Luann de Lesseps is weighing in on the forthcoming Real Housewives of New York reboot.
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NEW YORK -- During the pandemic, people have made a lot of noise about nurses, cheering them on and banging pots and pans. But have we really listened to them?Rank-and-file nurses are getting a chance to talk about how they've navigated the last few harrowing years as part of a theater project that is hosting a free Zoom reading of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old play “Antigone.”The social-justice troupe Theater of War Productions hopes the play — about a young woman who puts everything on the line to do what she believes is right — can spark a lively, post-reading online discussion by invited nurses about their profession.“I’ve been a nurse for decades, and I’ve never seen the kind of suffering of my profession as I’ve seen during COVID,” says Dr.
Cynda Rushton, a professor of nursing at Johns Hopkins University and a lead consultant on the project. “One goal is to be able to give voice to the experience of nurses during this time as we try to think about how do we move forward.”“The Nurse Antigone” premieres Thursday with performances by “The Handmaid’s Tale” writer Margaret Atwood, actors Tracie Thoms, Taylor Schilling, Ato Blankson-Wood and Bill Camp, and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.Nurses will perform the chorus and more nurses and health care professionals have been invited to discuss the play after its conclusion.
Audience members are asked to register ahead.“We’re trying to seed the ground so that the focus of both the performance and the discussion is on really the moral suffering of nurses,” says Bryan Doerries, the artistic director. “Our model isn’t about fixing meaning or interpretation to the play in advance.
Luann de Lesseps is weighing in on the forthcoming Real Housewives of New York reboot.
Hope Solo was arrested on Thursday in North Carolina, according to a police statement given to HollywoodLife by the Winston-Salem Police Department. Officers with the department cuffed the retired soccer star “in the parking lot of a business located at 3475 Parkway Village Circle in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.” Hope (aka Hope Amelia Stevens, 40) was charged with Impaired Driving (DWI), Resisting Arrest, and misdemeanor Child Abuse. The latter charge was due to Hope, who is married to former NFL tight end Jerramy Stevens, having her and Jerramy’s twins – 2-year-old Lozen and Vitto – in the car with her at the time of the alleged DWI.
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Murphy and Plan B have set a second installment of their FX anthology series Feud. Titled Capote’s Women, the project will star two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts as Babe Paley who ruled the glamorous world of New York society in the 1960s and 70s. Two-time Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant is set to direct all eight episodes, with Tony and Pulitzer-nominated Jon Robin Baitz, who put together the high-profile package, writing all episodes and serving as showrunner.
NEW YORK -- Korean pop star Luna is ready to make her Broadway debut this fall in the musical "KPOP" and she's already dreaming of who might be there on opening night — like BTS.“I would be thankful if they showed up on opening night,” Luna told The Associated Press through her translator.She also wants fans and other stars to show up, too.“This is New York City, it’s got its own celebrities and also audiences who would enjoy this. So, I would love to see New York celebrities, as well as Hollywood celebrities,” Luna said.Luna was introduced at a press event for the musical Wednesday at the Korean Cultural Center in New York.Luna began her musical career as a member of the popular K-pop group f(x) before becoming a solo artist.
interview with the Director’s Guild of America, he explained that his stories were never about broad-scale events but always focused on the individual families at their core. In the same interview, he even recounted a story while filming “Holocaust” about instructing a group of extras on how they would be killed by Nazi forces in the concentration camps, only for a cameraman to push back and suggest that the scene was embellished and invented for the movie.
Former Food Network host and celebrity chef David Ruggerio has come out with a startling revelation – he had a secret life as a made man in the mafia, participating in several murders, drug dealing, extortion, fraud and other crimes.
Sasha Urban editorScoey Mitchell, the actor best known for his work on the one-season run of the sitcom “Barefoot in the Park,” died on March 19 in Torrance, Calif., his brother, Billy Mitchell, confirmed to Variety. He was 92.In a Facebook post Monday, Mitchell’s brother wrote, “He sacrificed much in the struggle to get Blacks behind the camera, into production and into positions that are taken for granted today.
A world premiere musical stage adaptation that reimagines the hit 1983 Eddie Murphy-Dan Aykroyd comedy Trading Places has cast Freestyle Love Supreme‘s Aneesa Folds in the role that made Murphy a Hollywood superstar, with Bryce Pinkham (Broadway’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) in the Aykroyd spot.
NYPD Blue alum Jimmy Smits is returning to the cop drama beat, signing on as the male lead opposite Amanda Warren in the CBS hourlong pilot East New York.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Nathan Lane has long been a master shapeshifter on theater and television. From donning garish red suits on “The Producers” to South Beach drag fabulosity on “The Birdcage” and personifying a sly and slim meerkat on “The Lion King,” Lane is always eye-catching, in a multitude of ways.
Written by “Hand of God” screenwriter Ben Watkins and adapted from the New York Times article of the same name by Janet Reitman, “I Helped Destroy People” will see Abdul-Mateen play Terry Albury, the FBI’s only Black agent in its Minneapolis field office and a firsthand witness to the racist and xenophobic practices of his colleagues and superiors.After the 9/11 attacks, Albury became the only Black agent involved in a surveillance program of Muslim and immigrant communities. Frustrated by the corruption in his office, Albury leaked documents about the surveillance program to The Intercept, leading to the Trump Administration arresting him on charges of violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek has become a household name. But did you know his girlfriend Lucy Boynton is also a huge star? MORE: The Ipress Cress File: all you need to know about the book, TV show and moreThe actress, who is currently starring in ITV's The Ipcress File, met Rami on the set of the 2018 film when she played his on-screen wife.
Luann de Lesseps is owning up to her actions.
Gallery: Ghosts, poltergeists and spirits! You'll never believe which stars have had SUPERNATURAL experiences! (BANG Showbiz)According to The New York Post's Page Six column, Luann had been performing her song 'Money Can’t Buy You Class', and allegedly told one of the people who booed her, "f*** you”, before reportedly being ejected from the bar. Following the incident earlier this week, Luann said via a spokesperson: “I got up and sang a few Broadway songs they were playing. “I realise I was a little bit tipsy, but we were having fun, and it was getting late.
Luann de Lesseps is making amends for a “regrettable incident” that occurred on Wednesday night (March 16) at The Townhouse in the Big Apple. The Real Housewives of New York star, 56, took to her Instagram the following Saturday to apologize for her drunken behavior at the piano bar that reportedly got her kicked out. “This week, after a regrettable incident I was faced with the truth,” Luann began. “I want to apologize to the staff at Townhouse and anyone else I may have offended by my behavior.”
Luann de Lesseps is apologizing.
Luann de Lesseps is setting the record straight.