On the eve of its 20th anniversary, the Indie Memphis Film Festival, presented by Duncan-Williams, has announced its 2017 selection, which spans world premieres, a recut indie gem and a special salute to Abel Ferrara. Oliver Butler and Will Eno’s adaptation of Eno’s Pulitzer Prize finalist, Thom Pain, kicks off Opening Night. Starring Rainn Wilson, it’s a film version of Eno’s monologue filmed at the Los Angeles’s Geffen Playhouse. Lynne Sachs’s Tip of My Tongue, which collects the reflections of a group of the filmmaker’s contemporaries on the occasion of her 50th birthday, is the closing night film. As for […]...
- 9/27/2017
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Playwrights Christopher Durang, Will Eno and Adam Rapp are among the recipients of the 2012 Pen Literary Awards, announced Wednesday. Durang (left), a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist for "Miss Witherspoon," received Pen's Master American Dramatist award, which carries a $7,500 prize. Also read: David Henry Hwang Wins $200,000 Playwriting Prize Durang was nominated for a Tony Award in 1978 for Best Book of a Musical for "A History of the American Film." His off-Broadway works include "Sister Mary Ignatius," "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" and "Betty's Summer Vacation," he received Obie Awards...
- 8/30/2012
- by Lisa Fung
- The Wrap
This Week on Stage: An actor breaks a leg, old Jews tell jokes, and a 'Cock' fight wows Off Broadway
That old actor’s adage “Break a leg” is not supposed to be taken literally. But that message apparently didn’t make it to Michael McKean, the Laverne & Shirley and This is Spinal Tap alum now starring in the hit Broadway revival Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. The actor was hospitalized Tuesday with a broken leg after being struck by a car in New York City; James Lecesne will be playing his role as a presidential campaign manager for the foreseeable future.
Otherwise, it was relatively quiet on the theater scene, though L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse announced that...
Otherwise, it was relatively quiet on the theater scene, though L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse announced that...
- 5/25/2012
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Awkward, puzzled, and slightly amused, Conor Lovett shuffles onto the stage, addressing the audience. "I'm not from here," he says and seems to smile. "I never will be, I guess." Thus begins Will Eno's newest solo play, exploring connection, disconnection, and the meaning of "home." "Title and Deed," now running at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is profoundly Beckettian, not unlike Eno's previous work, "Middletown" and, especially, "Thom Pain (based on nothing)."Eno wrote the piece for Lovett and Lovett's wife, director Judy Hegarty Lovett. They're Irish-born theater artists who specialize in monologues by Samuel Beckett and other one-man shows with existential themes. Under the auspices of their company, Gare St. Lazare Players, they've presented productions in every continent, short of Antarctica.How did Will Eno come to write "Title and Deed" for you?Conor Lovett: He saw me in Beckett's "The End," which Judy directed and he's seen three or four of.
- 5/22/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Signature Theatre presents the Us premiere of Title And Deed, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production, starring Conor Lovett, will run through June 17, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Companys new home The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. Tickets for these additional performances will be 25, as part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative A Generation of Access.BroadwayWorld brings you performance highlights below...
- 5/18/2012
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre presents the Us premiere of Title And Deed, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production, starring Conor Lovett, will run through June 17, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Companys new home The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. Tickets for these additional performances will be 25, as part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative A Generation of Access.BroadwayWorld brings you production highlights below...
- 5/17/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre presents the Us premiere of Title And Deed, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production, starring Conor Lovett, will run May 8 June 17, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Companys new home The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. Tickets for these additional performances will be 25, as part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative A Generation of Access.BroadwayWorld brings you production shots below...
- 5/16/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Mark Subias, one of the New York theatre community’s top literary representatives, has joined United Talent Agency as an agent in its New York office. Subias will focus on expanding UTA’s NYC theatre department while also representing clients across film and television. Subias is returning to being an agent and leaving his NYC-based management firm Subias which he formed in 2004. Before that Subias was a New York theatre agent at the William Morris Agency which he joined in 1999, working for then-William Morris theatre agent George Lane. A prominent figure in the theatre community, Subias is also a regular guest lecturer at Yale School of Drama and other theatre programs. His clients in theatre, film and TV include writers and directors Adam Rapp, Will Eno, Bash Doran, Sarah Treem, Nick Jones, Itamar Moses, Anne Carson, Nathan Englander, Danai Gurira, Sam Gold, Pam MacKinnon, Daniel Aukin, David Wiener and Les Waters.
- 4/12/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Ellie DvorkinNew York; 'Mel & El: Our Time of the Month,' 'Mel & El: This Show Rhymes'When I first moved to New York, I thought I had to make myself fit into a pre-established box in order to be marketable. I tried so hard to be like all of the other women I saw at casting calls. I hesitated to mount my own show, because I thought I wouldn't be taken seriously unless I appeared in something in which I was officially cast.What I later learned was that it's better to be different—to stand out from the crowd. I wish I'd had the courage to produce my own work earlier, because my current show, "Mel & El" (www.melandel.com), showcases me in a way that nothing else ever has, and now I get more offers than ever. We have established a cult following, we have won awards, we have an album for sale,...
- 2/9/2011
- backstage.com
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