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Jordan Moreau Steven Spielberg will direct a coming-of-age movie that is loosely based on his own childhood growing up in Arizona. Michelle Williams is in talks to star in the untitled film in a major role.Spielberg co-wrote the script with Tony Kushner, who penned “Munich,” “Lincoln” and “West Side Story” for the director.

Mike Nichols had been a guest at Mark Harris' wedding to writer Tony Kushner, and the couple had dined with the filmmaker many times since Nichols directed the 2003 HBO adaptation of Kushner's play Angels in America. But when Harris' book publisher, Penguin Press, approached the journalist and author to write a biography of Nichols after the director's death, "I knew that there was a ton I didn't know," Harris says.

t’s a collaboration that was decades in the making.  George C. Wolfe, who has helped bring the words of everyone from Tony Kushner to Nora Ephron to life in acclaimed productions, says it was in the mid-1990s when playwright August Wilson first raised the prospect of working with him.“He said, ‘I want you to direct one of my plays,’” Wolfe recalls.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Roundabout Theatre Company says it will resume production in Fall 2021 with two much anticipated shows – the COVID-delayed Jeanine Tesori/Tony Kushner musical Caroline, Or Change and Alice Childress’ Trouble In Mind. The planned musical revival of 1776 will now begin performances in Spring 2022.The nonprofit theater company does not have a date for its postponed production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing.

Angels in America — Photo: amfARBroadway may be shut down but that doesn’t mean the curtains are closed for good. Those craving a taste of what the American stage has to offer in quarantine can find it on October 8th, with a free virtual screening of Angels In America streaming for free on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel.The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America is a sixty-minute collection of seven scenes from Tony Kushner‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

Glenn Close, the Tony Award winner and seven-time Oscar nominee, will play powerful New York lawyer Roy Cohn in a charity reading of scenes from the play “Angels in America.” For contrast, Al Pacino won an Emmy for playing Cohn in HBO’s “Angels” miniseries in 2003.The hourlong, taped show, which benefits AMFAR, will be streamed on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel at 8:30 p.m.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAn all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, benefiting amFAR’s COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play performed by, among others, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree Henry, Paul Dano, Andrew Rannells and Slave Play playwright Jeremy O.

Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” has been bumped a year from Dec. 18 of this year until Dec.

“West Side Story” is getting more representational.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, or Change and the New York premiere of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing are the latest productions to announce postponements until 2021, and they’ll be joined on the Roundabout Theatre Company line-up with the Broadway debut of Alice Childress’ 1955 play Trouble in Mind, to directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.The postponements – plans to open both Caroline, Or

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that the upcoming productions of the musical Caroline, or Change and the play Birthday Candles will be pushed back to the fall.

By Greg Evans

Broadway producer Margo Lion, who helped bring the Tony Award-winning musicals Jelly’s Last Jam and Hairspray to the stage and also worked on Tony Kushner’s two-part classic Angels in America, has died at age 75. Her son, Matthew Nemeth, told The Associated Press that she died at a Manhattan hospital days after suffering a brain aneurysm.A Baltimore native, Lion was a proud independent producer who sometimes offered personal possessions as collateral in her determination to stage a show.

Broadway producer Margo Lion, who helped bring the Tony Award-winning musicals Jelly's Last Jam and Hairspray to the stage and also worked on Tony Kushner's two-part classic Angels in America, has died at age 75. Her son, Matthew Nemeth, told The Associated Press that she died at a Manhattan hospital days after suffering a brain aneurysm.A Baltimore native, Lion was a proud independent producer who sometimes offered personal possessions as collateral in her determination to stage a show.