Cate Blanchett News

Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will star in a production of Botho Strauss' Big and Small at London's Barbican Theatre.

It seems that the odds are in an actor's favor for receiving an Academy Award nomination and eventually picking up the Oscar when they are playing a real life character.

Is Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA headed for a high-profile Australian production? In a two-day workshop for Sydney Theatre Company, the lead roles in the classic play were taken on by Richard Roxburgh and Cate Blanchett , respectively, and the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the company is seeking to mount a full scale production.

Cate Blanchett, right, as Blanche DuBois, with Robin McLeavy as Stella Kowalski in the Sydney Theater Company's production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." She can always depend on the kindness of strangers , but Cate Blanchett will be ending her tenure with the Australian theater company for which she starred in an acclaimed production of "A ... (more)

Ralph Fiennes is looking rather hairy, but beneath the thick beard he's wearing for his on-stage stint as Prospero, the two-time Oscar nominee is predictably razor-sharp. Known for being extremely focused and just a little edgy in interviews, Fiennes seems uncharacteristically relaxed, as he talks about his latest obsession and 11-year labour of ... (more)