CAP UCLA Presents Max Richter
by A.A. Cristi - October 07, 2019 UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Max Richter on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall. Tickets for $28a?"$59 are available now at cap.ucla.edu, 310-825-2101 and the Royce Hall box office....
Olivier Award Nominee Catherine McCormack Joins THE FERRYMAN December 18
by Stephi Wild - December 10, 2018 Olivier Award nominee Catherine McCormack (All My Sons, Braveheart) will join the company of Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes, beginning Tuesday, December 18. McCormack will make her Broadway debut in the role of "Mary Carney," which she first played in the London cast, when Ge...
HBO to Premiere MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 13, 2018 The eight-episode drama series MY BRILLIANT FRIEND will debut SUNDAY, NOV. 18 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), with the second episode debuting MONDAY, NOV. 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT); other episodes will debut subsequent Sundays and Mondays at the same time....
THE FAREWELL, MARRIAGE STORY, WAVES Among Nominees for the 2019 GOTHAM AWARDS - See Full List!
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 24, 2019 The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation's premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 29th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotha...
Cast Announced For THE MIRROR CRACK'D
by Stephi Wild - October 24, 2018 Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative have today announced initial casting for the first ever UK stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's much-loved Miss Marple thriller The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. The Mirror Crack'd will be a European Premiere, opening at Salisbury Playhouse on 15 F...
Rose Theatre Reopens and Announces Spring 2021 Season
by Stephi Wild - December 08, 2020 Rose Theatre reopened its doors to audiences last week following the end of the second national lockdown and has announced several upcoming shows for spring 2021....
CAP UCLA Presents Max Richter
by A.A. Cristi - October 07, 2019 UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Max Richter on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall. Tickets for $28a?"$59 are available now at cap.ucla.edu, 310-825-2101 and the Royce Hall box office....
Casting Announced For UK Tour of DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE
by Stephi Wild - January 17, 2018 Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Rose Theatre Kingston today announce the full company for Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde adapted for the stage by David Edgar. Joining the previously announced Phil Daniels as Jekyll/Hyde are Rosie Abraham (Lucy/Maid/Singer), Sam Cox (Poole), Po...
The Ratings Are In For FOSSE/VERDON! How Does the Show Measure Up?
by Stephi Wild - April 21, 2019 Fosse/Verdon has now aired its first two episodes, and the ratings are in! How does the show measure up?...
HBO and RAI Renew MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 30, 2020 HBO and RAI have renewed the drama series MY BRILLIANT FRIEND for a third season, it was announced today by Francesca Orsi, EVP HBO Programming and Eleonora Andreatta, Rai head of Drama....
Sphinx Theatre Announces Major Opportunity For Female Playwrights For Company's 30th Anniversary
by Stephi Wild - April 15, 2020 Sphinx Theatre, the UK's longest established and a leading women's theatre company, has announced Sphinx 30, a major new writing programme for female playwrights to mark the company's 30th anniversary....
Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, and More Win Critics' Choice Awards - Full List!
by Stephi Wild - January 14, 2019 Last night, the Critics' Choice Awards were announced. Taking home the top prize of Best Picture was Roma. Also, in a surprising turn of events, both Lady Gaga and Glenn Close took home the award for Best Actress, for A Star is Born and The Wife, respectively....
Casting Update For Young Vic's Productions Of JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN and WILD EAST
by Stephi Wild - January 09, 2019 With the Young Vic's recent run of critical-success including The Convert currently running at Young Vic, The Inheritance at the Noel Coward Theatre and The Jungle now playing at St Ann's Warehouse in New York, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, Kwame Kwei-Armah, today announces the full cast for S...
Rose Theatre Kingston To Appoint An Artistic Director As The Company's Creative Lead
by Stephi Wild - September 23, 2019 Rose Theatre Kingston today announces that Chief Executive Robert O'Dowd and the Board have decided to appoint an Artistic Director as the creative lead for the company. This new appointment comes after the decision of Jerry Gunn to step down as Executive Producer. The role will be advertised this w...
HBO, Rai Fiction and TIMVISION Series MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, Directed by Saverio Costanzo, Debuts This Fall
by Tori Hartshorn - July 25, 2018 Recently wrapping production in Caserta, Italy, the HBO, RAI FICTION and TIMVISION series MY BRILLIANT FRIEND debuts this fall. Based on Elena Ferrante's bestselling book of the same name, which is the first of her four-part series published in the U.S. by Europa Editions, the eight-episode series i...
Rose Theatre Kingston Announce Melly Still As Associate Artist
by Stephi Wild - January 18, 2019 Rose Theatre Kingston today announce Melly Still as an Associate Artist. Still takes on the role having previously directed the world premiere stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend for the company. She is currently directing the UK tour and first stage adaptation of Louis de Berni...
Photo Flash: First Look at MY BRILLIANT FRIEND at the National Theatre
by Stephi Wild - November 21, 2019 Following a sell-out run at Rose Theatre Kingston, the acclaimed two-part adaptation of Elena Ferrante's MY BRILLIANT FRIEND by April De Angelis is reworked for the Olivier stage by Melly Still. Niamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack return to the roles they originated as Lenu and Lila....
Cast Announced For The European Premiere Of Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D
by Stephi Wild - November 23, 2018 Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative have today announced casting for the first ever UK stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's much-loved Miss Marple thriller The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. Colin R Campbell, Suzanna Hamilton, Julia Hills, Katherine Manners, Katie Matsell, Davina Moon...
Headlong and Century Films Partner With BBC Arts On UNPRECEDENTED: REAL TIME THEATRE FROM A STATE OF ISOLATION
by Stephi Wild - April 09, 2020 BBC Arts has joined award-winning theatre company Headlong and BAFTA winning Century Films, as broadcast partner for Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation, a series of short, digital plays written and performed in isolation, which will be broadcast across the nation during lockd...
Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal For MY BRILLIANT FRIEND at the National Theatre
by Stephi Wild - October 16, 2019 When the most important person in her life goes missing without a trace, Lenu Greco, now a celebrated author, begins to recall a relationship of more than 60 years. First meeting on the dangerous streets of post-war Naples, friends Lila and Lenu experience turbulent social and political change, from...
BWW Review: LA STRADA, The Other Palace
by Gary Naylor - June 01, 2017 La Strada, adapted from the Fellini movie is a play with music that captures the style and ethics of a classic movie, indeed the Neo-Realism style....
BWW Review: CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN, Rose Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - April 26, 2019 Selling millions of copies and adapted into a 2001 film, Louis de Bernieres' epic wartime novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, is a literary tour de force. Now inventively, if not entirely faithfully, adapted for the stage by Rona Munro, it begins its new incarnation at the Rose Theatre....
Rose Theatre Kingston Announces 2018 Christmas Show HANSEL & GRETEL
by Stephi Wild - March 27, 2018 Rose Theatre Kingston today announces its 2018 Christmas show, a festive new version with original music of the Brothers' Grimm classic Hansel & Gretel written by Ciaran McConville, who returns to the theatre following last year's successful adaptation of Alice in Winterland. Rosie Jones will direct...
VIDEO: Watch a Behind-the-Scenes Look at MY BRILLIANT FRIEND on HBO
by Sarah Leiber - March 10, 2020 The cast and crew of My Brilliant Friend discuss how Elena and Lila's friendship will evolve and tease what's to come in season 2. Season 2 premieres Monday at 10pm....
Photo Flash: PARK90 Presents the World Premiere of DISTANCE
by A.A. Cristi - September 06, 2018 Distance, the only male-directed play in PARK90's season, shining a light on male mental health and suicide (the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK) with the story of Steven: a man trying to make sense of his world. Written by Alex McSweeney and directed by Simon Pittman (Associate Director, F... |