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Emilia Clarke is a survivor. The actress is looking back at the frightening medical emergencies she suffered while filming “Game of Thrones”.

Two hours and 30 minutes. At the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 150 West 65th Street.When Steve Carell emerges from behind a bench onstage at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, the crowd giggles automatically at the “Office” star.Now playing the hapless title role in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” the revival of which opened Wednesday night on Broadway, the actor’s presence gets laughs before he does much of anything.

Trish Deitch Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater’s starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, the year the play was written. There’s a baseball cap and a backpack with dayglow tape; pills are in plastic bottles with childproof caps; when someone runs out of ink while paying bills, they look for a new pen.

Naman Ramachandran “Sunset Boulevard” dominated the 2024 Olivier Awards with seven wins, including best actor and actress in a musical for its leading duo Tom Francis and Nicole Scherzinger. Jamie Lloyd won the Sir Peter Hall Award for best director and the show also won best musical revival.

Brent Lang Executive Editor With his victory on Monday at the Critics’ Circle Theatre awards, Andrew Scott has made history. The British performer, recognized as best actor for his one-man West End show, “Vanya,” previously was named best actor at the 2024 Critics’ Circle Film Awards for his performance in “All of Us Strangers.” He’s the first person to win lead actor Critics’ Circle prizes in both film and television in the same year. “It’s a thrilling delight,” Scott says.

“Cabaret” (starts April 1). I caught Redmayne when he played the role in London, and found his Evil Clown turn menacing.

Ed Meza @edmezavar Filmax has acquired international rights to Spanish thriller “Nina,” the new feature written and directed by Andrea Jaurrieta (“Ana by Day”) that bows at this week’s Málaga Film Festival as one of its higher profile titles in main competition. Loosely based on the play of the same name by José Ramón Fernández, which borrows elements of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” “Nina” tells the story of a woman, an actress, who returns to her home town on Spain’s rugged northern coast seeking to take revenge on a celebrated writer.

“Uncle Vanya” at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.Carell, 61, stars as the titular Uncle Vanya with previews starting Tuesday, April 2 and running all the way until closing night on Sunday, June 16.Other big names round out the ensemble.He’ll be joined by familiar faces Alfred Molina (“Spiderman 2”), William Jackson Harper (“The Good Place”), Alison Pill (“Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World”), Jayne Houdyshell (“Only Murders In The Building”) and Anika Noni Rose (“The Princess and the Frog”).For those unfamiliar with the story, “Uncle Vanya” tells the tale of Sonya (Pill) and her uncle Vanya managing the family farm by themselves.

Cheers and Sexy And The City, has died at her home in New York at the age of 93.Her son, John Carlin, confirmed her death on Instagram, writing: “Frannie. Mom.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut playing the title character in a revival of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” The production, which will be performed at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, will begin previews April 2, 2024, and open on April 24, 2024. It promises to be a starry affair. The cast boasts William Jackson Harper (“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”) as Astrov and Alfred Molina (“Spider-Man: No Way Home”) as Alexander Serabryakov.

Steve Carell is set to make his Broadway debut!

To this Turkish critic, Nuri Bilge Ceylan is our Mike Leigh and Anton Chekhov in one, with multilayered characters of social and political complexities engaging through dialogue lines that feel both off-the-cuff and studiously planned in their lavish rhythms. Ceylan is also a master of luxuriously slow cinema with a recognizable visual style, haunting, minimalistic and sneakily riveting across textured, widescreen pastoral scenes and dimly-lit interiors that evolve with peerless patience.Written by Ceylan, Akin Aksu and Ebru Ceylan, his latest stunner “About Dry Grasses”—Ceylan’s best feature since “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”—flutters with all these pictorial qualities and emotional dispositions.

Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough, 2 September-1 October. At the National Theatre in 2019, Inua Ellams adapted Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, transposing its drama to the Biafran war with virtuosity. Now he turns to Sophoclean tragedy with this play in the Theban cycle about rebel children, tyrant kings and divine interventions.

Emilia Clarke is speaking out again about dealing with two brain aneurysms while working on HBO show Game of Thrones. The actress revealed in 2019 in an article she wrote for the New Yorker on how she survived the life-threatening aneurysms in 2011, and 2014.

Emilia Clarke is a survivor. The actress is looking back at the frightening medical emergencies she suffered while filming The actress recently opened up to — while promoting her forthcoming West End debut in a production of Anton Chekhov’s and she looked back at her experience dealing with two brain aneurysms, first in 2011 and then in 2013«It was the most excruciating pain,» Clarke shared, adding that it was «incredibly helpful to have sweep me up and give me that purpose.»Both times Clarke dealt with her brain aneurysms, she required significant recovery time.

J. Kim Murphy Emilia Clarke has opened up about her experience surviving two brain aneurysms, expressing gratitude that she has been able to recover after losing “quite a bit” of the organ.Clarke recalled her health troubles during an interview with the BBC’s Sunday Morning, in which she promoted her production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” at the Harold Pinter Theater.

Emilia Clarke is celebrating the opening night of her West End play The Seagull!

Zack Sharf Emilia Clarke is making her West End stage debut playing Nina in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” a production that was originally set to launch in  March 2020 but was got suspended after four preview performances because of the pandemic. Now Clarke is finally taking the stage, and she’s surely hoping it goes better than her 2013 Broadway debut in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” The “Game of Thrones” favorite recently told the BBC that her debut was a “catastrophic failure” she wasn’t ready for.Clarke was two years into her “Game of Thrones” fame when she tackled Broadway for the first time as Holly Golightly opposite Cory Michael Smith as Fred and George Wendt as Joe Bell in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Her performance was widely panned. The New York Times said Clarke acted like “an under-age debutante trying very, very hard to pass for a sophisticated grown-up,” while Variety wrote that her performance “won’t make Broadway audiences forget” Audrey Hepburn’s iconic turn in the film adaptation.

Emmerdale fans have seen an unexpected arrival take to the screens in the shape of Marcus Dean. Son of soap villain Pierce Harris, Marcus has arrived in search of his criminal father’s ex-wife Rhona Goskirk. With Marcus and Rhona struggling to get hold of one another after Vanessa pretended to be Rhona, fans are eager to find out how the storyline unfolds.

Jodhi May, who plays the role of Queen Calanthe in Netflix's The Witcher fantasy series, has signed with APA. May will next be seen in director Steve McQueen’s Amazon original miniseries Small Axe.

By Manori Ravindran

Veteran actor Brian Dennehy, known for roles in "Rambo: First Blood," "Tommy Boy" and "To Catch A Killer," died Wednesday at age 81. The burly actor started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller.

By Denise Petski

Game of Thrones and Last Christmas starEmilia Clarke is making her West End debut next year.