Jeffrey Wright News

The first teaser trailer for the fourth season of HBO's Atlantic City period-set epic crime tale BOARDWALK EMPIRE has finally arrived and it boasts an ample glimpse at S4 addition Jeffrey Wright.

Join Quincy Jones, Elvis Costello nad more this Friday for the Jazz Foundation of America's A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM, tonight, May 17th, 7:30 PM at the Apollo Theater.

Internationally renown performers Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton team up for the new vampire-themed, music-centric Jim Jarmusch film ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE and two compelling first looks at the project have just been leaked.

"John Rando (Urinetown, A Christmas Story, Lincoln Centers's Carousel, All in the Timing) will direct Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for The Acting Company," announced its producer, Margot Harley. Tom Stoppard's TONY-winning play will run off-Broadway in rotating repertory with Hamlet, directed by Ian Belknap,beginning in January 2014. Prior to New York, Hamlet will play a fall tour of western states beginning at Cal State-Northridge. A national tour of both plays, including an extended stay at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, begins in February. This is the 41st season and tour for The Acting Company, the sixth tour in association with the Guthrie.

Join Quincy Jones, Elvis Costello nad more this Friday for the Jazz Foundation of America's A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM, on Friday, May 17th, 7:30 PM at the Apollo Theater.

The Acting Company presents a national tour of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Shakespeare's As You Like It, running now through April 2013. Performances began in Santa Fe in October before the show left on a cross country tour to 44 cities in 30 states. Ian Belknap, Artistic Director of The Acting Company has direcTed Steinbeck's Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning tale, which is one of the most widely read stories in America.

The Acting Company presents a national tour of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Shakespeare's As You Like It, running now through April 2013. Performances began in Santa Fe in October before the show left on a cross country tour to 44 cities in 30 states. Ian Belknap, Artistic Director of The Acting Company has direcTed Steinbeck's Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning tale, which is one of the most widely read stories in America.

The first trailer for the highly anticipated 'Hunger Games' sequel CATCHING FIRE was revealed for the first time on last night's MTV Movie Awards. The action adventure arrives in theaters on November 22. Get a first look below!

BroadwayWorld was on hand for the most star studded opening of the season, last night April 1, as Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, written by Nora Ephron and directed by George C. Wolfe. Check out photos below!

It was announced today that Billy Crudup ('Almost Famous,' 'Watchmen'), Anton Yelchin ('Star Trek,' 'Terminator Salvation,' 'Like Crazy'), Selena Gomez ('Spring Breakers') and Laurence Fishburne ('The Matrix' trilogy, 'Contagion, 'Man of Steel') will star alongside William H. Macy ('Fargo') and Felicity Huffman ('Desperate Housewives') in Unified Pictures' music drama 'Rudderless.'

TheWrap.com reports that Eric Ladin will join the cast of HBO's Boardwalk Empire when the drama returns for its fourth season.

The Jazz Foundation presents its annual 'A Great Night in Harlem' gala concert to benefit our Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund. This evening will raise money to assist countless elder jazz and blues musicians in crisis across the country, artists who have spent their lives making ours richer with their music.

Tony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg's new play Breakfast at Tiffany'sopened at the Cort Theatre (138 W 48th Street) last night, March 20, 2013. BWW was there to capture the opening night festivities and brings you photos of Ben Vereen, Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and fiancee Sunny Ozell, Zac Posen, Jason Sudekis, Olivia Wilde, Billy Crudup, AnnaSophia Robb, Debbie Harry, Henry Krieger, Amy Acker and more arriving on the red carpet!

Unified Pictures, the Los Angeles based film production and finance company has tapped two of Hollywood's most illustrious animators, Academy Award nominee John Stevenson ('Kung Fu Panda," "Shrek") and Cameron Hood ("Megamind," "First Flight") for the company's CG-animated feature "Noah's Ark."

The Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Stage Door by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman at 7 pm tonight, March 18 at the Ailey Studios Joan Weill Center for Dance, 405 West 55th Street (Ninth Avenue).

The Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Stage Door by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman at 7 pm on Monday, March 18 at the Ailey Studios Joan Weill Center for Dance, 405 West 55th Street (Ninth Avenue). The performance, starring Kristine Nielsen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Merwin Goldsmith (Grand Hotel, Me and My Gal), Heidi Armbruster (Disgraced, Time Stands Still), Zoe Winters (4,000 Miles, Gossip Girl) will be followed by a reception with the cast and director, Irene Lewis, former Artistic Director of Baltimore's Centerstage. A dozen Acting Company Alumni Members-Beth Bartley, Kaliswa Brewster, Georgia Cohen, Susan Finch, Adam Green, Julie Jesneck, Jonathan Kaplan (Tony nom. Falsettos), Lisa McCormick, Kevin Orton, Kathleen Wise, Bjorn Dupaty, Ray Virta-will also perform. Tickets @ $35 and $60 (Patron) are available from 212-258-3111.

According to Deadline, Tony award-winner Jeffrey Wright has been tapped to take on a series regular role on the upcoming season of HBO's BOARDWALK EMPIRE.

I remember seeing NEXT TO NORMAL at the Fox Theatre a while back and being impressed by the show, especially since so many things that happened to the lead character were/are taking place in my own life. But, New Line Theatre, for me, sets the local standard for musical theatre in our burgeoning arts community, and they've put together a superior staging of the play that hits even closer to the bone, and part of this is due to intimacy of the theatre itself, but a major reason is the fact that it's blocked and staged in a manner that brings the message of the play clearly in focus. New Line Theatre's production of NEXT TO NORMAL is easily the best show I've seen this year so far. It has a terrific cast, a top notch band which is augmented with strings, and brilliant direction. This is a show you must see, even if it may hit home a little deeply with its subject manner.

In the past 40 years, The Acting Company has produced and performed 137 classic and new plays for audiences totaling 3.5 million in 48 states and 10 foreign countries.

Still on the Road-a documentary following twelve actors as they tour across America during The Acting Company's 37th season (2008-09)-premieres on greater New York PBS stations beginning Sunday, February 3 on Channel 13 at 1pm. Additional presentations are scheduled for Sunday, February 10 at 11pm on Long Island's WLIW and on Thursday, March 7 at 9 pm on New Jersey's NJTV. As independent filmmaker Sara Wolkowitz tags along, the actors spend seven months on a bus bringing theater to communities across the country that have little or no access to live performance. They experience the challenges of touring, develop the ability to adjust to all types of theaters and diverse audiences, teach students new ways to look at Shakespeare and cap the tour with praise from Charles Isherwood of The New York Times. Through conversations with Acting Company alums Kevin Kline, Rainn Wilson and Harriet Harris we learn that, with the exception of video games and Wi-Fi on the bus, not much has changed - and that is just as it should be. The documentary was coproduced by F. Richards Ford, III and Group One Productions.