The White Lotus is back for , swapping Maui, Hawaii for Taormina, Sicily. Icon Jennifer Coolidge makes the transatlantic trip to reprise her role as Tanya McQuoid, and we're better off for it.
12.10.2022 - 19:46 / variety.com
Gordon Cox Theater Editor The Tony-winning Broadway revival of “Take Me Out” returns this fall, and Jesse Williams is back with it. In Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play, the “Grey’s Anatomy” actor plays a biracial baseball player who comes out as gay at the height of his career. Why bring “Take Me Out” back to Broadway? We weren’t done. We had a lot more in the tank, and I felt like we were really hitting a new stride. The possibility of coming back was brought up to me before we even finished the first run, and frankly, I didn’t want to do it; I was tired and missed my children. But once I was able to recharge at home, I just kept thinking about the show. I’d find myself running lines in the shower or just doing scenes alone while I was sailing.
How do you feel the racial politics of the play land now, compared to when it was first written 20 years ago? I feel like the words haven’t changed but the audience has — not only in terms of people’s personal experiences, but also our willingness to allow people to be themselves in public and talk about how they want to be treated. Folks are now getting used to those conversations. We’re not there yet, but we’re a couple of sentences into the conversation. How nervous were you about the nudity in the show, and did it get easier as the run went on? There was a pocket of time — maybe a couple months before we came in for rehearsals — when I was thinking about it all the time: “Is it necessary? Maybe there’s some way to do it with an obstruction?” I kicked it around and quickly realized I had to let that nervousness move through me. It’s important for the audience to experience what the characters experience in the shower scenes, which is “Oh shit, what do I do now? Where do I
The White Lotus is back for , swapping Maui, Hawaii for Taormina, Sicily. Icon Jennifer Coolidge makes the transatlantic trip to reprise her role as Tanya McQuoid, and we're better off for it.
UPDATE: Last season’s Tony-winning Broadway production of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out proved so popular that producers made the unusual decision to bring the show back, its cast largely in tact, for some extra innings. Take Me Out begins a 14-week Broadway run today, playing through January 29, 2023. The original cast remains except for one: Bill Heck will replace Patrick J. Adams in the role of Kippy Sunderstrom.
EXCLUSIVE: The Grey’s Anatomy star is joining the cast of 20th/Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building in the recurring role of a documentarian with a particular interest in the case that Selena Gomez’s Mabel Mora, Steve Martin’s Charles Haden-Savage and Martin Short’s Oliver Putnam are working on.
Jessica Chastain regrets not thanking Robin Williams in person for paying for her college education. The Oscar-winning actress was awarded a scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York City in the late '90s, with the grant funded by the actor/comedian. Reflecting on the importance of the scholarship during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Monday, Jessica noted that the funding changed her life.
Amy Schumer is one proud mom. ET’s Rachel Smith spoke to the 41-year-old comedian at the premiere of “Inside Amy Schumer” in New York City on Tuesday, and she gave a sweet update on her 3-year-old son, Gene, whom she shares with her husband, Chris Fischer.
Amy Schumer is one proud mom. ET's Rachel Smith spoke to the 41-year-old comedian at the premiere of in New York City on Tuesday, and she gave a sweet update on her 3-year-old son, Gene, whom she shares with her husband, Chris Fischer. «I can't. I can't handle it.
.Jesse Williams will return in season 19 to guest star in the fifth episode, which he also directed, ET can confirm. The episode, titled «When I Get to the Border,» airs Thursday, Nov.
will reprise their roles in a limited 14-week run at New York City’s Schoenfeld Theatre starting Oct. 27.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Jesse Williams and the company of “Take Me Out” are especially grateful to the plumbing on Broadway. Without hot water flowing through the pipes at the Schonfeld Theatre, the infamous locker room scenes in the Tony-winning revival would be even more daunting to the actors who bare it all on stage. Initially, Williams jokes, the cold water that cascaded out of the showers posed a unique issue. “[The water] has to get pushed through the pipes. When it first comes out, it’s not friendly,” he says.“You’ve all seen ‘Seinfeld’… shrinkage.” Though it’s prompted plenty of chatter, the two scenes that feature the fully naked men aren’t meant to sensationalize, but rather to put the fragility of hyper-masculine egos on display.
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Williams is returning as director and guest star in the fifth episode of the medical drama’s upcoming 19th season, reprising his role as Dr. Jackson Avery. Airing Nov. 3 and titled “When I Get to the Border,” it will be the fourth episode of the show that Williams has directed.
Jon Burlingame editor The centennial of Henry Mancini, composer of “The Pink Panther,” “Moon River” and other movie songs, isn’t until 2024. But the celebration began on Thursday when an all-star parade of Oscar, Emmy and Grammy-winning musicians got together to re-record one of his most famous works: “Peter Gunn.” With legendary composers John Williams and Herbie Hancock on keyboards, jazz great Arturo Sandoval on trumpet and music mogul Quincy Jones conducting an 18-piece band of L.A. session players, Mancini’s 1958 TV theme rocked the Warner Bros. scoring stage all afternoon. It was old home week for many, who seemingly spent half the three-hour session embracing, laughing and snapping photos. Williams and Jones called each other “Q” and “John T.,” the nicknames they had when the two were toiling side-by-side at Universal Television in the 1960s, before each started collecting Oscars and Grammys for their work in films and records.
Gordon Cox Theater Editor Each year, Variety compiles a list of Broadway stars on the rise. This year, Variety fill fete this round-up of stage actors, directors and writers at its Business of Broadway Breakfast presented by City National Bank will take place on Oct.
Jesse Williams isn’t keeping up with Grey’s Anatomy.