There’s no doubting that Keegan-Michael Key is a funny guy, as he’s proven on the Emmy-winning Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele and with scene-stealing roles in everything from Pitch Perfect 2 to the first season of Fargo on FX.
But after Key & Peele came to an end in 2015, Key says he purposefully sought out work that would take him as far away from the sketch comedy world, which, also thanks to his years on MadTV, had defined much of his career up until that point. “I felt like we had done almost as much as we could do with the form,” he tells Et, and he was ready to set his career on a new course with roles that tapped into his classical training.
The first sign of that transition came in 2016 with Don’t Think Twice, a dramedy about standup comedians, and then a leading role as Ethan on Netflix’s Friends From College. But it was...
But after Key & Peele came to an end in 2015, Key says he purposefully sought out work that would take him as far away from the sketch comedy world, which, also thanks to his years on MadTV, had defined much of his career up until that point. “I felt like we had done almost as much as we could do with the form,” he tells Et, and he was ready to set his career on a new course with roles that tapped into his classical training.
The first sign of that transition came in 2016 with Don’t Think Twice, a dramedy about standup comedians, and then a leading role as Ethan on Netflix’s Friends From College. But it was...
- 12/14/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Tony Award-winner Julie White, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Erin Wilhelmi, have joined Tony Award-winner Jayne Houdyshell in the Broadway cast of Lucas Hnath's hit play, A Doll's House, Part 2. Directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold, this wildly inventive new American play picks up fifteen years after Henrik Ibsen's most cherished work concludes. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the new stars onstage below...
- 8/10/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Though your ticket says you're seated at The Public's Anspacher Theater, don't be surprised if once director Sam Gold's jaunty mounting of Shakespeare's Hamlet shifts into gear, you find yourself wondering if you may have stumbled into some indie production playing in the back room of a hipster bar on the Brooklyn side of the L train.
- 7/20/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fun Home 5th Avenue Theare, Seattle Through July 30th
When it comes to Broadway-caliber theatre productions, cities like Seattle get what New York is willing to give them. Very often this means local audiences only get a taste of the most mainstream, spectacular efforts the Great White Way has to offer, remaining unexposed to the more challenging and innovative works that do sometimes still happen there. As a result, theatre (particularly musical theatre) is relegated to its niche enclave of dedicated fans along with a wider audience of casual theatre goers who come knowing what to expect. While presenting an enjoyable way to pass a few evening hours this can also bear a disappointing stamp of mediocrity. Fun Home, currently playing at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, is a happy exception to this trend.
Like Next to Normal before it, Fun Home works to break the preconceived notions of what musical theatre is and can be.
When it comes to Broadway-caliber theatre productions, cities like Seattle get what New York is willing to give them. Very often this means local audiences only get a taste of the most mainstream, spectacular efforts the Great White Way has to offer, remaining unexposed to the more challenging and innovative works that do sometimes still happen there. As a result, theatre (particularly musical theatre) is relegated to its niche enclave of dedicated fans along with a wider audience of casual theatre goers who come knowing what to expect. While presenting an enjoyable way to pass a few evening hours this can also bear a disappointing stamp of mediocrity. Fun Home, currently playing at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, is a happy exception to this trend.
Like Next to Normal before it, Fun Home works to break the preconceived notions of what musical theatre is and can be.
- 7/17/2017
- by C. Jefferson Thom
- www.culturecatch.com
“Earthy” is the word to describe director Sam Gold’s staging of “Hamlet,” which opened Thursday at the Public Theater. Literally, there are the huge mounds of dirt that Ophelia (Gayle Rankin) retrieves from two potted plants she finds in the theater lobby, and pours over the dead body of her father, Polonius (Peter Friedman) and from which she fashions her own premature grave. More figuratively earthy is the upstage restroom that most of the characters find themselves in need of at various moments in the drama, although only Polonius is actually seen taking a dump there. The production is so replete.
- 7/14/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Uzo Aduba has her crazy eyes on a new stage show.
The Emmy-winning actress of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black is set to star in a musical workshop production of The Secret Life of Bees. The show will be performed throughout the July 27 weekend, as part of Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Season in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Directed by Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home, Othello), the new musical adaptation features a book by Lynn Nottage, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway play Sweat. It also has music by Tony winner Duncan Sheik (Spring...
The Emmy-winning actress of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black is set to star in a musical workshop production of The Secret Life of Bees. The show will be performed throughout the July 27 weekend, as part of Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Season in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Directed by Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home, Othello), the new musical adaptation features a book by Lynn Nottage, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway play Sweat. It also has music by Tony winner Duncan Sheik (Spring...
- 7/12/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Public Theater presents Hamlet, featuring Golden Globe Award winner Oscar Isaac as the tormented Danish Prince. Directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold, Hamlet is currently in previews and runs through Sunday, September 3 in the Anspacher Theater, with an official press opening on Thursday, July 13. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 7/7/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
A longtime scene-stealer on TV -- thanks to her many supporting roles as Jackie on Roseanne, Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives, Dr. Jenna James on Getting On and Sarah on Horace and Pete -- Laurie Metcalf simply owns the Broadway stage. There’s no competing with the longtime actress, who was superb in The Other Place, performed maniacal laps around Bruce Willis in Misery and recently earned her fourth Tony nomination -- this time for playing Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House, Part 2.
The play -- a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 breakdown of marriage and gender roles -- sees Metcalf leading a standout cast, including fellow nominees Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad, as Nora returns to the house she once left in need of a divorce now that she’s a successful feminist writer. What follows is a humorous 90-minute debate of society and gender roles as Nora lets her thoughts fly out...
The play -- a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 breakdown of marriage and gender roles -- sees Metcalf leading a standout cast, including fellow nominees Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad, as Nora returns to the house she once left in need of a divorce now that she’s a successful feminist writer. What follows is a humorous 90-minute debate of society and gender roles as Nora lets her thoughts fly out...
- 5/31/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Two years ago, director Sam Gold took home a Tony Award for his remarkable work on the Tony winning musical Fun Home. Now he's back for more as a nominee for A Doll's House, Part 2, a show for which every one of his cast members was also nominated. Watch below as he talks about the unexpected comedy of the piece and reveals why he took up directing in the first place...
- 5/13/2017
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
While Hamilton dominated Broadway theater in 2016, this year's Tony nominations are more evenly distributed.
The 71st annual Tony Awards nominations were unveiled on Tuesday morning live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Announced by Jane Krakowski and Hamilton alum Christopher Jackson, the honorees were led by Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 with 12 nominations, including Best Musical and Best Leading Actor for Josh Groban's role in the War and Peace-inspired story.
Related: Kristen Bell Shares Dax Shepard's Hilarious Review of 'Hamilton' After Seeing the Musical for the First Time
Dear Evan Hansen landed nine nominations, two of which were for Best Musical and Best Leading Actor (Ben Platt of Pitch Perfect). The stage adaptation of Groundhog Day and the 9/11 musical, Come From Away, rounded out the Best Musical noms.
Bette Midler also scored a Best Leading Actress nomination for her performance in Hello, Dolly! -- her...
The 71st annual Tony Awards nominations were unveiled on Tuesday morning live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Announced by Jane Krakowski and Hamilton alum Christopher Jackson, the honorees were led by Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 with 12 nominations, including Best Musical and Best Leading Actor for Josh Groban's role in the War and Peace-inspired story.
Related: Kristen Bell Shares Dax Shepard's Hilarious Review of 'Hamilton' After Seeing the Musical for the First Time
Dear Evan Hansen landed nine nominations, two of which were for Best Musical and Best Leading Actor (Ben Platt of Pitch Perfect). The stage adaptation of Groundhog Day and the 9/11 musical, Come From Away, rounded out the Best Musical noms.
Bette Midler also scored a Best Leading Actress nomination for her performance in Hello, Dolly! -- her...
- 5/2/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
A Doll's House, Part 2 opens tonight, April 27, at the John Golden Theatre.Produced byScott Rudin and directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold, thiswildly inventive new American play picks up after Henrik Ibsen's most cherished work concludes.In the final scene of Ibsen's 1879 ground-breaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. This climactic event - when Nora slams the door on everything in her life - instantly propelled world drama into the modern age. In A Doll's House, Part 2, many years have passed since Nora's exit. Now, there's a knock on that same door. Nora has returned. But why And what will it mean for those she left behindGet to know the cast before tonight's opening bows...
- 4/27/2017
- by Stephanie Wild
- BroadwayWorld.com
The actor, who is on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie, talks about being typecast and struggling to find roles while balancing life as a parent
Last fall, Sally Field turned 70. Her celebration of choice? A starring role in the most controversial play of the season. In the director Sam Gold’s production of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie, Field plays Amanda Wingfield, a role she’s taken on before, though never quite like this. On a recent afternoon, Field, who progressed from teen sitcoms (Gidget, The Flying Nun) to serious films (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart) and recently to theater, sat in a backstage room to discuss her career.
Related: The Glass Menagerie review – Sally Field returns to Broadway in style
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Last fall, Sally Field turned 70. Her celebration of choice? A starring role in the most controversial play of the season. In the director Sam Gold’s production of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie, Field plays Amanda Wingfield, a role she’s taken on before, though never quite like this. On a recent afternoon, Field, who progressed from teen sitcoms (Gidget, The Flying Nun) to serious films (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart) and recently to theater, sat in a backstage room to discuss her career.
Related: The Glass Menagerie review – Sally Field returns to Broadway in style
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- 4/4/2017
- by Alexis Soloski in New York
- The Guardian - Film News
Before the action starts on stage in director Sam Gold’s acclaimed Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ iconic 1945 memory play The Glass Menagerie, stars Sally Field and Madison Ferris have to get up the stairs.
It’s harder than it sounds, at least for Field.
Entering from the aisles of New York City’s Belasco Theatre, she first waits while Ferris — a 25-year-old actress with muscular dystrophy making her professional debut in the production — dismounts her wheelchair and slowly moves her body up to the stage. As the audience sits in silence, Field then folds up Ferris’ chair and carries it up the steps.
It’s harder than it sounds, at least for Field.
Entering from the aisles of New York City’s Belasco Theatre, she first waits while Ferris — a 25-year-old actress with muscular dystrophy making her professional debut in the production — dismounts her wheelchair and slowly moves her body up to the stage. As the audience sits in silence, Field then folds up Ferris’ chair and carries it up the steps.
- 3/24/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
It’s hard to believe Madison Ferris is the first actress in a wheelchair to play a leading role on Broadway — even for the 25-year-old boundary breaker herself.
“I feel like it should have happened sooner,” Ferris tells People backstage at the Belasco Theatre in New York City, where The Glass Menagerie, the play she stars in opposite Oscar-winner Sally Field, recently opened to great reviews.
The production not only marks Ferris’ professional debut, but a unique spin on Tennessee Williams’ iconic 1945 memory play — about man looking back on the family he abandoned in post-Depression era St. Louis.
Now in its seventh Broadway revival,...
“I feel like it should have happened sooner,” Ferris tells People backstage at the Belasco Theatre in New York City, where The Glass Menagerie, the play she stars in opposite Oscar-winner Sally Field, recently opened to great reviews.
The production not only marks Ferris’ professional debut, but a unique spin on Tennessee Williams’ iconic 1945 memory play — about man looking back on the family he abandoned in post-Depression era St. Louis.
Now in its seventh Broadway revival,...
- 3/23/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
by Dancin' Dan
This is not your parents' Glass Menagerie.
It's not uncommon for theatrical "reinventions" to take place nowadays. Ivo van Howe has made it into a cottage industry of sorts, creating an intimate, visceral A View From the Bridge and a raw, elemental The Crucible in recent years. Sam Gold is of the same cloth. He made his name with an audacious revival of Look Back in Anger at the Roudabout in 2012, won the Tony in 2015 for his sensitive in-the-round staging of the musical Fun Home, and most recently directed a searing Othello with David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig off Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop.
But all those pieces benefit from a stripped back, in-some-cases radical rethinking. Tennessee Williams's memory play is a much more delicate thing, announcing as narrator Tom Wingfield does right at the start that this is a subjective work of art,...
This is not your parents' Glass Menagerie.
It's not uncommon for theatrical "reinventions" to take place nowadays. Ivo van Howe has made it into a cottage industry of sorts, creating an intimate, visceral A View From the Bridge and a raw, elemental The Crucible in recent years. Sam Gold is of the same cloth. He made his name with an audacious revival of Look Back in Anger at the Roudabout in 2012, won the Tony in 2015 for his sensitive in-the-round staging of the musical Fun Home, and most recently directed a searing Othello with David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig off Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop.
But all those pieces benefit from a stripped back, in-some-cases radical rethinking. Tennessee Williams's memory play is a much more delicate thing, announcing as narrator Tom Wingfield does right at the start that this is a subjective work of art,...
- 3/17/2017
- by Denny
- FilmExperience
The Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie opened last night, March 9,at the Belasco Theatre 111 West 44th Street, starring two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field and two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello. Tony Award winner Sam Gold directs the production, which also stars Emmy Award nominee Finn Wittrock and Madison Ferris, who makes her Broadway debut in the role of Laura Wingfield.
- 3/10/2017
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sam Gold is the latest to pick up the next-to-nothing-is-more approach to Tennessee Williams. The American director’s “Glass Menagerie” opened Thursday at the Belasco Theatre, and it is pure Gold in every sense of the word. Has there ever been a barer stage on Broadway? The four actors enter from a side door on the orchestra level, with Sally Field pushing newcomer Madison Ferris in a wheelchair. What follows is one of the evening’s many silent longueurs as Ferris, a woman with muscular dystrophy, negotiates the small staircase to the stage to take her place there. Occasionally, she walks by.
- 3/10/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
“Star Wars” actor Oscar Isaac will star this summer in a new Off Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Hamlet,” The Public Theater announced Thursday. Tony Award winner Sam Gold will direct the revival, which will begin previews on June 20 before an official opening on July 13. The production is expected to run through Sept. 3. The new production will also feature Roberta Colindrez (Rosencrantz), Peter Friedman (Polonius), Keegan-Michael Key (Horatio), Gayle Rankin (Ophelia, Second Gravedigger), Matthew Saldívar (Guildenstern) and Anatol Yusef (Laertes). Also Read: 'Kid Victory' Theater Review: Life Is Not a Cabaret in John Kander's New Musical Complete casting.
- 2/23/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
It’s the year that New York caught up to Europe when it comes to radical interpretations of the classics. On stage in 2016, there was Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female “The Taming of the Shrew,” set at a Trump-produced beauty pageant; Ivo van Hove’s “The Crucible,” set in a classroom; and at the Met, Mariusz Trelinski’s “Tristan und Isolde,” set on a warship. No surprise, all those directors are European, and, for better or worse, their names tended to dominate reviews of the respective productions. Shakespeare, Miller, and Wagner are only writers, after all. Sam Gold, an American, joins this hip-directors foray.
- 12/13/2016
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
“Great art is always speaking to the time it’s in,” David Oyelowo tells Et. The actor, previously seen in Selma and HBO’s Nightingale, is currently starring opposite Daniel Craig in New York Theater Workshop’s sold out, limited engagement of Othello. In the wake of the presidential election, #OscarsSoWhite controversy and the Black Lives Matter movement, William Shakespeare’s play feels as relevant as ever -- especially considering it was written over 400 years ago.
“No writer has so beautifully and consistently and in such a complex way understood the human experience like Shakespeare. Othello is hitting people square between the eyes,” the actor says. The play’s core theme of racial prejudice is magnified by the “political climate we are in, the gender climate we are in, the relational climate we are in.”
More: How David Oyelowo Is Challenging Himself and the Status Quo
In the play directed by Sam Gold, Oyelowo plays the...
“No writer has so beautifully and consistently and in such a complex way understood the human experience like Shakespeare. Othello is hitting people square between the eyes,” the actor says. The play’s core theme of racial prejudice is magnified by the “political climate we are in, the gender climate we are in, the relational climate we are in.”
More: How David Oyelowo Is Challenging Himself and the Status Quo
In the play directed by Sam Gold, Oyelowo plays the...
- 12/2/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
It’s been some time since we last reported on Letters From Rosemary – seven months, to be precise – but today the period drama has sprung into life with theater director Sam Gold closing in on a deal to take the reins.
Variety has the scoop, confirming that Gold, a stalwart of Broadway who’s coming off the award-winning Fun Home, will direct Emma Stone in the Rosemary Kennedy film. In what would be Gold’s debut feature film, Letters From Rosemary chronicles the upbringing of John F. Kennedy’s eldest sister – so often referred to as ‘The Forgotten Kennedy’ – who suffered from crippling mental illness from an early age due to medical complications during her birth in 1918.
Years later, Rosemary’s father whipped together plans for her to become one of the very first people to undergo prefrontal lobotomy at the age of 23. A primitive form of treatment, its failure left her permanently incapacitated.
Variety has the scoop, confirming that Gold, a stalwart of Broadway who’s coming off the award-winning Fun Home, will direct Emma Stone in the Rosemary Kennedy film. In what would be Gold’s debut feature film, Letters From Rosemary chronicles the upbringing of John F. Kennedy’s eldest sister – so often referred to as ‘The Forgotten Kennedy’ – who suffered from crippling mental illness from an early age due to medical complications during her birth in 1918.
Years later, Rosemary’s father whipped together plans for her to become one of the very first people to undergo prefrontal lobotomy at the age of 23. A primitive form of treatment, its failure left her permanently incapacitated.
- 10/12/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
New York Theatre Workshop Nytw has announced an additional benefit performance of Othello, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold Fun Home, on Thursday, January 12, 2017, at 630 pm. Proceeds from the evening will go to benefit Nytw's education and engagement programming across the 201617 season, providing thousands of students, teens, artists, and local residents access to some of the most exciting new voices and leading theatre artists of our time.
- 10/11/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producer Scott Rudin announced today that two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field and two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will return to the Broadway stage next season to star in Tennessee Williams's most cherished play, The Glass Menagerie. Tony Award winner Sam Gold will direct the production, which will also star Finn Wittrock and Madison Ferris, who will be making her Broadway debut in the role of Laura Wingfield. The Glass Menagerie will begin performances at Broadway's Golden Theatre on Tuesday, February 14, 2017, with an official opening night set for Thursday, March 23, 2017.
- 6/6/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two-time Oscar winner Sally Field will star opposite two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello in a new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams‘ drama “The Glass Menagerie,” producer Scott Rudin announced Monday. Tony Award winner Sam Gold will direct the production, which will also star Finn Wittrock (“American Horror Story”) and Madison Ferris, who will make her Broadway debut in the role of Laura Wingfield. The revival will begin performances at Broadway’s Golden Theatre on Feb. 14, 2017, with an official opening night set for March 23, 2017. Also Read: Tony Award Predictions: Can Anything Stop 'Hamilton' Juggernaut? This is the eighth time that Williams...
- 6/6/2016
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Broadway’s “Fun Home” is collaborating with national nonprofit oral history project StoryCorps ahead of the production’s one-year anniversary. The partnership emboldens fans to use StoryCorps’ free mobile app to record their own family stories and personal experiences seeing “Fun Home” live. StoryCorps aims to preserve conversations and stories in sound. All tagged stories will be streamable on-demand at StoryCorps.me and preserved in the StoryCorps archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The collaboration will continue across the country once “Fun Home” begins its national tour in Cleveland this October. “Fun Home” cast and creative team including Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, Sam Gold, Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Beth Malone, Emily Skeggs, and Sydney Lucas recorded stories of their own available to listen to here. User stories submitted in April will be entered to win a contest with one randomly selected grand prize winner set...
- 4/6/2016
- backstage.com
Theatre for a New Audience announces that as part of its 2016-2017 season at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Golden Globe Award winner Oscar Isaacwill play the title role inHamletstaged bySam Gold. Oscar Isaac and Sam Gold last worked together on Zoe Kazan'sWe Live Herein 2011.Hamletis their first collaboration on Shakespeare and their first production with Theatre for a New Audience.Hamletwill begin previews onJune 4, 2017 for an openingJune 22and run throughJuly 30.
- 4/3/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
You couldn’t write an argument for optimism about New York theater without invoking Annie Baker, who, at 34, is practically a metonym for the best of her Off Broadway generation: creators making a life, if not quite a living, by redefining what it means to be innovative (and successful) in the medium. Setting her earliest plays in fictional Shirley, Vermont, a liberal college town not unlike her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts, she really broke through in 2009 with Circle Mirror Transformation, which was built around a series of goofy theater exercises, shared an Obie with another Baker show, The Aliens, and went on to become the country’s second most-produced play of 2010. With her inseparable director Sam Gold (who also directed the Tony-winning Fun Home), Baker then adapted Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya into an astonishingly intimate vernacular experience at the Soho Rep. In The Flick, three ushers get to know each...
- 12/17/2015
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
Daniel Craig's future as James Bond is a bit murky at the moment – but we do know that he's bound for a team-up with David Oyelowo next year.
The duo will join forces with Tony Award-winning Fun Home director Sam Gold for an off-Broadway staging of Othello.
Daniel Craig channels Live and Let Die in the stunning IMAX poster for Spectre
The New York Theatre Workshop is staging the production for next autumn, although no dates have yet been finalised.
More casting news will be announced as the production's opening nears next year.
Both Craig and Oyelowo are accomplished stage actors, with the James Bond actor having famously starred opposite wife Rachel Weisz on the Broadway stage in Betrayal.
Oyelowo is a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was the first black actor to play an English king on the West End stage.
In this version of Othello,...
The duo will join forces with Tony Award-winning Fun Home director Sam Gold for an off-Broadway staging of Othello.
Daniel Craig channels Live and Let Die in the stunning IMAX poster for Spectre
The New York Theatre Workshop is staging the production for next autumn, although no dates have yet been finalised.
More casting news will be announced as the production's opening nears next year.
Both Craig and Oyelowo are accomplished stage actors, with the James Bond actor having famously starred opposite wife Rachel Weisz on the Broadway stage in Betrayal.
Oyelowo is a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was the first black actor to play an English king on the West End stage.
In this version of Othello,...
- 10/19/2015
- Digital Spy
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig will both star in an upcoming off-Broadway production of "Othello," with Oyelowo playing the title character - the moor of Venice - and Craig as the villainous Iago in the Shakespeare tragedy, in the New York Theater Workshop’s first Shakespeare production since 1990. The New York Theatre Workshop will stage the play for a limited run during the fall of 2016 - so still a full year away. But time does sometimes fly... Sam Gold, who won the Tony award for best director this year for his work on the musical "Fun Home," will direct the play. Additional casting and further details on the upcoming...
- 10/19/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig are headed to the New York stage: The two Brits have just joined an Off Broadway production of Shakespeare's Othello, to begin showing in fall 2016. Oyelowo will play the titular general, while Craig will play his nemesis Iago. The play, directed by Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home), is expected to have a limited run at the New York Theatre Workshop with dates to be announced later. Before Craig makes his Off Broadway debut in Othello, he'll next be seen as James Bond in Spectre (a role he's less than thrilled to possibly reprise), while Oyelowo can currently be heard voicing 007 in the audio book for the new Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Maybe it is a coincidence or maybe ... double-o seven ... two Os ... OthellO. It was there all along; right before our eyes.
- 10/19/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
David Oyelowo (Selma) will play Shakespeare’s triumphant general and Daniel Craig (Bond, James Bond) the betraying lieutenant Iago who orchestrates his leader’s demise next fall at the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop, which has been home to several Broadway tryouts (Rent, Once). Tony Award winner Sam Gold (currently Fun Home on Broadway) will helm Othello, with additional casting and details to be announced at a later date. Gold is a member of The Usual Suspects…...
- 10/19/2015
- Deadline
Signature Theatre recently announced a one-week extension for John, written by Pulitzer Prize winner-Annie Baker The Flick and directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold Fun Home. The production, which kicks off Signature's 25th Anniversary Season, will now play through Sunday, September 6. John began performances onJuly 22and opens tonight, August 11,in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.
- 8/11/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre just announced a one-week extension for John, written by Pulitzer Prize winner-Annie Baker The Flick and directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold Fun Home. The production, which kicks off Signature's 25th Anniversary Season, will now play through Sunday, September 6. John begins performances tonight, Wednesday, July 22, and opens Tuesday, August 11 in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.
- 7/22/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
It’s the biggest night of the year for Broadway and the 2015 Tony Awards kicked off on Sunday (June 7) with hosts Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth at the helm.
Featuring performances by Vanessa Hudgens, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer, the larger-than-life event took over Radio City Music Hall as the biggest and brightest stage stars received their due honor.
Helen Mirren won Best Actress in a Play for her work in “The Audience,” while Alex Sharp took the Best Actor trophy for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
And the 2015 Tony Awards Winners are:
Best Play
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best Musical
Fun Home
Best Revival Of A Play
Skylight
Best Revival Of A Musical
The King and I
Best Book Of A Musical
Lisa Kron, Fun Home
Best Original Score Written For Theatre
Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, Fun...
Featuring performances by Vanessa Hudgens, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer, the larger-than-life event took over Radio City Music Hall as the biggest and brightest stage stars received their due honor.
Helen Mirren won Best Actress in a Play for her work in “The Audience,” while Alex Sharp took the Best Actor trophy for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
And the 2015 Tony Awards Winners are:
Best Play
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best Musical
Fun Home
Best Revival Of A Play
Skylight
Best Revival Of A Musical
The King and I
Best Book Of A Musical
Lisa Kron, Fun Home
Best Original Score Written For Theatre
Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, Fun...
- 6/8/2015
- GossipCenter
"Not too bad, if I say so myself..." If I may take a quote from this year's Best Musical winner as I went 20/24 with my predictions for this year's 2015 Tony Awards. Undoubtedly, the two big winners of the night were the musical Fun Home and the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, both of which took home five awards including honors for their leading men, directors, and, of course, Best Musical/Play. Right behind those two was the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, which picked up four awards, including Best Revival and for their long overdue leading lady Kelli O'Hara, who easily gave the best speech of the night (including dancing off the stage). I may predicted Tony co-host Kristin Chenoweth over her, but I am so happy to be wrong. yt id="MneMh2c-y0M" width="640" And what about Chenoweth...
- 6/8/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
The 69th Annual Tony Awards honored Broadway's best and brightest on Sunday, June 7 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. A slew of star-studded nominees, including Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, were in attendance as Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming shared the event's hosting duties. Find out the big winners below!
Best Musical
Fun Home - Winner
An American in Paris
Something Rotten!
The Visit
Best Play
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Winner
Disgraced
Hand to God
Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two P
Best Revival of a Musical
The King and I - Winner
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
Best Revival of a Play
Skylight - Winner
The Elephant Man
This Is Our Youth
You Can't Take It With You
Best Direction of a Musical
Sam Gold, Fun Home - Winner
Casey Nicholaw, Something Rotten!
John Rando, On the Town
Bartlett Sher,...
Best Musical
Fun Home - Winner
An American in Paris
Something Rotten!
The Visit
Best Play
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Winner
Disgraced
Hand to God
Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two P
Best Revival of a Musical
The King and I - Winner
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
Best Revival of a Play
Skylight - Winner
The Elephant Man
This Is Our Youth
You Can't Take It With You
Best Direction of a Musical
Sam Gold, Fun Home - Winner
Casey Nicholaw, Something Rotten!
John Rando, On the Town
Bartlett Sher,...
- 6/7/2015
- by Alana Altmann
- Moviefone
We are yet another day closer to the biggest night on every theatre-lover's calendar- the 69th Annual Tony Awards, which will be co-hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming on Sunday, June 7 8Pm on CBS. Earlier this month, the 2015 Tony nominees gathered to meet the press and BroadwayWorld was on hand for the big day. Below, we bring you an exclusive interview with Sam Gold, Best Director of a Musical nominee for Fun Home.
- 6/6/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Here is something a bit different for Rope of Silicon. Sure, we have award predictions for the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, but that makes sense, considering this is site is 95% about movies. But there are plenty of other stories out there being told in theaters that get plenty of respect. Except these are stories performed live right in front of your face. So, I took it upon myself to comb through the absurd amount of categories of the Tony Awards, which is this Sunday June 7, to give you my predictions on what will win. I am doing this not just because it is fun to predict things and hope I get them all right, though that is certainly part of it, but I also want to shed light on these projects that a lot of people don't know about. Film and television people often have on blinders when...
- 6/5/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
Fun Home, the Award-winning new musical that began previews on Broadway on March 27, announced today that the updated and expanded Broadway version of the cast recording has reached 1 on the Billboard Cast Album Chart. The album, produced by Ps Classics, now features Emily Skeggs, who took over the role of Medium Alison during the show's original Off-Broadway run and is re-creating the role on Broadway, and includes new material written for the Broadway production, as well as additional material not included on the original recording. With music by five-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by three-time Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron and direction by Tony Award nominee Sam Gold, Fun Home began previews March 27, 2015 and opened to rave reviews at the Circle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street on Sunday, April 19, 2015.
- 6/3/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Note: Sam Gold's production of Annie Baker's play The Flick, produced at Playwrights Horizons in 2013 and subsequently awarded the Pulitzer Prize, returns tonight at the Barrow Street Theater with the same cast. We're reposting Jesse Green's review of that production. Here are some things that do not happen in Annie Baker’s new play The Flick. A confessed love is not reciprocated. An unconfessed love is not reciprocated. (I think; much is mysterious.) A friend does not, in a pinch, help a friend. A sad person does not learn a happy lesson. The audience does not get a moral, or even a subject. Also missing in action: action. No one does anything generally regarded as theatrical.So what does happen in The Flick? A lot of sweeping and mopping of the floor of a grotty old movie house near Worcester, Massachusetts. Also the tenderest drama — funny, heartbreaking, sly,...
- 5/19/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Annie Baker's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Flick, returns to Off-Broadway this month, directed once again by Sam Gold and featuring Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher, and Aaron Clifton Moten, reprising their acclaimed performances. Previews began onMay 5, with opening night set for tonight, May 18 at the Barrow Street Theatre 27 Barrow Street, corner of Seventh Avenue, and the show will play a 16-week limited engagement through Sunday, August 30.
- 5/18/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Every year the theater industry honors the biggest and brightest stars and this morning (April 28) Mary-Louise Parker and Bruce Willis announced the nominees for the 2015 Tony Awards.
Jumping out ahead of the pack, “An American in Paris” and “Fun Home” each scored 12 shots at a trophy, while Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan and Kristin Chenoweth all nabbed nods.
The 2015 Tony Awards will air live from Radio City Music Hall on June 7th, hosted by Chenoweth and Alan Cumming.
Best Play
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Disgraced
Hand to God
Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Best Musical
An American in Paris
Fun Home
Something Rotten!
The Visit
Best Revival Of A Play
The Elephant Man
Skylight
This Is Our Youth
You Can’t Take It with You
Best Revival Of A Musical
The King and I
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
Best Book Of...
Jumping out ahead of the pack, “An American in Paris” and “Fun Home” each scored 12 shots at a trophy, while Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan and Kristin Chenoweth all nabbed nods.
The 2015 Tony Awards will air live from Radio City Music Hall on June 7th, hosted by Chenoweth and Alan Cumming.
Best Play
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Disgraced
Hand to God
Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Best Musical
An American in Paris
Fun Home
Something Rotten!
The Visit
Best Revival Of A Play
The Elephant Man
Skylight
This Is Our Youth
You Can’t Take It with You
Best Revival Of A Musical
The King and I
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
Best Book Of...
- 4/28/2015
- GossipCenter
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical opened Sunday night, April 19. With music by four-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold, Fun Home started previews on Broadway at the Cir cle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street, on March 27. BroadwayWorld's Richiard Ridge was on the red carpet to chat with some of the celebrity guests and you can catch what Sutton Foster, Patina Miller, Rob McCLure, John Tartaglia and more had to say below...
- 4/21/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical opened Sunday night, April 19. With music by four-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold, Fun Home started previews on Broadway at the Cir cle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street, on March 27. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you interviews with the cast on the big night, plus a sneak peek of the cast in action...
- 4/21/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical opened last night, April 19. With music by four-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nomineeLisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold, Fun Home started previews on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street, on March 27. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the red carpet theatre arrivals...
- 4/20/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical opened last night, April 19. With music by four-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nomineeLisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold, Fun Home started previews on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street, on March 27. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the after party festivities...
- 4/20/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical opened last night, April 19. With music by four-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold, Fun Home started previews on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street, on March 27. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the curtain call...
- 4/20/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical, is currently in previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street. With music by four-time Tony Award nomineeJeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold, Fun Home officially opens on Broadway on Sunday, April 19th. Below, check out a first look at the cast in action...
- 4/9/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical, is currently in previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street. With music by four-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold,Fun Home officially opens on Broadway on Sunday, April 19th. Below, check out a first look at the musical in it's new Broadway home...
- 4/6/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Welcome to Fun Home, the groundbreaking new musical that comes to Broadway after its sold-out, critically acclaimed run at the Public Theater. Based on Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir, Fun Home features music by 4-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori Violet Caroline, or Change, book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron Well and direction by Sam Gold Seminar, and stars Tony winner Michael Cerveris Sweeney Todd and three-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn Les Miserables. Fun Home introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family - her mother, brothers and volatile, brilliant, enigmatic father - that connect with her in surprising new ways. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and already the winner of five awards for Best Musical, Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.
- 3/30/2015
- by Contests - Broadway
- BroadwayWorld.com
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