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While starring on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series “Succession,” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong developed a reputation as an actor who takes himself and his craft incredibly seriously, perhaps overly so. There was a controversial New Yorker profile, and critical comments from his co-star Brian Cox that suggested some frustration with Strong’s methods. Strong famously could not understand why people thought “Succession” was a comedy, even though it was hilarious. Even when his fellow actors were playing it as a comedy, he was always deadly serious.
In a new interview with The New York Times, Strong reflected on his reputation for humorlessness, and it sounds like he might be lightening up. Just a little bit.
Asked if he’s interested in comedy, he acknowledged that “Succession” was “wickedly funny,” which is a change from how he used to talk about the show. “I don’t know that that show can be put into any box,...
In a new interview with The New York Times, Strong reflected on his reputation for humorlessness, and it sounds like he might be lightening up. Just a little bit.
Asked if he’s interested in comedy, he acknowledged that “Succession” was “wickedly funny,” which is a change from how he used to talk about the show. “I don’t know that that show can be put into any box,...
- 3/12/2024
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
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Nathan Lane took another dramatic turn in his career playing LAPD officer Lewis Michener in the Showtime fantasy series “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.” Lane is a three-time Tony winner and two-time Emmy winner.
Lane spoke in May with Gold Derby contributing writer Sam Eckmann about taking on dramatic roles, the collaborative process on “Penny Dreadful” and his memories of working with the late playwright Terrence McNally. Watch the exclusive video chat above and read the complete transcript below.
SEEPaco Cabezas Interview: ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’ director
Gold Derby: You have become known for great comedic performances from “The Producers” to “The Birdcage” and you certainly haven’t stopped doing comedy. I’ve enjoyed you on Broadway in many comedies recently but there’s also been a more dramatic bent to your career lately. Seeing you in this show certainly and “The Iceman Cometh” and “Angels in America,” is...
Lane spoke in May with Gold Derby contributing writer Sam Eckmann about taking on dramatic roles, the collaborative process on “Penny Dreadful” and his memories of working with the late playwright Terrence McNally. Watch the exclusive video chat above and read the complete transcript below.
SEEPaco Cabezas Interview: ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’ director
Gold Derby: You have become known for great comedic performances from “The Producers” to “The Birdcage” and you certainly haven’t stopped doing comedy. I’ve enjoyed you on Broadway in many comedies recently but there’s also been a more dramatic bent to your career lately. Seeing you in this show certainly and “The Iceman Cometh” and “Angels in America,” is...
- 7/5/2020
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Kristin Chenoweth will return to the Broadway stage in a live concert celebrating the release of her new album For The Girls Concord Records, produced by Steve Tyrell, with Music Direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander and Presented by James L. Nederlander. The limited engagement begins November 8, 2019 at the Nederlander Theatre and will run through November 17, 2019 8 performances only. Kristin has made her voice heard on the Broadway stage, earning herself a Tony Award for her performance in you're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. However, it was her show-stopping performance in Wicked as Glinda that kickstarted her killer career on Broadway. Kristin has continued to engage her audiences with her astonishing vocals and irresistible charm, having been described, aoeshe's like a singing ray of sunshine,a by New York Times critic Charles Isherwood, following her most recent performance in My Love Letter To Broadway.
- 9/17/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Apocalyptic wastelands aren’t often presented on Broadway stages, but Lucky Kirkwood’s “The Children” presents audiences with life in the countryside after a nuclear fallout. Unlike most end-of-the-world dramas, this play stays indoors and focuses on the inhabitants of a seaside cottage. It’s the intense focus on character that provide Deborah Findlay the opportunity to score a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Play.
Findlay portrays Hazel, a retired nuclear physicist. She lives with her husband Robin (Ron Cook) in a run down cottage just outside the “exclusion zone,” the area ravaged by earthquakes, tidal waves, and radiation after the power plant which employed the couple experienced a Fukushima like disaster. She has settled nicely into a hippie-fied retired life, full of yoga and living off the land, when an old friend and co-worker Rose (Francesca Annis) appears after a 38-year absence.
Rose’s sudden resurgence shakes Hazel.
Findlay portrays Hazel, a retired nuclear physicist. She lives with her husband Robin (Ron Cook) in a run down cottage just outside the “exclusion zone,” the area ravaged by earthquakes, tidal waves, and radiation after the power plant which employed the couple experienced a Fukushima like disaster. She has settled nicely into a hippie-fied retired life, full of yoga and living off the land, when an old friend and co-worker Rose (Francesca Annis) appears after a 38-year absence.
Rose’s sudden resurgence shakes Hazel.
- 4/29/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
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Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady” is a dream role for any soprano. The part allows the actress to showcase broad comedy, don lavish gowns, and croon Lerner and Loewe classics like “I Could Have Danced All Night.” But the role is no a favorite of the Tonys: no actress has ever won for playing Eliza. Now, 62 years after the musical’s Broadway debut, Lauren Ambrose may reverse the curse at long last.
The original 1956 production of “My Fair Lady” starred Rex Harrison and newcomer Julie Andrews. The show was a hit and claimed six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Lead Actor in a Musical. But in a shocking twist Andrews lost Lead Actress to Judy Holliday in “Bells Are Ringing.”
Award show misfortune followed the role to the big screen when Audrey Hepburn was snubbed by the Oscars for the 1964 film version. Andrews won the Best Actress Academy Award for “Mary Poppins.
The original 1956 production of “My Fair Lady” starred Rex Harrison and newcomer Julie Andrews. The show was a hit and claimed six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Lead Actor in a Musical. But in a shocking twist Andrews lost Lead Actress to Judy Holliday in “Bells Are Ringing.”
Award show misfortune followed the role to the big screen when Audrey Hepburn was snubbed by the Oscars for the 1964 film version. Andrews won the Best Actress Academy Award for “Mary Poppins.
- 4/28/2018
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
As theatre critics for the New York Times, Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood are perhaps the most influential voices when it comes to Broadway. Every awards season the pair comes up with a list of Tony nominees who they think will win and should win the coveted prize in June. Click here to check out their predictions for this year.But the real question is...how have they done in predicting Tony winners in years past Check out how they fared last year.
- 5/11/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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Nora Ephron, who pioneered a brand of writing and filmmaking all her own, died Tuesday at 71.
After her enormous success as a screenwriter, director and essayist, Ephron parlayed her talent into the American theater only later in life.
"Love, Loss, and What I Wore," a play of monologues she co-wrote with her sister, Delia, had a long, lucrative life off-Broadway, and her newest play, "Lucky Guy," is set for Broadway next year with Tom Hanks attached as the star.
"Love, Loss and What I Wore," an exploration of five women and how their wardrobes related to pivotal moments in their lives, was based on the 1995 memoir by Illene Beckerman. The show premiered in 2009 and ended its off-Broadway run in New York on March 25. It continues to travel across the world, with a rotating cast of female stars.
Throughout the course of its run, illustrious stage and screen performers such as Tyne Daly,...
After her enormous success as a screenwriter, director and essayist, Ephron parlayed her talent into the American theater only later in life.
"Love, Loss, and What I Wore," a play of monologues she co-wrote with her sister, Delia, had a long, lucrative life off-Broadway, and her newest play, "Lucky Guy," is set for Broadway next year with Tom Hanks attached as the star.
"Love, Loss and What I Wore," an exploration of five women and how their wardrobes related to pivotal moments in their lives, was based on the 1995 memoir by Illene Beckerman. The show premiered in 2009 and ended its off-Broadway run in New York on March 25. It continues to travel across the world, with a rotating cast of female stars.
Throughout the course of its run, illustrious stage and screen performers such as Tyne Daly,...
- 6/27/2012
- by Lucas Kavner
- Huffington Post
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