Exclusive: Rachel Bay Jones (Young Sheldon) and Danny Burstein (Tokyo Vice) are joining newcomer Ana Sharp in the independent feature Rise and Shine, directed by Laura Somers (Rich Kids) from a screenplay by Michael Stagliano.
Rise and Shine is based on the true story of Janice Steele and her daughter Terri, who was born with cerebral palsy and a developmental delay. She was homeschooled until her teen years, when she entered public school and inspired her community with her infectious optimism and positivity.
Jordan Walker Ross, Analesa Fisher, Jordan Nichole Wall and Halie Strickler round out the cast.
Jones is best known for originating the role of Heidi Hansen in the original Broadway cast of Dear Evan Hansen and received Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Lucille Lortel and a Drama League awards for her performance. She recently recurred on Young Sheldon, The Good Doctor and United States of AI and appeared in the films Critical Thinking,...
Rise and Shine is based on the true story of Janice Steele and her daughter Terri, who was born with cerebral palsy and a developmental delay. She was homeschooled until her teen years, when she entered public school and inspired her community with her infectious optimism and positivity.
Jordan Walker Ross, Analesa Fisher, Jordan Nichole Wall and Halie Strickler round out the cast.
Jones is best known for originating the role of Heidi Hansen in the original Broadway cast of Dear Evan Hansen and received Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Lucille Lortel and a Drama League awards for her performance. She recently recurred on Young Sheldon, The Good Doctor and United States of AI and appeared in the films Critical Thinking,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Celine Song’s “Materialists” has rounded out its cast with Zoë Winters (“Succession”), Dasha Nekrasova, Louisa Jacobson (“The Gilded Age”) and Marin Ireland (“Eileen”).
The A24 feature starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal is described as a New York-set rom-com following a high-end matchmaker who gets involved with a wealthy man. Further details on the plot and the roles of Johnson, Evans and Pascal have not been disclosed.
Winters is best known for her role as Logan Roy’s calculating and confident assistant (and paramour) Kerry on the HBO’s Emmy-winner “Succession.” She and the cast received a 2022 and 2024 SAG Award for best drama ensemble.
Winters’ other film and television credits include “Flatbush Misdemeanors,” “Hunters” and Marc Turtletaub’s feature “Jules,” in which she stars opposite Ben Kingsley. A longtime New York stage actor, Winters appeared in “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at Playwrights Horizons, for which she...
The A24 feature starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal is described as a New York-set rom-com following a high-end matchmaker who gets involved with a wealthy man. Further details on the plot and the roles of Johnson, Evans and Pascal have not been disclosed.
Winters is best known for her role as Logan Roy’s calculating and confident assistant (and paramour) Kerry on the HBO’s Emmy-winner “Succession.” She and the cast received a 2022 and 2024 SAG Award for best drama ensemble.
Winters’ other film and television credits include “Flatbush Misdemeanors,” “Hunters” and Marc Turtletaub’s feature “Jules,” in which she stars opposite Ben Kingsley. A longtime New York stage actor, Winters appeared in “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” at Playwrights Horizons, for which she...
- 5/7/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Itamar Moses has signed with Grandview for management. His play The Ally recently premiered at The Public Theater, directed by Lila Neugebauer and starring Josh Radnor, and his new musical Dead Outlaw ran simultaneously Off Broadway with Audible Theater at the Minetta Lane.
In TV, Moses has written on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Showtime’s The Affair, among others. The red-hot scribe is best known for 2017’s Broadway production of The Band’s Visit, for which he received the Tony for Best Book of a Musical. His work has appeared on Broadway and Off Broadway, at regional theaters across the country, and internationally.
Other awards for his work include from Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, and Obie for theater, as well as a Peabody Award and two WGA Award nominations for his TV work.
He continues to be represented...
In TV, Moses has written on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Showtime’s The Affair, among others. The red-hot scribe is best known for 2017’s Broadway production of The Band’s Visit, for which he received the Tony for Best Book of a Musical. His work has appeared on Broadway and Off Broadway, at regional theaters across the country, and internationally.
Other awards for his work include from Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, and Obie for theater, as well as a Peabody Award and two WGA Award nominations for his TV work.
He continues to be represented...
- 4/17/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Major film and TV productions are currently on hold due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, but the New York theater scene is still as active as ever. A new Broadway season is upon us, and there are five musicals set to open this fall. Will they contend at next year’s Tony Awards? Below, we give you a preview of the plot of each musical as well as the awards history of its author, cast and creative teams, plus the opening and (where applicable) closing dates.
“Merrily We Roll Along”
The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 musical adaptation of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart‘s 1934 play spans three decades in the entertainment industry and charts the relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two friends — writer Mary and lyricist and playwright Charley. The original production directed by Hal Prince only ran for 16 performances,...
“Merrily We Roll Along”
The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 musical adaptation of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart‘s 1934 play spans three decades in the entertainment industry and charts the relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two friends — writer Mary and lyricist and playwright Charley. The original production directed by Hal Prince only ran for 16 performances,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
Two performers broke new ground when it comes to gender diversity at the Tony Awards. J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell are the first ever openly nonbinary acting winners at the Tony Awards.
Ghee and Newell already broke barriers with their nominations, as the first openly nonbinary acting nominees. But the Tonys have now gone from zero to two winning nonbinary performers in one season. Ghee won Lead Actor in a Musical for the role of Daphne in “Some Like it Hot,” a character that begins to explore their true gender identity over the course of the musical. Newell won Featured Actor in a Musical for the role of Lulu in “Shucked,” who receives nightly standing ovations for their signature number “Independently Owned.”
This was the first Tony nomination for both performers. Ghee had previously appeared on Broadway in “Kinky Boots” and “Mrs. Doubtfire.” Newell previously appeared in “Once on This Island.
Ghee and Newell already broke barriers with their nominations, as the first openly nonbinary acting nominees. But the Tonys have now gone from zero to two winning nonbinary performers in one season. Ghee won Lead Actor in a Musical for the role of Daphne in “Some Like it Hot,” a character that begins to explore their true gender identity over the course of the musical. Newell won Featured Actor in a Musical for the role of Lulu in “Shucked,” who receives nightly standing ovations for their signature number “Independently Owned.”
This was the first Tony nomination for both performers. Ghee had previously appeared on Broadway in “Kinky Boots” and “Mrs. Doubtfire.” Newell previously appeared in “Once on This Island.
- 6/12/2023
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell appear to have made history Tuesday as the first openly nonbinary actors to be nominated for Tony Awards.
The two were nominated in the categories of best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical, in the case of Ghee for their role in Some Like It Hot, and best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical, in the case of Newell for their role in Shucked. Newell uses all pronouns while Ghee uses he/they pronouns.
Both actors view the nominations Tuesday as a sign of progress in the industry, even as there is still a ways to go, as the Tony Awards categories remain gendered.
“It’s a step in the right direction, because there are so many gender non-conforming and nonbinary performers that might not ever get to shine because of these gendered categories,...
The two were nominated in the categories of best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical, in the case of Ghee for their role in Some Like It Hot, and best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical, in the case of Newell for their role in Shucked. Newell uses all pronouns while Ghee uses he/they pronouns.
Both actors view the nominations Tuesday as a sign of progress in the industry, even as there is still a ways to go, as the Tony Awards categories remain gendered.
“It’s a step in the right direction, because there are so many gender non-conforming and nonbinary performers that might not ever get to shine because of these gendered categories,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amid a stacked fall season on Broadway, “Kimberly Akimbo” has emerged as an early Best Musical frontrunner for next spring’s Tony Awards. The new show from Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire oozes heart and charm, and earned unanimous critical praise when it opened on November 10. If star Victoria Clark can leverage the musical’s success into a Tony win in June, she will join an elite group of Tony-winning women.
Clark portrays the titular Kimberly, a young girl from New Jersey about to celebrate her 16th birthday. Only Kimberly isn’t quite so young on the outside. She has an incredibly rare disorder, similar to progeria, which causes her body to age at four times the normal rate. The average lifespan for folks with her disease is 16, giving Kimberly an acute awareness of her own mortality and a desire to experience all the joys and wonders of life in whatever time she has left.
Clark portrays the titular Kimberly, a young girl from New Jersey about to celebrate her 16th birthday. Only Kimberly isn’t quite so young on the outside. She has an incredibly rare disorder, similar to progeria, which causes her body to age at four times the normal rate. The average lifespan for folks with her disease is 16, giving Kimberly an acute awareness of her own mortality and a desire to experience all the joys and wonders of life in whatever time she has left.
- 11/21/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
“I have been at this for quite some time, so for the work to be recognized is really touching and moving,” reveals “A Strange Loop” star L Morgan Lee of her Tony Award nomination. The recognition feels momentous for two reasons: this performance is Lee’s Broadway debut, and her bid for Best Featured Actress in a Musical marks the first time an openly transgender performer has been nominated for a Tony. Watch the exclusive video interview above.
When asked to reflect on the historical nature of her nomination, the actress admits “I don’t know what to feel to be honest with you, because I literally am just trying to put one foot in front of the other.” The experience of hearing her name during the nomination announcements felt like a dream. “I just kept screaming and screaming, and crying, it was like a soap opera in my bedroom,...
When asked to reflect on the historical nature of her nomination, the actress admits “I don’t know what to feel to be honest with you, because I literally am just trying to put one foot in front of the other.” The experience of hearing her name during the nomination announcements felt like a dream. “I just kept screaming and screaming, and crying, it was like a soap opera in my bedroom,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
“I can feel who I am now, bringing stuff to this that wasn’t there before,” reveals “How I Learned to Drive” star David Morse. The actor is stepping back into the shoes of Uncle Peck in the Broadway production of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama 25 years after originating the role Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in 1997. He is joined by fellow original cast members Mary-Louise Parker and Johanna Day in this Manhattan Theatre Club revival, and the actors have had plenty of time to reflect on the ways in which their 25 years of life experiences have “enriched” this production. Watch the exclusive video interview above.
Morse says that the question “why now?” was an important one that hung in the air when starting work on this production. Vogel and Parker had attempted to bring the play to Broadway for many years, but scheduling and theater availability became perpetual obstacles.
Morse says that the question “why now?” was an important one that hung in the air when starting work on this production. Vogel and Parker had attempted to bring the play to Broadway for many years, but scheduling and theater availability became perpetual obstacles.
- 4/21/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
“La Reina del Sur” star Kate del Castillo is set to play the lead in “A Beautiful Lie,” a modern take in Spanish on Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.”
Del Castillo will also executive produce the series out of her Cholawood Productions label, along with two other forces on the upscale Spanish-language TV scene, premium U.S. Spanish-language streaming platform Pantaya and Endemol Shine Boomdog, a division of Banijay Americas.
The six-part series co-production, based on the 2015 adaptation from Banijay-owned Endemol Shine Australia, will represent a modern retelling of Tolstoy’s celebrated novel, his first real novel by his own estimation and reckoned by many to be one of the greatest works of fiction ever written.
“A Beautiful Lie” is announced as an event series – a status that is almost inevitable in any major fiction starring Del Castillo and backed by companies of the ambition of Esb and Pantaya.
“Elite...
Del Castillo will also executive produce the series out of her Cholawood Productions label, along with two other forces on the upscale Spanish-language TV scene, premium U.S. Spanish-language streaming platform Pantaya and Endemol Shine Boomdog, a division of Banijay Americas.
The six-part series co-production, based on the 2015 adaptation from Banijay-owned Endemol Shine Australia, will represent a modern retelling of Tolstoy’s celebrated novel, his first real novel by his own estimation and reckoned by many to be one of the greatest works of fiction ever written.
“A Beautiful Lie” is announced as an event series – a status that is almost inevitable in any major fiction starring Del Castillo and backed by companies of the ambition of Esb and Pantaya.
“Elite...
- 11/11/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
As predicted, Lois Smith won the Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play for her moving turn in Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance.” Not only is this the veteran actress’ first career Tony win, but Smith has just become the oldest Tony winning actor in history. Talk about a victory being worth the wait!
Lois Smith is 90 years of age, having been born on November 3, 1930. This makes her two years older than the previous record holder for oldest Tony winning performer. That would be Cicely Tyson, who won a Tony for playing Carrie Watts in the 2018 revival of “The Trip To Bountiful” at age 88. That was Tyson’s only Tony nomination and win of her career, despite appearing in nine Broadway plays. Ironically, Smith also portrayed Carrie in a 2005 Off-Broadway revival of “Bountiful.” She won the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for that performance.
Lois Smith is 90 years of age, having been born on November 3, 1930. This makes her two years older than the previous record holder for oldest Tony winning performer. That would be Cicely Tyson, who won a Tony for playing Carrie Watts in the 2018 revival of “The Trip To Bountiful” at age 88. That was Tyson’s only Tony nomination and win of her career, despite appearing in nine Broadway plays. Ironically, Smith also portrayed Carrie in a 2005 Off-Broadway revival of “Bountiful.” She won the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for that performance.
- 9/26/2021
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Before Dominique Fishback’s critically acclaimed performances in “Judas and the Black Messiah” and “Project Power,” the actor wrote and starred in her own one-woman show “Subverted.”
Now, the rising star has teamed with her “Project Power” co-star, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, to adapt the play into a new special. Fishback will executive produce the project alongside Foxx and his producing partner Datari Turner.
“Subverted” is centered around Eden (Fisbhack), an 18-year-old girl living in the inner city, and depicts “the destruction of Black identity” as seen through her eyes. Fishback plays more than 20 characters in the piece.
Originally written and performed as Fishback’s honors thesis at Pace University, the show has been performed with the McC Theater Youth Company, Lucille Lortel with Abingdon Theatre’s Ghostlight Reading Series, Wild Project Theater Poetic License Festival and Off Broadway at Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
Now, the rising star has teamed with her “Project Power” co-star, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, to adapt the play into a new special. Fishback will executive produce the project alongside Foxx and his producing partner Datari Turner.
“Subverted” is centered around Eden (Fisbhack), an 18-year-old girl living in the inner city, and depicts “the destruction of Black identity” as seen through her eyes. Fishback plays more than 20 characters in the piece.
Originally written and performed as Fishback’s honors thesis at Pace University, the show has been performed with the McC Theater Youth Company, Lucille Lortel with Abingdon Theatre’s Ghostlight Reading Series, Wild Project Theater Poetic License Festival and Off Broadway at Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
- 4/8/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
It’s no secret that “Hamilton” is one of Broadway’s greatest success stories. But the Founding Fathers musical isn’t content with just conquering New York. Thanks to the filmed version, which premiered on Disney+ over Independence Day, Lin-Manuel Miranda finds himself nominated for a Golden Globe once again. Can he finally win at this ceremony with his most iconic creation?
Miranda is nominated in the Best Film Comedy/Musical Actor category for his portrayal of the titular Alexander Hamilton. He contends alongside Sacha Baron Cohen (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”), James Corden (“The Prom”), Dev Patel (“The Personal History of David Copperfield”), and Andy Samberg (“Palm Springs”).
This nomination gives Miranda a chance to win a trophy for his acting, something for which the Tonys have yet to reward him. “Hamilton” racked up an impressive 11 Tony Award wins (out of 16 total nominations), with Miranda claiming two of those trophies for...
Miranda is nominated in the Best Film Comedy/Musical Actor category for his portrayal of the titular Alexander Hamilton. He contends alongside Sacha Baron Cohen (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”), James Corden (“The Prom”), Dev Patel (“The Personal History of David Copperfield”), and Andy Samberg (“Palm Springs”).
This nomination gives Miranda a chance to win a trophy for his acting, something for which the Tonys have yet to reward him. “Hamilton” racked up an impressive 11 Tony Award wins (out of 16 total nominations), with Miranda claiming two of those trophies for...
- 2/16/2021
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Chris Coy, Julia McDermott and Carter Jenkins are set to co-star opposite Adrienne Warren in ABC’s limited series Women of the Movement, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.
The six-episode limited series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Warren), who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till (Cedric Joe) following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South.
McDermott, Jenkins and Coy will play Carolyn Bryant, her husband Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J. W. Milam, respectively, the Mississippi trio at the center of Emmett Till’s murder.
Tonya Pinkins and Glynn Turman also co-star.
Women of the Movement is inspired by the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson. Cerar serves as showrunner and executive produces with Jay-Z,...
The six-episode limited series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Warren), who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till (Cedric Joe) following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South.
McDermott, Jenkins and Coy will play Carolyn Bryant, her husband Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J. W. Milam, respectively, the Mississippi trio at the center of Emmett Till’s murder.
Tonya Pinkins and Glynn Turman also co-star.
Women of the Movement is inspired by the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson. Cerar serves as showrunner and executive produces with Jay-Z,...
- 1/11/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Veteran screen and stage actor Lynn Cohen, who was best known for her role as “Magda” on HBO’s Sex and the City and its two film versions, died today at age 86. No cause of death was given in the announcement by her management company.
Cohen’s television resume includes recurring roles on the shows Damages, Nurse Jackie, The Affair, and Law & Order. She also guest-starred on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, God Friended Me, Chicago Med and Master of None.
In film, Cohen co-starred as Golda Meir in the Academy Award-nominted Steven Spielberg film Munich. She also appeared in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Eagle Eye, Across The Universe, and Vanya on 42nd Street, among others.
Her stage roles on Broadway included Orpheus Descending and Ivanov. She was a staple in the New York Theater community, earning her Lucille Lortel and Drama League Award nominations, along with the New Dramatists’ Bowden Award,...
Cohen’s television resume includes recurring roles on the shows Damages, Nurse Jackie, The Affair, and Law & Order. She also guest-starred on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, God Friended Me, Chicago Med and Master of None.
In film, Cohen co-starred as Golda Meir in the Academy Award-nominted Steven Spielberg film Munich. She also appeared in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Eagle Eye, Across The Universe, and Vanya on 42nd Street, among others.
Her stage roles on Broadway included Orpheus Descending and Ivanov. She was a staple in the New York Theater community, earning her Lucille Lortel and Drama League Award nominations, along with the New Dramatists’ Bowden Award,...
- 2/15/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Lynn Cohen, a veteran stage and screen actor who played Magda on “Sex and the City,” died Friday. She was 86.
Magda was Miranda Hobbe’s (Cynthia Nixon) housekeeper and eventually her nanny, and Cohen also appeared in both film adaptations of the show.
She talked to Cosmopolitan about her role in 2018. “It showed a woman of a different age who was smart as the devil, very bossy, and also understood sexuality, and they needed that. It enlarged the canvas on which they were working, that they would not have a typical old lady molding away in some retirement home somewhere, but a woman who worked, and didn’t suffer fools,” she said.
On the big screen, Cohen played Golda Meir in in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Mags in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” She also appeared in “Eagle Eye,” “Across the Universe,” “Vanya on 42nd Street,” “The Station Agent,...
Magda was Miranda Hobbe’s (Cynthia Nixon) housekeeper and eventually her nanny, and Cohen also appeared in both film adaptations of the show.
She talked to Cosmopolitan about her role in 2018. “It showed a woman of a different age who was smart as the devil, very bossy, and also understood sexuality, and they needed that. It enlarged the canvas on which they were working, that they would not have a typical old lady molding away in some retirement home somewhere, but a woman who worked, and didn’t suffer fools,” she said.
On the big screen, Cohen played Golda Meir in in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Mags in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” She also appeared in “Eagle Eye,” “Across the Universe,” “Vanya on 42nd Street,” “The Station Agent,...
- 2/15/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Lynn Cohen, the veteran Broadway actress also known to millions for her role as Magda on the HBO series “Sex and the City” and its subsequent movies, died Friday, her representative told TheWrap. She was 86.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1933, Cohen had a wide-ranging career with dozens of credits in film and television and the stage. Among her most well known roles, she portrayed Golda Meir in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” Mags in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” and also appeared in the films “Across the Universe,” “Eagle Eye,” the 2014 comedy “They Came Together,” and Charlie Kauffman’s “Synecdoche, New York,” among many others.
Her numerous television credits include appearances on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Nurse Jackie,” “God Friended Me,” “Master of None,” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “The Affair” and “Chicago Med.”
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On Broadway,...
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1933, Cohen had a wide-ranging career with dozens of credits in film and television and the stage. Among her most well known roles, she portrayed Golda Meir in Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” Mags in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” and also appeared in the films “Across the Universe,” “Eagle Eye,” the 2014 comedy “They Came Together,” and Charlie Kauffman’s “Synecdoche, New York,” among many others.
Her numerous television credits include appearances on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Nurse Jackie,” “God Friended Me,” “Master of None,” Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “The Affair” and “Chicago Med.”
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- 2/15/2020
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Annie McNamara, currently starring in Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play on Broadway, has signed with Cesd Talent Agency.
In a critically lauded performance, McNamara plays Alana, a sexually frustrated Southern belle. She originated the role at New York Theatre Workshop, and is now on Broadway through the show’s run ending January 19, 2020.
She received a Lucille Lortel nomination for her work in Iowa at Playwrights Horizons; additional Off Broadway credits include work at The Public Theater, The Rattlestick and Clubbed Thumb.
Television credits include Orange is the New Black, The Knick and Mozart in the Jungle. On film, McNamara appeared opposite Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb and Elevator Repair Service theater companies.
In a critically lauded performance, McNamara plays Alana, a sexually frustrated Southern belle. She originated the role at New York Theatre Workshop, and is now on Broadway through the show’s run ending January 19, 2020.
She received a Lucille Lortel nomination for her work in Iowa at Playwrights Horizons; additional Off Broadway credits include work at The Public Theater, The Rattlestick and Clubbed Thumb.
Television credits include Orange is the New Black, The Knick and Mozart in the Jungle. On film, McNamara appeared opposite Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb and Elevator Repair Service theater companies.
- 11/25/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse will star in a 2020 Broadway production of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning How I Learned to Drive, reprising roles they originated Off Broadway in 1997.
The Manhattan Theater Club production of How I Learned to Drive will begin previews on Friday, March 27, 2020, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, with an opening night of Wednesday, April 22, 2020.
The announcement was made today by producers Manhattan Theatre Club and Daryl Roth, Cody Lassen, The Dodgers in association with the Vineyard Theatre.
Mark Brokaw will direct. Additional casting and the design team will be announced at a later date.
Vogel’s 1998 Pulitzer winner tells the story, as Mtc describes it, of a woman coming to terms with a charismatic uncle who impacts her past, present and future life. The play, with it’s frank depiction of pedophilia and its lifelong impact on the victim, was acclaimed by critics in...
The Manhattan Theater Club production of How I Learned to Drive will begin previews on Friday, March 27, 2020, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, with an opening night of Wednesday, April 22, 2020.
The announcement was made today by producers Manhattan Theatre Club and Daryl Roth, Cody Lassen, The Dodgers in association with the Vineyard Theatre.
Mark Brokaw will direct. Additional casting and the design team will be announced at a later date.
Vogel’s 1998 Pulitzer winner tells the story, as Mtc describes it, of a woman coming to terms with a charismatic uncle who impacts her past, present and future life. The play, with it’s frank depiction of pedophilia and its lifelong impact on the victim, was acclaimed by critics in...
- 8/13/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“It encourages and embodies the mission to be yourself,” reveals Stephanie Hsu of the new Broadway musical “Be More Chill.” Hsu plays Christine, a lovable theatre geek who finds herself caught up in a sci-fi plot reminiscent of “Little Shop of Horrors.” The actress discusses her character and the ways in which the musical resonates with young audiences (watch the exclusive video interview above).
Hsu has been with “Be More Chill” since its original production at Two River Theatre in 2015 and recently became a Lucille Lortel nominee for the Off-Broadway mounting. She’s used each iteration of the show to deepen her character but also feels empowered by the legions of teenage fans. Those fans hold Christine up as a strong female role model, so Hsu “leaned into that” by making Christine as bold and unique as possible. “They’re drawn to the weirdness of it all,” she notes.
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Hsu has been with “Be More Chill” since its original production at Two River Theatre in 2015 and recently became a Lucille Lortel nominee for the Off-Broadway mounting. She’s used each iteration of the show to deepen her character but also feels empowered by the legions of teenage fans. Those fans hold Christine up as a strong female role model, so Hsu “leaned into that” by making Christine as bold and unique as possible. “They’re drawn to the weirdness of it all,” she notes.
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- 4/23/2019
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
“I am a ‘heart creature’ myself,” reveals production designer Jason Sherwood. “I like to have a personal connection to something” he says of the projects he chooses, “to find an empathetic bridge between me and the piece.” Sherwood chatted with Gold Derby about the connection he had with “Rent” and how it inspired his impressive production design for Fox’s “Rent: Live.” Watch the full video interview above.
Sherwood’s first experience with the iconic musical came as a teenager, sitting in a first row student rush seat at the Nederlander Theatre. He calls it a “formative” and unforgettable experience. His resulting “enthusiasm and love for the material” nabbed him this design job years later, when producer Marc Platt and director Michael Greif were planning Fox’s live broadcast.
SEEVanessa Hudgens Interview: ‘Rent: Live’
On working with Greif, who directed the show on Broadway, Sherwood calls it a “surreal, strange dream come true.
Sherwood’s first experience with the iconic musical came as a teenager, sitting in a first row student rush seat at the Nederlander Theatre. He calls it a “formative” and unforgettable experience. His resulting “enthusiasm and love for the material” nabbed him this design job years later, when producer Marc Platt and director Michael Greif were planning Fox’s live broadcast.
SEEVanessa Hudgens Interview: ‘Rent: Live’
On working with Greif, who directed the show on Broadway, Sherwood calls it a “surreal, strange dream come true.
- 4/19/2019
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Theater stalwart Jamie Du Mont, Lucille Lortel Award winner Leslie Kritzer, writer and theater critic Rob Russo, and Tony Award nominee Jennifer Simard recently launched their brand-new Broadway-centric podcast, The Fabulous Invalid. The inaugural seasonwill consist of 40 episodes, released weekly between Broadway performances on Wednesday two-show days. Select episodes will be taped from the group's 'usual table' at the famed theater restaurant Orso.Catch up on some of the latest episodes below...
- 12/13/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
As with anyone who gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s journey is the result of hard work and inspiration, along with influences and confluences that shaped and continue to shape his life and career.
The writer, composer, lyricist and star of the mega-smash “Hamilton: An American Musical” will be honored Nov. 30 with his own star and has several upcoming projects with roots or connections to his past, beginning in December with Disney’s release of “Mary Poppins Returns.” In the film he plays Jack, a lamplighter and former apprentice of Bert (Dick Van Dyke) from the 1964 “Mary Poppins.”
As far back as he can remember, the original was a staple his parents’ the video collection. “I don’t recall the first time I saw it,” he says. “Because it just lived in our house like furniture, with the other Disney movies.”
Having imagined since...
The writer, composer, lyricist and star of the mega-smash “Hamilton: An American Musical” will be honored Nov. 30 with his own star and has several upcoming projects with roots or connections to his past, beginning in December with Disney’s release of “Mary Poppins Returns.” In the film he plays Jack, a lamplighter and former apprentice of Bert (Dick Van Dyke) from the 1964 “Mary Poppins.”
As far back as he can remember, the original was a staple his parents’ the video collection. “I don’t recall the first time I saw it,” he says. “Because it just lived in our house like furniture, with the other Disney movies.”
Having imagined since...
- 11/30/2018
- by Paul Plunkett
- Variety Film + TV
Theater stalwart Jamie Du Mont, Lucille Lortel Award winner Leslie Kritzer, writer and theater critic Rob Russo, and Tony Award nominee Jennifer Simard recently launched their brand-new Broadway-centric podcast, The Fabulous Invalid. The inaugural seasonwill consist of 40 episodes, released weekly between Broadway performances on Wednesday two-show days. Select episodes will be taped from the group's 'usual table' at the famed theater restaurant Orso.Catch up on some of the latest episodes below...
- 11/8/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Editors Note: Katy Sullivan is an actor, athlete and bilateral above knee amputee whose credits include My Name Is Earl, Last Man Standing and NCIS: New Orleans as well as the upcoming indie pic Offside. She got her acting start starring onstage in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Chicago production The Long Red Road, and this year was nominated for Lucille Lortel and Drama League awards for her featured role in Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cost of Living. A four-time U.S. paralympic champion in the 100 meters, Sullivan is currently national coordinator for Hanger Clinic’s Ampower Program, a resource and community for amputees, and is developing Legs, a single-camera sitcom based on her life experiences.
Dear Dwayne,
My name is Katy Sullivan. I am an actress, Paralympian, double above-the-knee amputee from birth, and I have a request to ask of you. You seem like a genuinely good dude,...
Dear Dwayne,
My name is Katy Sullivan. I am an actress, Paralympian, double above-the-knee amputee from birth, and I have a request to ask of you. You seem like a genuinely good dude,...
- 7/16/2018
- by Katy Sullivan
- Deadline Film + TV
Do you know Chet Baker? Among its other achievements, Broadway’s acclaimed musical The Band’s Visit has handed the theater community its best pick-up line in ages. Repeated with faux-debonnaire panache and minor variations to great comic effect by actor Ari’el Stachel in the supporting role of Haled, the self-styled ladies man and trumpet player in the tale’s Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, the show’s unplanned catchphrase – equal parts earnestness and desperation – neatly encapsulates the soulful mash-up of cultures that gives The Band’s Visit, written by David Yabek and Itamar Moses and directed by David Cromer, so much of its appeal.
That message of cultural understanding isn’t lost on Stachel, who talks in this Q&A about his years of hiding his Middle Eastern heritage from even his closest friends and schoolmates. The 26-year-old actor, who’d done a couple small roles on CBS’ Blue Bloods...
That message of cultural understanding isn’t lost on Stachel, who talks in this Q&A about his years of hiding his Middle Eastern heritage from even his closest friends and schoolmates. The 26-year-old actor, who’d done a couple small roles on CBS’ Blue Bloods...
- 4/18/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Off-Broadway is getting its much-deserved moment in the spotlight with the April 4 announcement of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Award nominees. Celebrating some of the best theatermakers working in New York City today, the nominations were announced by Lucille Lortel Award winners Rachel Bay Jones and Steven Pasquale. This year’s nominations spread the love between dazzling Off-Broadway fare including “Kpop,” “Bella: An American Tale,” “Mary Jane,” and more. “Kpop,” from Ars Nova, Ma-Yi Theater, and the Woodshed Collective, led the way with nine nods; stars James Seol, Ashley Park, Jason Tam, and Vanessa Kai were all nominated in each of the musical acting categories. “Desperate Measures,” “Hundred Days,” “Jerry Springer – The Opera,” and “Bella: An American Tale” joined “Kpop” in the Outstanding Musical category. Last year’s ceremony gave top honors to “The Band's Visit” before its transfer to Broadway; that musical is now in the running for this season’s Tony Awards.
- 4/4/2018
- backstage.com
Spring is the most wonderful time of the year—for New York City thespians, that is. As a final wave of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions open in time to qualify for prestigious accolades, honors, and other theater-related trophies, voters from a variety of organizations will be in attendance, tasked with choosing this season’s best stagecraft. It all drumrolls up to the 2018 Tony Awards, New York theater’s highest honors, which this year has an eligibility cut-off date of April 26; productions in contention must have an official opening in a Broadway theater on or before that date. By then the curtain will have already risen on the annual awards frenzy: the Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards will be assessing the 2017–18 Off-Broadway season, while the Drama Desks will take into consideration Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway as well. Meanwhile, across the pond, the Laurence Olivier Awards will crown the best U.K.
- 3/29/2018
- backstage.com
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