Laurence Olivier News

Let's start with unexpected news, it seems that the PBS has not submitted Wuthering Heights 2009 to the Emmy Awards.

"Propeller may be another English group of actors doing a play by their compatriot, Shakespeare, but this is something quite different.

The film crew remaking the Hollywood blockbuster Clash of the Titans have chosen a quarry in north Wales for some of its scenes.

Jude Law is bringing his current West End triumph in the title role of " Hamlet " to Broadway in September.

There used to be little debate over the issue at hand; Laurence Olivier was routinely referred to as the greatest living actor.

Kate Ulrey remembers when she became captivated by the plays of William Shakespeare.

Going global: Helen Mirren stars in 'Phedre' enlarge Tonight, when Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre production of Racine's Phdre, starring Helen Mirren, is broadcast via satellite from the Lyttelton to 70 cinemas in the UK, and 200 around the world, a 21st-century solution will be provided to a perennial question.

As part of the Universitya s ongoing centenary celebrations , the Universitya s museum and archive collections have selected 100 gems to showcase in an online virtual exhibition entitled the Cabinet of Curiosities .

Laurence Olivier's Richard III is one of the stagiest versions of Shakespeare you'll find on film, and it's also his least faithful work, chopping and editing the Bard's play willy-nilly. I'm no Shakespeare expert, but even I can spot the hatchet work here.

The Fool , right, is the only person who can tell King Lear the truth in the tragedy that opens this year's Tulane Shakespeare Festival.

The great-granddaddy of Ridley Scott's Gladiator hasn't lost any muscle tone after nearly half a century, and Kirk Douglas's direct, unpretentious performance as the great slave-rebel Spartacus is more engaging than ever.

A famed Nazi hunter uncovers a plot by Nazi Dr. Mengele to change the course of the world.

The Twilight director and her Lords of Dogtown star are reuniting on a new film of Shakespeare's Dane.

In Bard on the Beach's first stab at the great tragedy, a veteran director and a young actor wrestle with raw emotions and racial tensions Othello is one of William Shakespeare's greatest works, a tragedy right up there with Hamlet and Macbeth .

For nearly 60 years, Tony Curtis has rubbed shoulders with sirens and studs of the big screen.

Journal Live has an article on Tamasha's Wuthering Heights as the production arrives in Newcastle tomorrow and runs until Saturday.

A Hitchcock special -- a creamy, thick, sweetish blend of genres, with ingredients from detective stories , Gothic thrillers , and tearjerkers .

Errol Flynn had a personal shorthand for marking up scripts according to whether any imaginative effort was required to prepare for a role, or if he was simply being called upon to play himself.

Some consider Laurence Olivier to be Britain's Marlon Brando: he changed the landscape of theater and film in his time, and made Shakespeare exciting and accessible.

Today is Friday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2009 with 223 to follow. The moon is waning.