Exclusive: Leviathan Productions has acquired the remake rights to L’Homme de la Cave (The Man in the Basement), the French psychological thriller from director Philippe Le Guay, which was released just last year.
Inspired by a true story, the film is about a Jewish couple who sell their basement to a history professor, only to discover his secret life as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to unwind the sale, the professor starts to indoctrinate their impressionable teenaged daughter.
Marc Weitzmann, Le Guay and Gilles Taurand wrote the script for the original film, with Anne Dominique Toussaint producing. Rights were acquired from Tournellovision and the remake will be produced by Ben Cosgrove, Frederic Golchan and Neal Israel.
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan Productions is an independent production company focused on acquiring and developing mass-market films and television content based on Jewish history,...
Inspired by a true story, the film is about a Jewish couple who sell their basement to a history professor, only to discover his secret life as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to unwind the sale, the professor starts to indoctrinate their impressionable teenaged daughter.
Marc Weitzmann, Le Guay and Gilles Taurand wrote the script for the original film, with Anne Dominique Toussaint producing. Rights were acquired from Tournellovision and the remake will be produced by Ben Cosgrove, Frederic Golchan and Neal Israel.
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan Productions is an independent production company focused on acquiring and developing mass-market films and television content based on Jewish history,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2023––another year in which he not only Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review: Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum Take a Familiar, Gentle Bow”>released a new film, but dropped two TV series (Full Circle and Command Z“>Command Z) and shot another film (the Sundance-bound Presence)––he still got plenty of watching in.
Along with catching up on 2023’s new releases, Ferrari, Anatomy of a Fall, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Air, Reality, Dead Reckoning, among others), he took in plenty of classics, including Eyes Wide Shut, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Casablanca, Out of the Past, The Shining, the epic War and Peace, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and, following Tom Wilkinson’s passing, Michael Clayton. He also got an early look at Pussy Island,...
Along with catching up on 2023’s new releases, Ferrari, Anatomy of a Fall, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Air, Reality, Dead Reckoning, among others), he took in plenty of classics, including Eyes Wide Shut, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Casablanca, Out of the Past, The Shining, the epic War and Peace, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and, following Tom Wilkinson’s passing, Michael Clayton. He also got an early look at Pussy Island,...
- 1/4/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Leviathan Productions has hired Jared Sleisenger as Vice President of Production, Deadline has learned. In his new role, focused on Leviathan’s TV slate, Sleisenger will work across development and production.
The entertainment veteran joins from CrossCheck Studios, a Gen Z focused production company with a development deal at Prime Video. During his time at that company, he led film and TV development efforts across their scripted and unscripted slates, working with distribution partners including Amazon, Paramount, Peacock, and STXFilms. Prior to that, he worked as a development executive at Paramount Television Studios.
Most recently, Sleisenger served as a co-producer on Alex Edelman’s acclaimed one-man show Just For Us during its Broadway run at the Hudson Theatre.
“I’m incredibly excited to welcome Jared to our team here Leviathan,” said CEO Ben Cosgrove. “His deep knowledge about the TV industry, thoughtful creative instincts, and tireless work ethic have...
The entertainment veteran joins from CrossCheck Studios, a Gen Z focused production company with a development deal at Prime Video. During his time at that company, he led film and TV development efforts across their scripted and unscripted slates, working with distribution partners including Amazon, Paramount, Peacock, and STXFilms. Prior to that, he worked as a development executive at Paramount Television Studios.
Most recently, Sleisenger served as a co-producer on Alex Edelman’s acclaimed one-man show Just For Us during its Broadway run at the Hudson Theatre.
“I’m incredibly excited to welcome Jared to our team here Leviathan,” said CEO Ben Cosgrove. “His deep knowledge about the TV industry, thoughtful creative instincts, and tireless work ethic have...
- 12/7/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Amidst the continuing tragedy of the Israel-Hamas war, Leviathan Production has entered development on a feature adaptation of Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battles Against Hate Speech, a historical work penned by Victoria Saker Woeste.
The film will tell the story of the campaign of antisemitism waged by automotive pioneer Henry Ford throughout the 1920s. It was in 1925 that Aaron Sapiro, a self-made lawyer and activist, sued Ford for libel. After a dramatic court case that gripped the nation, Sapiro forced Ford to shut down his antisemitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and apologize publicly to the Jewish people.
Stanford University Press published Henry Ford’s War on Jews in 2012. Jackie Krentzman brought the project to Leviathan and will be involved as a producer.
A titan of industry who made automobiles accessible to the middle-class American through his Ford Motor Company, Ford purchased his hometown paper,...
The film will tell the story of the campaign of antisemitism waged by automotive pioneer Henry Ford throughout the 1920s. It was in 1925 that Aaron Sapiro, a self-made lawyer and activist, sued Ford for libel. After a dramatic court case that gripped the nation, Sapiro forced Ford to shut down his antisemitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and apologize publicly to the Jewish people.
Stanford University Press published Henry Ford’s War on Jews in 2012. Jackie Krentzman brought the project to Leviathan and will be involved as a producer.
A titan of industry who made automobiles accessible to the middle-class American through his Ford Motor Company, Ford purchased his hometown paper,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ben Cosgrove and Josh Foer’s Leviathan Productions has tapped Daniel Handler, the visionary behind the hit children’s book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, to pen a contemporary horror film based on the Golem legend from Jewish folklore, which Cosgrove will produce.
Considered the Jewish Frankenstein, the Golem’s story is one of the most enduring legends from Jewish tradition, and has been the subject of numerous books and plays. The film updates the story, which first appeared in 15th century Prague, to the present day, where a young woman on a college campus finds herself terrorized by a creature with a mysterious past.
Handler wrote the A Series of Unfortunate Events books under the pen name Lemony Snicket, seeing them be adapted into both a hit movie from Paramount, as well as a Peabody Award-winning Netflix series. He’s also written books including The Basic Eight,...
Considered the Jewish Frankenstein, the Golem’s story is one of the most enduring legends from Jewish tradition, and has been the subject of numerous books and plays. The film updates the story, which first appeared in 15th century Prague, to the present day, where a young woman on a college campus finds herself terrorized by a creature with a mysterious past.
Handler wrote the A Series of Unfortunate Events books under the pen name Lemony Snicket, seeing them be adapted into both a hit movie from Paramount, as well as a Peabody Award-winning Netflix series. He’s also written books including The Basic Eight,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
"The skill I most require in this job - is being able to tell a story." IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for Rare Objects, the latest film directed by actress Katie Holmes (she also directed the pandemic film Alone Together out last year). This will be available to watch on VOD starting in April. An adaptation of Kathleen Tessaro's novel, Rare Objects is a story about friendship that centers around a young woman who reclaims her own sense of self through her journey of self discovery that involves a new job, new friends and healing. Starring Julia Mayorga, Derek Luke, Alan Cumming, David Alexander Flinn, and Katie Holmes (who's also currently in Anna Ziegler's new play The Wanderers). This hasn't played at any film festivals, which is a bad sign, because it looks rather tedious despite the good intentions behind telling this story of friends. Is it uplifting or depressing?...
- 2/23/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Isaac Katz has been appointed as Vice President of Production at Leviathan Productions, the independent production company launched last fall that focuses on creating premium film and TV content based on Jewish stories.
Katz joins from Provenance Media, where he’d been since 2018, spearheading the development of film and TV projects with such partners as HBO, Anonymous Content and Tribeca Productions, among others. Prior to that, he worked as Creative Executive at Tribeca Productions, and in his new role, will oversee all content production activities for Leviathan.
“Isaac is an incredibly bright, passionate and resourceful executive,” said Leviathan’s co-founder Ben Cosgrove, “and we could not be more excited to have him join our team to help us bring the most engaging Jewish stories to life through film and television.”
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan has several projects in development for both film and TV.
Katz joins from Provenance Media, where he’d been since 2018, spearheading the development of film and TV projects with such partners as HBO, Anonymous Content and Tribeca Productions, among others. Prior to that, he worked as Creative Executive at Tribeca Productions, and in his new role, will oversee all content production activities for Leviathan.
“Isaac is an incredibly bright, passionate and resourceful executive,” said Leviathan’s co-founder Ben Cosgrove, “and we could not be more excited to have him join our team to help us bring the most engaging Jewish stories to life through film and television.”
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan has several projects in development for both film and TV.
- 1/9/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees will bestow his 49th AFI Life Achievement Award on Oscar winner Nicole Kidman at their June 10, 2023 ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Kidman is the first Australian actor to receive this honor.
“Nicole Kidman has enchanted audiences for decades with the daring of her artistry and the glamour of a screen icon,” said Kathleen Kennedy, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “She is a force both brave in her choices and bold in each performance. AFI is honored to present her with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award.”
Kidman’s cinematic canon has spanned work with such filmmakers as Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, Aaron Sorkin, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Lars von Trier and Stanley Kubrick.
She was nominated five times at the Oscars –4x for Leading Actress for Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, Rabbit Hole and this year...
“Nicole Kidman has enchanted audiences for decades with the daring of her artistry and the glamour of a screen icon,” said Kathleen Kennedy, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “She is a force both brave in her choices and bold in each performance. AFI is honored to present her with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award.”
Kidman’s cinematic canon has spanned work with such filmmakers as Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, Aaron Sorkin, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Lars von Trier and Stanley Kubrick.
She was nominated five times at the Oscars –4x for Leading Actress for Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, Rabbit Hole and this year...
- 11/22/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicole Kidman, a queen of the big and small screen and the unofficial spokesperson of AMC Theatres, will be honored with AFI’s Life Achievement Award.
The award will be presented to Kidman at a gala tribute on June 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. She is the 49th person and first Australian to receive this honor.
“Nicole Kidman has enchanted audiences for decades with the daring of her artistry and the glamour of a screen icon,” said Kathleen Kennedy, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “She is a force both brave in her choices and bold in each performance. AFI is honored to present her with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award.”
The 55-year-old is widely considered one of the best actors of her generation. She’s a decorated performer, winning an Oscar for “The Hours” and earning nominations for “Moulin Rouge,” “Rabbit Hole,” “Lion” and “Being the Ricardos.
The award will be presented to Kidman at a gala tribute on June 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. She is the 49th person and first Australian to receive this honor.
“Nicole Kidman has enchanted audiences for decades with the daring of her artistry and the glamour of a screen icon,” said Kathleen Kennedy, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “She is a force both brave in her choices and bold in each performance. AFI is honored to present her with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award.”
The 55-year-old is widely considered one of the best actors of her generation. She’s a decorated performer, winning an Oscar for “The Hours” and earning nominations for “Moulin Rouge,” “Rabbit Hole,” “Lion” and “Being the Ricardos.
- 11/22/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Katie Holmes has been set to star in The Wanderers, a new Off Broadway play from the Roundabout Theatre Company. The New York debut of Anna Ziegler’s latest will begin preview performances January 26, 2023 head of a February 16 opening at the Laura Pels Theater in New York.
The limited engagement will run through March 26, the theater group said Thursday.
The Wanderers centers on Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli who are newly married, and their future written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future…until an unexpected email from a movie star, Julia Cheever (Holmes), puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong. The play begs the question: Can we be happy with what we have while we have it?
Barry Edelstein is directing. The remaining cast and design team will be announced soon.
The limited engagement will run through March 26, the theater group said Thursday.
The Wanderers centers on Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli who are newly married, and their future written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future…until an unexpected email from a movie star, Julia Cheever (Holmes), puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong. The play begs the question: Can we be happy with what we have while we have it?
Barry Edelstein is directing. The remaining cast and design team will be announced soon.
- 10/27/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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Katie Holmes is returning to the stage for the New York premiere of Roundabout Theatre Company’s The Wanderers.
Written by The Last Match‘s Anna Ziegler and directed by Barry Edelstein, Holmes is set to play movie star Julia Cheever, who sends an unexpected email to secular Jew Abe, a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future. It’s a notion that is put to the test by Cheever’s arrival, whose presence tests both Abe’s beliefs and both of their marriages.
This story also follows Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli, a newly married couple whose future is written in the laws of the Torah. Ziegler’s modern love story ultimately asks whether both couples can be happy with what they have while they have it.
The limited engagement is set to open Feb. 16, 2023, at the Laura Pels...
Katie Holmes is returning to the stage for the New York premiere of Roundabout Theatre Company’s The Wanderers.
Written by The Last Match‘s Anna Ziegler and directed by Barry Edelstein, Holmes is set to play movie star Julia Cheever, who sends an unexpected email to secular Jew Abe, a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future. It’s a notion that is put to the test by Cheever’s arrival, whose presence tests both Abe’s beliefs and both of their marriages.
This story also follows Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli, a newly married couple whose future is written in the laws of the Torah. Ziegler’s modern love story ultimately asks whether both couples can be happy with what they have while they have it.
The limited engagement is set to open Feb. 16, 2023, at the Laura Pels...
- 10/27/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Veteran film producer Ben Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer have founded independent production company Leviathan Productions which will focus on creating premium film and television content based on Jewish stories.
Back by private funding, Leviathan has a plan to acquire and develop mass-market films and TV content based on Jewish history, folklore, and literature, as well as stories about Israel.
Already Leviathan has acquired a number of projects including the Leonard Slater book The Pledge, which centers around the true story of the men and women who led the underground effort in the United States to acquire and transport planes to Israel in advance of the War of Independence.
There’s also The Secret Chord, a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks about the rise and reign of King David.
Playwright Anna Ziegler will also adapt her award-winning play Photograph 51 which starred Nicole Kidman during its run in the West End,...
Back by private funding, Leviathan has a plan to acquire and develop mass-market films and TV content based on Jewish history, folklore, and literature, as well as stories about Israel.
Already Leviathan has acquired a number of projects including the Leonard Slater book The Pledge, which centers around the true story of the men and women who led the underground effort in the United States to acquire and transport planes to Israel in advance of the War of Independence.
There’s also The Secret Chord, a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks about the rise and reign of King David.
Playwright Anna Ziegler will also adapt her award-winning play Photograph 51 which starred Nicole Kidman during its run in the West End,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The Roundabout Theatre Company says it will resume production in Fall 2021 with two much anticipated shows – the Covid-delayed Jeanine Tesori/Tony Kushner musical Caroline, Or Change and Alice Childress’ Trouble In Mind. The planned musical revival of 1776 will now begin performances in Spring 2022.
The nonprofit theater company does not have a date for its postponed production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing. The play had been set for last spring, but was delayed by the pandemic shutdown until Fall 2021. Roundabout now says the production “will proceed at a future date to be determined.”
The company’s new schedule reflects Broadway’s lengthening pandemic shutdown, with all show openings planned for Spring 2021 bumped off by the industry’s now-extended closure at least until June. Caroline, Or Change starring Sharon D Clarke, reprising her lauded London performance, was initially planned for Spring 2020, then moved to Spring 2021 before the latest Fall 2021 target.
The nonprofit theater company does not have a date for its postponed production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing. The play had been set for last spring, but was delayed by the pandemic shutdown until Fall 2021. Roundabout now says the production “will proceed at a future date to be determined.”
The company’s new schedule reflects Broadway’s lengthening pandemic shutdown, with all show openings planned for Spring 2021 bumped off by the industry’s now-extended closure at least until June. Caroline, Or Change starring Sharon D Clarke, reprising her lauded London performance, was initially planned for Spring 2020, then moved to Spring 2021 before the latest Fall 2021 target.
- 11/17/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway’s Caroline, or Change, the revival of the Jeanine Tesori-Tony Kushner musical starring Sharon D Clarke, and Birthday Candles, the Noah Haidle play starring Debra Messing, have been postponed until Fall. The Roundabout Theatre Company productions had been set to open this Spring.
Clarke and Messing will remain with the productions.
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“Our desire is to provide certainty and confidence to our artists, staff and audiences that we will come back from this hiatus with a full season,” said Roundabout Artistic Director/CEO Todd Haimes in a statement. “We are committed to the future of the theatre and its long-term sustainability in this crisis. Moving planned productions to dates certain in the fall protects...
Clarke and Messing will remain with the productions.
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“Our desire is to provide certainty and confidence to our artists, staff and audiences that we will come back from this hiatus with a full season,” said Roundabout Artistic Director/CEO Todd Haimes in a statement. “We are committed to the future of the theatre and its long-term sustainability in this crisis. Moving planned productions to dates certain in the fall protects...
- 3/25/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On the eve of the Tony Awards, ICM Partners has added Kate Pines to its theater department. Her appointment was announced by co-heads Patrick Herold and Di Glazer, to whom she will report.
Pines, who most recently served as the Literary Director of The Playwrights Realm, comes to the agency following a 15-year career in directing and new play development. During her tenure at The Playwrights Realm, she ran the company’s artist development programs and shepherded world premieres of several ICM-represented plays, including Sarah Delappe’s The Wolves and The Great Leap by Lauren Yee, as well as works by Anna Ziegler, Mfoniso Udofia, Donja Love, Ione Lloyd and others.
Prior to her tenure at Playwrights Realm, Pines served on the artistic staffs of Women’s Project Theater and The Public Theater.
ICM Partners has 13 Tony Award nominations across categories, including actors Nathan Lane, Tony Shalhoub, Condola Rashad and Michael Cera,...
Pines, who most recently served as the Literary Director of The Playwrights Realm, comes to the agency following a 15-year career in directing and new play development. During her tenure at The Playwrights Realm, she ran the company’s artist development programs and shepherded world premieres of several ICM-represented plays, including Sarah Delappe’s The Wolves and The Great Leap by Lauren Yee, as well as works by Anna Ziegler, Mfoniso Udofia, Donja Love, Ione Lloyd and others.
Prior to her tenure at Playwrights Realm, Pines served on the artistic staffs of Women’s Project Theater and The Public Theater.
ICM Partners has 13 Tony Award nominations across categories, including actors Nathan Lane, Tony Shalhoub, Condola Rashad and Michael Cera,...
- 6/8/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Roundabout Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's new play The Last Match. It's the semifinals of the U.S. Open, and two tennis greats are facing off in the match of their lives. Tim Porter, the aging all-American favorite, wants to prove to the world, his wife and himself that he's still a champion. Hot-headed rising star Sergei Sergeyev struggles to believe he truly deserves to beat his lifelong hero.
- 11/19/2017
- by Contests - Broadway
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sex is sex and rape is rape. That's the cut and dry explanation we often hear nowadays. And while there are obvious instances where any reasonable person would determine that rape has occurred, there are also those instances that straddle the line between one and the other, where human subjectivity determines the label. Where, as demonstrated in Anna Ziegler's absorbing and thought-provoking new drama, Actually, one partner can be sure the sex was consensual and the other can be sure it was rape.
- 11/15/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of Actually, the new play by Anna Ziegler, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz and presented in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director, is now previews and opens Tuesday, November 14 at The Studio at Stage II The Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the stars onstage below...
- 11/6/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Here at Et, we’re obsessed with a lot of things -- and here’s what we’re most excited about this week:
Why We’re Obsessed With ‘The Last Match’
Tennis is having a good year off the court with the Oscar-worthy Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell, and Shia Labeouf earning rave reviews for his portrayal of John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe, which opened the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Continuing the winning streak is Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Starring Wilson Bethel as Tim and Alex Mickiewicz as Sergei, rivals facing off in the semifinals at the U.S. Open, the play gets into the psyche of two players who stand to gain as much as they could potentially lose. But it’s not just for tennis fans -- Ziegler’s riveting story brings the drama and action of Arthur Ashe Stadium to the stage in...
Why We’re Obsessed With ‘The Last Match’
Tennis is having a good year off the court with the Oscar-worthy Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell, and Shia Labeouf earning rave reviews for his portrayal of John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe, which opened the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Continuing the winning streak is Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Starring Wilson Bethel as Tim and Alex Mickiewicz as Sergei, rivals facing off in the semifinals at the U.S. Open, the play gets into the psyche of two players who stand to gain as much as they could potentially lose. But it’s not just for tennis fans -- Ziegler’s riveting story brings the drama and action of Arthur Ashe Stadium to the stage in...
- 10/30/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
There have been some great plays about sports. “Fences” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” come to mind. When Troy and Brick recall their days playing ball, the talk can be scintillating. The problem arises when playwrights try to bring the sports field directly to the stage. Since all sports are a form of theater, the replication of that supreme athletics on stage tends not only to dissipate but ring hollow. Both theater and sports require endless practice and rehearsal, but in a play the ending is a preordained; the final score in sports is anything but. Anna Ziegler attempts.
- 10/25/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Roundabout Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's new play The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. The cast includes Wilson Bethel as 'Tim,' Alex Mickiewicz as 'Sergei,' Natalia Payne as 'Galina' and Zoe Winters as 'Mallory.'...
- 9/28/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Roundabout Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of The Last Match by Anna Ziegler's, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. The cast includes Wilson Bethel as Tim, Alex Mickiewicz as Sergei, Natalia Payne as Galina and Zo Winters as Mallory. A friendly reminder that The Last Match begins preview performances tomorrow, September 28, 2017.
- 9/27/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Roundabout Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's new play The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. The cast includes Wilson Bethel as 'Tim,' Alex Mickiewicz as 'Sergei,' Natalia Payne as 'Galina' and Zoe Winters as 'Mallory.' They just met the press, and we're taking you inside the special day below...
- 9/12/2017
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced the complete cast of The New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's new play The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. The cast includes Wilson Bethel as 'Tim,' Alex Mickiewicz as 'Sergei,' Natalia Payne as 'Galina' and ZoeWinters as 'Mallory.'...
- 8/21/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Save 30 on tickets toThe Last MatchOff-Broadway Roundabout Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's new playTHE Last Match. It's the semifinals of theU.S. Open, and two tennis greats arefacing offin the match of their lives. Tim Porter, theaging all-American favorite,wants to prove to the world,his wife and himselfthat he's still a champion.Hot-headed rising star Sergei Sergeyev struggles to believe he trulydeserves to beat his lifelong hero.
- 8/10/2017
- by Contests - Broadway
- BroadwayWorld.com
Michael Grandage presents Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Michael Grandage directed Nicole Kidman in Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51 last year at the Noël Coward Theatre, London, and told me he hopes to bring the production to Broadway in 2017. He also directed Jude Law in Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse and on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Michael Grandage on Wolfe as Caliban: 'He is talking about internally' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze His directorial debut feature Genius begins with shoes that might make you think of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train. Screenplay by John Logan, based on A Scott Berg's book, the friendship and collaboration between Charles Scribner’s Sons editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) and his discovery, writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), is explored.
Wolfe's problem is that he can't stop writing, like a feverish Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the page, he burns himself out.
Michael Grandage on Wolfe as Caliban: 'He is talking about internally' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze His directorial debut feature Genius begins with shoes that might make you think of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train. Screenplay by John Logan, based on A Scott Berg's book, the friendship and collaboration between Charles Scribner’s Sons editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) and his discovery, writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), is explored.
Wolfe's problem is that he can't stop writing, like a feverish Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the page, he burns himself out.
- 6/9/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Old Globe's world premiere of Anna Ziegler's The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor, stars real-life fiancesPatrick J. Adams Tim SAG Award-nominated star of TV's 'Suits,' Garland Award for Bill Cain's play Nine Circles and Troian Bellisario Mallory star of TV's 'Pretty Little Liars,' Equivocation and Farragut North at Geffen Playhouse. The show will run in theSheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, now through March 13, 2016. The Last MATCHopens tonight, February 18, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the stars onstage below...
- 2/18/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Actors known more for their Hollywood work than for the stage took best performance honors Sunday at London’s Evening Standard Theater Awards with Nicole Kidman and James McAvoy taking the top prizes. Kidman won best actress for her critically praised turn as under-appreciated DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, and McAvoy was named best actor for his role as the delusional English earl in a revival of Peter Barnes' 1968 satire The Ruling Class…...
- 11/23/2015
- Deadline
The Graham Norton Show is lining up some serious Girl Power for an October episode.
Graham Norton is set to welcome Suffragette cast members Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan to his sofa on October 9 at 10.35 pm.
Nicole Kidman will join the trio to discuss her West End run in Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51.
Kidman last sat down with Norton last November, while Streep and Mulligan visited earlier this year.
The Graham Norton Show kicks off its 18th series on Friday (September 25) with guests Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Bill Bailey and The Weeknd.
On October 2, Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hiddleston, Sir Kenneth Branagh and The Shires are scheduled to drop by the BBC chat show.
Graham Norton is set to welcome Suffragette cast members Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan to his sofa on October 9 at 10.35 pm.
Nicole Kidman will join the trio to discuss her West End run in Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51.
Kidman last sat down with Norton last November, while Streep and Mulligan visited earlier this year.
The Graham Norton Show kicks off its 18th series on Friday (September 25) with guests Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Bill Bailey and The Weeknd.
On October 2, Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hiddleston, Sir Kenneth Branagh and The Shires are scheduled to drop by the BBC chat show.
- 9/22/2015
- Digital Spy
Back on the London stage for the first time in 17 years, Nicole Kidman sharpens her feminist credentials in the first British production of Anna Ziegler's 2008 play Photograph 51. The last time she appeared on the West End, directed by Sam Mendes in David Hare's The Blue Room, one critic famously branded Kidman's sizzling performance "pure theatrical Viagra." Her latest role is almost the polar opposite, playing the frosty and spinsterish Rosalind Franklin, the young British-Jewish chemist whose crucial role in mapping the structure of DNA was overlooked for years by a male-dominated scientific establishment. The
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- 9/14/2015
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Michael Grandage Company presentsthe UK premiere of Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51. Nicole Kidman who leads the company as Rosalind Franklin is joined by Will Attenborough James Watson, Edward Bennett Francis Crick, Stephen Campbell Moore Maurice Wilkins, Patrick Kennedy Don Caspar and Joshua Silver Ray Gosling. Photograph 51 opens at the Noel Coward Theatre tonight 14 September, with previews from 5 September, and runs until 21 November.
- 9/14/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Star will fulfil vow to her father when she plays Rosalind Franklin, whose work was vital to cracking the genetic code
It is rated by some as one of the greatest injustices in scientific history. For others, it is a storm in an academic teacup, a distraction from the real story of the uncovering of the structure of DNA, the stuff from which our genes are made.
However, for Nicole Kidman the opportunity to play one of the search’s chief protagonists, Rosalind Franklin, in Anna Ziegler’s play Photograph 51 – which opens in London’s West End next week – provides her with a special challenge: a chance to fulfil a pledge to her late father, Antony Kidman.
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It is rated by some as one of the greatest injustices in scientific history. For others, it is a storm in an academic teacup, a distraction from the real story of the uncovering of the structure of DNA, the stuff from which our genes are made.
However, for Nicole Kidman the opportunity to play one of the search’s chief protagonists, Rosalind Franklin, in Anna Ziegler’s play Photograph 51 – which opens in London’s West End next week – provides her with a special challenge: a chance to fulfil a pledge to her late father, Antony Kidman.
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- 9/5/2015
- by Robin McKie
- The Guardian - Film News
Nicole Kidman recently spoke with the Daily Mail during her third week 'which is apparently the toughest,' she says of rehearsals for her role as DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, beginning performances with Michael Grandage Company this weekend on 5 September. The play opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on 14 September and runs until 21 November. And Kidman is already hoping her schedule will allow her to bring the show to Broadway...
- 9/4/2015
- by Jessica Khan
- BroadwayWorld.com
Seventeen years since she caused a sensation in the West End, and later Broadway, for a flash of nudity in her celebrated performance in David Hare's The Blue Room, Nicole Kidman is set to return to the U.K.’s theater capital. Announced Thursday, the actress will take the lead in the U.K. premiere of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51, being staged at London’s Noel Coward Theater by director Michael Grandage. Part of the Michael Grandage Company season, the production will run Sept. 5-Nov. 21. The play, named after the X-ray image that provided the crucial starting point for DNA
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- 4/23/2015
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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