Applause Magazine – August 1997
August 27, 2010
Published between1996 and 1997, Applause was a newsstand and subscription magazine devoted to UK theatre.
Edited by Clive Hirschhorn, it was published by ticket agency Applause and aimed to provide theatregoers with informed comment, interviews, features, reviews, and gossip about the plays and players making news in both London and New York. It also provided special offers and discounts on West End shows and event.
CONTENTS
Issue 11, August 1997
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Regulars
OFFSTAGE GOSSIP
ONSTAGE REVIEWS
DIARY
APPLAUSE THEATRE CLUB
CD REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
NEW FACES – DOMINIC WEST
SPECTRUM DANCE, TV & OPERA
NED SHERRIN
PEOPLE WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE – THELMA HOLT
OFFSTAGE BROADWAY GOSSIP
COMPENDIUM
SHOWS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE – CLARE RAYNER
Features
TURNER PRIZE – KATHLEEN TURNER
BARBICAN’S LOST MUSICALS: JUBILEE
THE APOCALYPSE OF THE HORSEMAN
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
REMARKABLE CAREER – JULIE WILSON
ALAN BATES PROFILE
MARTIN McDONAGH INTERVIEW
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OLIVIER AWARDS – Special and Outstanding Achievement Award Winners
June 3, 2010

OLIVIER AWARDS – Special and Outstanding Achievement Award Winners
The Society’s Special Award
2011 Stephen Sondheim
2010 Maggie Smith
2009 Sir Alan Ayckbourn
2008 Andrew Lloyd Webber
2007 John Tomlinson
2006 Sir Ian McKellen
2005 Alan Bennett
2004 Dame Judi Dench
2003 Sam Mendes
2002 Rupert Rhymes
1999 Sir Peter Hall
1998 Ed and David Mirvish
1997 Margaret Harris
1996 Harold Pinter
1994 Sam Wanamaker
1993 Sir Kenneth MacMillan
1992 Dame Ninette de Valois
1991 Dame Peggy Ashcroft
1988 Sir Alec Guinness
1985 Sir John Gielgud
1984 Lord Goodman
1983 Joan Littlewood
1982 Charles Wintour
1980 Sir Ralph Richardson
1979 Lord Olivier
Outstanding Achievement
2010 Michael Codron
2003 Gregory Doran and the Jacobean Season acting ensemble
2002 Trevor Nunn
2000 Peter O’Toole
1997 Sir Richard Eyre
The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement (In Memory of Kenneth Tynan)
1993 The Almeida, Islington for The Rules of the Game, Medea, No Man’s Land and The Deep Blue Sea
1992 The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill for A Season of Classics from The Spanish Golden Age
1991 Cameron Mackintosh
1989/90 Declan Donnellan for Fuente Ovejuna
1988 Maly Theatre of Leningrad for Stars in the Morning Sky
1987 Thelma Holt for producing the International Festival at the National Theatre
1986 The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith for The House of Bernarda Alba
1985 Anthony Hopkins for Pravda
The Times Award
1994 Peter Brook
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