Exclusive: Emily Mann, who directed Daphne Rubin-Vega in the 2012 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, will re-team with both the actor and the playwright in December with an Off Broadway revival of The Night of the Iguana co-starring Tim Daly.
Also featured in the cast will be Lea DeLaria, Austin Pendleton and Jean Lichty. Previews begin December 6 at the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center, with opening night on December 17. The engagement will run through February 25, 2024.
The staging is a production of La Femme Theatre Productions, a company dedicated to showcasing the diverse female experience. The announcement describes the production as “an evocative 21st century production of Tennessee Williams’s timeless masterpiece.”
“The Night of the Iguana poses critical questions of faith and identity that are particularly relevant today as we navigate a paradoxically divided yet open world,” Lichty said in a statement.
Also featured in the cast will be Lea DeLaria, Austin Pendleton and Jean Lichty. Previews begin December 6 at the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center, with opening night on December 17. The engagement will run through February 25, 2024.
The staging is a production of La Femme Theatre Productions, a company dedicated to showcasing the diverse female experience. The announcement describes the production as “an evocative 21st century production of Tennessee Williams’s timeless masterpiece.”
“The Night of the Iguana poses critical questions of faith and identity that are particularly relevant today as we navigate a paradoxically divided yet open world,” Lichty said in a statement.
- 9/19/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Judith James, the longtime producing partner of Richard Dreyfuss who worked with the Oscar winner on films including Mr. Holland’s Opus, Quiz Show and Mad Dog Time, has died. She was 86.
James died Friday at her home in Santa Barbara after a bout with cancer, according to her son, Jackson James.
James and Dreyfuss worked together for 35 years, and their partnership also included the telefilms Funny, You Don’t Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville and the Prisoner of Honor, which aired in 1987 and 1991, respectively, and The Lightkeepers (2009). They were co-writers on You Don’t Look 200 as well.
“From the minute I met Judy James at the Mark Taper Forum, I knew I had found someone who had the same passion for storytelling that I did,” Dreyfuss said in a statement. “In all the years we were producing partners, we were of like mind, not gender, and we always found...
James died Friday at her home in Santa Barbara after a bout with cancer, according to her son, Jackson James.
James and Dreyfuss worked together for 35 years, and their partnership also included the telefilms Funny, You Don’t Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville and the Prisoner of Honor, which aired in 1987 and 1991, respectively, and The Lightkeepers (2009). They were co-writers on You Don’t Look 200 as well.
“From the minute I met Judy James at the Mark Taper Forum, I knew I had found someone who had the same passion for storytelling that I did,” Dreyfuss said in a statement. “In all the years we were producing partners, we were of like mind, not gender, and we always found...
- 7/17/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: A five-part video and podcast series celebrating the life and career of Broadway composer Lucy Simon – one of the final projects the sister of Carly Simon worked on prior to her death last week – launches today on YouTube and the Broadway Podcast Network.
Celebrating Lucy Simon was announced and released today by Broadway Podcast Network Co-Founders Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. The series will feature never-before-heard stories from The Secret Garden composer Simon herself, as well as from such collaborators as Judy Collins, Marshall Brickman, Marsha Norman, Victoria Clark, and others.
The series will also include new performances by Broadway stars Sierra Boggess, Funny Girl‘s Ramin Karimloo, The Secret Garden original stars Daisy Eagan and John Cameron Mitchell, and others. Eagan, Boggess and Karimloo performed in two New York concert versions of The Secret Garden in 2016. Songs to be performed on the new series will include the musical’s “Wick,...
Celebrating Lucy Simon was announced and released today by Broadway Podcast Network Co-Founders Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. The series will feature never-before-heard stories from The Secret Garden composer Simon herself, as well as from such collaborators as Judy Collins, Marshall Brickman, Marsha Norman, Victoria Clark, and others.
The series will also include new performances by Broadway stars Sierra Boggess, Funny Girl‘s Ramin Karimloo, The Secret Garden original stars Daisy Eagan and John Cameron Mitchell, and others. Eagan, Boggess and Karimloo performed in two New York concert versions of The Secret Garden in 2016. Songs to be performed on the new series will include the musical’s “Wick,...
- 10/25/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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Lucy Simon, the composer and sister of pop superstar Carly Simon who received a Tony nomination in 1991 for her work on the long-running Broadway musical The Secret Garden, has died. She was 82.
Simon died Thursday at her home in Piedmont, New York, after a long battle with breast cancer, a family spokesperson announced.
She and Carly began their careers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as The Simon Sisters, and their folk act opened for the likes of The Tarriers in Greenwich Village nightclubs. Their recording of “Wynken, Blynken & Nod” reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964.
Lucy Simon became the rare female composer to have a show on Broadway when The Secret Garden debuted in April 1991. Starring Rebecca Luker, Mandy Patinkin, Alison Fraser and Daisy Eagan and based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved children’s novel, the musical ran for 709 performances on Broadway, won...
Lucy Simon, the composer and sister of pop superstar Carly Simon who received a Tony nomination in 1991 for her work on the long-running Broadway musical The Secret Garden, has died. She was 82.
Simon died Thursday at her home in Piedmont, New York, after a long battle with breast cancer, a family spokesperson announced.
She and Carly began their careers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as The Simon Sisters, and their folk act opened for the likes of The Tarriers in Greenwich Village nightclubs. Their recording of “Wynken, Blynken & Nod” reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964.
Lucy Simon became the rare female composer to have a show on Broadway when The Secret Garden debuted in April 1991. Starring Rebecca Luker, Mandy Patinkin, Alison Fraser and Daisy Eagan and based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved children’s novel, the musical ran for 709 performances on Broadway, won...
- 10/21/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A stage adaptation of The Pianist, based on the Władysław Szpilman memoir that was the source of the Oscar-nominated 2002 film, is being developed by director Emily Mann with an eye toward Broadway. An industry reading is set for New York City this month with Tony Award winner Santino Fontana (Tootsie) starring as Szpilman.
The project was announced today by producers Robin de Levita Productions, Gorgeous Entertainment, and Wolk Transfer Company. Described as a play with music, The Pianist features an original score by Dutch concert pianist Iris Hond.
The invitation-only industry reading is set for June 23, with Fontana leading a company that includes Richard Topol, Georgia Warner, Claire Beckman, Arielle Goldman, Paul Spera, Addison Finley, Jordan Lage, Robert David Grant and Tina Benko.
The Pianist tells the true story of Szpilman, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Warsaw in World War II. The 2002 film adaptation of Szpilman’s 1946 memoir won Adrien Brody...
The project was announced today by producers Robin de Levita Productions, Gorgeous Entertainment, and Wolk Transfer Company. Described as a play with music, The Pianist features an original score by Dutch concert pianist Iris Hond.
The invitation-only industry reading is set for June 23, with Fontana leading a company that includes Richard Topol, Georgia Warner, Claire Beckman, Arielle Goldman, Paul Spera, Addison Finley, Jordan Lage, Robert David Grant and Tina Benko.
The Pianist tells the true story of Szpilman, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Warsaw in World War II. The 2002 film adaptation of Szpilman’s 1946 memoir won Adrien Brody...
- 6/21/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicole Ari Parker has signed with CAA.
The actor will next be seen in “And Just Like That…,” HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” reboot with original stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis. The series premieres Dec. 9.
A philanthropist as well as a producer, Nicole Ari Parker gained wide recognition for her work as Teri Joseph on Showtime’s “Soul Food.” She has also appeared on television’s “Chicago P.D.,” “Empire,” “Younger,” “The Romanoffs,” and “I’m Dying Up Here.” In 2015, she had a recurring role opposite Morris Chestnut in “Rosewood.”
On the film side, Parker starred in the Universal ensemble comedy “Almost Christmas” with Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union. She co-starred in Netflix’s “How It Ends” opposite Forest Whitaker, Theo James and Kat Graham. Parker’s stage credits include her 2012 Broadway debut as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ “A Street Car Named Desire” opposite Blair Underwood.
The actor will next be seen in “And Just Like That…,” HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” reboot with original stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis. The series premieres Dec. 9.
A philanthropist as well as a producer, Nicole Ari Parker gained wide recognition for her work as Teri Joseph on Showtime’s “Soul Food.” She has also appeared on television’s “Chicago P.D.,” “Empire,” “Younger,” “The Romanoffs,” and “I’m Dying Up Here.” In 2015, she had a recurring role opposite Morris Chestnut in “Rosewood.”
On the film side, Parker starred in the Universal ensemble comedy “Almost Christmas” with Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union. She co-starred in Netflix’s “How It Ends” opposite Forest Whitaker, Theo James and Kat Graham. Parker’s stage credits include her 2012 Broadway debut as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ “A Street Car Named Desire” opposite Blair Underwood.
- 11/15/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Nicole Ari Parker has signed with M88 for representation.
Actress, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Parker can currently be seen in the role of Samantha Miller on NBC’s Chicago P.D. and will next appear in HBO Max’s anticipated Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That... as well as the upcoming TV movie Safe Space directed by her husband Boris Kodjoe.
A seven-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Parker is known for her role as Teri Joseph on Showtime’s Emmy-nominated series Soul Food. She portrayed Giselle Barker on the final two seasons of Fox’s Empire. Her television credits also include Amazon’s The Romanoffs, Fox’s Star and Showtime’s I’m Dying up Here, and she was seen on the big screen in Remember the Titans, Boogie Nights and Almost Christmas, among others. Additionally, she guest starred with Kevin Hart and her husband Boris Kodjoe in...
Actress, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Parker can currently be seen in the role of Samantha Miller on NBC’s Chicago P.D. and will next appear in HBO Max’s anticipated Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That... as well as the upcoming TV movie Safe Space directed by her husband Boris Kodjoe.
A seven-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Parker is known for her role as Teri Joseph on Showtime’s Emmy-nominated series Soul Food. She portrayed Giselle Barker on the final two seasons of Fox’s Empire. Her television credits also include Amazon’s The Romanoffs, Fox’s Star and Showtime’s I’m Dying up Here, and she was seen on the big screen in Remember the Titans, Boogie Nights and Almost Christmas, among others. Additionally, she guest starred with Kevin Hart and her husband Boris Kodjoe in...
- 9/27/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jon Hartmere, writer of the Broadway-bound Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time and the 2017 film The Upside, has signed with Verve.
The Spears jukebox musical, with a Hartmere-penned book, sets hit songs including “Oops! I Did It Again,” “Stronger,” “Toxic” and “Lucky” to an irreverent take on classic fairy tale princess stories. A production was was set to begin previews in Chicago last April before the Covid-19 pandemic struck.
Prior to Once Upon a One More Time, Hartmere wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book of the Off Broadway musical Bare. More recently, he wrote the screenplay for The Upside, the 2017 film starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman, and directed by Neil Burger.
Hartmere has also developed projects for Fox, Disney, Amazon, Paramount, TWC, Miramax, Nickelodeon, Sony, MGM and Sesame Street Productions. With the agency signing, he joins Verve’s growing roster of theater...
The Spears jukebox musical, with a Hartmere-penned book, sets hit songs including “Oops! I Did It Again,” “Stronger,” “Toxic” and “Lucky” to an irreverent take on classic fairy tale princess stories. A production was was set to begin previews in Chicago last April before the Covid-19 pandemic struck.
Prior to Once Upon a One More Time, Hartmere wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book of the Off Broadway musical Bare. More recently, he wrote the screenplay for The Upside, the 2017 film starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman, and directed by Neil Burger.
Hartmere has also developed projects for Fox, Disney, Amazon, Paramount, TWC, Miramax, Nickelodeon, Sony, MGM and Sesame Street Productions. With the agency signing, he joins Verve’s growing roster of theater...
- 3/23/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dylan McDermott and Phylicia Rashad will headline a streaming performance of the Tennessee Williams classic The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann and benefitting the Actors Fund.
A presentation of La Femme Theatre Productions, the pre-recorded performance will stream December 2-6 and feature McDermott as Reverand Shannon and Rashad as Maxine. Also in the cast are Roberta Maxwell as Miss Fellowes, Austin Pendleton as Nonno, and Jean Lichty as Hannah, with Keith Randolph Smith, Carmen Berkeley, Eliud Kauffman, Julio Macias, Stephanie Schmiderer, Bradley James Tejeda and John Hans Tester.
The production was shot act by act over a two-day period beginning November 11 and following a week of rehearsals, with each cast member recorded in his or her home and appearing either on screen or in a “virtual green room.”
“As much as we will miss performing on an actual stage, our team has been flexible enough to...
A presentation of La Femme Theatre Productions, the pre-recorded performance will stream December 2-6 and feature McDermott as Reverand Shannon and Rashad as Maxine. Also in the cast are Roberta Maxwell as Miss Fellowes, Austin Pendleton as Nonno, and Jean Lichty as Hannah, with Keith Randolph Smith, Carmen Berkeley, Eliud Kauffman, Julio Macias, Stephanie Schmiderer, Bradley James Tejeda and John Hans Tester.
The production was shot act by act over a two-day period beginning November 11 and following a week of rehearsals, with each cast member recorded in his or her home and appearing either on screen or in a “virtual green room.”
“As much as we will miss performing on an actual stage, our team has been flexible enough to...
- 11/18/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Wynn Handman, co-founder of American Place Theatre, the Off Broadway non-profit company that championed a young playwright named Sam Shepard and cast such actors as Dustin Hoffman, Rául Juliá, Faye Dunaway, John Leguizamo and Robert de Niro early in their careers, died of complications from the coronavirus Saturday, April 11, at his home in New York. He was 97.
His death was announced by daughter Laura Handman.
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Handman co-founded Apt in 1963 with Michael Tolan and Sidney Lanier, and the theater would quickly become a vital player on the New York theater scene. In 1964, the theater staged its first full production: the Obie-winning The Old Glory by Robert Lowell, directed by Jonathan Miller (Beyond the Fringe) and starring Frank Langella,...
His death was announced by daughter Laura Handman.
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Handman co-founded Apt in 1963 with Michael Tolan and Sidney Lanier, and the theater would quickly become a vital player on the New York theater scene. In 1964, the theater staged its first full production: the Obie-winning The Old Glory by Robert Lowell, directed by Jonathan Miller (Beyond the Fringe) and starring Frank Langella,...
- 4/13/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Rory Byrne and Lumka Coleman are in their final semester of Atlantic's Full-Time conservatory, a program that equips students with the tools to found their own theater company. Time to unpack and explore the company's up-coming inaugural play The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garca Lorca in a new adaptation by Emily Mann directed by Bluebird Ensemble member, Romain Mereau.
- 11/14/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Christine Lahti has been cast as feminist icon Gloria Steinem in the previously announced Off Broadway production of Having Our Say playwright Emily Mann’s new play Gloria: A Life.
The play, to be directed by Diane Paulus (Waitress) and produced by Tony-winning producer Daryl Roth (Kinky Boots) at the Daryl Roth Theatre on Union Square in Manhattan, will begin previews Tuesday, October 2 and open Thursday, October 18.
“Gloria Steinem helped me find feminism, which has been my life jacket, a way to navigate through a world that doesn’t treat girls and women like full human beings,” Lahti said upon her casting. “For over forty years, she has worked tirelessly to enrich, empower and save women’s lives. To be able to play her and tell her remarkable story is one of the greatest thrills and honors of my life, not to mention my career.”
Said Steinem: “I’m honored to be represented by Christine,...
The play, to be directed by Diane Paulus (Waitress) and produced by Tony-winning producer Daryl Roth (Kinky Boots) at the Daryl Roth Theatre on Union Square in Manhattan, will begin previews Tuesday, October 2 and open Thursday, October 18.
“Gloria Steinem helped me find feminism, which has been my life jacket, a way to navigate through a world that doesn’t treat girls and women like full human beings,” Lahti said upon her casting. “For over forty years, she has worked tirelessly to enrich, empower and save women’s lives. To be able to play her and tell her remarkable story is one of the greatest thrills and honors of my life, not to mention my career.”
Said Steinem: “I’m honored to be represented by Christine,...
- 6/27/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Gloria: A Life, a new play about Gloria Steinem written by Emily Mann and directed by Diane Paulus, will debut off-Broadway this fall at the Daryl Roth Theater. Roth is producing.
Previews will begin previews October 2, with an official opening October 18.
The play, which will have all-female creative and producing teams, will be structured in two acts: The first being a more traditional six-character play (other women depicted in the play include Bella Abzug and Flo Kennedy), while the second half will be what Steinem describes as a “talking circle” between the audience and a moderator.
Casting has not been announced.
“We feel it’s incredibly important to be telling this story at this moment in time,” Roth said. “Gloria’s life and all she has accomplished brings us hope, reminding us how far we’ve come, and inspiring a new generation to go further.”
Said Steinem: “This exciting...
Previews will begin previews October 2, with an official opening October 18.
The play, which will have all-female creative and producing teams, will be structured in two acts: The first being a more traditional six-character play (other women depicted in the play include Bella Abzug and Flo Kennedy), while the second half will be what Steinem describes as a “talking circle” between the audience and a moderator.
Casting has not been announced.
“We feel it’s incredibly important to be telling this story at this moment in time,” Roth said. “Gloria’s life and all she has accomplished brings us hope, reminding us how far we’ve come, and inspiring a new generation to go further.”
Said Steinem: “This exciting...
- 5/16/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Award-winning producer Daryl Roth has announced the world premiere of Gloria A Life, a new play about Gloria Steinem as a symbol of past, present and future change. The play is based on her life and work, and written by Tony Award-nominee Emily Mann Having Our Say. It is directed by the visionary Tony Award-winning Diane Paulus Waitress, Pippin.
- 5/16/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
McCarter Theatre Center completes the 2017-2018 Theater Series withChristopher Durang's Turning Off the Morning News. His third world premiere commission for McCarter, Durang's follow-up to Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike 2013 Tony Award for Best Play, is a decidedly dark and daring comedy taking hilarious aim at today's absurd anddangerous world. Directed by McCarter's Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann, the play runsMay 4 - June 3in the Berlind Theatre.
- 5/11/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Actress Olivia Cole, best known for her performances in Roots and The Women of Brewster Place, passed away on January 19. She was 75.
Cole died in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, her agent, Susie Schwarz at Sbb Partners, told Variety. Her cause of death is currently unknown.
“She was a very eccentric woman and a wonderful woman,” Schwarz said of Cole, who didn’t own a cell phone and shied away from technology.
Cole was born in Memphis, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
She returned to the U.S. in 1964 and appeared in "Romeo and Juliet" at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.
In 1966, Cole made her Broadway debut in a revival of "The School for Scandal" — just one of the many stage appearances during her career — and then landed a gig as Deborah Mehren on CBS soap opera The Guiding Light.
She won...
Cole died in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, her agent, Susie Schwarz at Sbb Partners, told Variety. Her cause of death is currently unknown.
“She was a very eccentric woman and a wonderful woman,” Schwarz said of Cole, who didn’t own a cell phone and shied away from technology.
Cole was born in Memphis, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
She returned to the U.S. in 1964 and appeared in "Romeo and Juliet" at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.
In 1966, Cole made her Broadway debut in a revival of "The School for Scandal" — just one of the many stage appearances during her career — and then landed a gig as Deborah Mehren on CBS soap opera The Guiding Light.
She won...
- 1/25/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
The New York premiere of the new play, 20th Century Blues, from Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner and two-time Obie Award-winning playwright Susan Miller My Left Breast, directed by two-time Obie Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Emily Mann Having Our Say, Anna In The Tropics, just opened lat night, November 26, for a run through Sunday, January 28, and BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening festivities below...
- 11/27/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producer Lida Orzeck and Executive Producer Eva Price are pleased to announce The New York premiere of the new play, 20th Century Blues, from Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner and two-time Obie Award-winning playwright Susan Miller My Left Breast. Two-time Obie Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Emily Mann Having Our Say, Anna in the Tropics will direct the 10-week limited engagement beginning November 12 with performances through January 28 and an official opening night set for November 26. 20th Century Blues will play at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W. 42nd Street.
- 11/24/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
A priest is torn between two loves. Marcela Hannia Guillen and her Cuban-Americanfamily are struggling and Father Monroe Raul Mendez offers them warmth and kindness. Generosity blossoms into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin to blur. Artistic Director Emily Mann and playwright Nilo Cruz reunite for the first time since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyrical and romantic new play. Click below to go behind the scenes with the cast and creative team...
- 9/16/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
When Father Monroe discovers that Marcela and her Cuban-American familyare struggling, he offers a warmth and kindness unlike anything Marcela has ever experienced.Small acts of generosity blossom into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin toblur.McCarter Theatre Center Artistic Director Emily Mann and playwright Nilo Cruz reunite forthe first time since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyricalnew play aboutfalling in love and finding a place to call home.
- 9/9/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
When Father Monroe discovers that Marcela and her Cuban-American familyare struggling, he offers a warmth and kindness unlike anything Marcela has ever experienced.Small acts of generosity blossom into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin toblur.McCarter Theatre Center Artistic Director Emily Mann and playwright Nilo Cruz reunite forthe first time since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyricalnew play aboutfalling in love and finding a place to call home.
- 8/11/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
McCarter Theatre Center's Resident PlaywrightArtistic Director Emily Mann and Managing DirectorTimothy J. Shields have announced Debbie Bisno as the theatre's new Resident Producer. Ms. Bisno, a Broadway producer with twodecades in the commercial and non-profit theatrical arenas, assumes her new leadership role immediately. Ms. Bisno will be based inPrinceton as an important member of the artistic team at McCarter, and she will maintain and expand McCarter's relationships in NY,regionally, and abroad. Her existing company, Bisno Productions, will continue operations in Manhattan.
- 3/21/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This year, controversy over the repeated snubbing of African-American actors from the Oscars has once again dominated headlines.Twenty years ago, a special report in People examined diversity in the movie industry and labeled Hollywood's "continued exclusion of African-Americans" as "a national disgrace".The report was reexamined five years later in a follow up exposé, and while People uncovered encouraging signs of improvement, the African-American actors interviewed made it clear they felt the industry still had a long way to go.Now, another fifteen years later, and with calls to boycott the award show gaining traction, the original article appears...
- 1/22/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
This year, controversy over the repeated snubbing of African-American actors from the Oscars has once again dominated headlines.Twenty years ago, a special report in People examined diversity in the movie industry and labeled Hollywood's "continued exclusion of African-Americans" as "a national disgrace".The report was reexamined five years later in a follow up exposé, and while People uncovered encouraging signs of improvement, the African-American actors interviewed made it clear they felt the industry still had a long way to go.Now, another fifteen years later, and with calls to boycott the award show gaining traction, the original article appears...
- 1/22/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
New York Theatre Workshop Nytw presents the first production of their 201415 season, Scenes From A Marriage, based on Ingmar Bergman's film of the same name. English version by Emily Mann and conceived and directed by Ivo van Hove, Scenes From A Marriage officially opened last night, September 22, 2014 at New York Theatre Workshop 79 E. 4th Street New York, NY 10003 for a limited engagement through Sunday, October 26, 2014. BroadwayWorld brings you phtoos from opening night below...
- 9/23/2014
- by Kevin Thomas Garcia
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York Theatre Workshop Nytw has announced that its 201415 season will include the U.S. premiere of Scenes from a Marriage written by Ingmar Bergman, adapted by Emily Mann and directed by Ivo van Hove the New York premiere of The Invisible Hand, written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll and the New York premiere of Forever, writtenand performed by Dael Orlandersmith and directed by Neel Keller. In the coming weeks Nytw will announce an additional production that will round out the season.
- 4/8/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, currently in revival through February 17th at the Berlind Theater at Princeton's McCarter Theater Center, is a beautifully mounted production: superb acting, marvelous direction, and the handsomest of set and costume designs. This is a "chamber drama" in that all the action takes place in one room -- the grand living room of a rich patrician Connecticut family. The cast consists of six players: an extended family of four and their very best friends, a couple who drop in unexpectedly, apparently intent on staying indefinitely.
Mr. Albee's better-known play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, is a psychological Grand Guignol about an alcohol-soaked combative childless couple. A Delicate Balance expands that comedic horror story motif to include "family life," which is likewise marinated in alcohol. This well-heeled family consists of a middle-aged couple, Tobias (John Glover) and Agnes (Kathleen Chalfant) [both shown above], their thirty-six-year-old thrice-divorced daughter, Julia (Francesca Faridany), and Agnes's alcoholic sister,...
Mr. Albee's better-known play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, is a psychological Grand Guignol about an alcohol-soaked combative childless couple. A Delicate Balance expands that comedic horror story motif to include "family life," which is likewise marinated in alcohol. This well-heeled family consists of a middle-aged couple, Tobias (John Glover) and Agnes (Kathleen Chalfant) [both shown above], their thirty-six-year-old thrice-divorced daughter, Julia (Francesca Faridany), and Agnes's alcoholic sister,...
- 2/10/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Occasional S&A contributor and screenwriter/producer Kia Barbee was able to attend a show of the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and, impressed with the play, she was more than willing to share her thoughts with us. Directed by Emily Mann, Streetcar stars Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella, and Wood Harris as Mitch. Streetcar, produced by Stephen Byrd, occupies the Broadhurst Theater on 44th Street through August 19, 2012. Without further ado, read Kia Barbee's review of the revival below: A Streetcar Named...
- 6/8/2012
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
There was a mad crush of premieres this week on Broadway — seven in all, vying to open just under the eligibility wire for this June’s Tony Awards. (Nominations will be announced Tuesday, May 1.) It’s been a surprisingly deep year in each of the four major categories (play, play revival, musical, musical revival).
• A Streetcar Named Desire Despite the occasional jarring moments in director Emily Mann’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ drama — which features TV stars Blair Underwood (The Event) as Stanley and Nicole Ari Parker (Soul Food) as Blanche DuBois — EW critic Lisa Schwarzbaum found the production “still...
• A Streetcar Named Desire Despite the occasional jarring moments in director Emily Mann’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ drama — which features TV stars Blair Underwood (The Event) as Stanley and Nicole Ari Parker (Soul Food) as Blanche DuBois — EW critic Lisa Schwarzbaum found the production “still...
- 4/28/2012
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Marlon Brando is so seared in our minds as Stanley Kowalski from "Streetcar Named Desire" that it takes an actor with true presence, a raw intensity and not a little bit of swagger to play him without comparisons to Brando popping up constantly.
Blair Underwood has all of that, and so very much more in the superior production of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece at the Broadhurst Theatre. The play does not have the happier Hollywood ending the 1951 movie has, and that wasn't exactly a day brightener.
Emily Mann's direction reveals Williams' rougher, grittier and far grimmer play. And it is glorious.You will feel as if you need to sit in a dark room and decompress for a while after. Twelve hours after leaving the nearly two-and-a-half hour production, I still feel this way. But if you are very lucky, you will see this limited run.
Though it has...
Blair Underwood has all of that, and so very much more in the superior production of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece at the Broadhurst Theatre. The play does not have the happier Hollywood ending the 1951 movie has, and that wasn't exactly a day brightener.
Emily Mann's direction reveals Williams' rougher, grittier and far grimmer play. And it is glorious.You will feel as if you need to sit in a dark room and decompress for a while after. Twelve hours after leaving the nearly two-and-a-half hour production, I still feel this way. But if you are very lucky, you will see this limited run.
Though it has...
- 4/26/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
There’s the Kindness of Strangers, and then there’s the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations: There was little of the former and plenty of the latter in the run-up to Emily Mann’s production of Streetcar, which features a mostly African-American cast led by Blair Underwood as Stanley and Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche. Critics and theater pooh-bahs have taken pretty strong stands for and against racially constituted revivals of “white” classics, but I’m not sure I see what all the fuss is about: Do we insist on the essential Scottishness of Macbeth?Okay, so that’s the theater geek’s equivalent of a cheap barroom analogy, but come, come: Streetcar is, by now, mythic, is it not? And its mythos is productively congruent with the black experience — in New Orleans, in the old Confederacy, and in the Greater Chromatocracy that was (and is) America. Tennessee Williams’s cultural,...
- 4/23/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
The core characters of Tennessee Williams’ seminal “A Streetcar Named Desire” are familiar to many: the animalistic Stanley, the fading Southern belle Blanche, the put-upon Stella, and the milquetoast Mitch. But Emily Mann’s new revival of the play, opening April 22 at the Broadhurst Theatre, aims to make the presence of another character equally integral to the story: the city of New Orleans.To ensure this, producers Steven C. Byrd and Alia M. Jones recruited composer Terence Blanchard to score the show, which for the first time on Broadway, casts non-white actors. According to Byrd, the Grammy-winner is a perfect fit not just because of his storied career as a jazz musician, but also, as a native New Orleanian, he adds authenticity to the production.“He was someone I always had in mind,” explains Byrd, who is a big fan of Blanchard. “He’s totally unique, and plays with distinctive sound rhythms.
- 4/19/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Doug Strassler)
- backstage.com
New York -- Blair Underwood's weird ride to becoming Stanley Kowalski onstage in "A Streetcar Named Desire" started four years ago with a dashed hope.
The actor had wanted to play Brick in an all-black Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but had lost the part to Terrence Howard, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in "Hustle & Flow."
"What are you going to do?" Underwood says, shrugging his shoulders.
Losing the role didn't sour him on the production, which he went to see one night at the Broadhurst Theatre. He was in the lobby during intermission when Stephen C. Byrd, one of the show's producers, spotted him and introduced himself.
Would Underwood be interested in playing Stanley in a multiracial production of Williams' other masterpiece on Broadway? Of course, came the answer. And, fittingly, years later, after shaking off a challenge from Denzel Washington,...
The actor had wanted to play Brick in an all-black Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but had lost the part to Terrence Howard, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in "Hustle & Flow."
"What are you going to do?" Underwood says, shrugging his shoulders.
Losing the role didn't sour him on the production, which he went to see one night at the Broadhurst Theatre. He was in the lobby during intermission when Stephen C. Byrd, one of the show's producers, spotted him and introduced himself.
Would Underwood be interested in playing Stanley in a multiracial production of Williams' other masterpiece on Broadway? Of course, came the answer. And, fittingly, years later, after shaking off a challenge from Denzel Washington,...
- 4/3/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation is continuing its conversation series on artistic leadership. Emily Mann is in her 22nd season as artistic director of McCarter Theatre and for the past 35 years has produced, directed, written, and adapted plays and productions around the country. Blanka Zizka, who is in her 31st season as artistic director of the Wilma Theater, just received the Sdcf's Zelda Fichandler Award, which recognizes a director or choreographer for transforming the regional arts landscape. The conversation between the two will be 90 minutes and is part of the Women Center Stage 2012 Festival. Topics will include approaches to direction, career influences and challenges, and opinions on fostering creativity and successful collaboration. March 10. The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton St., Manhattan. 10–11:30 a.m. $10. www.cultureproject.org/wcs/festival/2012-directors-weekend/. For more information, email Foundation@SDCweb.org or www.womencenterstage.org.
- 3/7/2012
- by help@backstage.com ()
- backstage.com
Southwark Playhouse, London
"Our revenge is never to forget," says one of the characters at the end of Emily Mann's 1980s play about the trial of Dan White. White, an all-American boy, was the former policeman who in November 1978 shot dead San Francisco's liberal mayor, George Moscone, and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the Us. Moscone and Milk – subject of Gus van Sant's Hollywood biopic – were not forgotten: the political landscape was changed by the assassinations, as was the law on diminished responsibility.
Drawing on court transcripts and interviews, Mann's verbatim play harnesses the power of real testimony, but rather oddly presents it under the guise of an old-fashioned courtroom drama, albeit one in which justice itself is on trial. The immediacy of the real voices is muted amid all the posturing. The story is strongest at its most...
"Our revenge is never to forget," says one of the characters at the end of Emily Mann's 1980s play about the trial of Dan White. White, an all-American boy, was the former policeman who in November 1978 shot dead San Francisco's liberal mayor, George Moscone, and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the Us. Moscone and Milk – subject of Gus van Sant's Hollywood biopic – were not forgotten: the political landscape was changed by the assassinations, as was the law on diminished responsibility.
Drawing on court transcripts and interviews, Mann's verbatim play harnesses the power of real testimony, but rather oddly presents it under the guise of an old-fashioned courtroom drama, albeit one in which justice itself is on trial. The immediacy of the real voices is muted amid all the posturing. The story is strongest at its most...
- 1/16/2012
- by Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
Call it his next big event: EW has confirmed that TV vet Blair Underwood will make his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalksi in the upcoming revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Yep, he’ll be the one, like Marlon Brando before him, screaming “Stella” and looking yummy. No word yet on who will be joining him as twisted sisters Blanche and the aforementioned Stella.
Two-time Golden Globe nominee Underwood, who can be seen onscreen alongside Emma Roberts in The Art of Getting By come Friday, most recently starred in NBC’s canceled sci-fi series The Event. Tony-nominated director...
Two-time Golden Globe nominee Underwood, who can be seen onscreen alongside Emma Roberts in The Art of Getting By come Friday, most recently starred in NBC’s canceled sci-fi series The Event. Tony-nominated director...
- 6/16/2011
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
Hollywood couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are reportedly in talks to make their Broadway debuts together, in a revival of American playwright Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire. The couple have been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which previously starred Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in the late 1940s, reported contactmusic.com. The revival, directed by Emily Mann, is set to open early next year. ...
- 7/19/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
London, July 17 – Hollywood couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are reportedly in talks to make their Broadway debuts together, in a revival of American playwright Tennessee Williams’ play ‘A streetcar named desire’.
The couple have been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which previously starred Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in the late 1940s, contactmusic.com reports.
The revival, directed by Emily Mann, is set to open early next year.
Ians...
The couple have been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which previously starred Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in the late 1940s, contactmusic.com reports.
The revival, directed by Emily Mann, is set to open early next year.
Ians...
- 7/17/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Hollywood power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are reportedly in talks to make their Broadway debuts side-by-side, in a revival of Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.
According to the New York Post, the pair have been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which previously starred a then-unknown Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in the late 1940s.
The revival, directed by Emily Mann, is set to open early next year.
The couple have been a fixture on the New York City theatre scene since they signed on as co-producers of Tony Award-winning musical Fela! last year.
According to the New York Post, the pair have been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which previously starred a then-unknown Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in the late 1940s.
The revival, directed by Emily Mann, is set to open early next year.
The couple have been a fixture on the New York City theatre scene since they signed on as co-producers of Tony Award-winning musical Fela! last year.
- 7/17/2010
- WENN
Say what? That’s right… The New York Post is reporting that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski, in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which is set to open early next year.
The deal is far from done, but the Smiths are said to be “giving it some thought.” However, even if they don’t do A Streetcar Named Desire, there’s still a strong chance that we’ll be seeing them on stage soon, because the Post does say that the couple is looking for a play to star in, given all the Broadway exposure they’ve both had in the last year, from signing on to “produce” the acclaimed Fela!, supporting Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in Fences, attending the Tony Awards, and more. They’ve got Broadway fever!
Emily Mann...
The deal is far from done, but the Smiths are said to be “giving it some thought.” However, even if they don’t do A Streetcar Named Desire, there’s still a strong chance that we’ll be seeing them on stage soon, because the Post does say that the couple is looking for a play to star in, given all the Broadway exposure they’ve both had in the last year, from signing on to “produce” the acclaimed Fela!, supporting Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in Fences, attending the Tony Awards, and more. They’ve got Broadway fever!
Emily Mann...
- 7/16/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
According to Michael Riedel this morning, Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith may be leading a production of Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway next year as Stanley and Stella, respectively. Reportedly, the pair have been approached by producers and are considering the possibility. Emily Mann will direct the production, which will be produced by Stephen Byrd. Click here for the full report.
- 7/16/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York's Playwrights Horizons announced today that Edward Albee's "Me, Myself & I" will open their 2010-11 season. Directed by Emily Mann, the production will star Tony winner Elizabeth Ashley ("Take Her, She's Mine") and three-time Tony nominee Brian Murray ("The Play About the Baby"). Performances will begin in August 2010 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater. No other details have been announced. The production was originally presented at New Jersey's McCarter Theatre in January 2008. Mann is the Artistic Director at the McCarter. Murray will reprise his role. Three of the four have a history with Playwrights Horizons. In 2005, Mann directed "Miss Witherspoon." Ashley appeared in "When She Danced" in 1990. Twice before Murray appeared with the company, in 1997's "Mud, River, Stone" and 2000's "The Butterfly Collection." This is the first time Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner, will debut a play with Playwrights. For more information, visit www.
- 12/8/2009
- backstage.com
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts calendar of events for the fall months has just been released. All events are subject to change without notice. Free performances are held each evening at 6 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
1 & 3 p.m. Concert Hall
Nso Family Concert
Spooky Sounds and Scary Tales
Keep the Halloween costume party going and come dressed in your spookiest get-up for this "spirited" Sunday afternoon concert event. Conductor Brad Lubman and the Nso will be wearing their own trick-or-treat outfits as they perform Steven Reineke's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with narrator Lynda Carter and music from other scary tales. It's guaranteed to be a ghoulish good time! For age 5 and up. Come early for the Musical Instrument "Petting Zoo," a project of the Women's Committee for the Nso. Immediately following the 3 p.m. performance, meet Brad Lubman and special...
Sunday, November 1, 2009
1 & 3 p.m. Concert Hall
Nso Family Concert
Spooky Sounds and Scary Tales
Keep the Halloween costume party going and come dressed in your spookiest get-up for this "spirited" Sunday afternoon concert event. Conductor Brad Lubman and the Nso will be wearing their own trick-or-treat outfits as they perform Steven Reineke's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with narrator Lynda Carter and music from other scary tales. It's guaranteed to be a ghoulish good time! For age 5 and up. Come early for the Musical Instrument "Petting Zoo," a project of the Women's Committee for the Nso. Immediately following the 3 p.m. performance, meet Brad Lubman and special...
- 11/8/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pinter Tribute at Graduate Center to Celebrate Nobel Laureate's Life and Achievements; Participants Include Salman Rushdie, Paul Schrader, John Guare, Emily Mann, Brian O'Byrne A day-long "Tribute to Harold Pinter" on May 2 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (365 Fifth Ave., between 34th and 35th Streets) will celebrate the life and achievements of the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist, screenwriter, political activist, and actor...
- 4/29/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Due to popular demand and great ticket sales, McCarter Theatre Center has added a performance of its acclaimed production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession on Sunday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. Staged by McCarter Artistic Director Emily Mann, the cast features Suzanne Bertish in the title role, along with Robin Chadwick, Edward Hibbert, Madeleine Hutchins, Michael Izquierdo, and Rocco Sisto.
- 2/9/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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