Heavyweights of the Stage Battle for Best Actor Prize ; (1) Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2008(2) Spacey and Branagh Up for Standard Theatre Award

Evening Standard - London › November 04, 2008

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KEVIN SPACEY, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for honours in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

The longlist announced today has Spacey and Branagh in an impressive list of eight contenders for best actor.

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Heavyweights of the Stage Battle for Best Actor Prize ; (1) Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2008(2) Spacey and Branagh Up for Standard Theatre Award

Spacey is chosen for his barnstorming appearance in Speed-the- Plow alongside Jeff Goldblum at the Old Vic, which he runs. Branagh is bidding for glory after taking the title role in Chekhov play Ivanov. The Donmar production is ...

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