Roland Emmerich News

Long time Hollywood Casting Director, Wendy Kurtzman, is stepping out from behind the camera to pursue what she loves most: singing. This spring, Kurtzman will release a debut CD, "Just for a Thrill". Ms. Kurtzman will celebrate with a pre-release performance at The Metropolitan Room on April 25th at 9:30pm.

Long time Hollywood Casting Director, Wendy Kurtzman, is stepping out from behind the camera to pursue what she loves most: singing. This spring, Kurtzman will release a debut CD, "Just for a Thrill". Ms. Kurtzman will celebrate with a pre-release performance at The Metropolitan Room on April 25th at 9:30pm.

ABC details its 12 drama pilots under consideration for next season.

Joely Richardson stars as Ellida in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, at the Rose Theatre Kingston next spring for a limited run.

As first reported on Deadline.com, Academy award winning actor Martin Landau has joined the cast of the yet untitled ABC drama pilot to be directed by Roland Emmerich drama pilot. The project is from ABC Studios and the Mark Gordon Co.

Vanessa Redgrave, stage, screen and television actress, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1995, member of Liberty, of Amnesty International, and a longstanding member/supporter of Memorial and Za Prava Cheloveka, the two chief Russian Human Rights NGOs, will bring her passion to Brighton Festival as Guest Director of the 46th three-week celebration which takes place from 5 - 27 May 2012.

Joely Richardson stars as Ellida in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, at the Rose Theatre Kingston next spring for a limited run.

Joely Richardson stars as Ellida in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, at the Rose Theatre Kingston next spring for a limited run.

Columbia Pictures will be releasing its new dramatic film, 'Anonymous' on October 28, 2011. Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, 'Anonymous' speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud, namely: who actually created the body of work credited to William Shakespeare?

Actor Rafe Spall, who plays William Shakespeare in ANONYMOUS spoke with DigitalSpy.com about the upcoming thriller.

When Eric Rasmussen isn't in the classroom bringing Shakespeare to life for his students at the University of Nevada, Reno this week, you're likely to find him on the telephone, answering questions from reporters across the country, and around the globe.

BWW had a chance to sit down with actress Joely Richardson and discuss her role in the movie ANONYMOUS, opening in theaters this Friday, October 28th, as well as her love of Broadway, her upcoming theater plans and her relationship with her mother, Vanessa Redgrave.

To be or not to be the author of 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous epic poems. That is indeed the question posed by ANONYMOUS, the new historical drama opening in theaters nationwide this Friday, October 28th. Set in the political turmoil of Elizabethan England, the film dares to challenge the authorship of the works of William Shakespeare. BWW sat down with cast members Joely Richardson and Rhys Ifans, as well as the film's acclaimed director Roland Emmerich and screenwriter, John Orloff to get their thoughts on this most intriguing theory.

The role of Gerado, the husband of Paulina Salas (Thandie Newton), will be played by Tom Goodman-Hill, and Doctor Roberto Miranda will be played by Anthony Calf in Ariel Dorfman's Olivier award-winning thriller Death and the Maiden.

According to the Daily Mail, Joely Richardson has signed on to star in Ibsen's THE LADY FROM THE SEA. Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, and sister, the late Natasha Richardson, have both played this leading role of Ellida, the lighouse keeper's daughter in Ibsen's drama. The play will be performed at the Rose Theatre in Kingston from February 23.

Did William Shakespeare really write all of those plays? Mere proposition of said query's relative validity is more often than not met with confused looks, pretentious stares and general disdain for even entertaining such edgy ideas. Yet, are the plays not too worldly and wordy for a middle-class man to have composed completely by himself - even an actor who owned his own theater, the Globe; as Shakespeare, the man, most certainly did (any way you tell it)? Does it take anything away from these great works to consider for a moment or two that perhaps there was at least some outside influence on the texts to these plays, many of which are often cited as the finest literary works in the English language - and a legitimate theory given the fact co-authorship was even admitted at the time insofar as PERICLES, TIMON OF ATHENS and others are concerned. The case of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays has been a hot-button topic amongst critics, scholars and many in academe for centuries - and it even reached the Supreme Court in 1987 - and it is only now, with the worldwide release of ANONYMOUS, that these issues are being taken on in a dramatically compelling and filmatic way - played out much like the plays of intrigue and betrayal amongst kings and queens that we have come to love so much from Shakespeare's works. At the end of the day - or, should I say, at the end of the play - does it really matter as long as what you have witnessed onstage or onscreen spoke to you in a special, memorable way? Does knowing the identity of the author really matter as long as the plays enacted have an affect? Such are only a few of the many controversial questions being posed by the filmmakers behind the new film ANONYMOUS, opening in movie theaters nationwide on October 28, foremost among them being the director of the film himself, Roland Emmerich and the screenwriter, John Orloff, who have been trying to get this project off the ground for the better part of a decade. Tales of stolen authorial identity are as old and oft-told as many of the Bard's greatest hits, so it should come as no surprise that ANONYMOUS manages to present the facts as entertainingly as the plays presented within it. After all, the battle of the Oxfordians versus the Stratfordians has a certain royal Shakespearean ring to it, does it not?

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), a professional theater and arts education nonprofit organization that builds communities around the appreciation and production of Shakespeare, will present blockbuster film director Roland Emmerich and entertainment attorney and author Bert Fields with the Crystal Quill Award for their contributions to the Shakespeare authorship debate.

Tune in for a heated debate regarding the Shakespeare authorship question as ANONYMOUS Director Roland Emmerich, the film's Writer/Producer John Orloff and Historian/Writer/Lecturer Charles Beauclerk face off against UC Berkeley's Professor Alan H. Nelson in a live webcast on Wednesday, September 28 from 8:15 - 9:15pm PST.

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), a professional theater and arts education nonprofit organization that builds communities around the appreciation and production of Shakespeare, will present blockbuster film director Roland Emmerich and entertainment attorney and author Bert Fields with the Crystal Quill Award for their contributions to the Shakespeare authorship debate.

Two-time Tony Award® winner James Earl Jones (Hoke Coleburn), Tony and Oscar® winner Vanessa Redgrave (Daisy Werthan) and four-time Tony Award® winner Boyd Gaines (Boolie Werthan) will star in the critically acclaimed production of Driving Miss Daisy, at the Wyndham's Theatre from 26 September until 17 December, with press night on 5 October.