreys in 2018.
The Importance of Being Earnest will be directed by Max Webster whose recent productions include Macbeth starring another Time Lord, David Tennant, at the Donmar Warehouse. That show, which uses binaural sound technology and co-stars Cush Jumbo, recently announced a West End return for October.
The Importance of Being Earnest will star Amanda Lawrence as Miss Prism, Hugh Skinner as Jack Worthing and Richard Cant as Reverend Canon Chasuble. Three-time Olivier award winner Sharon D Clarke, who played Grace O’Brien in Doctor Who during series 11 and 12, will be given the immortal line “A handbag?” as Lady Bracknell.
Rufus Norris, director of the National Theatre, described Wilde’s play of friendship, love and false identity as “hilariously subversive” and “one of our greatest comedies”. It will run in the National’s Lyttelton theatre from 20 November to 25 January. A previously announced version of Noel Streatfeild’s novel Ballet Shoes, adapted by Kendall Feaver and directed by Katy Rudd, will play in the Olivier theatre during the National’s festive season.
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie gets emotional while drafting son of franchise legend Jeremiah Trotter
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie gets emotional while drafting son of franchise legend Jeremiah Trotter
The Philadelphia Eagles brought in quite a haul over the weekend at the NFL Draft.
After grabbing two cornerbacks early in the weekend, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman spent his days wheeling and dealing, flipping picks up and down the draft board to get his team where he wanted it.
One of the most heartwarming picks of the entire weekend came in round five, when the Eagles traded up to draft Clemson linebacker Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
Trotter’s father, Jeremiah Trotter Sr., was drafted by the Eagles in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and spent the vast majority of his career in Philadelphia, becoming one of the franchise’s most beloved players.
Now nearly three decades later, his son is set to join the organization.
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie was emotional while speaking on the phone with the second generation of Trotter to suit up for the Birds.
“How old were you when I first met you?” Lurie asked Trotter over the phone. “Two? Three? Congrats man. Just really huge congrats. Congrats to your dad, and I loved your mother. Congrats, can’t wait to see you.”
Lurie referenced Trotter’s mother Tammi, who died of cancer in February 2023.
At the draft, every team is looking to make the picks that will best set their team up for success in the years to come. While Trotter Jr. will have some big shoes to fill that were left by his father, it’s clear he’ll have a ton of support from the organization on his journey to fill them.
Gold bars and painting taken from 'prolific money launderer' will be sold
Gold bars and painting taken from 'prolific money launderer' will be sold
Lenn Mayhew-Lewis, 69, who the NCA described as a "prolific money launderer", was found with eight kilos of gold bars and shavings stashed in his Bentley when he was arrested in 2019.
They are now thought to be worth more than £400,000, authorities said.
Separately, a painting by artist Frank Auerbach was also found to have been purchased by Mayhew-Lewis - whose clientele included drugs traffickers - in 2017 for £1.6m. The artist's works can, however, sell for up to £5.5m.
It is believed the painting, named 'Albert Street, 2009', was subsequently used by another individual as collateral to secure a £5m loan from a UK auction house.
Mayhew-Lewis, from Surrey, was convicted of money laundering in 2023 and is now being sought by the NCA as he absconded before sentencing. He was sentenced in his absence to five years in prison.
he gold and painting will now be sold after an application for them to be forfeited was granted during a hearing on Monday.
Funds will go into the public purse, with up to half of the proceeds going straight into fighting organised crime under the Home Office's Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme, the NCA said.
Senior investigating officer Barry Vinall, from the International Corruption Unit, said: "The gold and the painting are proceeds of crime and would most likely have been used to finance further criminal ventures, resulting in more harm in our communities, or to fund luxurious lifestyles for criminals.
"It's fitting that the money from these items will now be ploughed into fighting organised crime.
"By doggedly pursuing criminals' cash, the NCA is disrupting some of the serious and organised crime harming countless people across the UK every day."
Man arrested for child abduction after teen child of billionaire tech entrepreneurs found in van 6 days after running away
Man arrested for child abduction after teen child of billionaire tech entrepreneurs found in van 6 days after running away
Aman has been arrested on child abduction charges after the teenage child of the billionaire tech entrepreneurs who co-founded Slack and Flickr was found in San Francisco on Saturday, six days after going missing.
Mint Butterfield, who uses they/them pronouns, was found at around 11:30 pm on Saturday in the notorious Tenderloin district of San Francisco after going missing last Sunday.
San Francisco police said they found the 16-year-old in a white van with 26-year-old Christopher “Kio” Dizefalo.
Described by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office as “an adult friend”, Dizefalo is suspected of coaxing Mint into leaving home six days prior. He was arrested and booked at Marin County Jail on suspicion of child abduction and other violations, according to arrest records obtained by The San Francisco Standard. He was being held on $50,000 bail.
Officials said that Mint told investigators they voluntarily ran away from home in Bolinas and that they have since been reunited with their family.
Mint – who was deemed “at risk” due to previous threats of suicide – was uninjured when they were found.
Following the ordeal, the teen’s parents – Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, as well as stepdad and fellow tech founder Jyri Engeström – thanked police for bringing the 16-year-old home.
“A heartfelt thanks to all the family, friends, volunteers and strangers who called in tips and made this recovery possible,” the family wrote in an email. “We especially want to thank the seasoned law enforcement officers who understand the very real threat of predators who use the allure of drugs to groom teenagers.”
Mint was reported missing by their mother at around 8.30am on Monday 22 April after disappearing the night before.
The teen allegedly left a note indicating to their parents that they’d had the intention of running away before they were found with Dizefalo this week.
A missing person alert was posted on Nextdoor, with authorities warning that they believed Mint could be in the Tenderloin district.
Sgt Schermerhorn told theSan Francisco Chronicle that Mint had been known to frequent the Tenderloin area, which is notorious for drug-related issues and crime, before their disappearance.
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office initially said that detectives had no reason to suspect there was an abduction or foul play in the teenager’s disappearance because they had “run away from their home voluntarily”.
