Alan Cumming: outstanding actor award, Macbeth audiobook, Goodspeed Tribute

Alan Cumming named Outstanding Actor at OUTFEST
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming has won the Grand Jury Award at Los Angeles' Outfest for Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film for Any Day Now.

The film, which received the Audience Award for Outstanding Feature Film, features Cumming as a gay man who, along with his partner, takes in an abandoned, mentally handicapped teenager.

Cumming won the Tony Award for his performance as the Emcee in Cabaret. His many other stage credits include Design for Living, The Threepenny Opera, Elle and Macbeth. He currently co-stars on CBS' The Good Wife as Eli Gold, and appeared in the television movie of Annie. 

Source: Theater Mania 

 

Alan says on his blog:

I just got back from LA where I won the Best Actor award at Outfest for Any Day Now. The movie also won the audience award, as it has at every festval it has screened at: Tribeca, Proveincetown and Seattle. I also won the Best Actor at Seattle. I am really proud of this film and so excited that it will be released late 2012.

The blog also includes this Red Carpet interview with Alan Cumming at the screening of his new film Any Day Now:

 
Read more at Alan Cumming's blog

Alan Cumming Talks Macbeth, Audiobooks
Simon & Schuster Audio earlier this month released the audio edition of Alan Cumming’s amazing solo interpretation of Macbeth.

And now, in the following behind-the-scenes video, Cumming himself talks about his performance, how his interpretation of Macbeth came to be, and the recording of the audiobook.

Source: Publishers Weekly 

Alan also spoke to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about playing every role in the production of Shakespeare's Macbeth at New York City's Lincoln Center Festival, and his role in the CBS drama The Good Wife. Watch the video at Metacafe 


Goodspeed Musical's Annual Gala

Alan Cumming will present Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth the Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theater at Goodspeed Musical's annual gala.

The fund raising event, which supports the theater's education programs, will be held Saturday, Aug. 11 at The Riverhouse at Goodspeed Station, 55 Bride Road in Haddam, across the river from the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.

Read more at Courant.com