Martin McDonagh News

It's almost Oscars time! Before you fill out your ballot, catch up on how this year's nominees have been doing throughout the 2018 awards season!

This just in! Stage and screen star Sam Rockwell just took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Tony winner Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI. The actress recently won a Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the role.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, continues its 2017-18 season with The Beauty Queen of Leenane, written by Martin McDonagh and directed by BJ Jones.  The Beauty Queen of Leenane runs March 15 - April 22, 2018 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie. The press opening is scheduled for Friday, March 23, 2018 at 8pm.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) announces a three-week extension of the sold-out US premiere of the Olivier Award-winning Royal Court Theatre production of Hangmen. The critically-acclaimed production will now play through Sunday, March 25th, 2018.

Underground Railway Theater is proud to present Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj from March 1 to April 1, 2018 and is directed by Gabriel Vega Weissman. The press performance is Monday, March 5 at 7:30PM.

In this epsiode, 'Hello, Dolly! 'actors Kate Baldwin (Irene Molloy), Tony Award-winner Gavin Creel (Cornelius Hackl) and Broadway newcomer Charlie Stemp (Barnaby Tucker) discuss working with director Jerry Zaks on the revamping of the massive hit after the departure of Bette Midler and the arrival of Bernadette Peters with co-hosts Adam Feldman of Time Out New York and Theater Talk producer Susan Haskins.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the winners for THE EE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS. The BAFTA Awards ceremony was held today, February 18th, at London's Royal Albert Hall. Among the top winners were 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' and 'The Shape of Water.'

Don't miss Academy Award nominee (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) Martin McDonagh's THE PILLOWMAN presented by The Vagabond Players and directed by Eric C. Stein -- opening next Friday, Feb. 23. 

According to Deadline, the Oscar nominated THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI has passed $100 million in the global box office. It has reached $46.2 million in the domestic box office. Read more about it from Deadline here!

Samuel French UK announced today that it will re-open a theatre bookshop in London in partnership with the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square. The Bookshop will be located in the theatre's Balcony Bar and will officially open on March 5, 2018.

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: John Lloyd Young returns to Cafe Carlyle, Mirai Nagasu makes history skating to Miss Saigon, and more!

You could sit around watching cows or you could amble on over to the First Central Congregational Church and see Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre Company's brilliant production of THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN. It is so good!

It might be easier to pity the hardworking gentleman at the core of Martin McDonagh's new darkly comic drama, who loses his job when his employer eliminates his position, if it weren't for the fact that the function of his profession was to kill people.

The Vagabond Players continue their 102nd season with THE PILLOWMAN written by Academy Award nominee Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) and directed by Eric C. Stein. A writer of macabre short stories becomes the focus of a police interrogation when his tales are linked to a series of actual child murders. The result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura and an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of art. Don't miss the story the New York Times called 'Energizing...a blindingly bright black comedy...an unsettling and exhilarating new play.'

According to the New York Post's Michael Riedel, the play US premiere of Martin McDonagh's play Hangmen will head to Broadway's Cort Theater this spring, with performances set to begin April 26.

HANGMEN, which is directed by Matthew Dunster, officially opened last night, February 5, and will play a limited engagement through Wednesday, March 7, 2018, Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20 Street).

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director; Mary McCann, School Executive Director) will present their Annual Gala on Monday, February 26, 2018 at The Plaza (768 Fifth Avenue). Composers' Choice will pay tribute to celebrated composers of the stage with a fabulous evening of unexpected songs, honoring Orin Wolf, John Styles, and John Hart for their contribution to American musical theater.

Award-winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers a stunningly powerful performance in this darkly comic drama that has been hailed as one of the year's best films. A murdered girl's defiant mother (McDormand) boldly paints three local signs with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop (Sam Rockwell) and the town's revered chief of police (Woody Harrelson). The film, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, is nominated for seven Academy Awards, and Winner of four Golden Globes.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET)presents a startling thriller that centers on an author accused of perpetrating the very acts depicted in his murderous short stories. Written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Martin McDonagh (author of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, In Bruges, and the recent Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), The Pillowman is a pitch black comedy that is sure to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.