‘Summer, 1976’ Broadway Review: Laura Linney & Jessica Hecht Summon A Haunting Friendship

Material girl! Jessica Simpson went all out for daughter Maxwell’s 11th birthday.   

Jessica Simpson has publicly addressed her father’s private health battle for the first time, sharing her daughter’s heartfelt request.

Jessica Simpson has revealed her father Joe Simpson has been battling bone cancer. Taking to Instagram on Saturday, the I Wanna Love You Forever singer posted an emotional message in which she offered details of her and her husband Eric Johnson's daughter Maxwell's 11th birthday on 1 May. As part of the caption, Jessica shared that her eldest child's only wish for her special day was that her grandfather would make a full recovery.

Jessica Simpson’s eldest daughter had only one wish for her birthday this year…

Jessica Simpson is reveling in all the great news her family has received in the past several days, including an update on her father Joe Simpson's bone cancer prognosis.  Taking to her Instagram to celebrate the 11th birthday of her firstborn, daughter Maxwell (Maxi) Drew, Simpson described the wish her child made while blowing out her candles. "She told me after she blew out HER 11 candles…'I made a wish that was for me and you and actually the whole family,'" Simpson wrote alongside a picture of her daughter lifting her in the air. Three days after her party took place, Simpson says her daughter overheard her reading a text message she had received from her father, Joe Simpson, prompting the birthday girl to share her wish with extended family.

Jessica Simpson's father Joe has bone cancer. The 42-year-old star revealed her dad Joe, 65, had been having treatment for the disease but treatment has been successful. In an Instagram post for her daughter Maxwell's 11th birthday, Jessica explained that Maxwell used her birthday wish to ask for Joe's treatment to work and the wish came true.

The stars of Broadway’s Tony-nominated plays stepped out for the Meet the Nominees press event!

Jessica Alba attended the Knicks playoff game at Madison Square Garden, instantly going viral. The actress and businesswoman was at the front row, looking stunning in a snakeskin jacket.Jessica Alba channels 50s glamour in black minidress at Balmain fashion show in ParisJessica Alba says motherhood stopped her from ‘living in survival mode’Jessica Alba celebrates Earth month by sharing an adorable photo with her sonAll I’m saying is if I was playing in front of Jessica Alba at the Garden I would’ve dropped 50 pic.twitter.com/P8GfpT6GzzAlba’s moment was captured on various videos, with people all over Twitter sharing their thoughts, particularly how stunning Alba looks.

British actress Jodie Comer has earned her first Tony Award nomination for Broadway debut Prima Facie.The Killing Eve star, 30, is nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for her role as Tessa in the one-person production by playwright Suzie Miller.The production, about a British defence lawyer who ends up in the witness box, secured four Tony Award nominations in total, including for best scenic design, best lighting design and best sound in a play. After receiving critical acclaim for her West End debut at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, which included winning best actress at the 2023 Olivier Awards, Comer took the play to the John Golden Theatre on Broadway in April which will run until July.

announced, and Broadway’s corniest new musical picked up nine including Best Musical — tying “& Juliet” and “New York, New York” for the second-most nominated show of the year. What’s the musical, you’re wondering? “Shucked.” What’s it about? Ask any cast member or audience member alike and they’ll tell you the same thing.

2023 Tony Awards.And now that all 27 nominated productions have been announced for the 76th annual Tonys, it’s time to see them all live — well, the 16 shows that are still running as of now which feature stars nominated for the first time like Jessica Chastain, Josh Groban and Jodie Comer — on the Great White Way before theater’s biggest night of the year.To make your life easy, we’ve compiled a list of all the shows from the most nominated — this year, the musical adaptation of “Some Like It Hot” led the way with 13 nods — to the least that only nabbed a single selection like the buzzy “Summer, 1976.”Best of all, we found tickets for all 16 shows that are still running as of now.Want to go to a show in person so you’re in the know come awards night?Keep reading, dramaphiles.We’ve got all the details you need below.13 nominations include Best New Musical, Christian Borle and J.

Some of the biggest names of Broadway (and Hollywood) won’t be receiving those phone calls of congratulations today, as this morning’s Tony Awards nominations included more than a few surprising (or, in some cases, not surprising) omissions.

The biggest stars currently on Broadway were all at the 2023 Met Gala!

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Ain’t No Mo, Cost of Living, Leopoldstadt, Good Night, Oscar, and now, The Thanksgiving Play (★★★★★), a dark and devilish satire by Larissa FastHorse.While gratitude should be a reflection and practice we incorporate into our daily lives, it is a virtue most closely associated with the fourth Thursday of November. That’s when we gather with friends and family, stuff ourselves silly with turkey, watch football, and fall asleep on the couch — all in the name of a long-perpetuated myth.FastHorse is having none of it.

Life of Pi leaves audiences in a state of wonder. Not only one that is spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual (more on that later), but one that is more practical. One that forces us to question why other producers sell ticket buyers short when it comes to delivering a quality product on Broadway.

Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you’ve seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who once played Carnegie Hall might tutor a young Holocaust refugee to a Julliard scholarship, and breezy jam sessions do away with generations of friction between races, genders and sexual identities. You’d go there, right?

“Summer, 1976” this spring and summer.The co-leads, Jessica Hecht (Gretchen Schwartz on “Breaking Bad”) and Laura Linney (Wendy Byrde on “Ozark”) just debuted their new minimalist production about two long-time friends in Ohio at the Samuel J.

Frank Rizzo Friends come and go. Some stay throughout our lives while others, however significant for a time, fade into the haze of memory yet always linger within us. In “Summer, 1976,” the new Broadway play by David Auburn (“Proof”) about a short-yet-significant friendship, Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht — two of the most accomplished and compelling actors around — create a pair of indelible characters looking back at their brief relationship during a long-ago season. (The title tells you exactly when.) Sure to have future life on other stages, the play is an insightful and engaging two-hander that will have audiences pondering the nature of friendship, the values we place on it, and even how well we really know each other.

Summer, 1976,” which opened Tuesday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, generously provides — featuring the indomitable Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht.Not that you’re outside — even if Japhy Weideman’s sparkling lights warmly make you feel like you are — or that the show is all smiles. One hour and 30 minutes with no intermission.