Full list of Tony Award winners Jun 11, 2007
Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia. Featured actress in a play. (USA Today -- Life)
Backstage at the Tony Awards Jun 11, 2007
In the press room, he was followed immediately by a "Coast" compatriot, featured actor in a play winner Billy Crudup. Crudup, like fellow nominee Ethan Hawke, gave up many months of film opportunities to appear in the multiplay epic. (Variety)
'Awakening' wins 8 Tony Awards Jun 11, 2007
The ensemble drama also landed nods for featured actor Billy Crudup as consumptive literary critic Vissarion Belinsky and featured actress Jennifer Ehle, who played three different roles in the trilogy, most memorably free-spirit Natalie Herzen in part two, "Shipwreck." The Tony was Ehle's second for a Stoppard play after landing actress honors in 2000 for the revival of "The Real Thing." ... Featured Actor in a PlayBilly Crudup, "The Coast of Utopia". (Variety)
'Spring,' 'Utopia' coast through Tony Awards Jun 11, 2007
Jeff Christensen/Associated PressBilly Crudup accepts his Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his role in "The Coast of Utopia." The production won seven awards last night ... " Billy Crudup, winner as supporting actor, said, "I have a complete aversion to these [awards] from a creative point of view, but I have two brothers, so I've been competing all my life. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Schreiber shows off Watts' baby bump Jun 11, 2007
Actors better known for their Hollywood and TV roles had mixed success, with David Hyde Pierce winning the leading actor in a musical award for Curtains and Billy Crudup claiming the featured actor in a play Tony for The Coast of Utopia. Former teen idol Ethan Hawke (The Coast of Utopia) was pipped by co-star Crudup while Julie White beat Angela Lansbury (Deuce) and Vanessa Redgrave (The Year of Magical Thinking) for the Tony in the lead actress in a play category for her role in The Little Dog... (Ninemsn)
'Spring Awakening' rocks the Tonys Jun 11, 2007
"The Coast of Utopia" conquered in the dramatic featured acting categories: Billy Crudup as a literary critic railing against czarist oppression and Jennifer Ehle for three roles. Ehle won the 2000 Tony for best actress in Stoppard's "The Real Thing." The ventriloquism show "Jay Johnson: The Two and Only" won for special theatrical event. (Los Angeles Times)
The Tony Awards Jun 11, 2007
It also won honors for director Jack O'Brien, featured actor Billy Crudup and featured actress Jennifer Ehle. It surpassed the previous record for plays held most recently by last season's English import "The History Boys," with six. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
'Coast of Utopia,' other Tony nominees take on history Jun 10, 2007
Stoppard's work, especially, seems to owe much of its success to fine actors and imaginative staging; those who saw the original production in London have found Jack O'Brien's New York version far superior, and on the page the three plays' long, heady speeches lose some of the fire they gained in the impassioned performances of Br an F. O'Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, and the rest. For all its bagginess, though, "The Coast of Utopia" builds powerfully into a complex and engaging exploration... (Boston Globe -- Living)
2007 Theatre Fans' Choice Awards Winners Announced Jun 9, 2007
Best Book of a Musical Steven Sater Spring Awakening Best Choreography Bill T. Jones Spring Awakening Best Costume Design Martin Pakledinaz The Pirate Queen and Bob Crowley Mary Poppins Best Direction of a Musical Michael Mayer Spring Awakening Best Direction of a Play Jack O'Brien The Coast of Utopia Best Featured Actor in a Musical John Gallagher Jr. Spring Awakening Best Featured Actor in a Play Billy Crudup The Coast of Utopia Best Featured Actress in a Musical Mary Louise Wilson Grey... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Who Has A Lock On A Tony? Jun 8, 2007
Ethan Hawke and Billy Crudup star in the second part of this Tom Stoppard trilogy following the lives of Russian exiles. Photo Essay. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Mandy Moore hopes for a bright new day Jun 7, 2007
" She's more comfortable dishing about her onscreen partnerships. Moore bubbles over with enthusiasm when discussing her upcoming movies, the romantic comedy License to Wed, out July 3, and the independent Dedication, directed by Justin Theroux. In the latter, which opens in New York and L.A. Aug. 24 and wide Sept. 19, Moore plays a children's book illustrator placed on a project with a misogynistic author, portrayed by Billy Crudup. "He's absolutely awful to her, and of course they end up... (USA Today -- Life)
Advertising/Marketing: KFC mines consumers' videos May 21, 2007
A: Actor Billy Crudup has been the voice for the ads since the first one in 1997. Agency McCann-Erickson created the campaign, which has become one of the most imitated in the industry, and hired Crudup, 39. (USA Today -- Money)
'Awakening' leads Tony noms with 11 May 17, 2007
The Stoppard trilogy, a philosophical-political rumination on prerevolutionary Russia, earned noms for best play, director and five for acting: Brian F. O'Byrne (lead actor), Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke (featured actor) and Martha Plimpton and Jennifer Ehle (featured actress) ... " and "Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway" will vie for the special theatrical event award, and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, the city's major nonprofit company, received the Tony for outstanding regional theater. The... (Hollywood Reporter)
O'Brien gets Tony nod for 'Utopia' May 17, 2007
The play also boasts nominees for leading actor (Brian F. O'Byrne), featured actor (Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke) and featured actress (Jennifer Ehle and Martha Plimpton) ... Featured Actor-Play: Anthony Chisholm, Radio Golf ; Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia ; Ethan Hawke, The Coast of Utopia ; John Earl Jelks, Radio Golf ; Stark Sands, Journey's End. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'Spring Awakening' tops Tony nominees May 16, 2007
Some of the cruelest competitions come in the supporting categories, especially for the members of the uniformly excellent and cohesive ensemble who appear in the three parts of "Coast" -- "Voyage," "Shipwreck," and "Salvage." Votes may split between Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke for the men, and Jennifer Ehle and Martha Plimpton for the women. Besides "Radio Golf," Boston audiences had a chance to see a few other nominees before they hit New York -- including Anthony Chisholm, featured in... (Boston Globe)
2007 Tony Awards Announced May 16, 2007
Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia. Ethan Hawke, The Coast of Utopia. (Suite101.com)
'Spring Awakening' leads 2007 Tony nods May 16, 2007
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Anthony Chisholm -- Radio Golf Billy Crudup -- The Coast of Utopia Ethan Hawke -- The Coast of Utopia John Earl Jelks -- Radio Golf Stark Sands -- Journey's End. Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Jennifer Ehle -- The Coast of Utopia Xanthe Elbrick -- Coram Boy Dana Ivey -- Butley Jan Maxwell -- Coram Boy Martha Plimpton -- The Coast of Utopia. (Sun-Sentinel.com)
Yale grads, faculty gain Tony nods May 16, 2007
Featured Actor-Play: Anthony Chisholm, "Radio Golf"; Billy Crudup, "The Coast of Utopia"; Ethan Hawke, "The Coast of Utopia"; John Earl Jelks, "Radio Golf"; Stark Sands, "Journey s End.". Featured Actress-Play: Jennifer Ehle, "The Coast of Utopia"; Xanthe Elbrick, "Coram Boy"; Dana Ivey, "Butley"; Jan Maxwell, "Coram Boy"; Martha Plimpton, "The Coast of Utopia.". (New Haven Register, CT)
Tony nominations announced May 16, 2007
Noms for "Utopia" include lead actor (Brian F. O'Byrne), featured performers (Billy Crudup, Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Ehle and Martha Plimpton), director and design categories. Initially planned as a limited engagement through March, Jack O'Brien's production of the trilogy closed Sunday after a popular extended run that included several full-day marathon stagings. (Variety)
Chris Manos takes Manhattan May 3, 2007
Starry as in the constellation of Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup and Brian F. O Byrne. Opulent as in sets by Bob Crowley ( Aida, The History Boys ) and Scott Pask ( The Pillowman ). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Broadway marathon May 1, 2007
Standing ovations have become distressingly commonplace in the theater, devaluing their meaning, but after spending eight-and-a-half hours with pamphleteer Alexander Herzen, novelist-poet Ivan Turgenev, revolutionary hothead Michael Bakunin and Communist Manifesto writer Karl Marx, the sold-out Lincoln Center audience rose as one, in awe of the cast - which included the likes of Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Amy Irving, Martha Plimpton and Tony winners Brian O Byrne and Jennifer Ehle. During the... (The Palm Beach Post)
'LoveMusik' tops Drama Desk Apr 27, 2007
Besides the play award, "Coast," Tom Stoppard's three-play epic that was the top-nommed nonmusical at the Drama Desks, took noms for director (Jack O'Brien), music for a play (Mark Bennett), set (Bob Crowley and Scott Pask), actor (Brian F. O'Byrne), supporting actor (Billy Crudup) and actress (Martha Plimpton). Musical revivals in the running are Broadway's "110 in the Shade," "The Apple Tree," "Company" and "Les Miserables," plus Off Broadway's "Di Yam Gazlonim!" (a Yiddish version of "The... (Variety)
Jude is voted biggest love rat JUDE Law's fling with kids' nanny has been named Hollywoods sneakiest affair Apr 13, 2007
Film star BILLY CRUDUP, 38 who left his pregnant girlfriend for actress CLAIRE DANES, 28 was second in the US magazine poll. NICOLE KIDMAN s hubby KEITH URBAN, 39, was third for alleged romps with a 23-year-old model. (The Sun Newspaper Online, UK -- News)
more » Apr 4, 2007
There are satisfactory performances by Alec Baldwin as an FBI man, William Hurt as Damon's slick boss, Michael Gambon as his British professor and mentor and Billy Crudup as a British spy ... A Universal Pictures release featuring Matt Damon, De Niro, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt, John Turturro, Michael Gambon, Billy Crudup and Alec Baldwin. (CTNow.com)
Worley joins 'The Drowsy Chaperone' Apr 3, 2007
The large cast includes Brian F. O'Byrne, Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke. Vivian Beaumont. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'Real drama, real laughs' for Chris Rock Mar 14, 2007
Dedication, no release date yet, stars Billy Crudup as a mean-spirited children's author who turns his crushing loneliness on an illustrator played by Mandy Moore. Another Sundance film, The Good Night, stars Penelope Cruz as a woman who inhabits the nighttime dreams of a man (Martin Freeman, Britain's The Office), who tries to sleep away his unhappy life with real girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. (USA Today)
The lights (and new shows) are bright on Broadway Mar 4, 2007
Among the stars are Amy Irving, Billy Crudup, Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton. Their roles and characters change throughout the series of plays. (Herald-Tribune)
Radio station, Brown work out a deal Mar 2, 2007
Parker was eight months pregnant when her longtime boyfriend, Billy Crudup, ditched her for Claire Danes, and Moynahan broke up with Tom Brady around the time she learned she was carrying the Pats QB's baby. Marshall Crenshaw, who's playing tomorrow at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, loves Boston because his last days as a fake Beatle were spent here. (Boston Globe)
* The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep Mar 2, 2007
Starring: Matt Damon (Edward Wilson), Angelina Jolie (Clover/Margaret Russell), Alec Baldwin (Sam Murach), Tammy Blanchard (Laura), Billy Crudup (Arch Cummings), Robert De Niro (Bill Sullivan), Keir Dullea (Senator John Russell Sr.), Michael Gambon (Dr ... Conscripted into the OSS, Wilson travels to London, where he apprentices in espionage and intelligence and meets Arch Cummings (Billy Crudup), a fop with a posh accent patterned on Kim Philby. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Smart, successful 'Voyage' in NYC Mar 1, 2007
His Herzen is a grown-up, more emotionally self-possessed than anarchist-in-bud Michael Bakunin (Ethan Hawke), literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (Billy Crudup) and others whose ideas and emotional entanglements center this first play of the trio. Stoppard organizes Voyage by locale rather than chronologically. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Actors gamely take on 'Utopia' (Mark Kennedy) Feb 24, 2007
Mr. Harbour and Billy Crudup are two regulars. "He owes me a lot of money," Mr. Harbour says of his co-star. (Washington Times, DC)
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage Feb 19, 2007
Chief disappointment on the cast front in "Salvage" is the absence of Billy Crudup, whose consumptive literary critic Belinsky was a highlight of the first two plays. Also missing after lovely work earlier is Amy Irving, while David Harbour here has only one short, enigmatic scene and Richard Easton's role as a Polish opposition leader suffers from its position during act one's stodgy opening stretch. (Variety)
'Art as Life' salutes late UCSD prof Feb 19, 2007
Played by such award-winning actors as Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Brian F. O'Byrne, Richard Easton and Jennifer Ehle, Stoppard's drama covers the period when the serfs of imperial Russia were freed, and the young revolutionaries and anarchists, now mostly in exile, look back at the Russia of their memory. A virtual sellout at Lincoln Center's spacious Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Stoppard's trilogy has been in rehearsal since September 2006 and has been extended through mid-May. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Spies like us Feb 17, 2007
And still they give the Philby role to an American actor - for shame, Billy Crudup. Sadly, the driving, underlying postwar American ideology of "anticommunism," as it was then known, was so much less compelling than the quotidian neuroses and class resentments dreamed up by our own spy novelists. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Exhilarating ride in Russian history Feb 11, 2007
Besides Herzen, there is the rambunctious future anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (Ethan Hawke ), the impassioned literary critic Vissarion Belinksy (Billy Crudup), the soft-spoken aspiring novelist Ivan Turgenev (Jason Butler Harner), the amiable poet Nicholas Ogarev (Josh Hamilton), and many others. Several fall under the heady sway of German idealist philosophy. (Boston Globe)
Two discs are a contrast in extras Feb 6, 2007
Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Billy Crudup and Maggie Gyllenhaal star, and Moore's husband, Bart Freundlich, wrote and directed. If you watch nothing else, find the scene where Moore's character describes a porno movie to her husband (Duchovny). (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Sarasota Opera finds gem with "Halka" Feb 6, 2007
Its all kind of interesting and generally easy to follow, but that doesnt mean youll care a lot about whats happening or about the characters, aside from the translator Belinsky, who's played with good humor and zest by Billy Crudup. Ethan Hawke is energetic and compelling as the son of a nobleman out to change the world. (Herald-Tribune)
Searching for life in "Utopia" Feb 5, 2007
Its all kind of interesting and generally easy to follow, but that doesnt mean youll care a lot about whats happening or the characters, aside from the translator Belinsky played with good humor and zest by Billy Crudup ... Its all kind of interesting and generally easy to follow, but that doesnt mean youll care a lot about whats happening or the characters, aside from the translator Belinsky played with good humor and zest by Billy Crudup. (Herald-Tribune)
Trust the Man Feb 1, 2007
Rebecca's brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup) is a writer, whose self-absorbed, fatalistic nature is tolerated by his longtime girlfriend Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who suddenly realises she wants to get married and have kids. I neither liked it, nor hated it. (Suite101.com)
Mad, mad world Jan 29, 2007
A similar dynamic was at work in Dedication, a comedic love story about an obsessive-compulsive children's author (Almost Famous' Billy Crudup) who is afraid to ride in a car, say certain numbers or sleep with another person, and the illustrator (singer/actress Mandy Moore) who tries to bring balance to his life. Because Dedication also has a lighter tone, Crudup says, he didn't represent the reality of mental illness. (USA Today)
You know you want it Jan 28, 2007
Disguised as a local, she is parachuted in to a remote farm under the control of a member of the Resistance (Billy Crudup), where her loyalties soon come into question. Michael Gambon also stars. (Scotsman)
Deals aplenty at film festival Jan 28, 2007
" "Yeah, I'm really into stalkers, as you can tell," Graham told him, laughing. Following a screening of "Dedication," a man asked Mandy Moore if she would marry him. "I think I'll have to pass," she replied. Then another man proposed to her co-star, Billy Crudup, who responded by saying, "I'll have to table that. " He didn't say until when. E-mail Ruthe Stein at . Page E - 1 Alarm Installer / Service Techs Up SERVICES NCO Rural Communities Child CLERK I $2728 - $2865 Monthly Keep accts , rec... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sundance deals aplenty Jan 26, 2007
TWC and First Look paid $4 million for Justin Theroux's romantic drama "Dedication," starring Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore. UTA and Cinetic repped the film, which was produced by Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Galt Niederhoffer. (Variety)
'Notes on a Scandal' Jan 26, 2007
Director Richard Eyre, maker of the underrated "Stage Beauty" (2004) with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, captures the cat-and-mouse crime and punishment of a nasty little psychothriller that is briskly motivated by the character flaws of protagonist and antagonist alike. Eyre accents and propels key moments with superb Philip Glass music. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Mandy Moore's Ghostly Encounter Jan 25, 2007
Mandy Moore at the Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 22, 2007, for the premiere of "Dedication," in which she plays the illustrator of a children's book written by a women-hating author, portrayed by Billy Crudup. (Getty Images/Evan Agostini). (CBS News)
Spending Spree Jan 25, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007 Last Update: 09:20 AM EST. NO ONE SAYS YEE-HAW LIKE TWO IRISH ACTORS. (New York Post -- Gossip)
First Review of Controversial Dakota Fanning Movie 'Hounddog' Jan 24, 2007
Moore co-stars with Billy Crudup and Tom Wilkinson, and won raves last night at the premiere for holding her own. She has a movie career now if she wants one. (FOX News)
Justin's postcards from Utah Jan 24, 2007
I was so grateful to have not only my actors, Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup, but also many of my crew and good friends from home there with me ... It's a romantic comedy starring Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore. (USA Today -- Life)
The search is on at Sundance Jan 22, 2007
Mandy Moore arrived to promote her romantic comedy, Dedication, co-starring Billy Crudup as a misanthropic children's author who reluctantly works with Moore's character, an illustrator. The movie premieres today, but Moore performed a private concert at a Jane magazine party Saturday. (USA Today)
A darker Parker Jan 18, 2007
With her three-year-old son, William Atticus (Will), the product of her seven-year relationship with actor Billy Crudup, Parker now makes her home in New York, although she will be returning to Los Angeles in April to begin shooting a third season of Weeds. I'm not going to work until then, she says. (Globe and Mail)
* Two's company, four's too banal Jan 12, 2007
Starring: David Duchovny (Tom), Julianne Moore (Rebecca), Billy Crudup (Tobey), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Elaine), James Le Gros (Dante), Eva Mendes (Faith), Ellen Barkin (Norah), Garry Shandling (Dr ... What it does leave room for are her brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), and his girlfriend, Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the couple's unmarried best friends who are experiencing their own relationship pains partly because she seems to hear her biological clock ticking and partly because he's a jerk. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The daily dish ... Jan 11, 2007
Have reclusive couple Claire Danes and Billy Crudup split. That might explain why the "My So-Called Life" star was in tears at the hangout Spring Street Natural, as The New York Daily News reported two weeks ago. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Kerry loses the burger vote Jan 11, 2007
The New York Daily News reported yesterday that Danes and boyfriend Billy Crudup have called it quits in part because the "My So-Called Life" sweetheart spent some, uh, quality time with British actor Hugh Dancy while filming "Evening.". Pregnant with twins, "Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross has been put on bed rest until her April due date, the actress's spokeswoman told the Associated Press yesterday. (Boston Globe -- Living)