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Katori Hall triumphs at Olivier Awards, and other top stories...

CultureCritic | 23.March.2010 | 16:58
Big names such as Jude Law and Keira Knightly were unsuccessful at this year's Olivier Awards, while little-known playwright Katori Hall won the Best New Play Award for The Mountaintop. The 28-year-old American's play is likely to ruffle feathers in the States with its depiction of Martin Luther King as a cheater with a penchant for foul language, but she maintains it's a reliably informed work. Best Actress went to Rachel Weisz for A Streetcar Named Desire, Best Actor to Mark Rylance for Jerusalem while Wicked remains the biggest hit with audiences... 

Wolfgang Wagner, 90-year-old grandson of composer Richard Wagner, has died. He leaves an uneasy legacy. His 57 years as director of the Bayreuth opera festival were distinguished by hostile relations with his extended family. He rejected professional association with all younger generations of the Wagner family. Although his direction for stage never received the acclaim of his brother Wieland's, the waiting lists for the festival were even larger than Glyndebourne's at its peak of attendance. The notorious curmudgeon's staunch supporters will be saddened by his passing...

Tim Burton will continue his recent rehash campaign with a new version of The Addams Family. But your black, spray-fixed bouffant needn't droop in disappointment at yet another remake from the man who once bought us Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. His proposed version is at least fairly imaginative - a 3D stop-motion animation which disregards the 90s live action films and draws inspiration from the original Charles Addams comic strips published in The New Yorker between 1938 and 1988...

He might be a Karma Chameleon but its likely Boy George will be experiencing a reincarnation next year - reforming Culture Club to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The group did complete a US tour twelve years ago, so it hasn't all been house music, messy autobiographies and prison sentences for the alternately fallen / reformed George. He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire that the group would have to reuinite for the right reasons, and it sounds like the upcoming anniversary is good as any...

Zermie
Zermie | 24.March.2010 | 15:45 | ReportooOOooo yeah! Tim Burton, he's so creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky!!!!
 
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Nick
Nick | 24.March.2010 | 15:33 | ReportNew Tim Burton sounds like it could be okay, actually, Hope he doesn't slather the stop motion with CGI though. There was a bit of that in Corpse Bride, but not too much.
 
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