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A serious actor, Mystic critics, Unhappy Haneke | Trailer Trash
15 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
>>A serious actor Michael Stuhlbarg is being talked of for Oscar nominations following his impressive performance as Larry Gopnik in the Coen brothers' latest comedy A Serious Man. Stuhlbarg is a little-known actor, despite a 20-year career on and off Broadway. He met Joel Coen after performing with the film-maker's wife, Frances McDormand, in a community theatre project. "It was the 52nd Street Project in which kids wrote the plays and professional actors would come in to perform their work," the actor tells me. "It was quite a thrill and I became good friends with Frances." She took her husband to see Stuhlbarg in a David Mamet adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. Joel called Stuhlbarg in initially to play the Yiddish husband in A Serious Man's Yiddish prologue but was so impressed that he eventually gave him the lead. "I'm still reeling from it, and it's certainly the biggest break of my film career, »
- Jason Solomons
Vagabond Players' Brighton Beach Memoirs Cancelled; Speed-the-plow to Replace, Runs 4/16 Thru 5/16
2 November 2009 7:51 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Brighton Beach Memoirs is being pulled from the Vagabond Players current season. Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet, directed by Steve Goldklang will be its replacement. Performances will run from April 16, 2010 until May 16, 2010.
David Mamet's comedy is a raw, funny and ruthless behind-the-scenes dissection of Hollywood --- how deals are cut and how movies get made. A phenomenal success in New York, Speed-the-Plow garnered three Tony Award nominations including Best Play.
Auditions will be held at Vagabond Theatre, 806 South Broadway in Fells Point, on Thursday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 21 at 1:30 pm. Non-Equity actors only, please.
Two highly experienced male actors (30's - 40's) are needed for the roles of Bobby Gould and Charlie Fox (Hollywood producers). The role of Karen is already cast.
Rehearsals will begin in late February 2010.
Please contact Steve Goldklang (Director) at steve.goldklang@gmail.com or (410) 435-7697 to schedule audition time.
The »
This week on stage: 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Finian's Rainbow'
30 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This week saw the opening of two new Broadway productions, both revivals: The Neil Simon Plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs, a comedy-drama starring former Roseanne star Laurie Metcalf (left), which I described as "a fine revival, easily the best show of a young Broadway season," and the musical Finian's Rainbow, which Tanner Stransky called "an odd, farcical muscial" that is "well cast and smartly performed." Still hunting for something to see on stage? Check out the EW.com Stage hub for up-to-date news and reviews; or consult this handy guide below, which includes links to all of our stage reviews of current shows. »
- Thom Geier
Scarlett Johansson to Make Broadway Debut
27 October 2009 6:16 AM, PDT | Hollyscoop.com | See recent HollyScoop news »
Scarlett Johansson is the latest actress to make her Broadway debut. The 24-year old leading lady will be starring in the stage revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge. According to Variety, Scarlett will star opposite Liev Schreiber, who has done several Broadway productions. As you remember, Schreiber won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2005 revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. Not a bad person for Scarlett to co-star with for her first time! The show will run for 14 weeks beginning in December for previews, then making its formal... »
Cattrall Heading Back To The Stage
23 October 2009 5:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall is planning to hang up her heels after she wraps the forthcoming sequel - she has signed up for another stint on the London stage.
The 53-year-old actress is currently shooting the second movie based on the hit TV series, but when filming finishes she will swap New York for the U.K. capital in a new production of Noel Coward's comedy, Private Lives.
Cattrall will star as Amanda opposite British actor Matthew Macfadyen, playing a former couple who rekindle their romance after both having re-married.
The star first appeared in London's West End in 2005 in Whose Life Is It Anyway? She returned a year later for a production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram. »
This Week on Stage: 'Memphis,' 'After Miss Julie,' and EW's complete theater guide
23 October 2009 2:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This week saw the opening of two new Broadway productions: Memphis, an original musical from the creators of The Toxic Avenger Musical, and After Miss Julie, an adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie starring Jonny Lee Miller and Sienna Miller (left). EW's Clark Collis calls Memphis "a mixed bag" and gives it a C+, while Jeff Labrecque gives After Miss Julie a C and remarks that "the actors' chemistry is surprisingly stagnant." Still hunting for something to see on stage? Check out the EW.com Stage hub for up-to-date news and reviews; or consult this handy guide below, which »
- Thom Geier
Discuss: Movies That Nobody Seems To Like But You
21 October 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I never claimed to have the most refined taste when it comes to movies (and if you need proof, take a look). Sometimes my taste is downright mind-boggling, and no amount of public scorn can stop me from sitting down for multiple viewings of flicks that most of you out there wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. So, on that note, today I'm going to tell you about a movie I love that usually earns me my fair share of some blank stares: About Last Night.
This '80s 'classic' was directed by Edward Zwick (a far cry from his war epics, I know) and was based on the David Mamet play, Sexual Perversion in Chicago. The film starred 80's wunderkinds Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins (providing most of the comic relief) in a tale of romantic misadventures among young professionals in Chicago. The film »
- Jessica Barnes
DVD: Review:The Unit: The Complete Series
20 October 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Reading the credits on The Unit drew serious saliva from quality-tv junkies: The Shield’s Shawn Ryan and ace writer-director David Mamet co-created and exec-produced the four-season CBS drama about the Army’s elite Delta Force, and Dennis Haysbert, fresh from his turn on 24, stars. But lofty expectations weren’t met: The Unit played out like an adult (or maybe young-adult) version of The A-Team—a fantastical imagining of a covert counter-intelligence force equipped with moral clarity, superhuman skills, and a MacGyver-like knack for getting out of any scrape. That said, all four seasons of The Unit are compulsively ... »
2009 Chicago International Film Festival ‘Best of the Fest’ For Oct. 21, 2009
20 October 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – As the 45th Chicago International Film Festival comes to a close, this year’s award-winning and most popular films are being screened one more time. All of the screenings will be held at the AMC River East 21 theater at 322 E. Illinois St.
Mississippi Damned (USA), Director: Tina Mabry
Winner Gold Hugo: Best Film, Best Screenplay - Tina Mabry, Best Supporting Actress - Jossie Harris Thacker
7:30Pm
They weren’t the first to dream of escaping their small Mississippi town, but—raised among their family’s vicious cycle of abuse, addiction, and lies—three young black children learn the hard way that their dreams will never be enough. Based on a true story, Mississippi Damned is the brutally honest tale of what happens when a family’s haven is also its prison.
‘Mississippi Damned,’ Winner of the Gold Hugo for Best Film at the Chicago International Film Festival.
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Philadelphia Theatre Company Presents Free Reading of Gibbons' Silverhill 10/19
19 October 2009 2:30 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Philadelphia Theatre Company, the city's premier producer of new American theatre, reaffirms its commitment to supporting new plays by American playwrights with its Stages series, a new play reading series, beginning Monday, October 19 at 7Pm at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets) during the run of its current production, Humor Abuse starring Lorenzo Pisoni. The opening program will be a reading of Silverhill by Philadelphia playwright Thomas Gibbons, directed by Richard Corley, who has directed PTC's mainstage productions of Broken Glass by Arthur Miller, A Question of Mercy by David Rabe, The Woods by David Mamet, and Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies. »
Bill Pullman Does Oleanna
17 October 2009 1:12 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The revival of David Mamet's 1992 Oleanna in current production at the Golden Theater stars one of my favorite actors, Bill Pullman, whose elastic face and frenetic movements are on full display in this theatrical pas de deux with the patrician, cool Julia Stiles. They play John, a professor on the verge of tenure and closing on a new house, and Carol, a student who is failing his class. As with all Mamet's plays--most recently seen in last year's superb production of "Speed the Plow"--the subject is language, the rapid fire staccato of one liners, half completed words, thoughtful and thoughtless arguments that make up contemporary conversation, confrontation, and conflict. Oleanna became topical in its day as it coincided with the Clarence Thomas/ Anita Hill contretemps, which was its good fortune and bad. Something is lost when Mamet is used... »
- Regina Weinreich
Bww TV: Broadway Beat's Sneak Peek - Oleanna Celebrates Opening Night
14 October 2009 10:23 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Previews began on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 for the first ever Broadway production of Oleanna, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet. Starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt), the play is a gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students. The Broadway production celebrated Opening Night on Sunday, October 11 at at The Golden Theatre and Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com were there to interview both stars and director to bring you this sneak peak complete with gripping highlights! »
Pullman And Stiles Struggle To Win Over Broadway
12 October 2009 12:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles have earned mixed reviews from Broadway theatre critics with their revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna.
The show, about the power struggle between a university professor and his female student, opened in New York on Sunday night to a lukewarm response, with Stiles being criticised for her lack of emotion.
The New York Post writes, "Stiles - raw and intense, her mouth compressed into a grim line - barely reins in what you suspect are pools of anger," while Daily Variety says of her performance: "Stiles has a tendency toward sulkiness that doesn't do much to soften her impossible character."
Pullman fairs better with theatre experts, who have hailed his portrayal of lecturer John.
Bloomberg.com says, "The revival does profit here from good performances and apt direction. Pullman is an expert at good-natured masculinity turning ugly when sorely beleaguered..."
Daily Variety adds, "Pullman is a far more emotionally available actor... (His) body language is transfixing."
However, the Associated Press notes the complexity of Mamet's work and credits the actors for their efforts: "Oleanna is a fiendishly difficult play to pull off, but Pullman and Stiles, under the precise, careful direction of Doug Hughes, make the most of Mamet's seemingly imprecise language."
Oleanna is not the only big-name Broadway production to face criticism this autumn - Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig's turn in A Steady Rain has been largely panned by theatre reviewers, while Jude Law's Hamlet split critics in their opinion. »
Can divisive 'Oleanna' unite Tony voters?
12 October 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
David Mamet likes to provoke audiences so he should be pleased with the divided critical response to the Broadway revival of "Oleanna." This battle of the sexes was a huge hit off Broadway in 1992 but this production marks its first Broadway staging. The stars of this version of "Oleanna" are Bill Pullman -- who earned a Drama Desk nod for his only other Broadway appearance in 2002's "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" -- and rialto newcomer Julia Stiles. Stiles starred in an acclaimed 2004 London production of "Oleanna" opposite Aaron Eckhart and she and Pullman appeared in this same staging earlier this year in Los Angeles. Mamet is a prolific writer with half a dozen works having premiered on Broadway and another -- "Race" -- opening this December. Just two of these -- "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Speed-the-Plow" -- contended for best play at the Tony Awards. Though "Glengarry Glen Ross »
- tomoneil
Stiles And Pullman To Spar In Mamet's Oleanna On Broadway, Opens Tonight
11 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
As announced by Producer Jeffrey Finn, previews began onTuesday, September 29, 2009 for the first ever Broadway production of Oleanna, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet. Starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt), the play is a gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students. The Broadway production has an Opening Night set for tonight Sunday, October 11 at 6:30 Pm at The Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). »
Online, We're the Sales Leads and the Cookies are the Closers
9 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
My son plays some pretty obscure online games. You have to leave the beaten track to find them. About six months ago he was playing one in my dungeon office at home, where I was using hypnosis to coax ideas out of a blank piece of paper. We had this conversation.
Him: Did you do this ad for (Respectable Upscale Client)? With the blind chameleon?
Me: Yup. We did that.
Him: Oh.
(Twenty minute pause.)
Me: Why do you ask?
Him: It's boring. Oh snap--gotcha! High five!
Me: What site are you on?
Him: Pimped-Out Mutants Slaughterpit 6.
To my son, fourteen with a gentle soul, all games are a version of the same game. Chess, NBA, Slaughterpit. He's interested in the pattern more than the scenario, a valuable life skill. One thing he's not interested in is anything I'm interested in. So what was the Respectable Upscale Client doing in a neighborhood like Slaughterpit? »
- Graham Button
Inside Jeremy Piven's Offstage Drama With 'Speed-the-Plow'
9 October 2009 5:24 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The actor, Jeremy Piven, stunned the theater world in December by bolting the revival of David Mamet's Hollywood drama "Speed-the-Plow," citing health concerns caused by mercury poisoning. Mr. Piven became the butt of late-night television jokes and was widely ridiculed as a hard-partying Hollywood dilettante who was not up to eight performances a week. While the broad outlines of the battle have been known, the blow-by-blow account of the meltdown of "Speed-the-Plow" is laid out in the arbitrator's previously confidential ruling, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. The arbitrator, George Nicolau, ruled in the actor's favor in late August.... »
- nytimes.com
Nicole Steinwedell Discusses The Unit
8 October 2009 7:07 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
After going through the usual string of career-starting roles in guest-starring TV stints and small film roles, Nicole Steinwedell found her big break when she was cast as Bridget Sullivan in The Unit, although sadly that break was short-lived when the series was canceled earlier this year. Thanks to the magic of DVD, though, the series can live on in homes forever with the recent release of the 19-disc complete series set The Unit: The Complete Giftset, which was released on DVD on September 29 along with the final season DVD sets The Unit: Season 4 on DVD and Blu-ray. I had the chance to talk to this lovely young actress over the phone recently, and here's what she had to say.
So, can you first talk about how you came on board with The Unit and maybe your first experiences meeting with (creator) David (Mamet) of (executive producer) Shawn (Ryan)?
Nicole Steinwedell: Yeah, »
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Philadelphia Theatre Company Presents Free Reading of Gibbons' Silverhill 10/19
3 October 2009 11:40 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
Philadelphia Theatre Company, the city's premier producer of new American theatre, reaffirms its commitment to supporting new plays by American playwrights with its Stages series, a new play reading series, beginning Monday, October 19 at 7Pm at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets) during the run of its current production, Humor Abuse starring Lorenzo Pisoni. The opening program will be a reading of Silverhill by Philadelphia playwright Thomas Gibbons, directed by Richard Corley, who has directed PTC's mainstage productions of Broken Glass by Arthur Miller, A Question of Mercy by David Rabe, The Woods by David Mamet, and Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies. »
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