The appearance on the European scene of “A Doll’s House” (1879) is one of the most important and sensational events in the history of modern theater. The international reputation of the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen (playwright, director, poet, and often referred to as the father of realism) begins with this play: a reputation made of scandal but, most of all, a success based on controversy. The story of Nora and Torvald Helmer indeed disturbs the quiet life of the bourgeois conformist family. At the same time, it is a story that excites the fantasies, stirs hopes and ignites ambitions. Nora, a.
- 7/7/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
If you have a theater fan in your life who has been extra hyped these days, it’s likely because the 2017 Tony Awards are nearly here.
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre (as the Tonys are officially known) recognize the highest honor in U.S. theater — the equivalent of television’s Emmys or the film industry’s Oscars.
With no Hamilton-sized hit this year, the race in the top categories has been pretty wide open and hard to predict — with only Bette Midler’s turn in the revival of Hello, Dolly! a lock for the best actress in a musical prize.
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre (as the Tonys are officially known) recognize the highest honor in U.S. theater — the equivalent of television’s Emmys or the film industry’s Oscars.
With no Hamilton-sized hit this year, the race in the top categories has been pretty wide open and hard to predict — with only Bette Midler’s turn in the revival of Hello, Dolly! a lock for the best actress in a musical prize.
- 6/11/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
Laurie Metcalf is finally trying her hand at a legendary stage character, in the process earning a Tony nomination for best actress in a play.
The veteran screen and stage star — and four-time Tony nominee — appears as Nora in A Doll’s House, Part 2, the sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s iconic play, written by Lucas Hnath. Now, 15 years later, Nora comes back to that famously suffocating house a successful woman trying to tie up a few loose ends — and Metcalf is happy to get the chance to embody her this time around.
“I never got to play Nora in A Doll’s House before,...
The veteran screen and stage star — and four-time Tony nominee — appears as Nora in A Doll’s House, Part 2, the sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s iconic play, written by Lucas Hnath. Now, 15 years later, Nora comes back to that famously suffocating house a successful woman trying to tie up a few loose ends — and Metcalf is happy to get the chance to embody her this time around.
“I never got to play Nora in A Doll’s House before,...
- 6/5/2017
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
This week Theater Talk focuses on the Tony-nominated play A Doll's House, Part 2 in a conversation with playwright Lucas Hnath along with its Tony-nominated lead actors Laurie Metcalf and Chris Cooper. The play picks up 15 years after the end of the classic Ibsen drama A Doll's House. Nora returns to the home she once shared with Torvald and events take an unexpected turn, in a theatrical work that also surprises audiences in both its style and tone.
- 6/1/2017
- by Theater Talk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Each season of Broadway brings about a slate of unexpected performances and plenty of unforgettable moments. While the 2016-2017 season didn’t see any new show rise to Hamilton-like popularity -- it’s hard for any TV show, film or stage production to reach that level of pop culture zeitgeist -- there are plenty of standout showcases of what fans have come to know and love about the New York City theater scene.
Perhaps the biggest breakout of the season is Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, the musical adaptation of a section from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace that earned 12 Tony Award nominations, including nods for Best Musical as well as for its cast (Josh Groban, UnREAL breakout Denée Benton and Lucas Steele). “I always dreamed of playing roles like Natasha,” says Benton, a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, who plays the titular hopelessly romantic ingénue.
It certainly is the only show to exhibit...
Perhaps the biggest breakout of the season is Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, the musical adaptation of a section from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace that earned 12 Tony Award nominations, including nods for Best Musical as well as for its cast (Josh Groban, UnREAL breakout Denée Benton and Lucas Steele). “I always dreamed of playing roles like Natasha,” says Benton, a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, who plays the titular hopelessly romantic ingénue.
It certainly is the only show to exhibit...
- 5/31/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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
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
Even the most accomplished actors are always dying to get another big fantasy part on their résumés.
Some are still holding on to the hope that their childhood dream will come to fruition, some are eager to challenge themselves like never before, and other performers have long been captivated by the idea of taking on a certain real-world persona.
Whatever the reason, these stars, from blockbuster veterans to TV legends, are still striving to make these stops on their Hollywood journeys:
Chris Pratt: A cop
“I’ve always wanted to play a cop,” the actor told Wsvn’s Chris Van Vliet.
Some are still holding on to the hope that their childhood dream will come to fruition, some are eager to challenge themselves like never before, and other performers have long been captivated by the idea of taking on a certain real-world persona.
Whatever the reason, these stars, from blockbuster veterans to TV legends, are still striving to make these stops on their Hollywood journeys:
Chris Pratt: A cop
“I’ve always wanted to play a cop,” the actor told Wsvn’s Chris Van Vliet.
- 12/8/2016
- by lydprice
- PEOPLE.com
Danièle Delorme and Jean Gabin in 'Deadlier Than the Male.' Danièle Delorme movies (See previous post: “Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 Actress Became Rare Woman Director's Muse.”) “Every actor would like to make a movie with Charles Chaplin or René Clair,” Danièle Delorme explains in the filmed interview (ca. 1960) embedded further below, adding that oftentimes it wasn't up to them to decide with whom they would get to work. Yet, although frequently beyond her control, Delorme managed to collaborate with a number of major (mostly French) filmmakers throughout her six-decade movie career. Aside from her Jacqueline Audry films discussed in the previous Danièle Delorme article, below are a few of her most notable efforts – usually playing naive-looking young women of modest means and deceptively inconspicuous sexuality, whose inner character may or may not match their external appearance. Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (“Open for Inventory Causes,” 1946), an unreleased, no-budget comedy notable...
- 12/18/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Now that we’re officially in the second half of the season, True Blood appears to be doing that thing it does where regardless of the momentum (or lack thereof) its various stories are carrying, the show just doubles down on the crazy, for better or worse. The good news is that even if this doesn’t seem to work well on a logical level it at least tends to deliver on the outrageousness. “In the Beginning” found the insanity dialed up a notch and the “Other” metaphor about this close to just taking a piss on the fourth wall, but at least most of the plots are moving forward, I just hope they all have something to say by the end of the season. Let’s break them down in terms of winners and losers.
First off, the episode’s big win – seeing Russell Edgington...
Now that we’re officially in the second half of the season, True Blood appears to be doing that thing it does where regardless of the momentum (or lack thereof) its various stories are carrying, the show just doubles down on the crazy, for better or worse. The good news is that even if this doesn’t seem to work well on a logical level it at least tends to deliver on the outrageousness. “In the Beginning” found the insanity dialed up a notch and the “Other” metaphor about this close to just taking a piss on the fourth wall, but at least most of the plots are moving forward, I just hope they all have something to say by the end of the season. Let’s break them down in terms of winners and losers.
First off, the episode’s big win – seeing Russell Edgington...
- 7/24/2012
- by Joseph Kratzer
- Obsessed with Film
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 5, Episode 7 of HBO's "True Blood," titled, "In The Beginning."
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the largest eye roll in the history of eye rolls. And it was directed at the latest episode of "True Blood," more specifically that ending, but let's start with the beginning.
Following last week's cliffhanger, Russell Edgington is caught by security courtesy of a silver net. I'm assuming he is then imprisoned within the Authority headquarters, but when Bill and Eric are summoned by Salome, we are then presented with a free Nora and a free Russell. They go on about Lilith and their plan and how Salome was the one who dug up Russell in the first place. Turns out that she followed them when they originally buried him, and she needed Russell to take down the Guardian. And that he did.
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the largest eye roll in the history of eye rolls. And it was directed at the latest episode of "True Blood," more specifically that ending, but let's start with the beginning.
Following last week's cliffhanger, Russell Edgington is caught by security courtesy of a silver net. I'm assuming he is then imprisoned within the Authority headquarters, but when Bill and Eric are summoned by Salome, we are then presented with a free Nora and a free Russell. They go on about Lilith and their plan and how Salome was the one who dug up Russell in the first place. Turns out that she followed them when they originally buried him, and she needed Russell to take down the Guardian. And that he did.
- 7/23/2012
- by Joey DeAngelis
- Aol TV.
They say art is timeless. That may not always be true, but we can probably say this much: all art eventually becomes timely again. Case in point, Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, which is being adapted and set amongst the modern economic crisis by writer/director Charles Huddleston. He's already lining up a hell of a cast, as well: Variety reports that Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, and Jena Malone are on board for the film. Ibsen's play, originally premiered in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1879, centers around a family struggling with financial troubles and secrets that threaten to split them apart. Huddleston adapted the play along with Michele Martin (who previously co-wrote Dadgum, Texas with Huddleston). Martin is also acting in A Doll's House, playing the lead female role of Nora Helmer. Kingsley and Malone will be taking on the roles of Dr. Rank and Christine Linde, friend of Nora's.
- 11/2/2011
- cinemablend.com
[1] Steve Carell's been doing quite well for himself in his post-Office career. He's already got several films lined up for the next couple of years, including Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher and the magician comedy Burt Wonderstone. Now the latest addition to his slate is Conviction, a heist film which he'll produce and star in. Jonathan Herman's Black List script centers around a convicted bank robber who's forced by the FBI to entrap his former protege. Which sounds good, except that while Herman's original screenplay had a tone similar to Heat, it's now being reworked as an action comedy in the vein of 48 Hours or Ocean's Eleven. That seems like a pretty major shift, though without having read the script I can't say for certain whether it's a terrible idea. The project has yet to confirm a writer to draft a new version of the script. [Deadline [2]] After the jump,...
- 11/2/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Ben Kingsley, Julian Sands, Jena Malone and Michele Martin have scored the lead roles in the film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 19th century classic play "A Doll's House" says Variety.
The story centers on a young woman's marriage to an overbearing husband, with the action shifted to be set during today's recession. Martin will play Nora Helmer, the naive young wife of a banking executive.
Malone will play a friend of Nora's who has to decide between her loyalty to Nora and her own future. Kingsley is attached for the role of Dr. Rank, a friend to the Helmers. Sands will play a professional in the seedy world of lending desperate people money.
Charles Huddleston will direct from a screenplay he adapted with Martin. Shooting kicks off in January in Cincinnati.
The story centers on a young woman's marriage to an overbearing husband, with the action shifted to be set during today's recession. Martin will play Nora Helmer, the naive young wife of a banking executive.
Malone will play a friend of Nora's who has to decide between her loyalty to Nora and her own future. Kingsley is attached for the role of Dr. Rank, a friend to the Helmers. Sands will play a professional in the seedy world of lending desperate people money.
Charles Huddleston will direct from a screenplay he adapted with Martin. Shooting kicks off in January in Cincinnati.
- 11/2/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
We’re hearing from Variety that James Franco and Harmony Korine will make their second pairing in Spring Breakers, something I would call a drama — but you never know with this guy. The film follows “four college-aged girls who rob a fast food restaurant to afford spring break in Florida, only to get arrested upon their arrival.”
Franco has been locked to play “Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer who bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch,” and Emma Roberts is in talks for the part of “one of the girls, Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.” Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez are also in talks (why are you looking at me like I’m joking?). Should they join, the latter will appear as “a religious girl who isn’t a thrill-seeker like the rest of the group.
Franco has been locked to play “Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer who bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch,” and Emma Roberts is in talks for the part of “one of the girls, Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.” Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez are also in talks (why are you looking at me like I’m joking?). Should they join, the latter will appear as “a religious girl who isn’t a thrill-seeker like the rest of the group.
- 11/1/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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