Christopher Thornton News

With the Season 2 finale of The Pitt almost here, we have rounded up some of the stage stars who have made regular appearances on the hit series during its first two seasons.

Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer and his composer collective Bleeding Fingers Music are set to score All the Sinners Bleed, a new series adaptation of S.A. Cosby’s thriller novel of the same name from Joe Robert Cole.

On Friday, January 3, the Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre presented a sold-out, one-night staged benefit reading of All the President’s Men, led by Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke. Check out photos from the all-star event below.

Talent on the red carpet included Mel Brooks, Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, Josh Gad, Dove Cameron, Pamela Adlon, Sarah Silverman, Jason Mantzoukas, Poppy Liu, Nick Robinson, Atsuko Okatsuka, others. Filmmakers in attendance included executive producers David Stassen, Kevin Salter, director Alice Mathias & many more. Check out photos!

Stella Adler Lab Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of an original work by acclaimed playwright and director of the film Anything, Timothy McNeil.  The show stars John Carroll Lynch and Matt Bomer.  Isaac Babel And The Black Sea will debut at The Stella Adler Theatre beginning February 9th, 2018.  Tickets on sale at:  http://www.babel.bpt.me

Season 13, Episode 4 of GREY'S ANATOMY is titled “Falling Slowly”—All episodes are named after songs and this song happens to be from Tony Award Winning musical, ONCE. Considering I am a recapper for Broadway World, you can probably imagine that this pleased me! This is not the first time that the writer of this episode, Jen Klein borrowed a title from a Broadway song! She also penned last season's “There's a Fine Fine Line”! Klein, Director Victoria Mahoney, and the ever-talented ensemble cast have created yet another episode that does what GREY'S does best...It tugs at your heart strings while simultaneously making you laugh.

What happens to us when we die? Do we all make it to 'heaven,' regardless of our faith? This question is thrust front-and-center in playwright Bekah Brunstetter's pleasing world premiere play GOING TO A PLACE WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE, which continues performances at Costa Mesa's Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory through March 27, 2016. This stirring SCR-commission helmed by SCR artistic director Marc Masterson marks this new play's first full-scale production after its well-received reading at last year's Pacific Playwrights Festival… and after experiencing the play here first-hand, it's certainly understandable why. Touching and brilliantly performed, the play explores a wonderfully hopeful view of what it means for a person to 'move on.'

Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Matt Weaver & Scott Prisand, two of ROCK OF AGES' lead producers and co-owners of the LA-based Corner Store Entertainment, have two films in the top dramatic category at Sundance Film Festival. The films, which star a host of stage stars, are SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS (Mark Ruffalo, Laura Linney, Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis) and HESHER (Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon Levitt).

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) announced casting today for The Poor Itch, the second play of the inaugural PUBLIC LAB initiative. Directed by Lisa Peterson, The Poor Itch is a new play by the late John Belluso that will run March 7-23. Tickets are $10 for all PUBLIC LAB performances.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey opens its newly extended 2007 season a month earlier than in the past with William Shakespeare's epic Henry V, which has not been seen at The Shakespeare Theatre in a decade.