McC Theater held its annual celebration of all things miscast Monday night at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. Oscar winner and frequent stage star Marisa Tomei was honored by the Off-Broadway theater company that gave her some of her first professional gigs. Miscast Gala 2016, featuring Broadway’s finest performing roles in which they’d never be cast, helped raise over $1 million dollars during the April 4 ceremony alone, the proceeds of which go to supporting McC’s 2016–17 season, literary development programming, and Youth Company. Tomei was introduced by executive director Blake West and artistic directors Bernard Telsey, Robert LuPone, and William Cantler, who all stood by her side as she accepted the honor. “Everything I learned—all my work ethic for theater, my process—was with you guys,” said Tomei, recalling her 1987 collaboration with director Jimmy Bohr originating her role in Alan Bowne’s “Beirut.” She thanked the theater’s founders...
- 4/5/2016
- backstage.com
Exclusive, Updated At 6:06 p.m. with comments about Spotlight at end: You might call August, 2014 a full-circle month for Mark Ruffalo. His performance as Ned Weeks in Ryan Murphy‘s HBO version of The Normal Heart earned one of that film’s astonishing 16 Emmy nominations, with the winners to be announced on Aug. 25. He’s eager to catch the Broadway revival of the 1996 stage play that launched his career, Kenneth Lonergan‘s This Is Our Youth, which begins on the 18th with Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin.
Writing about his work in Lonergan’s You Can Count On Me, the New York Times’ Stephen Holden said, “Mr. Ruffalo’s star-making performance deserves to be added to the list of charismatic, grownup lost boys that includes the Marlon Brando of A Streetcar Named Desire and the Jack Nicholson of Easy Rider.”
Yet this is the same guy who plays the Hulk in the Avengers franchise.
Writing about his work in Lonergan’s You Can Count On Me, the New York Times’ Stephen Holden said, “Mr. Ruffalo’s star-making performance deserves to be added to the list of charismatic, grownup lost boys that includes the Marlon Brando of A Streetcar Named Desire and the Jack Nicholson of Easy Rider.”
Yet this is the same guy who plays the Hulk in the Avengers franchise.
- 8/11/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
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