Giving the fans what they want! Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew will be coming back to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital following their individual exits from Grey’s Anatomy.
05.04.2022 - 04:15 / variety.com
Frank Rizzo Public and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg’s “Take Me Out,” his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is receiving a starry and satisfying Second Stage revival at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway.It’s been 20 years since the play first stunned audiences with its rich writing, provocative themes and a locker room full of naked men. (And still an active major league player has yet to step up to the bat and come out as gay.)Directed by Scott Ellis, this revival, too, is a solid hit, despite a few grounding errors.
It should also prove to be popular for all market segments, especially with its triple-play of television favorites: two who are taking their Broadway bows for the first time, along with a beloved stage veteran. Jesse Williams, a popular star of “Grey’s Anatomy,” is impressive as the embodiment of charisma and cool, Darren Lemming, a biracial, superstar hitter of the New York Empires (read Yankees).
When the seemingly self-assured, Teflon-coated slugger nonchalantly announces he is gay, it sets in motion a series of events that ultimately reveal more than the players imagined about themselves.The storyline moves forward — and sometimes effectively backward — with narration by erudite teammate Kippy Sunderstrom (a personable Patrick J. Adams of TV’s “Suits,” who makes the most of the wry and observant shortstop).But it’s the arrival of Darren’s new, nebbishy money manager, Mason Marzac (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) — a lonely, sports-averse, older gay man who gets swept up in the glory of the game — that elevates the play to a league of its own, giving it both heart and soul.Mason is a stand-in not only for Greenberg but for any
.Giving the fans what they want! Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew will be coming back to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital following their individual exits from Grey’s Anatomy.
Jackson and April are checking back into “Grey’s Anatomy”.
Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew will be returning to the ABC medical drama for a special guest appearance on the season 18 finale airing May 26, ET can confirm. This marks the first time Williams and Drew will be back on in more than a year when they last appeared.While details regarding their return is being kept close to the vest, the duo's united front can only lead to speculation that Jackson and April's reappearance will serve as an update of sorts for viewers.Drew returned for an episode last season to help Williams wrap up his storyline in a satisfying way as he left the show after 12 seasons. Back in February, Williams was open to the idea of returning to “I’d consider it,” he said while promoting his Broadway debut in the revival of .
Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are coming back to Grey’s Anatomy!
Japril fans, this one is for you! Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are returning to “Grey’s Anatomy” to reprise their roles as Jackson Avery and April Kepner for the Season 18 finale, TheWrap confirms. The episode will air on May 26. We last saw Japril together during Season 17, when Williams departed the series after 12 years.
Kate Aurthur editorThe once-and-future “Grey’s Anatomy” super couple of Jackson and April — played by Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew — are set to appear on the finale of the medical drama’s 18th season on May 26, Variety has confirmed.Williams left “Grey’s Anatomy” last season, having played Jackson since the show’s sixth season. Drew, who’d departed the show in 2018, returned for a guest appearance in May 2021 to send Jackson off to his new life in Boston, where he was taking over his family’s foundation.
Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are coming back to Grey’s Anatomy!
EXCLUSIVE: Japril will be back on Grey’s Anatomy. Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are set to reprise their roles as Jackson and April in the Season 18 finale of the ABC medical drama, which airs May 26.
Ellen Pompeo is a supportive of her Grey’s Anatomy co-star Jesse Williams – but she can’t quite see everything he does.
An interesting situation. Ellen Pompeo and Debbie Allen, Grey’s Anatomy mainstays, were eager to support former costar Jesse Williams’ Broadway debut — except they had one concern.
Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticMommas, don’t give your daughters the kind of nicknames that would appeal to their pedophile uncles. Cursed with a cutesy moniker like “Li’l Bit,“ what do you think might happen to a supposedly worldly but ever so innocent teenager like the one played to shattering perfection by Mary-Louise Parker? The actor and her equally brilliant co-star, David Morse, originated these roles in playwright Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-winning play “How I Learned to Drive” a quarter-century ago — and after all these years, they still own them.“I’m not gonna do anything….” kindly Uncle Peck promises his buxom 17-year-old niece as he undertakes her first perilous driving lesson. Huge sigh of relief.
NEW YORK -- Earlier this month, Jesse Tyler Ferguson got a private tour of hallowed ground — Yankee Stadium. He and the cast of the Broadway revival of the baseball-themed “Take Me Out” got to walk on the grass and soak in the silent stands.“I wasn’t expecting to be as moved as I was,” says the “Modern Family” and Broadway star.
Jesse Williams will now be paying his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, a reduced amount in child support. According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the actor’s monthly support payments have been “temporarily modified” to $6,413. Before the recent filing, the 40-year-old was apparently paying his ex $40,000 a month in child support for their daughter Sadie, 8, and son Maceo, 6.
Jesse Williams had a big legal victory this week. A court ruled that the 40-year-old actor would no longer have to pay his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, $40,000 a month in child support payments due to changes in his finances. Instead, Williams will now give Drake-Lee $6,413 a month, and can pay half on the first of the month, and the other half on the 15th. This ruling will commence on April 15, and will continue until further court order.Last month, Williams asked the courts in Los Angeles to reduce his child support payments, citing that he now makes «far less» than he did when he was on .«I am requesting the Court reduce the child support to a reasonable amount I can afford given the significant reduction in my income and the now fluctuating nature of my income,» Williams, who is starring in the Broadway play , said in his declaration to the court at the time.The actor noted that he is currently earning $1,668 per week for his work on Broadway — a far cry from the $6.2 million he made for his work on , not to mention the $183,000 in residuals he also took home., Williams said, was the primary source of income for his family throughout his marriage and for him, post-separation. «I appeared on the television show , which was the primary source of income for our family throughout the marriage and for me, post-separation.
Some good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.
Chris Rock was supposed to deliver the big laugh, not the big slap, but to comedy practitioners the Oscars debacle seemed an appropriate metaphor for the state of their craft.
Jesse Williams, 40, is revealing his fears about his Broadway debut in Take Me Out. The actor has to strip down naked on stage in the show and admitted it “terrified” him to do so, in a new interview with Page Six.
Jesse Williams is celebrating the opening night of his Broadway show!
Michael Appler Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson celebrated the Broadway opening for “Take Me Out” on Monday evening in New York at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.A revival of the 2003 Tony-winning best play, headlined by Williams, Ferguson and Patrick J. Adams, “Take Me Out” is the third of 19 new shows that will open this month, continuing the march of star-driven offerings in Broadway’s first regular season since its return after the COVID-19 pandemic struck.