Dalton Trumbo News

The ALL THE WAY star is putting his money where his mouth is, according to Page Six of The New York Post, and has become a producer on the musical.

'Breaking Bad' star Bryan Cranston is rumored to have 'had words with the studio' about taking on the role of the next bad guy in the upcoming STAR TREK film franchise.

This season's CBS lineup will include the drama SNEAKY PETE, a pilot starring Bryan Cranston, from Sony Pictures.

It was a big year for Broadway newbies! From young newcomers to seasoned Hollywood stars, Broadway welcomed many new faces to the family in 2014. Many earned critical acclaim, a brand-new fanbase, and some even walked away with Tony nominations (and awards)! Below, BroadwayWorld celebrates just a few of our favorite new stage stars!

According to Deadline, NBC has landed small screen adaptation of Conn and Hal Iggulden's THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS from Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston.

Entertainment Weekly, brought a whole roundup of casting news this week, featuring big name stars, indie films, and more.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, David James Elliott is set to take on the role of John Wayne in the upcoming indie biopic TRUMBO, helmed by Jay Roach. Peter Mackenzie is also boarding the pic.

The Wrap reports that John Goodman is in negotiations to join previously announced cast members Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren in Jay Roach's upcoming indie drama film TRUMBO. The movie is based on the life of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.

Bryan Cranston won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for ALL THE WAY. This is Bryan Cranston's first Tony nomination. Cranston began his acting career in local and regional theatres, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He is best known for portraying Walter White in Breaking Bad from 2008 to 2013, and Hal in Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006. He won four Emmy Awards and was nominated for five more.

Gary Naylor sees a timely revival of Bradley Rand Smith's adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's cri-de-coeur novel centred on a soldier left with just a mind and a torso by a shell on the battlefield of 1918. 70 minutes of intense exploration of a broken man's mind follows.

The UK premiere run of Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun will include a programme of post-show talks, on subjects including medicine during World War I, how we should remember the Great War, and the play's relevance to World War II, as well as a Q&A with the cast and creative team

The UK premiere run of Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun will include a programme of post-show talks, on subjects including medicine during World War I, how we should remember the Great War, and the play's relevance to World War II, as well as a Q&A with the cast and creative team

All the Way, the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, starring BREAKING BAD's Bryan Cranston, is currently in previews on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre. The production officially opens on Thursday, March 6, 2014 for a strictly limited engagement. The play is directed by Bill Rauch, Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where All the Way began its theatrical life. Scroll down to learn more about the full cast of ALL THE WAY, plus watch interviews with the company below!

The stage adaptation of Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's searing World War One novel Johnny Got His Gunwill receive its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse (21 May - 14 June 2014), marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, and the 75th anniversary of the book's publication.

Rowan Joseph, a nationally-recognized producer and director with over 30 years of experience working in the American Theatre has been named as the new Producing Artistic Director of the Totem Pole Playhouse.

Deadline writes that Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston, who is currently starring onstage in A.R.T.'s ALL THE WAY in Cambridge, will lead the upcoming indie drama TRUMBO, based on the life of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, directed by Jay Roach. Production is slated to kick off in 2014.

Cone Man Running Productions' is bringing the Regional Premiere of Christopher Trumbo's 2003 play TRUMBO: RED, WHITE AND BLACKLISTED to Houston. The play mounted on Broadway with a revolving door of big name celebrities playing Christopher Trumbo's father, Dalton Trumbo. Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper, and Gore Vidal all spent some inhabiting the heroically indefatigable Dalton Trumbo. In New York, the actors were not off-book, carrying the script on stage with them. Cone Man Running Productions has its three actors off-book as much as possible, only reading from the witty and wordy letters composed by Dalton Trumbo.

Cone Man Running Productions presents the Regional Premiere of Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, written by Christopher Trumbo and directed by Christine Weems, playing tonight, March 10 - 28, 2013.

Playing on Air, a new public radio show that features short stage plays performed by great American actors, is now available online for listening, streaming and downloading. Below, get a preview by listening to a full episode, 'Maybe Not', which includes two plays: Open Arms by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros and Bite the Hand by Ara Watson, and a ten minute play called Skin by Naveen Bahar Choudhury!

Playing on Air, a new public radio show that features short stage plays performed by great American actors, is now available online for listening, streaming and downloading.