There are no Black characters in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ caustic family drama Appropriate, but they nevertheless haunt the play. They are the unmarked graves scattered over the grounds of the former plantation home in southeast Arkansas, where the story’s action takes place. They are the spirits, felt like a shiver by guests in the home. And they are the objects collected — hoarded, really — over decades by the estate’s patriarch.
He’s dead now, and Appropriate, which opened Monday at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater in New York, concerns the blistering reunion of his heirs. The production is the first of Jacobs-Jenkins’ original works to be on Broadway and is staged by Lila Neugebauer (Causeway), who directed the dramatist’s Everybody at Signature Theater in 2017.
Appropriate begins with the shrill whine of cicadas. As that noise quiets, others intensify: the sounds of bodies shuffling in the bushes and the grunts of physical exertion.
He’s dead now, and Appropriate, which opened Monday at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater in New York, concerns the blistering reunion of his heirs. The production is the first of Jacobs-Jenkins’ original works to be on Broadway and is staged by Lila Neugebauer (Causeway), who directed the dramatist’s Everybody at Signature Theater in 2017.
Appropriate begins with the shrill whine of cicadas. As that noise quiets, others intensify: the sounds of bodies shuffling in the bushes and the grunts of physical exertion.
- 12/19/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
André Bishop will conclude his 33-year leadership tenure at Lincoln Center Theater in June 2025 at the conclusion of the non-profit theater company’s 40th anniversary 2024-25 season.
Bishop, whose celebrated tenure as Lct’s Artistic Director and more recently Producing Artistic Director included the premieres of such acclaimed new works as Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and Arcadia, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig, and The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, to name a very few, announced his intended departure today.
“My years at Lincoln Center Theater have been happy ones,” he said in a statement, “and I will miss working with all my friends and colleagues. But the time has come, as it inevitably does, for the next generation to step in and step up. I look forward to that. Lct has...
Bishop, whose celebrated tenure as Lct’s Artistic Director and more recently Producing Artistic Director included the premieres of such acclaimed new works as Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and Arcadia, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig, and The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, to name a very few, announced his intended departure today.
“My years at Lincoln Center Theater have been happy ones,” he said in a statement, “and I will miss working with all my friends and colleagues. But the time has come, as it inevitably does, for the next generation to step in and step up. I look forward to that. Lct has...
- 9/22/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
André Bishop will step down from his role as producing artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater next year, after having worked at the nonprofit theater company for 33 years.
Bishop will depart at the end of the theater’s 2024-2025 season and the board of Lincoln Center Theater will launch a search for his successor “in due course.” The move from Bishop, who has held the position of producing artistic director at the Lincoln Center theater since July 2013, after serving as artistic director since January 1992, marks the latest shake-up in Broadway’s nonprofit realm, which consists of four theater companies.
On Wednesday, Second Stage founder Carole Rothman announced she would leave the company after 45 years. Longtime Roundabout Theatre Company CEO and Artistic Director Todd Haimes died in April, and Manhattan Theatre Club Executive Producer Barry Grove announced his departure in January after 48 years with the organization.
Chris Jennings, who had previously...
Bishop will depart at the end of the theater’s 2024-2025 season and the board of Lincoln Center Theater will launch a search for his successor “in due course.” The move from Bishop, who has held the position of producing artistic director at the Lincoln Center theater since July 2013, after serving as artistic director since January 1992, marks the latest shake-up in Broadway’s nonprofit realm, which consists of four theater companies.
On Wednesday, Second Stage founder Carole Rothman announced she would leave the company after 45 years. Longtime Roundabout Theatre Company CEO and Artistic Director Todd Haimes died in April, and Manhattan Theatre Club Executive Producer Barry Grove announced his departure in January after 48 years with the organization.
Chris Jennings, who had previously...
- 9/22/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All Arts unveiled the fall lineup for “The First Twenty,” a new content initiative exploring how the first two decades of the 21st century have impacted American art and culture.
“The First Twenty” includes three new specials. Premiering on Sept. 7 is “Afterwards” by playwright Enda Walsh. Jeremy Dennis’ “Ma’s House” premieres on Oct. 11 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Twenty Years of Asian American Playwriting” by Ralph Peña and the Ma-Yi Theater Company will air in November. All three will stream on the All Arts app and website, and premiere in the New York Metro area on the All Arts TV channel.
“Our mission with ‘The First Twenty’ initiative is to contemplate and investigate contemporary society and its challenges through alternative lenses,” said James King, artistic director of All Arts. “We are inviting artists from traditionally underserved communities to create exciting new content that illuminates their unique cultures and perspectives.
“The First Twenty” includes three new specials. Premiering on Sept. 7 is “Afterwards” by playwright Enda Walsh. Jeremy Dennis’ “Ma’s House” premieres on Oct. 11 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Twenty Years of Asian American Playwriting” by Ralph Peña and the Ma-Yi Theater Company will air in November. All three will stream on the All Arts app and website, and premiere in the New York Metro area on the All Arts TV channel.
“Our mission with ‘The First Twenty’ initiative is to contemplate and investigate contemporary society and its challenges through alternative lenses,” said James King, artistic director of All Arts. “We are inviting artists from traditionally underserved communities to create exciting new content that illuminates their unique cultures and perspectives.
- 8/26/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Broadway may still be shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but fans hoping to catch the hit musical Hamilton can stream it online beginning July 3rd on Disney+. As TV critic Alan Sepinwall recently wrote of this new filmed version of the stage production: “Each song, each scene seems meant for now. It’s not that Lin-Manuel Miranda and his collaborators were prescient, but that we’re a nation built on tragedy as much as triumph, and history has a nasty way of repeating itself. Still, by changing the...
- 7/3/2020
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
Diane Rodriguez, whose career was immersed in the Los Angeles theater community, died Friday of cancer at age 58, according to her representative.
Rodriguez was an actress, director, playwright and producer, and later the book writer for the Broadway style musical Barbie Live!, creative and cultural consultant for the Disney Television Animation series Elena of Avalor.
Her career began in 1973 when she joined Luis Valdez’s El Teatro Campesino. She went on to become associate artistic director for Center Theatre Group, and worked with theatres and artists across the country, as well as internationally; president of the Theatre Communications Group Board.
Rodriguez...
Rodriguez was an actress, director, playwright and producer, and later the book writer for the Broadway style musical Barbie Live!, creative and cultural consultant for the Disney Television Animation series Elena of Avalor.
Her career began in 1973 when she joined Luis Valdez’s El Teatro Campesino. She went on to become associate artistic director for Center Theatre Group, and worked with theatres and artists across the country, as well as internationally; president of the Theatre Communications Group Board.
Rodriguez...
- 4/11/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Second Stage Theater will soon present We're Gonna Die, a show performed by Janelle McDermoth A Bronx Tale, will be part of the company's current 41st season. We're Gonna Die is written by Young Jean Lee Straight White Men and directed choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, featuring original music by Young Jean Lee and Tim Simmonds, additional music by John-Michael Lyles, and lyrics by Young Jean Lee. Music supervision and arrangements are by Remy Kurs with orchestrations by Cian McCarthy.
- 1/25/2020
- by TV - Press Previews
- BroadwayWorld.com
Second Stage Theater will soon present We're Gonna Die, a show performed by Janelle McDermoth A Bronx Tale, will be part of the company's current 41st season. We're Gonna Die is written by Young Jean Lee Straight White Men and directed choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, featuring original music by Young Jean Lee and Tim Simmonds, additional music by John-Michael Lyles, and lyrics by Young Jean Lee. Music supervision and arrangements are by Remy Kurs with orchestrations by Cian McCarthy.
- 1/23/2020
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Art can provoke feeling, but its impact has limitations in the face of legal and systemic oppression, said Riz Ahmed, the activist and actor known for “The Oa,” “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Night Of,” onstage at the CAA Amplify conference in Ojai on Tuesday, calling for the high-powered industry execs, talent, Wall Streeters and politicos in the room to act on reducing Islamophobic sentiment in the media.
“The efforts of individual artists or storytellers may be bold, they may be progressive, they may act as beacons of hope for other people, but in the face of institutional prejudice and institutionalized obstacles, systemic obstacles, our efforts can sometime still fall flat,” he told the audience, a group that included Obama-era senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, “Patriot Act” creator Hasan Minhaj, playwright Young Jean Lee, Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, and “Just Mercy” stars Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx.
“The efforts of individual artists or storytellers may be bold, they may be progressive, they may act as beacons of hope for other people, but in the face of institutional prejudice and institutionalized obstacles, systemic obstacles, our efforts can sometime still fall flat,” he told the audience, a group that included Obama-era senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, “Patriot Act” creator Hasan Minhaj, playwright Young Jean Lee, Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, and “Just Mercy” stars Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx.
- 6/26/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
“Always Be My Maybe” was “satisfying” to create because it gave focus to two characters that wouldn’t typically be portrayed as romantic leads, said director Nahnatchka Khan of her Netflix film at the CAA Amplify conference in Ojai, sitting on a panel with comedian Hasan Minhaj and NBA star Chris Paul.
“We’re all big fans of the rom-com genre, and then special things happen when you center people who have never been centered before,” said Khan of the Asian American ensemble. “Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they’re not just one thing, they’re bigger than just their identity. They’re a leading man, a leading woman… you can be layered, you can be more than one thing, you can exist outside the box.”
For his part, Minhaj said his “insider, outsider relationship with America” as a Muslim Indian American plays to his...
“We’re all big fans of the rom-com genre, and then special things happen when you center people who have never been centered before,” said Khan of the Asian American ensemble. “Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they’re not just one thing, they’re bigger than just their identity. They’re a leading man, a leading woman… you can be layered, you can be more than one thing, you can exist outside the box.”
For his part, Minhaj said his “insider, outsider relationship with America” as a Muslim Indian American plays to his...
- 6/26/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
CAA announced today that they will host their third annual CAA Amplify June 24 in Ojai, Calif. The invitation-only event is a convening of diverse leading artists and executives from the most impactful organizations in entertainment, sports, media, brands, technology, and social justice.
Hosted in partnership with the philanthropic CAA Foundation the event provides a platform for influencers and decision-makers to share important insights and assess industry trends that are shaping the cultural landscape. CAA Amplify also gives the opportunity for attendees to interact with top social justice leaders and organizations working to create a more inclusive and equitable world for underrepresented communities.
This year’s summit will focus on narrative influence on social change and features a conversation with award-winning actors Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx; writer, director, and producer Destin Daniel Cretton; President of the Ford Foundation Darren Walker; and Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative...
Hosted in partnership with the philanthropic CAA Foundation the event provides a platform for influencers and decision-makers to share important insights and assess industry trends that are shaping the cultural landscape. CAA Amplify also gives the opportunity for attendees to interact with top social justice leaders and organizations working to create a more inclusive and equitable world for underrepresented communities.
This year’s summit will focus on narrative influence on social change and features a conversation with award-winning actors Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx; writer, director, and producer Destin Daniel Cretton; President of the Ford Foundation Darren Walker; and Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative...
- 6/17/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Before we unveil our favorites of Sundance Film Festival 2019, the juries and audiences have selected their 28 feature filmmaking picks from 121 total films. This year’s jurors featured Desiree Akhavan, Damien Chazelle, Dennis Lim, Phyllis Nagy, Tessa Thompson, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Yance Ford, Rachel Grady, Jeff Orlowski, Alissa Wilkinson, Jane Campion, Charles Gillibert, Ciro Guerra, Maite Alberdi, Nico Marzano, Véréna Paravel, Young Jean Lee, Carter Smith, Sheila Vand, and Laurie Anderson.
Topped by the harrowing documentary One Child Nation, the prison drama Clemency, Joanna Hogg’s astounding The Souvenir, and the beautiful Honeyland, see the winners below and our complete coverage here.
2019 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Rachel Grady to: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, for One Child Nation / China, U.S.A. — After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations...
Topped by the harrowing documentary One Child Nation, the prison drama Clemency, Joanna Hogg’s astounding The Souvenir, and the beautiful Honeyland, see the winners below and our complete coverage here.
2019 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Rachel Grady to: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, for One Child Nation / China, U.S.A. — After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations...
- 2/3/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
by Nathaniel R
Sheila Vand at SundanceWe hope you've been enjoying our coverage of Sundance this year. Our two men on the ground (Murtada and Abe) have already reviewed 10 films. Sundance wraps up next Sunday, February 3rd but we've already got our first bit of award news. A three person jury comprised of Iranian-American actress Sheila Vand, Obie award-winning playwright/filmmaker Young Jean Lee, and filmmaker Carter Smith (who won at Sundance 12 years ago for his gay short Bugcrush), have picked the winning shorts of the festival. Six of the seven films honored were by people of color, five were from women, and two from filmmakers who identify as Lgbtq..
Sundance is an Oscar-qualifying festival which means you might hear about a few of these shorts next year about this time if they're very lucky...
Sheila Vand at SundanceWe hope you've been enjoying our coverage of Sundance this year. Our two men on the ground (Murtada and Abe) have already reviewed 10 films. Sundance wraps up next Sunday, February 3rd but we've already got our first bit of award news. A three person jury comprised of Iranian-American actress Sheila Vand, Obie award-winning playwright/filmmaker Young Jean Lee, and filmmaker Carter Smith (who won at Sundance 12 years ago for his gay short Bugcrush), have picked the winning shorts of the festival. Six of the seven films honored were by people of color, five were from women, and two from filmmakers who identify as Lgbtq..
Sundance is an Oscar-qualifying festival which means you might hear about a few of these shorts next year about this time if they're very lucky...
- 1/30/2019
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The 2019 winners in the short filmmaking section of the Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight, with Soudade Kaadan’s Aziza taking the Short Film Grand Jury Prize.
The Syrian refugee black comedy was one of 73 shorts selected from 9,443 submissions. Pic was co-written by Kaadan and May Hayek.
This year’s Short Film jurors are Sheila Vand, Young Jean Lee and Carter Smith.
Short Film awards winners in previous years include Matria by Álvaro Gago, And so we put goldfish in the pool. by Makato Nagahisa, Thunder Road by Jim Cummings, World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt, Smilf by Frankie Shaw, Of God and Dogs by Abounaddara Collective, Gregory Go Boom by Janicza Bravo, The Whistle by Grzegorz Zariczny, Whiplash by Damien Chazelle, Fishing Without Nets by Cutter Hodierne, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossomby Lucy Walker and The Arm by Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos and Jessie Ennis
Select Festival short...
The Syrian refugee black comedy was one of 73 shorts selected from 9,443 submissions. Pic was co-written by Kaadan and May Hayek.
This year’s Short Film jurors are Sheila Vand, Young Jean Lee and Carter Smith.
Short Film awards winners in previous years include Matria by Álvaro Gago, And so we put goldfish in the pool. by Makato Nagahisa, Thunder Road by Jim Cummings, World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt, Smilf by Frankie Shaw, Of God and Dogs by Abounaddara Collective, Gregory Go Boom by Janicza Bravo, The Whistle by Grzegorz Zariczny, Whiplash by Damien Chazelle, Fishing Without Nets by Cutter Hodierne, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossomby Lucy Walker and The Arm by Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos and Jessie Ennis
Select Festival short...
- 1/30/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinereach and The Black List today are announcing a new collaboration to help independent writer-directors get their films made. This program will allow blcklst.com users to opt-in for their feature script submissions to be considered for review by Cinereach, the powerhouse nonprofit production company and financier behind recent indies like “Sorry to Bother You,” “Beach Rats,” and “The Florida Project.”
The Black List, started by Franklin Leonard in 2005, is best known for its annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays, 440 of which have gone on to be produced, raking in $28 billion in box office worldwide along with 262 Academy Awards nominations. In 2012, the Black List launched an online community where screenwriters could create professional profiles, share scripts and pay to have those scripts professionally evaluated. Today the site currently hosts over 3,500 scripts, which are available to the over 5,000 film industry professionals — ranging from agency assistants to studio presidents — who...
The Black List, started by Franklin Leonard in 2005, is best known for its annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays, 440 of which have gone on to be produced, raking in $28 billion in box office worldwide along with 262 Academy Awards nominations. In 2012, the Black List launched an online community where screenwriters could create professional profiles, share scripts and pay to have those scripts professionally evaluated. Today the site currently hosts over 3,500 scripts, which are available to the over 5,000 film industry professionals — ranging from agency assistants to studio presidents — who...
- 1/14/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Kate Bornstein is a world renowned performance artist, and the award-winning author of Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest Of Us. She recently co-starred in the Broadway production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men.
I was born in 1948, just under a year after Donald Trump was born. We both grew up in the Fifties, back when it seemed we all knew that America was great. World War II was over, and we’d won. The boys came back and returned to work in the factories. The...
I was born in 1948, just under a year after Donald Trump was born. We both grew up in the Fifties, back when it seemed we all knew that America was great. World War II was over, and we’d won. The boys came back and returned to work in the factories. The...
- 10/23/2018
- by Kate Bornstein
- Rollingstone.com
In “Straight White Men,” Young Jean Lee’s cutting but deeply humane satire about straight white male privilege and pain, Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and, in an especially heart-wrenching performance, Paul Schneider play three brothers with mid-life issues. In director Anna D. Shapiro’s super-smart production, the bros are first observed as they go through the family Christmas rituals with their widowed father Ed (Stephen Payne), who’s in on all the goofy jokes.
Actually, it takes a while to get to this opening scene. In a head-scratching pre-curtain turn, preceded by a few minutes of assaulting rap music, two weirdly costumed interlocutors of indeterminate gender, played by Kate Bornstein and Ty Defoe, pointedly let the audience know that they, the so-called Persons in Charge, are the real persons in charge. The men in her play, Young Jean Lee is determined to show us, are her puppets and playthings.
Once...
Actually, it takes a while to get to this opening scene. In a head-scratching pre-curtain turn, preceded by a few minutes of assaulting rap music, two weirdly costumed interlocutors of indeterminate gender, played by Kate Bornstein and Ty Defoe, pointedly let the audience know that they, the so-called Persons in Charge, are the real persons in charge. The men in her play, Young Jean Lee is determined to show us, are her puppets and playthings.
Once...
- 7/24/2018
- by Marilyn Stasio
- Variety Film + TV
Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider, names and faces well-known to film and TV audiences, make self-assured Broadway debuts in Straight White Men. No sarcasm about artistic stretches or the lack thereof necessary.
Young Jean Lee’s delicate balance of a play, directed by Anna D. Shapiro with a more sensitive understanding of character than pace, brings together three adult brothers and their widowed dad over a Christmas holiday that will see laughter and tears.
And if there’s anything straight white men can’t handle, it’s tears, especially from other straight white men.
At least that’s the suggestion from the playwright’s outside-looking-in vantage. The first Asian-American female playwright to be produced on Broadway, Young Jean Lee confronts the controversial idea of writing what you aren’t from the very start of Straight White Men.
We meet the guys of the title following a brief direct-to-audience...
Young Jean Lee’s delicate balance of a play, directed by Anna D. Shapiro with a more sensitive understanding of character than pace, brings together three adult brothers and their widowed dad over a Christmas holiday that will see laughter and tears.
And if there’s anything straight white men can’t handle, it’s tears, especially from other straight white men.
At least that’s the suggestion from the playwright’s outside-looking-in vantage. The first Asian-American female playwright to be produced on Broadway, Young Jean Lee confronts the controversial idea of writing what you aren’t from the very start of Straight White Men.
We meet the guys of the title following a brief direct-to-audience...
- 7/24/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway’s Pretty Woman: The Musical showed other summer newcomers how it’s done. Though it performed only two previews during the season’s Week 8, the show with the big title recognition grossed $328,854, 96% of its potential, with admission of 2,336 at 100% of capacity. Average ticket price was a solid $141.
Based on the 1990 Julia Roberts & Richard Gere movie and staged at the Nederlander Theater, the musical features direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots), an original score by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and a book by the movie’s director Garry Marshall and screenwriter J.F. Lawton. In the Roberts & Gere roles are Samantha Barks and Andy Karl.
In all, the 32 Broadway shows took in $36,855,921, about 87% of potential and a negligible 2% slip from last week. Total attendance of 281,446, about 93% of capacity, was even with Week 7.
Pretty Woman far out-dazzled other recent Broadway arrivals. Head Over Heels, the Arcadian mash-up of mock-...
Based on the 1990 Julia Roberts & Richard Gere movie and staged at the Nederlander Theater, the musical features direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots), an original score by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and a book by the movie’s director Garry Marshall and screenwriter J.F. Lawton. In the Roberts & Gere roles are Samantha Barks and Andy Karl.
In all, the 32 Broadway shows took in $36,855,921, about 87% of potential and a negligible 2% slip from last week. Total attendance of 281,446, about 93% of capacity, was even with Week 7.
Pretty Woman far out-dazzled other recent Broadway arrivals. Head Over Heels, the Arcadian mash-up of mock-...
- 7/23/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2018 Tony Awards will be handed out on Sunday night, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and CBS has announced the first round of presenters. Uzo Aduba, Matt Bomer, Claire Danes, Armie Hammer, Tatiana Maslany, Leslie Odom Jr., Jim Parsons, Andrew Rannells and Zachary Quinto will take the stage at the 72nd annual event honoring the best in Broadway theater.
Bomer, Parsons, Rannells and Quinto star in the new Broadway production of “The Boys in the Band,” which premieres at the Booth Theater on May 31 for a limited run that is scheduled to end on August 11. This is Bomer’s Broadway debut, though he previously appeared on the rialto in 2011 for a special reading of “8” about the overturning of California’s Proposition 8, which had banned same-sex marriage in the state.
Quinto previously appeared in a 2013 Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie.” Rannells is a two-time nominee...
Bomer, Parsons, Rannells and Quinto star in the new Broadway production of “The Boys in the Band,” which premieres at the Booth Theater on May 31 for a limited run that is scheduled to end on August 11. This is Bomer’s Broadway debut, though he previously appeared on the rialto in 2011 for a special reading of “8” about the overturning of California’s Proposition 8, which had banned same-sex marriage in the state.
Quinto previously appeared in a 2013 Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie.” Rannells is a two-time nominee...
- 5/30/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Paul Schneider will round out the Broadway cast of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men, joining, among others, Josh Charles and Armie Hammer.
In the play – which begins previews at the Helen Hayes Theater June 29 – Schneider will play Matt, one of three adult sons who gather with their father for an eventful Christmas Eve. His two siblings will be played by the previously announced Charles (The Good Wife) and Hammer( Call Me By Your Name). Tom Skerritt plays the father.
Also in the cast are Kate Bornstein and Ty Defoe. The play will officially open on Monday, July 23.
The Second Stage Theater production will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, the artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre who won a 2008 Tony Award for her direction of August: Osage County.
The production description of Straight White Men: It’s Christmas Eve,...
In the play – which begins previews at the Helen Hayes Theater June 29 – Schneider will play Matt, one of three adult sons who gather with their father for an eventful Christmas Eve. His two siblings will be played by the previously announced Charles (The Good Wife) and Hammer( Call Me By Your Name). Tom Skerritt plays the father.
Also in the cast are Kate Bornstein and Ty Defoe. The play will officially open on Monday, July 23.
The Second Stage Theater production will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, the artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre who won a 2008 Tony Award for her direction of August: Osage County.
The production description of Straight White Men: It’s Christmas Eve,...
- 5/24/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
A new play by Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson, a new musical from the creators of Red, Next to Normal and Avenue Q and a production of Christopher Shinn’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Dying City have been announced for the 2018-19 season of New York’s Second Stage Theater.
The trio of new productions join the previously announced Straight White Men, starring Kate Bornstein, Josh Charles, Ty Defoe, Armie Hammer and Tom Skerritt, and the return of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song for the Second Stage’s 40th anniversary season.
The new Off-Broadway productions announced today are:
Days of Rage, a world premiere of Levenson’s new play, to be directed by Trip Cullman (Lobby Hero), beginning previews Oct. 2 and opening later that month at Second Stage’s Off-Broadway Tony Kiser Theater. As Second Stage describes the play: “Against the backdrop of an endless, unwinnable war raging halfway across the world,...
The trio of new productions join the previously announced Straight White Men, starring Kate Bornstein, Josh Charles, Ty Defoe, Armie Hammer and Tom Skerritt, and the return of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song for the Second Stage’s 40th anniversary season.
The new Off-Broadway productions announced today are:
Days of Rage, a world premiere of Levenson’s new play, to be directed by Trip Cullman (Lobby Hero), beginning previews Oct. 2 and opening later that month at Second Stage’s Off-Broadway Tony Kiser Theater. As Second Stage describes the play: “Against the backdrop of an endless, unwinnable war raging halfway across the world,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Josh Charles will make his Broadway debut this summer in Straight White Men, Young Jean Lee’s dark comedy also featuring the previously announced Armie Hammer and Tom Skerritt.
Charles’ casting was announced today, along with co-stars Kate Bornstein and Ty Defoe. The play begins previews at the Hayes Theater on Friday, June 29, with an official opening date of Monday, July 23.
The Second Stage Theater production will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, the artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre who won a 2008 Tony Award for her direction of August: Osage County.
The production marks the Broadway debuts of Charles, Hammer, Bornstein and DeFoe. Skerritt made his Broadway debut in the 2013 production of A Time to Kill.
The play – which will be a Broadway first by an Asian-American female playwright – is set on Christmas Eve, when Ed (Skerritt) has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pajamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeout.
Charles’ casting was announced today, along with co-stars Kate Bornstein and Ty Defoe. The play begins previews at the Hayes Theater on Friday, June 29, with an official opening date of Monday, July 23.
The Second Stage Theater production will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, the artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre who won a 2008 Tony Award for her direction of August: Osage County.
The production marks the Broadway debuts of Charles, Hammer, Bornstein and DeFoe. Skerritt made his Broadway debut in the 2013 production of A Time to Kill.
The play – which will be a Broadway first by an Asian-American female playwright – is set on Christmas Eve, when Ed (Skerritt) has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pajamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeout.
- 4/5/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On Broadway and beyond, a curtain can rise as quickly as it can fall; a star can be swapped as easily as Bernie Telsey can say, “That’s enough.” Theater is the beating heart of New York show business and, if you want to make it here, it’s crucial you’re up to date on incoming projects, latest castings, and other industry news. Don’t worry, Broadway baby, Backstage has your back. Every week, we’re rounding up the can’t-miss stories no thespian should live without, so you can focus on important matters like hitting your high F. Curtain up and light those lights! Armie Hammer will hit New York’s biggest stage.Currently generating Academy buzz for his role in “Call Me By Your Name,” Armie Hammer is striking while the iron is hot and will next head to the Great White Way. Hammer will star in...
- 12/7/2017
- backstage.com
Armie Hammer will make his Broadway debut this summer in Young Jean Lee’s dark comedy “Straight White Men,” Second Stage Theater announced on Monday.
Hammer will join Tom Skerritt in the new production of Lee’s dark play, which will begin performances on June 29, 2018 at the Hayes Theater, in advance of an official premiere on July 23.
Anna D. Shapiro, who won a Tony for directing “August: Osage County” in 2008, will direct.
The production follows Ed (Skeritt), who has gathered his three adult sons to.
Hammer will join Tom Skerritt in the new production of Lee’s dark play, which will begin performances on June 29, 2018 at the Hayes Theater, in advance of an official premiere on July 23.
Anna D. Shapiro, who won a Tony for directing “August: Osage County” in 2008, will direct.
The production follows Ed (Skeritt), who has gathered his three adult sons to.
- 12/4/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
2017-04-20T11:03:14-07:00Chris Evans to Make Broadway Debut
Chris Evans will make his Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “Lobby Hero,” starring opposite Michael Cera in a production that will reopen the newly renovated Helen Hayes Theater and launch the Broadway programming of the nonprofit Second Stage Theater.
“Lobby Hero,” set to begin in March 2018, is part of an ambitious Broadway plan for Second Stage that also encompasses a new production of Young Jean Lee’s “Straight White Men,” as well as the co-commissioning of new plays by top-tier playwrights including Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel, two Pulitzer winners whose latest plays are currently running on Broadway.
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Chris Evans has played Captain America in three of the hero's own films and in The Avengers franchise.
Chris Evans will make his Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “Lobby Hero,” starring opposite Michael Cera in a production that will reopen the newly renovated Helen Hayes Theater and launch the Broadway programming of the nonprofit Second Stage Theater.
“Lobby Hero,” set to begin in March 2018, is part of an ambitious Broadway plan for Second Stage that also encompasses a new production of Young Jean Lee’s “Straight White Men,” as well as the co-commissioning of new plays by top-tier playwrights including Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel, two Pulitzer winners whose latest plays are currently running on Broadway.
Read the rest of this article at Variety.
Chris Evans has played Captain America in three of the hero's own films and in The Avengers franchise.
- 4/20/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
Performance Artist Laurie Anderson to Receive 2015 Yaddo Artist Medal; Steve Buscemi to Host Benefit
Yaddo has announced that the second annual Yaddo Artist Medal will be presented to influential avant-garde composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson at its New York City Benefit on Monday, June 1, 2015. The event at the Tribeca Rooftop 2 Desbrosses St. will be hosted by actordirector Steve Buscemi and Kate Valk of The Wooster Group. Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, Obie Award winner Eisa Davis, and Obie Award winner Young Jean Lee-all Yaddo Artists-will perform.
- 4/10/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
In 2003, when she was not yet 30, Young Jean Lee founded a theater company for the purpose of producing her own work. Call it savvy, or call it hubris, but the move was bold, especially for an artist who is implicitly noncommercial and explicitly experimental. Her company’s goal, she wrote, is “to find ways to get past our audiences’ defenses against uncomfortable subjects … by keeping them disoriented and laughing.” Over the years, those uncomfortable subjects have typically involved sexuality, gender, race, and mortality; the means of disorientation have been likewise diverse. Lee’s Lear was an intervention that left King Lear himself out of the picture. (Before ditching academia, Lee was a Shakespeare scholar.) We’re Gonna Die was less a play than a montage of deadpan monologues and sing-along pop. Untitled Feminist Show, her most recent work in New York, was nearly mute and mostly nude.But eleven years...
- 11/18/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Millree Hughes, born in North Wales in 1960, has been making art on the computer since 1998. In the 2000s, he showed with Michael Steinberg Fine Arts. Hughes is currently working with Museum Editions (www.museum-editions.com) in New York City and Polyglot Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Bradley Rubenstein: Let's start by talking a little bit about Lummox (2010) before we get into the new work. I thought it was hilarious, and at the same time there was a serious aspect regarding cultural mediation that a lot of your work touches on. It also came out before James Franco’s Cindy Sherman show at Pace (New Film Stills, 2014), and all the Marina Abramović performances with Jay-z and whatnot, so it really caught something about our cultural moment.
Millree Hughes: Thank you. I like that you put our documentary in the context of Abramović and Franco -- making the artist a persona...
Bradley Rubenstein: Let's start by talking a little bit about Lummox (2010) before we get into the new work. I thought it was hilarious, and at the same time there was a serious aspect regarding cultural mediation that a lot of your work touches on. It also came out before James Franco’s Cindy Sherman show at Pace (New Film Stills, 2014), and all the Marina Abramović performances with Jay-z and whatnot, so it really caught something about our cultural moment.
Millree Hughes: Thank you. I like that you put our documentary in the context of Abramović and Franco -- making the artist a persona...
- 9/12/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Single tickets are on sale now for The Public Theater's 2014-15 season that will include three world premiere musicals, a free Public Works musical adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, new plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, Young Jean Lee, and Lemon Andersen, Bridget Everett's new show at Joe's Pub, the 11th edition of the acclaimed Under the Radar Festival, the continuation of the Mobile Shakespeare Unit, the fifth season of Public Forum, New Work Now, the Emerging Writers Group Spotlight Series and 20 tickets to Public Lab, now in its eighth year. Single tickets are available by calling 212 967-7555, at www.publictheater.org, or in person at the Taub Box Office at The Public Theater at Astor Place at 425 Lafayette Street.
- 7/29/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Public's commitment to make theater that matters is brilliantly reflected in the power and diversity of the 2014-15 season, said Artistic Director Oskar Eustis. Starting with the return of the thrilling Public Works Shakespeare at the Delacorte, and proceeding through three explosive new musicals and major new work by Suzan-Lori Parks and Young Jean Lee, this season is truly of, by and for the people. This is work that we have developed and nurtured, and the artists have responded with astounding bravery and creativity.
- 4/21/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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