A loose adaptation of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros,” director Amos Gitai’s “Shikun” unfolds in a multi-use housing project, where it follows the stream-of-consciousness travails of a diverse cross-section of characters in Be’er-Sheva, Israel.
Bound by the French-language narration of Irène Jacob — a one-woman Greek chorus and de-facto liaison between sides of the fourth wall — the film embodies the struggle to reconcile learned anger with calls for peace, and it takes several steps to the left of the distant, “kumbaya” observationalism of some of Gitai’s previous work (like “Tramway in Jerusalem”). However, despite its refreshing political outlook, “Shikun” is anything but radical in execution, and it’s rarely interesting to watch.
Echoes of “Rhinoceros” remain in Gitai’s transposition from a small French town to an Israeli building and bus station. The play saw numerous characters transform into rhinoceroses while others around them remained indifferent, a...
Bound by the French-language narration of Irène Jacob — a one-woman Greek chorus and de-facto liaison between sides of the fourth wall — the film embodies the struggle to reconcile learned anger with calls for peace, and it takes several steps to the left of the distant, “kumbaya” observationalism of some of Gitai’s previous work (like “Tramway in Jerusalem”). However, despite its refreshing political outlook, “Shikun” is anything but radical in execution, and it’s rarely interesting to watch.
Echoes of “Rhinoceros” remain in Gitai’s transposition from a small French town to an Israeli building and bus station. The play saw numerous characters transform into rhinoceroses while others around them remained indifferent, a...
- 2/20/2024
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Variety Film + TV
Top Brazilian titles at the Berlin Festival and EFM:
“Betânia,” (Marcelo Botta)
Botta’s feature debut, produced by Salvatore Filmes, associate produced by Ventre Studio, selected for Berlin’s Panorama. Set in stunning but barren Brazilian sand dunes, Betânia, 65, rebuilds amid global collapse. After losing her husband to a salty diet common in electricity-deprived areas, she seeks solace in a new village, cherishing its traditions. Sales: MPM Premium
“The Best Friend,” (Allan Deberton)
By Deberton, director of award-winning “Pacarrete,” co-produced by Ceara-based Deberton Filmes and Telecine. During a quiet beach trip to Canoa Quebrada, Lucas reunites with his old college friend Felipe, whose free-spirited nature sparks feelings of nostalgia. Sales: Deberton Filmes
“Carnival is Over,” (Fernando Coimbra)
A much awaited title from helmer-scribe, now in post. Winner of a Sundance Institute global filmmaking award, the thriller centers on Regina and Valerio who live an opulent lifestyle in Rio as heirs...
“Betânia,” (Marcelo Botta)
Botta’s feature debut, produced by Salvatore Filmes, associate produced by Ventre Studio, selected for Berlin’s Panorama. Set in stunning but barren Brazilian sand dunes, Betânia, 65, rebuilds amid global collapse. After losing her husband to a salty diet common in electricity-deprived areas, she seeks solace in a new village, cherishing its traditions. Sales: MPM Premium
“The Best Friend,” (Allan Deberton)
By Deberton, director of award-winning “Pacarrete,” co-produced by Ceara-based Deberton Filmes and Telecine. During a quiet beach trip to Canoa Quebrada, Lucas reunites with his old college friend Felipe, whose free-spirited nature sparks feelings of nostalgia. Sales: Deberton Filmes
“Carnival is Over,” (Fernando Coimbra)
A much awaited title from helmer-scribe, now in post. Winner of a Sundance Institute global filmmaking award, the thriller centers on Regina and Valerio who live an opulent lifestyle in Rio as heirs...
- 2/16/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Visit Films has acquired international sales rights to Amos Gitai’s Berlinale Special selection Shikun and will kick off talks with buyers at the EFM next month.
The Israeli film is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s allegorical play Rhinoceros, and dramatises the emergence of intolerance and totalitarianism through a series of theatrical episodes that take place in a single Israeli building, the Shikun.
Among this diverse group of people of different origins and languages, some turn into rhinoceroses, while others resist.
The ensemble cast includes Irène Jacob (The Double Life Of Véronique), Hanna Laslo (Free Zone), Yael Abecassis (Sacred), Bahira Ablassi...
The Israeli film is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s allegorical play Rhinoceros, and dramatises the emergence of intolerance and totalitarianism through a series of theatrical episodes that take place in a single Israeli building, the Shikun.
Among this diverse group of people of different origins and languages, some turn into rhinoceroses, while others resist.
The ensemble cast includes Irène Jacob (The Double Life Of Véronique), Hanna Laslo (Free Zone), Yael Abecassis (Sacred), Bahira Ablassi...
- 1/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
Amy Landecker is an American actress who was born on 30 September 1969. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, her father is a well-known Chicago radio personality and DJ. She attended high school at Francis W. Parker School and went on to study theatre at the University of Wisconsin. Following graduation, she started out by performing in stage productions. Her early career start as a stage actress began in 1995 with a performance in the Eugene Ionesco play, Victims of Duty. She then went on to appear in several plays before beginning her career in film and television. Over the...
- 11/19/2023
- by Nkem
- TVovermind.com
Chris Noth is speaking out about the sexual assault allegations that derailed his career.
The Sex and the City alum chatted with USA Today and denied the allegations against him.
He admitted that the only thing he did wrong was cheating on his wife, Tara Wilson.
"I strayed on my wife, and it's devastating to her and not a very pretty picture," the actor dished in a story that went live on Monday.
"What it isn't is a crime," he affirmed.
As you'll recall, the Mr. Big actor previously shut down the allegations against him when The Hollywood Reporter shared a story of two women saying he assaulted them in separate incidents.
"The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false," Noth said in a statement in December 2021.
"These stories could've been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago — no always means no — that...
The Sex and the City alum chatted with USA Today and denied the allegations against him.
He admitted that the only thing he did wrong was cheating on his wife, Tara Wilson.
"I strayed on my wife, and it's devastating to her and not a very pretty picture," the actor dished in a story that went live on Monday.
"What it isn't is a crime," he affirmed.
As you'll recall, the Mr. Big actor previously shut down the allegations against him when The Hollywood Reporter shared a story of two women saying he assaulted them in separate incidents.
"The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false," Noth said in a statement in December 2021.
"These stories could've been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago — no always means no — that...
- 8/8/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Nearly two years after being accused of sexual assault by multiple women, Chris Noth is speaking out about the firestorm that led to his dismissal from CBS’ The Equalizer and erasure from Max’s And Just Like That.
In an interview with USA Today, the 68-year-old TV vet once again denied the allegations, but conceded, “I strayed on my wife, and it’s devastating to her and not a very pretty picture. What it isn’t is a crime.”
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In an interview with USA Today, the 68-year-old TV vet once again denied the allegations, but conceded, “I strayed on my wife, and it’s devastating to her and not a very pretty picture. What it isn’t is a crime.”
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- 8/7/2023
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Julian Barry, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the 1974 Lenny Bruce biopic “Lenny” starring Dustin Hoffman, has died at the age of 92, his daughter announced to The New York Times.
Born in the Bronx and a graduate of Syracuse, Barry got his start in showbiz on Broadway as an actor and stage manager, most notably in Orson Welles’ 1955 production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear.”
In 1969, Columbia Pictures approached Barry about writing a biopic about the life of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce, who had died of a morphine overdose three years prior. Bruce accepted, but the project fell through as Columbia fast-tracked other projects.
Not wanting to give up on the script, Barry repurposed it as a stage play and brought it to Broadway in 1971 with “Hair” director Tom O’Horgan and with Cliff Gorman as Lenny Bruce. The play “Lenny” was a success, with Gorman winning a Tony Award for for his performance.
With “Lenny” now on the map,...
Born in the Bronx and a graduate of Syracuse, Barry got his start in showbiz on Broadway as an actor and stage manager, most notably in Orson Welles’ 1955 production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear.”
In 1969, Columbia Pictures approached Barry about writing a biopic about the life of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce, who had died of a morphine overdose three years prior. Bruce accepted, but the project fell through as Columbia fast-tracked other projects.
Not wanting to give up on the script, Barry repurposed it as a stage play and brought it to Broadway in 1971 with “Hair” director Tom O’Horgan and with Cliff Gorman as Lenny Bruce. The play “Lenny” was a success, with Gorman winning a Tony Award for for his performance.
With “Lenny” now on the map,...
- 7/27/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Julian Barry, whose 1971 Broadway play and 1974 movie, both titled Lenny and telling the story of legendary comic Lenny Bruce, died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 92.
His death was reported to The New York Times by his daughter Julia Barry, who said he died in his sleep and had been under medical care for congestive heart failure and late-stage kidney disease.
Although most widely known for his highly influential Bruce projects, which earned considerable acclaim for the writer and his title stars — Cliff Gorman on stage, Dustin Hoffman on screen — Barry’s career extended to other projects that caught the public’s attention in their day. He wrote Rhinoceros, the 1974 film adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s play starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, a movie that has grown somewhat in esteem since its initial critical dismissal, and the 1978 Faye Dunaway vehicle Eyes of Laura Mars, which has not.
His death was reported to The New York Times by his daughter Julia Barry, who said he died in his sleep and had been under medical care for congestive heart failure and late-stage kidney disease.
Although most widely known for his highly influential Bruce projects, which earned considerable acclaim for the writer and his title stars — Cliff Gorman on stage, Dustin Hoffman on screen — Barry’s career extended to other projects that caught the public’s attention in their day. He wrote Rhinoceros, the 1974 film adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s play starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, a movie that has grown somewhat in esteem since its initial critical dismissal, and the 1978 Faye Dunaway vehicle Eyes of Laura Mars, which has not.
- 7/27/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Geoffrey Rush is one of the rare few who have achieved the triple crown of acting, meaning he has received an Emmy, Oscar and Tony Award (all three major acting awards) for his work (he refers to it as the Toe while waiting on his Egot).
Rush was an acclaimed actor in his native Australia for nearly two decades before the film “Shine” made him a known commodity in the rest of the world. He was 45 years old when suddenly his whole career changed and he was being considered for major roles in various mediums. That film about a pianist dealing with scars from his childhood won Rush the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actor. Those awards and acclaim launched him into a highly successful international career. He has since earned even more Oscar nominations, with two as Best Supporting Actor for “Shakespeare in Love” and...
Rush was an acclaimed actor in his native Australia for nearly two decades before the film “Shine” made him a known commodity in the rest of the world. He was 45 years old when suddenly his whole career changed and he was being considered for major roles in various mediums. That film about a pianist dealing with scars from his childhood won Rush the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actor. Those awards and acclaim launched him into a highly successful international career. He has since earned even more Oscar nominations, with two as Best Supporting Actor for “Shakespeare in Love” and...
- 7/1/2023
- by Robert Pius, Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Off Broadway’s historic, if long financially beleaguered, Cherry Lane Theatre has been purchased by The Whale and Everything Everywhere All at Once film studio A24.
The 179-seat mainstage venue, located on one of the most picturesque side streets of Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, is a central part of Off Broadway history, founded as a playhouse in 1923 and eventually providing a home space for such major theatrical figures as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco, LeRoi Jones, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Joe Orton and David Mamet.
Recent years have seen the small, tucked-away venue hitting one financial brick wall after another, most recently when executive director Angelina Fiordellisi agreed to sell the theater to the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation for $11 million in 2021. According to The New York Times, that deal fell through over the selling price.
A deed...
The 179-seat mainstage venue, located on one of the most picturesque side streets of Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, is a central part of Off Broadway history, founded as a playhouse in 1923 and eventually providing a home space for such major theatrical figures as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco, LeRoi Jones, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Joe Orton and David Mamet.
Recent years have seen the small, tucked-away venue hitting one financial brick wall after another, most recently when executive director Angelina Fiordellisi agreed to sell the theater to the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation for $11 million in 2021. According to The New York Times, that deal fell through over the selling price.
A deed...
- 3/3/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Sunday Am Final: Some parts of the weekend box office are alive, and some are dead, and that which is vibrant is Paramount’s second weekend of Smile, which — as we mentioned during the weekend preview — was apt to steal No. 1 away from newcomers Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and Amsterdam.
The Parker Finn R-rated horror film is posting the second-best hold ever for an R-rated horror movie, with an amazing -22 and 17.6M, after 2017’s Get Out, which eased -15. This puts Smile‘s 10-day total just under 50M. Smile also owns the best non-holiday second weekend hold for a wide release during the pandemic era. Smile‘s second Saturday at 7.4M was up 38 over the pic’s second Friday of 5.4M. EntTelligence clocked 1.4M who saw Smile in weekend 2, to 900K admission for Lyle, Lyle Crocodile and 450K tickets punched for Amsterdam.
Photo by: Sarah Shatz
For all the talk...
The Parker Finn R-rated horror film is posting the second-best hold ever for an R-rated horror movie, with an amazing -22 and 17.6M, after 2017’s Get Out, which eased -15. This puts Smile‘s 10-day total just under 50M. Smile also owns the best non-holiday second weekend hold for a wide release during the pandemic era. Smile‘s second Saturday at 7.4M was up 38 over the pic’s second Friday of 5.4M. EntTelligence clocked 1.4M who saw Smile in weekend 2, to 900K admission for Lyle, Lyle Crocodile and 450K tickets punched for Amsterdam.
Photo by: Sarah Shatz
For all the talk...
- 10/9/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The former head of the ACLU discusses some of the movies – and sports legends – that made him.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Mighty Ira (2020)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
42 (2013)
Shane (1953)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
Last Year At Marienbad (1962)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
La Strada (1954)
Wild Strawberries (1957) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
The Virgin Spring (1960) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Last House On The Left (1972) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
A Walk In The Sun (1945) – Glenn Erickson’s review
Paths Of Glory (1957) – George Hickenlooper’s trailer commentary, John Landis’s trailer commentary
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary
Lonely Are The Brave (1962)
Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
On The Waterfront (1954) – John Badham’s trailer commentary
12 Angry Men (1957)
Inherit The Wind (1960)
Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
Witness For The Prosecution (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Verdict (1982)
Twelve Angry Men teleplay (1954)
The Front (1976)
Judgment At Nuremberg teleplay...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Mighty Ira (2020)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
42 (2013)
Shane (1953)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
Last Year At Marienbad (1962)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
La Strada (1954)
Wild Strawberries (1957) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
The Virgin Spring (1960) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Last House On The Left (1972) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
A Walk In The Sun (1945) – Glenn Erickson’s review
Paths Of Glory (1957) – George Hickenlooper’s trailer commentary, John Landis’s trailer commentary
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary
Lonely Are The Brave (1962)
Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
On The Waterfront (1954) – John Badham’s trailer commentary
12 Angry Men (1957)
Inherit The Wind (1960)
Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
Witness For The Prosecution (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Verdict (1982)
Twelve Angry Men teleplay (1954)
The Front (1976)
Judgment At Nuremberg teleplay...
- 10/19/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Navigator in Love Written by Lasha Bugadze Directed by Adam Knight Presented by Red Lab Productions and Otar Margania at Teatro Circulo, NYC July 13-August 6, 2017
Playwright Lasha Bugadze makes the idea of needing some direction in life very literal in Navigator in Love, part of the Georgian-American Theatrical Feast taking place now through early August in Manhattan. The world premiere of Navigator, which won the 2012 Bcc World Drama Award for Best International Play, in a translation by Maya Kiasashvili is one of an array of events that make up the festival, the aim of which is to introduce American audiences to nine playwrights from Georgia, a country of four million that is described in the program as lying "at the crossroads of Europe and Asia." This celebration of Georgia and its venerable cultural history and vibrant contemporary theatrical community includes two full productions, free readings, and special events with wine and music.
Playwright Lasha Bugadze makes the idea of needing some direction in life very literal in Navigator in Love, part of the Georgian-American Theatrical Feast taking place now through early August in Manhattan. The world premiere of Navigator, which won the 2012 Bcc World Drama Award for Best International Play, in a translation by Maya Kiasashvili is one of an array of events that make up the festival, the aim of which is to introduce American audiences to nine playwrights from Georgia, a country of four million that is described in the program as lying "at the crossroads of Europe and Asia." This celebration of Georgia and its venerable cultural history and vibrant contemporary theatrical community includes two full productions, free readings, and special events with wine and music.
- 7/20/2017
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
The sad news for fans of film comedy spread like wildfire earlier this week. Here’s the opening paragraph facts from the New York Times:
Gene Wilder, who established himself as one of America’s foremost comic actors with his delightfully neurotic performances in three films directed by Mel Brooks; his eccentric star turn in the family classic “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”; and his winning chemistry with Richard Pryor in the box-office smash “Stir Crazy,” died early Monday morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 83.
A nephew, the filmmaker Jordan Walker-Pearlman, confirmed his death in a statement, saying the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Wilder’s rule for comedy was simple: Don’t try to make it funny; try to make it real. “I’m an actor, not a clown,” he said more than once.
And what an actor. That’s from the...
Gene Wilder, who established himself as one of America’s foremost comic actors with his delightfully neurotic performances in three films directed by Mel Brooks; his eccentric star turn in the family classic “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”; and his winning chemistry with Richard Pryor in the box-office smash “Stir Crazy,” died early Monday morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 83.
A nephew, the filmmaker Jordan Walker-Pearlman, confirmed his death in a statement, saying the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Wilder’s rule for comedy was simple: Don’t try to make it funny; try to make it real. “I’m an actor, not a clown,” he said more than once.
And what an actor. That’s from the...
- 8/31/2016
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Crossing the halfway point of this brilliant second season, we reach what could be considered a transitional episode. It's filled with cliffhangers and unanswered questions, but amplified with enough tension to also entertain. "Rhinoceros" is the most functional episode of the season, often playing out in actual time as if it were 24 — which is a crossover I would totally watch. "This is a true story. Events take place in real time, ya know.""Rhinoceros," named after the Eugène Ionesco's play about groupthink and conformity, picks up minutes after the end of episode five. Lou (Patrick Wilson) and Hank (Ted Danson) have arrived at the Blumquist home, where they take Ed (Jesse Plemons) into custody, much to the protestation of Peggy (Kirsten Dunst). "You're not gonna prove my Ed did anything wrong! It's un-provable!" she yells. It's not that he didn't do anything wrong, though. They just can't prove it.
- 11/17/2015
- by Brian Tallerico
- Vulture
The following piece contains spoilers about Childrens Hospital Season 7. When it comes to giving their Eugene Ionesco-on-acid comedy series a cinematic flair, the Childrens Hospital team looks to cast member Lake Bell as their director. The actress, who plays Dr. Cat Black on the Adult Swim comedy series, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for her feature directorial debut In A World… However, she’s been the go-to gal on six episodes…...
- 8/28/2015
- Deadline TV
Iconic stage and screen star Eli Wallach, known for performances in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Magnificent Seven, died Tuesday. He was 98.
Eli Wallach Dies
Wallach’s death was confirmed by a family member to CNN.
Over the course of his storied career, Wallach accumulated more that 150 film credits. In addition to 60s Westerns The Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, he starred in The Misfits, Lord Jim, Tour Guys, The Two Jakes, The Godfather: Part III and The Holiday. His last major motion picture was 2013’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Among the Hollywood elite Wallach starred alongside were Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Kirk Douglas, Jack Nicholson and Kate Winslet.
Though film paid the bills, Wallach’s passion was the theatre. “For actors, movies are a means to an end," Wallach told The New York Times in 1973. "I go...
Eli Wallach Dies
Wallach’s death was confirmed by a family member to CNN.
Over the course of his storied career, Wallach accumulated more that 150 film credits. In addition to 60s Westerns The Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, he starred in The Misfits, Lord Jim, Tour Guys, The Two Jakes, The Godfather: Part III and The Holiday. His last major motion picture was 2013’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Among the Hollywood elite Wallach starred alongside were Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Kirk Douglas, Jack Nicholson and Kate Winslet.
Though film paid the bills, Wallach’s passion was the theatre. “For actors, movies are a means to an end," Wallach told The New York Times in 1973. "I go...
- 6/25/2014
- Uinterview
Exclusive: Veteran UK producer Patrick Cassavetti has boarded Marat Alykulov’s black comedy Lenin?!.
Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
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Cassavetti, producer on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas - agreed to become executive producer on the Kyrgyzstani project following talks in Cannes last month.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this year’s Moscow Business Square (Mbs), producer Joanna Bence of Curb Denizen Productions said that Cassavetti will also offer new ‘perks’ to the ‘Help Bury Lenin?!’ crowdfunding campaign by giving burgeoning filmmakers the chance to receive personal feedback on their past or upcoming productions.
Bence also revealed that German-born, London-based DoP Stephan Bookas - who has worked on Maleficent and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy - is confirmed as cinematographer for the project, which was pitched at the Mbs’s co-production forum last year after having been presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market and Connecting Cottbus in autumn 2012.
Together with Curb Denizen producer partner [link=nm...
- 6/23/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Killer Directed by Darko Tresnjak Theater for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY May 17 - June 29, 2014
Theater for a New Audience closes its inaugural season in its new home at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn with an outstanding production of Eugène Ionesco’s 1957 dark comedy, The Killer. Presented here in a new translation by Michael Feingold, The Killer follows Berenger, Ionesco’s multi-play Everyman, from his discovery of a utopian “radiant city,” a place that returns to him a long-lost feeling of being truly alive, through the consequences of his further discovery that his utopia boasts a resident murderer. When a young woman named Dennie, with whom Berenger immediately falls in love, makes herself vulnerable to the murderer by leaving the employ of the city, Berenger’s quest for justice leads him into encounters with a sickly friend who may or may not be involved,...
Theater for a New Audience closes its inaugural season in its new home at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn with an outstanding production of Eugène Ionesco’s 1957 dark comedy, The Killer. Presented here in a new translation by Michael Feingold, The Killer follows Berenger, Ionesco’s multi-play Everyman, from his discovery of a utopian “radiant city,” a place that returns to him a long-lost feeling of being truly alive, through the consequences of his further discovery that his utopia boasts a resident murderer. When a young woman named Dennie, with whom Berenger immediately falls in love, makes herself vulnerable to the murderer by leaving the employ of the city, Berenger’s quest for justice leads him into encounters with a sickly friend who may or may not be involved,...
- 6/12/2014
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
The weekend of the Tonys has finally arrived, and EW will be your shepherd through the entire night, with reports from the red carpet and Radio City Music Hall, and senior editor Thom Geier and myself hosting a live blog of the entire ceremony, beginning at 8 p.m. Et when it airs on CBS. Host Hugh Jackman must already have his eyes on a prize for next season when he returns for Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth’s three-person drama The River, and other starry productions are slowly finding homes for next season. Glenn Close, John Lithgow, and Martha Plimpton will...
- 6/6/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Franklin Stein: A Modern Tale of Corporate Horror Written by C.J. Thom Directed by John Harlacher The Connelly Theater, NYC Through September 14, 2013
Franklin Stein is a horror story told in the tradition of Theater of the Absurd as practiced by Eugene Ionesco, the early work of Edward Albee, the plays of Samuel Beckett, and other international playwrights commencing in the late 1950s. Such plays are meditations on the absurdity of human existence, in which conventions of plot and characterization are distorted to convey, as one dictionary defined it, "the irrationally of existence and the isolation of humanity." Playwright C.J. Thom, with an exceptionally fine cast and artistic team, succeeds in presenting a powerful evening of theater which asks the question: What does it take to have heart against the backdrop of the pernicious corporatization of human life and interaction?
A corporate flunky named Franklin Stein meets with Dr.
Franklin Stein is a horror story told in the tradition of Theater of the Absurd as practiced by Eugene Ionesco, the early work of Edward Albee, the plays of Samuel Beckett, and other international playwrights commencing in the late 1950s. Such plays are meditations on the absurdity of human existence, in which conventions of plot and characterization are distorted to convey, as one dictionary defined it, "the irrationally of existence and the isolation of humanity." Playwright C.J. Thom, with an exceptionally fine cast and artistic team, succeeds in presenting a powerful evening of theater which asks the question: What does it take to have heart against the backdrop of the pernicious corporatization of human life and interaction?
A corporate flunky named Franklin Stein meets with Dr.
- 9/8/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Actor best known as the haughty department store supervisor Captain Peacock in the TV comedy Are You Being Served?
The actor Frank Thornton, who has died aged 92, had a flair for comedy derived from the subtle craftsmanship of classical stage work. However, he will be best remembered for his longstanding characters in two popular BBC television comedy series – the sniffily priggish Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and the pompous retired policeman Herbert "Truly" Truelove, in Roy Clarke's Last of the Summer Wine.
Robertson Hare, the great Whitehall farceur, told him: "You'll never do any good until you're 40." And, said Thornton, "he was quite right." In the event, he was 51 when David Croft, producer of another long-running British staple, Dad's Army, remembered the tall, long-faced actor from another engagement and decided to cast him as the dapper floor-walker in charge of shop assistants played by Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard,...
The actor Frank Thornton, who has died aged 92, had a flair for comedy derived from the subtle craftsmanship of classical stage work. However, he will be best remembered for his longstanding characters in two popular BBC television comedy series – the sniffily priggish Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and the pompous retired policeman Herbert "Truly" Truelove, in Roy Clarke's Last of the Summer Wine.
Robertson Hare, the great Whitehall farceur, told him: "You'll never do any good until you're 40." And, said Thornton, "he was quite right." In the event, he was 51 when David Croft, producer of another long-running British staple, Dad's Army, remembered the tall, long-faced actor from another engagement and decided to cast him as the dapper floor-walker in charge of shop assistants played by Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard,...
- 3/19/2013
- by Carole Woddis
- The Guardian - Film News
A Fake Moon rises over Bristol at the Ibt festival, Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! scurries into Birmingham, and James McAvoy tackles the Scottish play in London
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The big opening this week is Roger McGough's new version of Molière's The Misanthrope at Liverpool Playhouse, which should be fun. Theatre meets music gigs in 154 Collective's Dancing With the Orange Dog, which is at Stockton Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hairspray is out on tour again and is at the Lowry in Salford. In Manchester, meanwhile, Queer Contact celebrates the best in Lgbt art and culture this weekend. The moving first-world-war drama, The Accrington Pals, continues at the Exchange. David Copperfield begins at the Oldham Coliseum tonight. This looks intriguing: at Haphazard at Z-arts on Saturday is Word of Warning's day of live art for all ages. The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes...
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The big opening this week is Roger McGough's new version of Molière's The Misanthrope at Liverpool Playhouse, which should be fun. Theatre meets music gigs in 154 Collective's Dancing With the Orange Dog, which is at Stockton Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hairspray is out on tour again and is at the Lowry in Salford. In Manchester, meanwhile, Queer Contact celebrates the best in Lgbt art and culture this weekend. The moving first-world-war drama, The Accrington Pals, continues at the Exchange. David Copperfield begins at the Oldham Coliseum tonight. This looks intriguing: at Haphazard at Z-arts on Saturday is Word of Warning's day of live art for all ages. The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes...
- 2/8/2013
- by Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
French actor known for her role as the cantankerous widow in Tatie Danielle, the 1990 film directed by Étienne Chatiliez
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
- 7/22/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
It flopped disastrously, nearly killed Hitchcock and has been scorned for decades. But it's time The Trouble With Harry was recognised as a surrealist masterpiece
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On October 12 1954, Alfred Hitchcock was shooting on location in Morrisville, Vermont, when the overhead bracket supporting a VistaVision camera snapped. Weighing 850lb – the same as a car – the camera unit dropped through the air, swiped the director's shoulder and rolled over, pinning a crew member briefly to the ground. It was the nearest the master himself came to violent death: just a few inches to the side and it would have smashed that unmistakable domed head like a peach and provided cinema theorists with any number of irresistible, macabre metaphors. Hitchcock calmly ordered filming to continue with a replacement camera. Later he packed up, however, declaring himself unsatisfied with the weather in Vermont, and moved the shoot...
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On October 12 1954, Alfred Hitchcock was shooting on location in Morrisville, Vermont, when the overhead bracket supporting a VistaVision camera snapped. Weighing 850lb – the same as a car – the camera unit dropped through the air, swiped the director's shoulder and rolled over, pinning a crew member briefly to the ground. It was the nearest the master himself came to violent death: just a few inches to the side and it would have smashed that unmistakable domed head like a peach and provided cinema theorists with any number of irresistible, macabre metaphors. Hitchcock calmly ordered filming to continue with a replacement camera. Later he packed up, however, declaring himself unsatisfied with the weather in Vermont, and moved the shoot...
- 7/3/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
From John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, comes word that legendary publisher and film distributor Barney Rosset has passed away at the age of 89. Gall points us to a lively profile by Louisa Thomas that ran in Newsweek in late 2008: "Rosset's publishing house, Grove Press, was a tiny company operating out of the ground floor of Rosset's brownstone when it published an obscure play called Waiting for Godot in 1954. By the time Beckett had won the Nobel Prize in 1969, Grove had become a force that challenged and changed literature and American culture in deep and lasting ways. Its impact is still evident — from the Che Guevara posters adorning college dorms to the canonical status of the house's once controversial authors. Rosset is less well known — but late in his life he is achieving some wider recognition. Last month, a black-tie crowd gave Rosset a standing ovation...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
As one of the horror films that got its brief theatrical run this summer as part of Bloody Disgusting’s AMC Horrorfest, Cold Fish doesn’t feel like a typical horror at first and instead feels like a nod to Eugene Ionesco’s “The Lesson” with its overbearing host played by Denden and the unsuspecting fish salesmen, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, drawn into his world of unexpected violence and deceit. For the first 30 minutes, there’s something mesmerizing about Denden’s performance and Cold Fish seems like it could go just about anywhere, but eventually the thriller elements take the helm and the film explodes into a rather bloody mess representative of the main characters forever altered mental state. Cold Fish could have had a more satisfying payoff according to the promise of the earlier elements, though what we get still represents a solid outing in the thriller genre.
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- 8/24/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Coming on the heels of Phase 7 in Bloody Disgusting’s AMC Horrorfest, Cold Fish doesn’t feel like a typical horror at first and instead feels like a nod to Eugene Ionesco’s “The Lesson” with its overbearing host played by Denden and the unsuspecting fish salesmen, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, drawn into his world of unexpected violence and deceit. For the first 30 minutes, there’s something mesmerizing about Denden’s performance and Cold Fish seems like it could go just about anywhere, but eventually the thriller elements take the helm and the film explodes into a rather bloody mess representative of the main characters forever altered mental state. Cold Fish could have had a more satisfying payoff according to the promise of the earlier elements, though what we get still represents a solid outing in the thriller genre.
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- 8/6/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
"Why? Why? Why why why why why? Why?! Why?! Why?!" - Eva Green in Perfect Sense.
You know how when you see people yawn, you wind up yawning yourself? Well, in watching Perfect Sense I discovered that after 90 straight minutes of exposure to characters in the throes of intense, primal emotion you will leave the theater somewhat. . .shaken. What it comes down to is this: I know, intellectually, there are major problems with Perfect Sense’s script, yet I still had a visceral reaction that was unequaled during my entire stay at the Sundance Film Festival.
Perfect Sense tells the story of a young endocrinologist (Green) and her neighbor/chef/schtup buddy played by the very sensual Ewan MacGregor. Things get weird when, across the whole globe, people start to fall to a condition where they lose their sense of smell. But before they do, they have a momentary feeling of intense,...
You know how when you see people yawn, you wind up yawning yourself? Well, in watching Perfect Sense I discovered that after 90 straight minutes of exposure to characters in the throes of intense, primal emotion you will leave the theater somewhat. . .shaken. What it comes down to is this: I know, intellectually, there are major problems with Perfect Sense’s script, yet I still had a visceral reaction that was unequaled during my entire stay at the Sundance Film Festival.
Perfect Sense tells the story of a young endocrinologist (Green) and her neighbor/chef/schtup buddy played by the very sensual Ewan MacGregor. Things get weird when, across the whole globe, people start to fall to a condition where they lose their sense of smell. But before they do, they have a momentary feeling of intense,...
- 1/28/2011
- UGO Movies
Acting students, if they're lucky, find classes that are satisfying, challenging, and fully worth the time and money. But once in a while, they wind up in a class that rises above and beyond mere satisfaction. Something about the rapport between instructor and students—and among students themselves—clicks perfectly. Everyone ends up making sweet, surprising artistic leaps forward.When you find a class like that, it's only natural to want to keep the magic going. Actors sometimes decide to take the play they've been exploring in their scene study class, secure a theater, and put the whole thing up for an audience. Usually those plans fall apart pretty quickly. A week after the last class meeting, everyone has moved on to the next endeavor. But Back Stage found actors who didn't lose the momentum—who managed to collaborate with fellow students to create fully realized productions. These performers generously...
- 3/25/2010
- backstage.com
Low-budget, Canadian and sneaky as hell, Bruce McDonald's "Pontypool" is a movie that restores your faith in the ability of genre movies to rabbit-punch your limbic system and your frontal lobe at the same time. Just grabbing the ingenious premise with two hands is a moviehead thrill: the setting is the local radio station for a tiny Ontario town, so small that it occupies not its own building but the basement of a church. The protagonist is Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie), a grizzled, boozy, pretentious shock jock whose downward career spiral has landed him in the provincial wilderness, where his indulgent ramblings are largely unwelcome and where he's only supposed to deliver weather and traffic news. His foils are the patient station manager (Lisa Houle) and a young intern (Georgina Reilly). Amidst the morning-drive drudgery, reports begin to trickle in, of crowds forming and riots beginning and people being chased and torn apart.
- 1/26/2010
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
It’s hard not to compare Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian with the sequel to National Treasure; both are family oriented sequels with a faux-spin encouraging an interest in history. National Treasure creates its own conspiratorial links between famous historical references while Night at the Museum just throws it all in a blender and hits “Puree”. Any educational value the films could have had is drowned out by the screaming multitudes of anachronistic characters (or facts) leveraged in favor of cheap one-liners to make the star’s appearance at its center worth the budgetary expense. But was it? With all the cameo appearances in the film, some of which are utterly wasted by lack of screen time, how important was it to have Ben Stiller reprise his role?
After the events of the first film, Larry Daley (Stiller) started his own line of electronics and quit his...
After the events of the first film, Larry Daley (Stiller) started his own line of electronics and quit his...
- 12/5/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Many a tear has to fall but it's all in the game... September 24th is the centennial birthday of my late father, the songwriter Carl Sigman (1909-2000), who wrote nearly a thousand songs, including "It's All In The Game," "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story," "Ebb Tide," "What Now, My Love," "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" and "Arrivederci, Roma." In the first of two parts, I offer some fun facts and observations on his first half-century. Also born in 1909: Johnny Mercer, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Maybelle Carter, Burl Ives, Colonel Tom Parker and, absurdly, Eugene Ionesco. Johnny Mercer, the genteel Georgian who would become one of the greatest American songwriters, lived down the street from my dad in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, and became his mentor. Johnny would show up at the Sigman apartment most nights around dinnertime...
- 9/8/2009
- by Michael Sigman
- Huffington Post
Buffalo Buds Tim Heidecker and Eric WareheimTim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is one of those rare TV shows that can alienate some viewers with nothing more than the opening credits. Even for long-time viewers and hardcore fans, it's kinda confusing. It begins with stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, dressed in matching red jumpsuits, dancing on their own tongues. Then there are flashing images of a fax machine, a hot dog and two kittens tongue-kissing. Tim and Eric's respective heads explode, sending their viscera and dozens of tiny kitty heads spiraling towards the screen. If you don't enjoy those 20 seconds of rapid-fire absurdity—which, for the record, tells you absolutely nothing about the show itself—then you need to keep on tappin' that remote, brother, 'cause you ain't gonna like what comes next. During its four seasons on Adult Swim—season three will be released on DVD August...
- 7/31/2009
- Vanity Fair
Broadway did what Broadway does best to open Sunday night's 63rd annual Tony Awards - delivering an electrifying musical number that starred Dolly Parton, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, the casts of West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Pal Joey, Shrek, 9 to 5: The Musical, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages and Billy Elliot and finished off with a love-in: a rousing rendition of "Let the Sun Shine" from the new best-revival production of Hair that got all 6,000 attendees inside Radio City Music Hall dancing in their seats. When the spectacle concluded, the evening's host, How I Met Your Mother star Neal Patrick Harris,...
- 6/8/2009
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Geoffrey Rush became the 17th performer to win the acting triple crown of Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards when he romped to victory tonight as best lead actor in a play. Astonishingly, Geoffrey Rush won each of these prestigious prizes on his first try – the Oscar for "Shine" in 1996, the Emmy for "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" in 2005, and now the Tony for "Exit the King."
Geoffrey Rush not only stars in this acclaimed production of the absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco but translated the text with director Neil Armfield. The Australian actor edged out performances by "God of Carnage" stars Jeff Daniels and James Gandolfini, Raul Esparza – who earned his third consecutive Tony nod for "Speed-the-Plow" – and newcomer Thomas Sadoski ("reasons to be pretty").
Only 2 of the 10 people to pull off the grand slam of all four major showbiz awards won their Oscar, Emmy and Tony for...
Geoffrey Rush not only stars in this acclaimed production of the absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco but translated the text with director Neil Armfield. The Australian actor edged out performances by "God of Carnage" stars Jeff Daniels and James Gandolfini, Raul Esparza – who earned his third consecutive Tony nod for "Speed-the-Plow" – and newcomer Thomas Sadoski ("reasons to be pretty").
Only 2 of the 10 people to pull off the grand slam of all four major showbiz awards won their Oscar, Emmy and Tony for...
- 6/8/2009
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
San Francisco?s cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater proudly announces the lineup for its 10th Anniversary season. The season opens in October with The Bald Soprano, Eugène Ionesco?s absurdist comic masterpiece, in a new translation by Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose, who will also direct. The company is also poised to present ? And Jesus Moonwalks The Mississippi, a new play by Marcus Gardley, directed by Amy Mueller. Back by popular demand is Eugenie Chan?s retelling of the Ariadne myth, Bone to Pick, which received its World Premiere in Cutting Ball?s 2007-2008 season as part of Avant GardARAMA!; this provocative play, starring Paige Rogers, will be accompanied by a newly commissioned companion piece, Diadem, in May; both will be directed by Rob Melrose.
- 5/25/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Geoffrey Rush is the toast of the New York theatre world - his Broadway debut in Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King has been lauded by critics - with the Australian actor outshining his co-star Susan Sarandon.
The Oscar-winner made his first Broadway bow on Friday night in the play he originally starred in at the Malthouse Theater in Victoria, Australia.
And the press audience was delighted with his portrayal of a 400-year-old king who is facing death - with a critic from The New York Times describing Rush's performance as a "knockout" and The Daily News branding the 57-year-old an "ace on stage".
But Rush's co-star, Susan Sarandon, who made her first Broadway appearance since 1972 as The King's wife, received less-kindly reviews.
The New York Post theatre critic states Sarandon "barks out her lines as if unsure where she's meant to be authoritative or just in a bad mood", describing her overall performance as "problematic".
Another expert from The Daily News claims the actress' big screen appeal doesn't transfer to her stage work, saying "she emerges far less colourful on stage, from her voice to her body language."...
The Oscar-winner made his first Broadway bow on Friday night in the play he originally starred in at the Malthouse Theater in Victoria, Australia.
And the press audience was delighted with his portrayal of a 400-year-old king who is facing death - with a critic from The New York Times describing Rush's performance as a "knockout" and The Daily News branding the 57-year-old an "ace on stage".
But Rush's co-star, Susan Sarandon, who made her first Broadway appearance since 1972 as The King's wife, received less-kindly reviews.
The New York Post theatre critic states Sarandon "barks out her lines as if unsure where she's meant to be authoritative or just in a bad mood", describing her overall performance as "problematic".
Another expert from The Daily News claims the actress' big screen appeal doesn't transfer to her stage work, saying "she emerges far less colourful on stage, from her voice to her body language."...
- 3/28/2009
- WENN
Geoffrey Rush has won glowing praise from critics for his Broadway debut in Exit The King. The Oscar winner, who stars opposite Susan Sarandon in the 1962 Eugene Ionesco play, was hailed for his "profoundly moving" portrayal of madman King Berenger. Although Rush has appeared in more than 70 plays in his home country of Australia, he has never before entered the limelight on the world famous avenue, reports the (more)...
- 3/27/2009
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
If this is how a recession affects Broadway, well then, bring it on!
There was much gnashing of teeth in January when a record number of productions closed and left the Rialto looking barren indeed. But since then, some strange things have happened even as the economy continues to struggle to find a foothold.
Broadway grosses are holding their own, with fairly minimal boxoffice dropoffs, and some shows -- notably the revival of "West Side Story" -- are doing $1 million a week even in previews.
More startling still, this spring features an impressive number of openings, with virtually every theater booked. By the time the season wraps at the end of April, more shows will have opened during the 2008-09 campaign than in each of the past two years. What's more, the lineup of recently opened and upcoming productions is far more varied and exciting than usual.
There are classic...
There was much gnashing of teeth in January when a record number of productions closed and left the Rialto looking barren indeed. But since then, some strange things have happened even as the economy continues to struggle to find a foothold.
Broadway grosses are holding their own, with fairly minimal boxoffice dropoffs, and some shows -- notably the revival of "West Side Story" -- are doing $1 million a week even in previews.
More startling still, this spring features an impressive number of openings, with virtually every theater booked. By the time the season wraps at the end of April, more shows will have opened during the 2008-09 campaign than in each of the past two years. What's more, the lineup of recently opened and upcoming productions is far more varied and exciting than usual.
There are classic...
- 3/18/2009
- by By Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Susan Sarandon's return to Broadway reminds her she's an ageing star in a youth-obsessed industry.
Sarandon, 62, will take to the New York stage this month for a three month run of Eugene Ionesco's drama Exit The King.
And she admits playing the elder ex-wife of a dying monarch, portrayed by Aussie actor Geoffrey Rush, has heightened her fears about competing for work with young showbiz starlets.
She tells New York magazine, "Everyone calls her (my character) a b**ch and a cow, and it isn't easy to be in that place all day. And how about for an ageing actress? That's even worse! You're constantly being reminded that you've been replaced in the kingdom.
"I'm discovering that I'm vainer than I thought. My ego has completely gotten ahold of me. This has been a shock!"
But Sarandon has no regrets about taking on the role, adding, "Anything this unsettling has to be worthwhile."
The play will mark Sarandon's first trip to Broadway since she appeared in Gore Vidal's An Evening With Richard Nixon and... in 1972.
Sarandon, 62, will take to the New York stage this month for a three month run of Eugene Ionesco's drama Exit The King.
And she admits playing the elder ex-wife of a dying monarch, portrayed by Aussie actor Geoffrey Rush, has heightened her fears about competing for work with young showbiz starlets.
She tells New York magazine, "Everyone calls her (my character) a b**ch and a cow, and it isn't easy to be in that place all day. And how about for an ageing actress? That's even worse! You're constantly being reminded that you've been replaced in the kingdom.
"I'm discovering that I'm vainer than I thought. My ego has completely gotten ahold of me. This has been a shock!"
But Sarandon has no regrets about taking on the role, adding, "Anything this unsettling has to be worthwhile."
The play will mark Sarandon's first trip to Broadway since she appeared in Gore Vidal's An Evening With Richard Nixon and... in 1972.
- 3/16/2009
- WENN
Academy? Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) as King Berenger and Susan Sarandon (Dead Men Walking) as Queen Marguerite will star in Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King on Broadway. This production marks Rush's Broadway debut. Translated by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, Exit The King will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009.
- 3/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Academy? Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) as King Berenger and Susan Sarandon (Dead Men Walking) as Queen Marguerite will star in Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King on Broadway. This production marks Rush's Broadway debut. Translated by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, Exit The King will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009.
- 3/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tickets go on sale this Sunday, January 25 for the upcoming Broadway production of Eugene Ionesco's classic comedy Exit The King starring Academy Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Men Walking), and Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Lauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, "Six Feet Under") and Tony? Award- winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Young Frankenstein). With a new translation by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, Exit The King will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009. Exit The King is a hilarious and poignant comedy about a megalomaniacal ruler, King Berenger (Rush) whose incompetence has left his country in near ruin. Despite the efforts of Queen Marguerite (Sarandon) and the other members of the court to convince the King he has only 90 minutes left to live,...
- 1/25/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tickets go on sale this Sunday, January 25 for the upcoming Broadway production of Eugene Ionesco's classic comedy Exit The King starring Academy Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Men Walking), and Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Lauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, "Six Feet Under") and Tony? Award- winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Young Frankenstein). With a new translation by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, Exit The King will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009. Exit The King is a hilarious and poignant comedy about a megalomaniacal ruler, King Berenger (Rush) whose incompetence has left his country in near ruin. Despite the efforts of Queen Marguerite (Sarandon) and the other members of the court to convince the King he has only 90 minutes left to live,...
- 1/23/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Potent Pause Productions as part of the Auckland Festival 2009 present The Chairs/Les Chaises by Eugene Ionesco The Chairs will be performed in French and in English as follows: Thurs 12 - Sat 14 March 2009 (English) 8pm Sun 15 March 2009 (English) 6pm Tues 17 - Sat 21 March 2009 (French) 8pm Sun 22 March 2009 (French) 6pm Tues 24 - Sat 28 March 2009 (English) 8pm No performances Monday Telephone bookings: (09) 308 2383 Directed and designed by George Tudor Cast: Michael Lawrence, Cristina Ionda and Denise Snoad Two characters, an old man and old woman, arrange chairs for a series of invisible guests who are invited to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery of the meaning of life. The message is left with the orator, but he is deaf-mute and cannot relay it.
- 1/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Lauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, "Six Feet Under") and Tony? Award- winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Young Frankenstein) will star in Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King, joining the previously announced Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon. Translated by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, Exit The King will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009. Additional casting will be announced soon. Exit The King is a hilarious and poignant comedy about a megalomaniacal ruler, King Berenger (Rush) whose incompetence has left his country in near ruin. Despite the efforts of Queen Marguerite (Sarandon) and the other members of the court to convince the King he has only 90 minutes left to live, he refuses to relinquish any control.
- 1/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush are starring together in the Broadway revival of Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King."
Rush, who starred in the play in 2007 in Australia, will reprise his role as King Berenger who brought his country to ruin. Sarandon will be playing his first wife, Margeurite.
This will be Sarandon's first Broadway play since appearing in Gore Vidal's "An Evening with Richard Nixon" in 1972.
The show, adapted by Rush and director Neil Armfield, will have its previews beginning on March 7 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. It will open on March 26.
Rush, who starred in the play in 2007 in Australia, will reprise his role as King Berenger who brought his country to ruin. Sarandon will be playing his first wife, Margeurite.
This will be Sarandon's first Broadway play since appearing in Gore Vidal's "An Evening with Richard Nixon" in 1972.
The show, adapted by Rush and director Neil Armfield, will have its previews beginning on March 7 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. It will open on March 26.
- 1/14/2009
- icelebz.com
Aussie actor Geoffrey Rush is to make his Broadway bow opposite fellow Oscar winner Susan Sarandon in Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King.
Rush will reprise his role as the king in the play, which was originally produced by the Company B and Malthouse Theater in Australia.
The play will mark Sarandon's first trip to Broadway since she appeared in Gore Vidal's An Evening With Richard Nixon and... in 1972.
She'll play one of Rush's wives.
Rush co-translated the play with director Neil Armfield.
Reports suggest the new play will open in the spring, but dates are yet to be confirmed.
Rush will reprise his role as the king in the play, which was originally produced by the Company B and Malthouse Theater in Australia.
The play will mark Sarandon's first trip to Broadway since she appeared in Gore Vidal's An Evening With Richard Nixon and... in 1972.
She'll play one of Rush's wives.
Rush co-translated the play with director Neil Armfield.
Reports suggest the new play will open in the spring, but dates are yet to be confirmed.
- 1/14/2009
- WENN
In her job as casting director for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Erica Daniels not only plays matchmaker -- coming up with just the right actor to embody a particular character -- she also acts as a sort of theatrical den mother. "You're dealing with people with emotional needs, creative needs and wants; you're massaging a lot of personalities," says Daniels, who -- apart from the passing intern or apprentice -- constitutes the theatre's entire casting department. It's no small job. In the case of a large-cast play making its world premiere -- Tracy Letts' Pulitzer- and Tony-winning August: Osage County, for instance -- the stakes would seem particularly high. After all, the actor who first enacts a role could set the standard for future incarnations. The re-imagining of a classic drama, meanwhile, presents its own casting challenges. This fall, Daniels worked with director Tina Landau on William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
- 1/8/2009
- by Mark Dundas Wood
- backstage.com
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