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ATHENS, Ga., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sir Patrick Stewart, Peabody Award-winning star of stage and screen, Shakespeare plays and science-fiction blockbusters, will be the host of the 71st Annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony on Monday, May 21, at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. "Patrick Stewart, the first actor to host the Peabody Awards Presentation Luncheon, brings a career that perfectly illustrates the breadth of the Peabody Award," said Horace...
A recurring back injury forced Scottish actor David Tennant to drop out of Monday's performance of Hamlet in London, the BBC said. The 37-year-old Doctor Who star is playing the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's sold-out staging of the play at the Novello Theatre. Film, TV and theater actor Patrick Stewart co-stars in the production, which just transferred from Stratford-upon-Avon. We're waiting to hear whether he'll be able to perform tonight on press night, an RSC spokeswoman...
By Paul Taylor Not enough straight plays in the West End? Not so, says Paul Taylor - a new version of Pirandello's 'Six Characters' is starting a serious revolution First question: how do you adapt a play like Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author so that it is refreshed and reinvigorated by being brought up to speed with techniques and technologies that have sprung since the author's own day? That's a tricky enough proposition. But now elide that problem with a second...
By CAROLYN CHURCHILL and AMANDA MACMILLAN HE is a good, if not a great, Dane. That was the verdict yesterday after Doctor Who star David Tennant made his longawaited appearance as Hamlet in a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production. The casting of the 37-yearold Scot as the young Danish prince had sparked some barbed comments about theatre companies using big names to fill seats. But Tennant's performance at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford- upon-Avon, has been roundly praised by both...
By Jill Lawless STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England - It's "Hamlet," but not as we know it. The Royal Shakespeare Company usually draws genteel, theater- loving crowds to the serene town of Stratford, the playwright's birthplace. It has never seen anything like the fan frenzy surrounding a new production of "Hamlet" that stars not one but two science fiction icons: David Tennant, hero of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s beloved "Doctor Who," and Patrick Stewart of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."...
LOOK who's all dressed up as Shakespeare's Hamlet. If you didn't know already, David Tennant - best-known as TV's Dr Who - is playing the prince of Denmark at Stratford and fans are said to be paying up to pounds 1,000 on eBay to get hold of tickets. If these stunning dress rehearsal photos are anything to go by, they are in for a treat. The actor, who was also a huge hit on TV as Casanova, is reportedly having to avoid tourist hotspots in the town to dodge being mobbed by autograph...
By MARTIN GRIFFITH RENO, Nev. - The widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan saw a Wiccan symbol placed on a memorial plaque for her husband Saturday, after fighting the federal government for more than a year over the emblem. Roberta Stewart, widow of Sgt. Patrick Stewart, and Wiccan leaders said it was the first government-issued memorial plaque with a Wiccan pentacle - a five-pointed star enclosed in a circle. More than 50 friends and family dedicated the plaque at Northern Nevada Veterans...
