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Dateline: 24th January, 1999

Olivier Awards nominations

The following nominations for the 1999 Olivier Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced at a lunchtime ceremony, hosted by Clive Anderson, at the National Theatre on Friday 12th February. The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC2 at 7.30 on Monday 15th February.

Best Actress

• Eileen Atkins for The Unexpected Man
• Sinead Cusack for Our Lady of Sligo
• Judi Dench for Filumena
• Nicole Kidman for The Blue Room
• Diana Rigg for Phedre and Britannicus

• Michael Gambon for The Unexpected Man
• Iain Glenn for The Blue Room
• Jim Norton for The Weir
• Kevin Spacey for The Iceman Cometh
• David Suchet for Amadeus

• The Blue Room by David Hare
• Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
• The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza
• The Weir by Conor McPherson

• Alarms and Excursions by Michael Frayn
• Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick by Terry Johnson
• Love Upon the Throne by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by Martin Duncan and John Ramm
• Things We Do for Love by Alan Ayckbourn

• Kat and the Kings by David Kramer and Taliep Petersen
• Rent: book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson
• Saturday Night Fever
• Whistle Down the Wind

• Annie
• Into the Woods
• Oklahoma!
• Show Boat

• Brendan Coyle for The Weir
• Emma Fielding for The School for Scandal
• Adam Godley for Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick
• Michael Sheen for Amadeus

• Krysten Cummings for Rent
• Maria Friedman for Chicago
• Joefina Gabrielle for Oklahoma!
• Sophie Thompson for Into the Woods

• Shuler Hensley for Oklahoma!
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia for Rent
• Jimmy Johnston for Oklahoma!
• Andrew Kennedy for Annie

• Howard Davies for The Iceman Cometh
• Sam Mendes for The Blue Room
• Trevor Nunn for Oklahoma!
• Ian Rickson for The Weir

• Loukmaan Adams and Jody Abrahams for Kat and the Kings
• Peter Genaro for Annie
• Arlene Phillips for Saturday Night Fever
• Susan Stroman for Oklahoma!

• Maria Bjornson for Britannicus and Phedre
• Bunny Christie for As You Like It
• William Dudley for Amadeus and The London Cuckolds
• Robert Jones for Henry VIII

• Peter Constable for Amadeus and Uncle Vanya
• Mark Henderson for Britannicus and Phedre
• David Hersey for Oklahoma!
• Hugh Vanstone for The Blue Room and The Unexpected Man

• Maria Bjornson for Britannicus and Phedre
• William Dudley for Amadeus and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle, and Dick
• Richard Hoover for Not About Nightingales
• Mark Thompson for The Blue Room and The Unespected Man
• Anthony Ward for Oklahoma!

Southern Arts 1999 funding

Southern Arts has announced its funding plans for the coming financial year:

• 11.5% rise for Salisbury Playhouse (to £362,000)
• 10% rise for the Haymarket, Basingstoke, to £99,000
• 5% rise of Nuffield, Southampton, to £360,000
• £52,000 for the Watermill, Bagnor

Belfast Civic to go dark?

Belfast's Civic Arts Theatre will probably have to go dark after Belfast City Council refused to provide uplift funds for this financial year or any funding at all for next year.

The theatre is also threatening legal action against the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, claiming that part of its annual grant has not been received.