If you have a theater fan in your life who has been extra hyped these days, it’s likely because the 2017 Tony Awards are nearly here.
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre (as the Tonys are officially known) recognize the highest honor in U.S. theater — the equivalent of television’s Emmys or the film industry’s Oscars.
With no Hamilton-sized hit this year, the race in the top categories has been pretty wide open and hard to predict — with only Bette Midler’s turn in the revival of Hello, Dolly! a lock for the best actress in a musical prize.
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre (as the Tonys are officially known) recognize the highest honor in U.S. theater — the equivalent of television’s Emmys or the film industry’s Oscars.
With no Hamilton-sized hit this year, the race in the top categories has been pretty wide open and hard to predict — with only Bette Midler’s turn in the revival of Hello, Dolly! a lock for the best actress in a musical prize.
- 6/11/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
A longtime scene-stealer on TV -- thanks to her many supporting roles as Jackie on Roseanne, Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives, Dr. Jenna James on Getting On and Sarah on Horace and Pete -- Laurie Metcalf simply owns the Broadway stage. There’s no competing with the longtime actress, who was superb in The Other Place, performed maniacal laps around Bruce Willis in Misery and recently earned her fourth Tony nomination -- this time for playing Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House, Part 2.
The play -- a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 breakdown of marriage and gender roles -- sees Metcalf leading a standout cast, including fellow nominees Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad, as Nora returns to the house she once left in need of a divorce now that she’s a successful feminist writer. What follows is a humorous 90-minute debate of society and gender roles as Nora lets her thoughts fly out...
The play -- a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 breakdown of marriage and gender roles -- sees Metcalf leading a standout cast, including fellow nominees Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad, as Nora returns to the house she once left in need of a divorce now that she’s a successful feminist writer. What follows is a humorous 90-minute debate of society and gender roles as Nora lets her thoughts fly out...
- 5/31/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
A Doll's House, Part 2 opens tonight, April 27, at the John Golden Theatre.Produced byScott Rudin and directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold, thiswildly inventive new American play picks up after Henrik Ibsen's most cherished work concludes.In the final scene of Ibsen's 1879 ground-breaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. This climactic event - when Nora slams the door on everything in her life - instantly propelled world drama into the modern age. In A Doll's House, Part 2, many years have passed since Nora's exit. Now, there's a knock on that same door. Nora has returned. But why And what will it mean for those she left behindGet to know the cast before tonight's opening bows...
- 4/27/2017
- by Stephanie Wild
- BroadwayWorld.com
Even the most accomplished actors are always dying to get another big fantasy part on their résumés.
Some are still holding on to the hope that their childhood dream will come to fruition, some are eager to challenge themselves like never before, and other performers have long been captivated by the idea of taking on a certain real-world persona.
Whatever the reason, these stars, from blockbuster veterans to TV legends, are still striving to make these stops on their Hollywood journeys:
Chris Pratt: A cop
“I’ve always wanted to play a cop,” the actor told Wsvn’s Chris Van Vliet.
Some are still holding on to the hope that their childhood dream will come to fruition, some are eager to challenge themselves like never before, and other performers have long been captivated by the idea of taking on a certain real-world persona.
Whatever the reason, these stars, from blockbuster veterans to TV legends, are still striving to make these stops on their Hollywood journeys:
Chris Pratt: A cop
“I’ve always wanted to play a cop,” the actor told Wsvn’s Chris Van Vliet.
- 12/8/2016
- by lydprice
- PEOPLE.com
They say art is timeless. That may not always be true, but we can probably say this much: all art eventually becomes timely again. Case in point, Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, which is being adapted and set amongst the modern economic crisis by writer/director Charles Huddleston. He's already lining up a hell of a cast, as well: Variety reports that Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, and Jena Malone are on board for the film. Ibsen's play, originally premiered in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1879, centers around a family struggling with financial troubles and secrets that threaten to split them apart. Huddleston adapted the play along with Michele Martin (who previously co-wrote Dadgum, Texas with Huddleston). Martin is also acting in A Doll's House, playing the lead female role of Nora Helmer. Kingsley and Malone will be taking on the roles of Dr. Rank and Christine Linde, friend of Nora's.
- 11/2/2011
- cinemablend.com
[1] Steve Carell's been doing quite well for himself in his post-Office career. He's already got several films lined up for the next couple of years, including Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher and the magician comedy Burt Wonderstone. Now the latest addition to his slate is Conviction, a heist film which he'll produce and star in. Jonathan Herman's Black List script centers around a convicted bank robber who's forced by the FBI to entrap his former protege. Which sounds good, except that while Herman's original screenplay had a tone similar to Heat, it's now being reworked as an action comedy in the vein of 48 Hours or Ocean's Eleven. That seems like a pretty major shift, though without having read the script I can't say for certain whether it's a terrible idea. The project has yet to confirm a writer to draft a new version of the script. [Deadline [2]] After the jump,...
- 11/2/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, Jena Malone and Michele Martin have scored the lead roles in the film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 19th century classic play "A Doll's House" says Variety.
The story centers on a young woman's marriage to an overbearing husband, with the action shifted to be set during today's recession. Martin will play Nora Helmer, the naive young wife of a banking executive.
Malone will play a friend of Nora's who has to decide between her loyalty to Nora and her own future. Kingsley is attached for the role of Dr. Rank, a friend to the Helmers. Sands will play a professional in the seedy world of lending desperate people money.
Charles Huddleston will direct from a screenplay he adapted with Martin. Shooting kicks off in January in Cincinnati.
The story centers on a young woman's marriage to an overbearing husband, with the action shifted to be set during today's recession. Martin will play Nora Helmer, the naive young wife of a banking executive.
Malone will play a friend of Nora's who has to decide between her loyalty to Nora and her own future. Kingsley is attached for the role of Dr. Rank, a friend to the Helmers. Sands will play a professional in the seedy world of lending desperate people money.
Charles Huddleston will direct from a screenplay he adapted with Martin. Shooting kicks off in January in Cincinnati.
- 11/2/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
We’re hearing from Variety that James Franco and Harmony Korine will make their second pairing in Spring Breakers, something I would call a drama — but you never know with this guy. The film follows “four college-aged girls who rob a fast food restaurant to afford spring break in Florida, only to get arrested upon their arrival.”
Franco has been locked to play “Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer who bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch,” and Emma Roberts is in talks for the part of “one of the girls, Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.” Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez are also in talks (why are you looking at me like I’m joking?). Should they join, the latter will appear as “a religious girl who isn’t a thrill-seeker like the rest of the group.
Franco has been locked to play “Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer who bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch,” and Emma Roberts is in talks for the part of “one of the girls, Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.” Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez are also in talks (why are you looking at me like I’m joking?). Should they join, the latter will appear as “a religious girl who isn’t a thrill-seeker like the rest of the group.
- 11/1/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
A modern-day take on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is on the way. Variety reports that the cast includes Ben Kingsley, Jenna Malone, Michele Martin and Julian Sands. The project will be directed by Charles Huddleston and written by Huddleston and Martin (the pair previously collaborated on the indie projects Dadgum, Texas and Assisting Venus , the latter of which also starred Sands). Ibsen originally wrote A Doll's House in 1879, telling the story of a failing marriage against a Christmas backdrop. The updated version, to film in Cincinnati in January of 2012, will make use of the present-day American economy. Martin will play Nora Helmer with Malone as Mrs. Linde and Kingsley as Dr. Rank. Sands' role is that of "Nathan Gynt" (possibly a variation of the...
- 11/1/2011
- Comingsoon.net
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