Bruce Norris’s Downstate and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt were named this season’s Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle today.
Downstate opened last October in an Off Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons. Set at a downstate Illinois group home for men convicted of sex crimes, the play explored what the theater company called “the limits of compassion and forgiveness” when a man shows up at the home to confront his childhood abuser.
Leopoldstadt, inspired by Stoppard’s family history, chronicles a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna throughout the first half of the 20th Century. The well-reviewed play has been nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play.
The Drama Critics’ Circle also announced the recipients of three Special Citations: The longstanding Off Off Broadway theater company La Mama; the Ohio State Murders playwright Adrienne Kennedy, who made her Broadway debut this...
Downstate opened last October in an Off Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons. Set at a downstate Illinois group home for men convicted of sex crimes, the play explored what the theater company called “the limits of compassion and forgiveness” when a man shows up at the home to confront his childhood abuser.
Leopoldstadt, inspired by Stoppard’s family history, chronicles a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna throughout the first half of the 20th Century. The well-reviewed play has been nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play.
The Drama Critics’ Circle also announced the recipients of three Special Citations: The longstanding Off Off Broadway theater company La Mama; the Ohio State Murders playwright Adrienne Kennedy, who made her Broadway debut this...
- 5/8/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Drama League today announced the nominations for the 2023 Drama League Awards. Honoring achievements on and Off-Broadway, the nominations were announced this morning by Roger Bart (“Back to the Future: The Musical”) and Justin Guarini (“Once Upon A One More Time”) at the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Winners will be revealed at the 89th Annual Drama League Awards ceremony at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 19, 2023.
“I don’t think I’ve experienced a theater season in New York ever like this one,” noted Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks. “There’s been a range, a breadth, an expansion of possibility that has been truly astonishing to witness. Theater makers have inspired not only with their creativity, but also with their drive and determination to serve audiences with vision and talent. These nominees reflect the promise and greatness inherent in the work of theater folk, and I can’t help but be deeply proud.
“I don’t think I’ve experienced a theater season in New York ever like this one,” noted Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks. “There’s been a range, a breadth, an expansion of possibility that has been truly astonishing to witness. Theater makers have inspired not only with their creativity, but also with their drive and determination to serve audiences with vision and talent. These nominees reflect the promise and greatness inherent in the work of theater folk, and I can’t help but be deeply proud.
- 4/25/2023
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Carrie Coon is an American actress who is best known for her award-winning performances on the stage and in both television and film. She won a Tony Award in 2013 for her role as Honey in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Carrie also had starring roles on such acclaimed television series as The Leftovers, Fargo, and The Sinner. She has appeared in numerous films including The Post, Widows and Avengers: Infinity War. Carrie Coon is also highly regarded for her work in the theater and has performed extensively with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in productions ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary works by playwrights like Tracy Letts and Bruce Norris. In 2018 Carrie was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performance as Gloria Burgle on Fargo season three. Carrie Coon continues to be a...
- 3/17/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Exclusive: Aimee Lou Wood describes the young woman she plays opposite Bill Nighy in the acclaimed movie Living as the film’s “character of life.” It’s a performance that’s been steadily attracting awards season buzz, and is recognized in the BAFTA longlist, announced today.
However, Wood says that her other gig, as schoolgirl Aimee Gibbs in Netflix comedy Sex Education, is a very different matter because she finds herself playing someone “frozen in time.”
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Wood’s laughs as she...
However, Wood says that her other gig, as schoolgirl Aimee Gibbs in Netflix comedy Sex Education, is a very different matter because she finds herself playing someone “frozen in time.”
Related Story ‘Living’ Star Bill Nighy Finds Inspiration And Humor In His Role As A Dying Man – Contenders L.A. Related Story 'Ginny & Georgia' Creator Sarah Lampert Breaks Down Season 2, Talks Finale Cliffhanger, Its Aftermath & Potential Season 3 Related Story 'Rrr' Director S.S. Rajamouli Talks About His Spectacular Action Epic And Reveals That The Ecstatic U.S. Reception Has Inspired A Sequel: "Nothing Is Impossible"
Wood’s laughs as she...
- 1/6/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
The former Royal Ballet dancer and model is set to make his theatrical debut in Bruce Norris’s knotty, Pulitzer prize-winning play. He explains how he found his voice on and off stage
Twenty-four years ago Eric Underwood went to an acting audition at a performing arts school in Washington DC. He panicked, froze and forgot his monologue. It seemed like his career was over before it began. But now 38, Underwood has finally got his first role in a play, Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer prize-winning Clybourne Park, tackling knotty conversations about race and gentrification.
Underwood, however, has had plenty of stage time in between. On the way out of that first audition, he saw some girls getting ready for a dance tryout and, desperate not to let down his mum, asked to have a go. The school recognised his raw talent and a ballet career followed, culminating in 11 years at the Royal Ballet in London,...
Twenty-four years ago Eric Underwood went to an acting audition at a performing arts school in Washington DC. He panicked, froze and forgot his monologue. It seemed like his career was over before it began. But now 38, Underwood has finally got his first role in a play, Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer prize-winning Clybourne Park, tackling knotty conversations about race and gentrification.
Underwood, however, has had plenty of stage time in between. On the way out of that first audition, he saw some girls getting ready for a dance tryout and, desperate not to let down his mum, asked to have a go. The school recognised his raw talent and a ballet career followed, culminating in 11 years at the Royal Ballet in London,...
- 3/1/2022
- by Lyndsey Winship
- The Guardian - Film News
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama will be announced on April 15. American playwrights will surely hope to see themselves named as winner, not only for the prestige that comes with the Pulitzer, but for a boost in the hotly competitive Tony race for Best Play.
Not everyone is eligible for this sought after award. The Pulitzer is an American organization and gives out its award and $15,000 prize to “a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.” That removes English playwright Jez Butterworth and his hit play “The Ferryman” from competition, despite his strong Tony odds.
Aaron Sorkin could gain momentum if the Pulitzer committee enjoys his “To Kill a Mockingbird” adaptation. After all, it is a uniquely American story that remains resonant in today’s society. Still, Harper Lee provides some big shoes to fill, and the Pulitzer is rarely awarded to an adaptation.
Not everyone is eligible for this sought after award. The Pulitzer is an American organization and gives out its award and $15,000 prize to “a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.” That removes English playwright Jez Butterworth and his hit play “The Ferryman” from competition, despite his strong Tony odds.
Aaron Sorkin could gain momentum if the Pulitzer committee enjoys his “To Kill a Mockingbird” adaptation. After all, it is a uniquely American story that remains resonant in today’s society. Still, Harper Lee provides some big shoes to fill, and the Pulitzer is rarely awarded to an adaptation.
- 4/10/2019
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced today a one-week extension for the American premiere of The Low Road, written by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris. Directed by Tony Award nominee Michael Greif, The Low Road is part of The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work and the 50th Anniversary of Hair. The Low Road will now run through Sunday, April 8.
- 3/14/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sex is to Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones what money is to Bruce Norris’ Jim Trewitt, also a foundling living in the 18th century. One of the many remarkable things about Norris’ picaresque tale “The Low Road,” which opened Thursday at the Public Theater, is that this playwright is able to make the unbridled accumulation of wealth as luridly engrossing as lots of sex. Picaresque tales work much better in novels and movies. On stage, they tend to lack the needed narrative drive. A program note from the Public’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis, calls Norris’ comedy an “anti-‘Candide.'” Thematically, that’s true....
- 3/8/2018
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced complete casting today for the New York premiere of The Low Road, written by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris. Directed by Tony Award nominee Michael Greif, The Low Road is part of The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work and the 50th Anniversary of Hair.
- 1/9/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Second Stage Theater presents The New York premiere production of Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award winner Bruce Norris' play, A Parallelogram, directed by current Tony nominee Michael Greif. A Parallelogram opened yesterday, August 2nd, at the Tony Kiser Theater 305 West 43rdStreet, and BroadwayWorld brings you a look inside the after party below...
- 8/3/2017
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Second Stage Theater presents The New York premiere production of Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award winner Bruce Norris' play, A Parallelogram, directed by current Tony nominee Michael Greif. A Parallelogram opened yesterday, August 2nd, at the Tony Kiser Theater 305 West 43rdStreet, and BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the red carpet below...
- 8/3/2017
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
I saw the Los Angeles premiere of Bruce Norris’s “A Parallelogram” four years ago, and remember almost nothing about it. Having just seen the first New York production of this gently nihilistic comedy, which opened Wednesday at Second Stage, I think I’ll never forget it. Like Norris’ wonderfully mad heroine Bee (Celia Keenan-Bolger), perhaps I’m living in a parallelogram, having experienced the same play in different planes of time and space. (It’s doubtful this is the way Norris would describe a parallelogram. You need to see the play to get a much more cogent definition.) The major difference between Bee.
- 8/3/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Photo Flash: First Look at Celia Keenan-Bolger and Anita Gillette in A Parallelogram at Second Stage
Second Stage Theater presents the New York premiere production of Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award winner Bruce Norris' play, A Parallelogram, directed by current Tony nominee Michael Greif. A Parallelogram opens tomorrow, August 2nd, at theTony Kiser Theater 305 West 43rdStreet, andBroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 8/1/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Second Stage Theater will present the New York premiere production of Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award winner Bruce Norris' play, A Parallelogram, directed by current Tony nominee Michael Greif. The cast includes Juan Castano, Tony nominee Anita Gillette Chapter Two, Celia Keenan-Bolger The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Stephen Kunken Enron.
- 7/3/2017
- by TV - Press Previews
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bursting with joy isn't exactly a phrase commonly used to describe the exceptional directorial work of Pam MacKinnon. The woman who guided the premiere of Bruce Norris' tensely comic Clybourne Park and gobsmacked audiences with a freshly destructive vision of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf is better known for drawing out dramatic shades than working with whimsy.
- 4/5/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Chicago premiere production of Domesticated, a scandalously entertaining play written and directed by ensemble member Bruce Norris, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park, The Qualms and The Pain and The Itch, featuresensemble member Tom Irwin as publicly shamed politician Bill Pulver opposite venerable Chicago actress Mary Beth Fisher, who plays his wife.Domesticated begins previews tonight, December 3, 2015 press performances are December 12 at 3pm and December 15 at 730pm opening night is December 13 and runs through February 7, 2016 in the Downstairs Theatre.
- 12/3/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rehearsals are underway for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Chicago premiere production of Domesticated, a scandalously entertaining play written and directed by ensemble member Bruce Norris, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park, The Qualms and The Pain and The Itch. Featuring ensemble member Tom Irwin as publicly shamed politician Bill Pulver opposite venerable Chicago actress Mary Beth Fisher, who plays his wife, Domesticated begins previews December 3, 2015 press performances are December 12 at 3pm and December 15 at 730pm opening night is December 13 and runs through February 7, 2016 in the Downstairs Theatre.
- 11/3/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Laurie Metcalf will star opposite Bruce Willis in the Broadway production of “Misery,” producers of the play announced Tuesday. Metcalf, a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Tony Award nominee, is an original member of the Steppenwolf Theatre. She was last seen on the New York stage in Lincoln Center’s production of Bruce Norris’ “Domesticated,” and in her Tony Award-nominated performance in Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Sharr White’s “The Other Place.” She received three Emmy Awards for her work on the TV series “Roseanne,” stars in HBO’s “Getting On,” and has a recurring role on “The Big Bang Theory.
- 6/23/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Before a word is spoken in Bruce Norris’s new play The Qualms, now at Playwrights Horizons, audiences hear the sound of nervous laughter onstage. It might as well have been my own, because Norris’s make-you-squirm dramaturgy is by now, for me, an almost predictable source of complicated pleasure. (Hilarity is always close to hysteria in his plays.) Furthermore, I knew from the advance publicity — and if I hadn’t I could have guessed from the program’s humping-monkey logo — that The Qualms was going to be about sex: more specifically, the quasi-orgiastic mix-and-match coupling that used to be called swinging and is now called “the lifestyle,” at least by some of its practitioners. These include Gary and Teri, the fortysomething hosts of the evening’s party, who are sitting uncomfortably close to the jittery thirtysomething newbies, Chris and Kristy, on an Ikea-ish sectional sofa that, you fear, may...
- 6/15/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
When a play is about race, should the playwright’s matter? I found myself asking this question after seeing Rasheeda Speaking, a wild ride and a welcome surprise from the severely hit-or-miss New Group, now enjoying its first season at the Pershing Square Signature Center. The author, Joel Drake Johnson, is a fixture of Chicago’s theater scene, with five “Jeff” nominations for playwriting. (The Joseph Jefferson Awards are Chicago’s Tony equivalent.) But he’s little-known here, and perhaps that’s just as well. It was often too easy to approach Bruce Norris’s race-baiting Clybourne Park through the knowledge that he is white. If you’re like me, though, you will have to struggle to sort out your feelings about Rasheeda Speaking without being able to take offense at Johnson’s whiteness or cover from his blackness or context from anything else that may be true about him.
- 2/12/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
It’s a good thing that the playwright Ayad Akhtar is Muslim, because if any non-Muslim wrote Disgraced — and you could almost imagine someone like Bruce Norris wanting to — the response from both left and right would be furious. As it is, the intense 80-minute drama, which seems to ask whether there is something inherent in Islam that predisposes believers to violence, incites furious responses anyway; at the preview I attended, a member of the audience, echoing one character’s description of the Muslim protagonist, shouted, “He is a fucking animal!” But even the non-shouters looked pretty stunned by the play’s brutal climax. I was, too, despite having seen it before, in a much more intimate staging produced by Lincoln Center Theater at the Claire Tow in 2012. This bigger, more glamorous Broadway version exposes more faults and infelicities, but also strips away one’s liberal pieties more effectively. Perhaps...
- 10/24/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
“If I’m going to a play, I want to see myself onstage,” said Lydia R. Diamond. “It’s not rocket science.” Diamond’s comment cut to the core of a question posed by National Public Radio’s Michel Martin at Wnyc’s Greene Space Sept. 19: Does Broadway reflect the vibrant, dynamic stories of its diverse city? The event, titled “A Broader Way,” kicked off Martin’s 10-city tour centered on having what she called “difficult discussions with dignity.” Diamond was joined by fellow award-winning NYC playwrights whose work explores racial issues—David Henry Hwang, Kristoffer Diaz, and Bruce Norris—to get to the bottom of whether the Great White Way is too white. Tony-nominated actor Stephen McKinley Henderson performed a monologue from August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” to set the evening’s thought-provoking tone. As Martin interviewed her panel of theater professionals, another conversation...
- 10/8/2014
- backstage.com
Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced the sixth production of its upcoming 20142015 Season. As previously-announced, the season will conclude with a new work by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Bruce Norris Clybourne Park and The Pain and the Itch at Ph, Domesticated. That play will be the New York premiere of The Qualms, directed by Tony Award and Obie Award winner Pam MacKinnon Clybourne Park and Completeness at Ph Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Dinner with Friends the current When We Were Young and Unafraid.
- 7/11/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bruce Norris, whose Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, returns to Playwrights Horizons next spring with The Qualms, which opens Sunday (July 13) at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. The New York edition will begin previews May 22, 2015 at the off-Broadway nonprofit. Director of both is the very busy Pam MacKinnon, also on board with the upcoming all-star Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance marqueed by Glenn Close, John Lithgow and Lindsay Duncan. Steppenwolf describes the play this way: “At a beachside apartment complex, a group of friends gathers for their regular evening of food, drink, drugs and partner-swapping. When Chris and Kristy attempt […]...
- 7/11/2014
- Deadline
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's world-premiere production of The Qualms by ensemble member Bruce Norris is a provocative comedy marks Steppenwolf's eighth production and seventh world premiere by the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning author of Clybourne Park. Tony Award-winner Pam MacKinnon Steppenwolf's production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf directs a cast of nine featuring ensemble member Kate Arrington with Owais Ahmed, Karen Aldridge, Diane Davis, Kirsten Fitzgerald, Keith Kupferer, David Pasquesi, Paul Oakley Stovall and Greg Stuhr. The Qualms begins previews tonight, July 3, 2014 opening night is July 13 press performances are July 12 at 3pm and July 15 at 730pm and runs through August 31, 2014 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre 1650 N Halsted St.
- 7/3/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The 59th annual edition of these kudos took place on June 1 at the Town Hall in Manhattan. (Read the full report here.) Best Play Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club Steven Levenson, Core Values Conor McPherson, The Night Alive Richard Nelson, Regular Singing Bruce Norris, Domesticated X - Robert Schenkkan, All The Way John Patrick Shanley, Outside Mullingar -Break- Join the red-hot debate about the Tonys in our fiery forums Best Musical X - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Aladdin Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Fun Home Love’s Labour’s Lost Rocky The Bridges of Madison County Best Revival of a Play I Remember Mama London Wall No Man's Land Of Mice and Men The Cripple of Inishmaan The Model Apartment X - Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe Production) Best Revival of a Musical or Revue X - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Les Misérables Violet Tony frontru.
- 6/1/2014
- Gold Derby
Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …
“Barrowman!”
Thanks to Reality.Bites for this week’s winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! Jake Silbermann (above) is 31, Wynonna is 50, Corey Hart is 52, Sharon Gless is 71, Idina Menzel is 43, and Lisa Hartman Black is 58.
SyFy has acquired Season Two of Bitten.
Taylor Kitsch And Mark Ruffalo Cried And Argued On The Set Of The Normal Heart
10 Things I Learned Six Months After Coming Out.
Here’s the trailer for the Daniel Radcliffe RomCom What If, which was originally titled The F Word
Matt Bomer talked to Ellen today. First up was The Normal Heart.
And here he is talking about the sequel to Magic Mike. Ellen offers him some tasty wardrobe choices.
Fyi … He’s now on Twitter
First tweet- thank you Ellen!
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …
“Barrowman!”
Thanks to Reality.Bites for this week’s winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! Jake Silbermann (above) is 31, Wynonna is 50, Corey Hart is 52, Sharon Gless is 71, Idina Menzel is 43, and Lisa Hartman Black is 58.
SyFy has acquired Season Two of Bitten.
Taylor Kitsch And Mark Ruffalo Cried And Argued On The Set Of The Normal Heart
10 Things I Learned Six Months After Coming Out.
Here’s the trailer for the Daniel Radcliffe RomCom What If, which was originally titled The F Word
Matt Bomer talked to Ellen today. First up was The Normal Heart.
And here he is talking about the sequel to Magic Mike. Ellen offers him some tasty wardrobe choices.
Fyi … He’s now on Twitter
First tweet- thank you Ellen!
- 5/30/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
The Drama Desk announced nominations this morning for the 59th edition of its awards ceremony, which will take place June 1 at The Town Hall in NYC. The group, which includes writers, editors, academics and others, can take credit for its refusal to segregate Broadway from its off- and off-off- siblings, and therefore reflects a wider range of choices (and quality) than the Theater District-only Tonys. (The nominations also guarantee the group a high-profile in display advertisement in the run-up to the Tony Awards.) And so, for example, the competition for Best Musical includes not only Broadway’s Rocky, Aladdin, The Bridges Of Madison County, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder but also the Public Theater’s well-received productions of Fun Home and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Best Play nominees include Broadway’s Outside Mullingar and All The Way as well as five plays presented off-Broadway.
- 4/25/2014
- by PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor
- Deadline TV
New York’s the Public Theater set a record Wednesday when it was nominated in 11 categories for Lucille Lortel Awards. The nominations, which for 29 years have recognized Off-Broadway productions, went to the Public’s production of “Here Lies Love”; also receiving 11 nominations was the musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.” The previous record was eight nominations, which were garnered by “Urinetown” in 2002 and “Abigail’s Party” in 2006. Meanwhile, Robyn Goodman is set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award while Richard Nelson will be honored as the Playwrights’ Sidewalk Inductee. The ceremony, which is set to be hosted by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, will be held May 4 at the Nyu Skirball Center. Proceeds benefit the Actors Fund. A full list of nominees in the 18 categories is below. Outstanding Play"Bad Jews"Produced by Roundabout Theatre CompanyWritten by Joshua Harmon "Domesticated"Produced by Lincoln Center TheaterWritten by Bruce Norris...
- 4/2/2014
- backstage.com
Welcome, beloved guest-to-be. Upon your check-in to The Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday, you might meet a very important attorney that goes by the name of Deputy Kovacs, who is played by Jeff Goldblum in Wes Anderson’s new caper about friendship, honor, and promises fulfilled. This week, Wamg and a few members of the press sat down (in a roundtable discussion) with Goldblum to talk about the working with Anderson, upcoming projects, and memes. Check it out below!
The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis; and the sweetest confection of a love affair — all...
The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis; and the sweetest confection of a love affair — all...
- 3/6/2014
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 16th season tonight, December 19 at 6pm with Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf the stars of Lct's current Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater production of Domesticated, the new play by Bruce Norris, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Domesticated, which opened on Monday, November 4, is running through Sunday, January 5.
- 12/19/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 16th season on Thursday, December 19 at 6pm with Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf the stars of Lct's current Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater production of Domesticated, the new play by Bruce Norris, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Domesticated, which opened on Monday, November 4, is running through Sunday, January 5.
- 12/2/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
To many people, nursing homes are no laughing matter, but a new Americanization of a British show is aiming to mine humor from that environment.
Premiering Sunday, Nov. 24, HBO's "Getting On" casts three-time "Roseanne" Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf as the supervisor of an extended-care facility in Long Beach, Calif. She thinks the assignment is only temporary, but she finds out differently ... meaning she'll have to find ways to deal with the often challenging bureaucracy, encompassing a by-the-book nurse (Alex Borstein, the voice of Lois Griffin on Fox's "Family Guy").
"We're all going to deal with this at some point," Metcalf reasons to Zap2it of the subject matter "Getting On" tackles. "It's a dramedy, I guess you'd call it, so there is humor ... but this is a tough subject. I was so impressed with the BBC version, within the first five minutes, I knew this was something I wanted to do.
Premiering Sunday, Nov. 24, HBO's "Getting On" casts three-time "Roseanne" Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf as the supervisor of an extended-care facility in Long Beach, Calif. She thinks the assignment is only temporary, but she finds out differently ... meaning she'll have to find ways to deal with the often challenging bureaucracy, encompassing a by-the-book nurse (Alex Borstein, the voice of Lois Griffin on Fox's "Family Guy").
"We're all going to deal with this at some point," Metcalf reasons to Zap2it of the subject matter "Getting On" tackles. "It's a dramedy, I guess you'd call it, so there is humor ... but this is a tough subject. I was so impressed with the BBC version, within the first five minutes, I knew this was something I wanted to do.
- 11/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
November is shaping up to be the busiest in recent memory, but the hustle and bustle is costing Broadway a few shows. John Grisham’s A Time to Kill became A Time to Close with an end date of Nov. 17, and the Zachary Levi-Krysta Rodriguez musical rom-com First Date will have its last date on Jan. 5. With as-yet-unannounced premiere dates for shows like Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe (making a spring Broadway bow), Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses (starring Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and…Letts — busy guy!) and Terrence McNally’s Mothers and Sons with Tyne Daly,...
- 11/9/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Playwright Bruce Norris has stacked things against Jeff Goldblum’s gynecologist-turned-politician character in “Domesticated,” the very funny play that had its world premiere Monday at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Bill, a chronic liar and philanderer who has spent $74,000 on very young prostitutes to indulge in S&M sex play, is a horrible cad. But many of the women around him – there are nine actresses on stage plus one transvestite (Robin De Jesus), who nearly blinds Bill after a discussion on gender identity turns overly heated – are worse. At least that’s the way it appears in the immensely.
- 11/5/2013
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
You’ve seen this couple face the cameras before: he, a politician stuttering his way through a canned apology for sexual misdeeds; she, standing silently, slightly behind him, her lips drawn tight in — what? — disapproval? Fury? Mortification? Or is it, as Bruce Norris’s new play, Domesticated, seems to suggest, a kind of triumph?Make no mistake: This latest provocation from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Clybourne Park is more than a gloss on Eliot and Silda Spitzer, the most obvious of many possible models for his Bill and Judy Pulver. Norris is in it for something much bigger than a takedown of political hypocrisy. Bill — who is not just a Secretary of Something but also a women’s-health crusader and, oh why not, a former gynecologist — did more than patronize prostitutes. That would hardly be news. What Bill did, accidentally or not, was cause a prostitute to...
- 11/5/2013
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
New York – What Bruce Norris did for prickly attitudes surrounding race in his Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Clybourne Park, the playwright does for similarly irreconcilable issues of gender politics in Domesticated. While not as incisive or ingeniously structured as the earlier work, this is a tart, provocative comedy of the most corrosive kind, driven by scathingly funny dialogue. Anna D. Shapiro’s super-streamlined production for Lincoln Center Theater boasts a terrific cast, with a superbly matched Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf facing off as the warring husband and wife under a sticky spotlight. The dynamic of a politician humiliated
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- 11/5/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Domesticated will play at the Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop production of Domesticated, a new play by Bruce Norris, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The cast features Vanessa Aspillaga, Mia Barron, Robin De Jesus, Jeff Goldblum, Lizbeth MacKay, Emily Meade, Laurie Metcalf, Mary Beth Peil, Karen Pittman, Aleque Reid and Misha Seo. Domesticated will run through Sunday, January 5 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 150 West 65th Street. Opening night is Monday, November 4. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights of the cast in action below...
- 11/4/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Approximately 18 productions of Shakespeare are taking place in New York this season. Sure, every actor wants to play Hamlet at least once, but who is today’s Shakespeare? And wouldn’t it be more fun to play a role that no one else has attempted? “Shakespeare’s great, but he was really written for the time period he was in. New plays are reflective of the age that we live in, and it’s sort of the reason the art has persisted the way it has,” says John Pollono, who wrote and stars in “Small Engine Repair,” which is playing at McC Theater. “If you’re doing a classic play that has been done 500 times, you already know it works, so there’s a safety in that. Remove that safety element and have some balls.” A few actors and writers are exercising their balls this season. Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris has a new play,...
- 11/1/2013
- backstage.com
For a limited time only, A Raisin In The Sun Revisited The Raisin Cycle At Center Stage, the fascinating and Revealing documentary tracing the recent theatrical coup of mounting both Lorraine Hansberry's seminal drama A Raisin In The Sun and its contemporary cousin, Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park at the Center Stage in Baltimore, is now available to view in full courtesy of PBS.
- 10/31/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
In 1988, television viewers first met Roseanne Conner and her decidedly blue-collar family.
Repeats have kept the sitcom "Roseanne" a home-screen staple pretty much ever since, and We marks its exact 25th-anniversary date Friday (Oct. 18) with a seven-hour marathon including episodes from each of the Roseanne Barr-starring show's nine ABC seasons.
Another beneficiary of the series' success has been stage and screen actress Laurie Metcalf, who earned three consecutive Emmy Awards (1992-94) for her portrayal of Roseanne's sister Jackie.
"It certainly doesn''t seem that long ago," Metcalf tells Zap2it. "During the run of the show, I wasn't able to watch it, because I would be self-conscious. I just couldn't. Now I'm a fan of it, and I see how forward-thinking the writing and some of the subject matter was.
"The thing I'm reminded of is how proud I am to have played a part in it, literally ... to...
Repeats have kept the sitcom "Roseanne" a home-screen staple pretty much ever since, and We marks its exact 25th-anniversary date Friday (Oct. 18) with a seven-hour marathon including episodes from each of the Roseanne Barr-starring show's nine ABC seasons.
Another beneficiary of the series' success has been stage and screen actress Laurie Metcalf, who earned three consecutive Emmy Awards (1992-94) for her portrayal of Roseanne's sister Jackie.
"It certainly doesn''t seem that long ago," Metcalf tells Zap2it. "During the run of the show, I wasn't able to watch it, because I would be self-conscious. I just couldn't. Now I'm a fan of it, and I see how forward-thinking the writing and some of the subject matter was.
"The thing I'm reminded of is how proud I am to have played a part in it, literally ... to...
- 10/18/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Bruce Norris' new play 'A Parallelogram,' directed by the Tony Award-winning Anna D. Shapiro, opened on Sunday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at the Center Theatre GroupMark Taper Forum. The darkly comic new play continues through August 18, 2013. Quite a few celebrities were in attendance, including James Franco, Jeff Goldblum and more. Click below to hear what they had to say on opening night...
- 7/26/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
A Parallelogram celebrated its opening night Sunday, July 21, at the Mark Taper Forum. The play, by Bruce Norris, is directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Along with the director Anna D. Shapiro and the cast Carlo Alban, Marylouise Burke, Marin Ireland and Tom Irwin, check out the video with Michael Chernus, Judy Reyes, Ana Ortiz, Jeff Goldblum, Jimmy Smits and James Franco at the opening night party for 'A Parallelogram.'...
- 7/26/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
A Parallelogram celebrated its opening night last night, Sunday, July 21, at the Mark Taper Forum. The play, by Bruce Norris, is directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Celebrities in attendance last night included James Franco, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, Michael Chernus, Josh Radnor, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Goldwyn, Jason Butler Harner, Marg Helgenberger, T.R. Knight, Liza Weil, Paul Adelstein, Jimmy Smits, Wanda De Jesus, Keir O'Donnell, Ana Ortiz, Jeff Perry, Zoe Perry, Judy Reyes, Grant Show, Rebecca Wisocky and more. Scroll down for photos from the festivities...
- 7/22/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop has announced that Vanessa Aspillaga, Mia Barron, Robin De Jesus, Jeff Goldblum, Lizbeth Mackay, Emily Meade, Mary Beth Peil, Karen Pittman and Misha Seo will join Laurie Metcalf in the cast of Domesticated, a new play by Bruce Norris, to be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, which will begin previews Thursday, October 10 at 8pm at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 150 West 65 Street. Opening night is Monday, November 4 at 645pm. Additional casting for Domesticated will be announced at a later date.
- 7/22/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York — The Scottish play isn't taking much of a break before coming back. Ethan Hawke plans to return to Broadway this winter to play the title role in "Macbeth."
The Shakespeare tragedy will mark a reunion for Hawke with director Jack O'Brien at Lincoln Center Theater, where he starred in "Henry IV" and "The Coast of Utopia," for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
Hawke is currently starring in the horror film "The Purge" and the romantic drama "Before Midnight," the third film in a series with "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset."
"Macbeth" had its latest incarnation on Broadway in a one-man show by Alan Cumming, which is set to close in July. Patrick Stewart led another cast in 2008.
For those who can't wait, a "Macbeth" starring Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston will be broadcast to movie theaters across the country from Manchester International Festival as part...
The Shakespeare tragedy will mark a reunion for Hawke with director Jack O'Brien at Lincoln Center Theater, where he starred in "Henry IV" and "The Coast of Utopia," for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
Hawke is currently starring in the horror film "The Purge" and the romantic drama "Before Midnight," the third film in a series with "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset."
"Macbeth" had its latest incarnation on Broadway in a one-man show by Alan Cumming, which is set to close in July. Patrick Stewart led another cast in 2008.
For those who can't wait, a "Macbeth" starring Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston will be broadcast to movie theaters across the country from Manchester International Festival as part...
- 6/13/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Lincoln Center Theater has announced four productions to be produced in the Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi E. Newhouse Theaters during the 2013-2014 season the world premiere ofDomesticated, a new play by Bruce Norris, featuring Laurie Metcalf, directed by Anna D. Shapiro beginning performances Thursday, October 10 in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater a new production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring Ethan Hawke in the title role, directed by Jack O'Brien, beginning performances Thursday, October 24 in the Vivian Beaumont Theater Act One, adapted and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart, beginning performances Thursday, March 20 in the Beaumont and the world premiere of The City of Conversation, a new play by Anthony Giardina, directed by Doug Hughes, beginning performances Thursday, April 10 in the Newhouse. In addition to these four productions, LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's initiative to produce the work of new artists and to engage new audiences, will produce a season of three plays,...
- 6/13/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Michele Ragusa, John Bolton, Jordan Gelber, Jennifer Cody and More Join Hangar Theatre's 2013 Season
The 39th season of the Hangar Theatre includes a thrilling line-up of plays and musicals including a favorite farce, a Tony-winning musical, and two regional premieres and features an array of exciting Broadway talent. The season takes off with Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers June 13-29 followed by the premiere of a strikingly innovative concept of the Tony-winning best musical Gypsy July 4-20. The regional premiere of Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed play 4000 Miles July 25-August 3 is next, followed by the regional premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris August 8-17.
- 5/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Long Wharf Theatre concludes its 2012-13 season with Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris, and directed by Associate Artistic Director Eric Ting. The play is now playing on The Claire Tow Stage in the C. Newton Schenck III Mainstage from through June 2, 2013. Tickets are 40-70. The press opening is May 15, 2013 at 730 pm. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below...
- 5/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Artistic Director Martha Lavey announced today the 201314 Subscription Season, including two world premieres, an American premiere and two Chicago premieres. The season begins in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre with Zinnie Harris's The Wheel, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau. Up next, ensemble member Austin Pendleton directs Tribes by Nina Raine. In the Upstairs Theatre, ensemble member Yasen Peyankov directs Russian Transport by Erika Sheffer. In April 2014, ensemble member Amy Morton directs the world premiere of The Way West by Mona Mansour. And in July 2014, the season concludes with the world premiere of The Qualms by Bruce Norris, directed by Pam MacKinnon.
- 3/6/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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