Exclusive: The story of Alice Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s unconventional and strong-willed daughter, is being turned into a scripted podcast.
Emma Roberts, Tony Goldwyn, Maggie Siff and Behzad Dabu are starring in Crowded Hours: The True Story of Alice Roosevelt and America’s First Political Dynasty.
Roberts (American Horror Story) is to star as Alice Roosevelt in the series, which has been ordered by Audible, and comes from Believe Entertainment Group, the company behind Kobe Bryant animated short film Dear Basketball.
Goldwyn (Oppenheimer) plays Theodore Roosevelt, Siff (Billions) stars as Edith Carow Roosevelt, Alice’s stepmother and Dabu (How to Get Away with Murder) is Alice’s future husband, Nick Longworth. It is the story of the fierce tribalism and savage rivalry that defined the complicated Roosevelt family.
It spans the early years of Alice’s adolescence into young adulthood, along with her brother Ted Jr. and contemporaries Eleanor and...
Emma Roberts, Tony Goldwyn, Maggie Siff and Behzad Dabu are starring in Crowded Hours: The True Story of Alice Roosevelt and America’s First Political Dynasty.
Roberts (American Horror Story) is to star as Alice Roosevelt in the series, which has been ordered by Audible, and comes from Believe Entertainment Group, the company behind Kobe Bryant animated short film Dear Basketball.
Goldwyn (Oppenheimer) plays Theodore Roosevelt, Siff (Billions) stars as Edith Carow Roosevelt, Alice’s stepmother and Dabu (How to Get Away with Murder) is Alice’s future husband, Nick Longworth. It is the story of the fierce tribalism and savage rivalry that defined the complicated Roosevelt family.
It spans the early years of Alice’s adolescence into young adulthood, along with her brother Ted Jr. and contemporaries Eleanor and...
- 11/8/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Paradigm Talent Agency has hired Chris Till as an agent in their theater literary and content division, Variety has learned exclusively.
The hiring brings Till back to Paradigm, as he previously worked at the agency early in his extensive entertainment career, as he now has over 20 years of industry experience. He previously spent over a decade at CAA before joining Verve in 2020 to help launch that agency’s New York office.
Till will be based in Paradigm’s New York office as well, with a focus on representing writers and directors across theatre, film and television.
“I’ve always thought of Chris as the one that got away,” said Paradigm partner and head of the New York office Jack Tantleff. “He started his career as a young agent at Paradigm, and I have watched as he built his business to become one of the truly bright stars in our industry.
The hiring brings Till back to Paradigm, as he previously worked at the agency early in his extensive entertainment career, as he now has over 20 years of industry experience. He previously spent over a decade at CAA before joining Verve in 2020 to help launch that agency’s New York office.
Till will be based in Paradigm’s New York office as well, with a focus on representing writers and directors across theatre, film and television.
“I’ve always thought of Chris as the one that got away,” said Paradigm partner and head of the New York office Jack Tantleff. “He started his career as a young agent at Paradigm, and I have watched as he built his business to become one of the truly bright stars in our industry.
- 9/12/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
MGM’s Orion Pictures and Audible Theater have partnered for “Women Talking: An Evening of Wild Female Imagination,” a one night only special theatrical event at Audible’s off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City. The Jan. 9 event will feature director Sarah Polley and cast members Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Liv McNeil, August Winter and Kate Hallett for an evening showcasing three new works inspired by the film.
Playwrights Sandra Delgado, Ruth Tang and Brittany Allen have written pieces inspired by the film centered around the idea of women coming together to decide what’s best for their community. The evening will also include a conversation with Polley and the playwrights, led by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Heidi Schreck. Zoe Chao is also part of the program, performing a monologue by Brtittany Allen. Two-time Tony nominee Eva Noblezada will perform Billie Eilish’s “My Future.
Playwrights Sandra Delgado, Ruth Tang and Brittany Allen have written pieces inspired by the film centered around the idea of women coming together to decide what’s best for their community. The evening will also include a conversation with Polley and the playwrights, led by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Heidi Schreck. Zoe Chao is also part of the program, performing a monologue by Brtittany Allen. Two-time Tony nominee Eva Noblezada will perform Billie Eilish’s “My Future.
- 1/5/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
The long-awaited final chapter of the “Marvel’s Wastelanders” audio epic has arrived! Today, Marvel Entertainment and SiriusXM announced their newest original scripted podcast, Marvel’s Wastelanders, will premiere on Monday, December 5. Marvel’s Wastelanders is the sixth and final installment of the popular series and marks the first-ever audio crossover event for Marvel’s podcasts.
The new story features an incredible line-up of talent and brings back the big-name stars that appeared throughout the “Marvel’s Wastelanders” adventure including Timothy Busfield as Star-Lord, Stephen Lang as Hawkeye, Susan Sarandon as Black Widow, Robert Patrick as Wolverine, and Dylan Baker as Doctor Doom.
The weekly 10-episode series is directed by Kimberly Senior, co-written by Nick Bernardone (Fear the Walking Dead), J. Holtham, and Mark Waid, has original sound design by One Thousand Birds (Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye), and original music by Lindsay Jones. The series art is inked by Steve McNiven...
The new story features an incredible line-up of talent and brings back the big-name stars that appeared throughout the “Marvel’s Wastelanders” adventure including Timothy Busfield as Star-Lord, Stephen Lang as Hawkeye, Susan Sarandon as Black Widow, Robert Patrick as Wolverine, and Dylan Baker as Doctor Doom.
The weekly 10-episode series is directed by Kimberly Senior, co-written by Nick Bernardone (Fear the Walking Dead), J. Holtham, and Mark Waid, has original sound design by One Thousand Birds (Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye), and original music by Lindsay Jones. The series art is inked by Steve McNiven...
- 12/6/2022
- Podnews.net
Veteran newsman Dan Rather will stage an autobiographical two-night stand Off Broadway next month called Stories Of A Lifetime, recording the show for audiobook publisher Audible.
Set for Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 at Manhattan’s Minetta Lane Theatre, the Stories of a Lifetime limited engagement will be directed by Kimberly Senior (Margaret Trudeau: Certain Woman of an Age). The Audible Original recording will be released later this year.
Stories Of A Lifetime is the latest in a slate of live Audible Theater performances, performed and recorded at Audible’s Off Broadway home venue.
Audible says the former CBS News anchor will share stories from his more than 60 years in journalism as well as his childhood in Depression-era Texas, his recent involvement with social media and why he believes the free press is more important now than ever before.
Said Rather in a statement, “I hope my experiences and...
Set for Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 at Manhattan’s Minetta Lane Theatre, the Stories of a Lifetime limited engagement will be directed by Kimberly Senior (Margaret Trudeau: Certain Woman of an Age). The Audible Original recording will be released later this year.
Stories Of A Lifetime is the latest in a slate of live Audible Theater performances, performed and recorded at Audible’s Off Broadway home venue.
Audible says the former CBS News anchor will share stories from his more than 60 years in journalism as well as his childhood in Depression-era Texas, his recent involvement with social media and why he believes the free press is more important now than ever before.
Said Rather in a statement, “I hope my experiences and...
- 1/28/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Is one hotel bathroom big enough for personalities as outsized as Harvey Fierstein and Bella Abzug? The playwright’s Bella Bella, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Off Broadway venue in the New York City Center, suggests a pretty tight fit.
A public personality has reached true large-than-life status when a mere signifier can stand for whole shebang. A bright red hat with a brim the size of a manhole cover shouts to any New Yorker of a certain age “Bella Abzug”, and if the voice doing the shouting has more gravel than a Bronx construction site, it’s probably Harvey Fierstein.
Both battle for attention Fierstein’s solo show, in which the playwright channels the late, great Congresswoman from New York.
If the show seems more Harvey Harvey than Bella, Bella, the playwright’s love and reverence for his subject is louder than the hat and voice combined.
The forever hatted Abzug was a fierce, lifelong fighter for women’s rights and righteous causes who became New York’s voice in Congress through much of the 1970s. Witty, combative, beloved, hated, feared and revered, Abzug was a major figure on the city and national political scenes through much of that decade, her failures as notable as her victories.
Bella Bella, directed by Kimberly Senior, takes place on the eve of one of those rare failures: An unsuccessful bid in 1976 for the the Democratic nomination to U.S. Senate. Her loss to the moderate Daniel Patrick Moynihan all but ended her political career, though she remained active in public life until her death in 1998.
Fierstein tells her story in a way that will be familiar from various one-person shows, particularly Jay Presson Allen’s form-setting Tru from 1989. Allen had Truman Capote trapped in his United Nations Plaza apartment awaiting the fallout from a just-published scandal-mongering magazine piece, while Fierstein ensconces Abzug in the bathroom (efficiently designed by John Lee Beatty) of the New York Summit Hotel as she awaits the election results from that final Senate race. Here a nervous Abzug takes a breather from her loyal – and sometimes famous – supporters gathered just outside the door.
Fierstein, dressed in a man’s black shirt and pants – that red hat, the sole nod to Abzug’s own look, is doffed within seconds of Fierstein’s entrance – speaks directly to the audience (as Tru’s Capote did) in a non-stop monologue of history lesson, confession, braggadocio, name-dropping, joking and intimacy.
Much of the monologue seems in Abzug’s own words, for better or worse. Zingers that once zinged, no matter how true they still ring, can now seem like dialogue for a ’70s-era Norman Lear comedy. When Abzug says “A woman’s place is in the house,” at least some in the audience will know – and others should guess – that the punchline will be “of Representatives.”
That’s not to suggest that Bella Bella lacks contemporary relevance – Abzug’s crusades for equal rights, abortion rights, and political representation and visibility, well conveyed in this play, remain as vital as ever, the causes they espouse newly under threat. Few in Fierstein’s Off Broadway audience will disagree with a word Abzug says – anecdotes about Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon, with barely veiled and eerily accurate shades of the current White House occupant, received rounds of applause at the reviewed performance.
And if there’s a comfort-food element to Abzug’s compassionate, common-sense humanism, the same can be said of the man onstage. With the exception of adopting Abzug’s Yiddish accent, Fierstein is as much Harvey as Bella, blustering, shouting, emoting and capping many a rant with the sheepish smile that dates back at least to Torch Song Trilogy.
Endearing? As always. Rehearsed? Absolutely. Fierstein knows just how to speak to his audience, even if he has to talk over Bella Abzug to do it.
A public personality has reached true large-than-life status when a mere signifier can stand for whole shebang. A bright red hat with a brim the size of a manhole cover shouts to any New Yorker of a certain age “Bella Abzug”, and if the voice doing the shouting has more gravel than a Bronx construction site, it’s probably Harvey Fierstein.
Both battle for attention Fierstein’s solo show, in which the playwright channels the late, great Congresswoman from New York.
If the show seems more Harvey Harvey than Bella, Bella, the playwright’s love and reverence for his subject is louder than the hat and voice combined.
The forever hatted Abzug was a fierce, lifelong fighter for women’s rights and righteous causes who became New York’s voice in Congress through much of the 1970s. Witty, combative, beloved, hated, feared and revered, Abzug was a major figure on the city and national political scenes through much of that decade, her failures as notable as her victories.
Bella Bella, directed by Kimberly Senior, takes place on the eve of one of those rare failures: An unsuccessful bid in 1976 for the the Democratic nomination to U.S. Senate. Her loss to the moderate Daniel Patrick Moynihan all but ended her political career, though she remained active in public life until her death in 1998.
Fierstein tells her story in a way that will be familiar from various one-person shows, particularly Jay Presson Allen’s form-setting Tru from 1989. Allen had Truman Capote trapped in his United Nations Plaza apartment awaiting the fallout from a just-published scandal-mongering magazine piece, while Fierstein ensconces Abzug in the bathroom (efficiently designed by John Lee Beatty) of the New York Summit Hotel as she awaits the election results from that final Senate race. Here a nervous Abzug takes a breather from her loyal – and sometimes famous – supporters gathered just outside the door.
Fierstein, dressed in a man’s black shirt and pants – that red hat, the sole nod to Abzug’s own look, is doffed within seconds of Fierstein’s entrance – speaks directly to the audience (as Tru’s Capote did) in a non-stop monologue of history lesson, confession, braggadocio, name-dropping, joking and intimacy.
Much of the monologue seems in Abzug’s own words, for better or worse. Zingers that once zinged, no matter how true they still ring, can now seem like dialogue for a ’70s-era Norman Lear comedy. When Abzug says “A woman’s place is in the house,” at least some in the audience will know – and others should guess – that the punchline will be “of Representatives.”
That’s not to suggest that Bella Bella lacks contemporary relevance – Abzug’s crusades for equal rights, abortion rights, and political representation and visibility, well conveyed in this play, remain as vital as ever, the causes they espouse newly under threat. Few in Fierstein’s Off Broadway audience will disagree with a word Abzug says – anecdotes about Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon, with barely veiled and eerily accurate shades of the current White House occupant, received rounds of applause at the reviewed performance.
And if there’s a comfort-food element to Abzug’s compassionate, common-sense humanism, the same can be said of the man onstage. With the exception of adopting Abzug’s Yiddish accent, Fierstein is as much Harvey as Bella, blustering, shouting, emoting and capping many a rant with the sheepish smile that dates back at least to Torch Song Trilogy.
Endearing? As always. Rehearsed? Absolutely. Fierstein knows just how to speak to his audience, even if he has to talk over Bella Abzug to do it.
- 10/23/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Torch Song playwright Harvey Fierstein’s new biographical play about New York’s legendary, hat-wearing “political firebrand” Bella Abzug will make its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club Off Broadway next October, with Fierstein himself taking the title role.
A solo show, Bella Bella, directed by Kimberly Senior, will begin previews Tuesday, Oct. 1 at Mtc’s New York City Center Stage 1, with an opening night of Oct. 22.
The Fierstein play is one of three world premieres for the 2019-20 season announced by Mtc today, along with Richard Greenberg’s The Perplexed, to be directed by Lynne Meadow; and Emily Feldman’s The Best We Could (a family tragedy), with Daniel Aukin directing.
A four-time Tony winner, Fierstein is re-teaming with Mtc following 2014’s Casa Valentina. Mtc describes Bella Bella as a “raucous, heart-rending and absurdly humorous solo show. Set in 1976, on the eve of her bid to become New...
A solo show, Bella Bella, directed by Kimberly Senior, will begin previews Tuesday, Oct. 1 at Mtc’s New York City Center Stage 1, with an opening night of Oct. 22.
The Fierstein play is one of three world premieres for the 2019-20 season announced by Mtc today, along with Richard Greenberg’s The Perplexed, to be directed by Lynne Meadow; and Emily Feldman’s The Best We Could (a family tragedy), with Daniel Aukin directing.
A four-time Tony winner, Fierstein is re-teaming with Mtc following 2014’s Casa Valentina. Mtc describes Bella Bella as a “raucous, heart-rending and absurdly humorous solo show. Set in 1976, on the eve of her bid to become New...
- 3/21/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Rocker, author and poet Patti Smith will stage a three-night spoken word and music performance at the Off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theater.
Patti Smith: Words and Music will be presented by Audible, the Amazon provider of digital spoken audio content. Performances at the Minetta Lane – Audible’s home theater – are recorded as Audible Original productions.
Smith’s three-night stand – Sept. 22-24 – was one of four productions announced by Audible today for the Minetta Lane: Former Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi will re-stage his Obie Award-winning one-man show Sakina’s Restaurant; playwright Chisa Hutchinson’s Proof of Love will be the inaugural production of Audible’s Emerging Playwright program, debuting late 2018; and the New York premiere of Isaac Gomez’s one-woman play the way she spoke, will take place in early 2019, with casting and dates to be announced.
“Announcing Aasif, Chisa, Isaac, and the legendary Patti as the next artists to...
Patti Smith: Words and Music will be presented by Audible, the Amazon provider of digital spoken audio content. Performances at the Minetta Lane – Audible’s home theater – are recorded as Audible Original productions.
Smith’s three-night stand – Sept. 22-24 – was one of four productions announced by Audible today for the Minetta Lane: Former Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi will re-stage his Obie Award-winning one-man show Sakina’s Restaurant; playwright Chisa Hutchinson’s Proof of Love will be the inaugural production of Audible’s Emerging Playwright program, debuting late 2018; and the New York premiere of Isaac Gomez’s one-woman play the way she spoke, will take place in early 2019, with casting and dates to be announced.
“Announcing Aasif, Chisa, Isaac, and the legendary Patti as the next artists to...
- 8/20/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Primary Stages has announced the lineup of guests for talkbacks that will happen after select shows of their first production of the 201718 season, the New York Premiere of The Gospel According To Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens And Count Leo Tolstoy Discord written by Scott Carter and directed by Kimberly Senior.
- 9/30/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Primary Stages has announced the lineup of guests for talkbacks that will happen after select shows of their first production of the 201718 season, the New York Premiere of The Gospel According To Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens And Count Leo Tolstoy Discord written by Scott Carter and directed by Kimberly Senior.
- 8/24/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Friday, May 5
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” 8 p.m., VH1
Episode Title: “9021-ho”
Network Synopsis: The queens act in a ’90s high school drama, directed by Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth.
Why You Should Watch: “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is the smartest reality show on TV. So says IndieWire (more specifically, so says the one and only Jude Dry), and the latest season has been growing in ratings and expanding its audience in exciting new ways. The guest judges have been fantastic, and this week’s theme is a fun riff on a TV classic. Give it a try! We know you’ll be hooked.
Read More: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race:’ 5 Reasons Why It’s The Smartest Reality Show On TV
Saturday, May 6
“Chris Gethard: Career Suicide” 10 p.m., HBO
Episode Title: (Comedy Special)
Network Synopsis: Comedian, talk-show and podcast host, and writer Chris Gethard brings his one-man off-Broadway show, “Chris Gethard: Career Suicide,...
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” 8 p.m., VH1
Episode Title: “9021-ho”
Network Synopsis: The queens act in a ’90s high school drama, directed by Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth.
Why You Should Watch: “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is the smartest reality show on TV. So says IndieWire (more specifically, so says the one and only Jude Dry), and the latest season has been growing in ratings and expanding its audience in exciting new ways. The guest judges have been fantastic, and this week’s theme is a fun riff on a TV classic. Give it a try! We know you’ll be hooked.
Read More: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race:’ 5 Reasons Why It’s The Smartest Reality Show On TV
Saturday, May 6
“Chris Gethard: Career Suicide” 10 p.m., HBO
Episode Title: (Comedy Special)
Network Synopsis: Comedian, talk-show and podcast host, and writer Chris Gethard brings his one-man off-Broadway show, “Chris Gethard: Career Suicide,...
- 5/5/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Chris Gethard doesn’t want you to worry about him, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t nervous.
“Permanence is not my usual M.O. and it’s pretty terrifying,” Gethard said, sitting in the Hollywood offices of Funny or Die last month. He smiled, but even he’ll admit that behind that grin, there’s the reserved bit of trepidation that comes before releasing a bit of yourself out into the world.
On Saturday, his comedy special “Chris Gethard: Career Suicide” will debut on HBO. In it, over the course of an hour and a half, Gethard details his decades-long relationship with depression, recounting his first experiences with a sinking sensation he couldn’t quite identify, all the way through impulsive suicide attempts, pieced-together blackout spells and the process of finding healthier, constructive ways to deal with all of those conflicting feelings and ideas.
Read More: ‘Chris Gethard: Career Suicide...
“Permanence is not my usual M.O. and it’s pretty terrifying,” Gethard said, sitting in the Hollywood offices of Funny or Die last month. He smiled, but even he’ll admit that behind that grin, there’s the reserved bit of trepidation that comes before releasing a bit of yourself out into the world.
On Saturday, his comedy special “Chris Gethard: Career Suicide” will debut on HBO. In it, over the course of an hour and a half, Gethard details his decades-long relationship with depression, recounting his first experiences with a sinking sensation he couldn’t quite identify, all the way through impulsive suicide attempts, pieced-together blackout spells and the process of finding healthier, constructive ways to deal with all of those conflicting feelings and ideas.
Read More: ‘Chris Gethard: Career Suicide...
- 5/3/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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