Penelope Wilton News

Nominations have been announced for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, London's equivalent of the Tonys. The awards, which were created in 1976 will be given out on Sunday March 8, 2009 in a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

Jude Law and Penelope Wilton will headline Director Michael Grandage's upcoming production of Hamlet. The production will run May 29-August 22. The King of Denmark is dead. Consumed with grief, Prince Hamlet determines to avenge his father's apparent murder, with devastating consequences for his family and the kingdom. Michael Grandage directs Jude Law as Hamlet in Shakespeare's iconic revenge tragedy. The cast will also include Kevin R. McNally, Peter Eyre, Matt Ryan, Alex Waldmann, Ron Cook, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and John MacMillan.

The winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the first awards of the UK season have recently been published. The awards took place at a ceremony hosted by Richard Wilson on November 24th, 2008. The Evening Standard Awards are determined by a panel of critics that include Mail on Sunday's Georgina Brown, The London Observer's Susannah Clapp, The Times' Benedict Nightingale, Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer and The Evening Standard's Nicholas de Jongh.

Whats On Stage is reporting that London's Evening Standard newspaper has published the list of nominees for the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the first awards of the UK season.

Samuel West and Penelope Wilton will return to the Donmar Warehouse later this year to star in Jeremy Herrin's revival of TS Eliot's drama 'The Family Reunion.' The production will be the centrepiece of the Donmar's upcoming festival celebrating the work of the 20th-century writer. It will run at the Donmar's Covent Garden home from 25 November 2008 to 10 January 2009.

The nominations were just released for the 2008 Olivier Awards and Haispray is leading the pack with 11 nominations.

Come April, the film of the Tony Award-winning play The History Boys will be available on DVD.

To coincide with the play's 50th anniversary, Lee Evans and Jason Isaacs will star in a major West End revival of Harold Pinter's classic comedy of menace, The Dumb Waiter.

Douglas Henshall will be among the complete cast of The Crytogram, opening at the Donmar Warehouse in October; he joins previously announced Kim Cattrall

The 2006-2007 Donmar Warehouse season will offer Kim Cattrall in The Cryptogram, Rhys Ifans, Penelope Wilton and more

Patrick Swayze joins Guys and Dolls, Michael Gambon returns to the London stage in a silent role, Cabaret announces dates and Avenue Q and Evita open for previews..

Michael Gambon will silently take on the title role of Samuel Beckett's Eh Joe at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, from June 27th through July 15th

Harold Pinter, who is recuperating from cancer of the oesophagus, has been ordered by his doctor to cancel all public apperances relating to his Nobel Prize for Literature

Due to health reasons, playwright Harold Pinter will not go to Sweden to pick up his Nobel Prize for Literature