In today’s Global Bulletin, Steven Knight’s “Sas: Rogue Heroes” starts shooting, Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan” cleans up at Czech Lion Awards, BBC Comedy hires “I May Destroy You” producer Tanya Qureshi, Content Catalyst Fund adds executives and reveals slate and George Takei’s “Allegiance” streams on BroadwayHD.
Filming is underway on BBC One drama series “Sas: Rogue Heroes,” from “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight. Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, “Sas: Rogue Heroes” is a dramatized account of how a Special Forces unit, the Sas, was formed under extraordinary circumstances during WWII.
The lead cast includes Connor Swindells (“Sex Education”), Jack O’Connell (“Skins”), Alfie Allen (“Game of Thrones”), Sofia Boutella (“Modern Love”) and Dominic West (“The Wire”).
The six-part series will be directed by Tom Shankland (“The Serpent”), with Stephen Smallwood (“Patrick Melrose”) as producer. The series will be executive produced by Karen Wilson,...
Filming is underway on BBC One drama series “Sas: Rogue Heroes,” from “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight. Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, “Sas: Rogue Heroes” is a dramatized account of how a Special Forces unit, the Sas, was formed under extraordinary circumstances during WWII.
The lead cast includes Connor Swindells (“Sex Education”), Jack O’Connell (“Skins”), Alfie Allen (“Game of Thrones”), Sofia Boutella (“Modern Love”) and Dominic West (“The Wire”).
The six-part series will be directed by Tom Shankland (“The Serpent”), with Stephen Smallwood (“Patrick Melrose”) as producer. The series will be executive produced by Karen Wilson,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sing Out, Louise Productions will hold a developmental reading of Indigo, an original new musical featuring music lyrics by Mac Award winning composer Scott Evan Davis and a book by Jay Kuo Allegiance, Lorenzo Thione Allegiance, and Davis. Indigo will be directed by Schele Williams Motown, the upcoming revival of Disney's Aida with musical direction and arrangements by Brad Haak Mary Poppins, An American in Paris.
- 11/11/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Actor George Takei, who was placed in Japanese-American internment camp during World War II at age 5, has written a scathing indictment of the Donald Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separates children from parents in the prosecution of all people crossing the U.S.’s southern border illegally.
“At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans,” writes the former Star Trek actor in today’s op-ed column for Foreign Policy magazine, “I and other children were not stripped from our parents. We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves.”
In 1942, Takei’s family was forced to live in Arkansas’s Rohwer War Relocation Center for internment and, later, the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. Takei starred in the 2015 Broadway production Allegiance, based on his family’s experience in the internment camps.
“At least during the internment,” Takei writes today, “we remained a family, and I credit that alone for keeping the scars of our unjust imprisonment from deepening on my soul. I cannot for a moment imagine what my childhood would have been like had I been thrown into a camp without my parents. That this is happening today fills me with both rage and grief: rage toward a failed political leadership who appear to have lost even their most basic humanity, and a profound grief for the families affected.”
https://t.co/hOIJj4r0lA
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 19, 2018
Comparisons between the internment camps and the Trump zero tolerance policy were also made by former first lady Laura Bush, who wrote in the Washington Post Sunday that the images from our southern border “are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in Us history.”
Writes Takei, “My family was sent to a racetrack for several weeks to live in a horse stall, but at least we had each other. At least during the internment, my parents were able to place themselves between the horror of what we were facing and my own childish understanding of our circumstances. They told us we were ‘going on a vacation to live with the horsies.’ And when we got to Rohwer camp, they again put themselves between us and the horror, so that we would never fully appreciate the grim reality of the mosquito-infested swamp into which we had been thrown. At least during the internment, we remained a family, and I credit that alone for keeping the scars of our unjust imprisonment from deepening on my soul.”
“When a government acts capriciously, especially against a powerless and much-reviled group,” Takei continues, “it is hard to describe the terror and anxiety. There is nowhere to turn, because the only people with the power to help have trained their guns and dogs upon you. You are without rights, held without charge or trial. The world is upside down, information-less, and indifferent or even hostile to your plight.”
Read Takei’s column here.
“At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans,” writes the former Star Trek actor in today’s op-ed column for Foreign Policy magazine, “I and other children were not stripped from our parents. We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves.”
In 1942, Takei’s family was forced to live in Arkansas’s Rohwer War Relocation Center for internment and, later, the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. Takei starred in the 2015 Broadway production Allegiance, based on his family’s experience in the internment camps.
“At least during the internment,” Takei writes today, “we remained a family, and I credit that alone for keeping the scars of our unjust imprisonment from deepening on my soul. I cannot for a moment imagine what my childhood would have been like had I been thrown into a camp without my parents. That this is happening today fills me with both rage and grief: rage toward a failed political leadership who appear to have lost even their most basic humanity, and a profound grief for the families affected.”
https://t.co/hOIJj4r0lA
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 19, 2018
Comparisons between the internment camps and the Trump zero tolerance policy were also made by former first lady Laura Bush, who wrote in the Washington Post Sunday that the images from our southern border “are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in Us history.”
Writes Takei, “My family was sent to a racetrack for several weeks to live in a horse stall, but at least we had each other. At least during the internment, my parents were able to place themselves between the horror of what we were facing and my own childish understanding of our circumstances. They told us we were ‘going on a vacation to live with the horsies.’ And when we got to Rohwer camp, they again put themselves between us and the horror, so that we would never fully appreciate the grim reality of the mosquito-infested swamp into which we had been thrown. At least during the internment, we remained a family, and I credit that alone for keeping the scars of our unjust imprisonment from deepening on my soul.”
“When a government acts capriciously, especially against a powerless and much-reviled group,” Takei continues, “it is hard to describe the terror and anxiety. There is nowhere to turn, because the only people with the power to help have trained their guns and dogs upon you. You are without rights, held without charge or trial. The world is upside down, information-less, and indifferent or even hostile to your plight.”
Read Takei’s column here.
- 6/19/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Melania Trump‘s eyebrow-raising shoe choice while heading to Texas to observe Hurricane Harvey relief efforts is still the talk of the internet — and celebs got in on the action to both poke fun and defend her footwear.
The first lady was spotted wearing a pair of black stilettos as she left the White House alongside her husband, President Donald Trump, Tuesday morning, and many Twitter users were quick to condemn the look that seemed to favor fashion over practicality.
Actor Zach Braff wryly noted that “Melania headed to a disaster zone in stilettos is my Halloween costume,” while others...
The first lady was spotted wearing a pair of black stilettos as she left the White House alongside her husband, President Donald Trump, Tuesday morning, and many Twitter users were quick to condemn the look that seemed to favor fashion over practicality.
Actor Zach Braff wryly noted that “Melania headed to a disaster zone in stilettos is my Halloween costume,” while others...
- 8/30/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Sing Out, Louise Productions and Ata have announced that the new musical Allegiance, with music amp lyrics by Jay Kuo, will be preserved with an original cast album to be recorded on Monday, December 7, 2015 at Msr Studios. The recording will be produced by Lynne Shankel amp Joel Moss for Sing Out, Louise Productions. Principal Allegiance cast members Lea Salonga, George Takei, Telly Leung, Katie Rose Clarke and Michael K. Lee will be joined by the entire company for the studio session, which will include original recordings of tracks such as Wishes on the Wind, What Makes a Man, With You, Stronger Than Before, and Salonga's Act One showstopper Higher, among many others. The album is scheduled to be released digitally on January 30, 2016. For more information, visit www.AllegianceMusical.com.
- 11/30/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway's Allegiance, a new musical inspired by Takei's true-life story, opens on November 8, 2015 at the Longacre Theatre 220 West 48th Street. Previews begin October 6. It features a book by Marc Acito and music and lyrics by Jay Kuo. Olivier Award nominee Stafford Arima London's Ragtime, Off-Broadway's Bare, Carrie, Altar Boyz directs. The company put on a press preview yesterday, and BroadwayWorld brings you interviews with the company and a sneak peek of the cast in action below...
- 9/30/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway's Allegiance, a new musical inspired by Takei's true-life story, opens on November 8, 2015 at the Longacre Theatre 220 West 48th Street. Previews begin October 6. It features a book by Marc Acito and music and lyrics by Jay Kuo. Olivier Award nominee Stafford Arima London's Ragtime, Off-Broadway's Bare, Carrie, Altar Boyz directs. The company put ona press preview earlier today, and BroadwayWorld brings you fully-staged footage of Lea Salonga, Telly Leung, Katie Rose Clarke and more in action below...
- 9/30/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Trek To Broadway (Episode Two) - All We Need Is The Girl
Posted by George Takei on Sunday, August 16, 2015 George Takei has boldly gone where few men have gone before (the farthest reaches of space and social media, to name just a few), but his quest to bring life to the Broadway-bound musical Allegiance – a semi-autobiographical musical about the time his family spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II – might be his most daring, personal trek yet.
In an exclusive clip from the web series Trek to Broadway, Takei and his fellow producers have the show, they've...
Posted by George Takei on Sunday, August 16, 2015 George Takei has boldly gone where few men have gone before (the farthest reaches of space and social media, to name just a few), but his quest to bring life to the Broadway-bound musical Allegiance – a semi-autobiographical musical about the time his family spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II – might be his most daring, personal trek yet.
In an exclusive clip from the web series Trek to Broadway, Takei and his fellow producers have the show, they've...
- 8/17/2015
- by Julia Emmanuele, @julesemm
- People.com - TV Watch
Producers Lorenzo Thione and Andrew Treagus announced complete casting for Allegiance, a new American musical starring George Takei, Lea Salonga and Telly Leung, set to open on Broadway next season at the Longacre Theatre 220 West 48th Street. Previews begin on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 with opening night set for Sunday, November 8, 2015. As previously announced, Allegiance has a book by Marc Acito with music and lyrics by Jay Kuo. Helming the production is Olivier Award nominee Stafford Arima London's Ragtime, Off-Broadway's Bare, Carrie, Altar Boyz.
- 5/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
BroadwayWorld Toronto has learned that the Broadway production of Allegiance will hold open auditions in Toronto. Previews on Broadway are set to begin on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 with opening night set for Sunday, November 8, 2015. Television and film star George Takei will star in the new musical which had its world premiere in a record-breaking engagement at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Allegiance has book by Marc Acito with music and lyrics by Jay Kuo. Helming the production is Olivier Award nominee Stafford Arima London's Ragtime, Off-Broadway's Bare, Carrie, Altar Boyz.
- 3/27/2015
- by Alan Henry
- BroadwayWorld.com
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