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Alice in Wonderland starts in theatres today! Go show your support for Alan as the Caterpillar (which I think he fits the role extremely well!) ;)

Posted by Kari on 05 March 2010
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The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has announced programming for its spring 2010 season.

As previously announced, the Bridge Project — a three-year series of co-productions by BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions — will present a pairing of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and As You Like It, January 12-March 13. Both plays are directed by Sam Mendes, with the company including Ashlie Atkinson (Phoebe/Juno), Jenni Barber (Audrey/Iris), Michelle Beck (Celia/Ceres), Edward Bennett (Oliver/Ferdinand), Christian Camargo (Orlando/Ariel), Stephen Dillane (Jaques/Prospero), Alvin Epstein (Adam/Gonzalo), Jonathan Fried (Le Beau/Alonso), Richard Hansell (Amiens/Sebastian), Ron Cephas Jones (Charles the Wrestler/Caliban), Aaron Krohn (Silvius/Adrian), Anthony O’Donnell (Corin/Trinculo), Juliet Rylance (Rosalind/Miranda), Thomas Sadoski (Touchstone/Stephano), Michael Thomas (Dukes Frederick and Senior/Antonio), and Ross Waiton (Boatswain, Francisco, First Lord).

Alan Rickman will direct the Donmar Warehouse production of August Strindberg’s Creditors (April 16-May 16), in a new version by David Greig, and featuring the original London cast: Anna Chancellor, Tom Burke, and Owen Teale. Another theater highlight will be the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg’s staging of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (April 7-11), directed by Lev Dodin, and performed in Russian with English titles.

Conductor William Christie will curate a 16-day Opera Festival in March featuring Les Arts Florissants in world premiere productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Charpentier’s Actéon, and the U.S. premiere of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen produced by Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opéra Comique, Théâtre de Caen, and BAM. The festival will also feature recitals, talks, chamber music performances, open rehearsal, and film.

Dance highlights will include the Mark Morris Dance Group (February 23-27), DanceAfrica 2010 (May 28-31), and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (June 10-19). Music events will include the Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival in February, Falla and Flamenco (April 17), and various Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD screenings.

For more information, visit www.bam.org.

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Rickman’s ‘Creditors’ billed for Brooklyn

Alan Rickman’s Donmar Warehouse production of August Strindberg’s “Creditors” will see a New York run as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2010 spring season.

First staged in London in October 2008, David Greig’s adaptation of the 1888 drama of marital bitterness and betrayal starred Anna Chancellor, Tom Burke and Owen Teale, all of whom will reunite for the Gotham engagement.

The play runs April 16-May 16 at BAM’s Harvey Theater. Director Rickman will give an Artist Talk on April 27.

Also on the BAM docket for spring is a return of the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg with Lev Dodin’s production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” running April 7-10.

In addition to the previously announced Shakespeare double of “As You Like It” and “The Tempest,” from the Bridge Project, BAM’s season also features dance engagements from the Mark Morris and Alvin Ailey companies. Conductor William Christie curates a 16-day Opera Festival that includes stagings of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” and “The Fairy Queen.”

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Posted by Kari on 19 October 2009
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Alan Rickman has landed in the Top 10 as #8:

It’s good to see that here, amid the chiselled cheekbones and perfectly coiffed heads, is a man who’s sexy because he’s smart, sarky and has a fine line in put-downs. Sure, everyone loves a bad(ish) boy, but Rickman’s rogues’ gallery is united by the fact that they’re all strangely, unjustifiably sexy. Yes, even greasy-haired Snape. And as for his good guys, they’re pretty irresistible.

Most alluring as… For Rickman as a good guy, as deceased cellist Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply (if you haven’t seen it, it’s like Ghost but better). For Rickman as a baddie, it’s gotta be Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Interests include… He’s heavily involved in supporting theatre and lots of theatre causes, and holds a vice-chairmanship of RADA.

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Posted by Kari on 15 October 2009
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Calgary based NOMADIC PICTURES is pleased to announce the Premiere of Season 2 of its wine & travel TV series “HOLLYWOOD & VINES.” The TV series will debut on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 7:30 pm (EST) across Canada on Super Channel.

The TV Series is hosted by JASON PRIESTLEY (“Beverly Hills 90210”), and TERRY DAVID MULLIGAN (“The Tasting Room”).

“HOLLYWOOD & VINES” is a high energy weekly half-hour series celebrating wine and the celebrities who love it. Priestley and Mulligan explore the best in wine, food and travel and take viewers along for the ride. “Hollywood & Vines” mixes enthusiastic vintners, wine festival goers, star chefs, sommeliers, restaurateurs and celebs in a quick-witted documentary style program that crushes all aristocratic wine barriers. The production filmed for FIVE (5) weeks in and around Niagara, Halifax, the Okanagan Valley, Napa Valley, Sonoma, Washington, Italy, and Spain. Just some of the 50+ celebrities on the show include Russell Crowe, George Clooney, Robin Williams, Dan Aykroyd, Daniel Craig, Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman, Eric McCormack, Kim Basinger, Michael Douglas, Sienna Miller, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, Chris Pine, Dean Cain, Jonathan Silverman, and Wayne Gretzky.

“HOLLYWOOD & VINES” is produced by Emmy® Award winners CHAD OAKES & MIKE FRISLEV (“Broken Trail”, “The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie”) of NOMADIC PICTURES and Roger Williams of Vancouver’s IMAGE PACIFIC.

“HOLLYWOOD & VINES” (Season 2) was fully financed by Super Channel and NOMADIC PICTURES with further assistance provided by The Alberta Film Development Program and CAVCO.

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Posted by Kari on 27 September 2009
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The producers of Bottle Shock, which was financed independently and distributed on home video by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, have announced a Bottle Shock Getaway Contest for a two-night stay in California’s wine-rich Sonoma County.

The contest asks viewers of Bottle Shock to share their experience on an interactive blog, at www.bottleshockstories.com, noting what they were drinking and with whom they watched it. Producers will choose the best entry in November.

The film is based on a 1976 blind tasting challenge pitting California wines against French ones, helping solidify California as a superior supplier of wine.

The winning entry will receive a three-day, two-night package including nights at the Lodge at Sonoma, where the cast of the film stayed during filming (the cast includes Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodriguez, Dennis Farina and Eliza Dushku). The package also includes a helicopter tour with the producers, including stops for tastings and tours of wineries; a guided tour of Chateau Montelena in Napa Valley, which produced the winning 1973 Chardonnay featured in the film; a guided tour of Kunde Estates in Sonoma Valley, where several scenes were filmed; dinner with the producers at Della Santina in Sonoma, where scenes were filmed; a food and wine pairing with Gustavo Brambila (played by Rodriguez in the film) at his Napa winery, Gustavo Thrace; a bottle of Chardonnay from Chateau Montelena, signed by the cast; and a Bottle Shock movie poster.

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Posted by Kari on 22 September 2009
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Distrib buys pic about Everest climber George Mallory

National Geographic Ent. has acquired “The Wildest Dream,” which explores George Mallory’s obsession with becoming the first person to reach the peak of Mt. Everest.

It’s the third acquisition for the newly recast distrib, which opens Cherien Dabis’ “Amreeka” in New York and Los Angeles today and “City of Life and Death” in early 2010.

Mallory’s remembered as having said, “Because it’s there” in reply to the question “Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?” He and his climbing partner disappeared in 1924; they were 800 feet from the Everest summit before the clouds closed in.

“The Wildest Dream” is directed by Anthony Geffen and produced by Geffen and Claudia Perkins, with Mike Medavoy exec producing. Story’s told through the explorer’s letters to his wife, Ruth; previously unseen photos; and film from 1924 and from the 1999 expedition led by Conrad Anker, who found Mallory’s body on Everest.

“Dream” is narrated by Liam Neeson, with the voices of Ralph Fiennes as Mallory, the late Natasha Richardson as Ruth Mallory, Hugh Dancy as Mallory’s fellow climber and Alan Rickman as the last person to see Mallory alive.

NGE said the film is dedicated to Richardson.

Source @ Variety

Posted by Kari on 04 September 2009
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Alan Cumming’s new show Bought a Blue Car Today, opened last night at the Vaudeville Theatre. Fellow luvvie legends Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Rickman pitched up for the evening and the after party at the Waldorf Hilton hotel. The show features songs from acts as diverse as Frank Sinatra and Cyndi Lauper. Cumming’s previous musical roles have include the Emcee in Sam Mendes’s Cabaret.

Source and Photo @ London Evening Standard

Posted by Kari on 03 September 2009
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Posted by Kari on 02 September 2009
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