A Winner at Edinburgh
“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” a surreal performance piece that combines acting, animation, film and live music, has won the annual Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. The show, created by 1927, a new British theater company, will receive its New York premiere during the Under the Radar Festival at Performance Space 122 in January. More than 2,000 shows were presented at this year’s festival; “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” won every major award, including the Fringe First Award (from The Scotsman), the Harold Angel Award and the Total Theater Award for Best Emerging Company.
Remembering
An Acclaimed Soprano
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera will present a tribute to Beverly Sills on Sept. 16 at 5 p.m. at the Metropolitan Opera. The public event, dedicated to Ms. Sills, who died on July 2 at 78, will include scheduled performances by Natalie Dessay, Anna Netrebko and Nathan Gunn, winner of the first annual Beverly Sills Award. The Met’s music director, James Levine, will play the piano. Among those expected to speak are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Barbara Walters, Plácido Domingo, Henry Kissinger, Julius Rudel and Stanley Sills, Ms. Sills’s brother. Tickets will be free (limited to two tper person) and available at the Metropolitan Opera box office, first come first served, starting Sept. 16. The program will be broadcast live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius, the 24-hour satellite radio channel, and streamed live via RealNetworks at metopera.org.
Celebrating
A Playwright
Edward Albee celebrates his 80th birthday on March 12, an event that will be marked by a number of productions in the New York area, collectively titled “The Albee Season.” The work spans 50 years, from Mr. Albee’s first play, “The Zoo Story,” written in 1958 (now part of “Peter and Jerry”), to the new works “Me, Myself and I” and “Occupant,” which will have their premieres next year. “Peter and Jerry” will run from Oct. 19 to Dec. 9 at the Second Stage Theater; “Me, Myself and I,” Jan. 11 to Feb. 17 at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J.; “The American Dream” and “The Sandbox,” March 4 to April 12 at the Cherry Lane Theater (where the plays had their debuts in 1961 and 1962); and “Occupant,” a portrait of the sculptor Louise Nevelson, May 6 to June 29 at the Signature Theater Company.
Italian Director
Is Mugged in Rome
Giuseppe Tornatore, the director of “Cinema Paradiso” and other films, was mugged while taking a walk Tuesday evening in central Rome, The Associated Press reported yesterday. Mr. Tornatore was taken to a hospital after two young men attacked him, the newspaper Corriere della Sera quoted the director as saying, and suffered head trauma as well as several minor injuries. He was strolling after leaving his office when the two men asked him for directions, the newspaper said; while one thanked the filmmaker for the help, the other hit him on the head from behind. The two men made off with Mr. Tornatore’s wallet, mobile phone and watch, the paper reported.
Mobo Nomination
For Winehouse
The British singer Amy Winehouse, top, received four nominations for the 12th annual Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards, BBC News reported yesterday. Ms. Winehouse, 23, who just canceled a string of concerts because of illness, is up for best British female, best R&B act, best video and best song. The rapper Dizzee Rascal has also been nominated for four awards: best United Kingdom male, best hip-hop act, best song and best video (for “Sirens”). Mobo winners are chosen by voting on the awards show’s Web site (mobo.com).The presentation will be at the O2 arena in London on Sept. 19; it will also be broadcast live on the digital channel BBC Three.
A Sinking Anchor
“Anchorwoman,” Fox’s new reality series following a ratings-strapped small-town television affiliate after it hires a former swimsuit model with no journalism experience to read the news, drew just 2.7 million viewers Wednesday in its one-hour debut at 8 p.m., Nielsen estimated. Fox finished fourth for the night, just behind ABC. CBS led over all in total viewers, as its 8 p.m. game show, “Power of 10,” delivered the night’s largest audience (8.7 million). NBC, which ranked second in total viewers, earned top ratings among adults 18 to 49, getting a boost at 9 from “Last Comic Standing,” which earned its best numbers in that demographic for the summer and a total audience of 7.3 million. CBS’s “Criminal Minds” rerun finished first at 9 (8.2 million), as did a repeat of its “CSI: NY” at 10 (8 million). On Sunday, “Ice Road Truckers” had the best ratings on cable television for the night. Its season finale set a record for the History Channel, as an audience of 4.8 million viewers tuned in at 10. BENJAMIN TOFF
Footnotes
Music at the Anthology (MATA), the new-music organization founded by the composers Philip Glass, Eleanor Sandresky and Lisa Bielawa, will hold a 10th-anniversary benefit concert on Sept. 25 at the Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st Street. For information: matafestival.org or (212) 563-5124. ...Vanessa Redgrave; her sister, Lynn Redgrave; and their brother, Corin Redgrave, will each receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th Annual Savannah Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 27 to Nov. 3 in Savannah, Ga. Information: scad.edu/filmfest/about.cfm.
