Gayle Hunnicutt, the Texas-born actor known for 1969’s “Marlowe” and her role as Vanessa Beaumont in “Dallas,” died on Aug. 31 in London, according to The Times of London. She was 80.
Hunnicutt played Vanessa Beaumont, an English aristocrat who shares an illegitimate son with Larry Hagman’s J.R. Ewing, in the final three seasons of “Dallas” from 1989 to 1991.
Born on Feb. 6, 1943, in Fort Worth, Texas, Hunnicutt made her television debut in 1966 on the NBC sitcom “Mister Roberts.” She guested on several series in the ’60s, including “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Hey Landlord,” “Love on a Rooftop” and “Get Smart.”
On the film side, Hunnicutt starred opposite James Garner in the 1969 neo-noir crime film “Marlowe,” in which she played television star Mavis Wald. She appeared in more than 30 films during her career, including “The Wild Angels,” “P.J.,” “Freelance,” “Running Scared,” “Target” and “The Legend of Hell House” opposite Roddy McDowell.
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Hunnicutt played Vanessa Beaumont, an English aristocrat who shares an illegitimate son with Larry Hagman’s J.R. Ewing, in the final three seasons of “Dallas” from 1989 to 1991.
Born on Feb. 6, 1943, in Fort Worth, Texas, Hunnicutt made her television debut in 1966 on the NBC sitcom “Mister Roberts.” She guested on several series in the ’60s, including “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Hey Landlord,” “Love on a Rooftop” and “Get Smart.”
On the film side, Hunnicutt starred opposite James Garner in the 1969 neo-noir crime film “Marlowe,” in which she played television star Mavis Wald. She appeared in more than 30 films during her career, including “The Wild Angels,” “P.J.,” “Freelance,” “Running Scared,” “Target” and “The Legend of Hell House” opposite Roddy McDowell.
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- 9/6/2023
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Macbeth, Hedda Gabler and Saturday Night Fever make our March Events listMacbeth, Hedda Gabler and Saturday Night Fever make our March Events listScott Goodyer2/28/2017 10:18:00 Am
It's March, so you know what that means? We are almost finished with winter! And heading down the home stretch, what better way to distract yourself from the grey out there then to check out some unique events coming to the big screen this month! From classic screenings to a video game tournament, we've got you and the entire family covered!
March 4th: Lego Dimensions Week One
Cineplex is bringing Lego Dimensions onto the big screen! Bring the kids, sign up for the tournament, play Battle Arenas and win some great prizes!!
For the first time in a Lego video game, Battle Arenas allow players to take their favourite characters into battle and compete with up to 3 friends head-to-head. Play four different battle...
It's March, so you know what that means? We are almost finished with winter! And heading down the home stretch, what better way to distract yourself from the grey out there then to check out some unique events coming to the big screen this month! From classic screenings to a video game tournament, we've got you and the entire family covered!
March 4th: Lego Dimensions Week One
Cineplex is bringing Lego Dimensions onto the big screen! Bring the kids, sign up for the tournament, play Battle Arenas and win some great prizes!!
For the first time in a Lego video game, Battle Arenas allow players to take their favourite characters into battle and compete with up to 3 friends head-to-head. Play four different battle...
- 2/28/2017
- by Scott Goodyer
- Cineplex
Susan Traherne, the unstable protagonist of David Hare's Plenty, straining against a numbing life of polite prosperity in post-World War II Britain, is often compared to the self-destructive heroine of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Both women are tricky characters, selfish neurotics requiring an audience to fill in psychological blanks they refuse to articulate, even as corrosive suffocation, intransigence and rage push them over the edge. Neither director David Leveaux nor Rachel Weisz in the lead role satisfyingly meets the challenges of this structurally complex drama in the Public Theater's torpid revival. The jagged shards of a broken life that
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- 10/23/2016
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hedda (Gabler) Adapted by Matt Minnicino Directed by Joseph Michael Parks Presented by Wandering Bark Theatre Company At Irt Theater, NYC September 23-October 8, 2016
Henrik Ibsen's dramatic critique of bourgeois domesticity, Hedda Gabler, which premiered in 1891, remains probably his most often revived work. Hedda is still going strong 125 years later, now reincarnated in a fleet, fluid refresh written by Matt Minnicino and directed by Joseph Mitchell Parks, who played Lucius in 2015's inventive and memorable Titus Andronicus for the New York Shakespeare Exchange. In a play in which the name that someone is called signals ownership (or independence) and degrees of intimacy, Minnicino has rendered the protagonist's unmarried, titular name a parenthetical: Hedda (Gabler). When the play begins, Hedda (Valerie Redd) is more properly known (propriety being another of the play's thematic touchstones) as Hedda Tesman, having married ernest historian George Tesman (Kyle Schaefer), a "paragon of acceptability." George's rival,...
Henrik Ibsen's dramatic critique of bourgeois domesticity, Hedda Gabler, which premiered in 1891, remains probably his most often revived work. Hedda is still going strong 125 years later, now reincarnated in a fleet, fluid refresh written by Matt Minnicino and directed by Joseph Mitchell Parks, who played Lucius in 2015's inventive and memorable Titus Andronicus for the New York Shakespeare Exchange. In a play in which the name that someone is called signals ownership (or independence) and degrees of intimacy, Minnicino has rendered the protagonist's unmarried, titular name a parenthetical: Hedda (Gabler). When the play begins, Hedda (Valerie Redd) is more properly known (propriety being another of the play's thematic touchstones) as Hedda Tesman, having married ernest historian George Tesman (Kyle Schaefer), a "paragon of acceptability." George's rival,...
- 9/29/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Though only 38 years old, British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has already amassed an impressive list of credits on stage, on television, and on the big screen. Though he has yet to grace a Broadway stage, I have a feeling that that is just an eventuality as his popularity continues to skyrocket on this side of the Atlantic. Today we are taking a look at his career from the British stage in 'Hedda Gabler,' 'After the Dance,' and 'Frankenstein' to his work on film in '12 Years a Slave,' 'August Osage County,' and 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' to his iconic work on TV as the 'high-functioning sociopath' titular character on the BBC's 'Sherlock,' for which he is nominated a second time, in addition to his 2013 nomination for HBO's 'Parade's End.'...
- 9/15/2016
- by Matt Tamanini
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: Period drama stars Rita Ramnani.
Los Angeles-based Vision Films has acquired worldwide rights to Matthew John’s Henrik Ibsen adaptation Hedda Gabler and is in talks with Efm buyers.
British actress Rita Ramnani stars in the renowned period drama about an aristocratic woman who is bored in her marriage to an academic and encounters a former love.
Vision Films’ slate includes the 3D family theatrical feature Aldabra: Once Upon An Island, eco doc Breath Of Life, and David Hasslehoff musical Last Night A DJ Saved My Life.
“Hedda Gabler depicts a woman ahead of her time. This film brings the story many of us learned in English literature to life in a new way,” said Vision Films managing director and CEO Lise Romanoff.
Los Angeles-based Vision Films has acquired worldwide rights to Matthew John’s Henrik Ibsen adaptation Hedda Gabler and is in talks with Efm buyers.
British actress Rita Ramnani stars in the renowned period drama about an aristocratic woman who is bored in her marriage to an academic and encounters a former love.
Vision Films’ slate includes the 3D family theatrical feature Aldabra: Once Upon An Island, eco doc Breath Of Life, and David Hasslehoff musical Last Night A DJ Saved My Life.
“Hedda Gabler depicts a woman ahead of her time. This film brings the story many of us learned in English literature to life in a new way,” said Vision Films managing director and CEO Lise Romanoff.
- 2/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Team Experience prayer circle worked! Cate Blanchett will be returning to the New York stage, but finally on Broadway this time.
Her first steps on the Great White Way will be Anton Chekov's The Present, which will also be the first Broadway transfer of the Sydney Theatre Company that Blanchett co-artistic directed with her husband. They had previously brought Hedda Gabler, The Maids, and A Streetcar Named Desire (with Cate as none other than Blanche DuBois) to New York for those lucky enough to snag tickets to their limited engagements. The play, recently adapted by Upton, features themes of regret and unfulfilled desire that should prove meaty for the actress and her costar Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!).
Another exciting snippet of the production is John Crowley at the helm. He was criminally undervalued for his contributions this Oscar season with Brooklyn and is clearly gifted in stearing actors to rich portrayals.
Her first steps on the Great White Way will be Anton Chekov's The Present, which will also be the first Broadway transfer of the Sydney Theatre Company that Blanchett co-artistic directed with her husband. They had previously brought Hedda Gabler, The Maids, and A Streetcar Named Desire (with Cate as none other than Blanche DuBois) to New York for those lucky enough to snag tickets to their limited engagements. The play, recently adapted by Upton, features themes of regret and unfulfilled desire that should prove meaty for the actress and her costar Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!).
Another exciting snippet of the production is John Crowley at the helm. He was criminally undervalued for his contributions this Oscar season with Brooklyn and is clearly gifted in stearing actors to rich portrayals.
- 1/29/2016
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
Tony-winning actress and soap opera star Patricia Elliott died at her home in Manhattan Sunday following a battle with cancer, her niece Sally Fay confirmed the news to The Associated Press. She was 77.
Elliott began her career on Broadway in the original production of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music, playing Countess Charlotte Malcolm, a role that would earn her a best featured actress Tony in 1973. She would go on to receive a nomination in 1977 for "The Shadow Box," with other major Broadway credits including "A Doll's House," "A Month of Sundays," "Hedda Gabler and "The Elephant Man.
She...
Elliott began her career on Broadway in the original production of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music, playing Countess Charlotte Malcolm, a role that would earn her a best featured actress Tony in 1973. She would go on to receive a nomination in 1977 for "The Shadow Box," with other major Broadway credits including "A Doll's House," "A Month of Sundays," "Hedda Gabler and "The Elephant Man.
She...
- 12/22/2015
- by Aaron Couch, @AaronCouch
- People.com - TV Watch
Tony-winning actress and soap opera star Patricia Elliott died at her home in Manhattan Sunday following a battle with cancer, her niece Sally Fay confirmed the news to The Associated Press. She was 77. Elliott began her career on Broadway in the original production of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music, playing Countess Charlotte Malcolm, a role that would earn her a best featured actress Tony in 1973. She would go on to receive a nomination in 1977 for "The Shadow Box," with other major Broadway credits including "A Doll's House," "A Month of Sundays," "Hedda Gabler and "The Elephant Man. She...
- 12/22/2015
- by Aaron Couch, @AaronCouch
- PEOPLE.com
Tony-winning actress and soap opera star Patricia Elliott died at her home in Manhattan Sunday following a battle with cancer, her niece Sally Fay confirmed the news to The Associated Press. She was 77. Elliott began her career on Broadway in the original production of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music, playing Countess Charlotte Malcolm, a role that would earn her a best featured actress Tony in 1973. She would go on to receive a nomination in 1977 for "The Shadow Box," with other major Broadway credits including "A Doll's House," "A Month of Sundays," "Hedda Gabler and "The Elephant Man. She...
- 12/22/2015
- by Aaron Couch, @AaronCouch
- PEOPLE.com
New York Theatre Workshop presents LAZARUSby David Bowie and Enda Walsh Once, Tony Award. Lazarus is inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis and directed by Ivo van Hove Hedda Gabler, More Stately Mansions, Obie Awards. Lazarus began previews on November 18 and officially opens tonight, December 7, 2015 at New York Theatre Workshop.Let's see what the critics had to say...
- 12/8/2015
- by Review Roundups
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York Theatre Workshop Nytw presents Lazarus by David Bowie and Enda Walsh Once, Tony Award, inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, and directed by Ivo van Hove Hedda Gabler, More Stately Mansions, Obie Awards.Lazarusofficially opens tonight, December 7, 2015, and will now run through January 17, 2016 at New York Theatre Workshop 79 E. 4th Street New York, NY 10003.
- 12/7/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pondling Written by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Directed by Paul Meade Gúna Nua and Ramblinman 59E59 Theaters, NYC September 8-October 4, 2015
Of all the chores on her grandfather's farm, Madeleine particularly loves crushing cans. She especially enjoys those cans that put up a bit of resistance right at the end, admiring how they fight the inevitable. Her satisfaction in dispatching cans contrasts with those times when she must hold the flashlight while her brother and grandfather feed the cows: at these times, she knows that her task is essentially a ploy to keep her from feeling useless, an insight that speaks to her relative isolation in Genevieve Hulme-Beaman's Pondling, part of New York City's annual 1st Irish Festival.
Of course, it is likely that Madeleine, played by Hulme-Beaman herself, is not actually our protagonist's name. She likes to introduce herself as Madeleine Humbel Buttercup, pronounced with a French accent, one part of her campaign of self-fashioning.
Of all the chores on her grandfather's farm, Madeleine particularly loves crushing cans. She especially enjoys those cans that put up a bit of resistance right at the end, admiring how they fight the inevitable. Her satisfaction in dispatching cans contrasts with those times when she must hold the flashlight while her brother and grandfather feed the cows: at these times, she knows that her task is essentially a ploy to keep her from feeling useless, an insight that speaks to her relative isolation in Genevieve Hulme-Beaman's Pondling, part of New York City's annual 1st Irish Festival.
Of course, it is likely that Madeleine, played by Hulme-Beaman herself, is not actually our protagonist's name. She likes to introduce herself as Madeleine Humbel Buttercup, pronounced with a French accent, one part of her campaign of self-fashioning.
- 9/16/2015
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Since being hurled under protest onto the A-list with the Twilight series, Kristen Stewart has been the butt of critics and columnists whose commentaries call her “mopey,” “slack,” “twitchy,” “unwashed,” etc. The defense admits everything but the “unwashed” part — I’ve never been close enough to know. But just because her material is crap and you can’t see her acting doesn’t mean she’s not the real thing. She was magnetic when mining her own discomfort in Olivier Assayas’s The Clouds of Sils Maria, and she was indelibly in the moment — alert to every grim beat — opposite Julianne Moore in Still Alice. I don’t know that she’s ready to play Hedda Gabler — maybe someday. I just think she’d just rather do things small than do them false.I loved watching her and Jesse Eisenberg in the new American Ultra. It’s a smartly written,...
- 8/21/2015
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her acting career after becoming a Labour Party MP in 1992. Four years ago, Jackson, who represented the Greater London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate, announced that she would stand down the 2015 general election – which, somewhat controversially, was won by right-wing prime minister David Cameron's Conservative party.[1] The silver lining: following a two-decade-plus break, Glenda Jackson is returning to acting. Now, Jackson isn't – for the time being – returning to acting in front of the camera. The 79-year-old is to be featured in the Radio 4 series Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money, described on their website as a “mash-up” adaptation of 20 Emile Zola novels collectively known as "Les Rougon-Macquart."[2] Part 1 of the three-part Radio 4 series will be broadcast daily during an...
- 7/2/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
New York Theatre Workshop Nytw has announced that Golden Globe winner and six-time Emmy nominee Michael C. Hall Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 'Dexter' will lead the cast of Lazarus, by David Bowie and Enda Walsh Once, Tony Award, inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, and directed by Ivo van Hove Hedda Gabler, More Stately Mansions, Obie Awards. Lazarus begins previews on November 18, with an opening night set for December 7, 2015.
- 6/23/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
We close the curtain on Inside No. 9's second series pick n’ mix of twisted delights with a scary setting for the finale...
This review contains spoilers.
2.6 The Seance
Looking suspiciously similar to series 1’s closer The Harrowing, Seance Time opened with a big creepy house on a suburban road, a young female Pov character walking into the building with hesitation, and some really dated interior décor. If you’re a devoted viewer of the show, this might have made you feel right at home; you may have found the house, and genre, familiar. The last episode of this run of Inside No. 9 was a return to juicy horror for the series, but any similarities to what’s gone before were just a starting point for a tale that switched from familiar horror set-ups to a look behind the curtain/camera, before turning right back around to something unsettling for a last spine-jolter.
This review contains spoilers.
2.6 The Seance
Looking suspiciously similar to series 1’s closer The Harrowing, Seance Time opened with a big creepy house on a suburban road, a young female Pov character walking into the building with hesitation, and some really dated interior décor. If you’re a devoted viewer of the show, this might have made you feel right at home; you may have found the house, and genre, familiar. The last episode of this run of Inside No. 9 was a return to juicy horror for the series, but any similarities to what’s gone before were just a starting point for a tale that switched from familiar horror set-ups to a look behind the curtain/camera, before turning right back around to something unsettling for a last spine-jolter.
- 4/29/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
You can’t accuse the Belgian director Ivo van Hove of picking fights with weaklings. His productions of Hedda Gabler, The Little Foxes, and A Streetcar Named Desire, all at New York Theater Workshop, have sometimes sucker-punched those venerable plays but in the end did no harm. I realize that’s not a high bar to set, but I have not usually been a fan of van Hove’s garish intrusions, which too often literalized sexual and aggressive drives in ways that made nonsense of the repressive worlds from which they arose. So I thought I was in for more of the same when Nytw announced that it would be producing a version of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage that van Hove had conceived and directed for his company, Toneelgroep Amsterdam. All anyone was talking about was the staging — and perhaps a part of the director’s motivation...
- 9/23/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Toronto — Alongside her tormented soul sisters in the great plays of Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, the title character in August Strindberg’s Miss Julie is a late 19th century Scandinavian creation who could virtually be any modern woman straining against rigid gender politics, class expectations and stifling societal rules. So it’s disappointing to report that despite nuanced work from the luminous Jessica Chastain in the role, alongside a bristling Colin Farrell, Liv Ullmann’s screen adaptation is a ponderous, stately affair that lacks relevance and only acquires intermittent power. Transplanted with few discernible losses or gains to
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- 9/8/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though only 38 years old, British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has already amassed an impressive list of credits on stage, on television, and on the big screen. Though he has yet to grace a Broadway stage, I have a feeling that that is just an eventuality as his popularity continues to skyrocket on this side of the Atlantic. Today we are taking a look at his career from the British stage in 'Hedda Gabler,' 'After the Dance,' and 'Frankenstein' to his work on film in '12 Years a Slave,' 'August Osage County,' and 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' to his iconic work on TV as the 'high-functioning sociopath' titular character on the BBC's 'Sherlock,' for which he is nominated a second time, in addition to his 2013 nomination for HBO's 'Parade's End.'...
- 8/20/2014
- by Matt Tamanini
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American playwright and screenwriter on True Detective, David Hockney and langoustines at the River Cafe
Playwright and screenwriter Jon Robin "Robbie" Baitz was brought up in Brazil and South Africa before returning to his birthplace, Los Angeles. In 1988 his first two-act play, The Film Society, transferred to an off-Broadway theatre, following a successful run in La. His subsequent work for the stage has included The Substance of Fire, People I Know, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler and the Pulitzer prize-nominated A Fair Country. Baitz has written for television, with credits including The West Wing and Alias, and he made the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five series. Baitz's Broadway debut, Other Desert Cities, which received five Tony award nominations and earned him his second Pulitzer Pprize nomination, runs at the Old Vic until 24 May.
TV: True Detective
This is a brilliant, existential, American television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson,...
Playwright and screenwriter Jon Robin "Robbie" Baitz was brought up in Brazil and South Africa before returning to his birthplace, Los Angeles. In 1988 his first two-act play, The Film Society, transferred to an off-Broadway theatre, following a successful run in La. His subsequent work for the stage has included The Substance of Fire, People I Know, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler and the Pulitzer prize-nominated A Fair Country. Baitz has written for television, with credits including The West Wing and Alias, and he made the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five series. Baitz's Broadway debut, Other Desert Cities, which received five Tony award nominations and earned him his second Pulitzer Pprize nomination, runs at the Old Vic until 24 May.
TV: True Detective
This is a brilliant, existential, American television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
Martin Firrell's video artwork, metaFenella, sees the 86-year-old actor imparting her wisdom. Why has it taken so long for the art world to celebrate this subversive Carry On star?
Would you take life advice from a woman who smokes? From her body, I mean. In Martin Firrell's online artwork metaFenella, you can sample the wisdom of actor Fenella Fielding who, in the 1966 film Carry On Screaming!, uttered the immortal line "Do you mind if I smoke?" At which moment a cloud of the stuff wafted from her sultry form.
I'd like to see more art about the Carry On films. Or even a wider acknowledgement of them as art in their own right.
Fenella Fielding, now in her 80s, has of course done things besides Carry On. She pioneered women's standup comedy, was a legendary Hedda Gabler on stage and her unmistakable voice has enriched such classic television programmes as The Prisoner.
Would you take life advice from a woman who smokes? From her body, I mean. In Martin Firrell's online artwork metaFenella, you can sample the wisdom of actor Fenella Fielding who, in the 1966 film Carry On Screaming!, uttered the immortal line "Do you mind if I smoke?" At which moment a cloud of the stuff wafted from her sultry form.
I'd like to see more art about the Carry On films. Or even a wider acknowledgement of them as art in their own right.
Fenella Fielding, now in her 80s, has of course done things besides Carry On. She pioneered women's standup comedy, was a legendary Hedda Gabler on stage and her unmistakable voice has enriched such classic television programmes as The Prisoner.
- 3/17/2014
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Real-life mother and son Tony and Emmy Award nominee Kate Burton The Corn is Green, The Cherry Orchard, Hedda Gabler at the Huntington and Morgan Ritchie The Corn Is Green play mother and son onstage together for the first time when they return to the Huntington Theatre Company for a lush new production of Anton Chekhov's passionate classic The Seagull. Huntington favorite Maria Aitken The Cocktail Hour, Betrayal will direct the Paul Schmidt translation of the classic of world drama about love, missed connections, and what it means to be an artist. Performances of The Seagull continue at the Avenue of the Arts Bu Theatre through April 6, 2014 at the Bu Theatre. Check out a behind the scenes look below, and hear what audiences are saying about the show. Watch the videos below...
- 3/15/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
My friend Lisa Daniely, who has died aged 84, was a familiar face in the films of the 1950s and 60s. She also appeared on stage and continued working as an actor well into her late 70s.
She was born Elizabeth Bodington in Reading, Berkshire, to an English solicitor father and a French mother. She was educated in Paris, where she trained at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre, and made her film debut in 1950 at the age of 21 in the title role of Lilli Marlene. Her film-star looks were on the cover of Picturegoer the following year. Her notable films included High Jump (1959) with Richard Wyler (who also acted under the name Richard Stapley), The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962) with Francis Matthews, Stranger in the House (1967) with James Mason and Geraldine Chaplin, and, perhaps most famously, Hindle Wakes (1952) with Leslie Dwyer.
On the stage she played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard,...
She was born Elizabeth Bodington in Reading, Berkshire, to an English solicitor father and a French mother. She was educated in Paris, where she trained at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre, and made her film debut in 1950 at the age of 21 in the title role of Lilli Marlene. Her film-star looks were on the cover of Picturegoer the following year. Her notable films included High Jump (1959) with Richard Wyler (who also acted under the name Richard Stapley), The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962) with Francis Matthews, Stranger in the House (1967) with James Mason and Geraldine Chaplin, and, perhaps most famously, Hindle Wakes (1952) with Leslie Dwyer.
On the stage she played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard,...
- 2/25/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
Real-life mother and son Tony and Emmy Award nominee Kate Burton The Corn is Green, The Cherry Orchard, Hedda Gabler at the Huntington and Morgan Ritchie The Corn is Green will play mother and son onstage together for the first time when they return to the Huntington Theatre Company for a lush new production of Anton Chekhov's passionate classic The Seagull. Huntington favorite Maria Aitken The Cocktail Hour, Betrayal will direct the Paul Schmidt translation of the classic of world drama about love, missed connections, and what it means to be an artist. Performances of The Seagull begin at the Avenue of the Arts Bu Theatre on March 7, 2014.
- 2/4/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Juliet Stevenson, star of films, stage and TV series such as The Politician's Wife, on poetry, Iranian film and Mark Twain
Born in Essex, actress Juliet Stevenson, launched her stage career with the RSC in 1978. Her notable theatre roles have included Rosalind in As You Like It, Hedda Gabler and Paulina in Death and the Maiden, for which she a best actress Olivier award in 1992. Stevenson's first Bafta nomination was for the lead in Anthony Minghella's film Truly, Madly, Deeply, followed by further nominations for TV roles in A Doll's House, The Politician's Wife and, more recently, the BBC series Accused. Stevenson is a much loved voice on the radio and numerous audio books. She stars in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the Young Vic from 23 January to 8 March.
Theatre: The Scottsboro Boys
I just saw The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic and I was blown away.
Born in Essex, actress Juliet Stevenson, launched her stage career with the RSC in 1978. Her notable theatre roles have included Rosalind in As You Like It, Hedda Gabler and Paulina in Death and the Maiden, for which she a best actress Olivier award in 1992. Stevenson's first Bafta nomination was for the lead in Anthony Minghella's film Truly, Madly, Deeply, followed by further nominations for TV roles in A Doll's House, The Politician's Wife and, more recently, the BBC series Accused. Stevenson is a much loved voice on the radio and numerous audio books. She stars in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the Young Vic from 23 January to 8 March.
Theatre: The Scottsboro Boys
I just saw The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic and I was blown away.
- 1/19/2014
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
She just received a lead actress nod from the Screen Actors Guild and now Cate Blanchett fronts the December 2013 issue of Elle Canada magazine.
While donning designer garb from Jason Wu and Giorgio Armani for the Jan Welters-shot spread, the "Blue Jasmine" beauty opened up about finding interesting roles and making time to raise her three sons.
Check out GossipCenter's recap of Miss Blanchett's interview. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Elle Canada!
On her successful career:
"I’ve been very lucky to play iconic roles like Blanche DuBois, Lotte Kotte and Hedda Gabler onstage, but cinema is a different beast. You are not always able to influence the final results in the same way as you can in the theatre. So I’m not always interested in large roles onscreen. I’m more interested in making the space to keep experimenting as an actor. What’s...
While donning designer garb from Jason Wu and Giorgio Armani for the Jan Welters-shot spread, the "Blue Jasmine" beauty opened up about finding interesting roles and making time to raise her three sons.
Check out GossipCenter's recap of Miss Blanchett's interview. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Elle Canada!
On her successful career:
"I’ve been very lucky to play iconic roles like Blanche DuBois, Lotte Kotte and Hedda Gabler onstage, but cinema is a different beast. You are not always able to influence the final results in the same way as you can in the theatre. So I’m not always interested in large roles onscreen. I’m more interested in making the space to keep experimenting as an actor. What’s...
- 12/11/2013
- GossipCenter
Up-and-coming director Mj Delaney takes a raunchy but realistic peep behind the door where no man can venture
Getting the female perspective across in mainstream cinema has been a long slog. It is still unusual to find a young woman behind the camera as well as in front of it. But, at 27, director Mj Delaney has now put the unvarnished truth on screen. Her new film, Powder Room, which stars Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone in an adaptation of a play by Rachel Hirons, expresses an unapologetic disregard for the meek, self-effacing heroines that commonly earn screen time.
Yet this was not what drew her to the story. "I just thought it was funny, honest and truthful, as well as refreshingly realistic and grimy," she told the Observer this weekend.
The idea that the plot, which revolves around the ladies' loo in a nightclub, might alienate male cinema-goers did not occur to her.
Getting the female perspective across in mainstream cinema has been a long slog. It is still unusual to find a young woman behind the camera as well as in front of it. But, at 27, director Mj Delaney has now put the unvarnished truth on screen. Her new film, Powder Room, which stars Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone in an adaptation of a play by Rachel Hirons, expresses an unapologetic disregard for the meek, self-effacing heroines that commonly earn screen time.
Yet this was not what drew her to the story. "I just thought it was funny, honest and truthful, as well as refreshingly realistic and grimy," she told the Observer this weekend.
The idea that the plot, which revolves around the ladies' loo in a nightclub, might alienate male cinema-goers did not occur to her.
- 12/8/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
News on a new adaptation of Hedda Gabler, a new film about the Kray brothers, and more.
Aspect on board for Hedda Gabler
Aspect Film has taken on worldwide sales rights to Matthew John’s new period drama adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler, currently in post. Rita Ramnani [pictured] takes the lead role, with the cast also including Jon-Paul Gates, Samantha Hunt, David Butler and Francisco Ortiz. Aspect Film’s Managing Director, Hugh Edwards said, “Matthew John has tackled an Ibsen classic with aplomb. To do so as a debutant director and achieve what he has deserves credit. John has pushed the envelope and it will be interesting to see the reaction from both Ibsen purists and newcomers to the Hedda Gabler story alike.” The film was shot at Maunsel House in Somerset, owned by Sir Benjamin Slade, who also executive produces the film.
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Aspect on board for Hedda Gabler
Aspect Film has taken on worldwide sales rights to Matthew John’s new period drama adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler, currently in post. Rita Ramnani [pictured] takes the lead role, with the cast also including Jon-Paul Gates, Samantha Hunt, David Butler and Francisco Ortiz. Aspect Film’s Managing Director, Hugh Edwards said, “Matthew John has tackled an Ibsen classic with aplomb. To do so as a debutant director and achieve what he has deserves credit. John has pushed the envelope and it will be interesting to see the reaction from both Ibsen purists and newcomers to the Hedda Gabler story alike.” The film was shot at Maunsel House in Somerset, owned by Sir Benjamin Slade, who also executive produces the film.
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Australia-based sales and distribution company ScreenLaunch is financing...
- 11/11/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
And now Glenn's report from the New York Film Festival's tribute to Cate Blanchett.
When the powers that be at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (my limited knowledge suggests they’re the organisation that runs the New York Film Festival) announced one of the recipients of this year’s special tributes would be Cate Blanchett it was probably hard to find anybody who’d argue against it. Granted, she had no films screening at the fest, but you just try and find anybody who doesn’t think her work in this summer’s Blue Jasmine was a career-topping and undeniably Oscar-bound achievement. A genuine “moment” for the acting craft that Blanchett herself would later acknowledge was like a magical culmination of her years in the profession and her favorite role yet.
After a pair of introductions the assembled audience watched a collection of long film clips to whet the appetite.
When the powers that be at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (my limited knowledge suggests they’re the organisation that runs the New York Film Festival) announced one of the recipients of this year’s special tributes would be Cate Blanchett it was probably hard to find anybody who’d argue against it. Granted, she had no films screening at the fest, but you just try and find anybody who doesn’t think her work in this summer’s Blue Jasmine was a career-topping and undeniably Oscar-bound achievement. A genuine “moment” for the acting craft that Blanchett herself would later acknowledge was like a magical culmination of her years in the profession and her favorite role yet.
After a pair of introductions the assembled audience watched a collection of long film clips to whet the appetite.
- 10/4/2013
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Kim Cattrall has been coming in for some criticism for her 'Garfield'-like hairpiece on stage in London. Is this really the worst wig of all time?
Critic Mark Shenton suggested she looks "like a cross between Lucille Ball and Marj Proops"; Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail asked, a little ungallantly, "is that Garfield, sat on her head?". The reviews for the London Old Vic's new production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth have been good, on the whole – but the same can't be said of Kim Cattrall's hairpiece, which Shenton went on to dub "the worst wig".
Which got us thinking: is that (reproduced above in all its Garfield glory) really the most awful wig of all time? Worse than Tommy Lee Jones's roiling, terminally unstable black coils in Lincoln?
Worse than Rory Kinnear's Matted Old-Testament Hermit Hair in The Revenger's Tragedy?
Worse than...
Critic Mark Shenton suggested she looks "like a cross between Lucille Ball and Marj Proops"; Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail asked, a little ungallantly, "is that Garfield, sat on her head?". The reviews for the London Old Vic's new production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth have been good, on the whole – but the same can't be said of Kim Cattrall's hairpiece, which Shenton went on to dub "the worst wig".
Which got us thinking: is that (reproduced above in all its Garfield glory) really the most awful wig of all time? Worse than Tommy Lee Jones's roiling, terminally unstable black coils in Lincoln?
Worse than Rory Kinnear's Matted Old-Testament Hermit Hair in The Revenger's Tragedy?
Worse than...
- 6/14/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Other than Hedda Gabler and A Doll’s House, Ibsen’s plays are mostly out of fashion these days, especially the folkloric early works featuring trolls and the mystical late works featuring Great Men who, come to think of it, are also trolls. The effectiveness of those in the latter category, including The Master Builder, now being revived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, depends in part on an assumption of respect for great men in general, so that something dramatic can occur when they are found to be wanting. Our time is not perhaps sufficiently amenable to that assumption. In any case, the revival, directed by Andre Belgrader and starring John Turturro, makes an excellent case for continued neglect.Turturro plays Halvard Solness, the “master builder” of the title; out of egotism disguised as modesty, he does not call himself an architect. Noted in his youth for his especially high church steeples,...
- 5/21/2013
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Helen Hayes Award winner and former Arena Stage Associate Artistic Director Kyle Donnelly Ah, Wilderness directs the D.C.-area premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's smash hit Other Desert Cities with a cast that features Tony Award nominee and two-time Helen Hayes Award winner Helen Carey Arena Stage's Long Day's Journey into Night, Broadway's Hedda Gabler and two-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Larry Bryggman Broadway's Harvey, CBS's As the World Turns. The show opened last night, May 2, and BroadwayWorld has photos from the festivities...
- 5/4/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Barbra Streisand is very bad at lip-synching and doesn’t like mornings. She’s very good at throwing dogs’ birthday parties and, when she needs a little push to portray the sensation of yearning, she imagines chocolate cake. These are the things I now know to be true.
If one can ever imagine sitting around Barbra’s Streisand’s home — perhaps in a nook of her underground mall, sharing stories about the legendary diva with her old pals and learning Babs’ “She’s just like us!” quirks — that was the vibe of last night’s Film Society of Lincoln Center gala,...
If one can ever imagine sitting around Barbra’s Streisand’s home — perhaps in a nook of her underground mall, sharing stories about the legendary diva with her old pals and learning Babs’ “She’s just like us!” quirks — that was the vibe of last night’s Film Society of Lincoln Center gala,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
Mary-Louise Parker is going back where she belongs. Having finished up her run as a pot-dealing mother on "Weeds," the Tony-winner will return to Broadway this fall in a limited run of a new play, "The Snow Geese," co-producers Manhattan Theatre Club and McC Theater said Wednesday. It marks the first time Parker has appeared on the Great White Way since 2009's revival of "Hedda Gabler." The play centers on a widow who gathers her family for a shooting party in upstate New York, as World War I unfolds an ocean away. There...
- 4/10/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
New York — Mary-Louise Parker is coming back to Broadway in the world premiere of Sharr White's "The Snow Geese."
The Manhattan Theatre Club and McC Theater said Wednesday that previews will begin Oct. 1 and the play will open Oct. 24 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Daniel Sullivan will direct.
Set as World War I rages, the play is "about a family waking up from their own personal Gilded Age as the world around them changes forever," according to producers.
It reunites Parker and Sullivan, who directed her in David Auburn's "Proof," which earned both Tonys. Parker also was in Craig Lucas' "Reckless" and in a 2009 revival of "Hedda Gabler."
White's plays include "The Other Place," stars Laurie Metcalf as a scientist whose mind is failing her.
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Online: http://www.manhattantheatreclub.com...
The Manhattan Theatre Club and McC Theater said Wednesday that previews will begin Oct. 1 and the play will open Oct. 24 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Daniel Sullivan will direct.
Set as World War I rages, the play is "about a family waking up from their own personal Gilded Age as the world around them changes forever," according to producers.
It reunites Parker and Sullivan, who directed her in David Auburn's "Proof," which earned both Tonys. Parker also was in Craig Lucas' "Reckless" and in a 2009 revival of "Hedda Gabler."
White's plays include "The Other Place," stars Laurie Metcalf as a scientist whose mind is failing her.
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Online: http://www.manhattantheatreclub.com...
- 4/10/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Audiences today often don't know the name of a play until just before its run starts. But would you book a ticket for a show without a title?
With a new play, audiences never quite know what they're getting, but early ticket-buyers for Anthony Neilson's latest piece at the Royal Court were taking an exceptionally wild shot in the dark. Originally advertised several months ago as "Untitled New Play by Anthony Neilson", it was only revealed to be called Narrative on 15 March, three weeks before opening.
Neilson's play joins a very small sub-set of theatre productions that have been delivered onto the posters unbaptised. The other most recent British example was Mike Leigh's 2011 show at the National theatre, promoted and sold for several months as "New play by Mike Leigh", before, at the last minute, becoming Grief.
In both cases, the delay resulted not from indecision or wilfulness...
With a new play, audiences never quite know what they're getting, but early ticket-buyers for Anthony Neilson's latest piece at the Royal Court were taking an exceptionally wild shot in the dark. Originally advertised several months ago as "Untitled New Play by Anthony Neilson", it was only revealed to be called Narrative on 15 March, three weeks before opening.
Neilson's play joins a very small sub-set of theatre productions that have been delivered onto the posters unbaptised. The other most recent British example was Mike Leigh's 2011 show at the National theatre, promoted and sold for several months as "New play by Mike Leigh", before, at the last minute, becoming Grief.
In both cases, the delay resulted not from indecision or wilfulness...
- 4/1/2013
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
The complete list of nominees for this year's Olivier awards, celebrating the best of British theatre, dance and opera
Best actor
Rupert Everett – The Judas Kiss
James McAvoy – Macbeth
Mark Rylance – Twelfth Night
Rafe Spall – Constellations
Luke Treadaway – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best actress
Helen Mirren – The Audience
Hattie Morahan – A Doll's House
Billie Piper – The Effect
Kristin Scott Thomas – Old Times
Best actor in a supporting role
Paul Chahidi – Twelfth Night
Richard McCabe – The Audience
Adrian Scarborough – Hedda Gabler
Kyle Soller – Long Day's Journey Into Night
Best actress in a supporting role
Janie Dee – Nsfw
Anastasia Hille – The Effect
Cush Jumbo – Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse)
Helen McCrory – The Last of the Haussmans
Nicola Walker – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mastercard best new play
Constellations
The Audience
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This House
Best director
Stephen Daldry...
Best actor
Rupert Everett – The Judas Kiss
James McAvoy – Macbeth
Mark Rylance – Twelfth Night
Rafe Spall – Constellations
Luke Treadaway – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best actress
Helen Mirren – The Audience
Hattie Morahan – A Doll's House
Billie Piper – The Effect
Kristin Scott Thomas – Old Times
Best actor in a supporting role
Paul Chahidi – Twelfth Night
Richard McCabe – The Audience
Adrian Scarborough – Hedda Gabler
Kyle Soller – Long Day's Journey Into Night
Best actress in a supporting role
Janie Dee – Nsfw
Anastasia Hille – The Effect
Cush Jumbo – Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse)
Helen McCrory – The Last of the Haussmans
Nicola Walker – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mastercard best new play
Constellations
The Audience
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This House
Best director
Stephen Daldry...
- 3/26/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Interview Rachel Bowles 27 Mar 2013 - 07:15
We chatted to Sheridan Smith about her return to Jonathan Creek on Easter Monday in The Clue Of The Savant's Thumb...
In the lead up to the Jonathan Creek Easter Special The Clue of The Savant’s Thumb, I was privileged to have the chance to sit down and chat to the stars of the episode, Alan Davies, Sheridan Smith and Rik Mayall, along with the creator of Jonathan Creek; David Renwick. Despite all involved being very careful not to give any integral plot points or twists away; for a long-standing Jonathan Creek fan like me, it was a real treat to be able to hear about the close knit bond between cast and crew, along with the crucial thought process that goes behind creating some of the most elaborate and baffling tricks and mysteries on television.
First to chat to Den of Geek...
We chatted to Sheridan Smith about her return to Jonathan Creek on Easter Monday in The Clue Of The Savant's Thumb...
In the lead up to the Jonathan Creek Easter Special The Clue of The Savant’s Thumb, I was privileged to have the chance to sit down and chat to the stars of the episode, Alan Davies, Sheridan Smith and Rik Mayall, along with the creator of Jonathan Creek; David Renwick. Despite all involved being very careful not to give any integral plot points or twists away; for a long-standing Jonathan Creek fan like me, it was a real treat to be able to hear about the close knit bond between cast and crew, along with the crucial thought process that goes behind creating some of the most elaborate and baffling tricks and mysteries on television.
First to chat to Den of Geek...
- 3/26/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Versatile actor who brought depth and humanity to supporting roles
The actor Pat Keen, who has died aged 79, had a successful career in supporting roles for more than half a century. She possessed an uncommon versatility, as happy in Chekhov and Ibsen as she was feeding lines to Les Dawson, whom she adored. For all that she was in demand in later years to play harridans and busybodies, she never resorted to caricature. She believed in the people she portrayed, breathing life into the stereotypes beloved by too many writers of comedy for television. She refused to take the easy route of playing for laughs, whether on stage or screen.
Pat was born and raised in Willesden, north-west London. She left school after taking A-levels, and it was because of her ability to speak very good colloquial French that she secured a post at the Foreign Office when she was 18. Two years later,...
The actor Pat Keen, who has died aged 79, had a successful career in supporting roles for more than half a century. She possessed an uncommon versatility, as happy in Chekhov and Ibsen as she was feeding lines to Les Dawson, whom she adored. For all that she was in demand in later years to play harridans and busybodies, she never resorted to caricature. She believed in the people she portrayed, breathing life into the stereotypes beloved by too many writers of comedy for television. She refused to take the easy route of playing for laughs, whether on stage or screen.
Pat was born and raised in Willesden, north-west London. She left school after taking A-levels, and it was because of her ability to speak very good colloquial French that she secured a post at the Foreign Office when she was 18. Two years later,...
- 3/21/2013
- by Paul Bailey
- The Guardian - Film News
Previously, on Smash
We open at rehearsal for Veronica Moore's big concert, which in true Smash fashion is missing a number the day before it's set to go. Ronnie's singing something that based on the repetition of the phrase “I got love” approximately eleventy-billion times is called “I Got Love”. It's boring as all hell, but the chorines seem to like it. Derek agrees with me, but it's apparently Veronica's signature piece. He tries to convince her it doesn't fit into the new adult image she's trying to create for herself but her newly-arrived mother Cynthia “They don't call me Cyn” Moore (Sheryl Lee Ralph) sees no reason to mess with the two-time Tony-winning persona. Stage Manager Linda, aside to Tom: “Isn't she a little old to have a mom-ager?” I demand more Stage Manager Linda now!
As the ensemble takes a break, Linda informs Derek that a dancer...
We open at rehearsal for Veronica Moore's big concert, which in true Smash fashion is missing a number the day before it's set to go. Ronnie's singing something that based on the repetition of the phrase “I got love” approximately eleventy-billion times is called “I Got Love”. It's boring as all hell, but the chorines seem to like it. Derek agrees with me, but it's apparently Veronica's signature piece. He tries to convince her it doesn't fit into the new adult image she's trying to create for herself but her newly-arrived mother Cynthia “They don't call me Cyn” Moore (Sheryl Lee Ralph) sees no reason to mess with the two-time Tony-winning persona. Stage Manager Linda, aside to Tom: “Isn't she a little old to have a mom-ager?” I demand more Stage Manager Linda now!
As the ensemble takes a break, Linda informs Derek that a dancer...
- 2/27/2013
- by fakename
- The Backlot
Sondheim production wins five gongs at awards voted for by public, while Tim Minchin, Danny Boyle and Mel C also triumph
If Sweeney Todd reckons his razors are his only friends, Fleet Street's most famous coiffeur should think again after Chichester Festival theatre's production won every prize it was up for at last night's Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice awards.
Following a six-month West End run, Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical took five awards, including best musical revival. Stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton took home the gongs for leading musical performances, while director Jonathan Kent and lighting designer Mark Henderson also garnered the most votes in their respective categories.
As is traditional with these awards, which are voted for by the public, it was a good night for the crowd-friendly musical theatre. Tim Minchin and Melanie Chisholm won the supporting musical actor awards for their performances in the arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar...
If Sweeney Todd reckons his razors are his only friends, Fleet Street's most famous coiffeur should think again after Chichester Festival theatre's production won every prize it was up for at last night's Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice awards.
Following a six-month West End run, Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical took five awards, including best musical revival. Stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton took home the gongs for leading musical performances, while director Jonathan Kent and lighting designer Mark Henderson also garnered the most votes in their respective categories.
As is traditional with these awards, which are voted for by the public, it was a good night for the crowd-friendly musical theatre. Tim Minchin and Melanie Chisholm won the supporting musical actor awards for their performances in the arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar...
- 2/18/2013
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
New York – Fiona Shaw will return to Broadway for the first time since her Tony-nominated tour de force as Medea ten years ago, this time playing the mother of Jesus near the end of her life in The Testament of Mary. Produced by Scott Rudin, the project reunites Shaw with her Medea director Deborah Warner. Their long and distinguished creative association also spans the work of T.S. Eliot, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Brecht, Ibsen and Beckett, including critically lauded productions of The Wasteland, Electra, Titus Andronicus, The Good Person of Szechwan, Hedda Gabler, Mother Courage and Her Children, Happy
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- 1/8/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sheridan Smith made her name with a girl next door turn in Gavin and Stacey. Now her star has risen in the West End – from Legally Blonde to Hedda Gabler. Dustin Hoffman sees her future in Hollywood. Here, she tells Megan Conner about the most incredible 12 months of her life
Exactly 12 hours before I'm due to meet Sheridan Smith, the actor takes to her Twitter page. "Oh I can't stop crying. Hate myself sometimes, just can't be myself. I can only play characters. Wish I had more confidence when I'm being me," she writes. Within minutes, a stream of her some 310,000 followers are tweeting furiously.
"Omg, don't beat yourself up!" they say. "Stop stop stop that now," another instructs. One user, @Londontheatre1, has some helpful advice: Smith should draw on the strength of her characters, Ronnie Biggs's long-suffering ex-wife in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs, or Elle Woods, the...
Exactly 12 hours before I'm due to meet Sheridan Smith, the actor takes to her Twitter page. "Oh I can't stop crying. Hate myself sometimes, just can't be myself. I can only play characters. Wish I had more confidence when I'm being me," she writes. Within minutes, a stream of her some 310,000 followers are tweeting furiously.
"Omg, don't beat yourself up!" they say. "Stop stop stop that now," another instructs. One user, @Londontheatre1, has some helpful advice: Smith should draw on the strength of her characters, Ronnie Biggs's long-suffering ex-wife in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs, or Elle Woods, the...
- 12/30/2012
- by Megan Conner
- The Guardian - Film News
Sheridan Smith reveals she had an emotional time of it, filming 'Quartet' with some British blue-blood acting royalty around her, and a Hollywood legend directing.
"When Dustin Hoffman came to see me backstage after a play I was in, he was crying (the play was sad), and then he phoned and asked, 'Do you want to be in my movie?' So there were more tears there," she laughs.
Sheridan Smith with her 'Quartet' mentor, Dame Maggie Smith
Sheridan Smith has, after lead roles as TV's Mrs Biggs, the West End's Hedda Gabler, cemented her status as one of the country's brightest young stars, as the only billed actor without a free bus pass in this surefire hit, on general release from New Year's Day.
But it seems she, too, remains in awe of the quality of actor around her during the filming of 'Quartet',...
"When Dustin Hoffman came to see me backstage after a play I was in, he was crying (the play was sad), and then he phoned and asked, 'Do you want to be in my movie?' So there were more tears there," she laughs.
Sheridan Smith with her 'Quartet' mentor, Dame Maggie Smith
Sheridan Smith has, after lead roles as TV's Mrs Biggs, the West End's Hedda Gabler, cemented her status as one of the country's brightest young stars, as the only billed actor without a free bus pass in this surefire hit, on general release from New Year's Day.
But it seems she, too, remains in awe of the quality of actor around her during the filming of 'Quartet',...
- 12/24/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
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