We bend the knee to this news. On Tuesday, March 30, it was revealed that a stage production based off the Game of Thrones universe is in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin's popular world is being produced by Simon Painter and Tim Lawson alongside Killburn Live. Of course, Martin, who wrote the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series that inspired the critically acclaimed HBO series, is collaborating on the project with playwright Duncan MacMillan and director Dominic Cooke. Per THR, the stage adaptation will actually take place 16 years before the start of the Game of Thrones series. Specifically, the untitled production will follow the...
- 3/30/2021
- E! Online
Game of Thrones may have concluded its story in a divisively pyrrhic fashion, but the franchise wasn’t exactly left in ashes, thanks to a backlog brimming with several spinoff shows supported by creator George R.R. Martin’s purportedly eight-figure, five-year deal recently signed with HBO. However, it appears that the mythology, adapted from Martin’s novels, is set to invade another arena, a Broadway stage, with a Game of Thrones play now in development. Interestingly, rather than rehashing the show, the play will instead showcase a heretofore unseen storyline crucial to the hit TV series.
The Great Tourney at Harrenhal will serve as the backdrop for the gestating Game of Thrones play, which will hail from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson (The Illusionists) in partnership with Kilburn Live, according to THR. The production will carry necessary gravitas, since playwright Duncan MacMillan (1984) will work with Martin himself on the story,...
The Great Tourney at Harrenhal will serve as the backdrop for the gestating Game of Thrones play, which will hail from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson (The Illusionists) in partnership with Kilburn Live, according to THR. The production will carry necessary gravitas, since playwright Duncan MacMillan (1984) will work with Martin himself on the story,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
The expansion of the Game of Thrones franchise is not slowing down soon.
George R.R. Martin is set to unveil the true story behind an event mention in his Song of Ice and Fire novels that was omitted from the HBO adaptation, per The Hollywood Reporter.
The event in question is The Great Tourney at Harrenhal, meaning that some beloved characters will be resurrected to bring the project to fruition.
“The play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark event that previously was shrouded in mystery,” according to the production’s official description.
“Featuring many of the most iconic and well-known characters from the series, the production will boast a story centered around love, vengeance, madness and the dangers of dealing in prophecy, in the process revealing secrets and lies that have only been hinted at until now.”
The Great Tourney at Harrenhall...
George R.R. Martin is set to unveil the true story behind an event mention in his Song of Ice and Fire novels that was omitted from the HBO adaptation, per The Hollywood Reporter.
The event in question is The Great Tourney at Harrenhal, meaning that some beloved characters will be resurrected to bring the project to fruition.
“The play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark event that previously was shrouded in mystery,” according to the production’s official description.
“Featuring many of the most iconic and well-known characters from the series, the production will boast a story centered around love, vengeance, madness and the dangers of dealing in prophecy, in the process revealing secrets and lies that have only been hinted at until now.”
The Great Tourney at Harrenhall...
- 3/30/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
A Game of Thrones stage production is in the early stages of development from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, with the play being written and adapted Duncan MacMillan working alongside author George R.R. Martin. UK director Dominic Cooke is set to direct.
Martin released the following statement:
The seeds of war are often planted in times of peace. Few in Westeros knew the carnage to come when highborn and smallfolk alike gathered at Harrenhal to watch the finest knights of the realm compete in a great tourney, during the Year of the False Spring. It is a tourney oft referred during HBO’s Game of Thrones, and in my novels, A Song of Ice & Fire… and now, at last, we can tell the whole story… on the stage.
An amazing team has been assembled to tell the tale, starting with producers Simon Painter, Tim Lawson and Jonathan Sanford. Their...
Martin released the following statement:
The seeds of war are often planted in times of peace. Few in Westeros knew the carnage to come when highborn and smallfolk alike gathered at Harrenhal to watch the finest knights of the realm compete in a great tourney, during the Year of the False Spring. It is a tourney oft referred during HBO’s Game of Thrones, and in my novels, A Song of Ice & Fire… and now, at last, we can tell the whole story… on the stage.
An amazing team has been assembled to tell the tale, starting with producers Simon Painter, Tim Lawson and Jonathan Sanford. Their...
- 3/30/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
George R.R. Martin is developing “Game of Thrones” into a Broadway play that takes place during one of the most epic events in Westeros’ history: The Great Tourney at Harrenhal.
The currently untitled stage production will be produced by Simon Painter and Tim Lawson in partnership with Kilburn Live. Martin is writing and adapting the play based on his “A Song of Ice & Fire” works alongside award-winning playwright Duncan MacMillan. Dominic Cooke is set to direct.
Here is the official description for the play, which is slated for a 2023 debut on Broadway, the West End and in Australia: Set during a pivotal moment in the history of the series, the play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark franchise event that previously was shrouded in mystery. Featuring many of the most iconic and well-known characters from the series, the production will boast a story centered around love,...
The currently untitled stage production will be produced by Simon Painter and Tim Lawson in partnership with Kilburn Live. Martin is writing and adapting the play based on his “A Song of Ice & Fire” works alongside award-winning playwright Duncan MacMillan. Dominic Cooke is set to direct.
Here is the official description for the play, which is slated for a 2023 debut on Broadway, the West End and in Australia: Set during a pivotal moment in the history of the series, the play will for the first time take audiences deeper behind the scenes of a landmark franchise event that previously was shrouded in mystery. Featuring many of the most iconic and well-known characters from the series, the production will boast a story centered around love,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Game of Thrones is headed to Broadway.
A dramatic stage show spectacular based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world is now in development, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
The play is from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson (The Illusionists), in partnership with Kilburn Live, and will have a story by Martin, who is working alongside award-winning playwright Duncan MacMillan (1984) and acclaimed director Dominic Cooke (The Courier). The team’s goal is to debut productions in New York City, London’s West End and in Australia. The first show is expected to launch in 2023.
The production includes a particularly unique story ...
A dramatic stage show spectacular based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world is now in development, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
The play is from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson (The Illusionists), in partnership with Kilburn Live, and will have a story by Martin, who is working alongside award-winning playwright Duncan MacMillan (1984) and acclaimed director Dominic Cooke (The Courier). The team’s goal is to debut productions in New York City, London’s West End and in Australia. The first show is expected to launch in 2023.
The production includes a particularly unique story ...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Game of Thrones is headed to Broadway.
A dramatic stage show spectacular based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world is now in development, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
The play is from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson (The Illusionists), in partnership with Kilburn Live, and will have a story by Martin, who is working alongside award-winning playwright Duncan MacMillan (1984) and acclaimed director Dominic Cooke (The Courier). The team’s goal is to debut productions in New York City, London’s West End and in Australia. The first show is expected to launch in 2023.
The production includes a particularly unique story ...
A dramatic stage show spectacular based on George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world is now in development, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
The play is from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson (The Illusionists), in partnership with Kilburn Live, and will have a story by Martin, who is working alongside award-winning playwright Duncan MacMillan (1984) and acclaimed director Dominic Cooke (The Courier). The team’s goal is to debut productions in New York City, London’s West End and in Australia. The first show is expected to launch in 2023.
The production includes a particularly unique story ...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Former ABC chief Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip is developing a TV series exploring the teenage years of Agatha Christie, the iconic British crime writer behind genre-defining characters including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Wiip has enlisted UK writers Rebecca Pollock and Kas Graham, who penned Ruth Wilson feature The Book Of Ruth, to work up the series, which will tell the story of how a precocious teenager mourning her father’s death became one of the most prolific and beloved mystery novelists of all time.
Set in the early 1900s in Devon, England, Pollock and Graham are planning on writing an action-packed drama, which will be titled Young Agatha. They said it would be a “dynamic and supercharged coming-of-age story” that would offer an “empowering and adventurous take on how she became the greatest mystery writer in history.”
The writing duo’s other credits include 2019 script Betty Ford,...
Wiip has enlisted UK writers Rebecca Pollock and Kas Graham, who penned Ruth Wilson feature The Book Of Ruth, to work up the series, which will tell the story of how a precocious teenager mourning her father’s death became one of the most prolific and beloved mystery novelists of all time.
Set in the early 1900s in Devon, England, Pollock and Graham are planning on writing an action-packed drama, which will be titled Young Agatha. They said it would be a “dynamic and supercharged coming-of-age story” that would offer an “empowering and adventurous take on how she became the greatest mystery writer in history.”
The writing duo’s other credits include 2019 script Betty Ford,...
- 3/16/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent studio Wiip (“Dickinson”) is adapting Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s play “1984,” based on George Orwell’s eponymous 1949 dystopian social science fiction novel, as a five-part series for television.
The play had successful runs at the U.K.’s Nottingham Playhouse and the West End, as well as on Broadway.
Executive producers on the series include Icke, Macmillan, and Wiip’s Paul Lee and David Flynn, with Flynn overseeing the project for the studio.
“As the world grapples with democracy and government in our divided age of surveillance, ‘fake news’ and truth decay, the urgency of Orwell’s masterpiece is undeniable,” said Icke and Macmillan. “The small screen feels like a natural home for his portrait of a society in which people trust their screens more than the world outside their windows. We couldn’t be more excited to work with Wiip to make a bold new version...
The play had successful runs at the U.K.’s Nottingham Playhouse and the West End, as well as on Broadway.
Executive producers on the series include Icke, Macmillan, and Wiip’s Paul Lee and David Flynn, with Flynn overseeing the project for the studio.
“As the world grapples with democracy and government in our divided age of surveillance, ‘fake news’ and truth decay, the urgency of Orwell’s masterpiece is undeniable,” said Icke and Macmillan. “The small screen feels like a natural home for his portrait of a society in which people trust their screens more than the world outside their windows. We couldn’t be more excited to work with Wiip to make a bold new version...
- 1/12/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: George Orwell’s iconic dystopian story 1984 is to become a television series after former ABC chief Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip optioned the rights to Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s 2013 stage show of the same name.
There have been a number of attempts to adapt 1984 for a contemporary screen audience and wiip is the latest out of the gates, working with Icke and Macmillan to transform their 100-minute theatre production into a five-part limited series.
The stage show, based on Orwell’s 1947 science fiction novel, first launched at the Nottingham Playhouse in 2013 and enjoyed three separate runs on the West End. It played at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway in 2017, starring Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge.
The play made headlines for its shocking reimagining of Orwell’s vision of denialism, propaganda, endless war, and mass surveillance. Protagonist Winston Smith was depicted in brutal, blood-spattering torture scenes...
There have been a number of attempts to adapt 1984 for a contemporary screen audience and wiip is the latest out of the gates, working with Icke and Macmillan to transform their 100-minute theatre production into a five-part limited series.
The stage show, based on Orwell’s 1947 science fiction novel, first launched at the Nottingham Playhouse in 2013 and enjoyed three separate runs on the West End. It played at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway in 2017, starring Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge.
The play made headlines for its shocking reimagining of Orwell’s vision of denialism, propaganda, endless war, and mass surveillance. Protagonist Winston Smith was depicted in brutal, blood-spattering torture scenes...
- 1/12/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
“Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” has found more Targaryens.
The HBO series has added three more key players to its cast: Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy and Matt Smith.
Cooke, known from Amazon’s “Sound of Metal,” is set to star as Alicent Hightower, the daughter of Hand of the King Otto Hightower who was raised in the Red Keep, close to the king and his inner circle. Described as “the most comely woman in the Seven Kingdoms,” Hightower has both “courtly grace and a keen political acumen.”
Cooke has several other upcoming projects slated for 2021, including feature “Pixie” opposite Alec Baldwin and sci-fi thriller “Little Fish” opposite Jack O’Connell. She also appears in this year’s “Naked Singularity” opposite John Boyega.
D’Arcy will star as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, the king’s first-born, pure Valyrian-blooded child who is a dragonrider. Some say Rhaenyra was “born with everything…...
The HBO series has added three more key players to its cast: Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy and Matt Smith.
Cooke, known from Amazon’s “Sound of Metal,” is set to star as Alicent Hightower, the daughter of Hand of the King Otto Hightower who was raised in the Red Keep, close to the king and his inner circle. Described as “the most comely woman in the Seven Kingdoms,” Hightower has both “courtly grace and a keen political acumen.”
Cooke has several other upcoming projects slated for 2021, including feature “Pixie” opposite Alec Baldwin and sci-fi thriller “Little Fish” opposite Jack O’Connell. She also appears in this year’s “Naked Singularity” opposite John Boyega.
D’Arcy will star as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, the king’s first-born, pure Valyrian-blooded child who is a dragonrider. Some say Rhaenyra was “born with everything…...
- 12/11/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
UK theaters have been closed since mid-March and, while plans are being put in place for a potential re-opening in July, one venue is looking to get ahead of the game with a socially distanced two-hander that will be played out to a virtual audience.
Claire Foy and Matt Smith will reprise their lead roles in Duncan Macmillan’s hit play Lungs next month at London’s Old Vic, with the production adapted to allow the actors’ to observe the two-meter distancing rule that is designed to stop the virus spread.
As theaters remain closed to the public until at least July, no audience will be present, but the show will be streamed live online to a max of 1,000 people per night, reflecting the venue’s regular capacity. Tickets will be priced at £10–£65 ($12-$80), mirroring regular prices, but viewers will be encouraged to donate as much as they can to support the theater.
Claire Foy and Matt Smith will reprise their lead roles in Duncan Macmillan’s hit play Lungs next month at London’s Old Vic, with the production adapted to allow the actors’ to observe the two-meter distancing rule that is designed to stop the virus spread.
As theaters remain closed to the public until at least July, no audience will be present, but the show will be streamed live online to a max of 1,000 people per night, reflecting the venue’s regular capacity. Tickets will be priced at £10–£65 ($12-$80), mirroring regular prices, but viewers will be encouraged to donate as much as they can to support the theater.
- 5/28/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Though you could enter this story from any number of angles, “Trigonometry” starts with Ray (Ariane Labed), a world-class synchronized swimmer who decides to change her life after a jarring accident. Moving out of her parents’ home and journeying to London, she finds a room in a flat, leasing from partners Gemma (Thalissa Teixeira) and Kieran (Gary Carr).
With Ray taking other jobs in the city, Kieran working as a paramedic, and Gemma trying to keep her humble cafe afloat, these three each have their own swirling lives distinct from each other. But as Gemma and Kieran start to consider the possibility of spending their lives together, they both find themselves drawn to the woman living in the next room.
So “Trigonometry” evolves in stages as these three start to navigate their feelings toward each other. Each chapter in this eight episode season (which originally aired on BBC Two earlier...
With Ray taking other jobs in the city, Kieran working as a paramedic, and Gemma trying to keep her humble cafe afloat, these three each have their own swirling lives distinct from each other. But as Gemma and Kieran start to consider the possibility of spending their lives together, they both find themselves drawn to the woman living in the next room.
So “Trigonometry” evolves in stages as these three start to navigate their feelings toward each other. Each chapter in this eight episode season (which originally aired on BBC Two earlier...
- 5/27/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Athina Rachel Tsangari directs five episodes of ‘Trigonometry’ for Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s House Productions.
When UK producer Tessa Ross was talking to Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari about a film project, she decided to, as Ross puts it, “take my life slightly into my hands”.
Ross had enjoyed her conversations with the director of festival favourites Attenberg and Chevalier so much she wondered if Tsangari would be interested in taking on a TV series she was also developing.
“Would you think about television?” Ross asked Tsangari.
The “television” in question is Trigonometry, an eight-part drama series set in London,...
When UK producer Tessa Ross was talking to Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari about a film project, she decided to, as Ross puts it, “take my life slightly into my hands”.
Ross had enjoyed her conversations with the director of festival favourites Attenberg and Chevalier so much she wondered if Tsangari would be interested in taking on a TV series she was also developing.
“Would you think about television?” Ross asked Tsangari.
The “television” in question is Trigonometry, an eight-part drama series set in London,...
- 2/25/2020
- by 88¦Louise Tutt¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: House Productions, the British producer behind Benedict Cumberbatch’s drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, has nabbed the screen rights to the remarkable true story of an Auschwitz hero.
The film and TV company, run by former Film4 head Tessa Ross and ex-Working Title TV chief Juliette Howell, has optioned former war reporter Jack Fairweather’s The Volunteer.
The book, which just scored the popular Costa Book of the Year prize, is a biography about Witold Pilecki. Pilecki was a covert operative who volunteered to be captured and taken to deadly new Nazi detention centre, Auschwitz, in order to infiltrate the camp, organise a resistance from within, gather evidence of the atrocities being committed against thousands of European Jews, and ultimately attack the Nazi forces from where they’d least expect. However, Pilecki’s incredible and heroic story would later be wiped from the annals of history by Poland’s...
The film and TV company, run by former Film4 head Tessa Ross and ex-Working Title TV chief Juliette Howell, has optioned former war reporter Jack Fairweather’s The Volunteer.
The book, which just scored the popular Costa Book of the Year prize, is a biography about Witold Pilecki. Pilecki was a covert operative who volunteered to be captured and taken to deadly new Nazi detention centre, Auschwitz, in order to infiltrate the camp, organise a resistance from within, gather evidence of the atrocities being committed against thousands of European Jews, and ultimately attack the Nazi forces from where they’d least expect. However, Pilecki’s incredible and heroic story would later be wiped from the annals of history by Poland’s...
- 2/5/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Crown‘s Claire Foy and Matt Smith will reprise their acclaimed London stage roles for a New York production of director Matthew Warchus’ staging of Duncan Macmillan’s play Lungs.
Following its sold-out run at London’s Old Vic, Lungs will be presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater for a limited run from March 25 – April 19, 2020, producers announced.
The production marks the three Old Vic staging set for a New York run this season, following the current Broadway production of A Christmas Carol and the upcoming Girl from the North Country.
The synopsis for Lungs, about a young couple wrestling with one of life’s biggest dilemmas, is as follows: “The ice caps are melting, there’s overpopulation, political unrest; everything’s going to hell in a handbasket – why on earth would someone bring a baby into this world?”
“The entire production, from the stellar cast to...
Following its sold-out run at London’s Old Vic, Lungs will be presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater for a limited run from March 25 – April 19, 2020, producers announced.
The production marks the three Old Vic staging set for a New York run this season, following the current Broadway production of A Christmas Carol and the upcoming Girl from the North Country.
The synopsis for Lungs, about a young couple wrestling with one of life’s biggest dilemmas, is as follows: “The ice caps are melting, there’s overpopulation, political unrest; everything’s going to hell in a handbasket – why on earth would someone bring a baby into this world?”
“The entire production, from the stellar cast to...
- 12/17/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
International filmmakers told to create stories that engage broad audiences rather than preach to the converted at an Lff climate change panel.
International filmmakers were challenged to create stories that engage broad audiences rather than preach to the converted at a panel called ‘Putting Climate Change on the Creative Agenda’ at the BFI London Film Festival this week.
“How do we break the storytelling out of that documentary ghetto,” said Jess Search, chief executive of the UK’s Doc Society, who chaired the debate. ”How do we get it much more into every other part of culture?”
The panel coincided...
International filmmakers were challenged to create stories that engage broad audiences rather than preach to the converted at a panel called ‘Putting Climate Change on the Creative Agenda’ at the BFI London Film Festival this week.
“How do we break the storytelling out of that documentary ghetto,” said Jess Search, chief executive of the UK’s Doc Society, who chaired the debate. ”How do we get it much more into every other part of culture?”
The panel coincided...
- 10/11/2019
- by ¬0¦Sneh Rupra¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
‘The Crown’s Claire Foy & Matt Smith To Reunite On Stage In The Old Vic’s Environmental Play ‘Lungs’
The Crown’s Claire Foy and Matt Smith are reuniting after their royal outing – this time on stage at London’s The Old Vic Theatre.
The pair are set to star in Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, an “emotional environmental rollercoaster”. The play, which is directed by The Old Vic’s Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, who previously directed Broadway musical Matilda, is set around the melting ice caps, overpopulation and political unrest as they bring a baby into the world.
“Hot on the heels of the Extinction Rebellion consciousness-raising demonstrations, there’s an extremely limited run of Duncan Macmillan’s dazzlingly vibrant and profound two-hander, Lungs, which sees a conflicted couple wrestle with huge contemporary dilemmas surrounding the responsibility of bringing new life into an increasingly precarious world,” said Warchus.
Elsewhere, The Good Wife’s Alan Cumming and Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who is currently featuring in TBS comedy Miracle Workers,...
The pair are set to star in Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, an “emotional environmental rollercoaster”. The play, which is directed by The Old Vic’s Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, who previously directed Broadway musical Matilda, is set around the melting ice caps, overpopulation and political unrest as they bring a baby into the world.
“Hot on the heels of the Extinction Rebellion consciousness-raising demonstrations, there’s an extremely limited run of Duncan Macmillan’s dazzlingly vibrant and profound two-hander, Lungs, which sees a conflicted couple wrestle with huge contemporary dilemmas surrounding the responsibility of bringing new life into an increasingly precarious world,” said Warchus.
Elsewhere, The Good Wife’s Alan Cumming and Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who is currently featuring in TBS comedy Miracle Workers,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Athina Rachel Tsangari to direct 'Trigonometry' TV series for the UK's House Productions (exclusive)
Tsangari’s film credits include Attenberg and Chevalier.
Award-winning Greek film director Athina Rachel Tsangari, whose credits include international festival favourites Attenberg in 2010 and Chevalier in 2015, has signed to direct BBC TV series Trigonometry for Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s London-based House Productions.
She will direct the first five episodes of the eight-part series which is written by Duncan Macmillan and Effie Woods.
”[Athina] brings with her a unique cinematic vision which we believe will marry brilliantly with Duncan and Effie’s bold and original scripts,” Ross and Howell told Screen.
Trigonometry is a relationship comedy-drama about a couple who...
Award-winning Greek film director Athina Rachel Tsangari, whose credits include international festival favourites Attenberg in 2010 and Chevalier in 2015, has signed to direct BBC TV series Trigonometry for Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s London-based House Productions.
She will direct the first five episodes of the eight-part series which is written by Duncan Macmillan and Effie Woods.
”[Athina] brings with her a unique cinematic vision which we believe will marry brilliantly with Duncan and Effie’s bold and original scripts,” Ross and Howell told Screen.
Trigonometry is a relationship comedy-drama about a couple who...
- 1/11/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Tony winner Reed Birney has signed with Paradigm, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
He won best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play for his portrayal of the family patriarch in Stephen Karam's Tony-winning The Humans. In his review of the production, THR critic David Rooney called Birney and his co-star and fellow Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell "indisputable treasures of the New York stage."
Birney followed up that production with Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's harrowing staging of George Orwell's 1984, playing the sadistic interrogator O'Brien. His other Broadway credits are the plays ...
He won best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play for his portrayal of the family patriarch in Stephen Karam's Tony-winning The Humans. In his review of the production, THR critic David Rooney called Birney and his co-star and fellow Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell "indisputable treasures of the New York stage."
Birney followed up that production with Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's harrowing staging of George Orwell's 1984, playing the sadistic interrogator O'Brien. His other Broadway credits are the plays ...
- 11/2/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Tony winner Reed Birney has signed with Paradigm, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
He won best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play for his portrayal of the family patriarch in Stephen Karam's Tony-winning The Humans. In his review of the production, THR critic David Rooney called Birney and his co-star and fellow Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell "indisputable treasures of the New York stage."
Birney followed up that production with Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's harrowing staging of George Orwell's 1984, playing the sadistic interrogator O'Brien. His other Broadway credits are the plays ...
He won best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play for his portrayal of the family patriarch in Stephen Karam's Tony-winning The Humans. In his review of the production, THR critic David Rooney called Birney and his co-star and fellow Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell "indisputable treasures of the New York stage."
Birney followed up that production with Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's harrowing staging of George Orwell's 1984, playing the sadistic interrogator O'Brien. His other Broadway credits are the plays ...
- 11/2/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Plenty of creative gigs are available in smaller acting markets to start your fall off right. In Lexington, Kentucky, an Equity production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” is seeking union and nonunion talent for several lead roles. Or discover a new hidden talent and perform as a Freddie Mercury lookalike in Chicago. Whatever your talent, Backstage has plenty of opportunities for you. Utah Shakespeare Festival 2019 Season, Cedar CITYJoin the Utah Shakespeare Festival for its upcoming season, which will include “Book of Will” ( written by Lauren Gunderson), “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night,” “Hamlet,” “The Conclusion of Henry VI pt. 2 and 3,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice), “Every Brilliant Thing” (written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe), and Arthur Miller’s “The Price.” The festival is seeking male and female Equity actors, aged 18 and older. There will be an Equity principal audition on Sept. 24. Four...
- 9/6/2018
- backstage.com
Winners of the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards were revealed on June 3 during a ceremony at the Town Hall in midtown Manhattan that was hosted once again by Michael Urie. As with the Outer Critics Circle Awards, these kudos also consider both Broadway and off-Broadway fare. To that end, the Broadway production of “The Band’s Visit” was ineligible, save for its sound design which was deemed to be new and won with these voters.
See 2018 Tony Awards nominations push Broadway to best season ever for attendance and grosses
Plays
Best Play
X – Admissions, by Joshua Harmon
Mary Jane, by Amy Herzog
Miles for Mary, by The Mad Ones
People, Places & Things, by Duncan Macmillan
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, by Jocelyn Bioh
Best Revival of a Play
X – Angels in America
Hindle Wakes
In the Blood
Three Tall Women
Travesties
Best Director of a Play
Marianne Elliott,...
See 2018 Tony Awards nominations push Broadway to best season ever for attendance and grosses
Plays
Best Play
X – Admissions, by Joshua Harmon
Mary Jane, by Amy Herzog
Miles for Mary, by The Mad Ones
People, Places & Things, by Duncan Macmillan
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, by Jocelyn Bioh
Best Revival of a Play
X – Angels in America
Hindle Wakes
In the Blood
Three Tall Women
Travesties
Best Director of a Play
Marianne Elliott,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
“In the Envelope: An Awards Podcast” features interviews with award-winning actors and other creatives. Join host and Awards Editor Jack Smart for a front row seat to the industry’s biggest awards races! Denise Gough is one of the most exciting presence onstage today. After training as a performer and scraping by in London from the age of 15, the Irish actress—yes, actress, she insists on principle—had a sensational breakout performance in Duncan MacMillan’s drama “People, Places & Things,” directed by Jeremy Herrin at the National Theatre. Her intense, committed work as a actress and addict earned Gough the Laurence Olivier Award for leading actress in a play in 2016. Gough then appeared at the Oliviers two years later, and claimed another statue, for her performance as Harper in the National’s stirring, timely revival of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” directed by Marianne Elliott. Now with a Tony...
- 5/21/2018
- backstage.com
Duncan Macmillan writes plays that guarantee at least one good performance. His muddled adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984” (co-written with Robert Icke) performed on Broadway this summer in a production that featured Tom Sturridge’s fine lead performance. Macmillan now follows “1984” with “People, Places & Things,” which opened Wednesday at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse after a long run in London. Denise Gough, the lead actor, isn’t just good. She’s great playing Emma, an actress-addict who just can’t stop imbibing every drug known to man and swilling it down with the nearest alcoholic beverage. Emma is also...
- 10/26/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The BBC has set a lineup of new drama and comedy series which are in the works for BBC One and Two in the coming year. Among them are epic WWII drama World On Fire from The A Word‘s Peter Bowker; The Trial of Christine Keeler from Apple Tree Yard‘s Amanda Coe; and House Productions’ half-hour Trigonometry, written by Duncan Macmillan and Effie Woods. BBC Drama Controller Piers Wegner unveiled the projects at the Broadcast Commissioning Forum this morning and also confirmed…...
- 10/4/2017
- Deadline TV
One of the most widely referenced and best known fiction titles of all time, 1984 has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 65 languages. Now, Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan have adapted this iconic novel into '101 minutes of high-energy terror' Entertainment Weekly. Don't miss this strictly limited engagement at Hudson Theatre.
- 7/10/2017
- by Contests - Broadway
- BroadwayWorld.com
In a year in which dystopian narratives have dominated literature and television, it’s only fitting that “1984,” a stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel of the same name, officially kicks off the 2017-2018 Broadway season. Directed by London stage mainstays Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, “1984” opened on June 22 at the Hudson Theatre […]...
- 6/23/2017
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
George Orwell’s “1984” returned to the best-seller lists earlier this year on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States. But Robert Icke and Duncan MacMillan’s new stage adaptation, first staged in the U.K. in 2013 and opening on Broadway Thursday, remains joltingly timely even without a direct nod to current events. (And no, this production’s Big Brother does not wear a blond wig.) Icke and MacMillan, who also direct, take a somewhat unorthodox, postmodern approach to Orwell’s story, framing it around a discussion of the authenticity of the text itself. This seems to be lifted.
- 6/22/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
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The 2017 Loco Film Festival begins in London on the 4th of May at the BFI Southbank. In its 6th iteration the founders of the festival are using their spotlight to focus on the theme of hope.
In this exclusive piece co-founder Jonathan Wakeham talks us through his highlights of the festival, and why we need comedy films now more than ever.
Programming a film festival is like having children: you shouldn’t really have a favourite. But at our sixth Loco London Film Festival it’s hard not to highlight Aki Kaurismäki’s Berlin Best Director winner The Other Side of Hope.
That’s partly because, like all of Kaurismäki’s films, it’s beautifully written, acted and filmed, every frame a perfect composition glowing with his signature rich 1950s colour palette. It’s deeply touching too, spiked with deadpan humour and features many of his regular players...
The 2017 Loco Film Festival begins in London on the 4th of May at the BFI Southbank. In its 6th iteration the founders of the festival are using their spotlight to focus on the theme of hope.
In this exclusive piece co-founder Jonathan Wakeham talks us through his highlights of the festival, and why we need comedy films now more than ever.
Programming a film festival is like having children: you shouldn’t really have a favourite. But at our sixth Loco London Film Festival it’s hard not to highlight Aki Kaurismäki’s Berlin Best Director winner The Other Side of Hope.
That’s partly because, like all of Kaurismäki’s films, it’s beautifully written, acted and filmed, every frame a perfect composition glowing with his signature rich 1950s colour palette. It’s deeply touching too, spiked with deadpan humour and features many of his regular players...
- 4/24/2017
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
British actor, writer and director Nathaniel Martello-White (Misfits, Life Just Is, Guerrilla) has joined the cast of Collateral. Previously announced cast include Carey Mulligan, John Simm and Billie Piper.
Filming is currently underway on the gripping, high-octane thriller, set in present day London. From pre-eminent playwright David Hare, and commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, the four -part drama is set over the course of four days, and explores the spiraling repercussions surrounding the fatal shooting of a pizza delivery man. Acclaimed director Sj Clarkson will helm, and the series will be broadcast on BBC Two later in the year.
Nathaniel will next be seen playing activist ‘Dhari’ in the highly-anticipated Sky/Showtime six-part series Guerrilla, where he stars alongside Freida Pinto, Babou Ceesay, Zawe Ashton, Wunmi Mosaku and Idris Elba. Written by Oscar winner John Ridley, who also directed three episodes,...
Filming is currently underway on the gripping, high-octane thriller, set in present day London. From pre-eminent playwright David Hare, and commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, the four -part drama is set over the course of four days, and explores the spiraling repercussions surrounding the fatal shooting of a pizza delivery man. Acclaimed director Sj Clarkson will helm, and the series will be broadcast on BBC Two later in the year.
Nathaniel will next be seen playing activist ‘Dhari’ in the highly-anticipated Sky/Showtime six-part series Guerrilla, where he stars alongside Freida Pinto, Babou Ceesay, Zawe Ashton, Wunmi Mosaku and Idris Elba. Written by Oscar winner John Ridley, who also directed three episodes,...
- 4/11/2017
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” has returned to the top of the best-seller lists, and now a new adaptation of the 1949 dystopian classic is bound for Broadway. Sonia Friedman and Scott Rudin announced Thursday they will be producing Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s “1984,” which has had four acclaimed runs in the U.K. at Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse, and the Almeida Theatre, London. The production, which relies on video projections to re-create Orwell’s ominous “Big Brother,” will open on June 22, 2017 at the Hudson Theatre. Also Read: Clive Owen to Star in Julie Taymor's 'M Butterfly' Broadway Revival Like the novel,...
- 2/3/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Denise Gough to Reprise Olivier Award-Winning Role in People, Places & Things at St. Ann's Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse, building upon its rich history of partnerships with the UK's most exciting theaters and theater artists, is proud to join forces with the National Theatre and Headlong for the first time to present the American Premiere of Duncan MacMillan's People, Places amp Things, a National Theatre Headlong co-production, directed by Jeremy Herrin, which was one of last season's must-see shows on the West End. Denise Gough will reprise her Olivier Award-winning role as an actress whose life has spun recklessly out of control because of her addiction to alcohol and drugs.
- 1/27/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Following the return of 1984 to the Playhouse Theatre last night, the booking period for the West End run has been extended until 29 October 2016. Directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan with Daniel Raggett, this year will see an entirely new cast take to the stage in George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece. Production images have also been released today ahead of official opening night at the Playhouse Theatre on 28 June 2016.Tickets for this critically and publically acclaimed production are now on sale and available http1984theplay.co.uk...
- 6/15/2016
- by Marianka Swain
- BroadwayWorld.com
Honoring the best of London theater, the Laurence Olivier Awards celebrated its 40th anniversary April 3 at the iconic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Hosted by two-time Olivier winner Michael Ball, the ceremony was broadcasted live for the first time on YouTube, allowing audiences from around the world to tune into the show’s results and special performances. This year’s most nominated production, the Jonathan Kent-directed “Gypsy” at the Savoy Theatre, came away the big winner with wins for best musical revival, lighting designer Mark Henderson, and stars Imelda Staunton and Lara Pulver. The National Theatre was also represented with four wins, including best actress in a play Denise Gough for Duncan Macmillan’s “People, Places And Things.” Gough, who has earned rapturous reviews for her portrayal of an actor struggling with drug addiction, beat out fellow nominees Nicole Kidman and Gemma Arterton. “I won,” she said later on the red carpet,...
- 4/4/2016
- backstage.com
Since the time of its first publication, 1984 has been cited by political parties of all stripes in defining their adversaries. Even today, overbearing bureaucracies and invasion of privacy are routinely described as Orwellian, suggesting that though the novel offers a timeless look at totalitarianism, most of the free world recognizes at least some of Big Brother’s tactics in its daily life, whether it be Nsa surveillance or internet privacy issues. It would have been appropriate for Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke of the British theater company Headlong to draw these parallels in their Olivier Award-nominated adaptation. It also
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- 1/14/2016
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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