‘As They Made Us’ Review: Dianna Agron’s Graceful Performance Grounds Mayim Bialik’s Debut

FX/Hulu’s big play for Emmy glory in this incredibly crowded season is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s excellent 2003 book “Under the Banner of Heaven,” a historical analysis of the history of Mormonism in this country framed alongside a dissection of a brutal murder case from 1984 in the state of Utah. While the book had the context of the history of the origin of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and how it got twisted into the mindset of the fundamentalist sect of Mormonism that pushed Ron and Dan Lafferty to commit brutal murder, the show feels at the beginning like it wants badly to be more “True Detective” and less Ken Burns, improving in the third and fourth episodes as it becomes more about a broken community than a specific murder.

Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticIn the theatrical annals of wild and wicked stage plays, there are black comedies, blacker comedies, and blacker-than-the-dead-of-night comedies like “Hangmen.“  Prolific playwright Martin McDonagh hasn’t written all of them, to be sure; but he’s created some of the best of this deadly lot, including “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” “The Cripple of Inishmaan” and “The Pillowman,” not to mention such beautifully bleak films as “Seven Psychopaths,” “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri.”Still, there is something special about “Hangmen,” which, were it a song, would be the perfect little ditty to play as you were cutting your wrists. Happily (if such a word would apply to any of his work), this Broadway production is a deadly beauty, flawlessly cast and directed in the mordant style of an executioner’s song by Matthew Dunster.

Ayanna Prescod Ntozake Shange’s iridescent choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf” is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences. Whereas the stereotyped characterization of the strong Black woman creates a façade that she is incapable of experiencing trauma, Shange’s delicate marriage of dance, music and monologues gives Black women the stage to be unapologetically human and vulnerable — to be seen in all their complicated glory.“For Colored Girls…” first played Broadway in 1976 following a successful run at the Public Theater. Now this new revival of Shange’s masterwork returns to the same theater after another critically acclaimed production played the Public in 2019.

David Beckham and his daughter Harper Seven Beckham, 10, sit court side at game two Eastern Conference First Round between the Miami Heat and the Atlanta Hawks at FTX Arena on Tuesday (April 19) in Miami, Fla.

Mayim Bialik’s new gig as the host of has made her a household name. Since taking on the job, after the death of Alex Trebek in 2020, the 45-year-old's world has been flipped. «It’s changed my life in enormous ways,” Bialik tells ET’s Nischelle Turner.

Lorde is opening up about the stage fright she once experienced, and how she used to deal with the “adrenaline spike” of performing onstage in front of thousands of people.

Jeopardy! co-host Mayim Bialik has addressed comments made about her blazer, worn during a recent episode of the long-running game show, after it sparked a debate among viewers on social media. Fans were quick to recognise Bialik’s burnt orange blazer during the 28 March episode, with some noting that the Big Bang Theory star has previously worn the same jacket on multiple episodes of Jeopardy!’s latest season. Appearing on the Drew Barrymore Show on Monday, Bialik addressed the attention placed on the burnt orange blazer, and defended her reason for wearing it so many times.

Angelique Jackson Many first-time directors would be first in line at the multiplex to buy a ticket to watch their movie on the big screen, but “As They Made Us” filmmaker Mayim Bialik is just wrapping a long day of shooting on her CBS sitcom “Call Me Kat.”“I’ve been working since seven in the morning, rehearsing and rewriting,” Bialik says with a laugh as she hops on the phone with Variety on Friday afternoon. “Obviously, everybody’s been congratulating me, and [her “Call Me Kat” co-star] Julian Gant is also in the movie, so we’re both very excited.

By Dianna Agron is ready to let people in…on her own terms. The star best known for her portrayal of pregnant Christian cheerleader Quinn Fabray is back in a new film by Mayim Bialik.

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Mayim Bialik is explaining her reasoning behind a controversial move while hosting “Jeopardy!”.

Featuring one of the more eye-rolling puns in recent memory, Liz Marshall’s clean-meat documentary “Meat the Future’‘ plays out both as a swift introduction to the growing industry of cultivated meat and a feature-length advertisement for Upside Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) and its founder/CEO Dr. Uma Valeti.

th parallel. (Apparently, the way they say “Vatican” in Quebec is hilarious if you’re from Paris.) And even though “Aline” occasionally lacks a narrative drive — in that it’s a story about a woman who pretty much got everything she ever wanted, albeit through intense hard work and sacrifice — it does score a genuinely emotional moment when Aline imagines herself having an intimate conversation with Guy-Claude after he has died.But whether you’re a fan of Dion, or a detractor, or just someone who finds her presence in pop culture to be fascinating, “Aline” is such a singularly eccentric and sui generis piece of entertainment that it demands to be seen and discussed and pondered.

Mayim Bialik, 46, got a lot of fans’ attention when she returned as the host of Jeopardy! last week, and it was all because of her hair! The actress showed off a straight hairstyle that had the end of her locks curled under on a recent episode and it was quite a difference from her usual curly hairstyle. Once the episode aired, there were a lot of compliments across social media, proving many people loved the new look.

Mayim Bialik is ready to play Bette Midler, if she gets the call.