What’s On Stage Awards 2016 Winners
Winners of the 16th Annual What’s On Stage Awards were announced at a live ceremony on Sunday 21 February at the Prince of Wales theatre in London. Steve Furst hosted the awards alongside guest presenters and several musical theatre stars who performed during the night. Big winners this year includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Gatiss, Lara Pulver, Kinky Boots, Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh and Nicole Kidman. Read the full list of winners below.
Best Actor in a Play sponsored by Radisson Blu Edwardian: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet
Best Actress in a Play sponsored by The Umbrella Rooms: Nicole Kidman, Photograph 51
Best Actor in a Musical sponsored by Century: Matt Henry, Kinky Boots
Best Actress in a Musical: Imelda Staunton, Gypsy
Best Supporting Actor in a Play: Mark Gatiss, Three Days in the Country
Best Supporting Actress in a Play sponsored by The Tonic Theatre Company: Judi Dench, The Winter’s Tale
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical: David Bedella, In The Heights
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical sponsored by Newman: Lara Pulver, Gypsy
Best New Play: Photograph 51
Best New Musical sponsored by Shine Creative Solutions: Kinky Boots
Best Play Revival: Hamlet
Best Musical Revival sponsored by R&H Theatricals: Gypsy
Best Direction: Gypsy, Jonathan Kent
Best Choreography sponsored by Capezio: Kinky Boots, Jerry Mitchell
Best Set Design sponsored by the Theatre Cafe: Hamlet, Es Devlin
Best Lighting Design sponsored by White Light: Hamlet, Jane Cox
Best Off-West End Production sponsored by Les Misérables: Carrie the Musical, Southwark Playhouse
Best Regional Production: Mary Poppins, tour
Best West End Show sponsored by The Wine Treasury: Les Miserables
Equity Award for Services to Theatre: Kenneth Branagh
Martin Freeman Marvel Character Revealed
Sherlock and The Hobbit star Martin Freeman will appear in Captain America Civil War and his exact role has finally been confirmed. Freeman will be playing Everett Ross, the US government’s man in Wakanda. For those unfamiliar with the Marvel comic universe, Wakanda is the African nation that is home to The Black Panther. The news obviously suggests that however much of Freeman we see in Civil War he’ll likely have a further part to play in the subsequent Black Panther solo movie alongside Chadwick Boseman.
Check out Martin Freeman talking to Red Carpet News about joining the Marvel universe and filming Civil War below:
New Batmoblie On Show In London
Visitors to London’s Leicester Square this weekend will come face-to-face with the real Batmobile from BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE. Ahead of the film’s release on 25th March, Warner Bros. Pictures UK will be showcasing the incredible automotive machine at the Odeon Leicester Square on from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st February.
Measuring 21ft long by 11ft wide and boasting a 50mm Twin Rotating front cannon, the 3500kg Batmobile will be an awesome presence, with both cinemagoers and passersby getting the opportunity to take photographs thanks to the Odeon’s glass-fronted lobby.
More Pictures in the Gallery Below:
Karlie Kloss Wins Elle Style Inspiring Woman Award
Today ELLE UK announced that supermodel and tech entrepreneur, Karlie Kloss, will be winning an ELLE Style Award for ‘Inspiring Woman of The Year’ at the awards ceremony next week. Kloss will formally receive her award at the ELLE Style Awards ceremony, the official closing party for London Fashion Week, taking place Tuesday, 23rd February.
The ‘Inspiring Woman of the Year’ category is a new addition to the annual ELLE Style Awards that honours and recognises Kloss’s motivating contribution to the industry as well as her entrepreneurial and philanthropic work. Karlie Kloss has launched various charitable initiativesincluding her scholarship programme ‘Kode with Karlie’ that inspires a new generation of women to learn to code. The influential supermodel has graced international catwalks and has long been a favourite of ELLE UK, appearing on the cover and guest editing its Tech Trailblazers March Issue.
The ELLE Style Awards, in association with H&M, is the most talked about fashion event of the season and this year’s awards are set to be bigger than ever before. In 2016 film stars, pop royalty and global style icons will come together to celebrate the most stylish stars, the brightest emerging talent and fashion’s greatest achievers. Other coveted ELLE Style Awards categories include; H&M’s Conscious Award, Outstanding Contribution to Fashion and Female Artist of the Year.
Saoirse Ronan Lands Chesil Beach Lead
Oscar nominated star Saoirse Ronan is officially set to star in a film version of bestselling novel Chesil Beach. The 2007 book written by Ian McEwan tells the story of young newlyweds honeymooning on the Dorset coast in 1962. Saoirse Ronan will be playing young wife Florcence, with the role of her husband Edward still to be filled.
Ronan previously featured in the film adaptation of another of McEwan’s books Atonement alongside Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. The new Chesil Beach film will be produced by the Number 9 Film team behind recent romantic drama Carol.
Talking about the new adaptation producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley have said:
“It’s an extremely exciting prospect to be reunited with Saoirse Ronan on such a beautiful and heartbreaking project.”
Saoirse Ronan talks in depth about Oscar nominated drama Brooklyn below: