The Oscar winning Weisz’s portrayal of fading beauty Blanche DuBois held off Gillian Anderson, Imelda Staunton and Juliet Stevenson among others to win the Best Actress title. Weisz’s co-star Ruth Wilson won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her outstanding performance as Stella in the play by Tennessee Williams. The 28-year-old American playwright Katori [...]

Britain’s Rachel Weisz has been named best actress at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards for appearing in A Streetcar Named Desire. Mark Rylance was named best actor for Jerusalem, while Jude Law accepted the best Shakespearean performance prize for playing the title role in Hamlet. Musical Spring Awakening, which ran for a short time [...]

Rural English tale “Jerusalem” was named best play at the London Evening Standard Theater Awards on Monday, and Briton Rachel Weisz picked up the best actress prize for her role in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Comic actor Lenny Henry scooped best newcomer for his theatrical debut in the title role of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” and “Enron,” [...]

Academy award winner Rachel Weisz has been named best actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire. Weisz, 39, took the award for her portrayal of Blance DuBois in the Donmar Warehouse revival of the Tennessee Williams play, while comedian Lenny Henry won a best newcomer prize for [...]