EXCLUSIVE Ozark actor McKinley Belcher III will join the cast of Broadway’s upcoming Death of a Salesman revival starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke this fall, producers announced today.
EXCLUSIVE Ozark actor McKinley Belcher III will join the cast of Broadway’s upcoming Death of a Salesman revival starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke this fall, producers announced today.
Company, and Rodin, who performs it in the production now at the Kennedy Center, refers to it as a “rollercoaster.”Company debuted on Broadway in 1970 with music and lyrics by Sondheim and a book by George Firth. Director Marianne Elliott conceived of this production before the pandemic as a way to mark the musical’s 50th anniversary.Collaborating on the work with Sondheim until his death at the end of 2021, Elliott’s idea was to adapt the work to focus on Bobbie — a single woman whose 35th birthday is more cause for angst than celebration — rather than the original’s Bobby, a 35-year-old single man confronting the same anxiety.All of the lead character’s friends and lovers also swapped genders in the adaptation except for Paul, who is now the financé of Jamie (replacing the original character of Amy), the role played by Rodin.Company is the 31-year-old actor’s biggest show yet.
Ed Meza @edmezavar Berlin-based DCM Film Distribution has acquired Kristoffer Borgli’s surrealist comedy “Dream Scenario,” starring Nicolas Cage. In the A24 satire, which premiered in Toronto before opening this year’s Zurich Film Festival, Cage plays a college professor whose life is turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. “We love ‘Dream Scenario,’” says Carl Rickmers, DCM’s newly appointed director of film acquisitions and sales.
EXCLUSIVE: Ted Lasso star James Lance and Hermione Norris (Cold Feet, Between Two Worlds) have joined Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs in the feature adaptation of Raynor Winn’s inspirational bestselling memoir The Salt Path.
Sinatra, The Musical has cast Tony Award-winning actor-singer Matt Doyle as Frank Sinatra in the world premiere production of the musical bearing Ol’ Blue Eyes’ name, to be staged at Birmingham Rep in Birmingham, England, from September 23 through October 28.
EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Anderson and Jason Issacs will star in the film adaptation of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path. Marianne Elliott, the Tony Award and Olivier Award winning theater artist, is to make her screen directing debut on the project which will be a nice one in the Cannes market for Rocket Science. Black Bear has already snapped up UK rights.
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes, the Oscar and Tony award-winning director, has chosen three London theater stars – Michael Balogun (National Theatre Live: Death of England-Delroy), Hadley Fraser (Donmar Theatre’s Coriolanus), and Nigel Lindsay (Chichester Festival Theatre’s Woman In Mind) to bring his much-garlanded production of The Lehman Trilogy back into the West End. That’s following triumphant runs at the UK’s National Theatre, the Park Avenue Armory, and Broadway, and a phenomenal 16-week, sold-out run at London’s Piccadilly Theatre in 2019.
The Tony Award-winning revival of Company will play its final Broadway performance at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Sunday, July 31, producers said in a surprise announcement today.
Matt Doyle is now a Tony winner!
Editors Note: Company, the beloved 1970 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, has long been thought by many theater aficionados as, if not a perfect work, at least unimprovable, a masterwork in an unparalleled catalogue.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterArthur Miller’s classic play “Death of a Salesman” is returning to Broadway this fall.“The Wire” actor Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke (a current Tony nominee for “Caroline, or Change”) will reprise their roles as Willy and Linda Loman in the revival, which will be told for the first time on Broadway from the perspective of an African American family. “Death of a Salesman” will run at the Hudson Theatre for only 17 weeks, starting on Sept.
EXCLUSIVE: The acclaimed Young Vic/West End revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke will begin previews on Sept. 19 at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, producers announced today.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMatt Doyle still can’t believe what’s been happening to him lately.A New York City theater actor for about 16 years, he’s now a first-time Tony nominee for his work as Jamie in director Marianne Elliott’s reimagining of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.” Doyle has become quite close with Patti LuPone, the Broadway legend who plays Joanne in the revival and is also nominated for her work.“I don’t think there will ever be anything more profound in my life, and I’m very comfortable with that,” Doyle, 35, tells me during a phone interview a couple of hours before a recent Wednesday night performance. “And what we’ve been able to do? We’ve brought the show back after a pandemic, we’ve lived through Stephen Sondheim’s death, I’m doing this with Patti LuPone.
New York’s Drama League named A Strange Loop as the season’s outstanding musical, with The Lehman Trilogy taking the honor for outstanding play.
If you’ve seen that viral video of Patti LuPone this week, you’re going to appreciate these new photos.
Naman Ramachandran Joel Harper-Jackson made his debut as a leading man in London’s West End in dramatic circumstances when Taron Egerton fainted on stage during the first preview of stage play “Cock.”Harper-Jackson had signed up as an understudy to both leads, “Rocketman” and “Kingsman” star Egerton and “Bridgerton” actor Jonathan Bailey, and had learned both parts. The understudies, who have their own dressing room, were listening to the stage feed on speakers. But all of a sudden, some 75 minutes into the 105-minute show, “there was a silence, and we were all puzzled as to what was happening,” Harper-Jackson tells Variety.After some moments of confusion, the understudies were informed that Egerton had fainted, but that he was fine.
The critically acclaimed West End revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke will be produced on Broadway next season, producers have announced.
Sasha Urban editorNikki Renée Daniels has been performing on Broadway for 22 years, but she’s never received entrance applause. That is until Wednesday, when she became the first Black actor to play the lead role in the musical “Company” on Broadway.“And then in the quiet, I sat down in a chair and someone yelled, ‘You got this, queen!” Daniels told Variety.
Taron Egerton has stepped down from his lead role in a West End play due to 'personal reasons'.The actor, 32, had been among the cast of the revival of the stage play Cock at the Ambassador Theatre in London, which also includes Bridgerton actor Jonathan Bailey. It’s been announced that Taron, who was playing the character M, has left the show due to "personal reasons", with his understudy taking over full-time for the rest of its run.
Taron Egerton is bowing out of a production in London’s West End earlier than planned.
Taron Egerton has dropped out of the West End play Cock, less than a month after performances began.
David Benedict John is desperate: “It’s not a competition. Please, please it mustn’t be that.” Cue his girlfriend’s snapped retort: “Then what is it really?” Good question.
Independent. The “Kingsman” star’s understudy, Joel Harper-Jackson, stepped up and concluded the last 15 minutes of the show.The play’s director, Marianne Elliott, then took the stage to tell audiences that Egerton was “absolutely fine” after he rested and had a 40-minute break.Egerton assured his fans that he was OK in a post to his Instagram Stories on Sunday.
J. Kim Murphy Taron Egerton has offered an update after collapsing on stage during the first performance of “Cock,” a revival being produced at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.During Saturday evening’s performance of “Cock,” Egerton collapsed on-stage about three-fourths through the production. The play was halted and the actor was unable to complete the show.
Taron Egerton is «completely fine» after passing out during his first performance of his new play, , at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on Saturday night.The 32-year-old actor took to his Instagram Story to address the incident, sharing they he'd be back in action for Sunday night's show.«As some of you may have heard, I passed out during the first performance of COCK last night,» he began. «I am completely fine.
The opening night of Taron Egerton’s new play didn’t go so well.
On the mend. After fainting in the middle of his theatrical performance, Taron Egerton issued a statement about how he’s feeling.
Rocketman and Kingsman star Taron Egerton was unable to finish his Saturday night performance of the new play, Cock, collapsing in the middle of its first show at the Ambassadors Theatre in London..
Taron Egerton has shared an update with fans after it was revealed he collapsed on stage during the opening night of his new theatre show. Rocketman actor Taron, 32, shared a statement on his Instagram page to reassure fans following reports he passed out on stage at the Ambassadors Theatre in Leicester Square on Saturday evening.
The opening night of Taron Egerton’s new play didn’t go so well.
Opening night of Taron Egerton‘s play did not go as expected.
Michael Appler Patti LuPone took her seat on the stage of the Bernard B.
who died last month, is the best musical about New York City ever written.2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Bernard B.
If there’s a better, more vital way to honor the late, incomparable Stephen Sondheim than Marianne Elliott’s superb production of Company, Broadway hasn’t invented it. This gorgeous revival of the Sondheim-George Furth masterwork at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is, from across-the-board excellent performances and thoughtful revisions to the visual delight of a lovely and ingeniously clever set design, a gift both to and from the genius we lost last month.
Naveen Kumar Half a century has passed since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth first dazzled Broadway with “Company,” their tartly astute 1970 musical about a single Manhattanite dogged by coupled friends to meet a mate.
Gordon Cox Theater EditorThe cast of the new Broadway revival of “Company” was in the middle of a two-show Friday on Thanksgiving weekend when they heard the news that the musical’s legendary composer, Stephen Sondheim, had died at the age of 91.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:Because the “Company” ensemble had worked with and gotten to know Sondheim — he had been at the production’s first preview just a few days before — the show’s Tony-winning director, Marianne Elliott (“War
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