Someone Close To You concerns Helen – a fiercely independent spirit – reaching the end of her life; and her son, Ben – who sees risk everywhere. Ben must confront his aging mother about bringing her home, essentially, to die. Ironically, it is he who learns more about life than he bargained for.
Stephen R. Rourke, through a special arrangement with the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, presents a special staged reading of Melissa Borgerding's deeply moving drama, Someone Close To You, directed by James A. Goins.
A first look at Rachel Zegler in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel to The Hunger Games films, has been released. Zegler will be joined by her West Side Story co-star Josh Andres Rivera in the new film. The cast will also feature Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, and Jason Schwartzman. Check out the new photo now!
Viola Davis has joined the cast of the upcoming Hunger Games prequel film as the story's villain, Dr. Volumnia Gaul, who is the head gamemaker of the 10th annual Hunger Games. Davis will join Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andres Rivera, and more in the new film.
Rivera will join his West Side Story co-star Rachel Zegler in the new film, based on Suzanne Collins' #1 New York Times bestseller. Zegler will star as the female lead in the film opposite Tom Blyth, who will play the young Coriolanus Snow. Rivera will play Sejanus Plinth, the District 2 mentor and a close friend of young Snow.
Rachel Zegler, who recently recevied critical acclaim for her performance as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, will star as Lucy Gray Baird in Lionsgate’s Hunger Games prequel film, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Zegler will star as the female lead in the film opposite Tom Blyth, who will play the young Coriolanus Snow.
The actors include (in alphabetical order): : Tangie Ambrose, Jeanine Anderson, Heidi Appe, Kathie Barnes, Kira Brannlund, Paul Bugallo, Vito D'Ambrosio, Ashley Felkner, Constance Forslund, Cecil Jennings, Colin Thomas Jennings, Maria Kress, Mimi Kmet, Arden Lewis, Anne Leyden, Joan Lynch, Barbara Mallory, Keyara Milliner, David Mingrino, Nick McDow Musleh, Joe Nassi, Bill Sehres, Tatum Shank, Harris Shore, Amy Simon, Ashley Taylor, Dianne Travis, Abhi Trivedi
Theatre West, the 59-year-old professional mid-sized theatre based in Hollywood, presents the talented actors of The Shakespeare Workshop under the direction of Nick McDow Musleh in a series of videos available throughout August on the Theatre West Los Angeles YouTube Channel.
Playwrights Horizons has extended Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory's The KILL ONE Race, a performance-based work created and filmed at Playwrights Horizons during the pandemic, to July 31.
The KILL ONE Race treats the Mainstage Theater as the setting for a morbid reality competition show: over the course of seven days replete with ice-breakers, speed dates, confessionals, sacred rituals, murder plots, and copious dancing, seven contestants compete to be proven the most ethical—and earn the singular prize of death.
What happens if current social distancing impacts the audiences attending live theatre in the long term? The world will likely not look the same post pandemic.
Scholastic announced today that Tony Award-winning actor Santino Fontana will narrate the audio book edition of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the much-anticipated new novel in the worldwide bestselling The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collinsa?"the first new Hunger Games book since Mockingjay, published in 2010.
Theatre West is inaugurating a new series, The Art of Storytelling. Each evening in the series will be comprised of storytelling around a central theme. The theme for the first evening in the series is It Happened in L.A.
The Pico will be presenting a monthly reading series of original short comedies by Emmy® nominated and Drama Desk Award winning writer Eugene Pack.
How can one theme provoke so many twists and turns of life? Each piece is an exciting roller coaster ride of laughter, tears and OMG! Come along for the ride!
Clapperboard Director Maureen Sinclair is delighted to announce that this year's new short film youth project Mind Our Mate! will be launched at the special 10th anniversary cast and crew screening of low budget British feature The Be All and End All, in association with Verve Pictures and Director Bruce Webb on Wednesday 16th May, 6pm at FACT Picturehouse.
The New Group presents the world premiere of All the Fine Boys, a new play from writer and director Erica Schmidt, featuring Abigail Breslin, Isabelle Fuhrman, Joe Tippett and Alex Wolff. The show opens tonight, March 1, for a limited Off-Broadway engagement playing through March 26 at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Ford Foundation Studio Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street).
Following five Barrymore wins, Theatre Exile continues their 20th anniversary season with Lost Girls by John Pollono. This hard-hitting drama is the story of three generations of women struggling to rise above their limited prospects, in a world indifferent to their struggles, to prevent history from repeating itself.
Following five Barrymore wins, Theatre Exile continues their 20th anniversary season with Lost Girls by John Pollono. This hard-hitting drama is the story of three generations of women struggling to rise above their limited prospects, in a world indifferent to their struggles, to prevent history from repeating itself.
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