Jon Voight is singing his praises for his daughter and granddaughter.
16.06.2024 - 23:43 / deadline.com
Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London.
It’s quite a thing to bring the play, considered a modern classic, back into central London when it just played a 16-week season at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, running until May of last year.
“There’s an enormous appetite for the play, even more so because its been on screen in cinemas via NT Live,” noted Caro Newling who runs the theater division of All3Media-owned Neal Street Productions, founded by Newling, Mendes, and Pippa Harris.
The new production, produced by the National Theatre and Neal Street, will return to that same Gillian Lynne stage for a limited 14-week slot from September 24 through January 4, 2025. It will be featuring the incredible rotating glass-box scenic design created by Es Devlin, dynamic videos designed by Luke Halls, and stunning lighting design by Jon Clark.
Actors John Heffernan, Aaron Krohn, and Howard W. Overshown will portray the original Lehman brothers – Henry, Mayer and Emanuel- who arrived in New York from Bavaria in 1844 and went on to found financial behemoth Lehman Brothers. They’re currently playing those roles at San Francisco’s Toni Rembe Theater through June 23.
The Lehman Trilogy, which originally opened at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre in 2018, has been seen by a worldwide audience of over half a million. That includes a transfer from the NT to the West End’s Piccadilly Theatre, with original stars Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles; an Off-Broadway run at the Park Armory, followed by a production on Broadway that was shut after four preview performances because of the coronavirus pandemic. It returned, triumphantly, to the
Jon Voight is singing his praises for his daughter and granddaughter.
Sir Ian McKellen is reportedly “in good spirits” after taking a fall off the stage during a showing of the Player Kings play in London.Yesterday (June 17), while performing a fight scene at the Noël Coward theater in West End during a performance of Player Kings, McKellen lost his footing and plummeted off stage. According to the BBC, McKellen was rushed to a hospital, while the audience was evacuated from the venue, and the rest of the performance was cancelled.In a statement (per IGN), McKellen’s publicist commented that the veteran actor is expected to make a “speedy and full recovery”.
Last night’s 77th Annual Tony Awards featured some terrific musical performances. We’ve compiled them all, so take a look and decide for yourself which shows should have taken home trophies, and which performance left you most excited about planning a trip to Broadway.
Andrew Rannells delivered unexpected news during his appearance at the 2024 Tony Awards.
Jonathan Groff teared up during his Tony Award speech and it made us a little teary too!
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Sarah Paulson is officially a Tony winner, bringing her halfway to EGOT!
Aaron Lazar is making his first major public appearance since the announcement of his ALS diagnosis.
Jonathan Groff won at the 2024 Tony Awards, and his Merrily We Roll Along co-star couldn’t have been more supportive of him.
Angelina Jolie is halfway to EGOT after winning a Tony Award!
Ariana DeBose helped pay tribute to the late Chita Rivera during the 2024 Tony Awards on SUnday night (June 16) in New York City.
Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance at the 2024 Tony Awards to show support for her musical Suffs, which she produced!
Lexi Carson The boy who lived has won his first Tony Award. At the 77th annual Tony Awards, Daniel Radcliffe won the award for best performance by a featured actor in a musical for “Merrily We Roll Along,” in which he plays Charley Kringas, the lyricist and best friend of Franklin Shepard (played by Jonathan Groff). This was also Radcliffe’s first nomination.
Lexi Carson The third time’s the charm. Jonathan Groff has won his first Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for “Merrily We Roll Along.” Groff played Franklin Shepard alongside Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe who also won his first Tony Award at the 77th Annual Tony Awards, which Groff was also in tears over when Radcliffe thanked him in his speech. Groff’s “Merrily We Roll Along” was his third nomination.
It was a Wicked union between Idina Menzel and Cynthia Erivo as the actresses and singers came together to close out the 2024 Tony Awards.
Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson is now the proud new owner of a Tony, too. The actress best known for her work in the American Horror Story franchise took home the gold Sunday for Best Actress in a Play for her work in Appropriate.“As a young actress I remember seeing Janet McTeer burst on the stage in A Doll’s House in the very theater I am currently living in,” said Paulson about doing Appropriate at the Belasco Theatre in NYC. “And some nights when I’m backstage I think about the indelible impact of her. I think about the walls of theaters all over this magical town holding the impact of each and every one of you in this room, and all of those who came before and I think how lucky those walls are to bear witness to the relentless interrogation of human experience that we endeavor to explore nightly for each other, to give back to one another with the hope of finding some shared path towards the truth about being alive. This is the heart and soul of what we do, and I am so honored to be amongst you.”
Kara Young is a Tony Award winner!
Jeremy Strong is now halfway to EGOT with his win at the 2024 Tony Awards!
It was a big night for Merrily We Roll Along at the 2024 Tony Awards!
Nicole Scherzinger and Jennifer Hudson hit the carpet in contrasting looks while arriving at the 2024 Tony Awards on Sunday (June 16) at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.