Friday, November 27, 2020
Anne Nichols (1891-1966) is one of those figures whose own fame has been eclipsed by her greatest creation. We’ll get to her most famous play presently, but first some background. Nichols …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 12:06AMSaturday, October 31, 2020
The four-time Tony-nominated duo behind the all-Black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Eclipsed, and more reveal their path to success.
Linked From Playbill at 11:05AMThursday, October 15, 2020
A trove of lost photographs, taken by a junior teacher more than 30 years ago, revisits a country on the brink of social change and a landscape near eclipsed from history
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The first woman to win the UK’s biggest comedy prize has written a guide to the menopause. She discusses HRT, getting sacked and how much she liked her female comedy peers – until their …
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Last week, we began The Broadway Top 40 Countdown of the best new Broadway songs of the last decade. If you missed it, you can check it out HERE. This week, we get up to the middle of our l…
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For the first time in Milwaukee Rep’s history, we have suspended our season for weeks. As our [...]
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Actor-playwright Danai Gurira's play began performances March 3.
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As best explained in her EW Digital Cover story, actor and writer Danai Gurira has had a unique career in entertainment spanning more than her iconic turn as Michonne on The Walking Dead. Th…
Linked From Entertainment Weekly at 04:00PMFriday, January 31, 2020
Strange to contemplate a universe in which Peter Marshall is better remembered than his older sister Joanne Dru (Joan Letitia LaCock, 1922-1996), but that is the universe as we find it. Dru …
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MIRANDA HAYMON is a Princess Grace Award/Honoraria-winning writer, director and deviser of performance originally from Boston. Her recent projects include Mondo …
Linked From Visible Soul at 11:03PMFriday, January 10, 2020
A talented group of Broadway alums have been nominated for 2020 NAACP Image Awards. Winners will be revealed during a live TV broadcast on BET Networks on February 22 at 8:00pm.
Among the …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54PMSunday, December 22, 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
In a culture of special effects, it is the moments of connection, creativity and wonder that matter
Circus 1903 – in pictures
Playing its second year as an alte…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, December 12, 2019
Nominations are here for the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best acting work in television and on film. A slew of stage stars fill out the list of nominees for the awar…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:42AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is among a slew of theater stars who have signed on to appear in the highly anticipated Aretha Franklin biopic Respect. The previously announced film, dir…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:04AMFriday, October 18, 2019
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune) is among a slew of theater stars who have signed on to appear in the highly anticipated Aretha Franklin biopic R…
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Kylie M. Brown (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director of new work and literary manager for Normal Ave. She is currently curating the NAPseries of new work for No…
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The Artistic Home gives Jason Hedrick's world premiere about a grim future a life-affirming production.
More postapocalyptic plays about staging Chekhov in peopl…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 13, 2019
The best-selling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel will be turned into a TV series, bringing together the Black Panther and Eclipsed collaborators.
Linked From Playbill at 04:52PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
The slate of presenters for the 2019 Tony Awards is getting starrier. More talent has been announced to hand out Tonys at the 73rd annual celebration of Broadway, scheduled for June 9 at R…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:54PMSunday, June 2, 2019
Palladium, London Ballet and B-movies collide as Sergei Polunin revives Russian villain Rasputin, suffers with Nijinsky, and tackles toxic masculinity with a pineapple
Once famous only withi…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, May 26, 2019
I suspect that there is a good play inside Jesse Eisenberg's Happy Talk, currently at The New Group at the Signature Center. The ideas and the situation are intriguing, and there is humor …
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“Four Chords and a Gun,” the new show from Toronto now at the Broadway Playhouse, is an odd duck. Of course, so were The Ramones. Here was an American punk rock band with influence that …
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“Laboulaye’s creative work has been eclipsed by his political career” — a judge during France’s Second Empire, he was committed to women’s rights and the end of slavery — “bu…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:16PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the leading candidate to take the top job in his country – so who is he, and will he bring the laughs?
It’s a gag worthy of an Armando Iannucci screenplay. And yet…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:25AMThursday, March 28, 2019
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's bestselling 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's iconic 1983 motion picture, is now a new stage musical featuring an original score by the rock duo Jamestown R…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:29PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Watch the Eclipsed playwright and star of The Walking Dead and Black Panther explain how she helps close the gender disparity gap.
Linked From Playbill at 10:43AMThursday, January 24, 2019
The New York Times bestselling novel and critically acclaimed feature film is now becoming a musical! The Sue Monk Kidd classic is coming to the Atlantic Theater Company. Saycon Sengbloh (…
Linked From BroadwayBlack at 01:12PMThursday, January 10, 2019
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
Liesl Tommy to Direct Jennifer Hudson in Aretha Franklin Biopic
Tony-nominated director Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed) has signed…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:04PMThe Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, handpicked Jennifer Hudson to play her in a biopic and now according to Deadline Tony-nominated director Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed, Insecure, Queen Sugar) h…
Linked From BroadwayBlack at 03:24PMThursday, January 3, 2019
Tony nominee Sahr Ngaujah, who will appear as Toulouse-Lautrec in the upcoming Broadway musical Moulin Rouge, will first make a stop at off-Broadway's Signature Theatre for a production …
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:36PMSunday, December 16, 2018
Kodak once touted 2000 as a landmark year, when the number of photos taken worldwide first eclipsed 80 billion. Fast forward to 2017, when just about everyone has a cellphone camera in the…
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