With eight Tony Award nominations, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, starring Sarah Paulson, has been extended for a third and what producers say is a final time.
After 26 weeks on Broadway, the production has added an additional eight performances to its run, with closing night at the Belasco Theater now set for Sunday, June 30.
The Second Stage Theater production received unanimous raves, with box office consistently strong with sold out (or nearly so) houses.
“We are beyond thrilled to extend Appropriate for one more week so additional audiences can witness this astonishing cast bring Branden’s brilliant play to life,” said the show’s producers in a joint statement. “The response from critics and audiences alike has been overwhelming, propelling the production from The Hayes Theater to an extended run at The Belasco and we feel lucky and extremely grateful for the support the show has received from the Broadway community.”
In addition to Paulson,...
After 26 weeks on Broadway, the production has added an additional eight performances to its run, with closing night at the Belasco Theater now set for Sunday, June 30.
The Second Stage Theater production received unanimous raves, with box office consistently strong with sold out (or nearly so) houses.
“We are beyond thrilled to extend Appropriate for one more week so additional audiences can witness this astonishing cast bring Branden’s brilliant play to life,” said the show’s producers in a joint statement. “The response from critics and audiences alike has been overwhelming, propelling the production from The Hayes Theater to an extended run at The Belasco and we feel lucky and extremely grateful for the support the show has received from the Broadway community.”
In addition to Paulson,...
- 30/5/2024
- de Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Elle Fanning will make her Broadway debut this December when she appears in Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, which is set to run as part of Second Stage’s 45th anniversary season.
The Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominee will join the previously announced cast for Jacobs-Jenkins’ Broadway debut, which includes Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, Natalie Gold and Alyssa Emily Marvin in the Lila Neugebauer-directed play. Details were not available on Fanning’s role, and additional casting will be announced at a later date.
The story follows the Lafayette family, who has returned to the Arkansas home of their late patriarch’s in the summer to handle his estate. The eldest daughter Toni, portrayed by Paulson, has hopes the family will spend their weekend remembering and reconnecting over their father, while Stoll’s Bo is more focused on recouping the funds he spent on his end of life care.
The Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominee will join the previously announced cast for Jacobs-Jenkins’ Broadway debut, which includes Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, Natalie Gold and Alyssa Emily Marvin in the Lila Neugebauer-directed play. Details were not available on Fanning’s role, and additional casting will be announced at a later date.
The story follows the Lafayette family, who has returned to the Arkansas home of their late patriarch’s in the summer to handle his estate. The eldest daughter Toni, portrayed by Paulson, has hopes the family will spend their weekend remembering and reconnecting over their father, while Stoll’s Bo is more focused on recouping the funds he spent on his end of life care.
- 20/10/2023
- de Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are heading to Broadway later this month in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, producers announced today.
The production, which opened a sold-out run Off Broadway at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February, is now set to be the final production of the 2022-23 Broadway season. Opening night for the limited, 80-performance run is Thursday, April 27, at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
Directed by Anne Kauffman, the revival will mark the first time the Hansberry play has been produced on Broadway in more than 50 years, and the first Bam-produced production to transfer to Broadway since The Gospel at Colonus 35 years ago.
Producing on Broadway will be Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, with Jeremy O. Harris and Bam.
The follow-up to Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window debuted on Broadway...
The production, which opened a sold-out run Off Broadway at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February, is now set to be the final production of the 2022-23 Broadway season. Opening night for the limited, 80-performance run is Thursday, April 27, at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
Directed by Anne Kauffman, the revival will mark the first time the Hansberry play has been produced on Broadway in more than 50 years, and the first Bam-produced production to transfer to Broadway since The Gospel at Colonus 35 years ago.
Producing on Broadway will be Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, with Jeremy O. Harris and Bam.
The follow-up to Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window debuted on Broadway...
- 4/4/2023
- de Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit revival will re-take the field October 27 at the Schoenfeld Theatre for 14 weeks, it was revealed today.
Written by Richard Greenberg and directed by Scott Ellis, Take Me Out bowed in the spring and went on to glove Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Featured Actor for Ferguson. The show won widespread critical acclaim — and some unwanted headlines when an audience member recorded and posted on social media some nude scenes.
Here is the show’s stat line: When Darren Lemming (Williams), the star center fielder for the Empires, comes out of the closet, the reception off the field reveals a barrage of long-held unspoken prejudices dealing with sexuality and masculinity, money and power,...
Written by Richard Greenberg and directed by Scott Ellis, Take Me Out bowed in the spring and went on to glove Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Featured Actor for Ferguson. The show won widespread critical acclaim — and some unwanted headlines when an audience member recorded and posted on social media some nude scenes.
Here is the show’s stat line: When Darren Lemming (Williams), the star center fielder for the Empires, comes out of the closet, the reception off the field reveals a barrage of long-held unspoken prejudices dealing with sexuality and masculinity, money and power,...
- 18/8/2022
- de Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Off Broadway Korean-pop musical “Kpop” topped the nominations for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, snagging nine nominations for the annual awards for Off Broadway fare.
“Kpop,” which Ars Nova (“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”) produced in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company and Woodshed Collective, led a list of musical nominees that also included “Bella: An American Tall Tale” (six nominations) and “The Lucky Ones” (five.) The top-nominated play was “Mary Jane” (six nominations), the Amy Herzog play that premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in a staging that starred Carrie Coon (who’s nominated for an acting award).
Special awards will be given to Eve Ensler, for the lifetime achievement award; Michael Friedman, the late composer who will be inducted into the Lortel’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk; and Wp Theater, for body of work.
The full list of the 33rd annual Lucille Lortel Awards nominations follows. Winners will be announced...
“Kpop,” which Ars Nova (“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”) produced in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company and Woodshed Collective, led a list of musical nominees that also included “Bella: An American Tall Tale” (six nominations) and “The Lucky Ones” (five.) The top-nominated play was “Mary Jane” (six nominations), the Amy Herzog play that premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in a staging that starred Carrie Coon (who’s nominated for an acting award).
Special awards will be given to Eve Ensler, for the lifetime achievement award; Michael Friedman, the late composer who will be inducted into the Lortel’s Playwrights’ Sidewalk; and Wp Theater, for body of work.
The full list of the 33rd annual Lucille Lortel Awards nominations follows. Winners will be announced...
- 4/4/2018
- de Gordon Cox
- Variety Film + TV
Film review: 'Anima'
Uneven and not always animated enough to be involving, "Anima" is a stark, grim tale of a reclusive, marionette theater-producing elderly couple harassed by a rabid TV reporter on the hunt for a juicy story.
With a bucolic New England setting and unsettling focus on taxidermy, the at-first-promising 1997 indie digs its own grave with lackluster performances and a progressively inane plot.
The second feature from Rhode Island-based writer-director Craig Richards ("By a Thread"), "Anima" screened recently in the American Cinematheque's monthly Alternative Screen series.
Richards tries to spice up the storytelling with flashbacks and lyrical sequences, but more often the character development suffers. Bray Poor lacks charisma in the key role of cynical media hound Bill, and he plays the snaky opportunist with a lazy insolence.
More palatable as long as they move silently through their comfy hideaway in evocative scenes, George Bartenieff and Jacqueline Bertrand portray Sam the one-time legend of stuffed animals and his longtime companion Iris. Trying to make something of a routine assignment, Bill has to dig a little to find Sam and Iris, but he's not disappointed.
Alas, retired taxidermist Sam has a dark secret dating from his early years in Germany, but slippery Bill has trouble just getting him to talk about his deathly art for the TV project. Indeed, the whole news angle is tiresome, with Bill's annoying two-man crew (Geoffrey Cantor, Mark Mineart) providing feeble comic relief.
After trying to record Iris' accomplished cello playing, Bill is kicked off the farm by Sam, but there's still a mystery that no one wants solved. With no clear motivation, Bill pursues the story and intrudes on Sam after he's preserved dead Iris' body. More laughable than touching, this lurid climax leaves one cold.
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ANIMA
Tangent Films & Other Pictures
Writer-director: Craig Richards
Producers: Dan Partland, Christopher Roberts
Director of photography: Randy Drummond
Production designer: Bonita Flanders
Editor: Kelly Korzan
Music: Joel Diamond, Adam Hurst
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sam: George Bartenieff
Iris: Jacqueline Bertrand
Bill: Bray Poor
Cam: Geoffrey Cantor
Hans: Mark Mineart
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
With a bucolic New England setting and unsettling focus on taxidermy, the at-first-promising 1997 indie digs its own grave with lackluster performances and a progressively inane plot.
The second feature from Rhode Island-based writer-director Craig Richards ("By a Thread"), "Anima" screened recently in the American Cinematheque's monthly Alternative Screen series.
Richards tries to spice up the storytelling with flashbacks and lyrical sequences, but more often the character development suffers. Bray Poor lacks charisma in the key role of cynical media hound Bill, and he plays the snaky opportunist with a lazy insolence.
More palatable as long as they move silently through their comfy hideaway in evocative scenes, George Bartenieff and Jacqueline Bertrand portray Sam the one-time legend of stuffed animals and his longtime companion Iris. Trying to make something of a routine assignment, Bill has to dig a little to find Sam and Iris, but he's not disappointed.
Alas, retired taxidermist Sam has a dark secret dating from his early years in Germany, but slippery Bill has trouble just getting him to talk about his deathly art for the TV project. Indeed, the whole news angle is tiresome, with Bill's annoying two-man crew (Geoffrey Cantor, Mark Mineart) providing feeble comic relief.
After trying to record Iris' accomplished cello playing, Bill is kicked off the farm by Sam, but there's still a mystery that no one wants solved. With no clear motivation, Bill pursues the story and intrudes on Sam after he's preserved dead Iris' body. More laughable than touching, this lurid climax leaves one cold.
Header: Fri, Jun 12, 1998, 10, End of Header.
ANIMA
Tangent Films & Other Pictures
Writer-director: Craig Richards
Producers: Dan Partland, Christopher Roberts
Director of photography: Randy Drummond
Production designer: Bonita Flanders
Editor: Kelly Korzan
Music: Joel Diamond, Adam Hurst
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sam: George Bartenieff
Iris: Jacqueline Bertrand
Bill: Bray Poor
Cam: Geoffrey Cantor
Hans: Mark Mineart
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 12/6/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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