Sondheim routs Spamalot at UK theater awards
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Broadway veteran Stephen Sondheim swept  the board at one of Britain's top theater awards on Sunday,  sending the big-budget Monty Python musical "Spamalot" away  empty-handed.
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A choreographer from London wins a major dance prize for a work which 'conveys the hurly-burly of commerce'.
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Mike Leigh's moving portrayal of a  back-street abortionist in 1950s London swept the British  Independent Film Awards late Tuesday, taking six awards,  including Best Film and Best Director.
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Playbill - The cross-country quest for the Holy Grail continues as Monty Python's Spamalot adds more stops to its national tour.
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Richard Eyre, a knight of the  realm, is one of the leading lights in British theater and also  has helmed several movies. The list of actors who have fallen  under his direction reads like a who's who of acting and he  loves both the discipline of theater and film.
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West End hit Hairspray receives a record 11 nominations in the Laurence Olivier Awards.
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Hollywood actress Kathleen Turner is named best actress at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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Charles Dance is named best actor in the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for his performance in Shadowlands.
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Spam, the luncheon meat which valiantly sustained the country&#39;s war effort only to suffer so cruelly at the hands of Monty Python, is being relaunched in the UK.
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Alan Cumming will join Dianne Wiest in the Classic Stage Companyâs production of Chekhovâs drama.
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Variety - (Variety) &#151; After a huge drop over Halloween week, Broadway grosses recovered 6.8% to &#36;11,861,299 during Week 23 (Nov. 1-7), with attendance up 3.4% to 182,759.
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite
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Sir Cameron Mackintosh is named the most influential person in British theatre by arts newspaper The Stage.
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"The Producers" and "Mary Poppins" went head-to-head Thursday when nominations were announced for the Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain's top theater honors.
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Songs from a new musical about the rise and fall of Britain's former home secretary David Blunkett were rolled out in a tiny English country pub, heard by a handful of bemused regulars.
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Steven Spielberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Dolly Parton are among stars honoured for contributions to US culture.
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Playbill - A screen version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opens in theatres around the country Dec. 21. It took only 28 years for the bloody tale of revenge to make the leap from stage to screen.