ON Broadway Irish playwright Frank McGuinness has had success with his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, which won four of the annual Tony awards, writes Sean Cronin. The Broadway treatment of the classic gained plaudits including best actress in a drama and best supporting actor.
British actress Janet McTeer, who played Nora, paid tribute to McGuinness's "wonderful words" in her acceptance speech.
The really big Tony winner was Titanic, a $10 million supershow about the luxury vessel's 1912 sinking, which won five awards including best musical.
Jane Campion, the New Zealand director of the award winning The Thana, will preside over the jury at Venice's 54th International Film Festival, it was announced yesterday.
The Venice Biennale Council also named British actress Charlotte Rampling, Burkinabe director Idrissa Ouedraogo, Georgian director Nana Djordjadze, German critic Peter Buchka, French director producer Vera Belmont and Japanese director Shinnya Tsukamoto to the jury.
A version of Richard III made in 1912 and starring Frederick Warde will be screened in St Mark's Square on the September 6th closing night to a special musical score created by Ennio Morricone.
French cyclist Christian Meynier has sold all his possessions to fulfil a dream of circling the globe on his bicycle.
"I'm not trying to prove anything... I am not looking for publicity or to be in the record books. I just wanted to fulfil an old dream and see the world," the 48 year old said during a stop in Abu Dhabi. Meynier set out from southern Argentina on October 14th, 1993.
Tunnelling road protester Swampy yesterday helped reoccupy a British road protest camp site where he spent a week underground earlier this year.
The protester, 23 year old Daniel Hooper, spent more than 13 hours in a new 15ft tunnel at the former Fairmile camp on the route of the A30 improvement near Honiton, Devon.