Allison Williams is a mom!
06.04.2022 - 01:01 / variety.com
Michael Appler Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson celebrated the Broadway opening for “Take Me Out” on Monday evening in New York at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.A revival of the 2003 Tony-winning best play, headlined by Williams, Ferguson and Patrick J. Adams, “Take Me Out” is the third of 19 new shows that will open this month, continuing the march of star-driven offerings in Broadway’s first regular season since its return after the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Williams, who’s best known for his television role on “Grey’s Anatomy,” makes his Broadway debut with the revival.“I have never done a play before,” he told Variety wryly at the opening night after-party, still buzzing from the rise of a standing ovation. “As a performer, I feel more emotionally evolved than I was a few years back — able and vulnerable and understanding of myself and my feelings.” This was necessary, he said, to play a baseball player with a stunning revelation.
“Take Me Out” tells of fictional MLB star Darren Lemming — Grecian in his godly athletic powers — who comes out as gay to his team, disrupting the dynamics of his clubhouse and exposing searing prejudices among his teammates. His timid, decidedly un-Grecian business manager, Mason, played by Ferguson, becomes an unexpected confidant.
Both gay, they grapple with leaving community to find oneself, in Darren’s case, and finding community from loneliness, in Mason’s.It should shock no one that the revival, directed by nine-time Tony nominee Scott Ellis, is yet painfully contemporary.“If you take this play to many places in the United States, it would be shocking,” Ellis told Variety at the party, held at Yard House. “That’s sort of sad, in a way.
Allison Williams is a mom!
Ellen Pompeo is a supportive of her Grey’s Anatomy co-star Jesse Williams – but she can’t quite see everything he does.
An interesting situation. Ellen Pompeo and Debbie Allen, Grey’s Anatomy mainstays, were eager to support former costar Jesse Williams’ Broadway debut — except they had one concern.
Hallmark Channel has just announced the first of its’ upcoming summer movies for 2022!
Emily Longeretta This year’s “Summer Nights” programming event is officially underway at Hallmark Channel, as production has kicked off on a new movie, “Two Tickets to Paradise.” The film, being shot on location at the iconic Royal Hawaiian Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, stars Ashley Williams, Ryan Paevey and Mary-Margaret Humes.“Two Tickets to Paradise,” an Island Film Group Production, is executive produced by Jason Sallee. Ric Galindez and Roy Tjio are producers on the movie, with Dustin Rikert directing the script by Tracy Andreen and Kevin Taft.Last year, Hallmark Channel premieres six original movies in May and June, including four for its annual “Summer Nights” lineup.
For Colored Girls, Ntozake Shange’s brilliant work isn’t even just a play, but rather a series of monologues that also incorporate music and dance.The show is a modern-seeming musical of sorts, and it’s impressive that it still feels fresh and timely, as it was originally performed in New York in 1976. The title features seven women who have all faced adversity due to sexism and racism, and while everyone should see it, the event is not running very long, just for 20 weeks.A post shared by for colored girls – Broadway (@forcoloredgirlsbroadway) LGBTQ audiences have a lot of reasons to go see Take Me Out.
Maisie Williams grew up onscreen, cast as Arya Stark in “Game of Thrones” when she was just 12, playing the character throughout her adolescent years.
NEW YORK -- Earlier this month, Jesse Tyler Ferguson got a private tour of hallowed ground — Yankee Stadium. He and the cast of the Broadway revival of the baseball-themed “Take Me Out” got to walk on the grass and soak in the silent stands.“I wasn’t expecting to be as moved as I was,” says the “Modern Family” and Broadway star.
transportation, Civil is assigned two rural Alabama girls, India and Erica Williams, who are receiving birth control shots. From the first time Civil sees them she is appalled at their living conditions — did Black people still live in shacks behind their white employers’ houses? — but she begins to fall in love with them, compelling her to help them any way she can.It’s only a few months after Roe v. Wade decided women have a right to abortion.
Some good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.
Jesse Williams is celebrating the opening night of his Broadway show!
“So much of what happened after that is still a blur,” writes Serena Williams in Elle’s adaption from Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers. In the essay, Serena, 40, recalled the complications — and multiple surgeries — that followed the birth of her and husband Alexis Ohanian’s daughter, Olympia. “My husband left—to get food and shower back at the house—and this started a trend in which every time he’d try to leave, I’d wind up back in the operating room,” writes the tennis icon.
It seems Prince Harry’s Prince William birthday invite won’t be going out in the mail anytime soon. The Duke of Cambridge has reportedly decided not to invite his younger brother, or Meghan Markle, to his milestone 40th birthday party over the summer.
Kiely Williams is a new mom once again! The entertainer has welcomed her second child with husband Brandon Cox.Williams, 35, took to Instagram on Tuesday to announce the joyous news, alongside a cute photo of her newborn daughter, sleeping peacefully.Williams captioned the Instagram post simply with the name of her infant child, «Archer.»A post shared by Kiely Williams (@kielywilliams)The post comes after a lengthy absence from social media.