Mark Brown, The Guardian

April 30, 2014

Shakespeare’s Globe on the Southbank in London was celebrating on Tuesday as actors from the all-male casts of two of its productions were recognised in this year’s Tony nominations, with Mark Rylance, Samuel Barnett and Stephen Fry all in the running for Broadway’s most prestigious prizes.

Twelfth Night in particular did well with seven mentions including a best actor nomination for Barnett (pictured below), one of the original History Boys. Twelfth Night leads the field in the drama categories alongside John Tiffany’s The Glass Menagerie, which also has seven.

In the best leading actor category, Barnett goes up against Rylance, for his role in the Globe’s Richard III, as well as Irish actor Chris O’Dowd, for Of Mice and Men, Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston for All the Way and Tony Shalhoub (once of Monk fame) for Act One. […continued]

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