Friday, 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 …
Linked From Show Showdown at 03:04AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
“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 …
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
“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…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:42PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Star of Broadway and MCU alike, Danai Gurira ("Eclipsed") turns her talents back to playwriting with this portrait of an intergenerational immigrant family negotiating the expectations of tr…
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMFriday, November 16, 2018
A star-packed cast has been assembled to lead the world premiere musical The Secret Life of Bees, based on the acclaimed film and bestselling novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Tony winn…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:33PMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Played by Pascale Armand, known for her Tony nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in "Eclipsed," Angela is the heroine of Lauren Gunderson’s new one-woman play, "Nat…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:35PMFriday, November 2, 2018
This scalpel-sharp drama anatomises marital breakdown with cold-eyed clarityAdultery seldom looks less adult than in the form of the mild-life crisis – that much-satirised condition in whi…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today.
NBC Recruits Sas Goldberg to Write & Produce Musical Comedy Series
Sas Goldberg, standout cast member of Broadwa…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:12PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Late last week, Playbill ran THIS article about 9 plays and musicals that used actors as an onstage band. For some reason, they drew the line at nine! And in doing so,…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 07:36AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Letitia Wright has been cast in the upcoming Young Vic production of The Convert, written by Tony-nominated playwright Danai Gurira (Eclipsed), who acted alongside Wright in the hit film Bla…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:48AMThursday, September 6, 2018
On Thursday, Pegasus Theatre announced its upcoming production of “Eclipsed,” the first play to premiere on Broadway with an all female and black cast and creative team. Written by Danai…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:10PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Craig Zadan, a prolific producer of a wide variety of musical productions who began a resurgence of musicals on television, has died at age 69. The news of Zadan's death was confirmed in…
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:06PMThursday, July 5, 2018
Aidan Turner is right up there in the field of acting hot property. He is especially known as Ross Poldark in the BBC series “Poldark,” where steamy scenes of him shirtless somewhat ecli…
Linked From www.blouinartinfo.com at 08:04AMFriday, June 22, 2018
With such an array of talent on offer, it’s a mystery why tutors chose as a graduate showcase this thinly-written early 80s spoof of 1920s girls’ school fiction long eclipsed by St Trini…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
The upcoming world premiere production of The Lifespan of a Fact will break ground this fall, featuring Broadway's first all-female lineup of designers, according to the production. The …
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:32PMDanielle de Niese is hoping to inspire female musicians with a new documentary film. “Unsung Heroines: Danielle de Niese on Forgotten Female Composers,” made for BBC4, will be shown firs…
Linked From www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:14PMDanielle de Niese is hoping to inspire female musicians with a new documentary film. “Unsung Heroines: Danielle de Niese on Forgotten Female Composers,” made for BBC4, will be shown firs…
Linked From www.blouinartinfo.com at 12:14PMSaturday, March 31, 2018
Happy birthday and Chag Sameach to Gabe Kaplan (b. 1945). I was a tween during his pinnacle years, the perfect age at which to appreciate his youth-oriented sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter whi…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:51AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Tommy directed Nyong'o in the Broadway premiere of Eclipsed.
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