Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa and W1A’s Hugh Skinner will star in a National Theatre revival of Oscar Wilde’s play about courtships, betrothals, and confused identities. The Importance of Being Earnest also stars three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D. Clarke playing the imperious Lady Bracknell.
Director Max Webster, making his Nt debut, told Deadline exclusively that casting Gatwa and Skinner as the idle bachelors Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing -both leading double lives – who pursue two young women, both determined to marry someone called Ernest, and with Clarke as the dreadnaught dowager decreeing her own rules of class, taste, and propriety, was “a dream come true.”
Webster and the Nt’s casting director Alastair Coomer have also assembled Richard Cant to play Reverend Canon Chasuble and comic genius Amanda Lawrence as Miss Prism in the 1895 satire, which will...
Director Max Webster, making his Nt debut, told Deadline exclusively that casting Gatwa and Skinner as the idle bachelors Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing -both leading double lives – who pursue two young women, both determined to marry someone called Ernest, and with Clarke as the dreadnaught dowager decreeing her own rules of class, taste, and propriety, was “a dream come true.”
Webster and the Nt’s casting director Alastair Coomer have also assembled Richard Cant to play Reverend Canon Chasuble and comic genius Amanda Lawrence as Miss Prism in the 1895 satire, which will...
- 4/28/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival First For Darren Dale
Producer and screenwriter, Darren Dale has been named as the new board chair of the Sydney Film Festival, following the retirement of Dianne Weir. He is a leading advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and has been director of Blackfella Films since 2000. He has been involved with films including “The Dark Emu Story,” “Mabo” and TV’s “Redfern Now.” He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and has held board roles at Acmi, Sydney Film Festival, Screen Nsw and the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
“As the first Indigenous and industry practitioner to chair the Sydney Film Festival, Darren Dale’s appointment marks a significant and positive shift for the festival. With an impressive track record in storytelling spanning two decades, he brings valuable experience to lead this cultural organization,” said federal Minister for Arts John Graham.
Producer and screenwriter, Darren Dale has been named as the new board chair of the Sydney Film Festival, following the retirement of Dianne Weir. He is a leading advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and has been director of Blackfella Films since 2000. He has been involved with films including “The Dark Emu Story,” “Mabo” and TV’s “Redfern Now.” He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and has held board roles at Acmi, Sydney Film Festival, Screen Nsw and the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
“As the first Indigenous and industry practitioner to chair the Sydney Film Festival, Darren Dale’s appointment marks a significant and positive shift for the festival. With an impressive track record in storytelling spanning two decades, he brings valuable experience to lead this cultural organization,” said federal Minister for Arts John Graham.
- 11/23/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Doctor Who star Catherine Tate’s Netflix comedy Hard Cell is a tonal shift from her previous work, according to exec Kristian Smith, who revealed the mockumentary’s producer Leopard Pictures is working on a feature film adaptation of a Michael Morpurgo novel.
Hard Cell, which drops today, features a fake documentary crew following the inmates and staff of Hmp Woldsley, with beloved UK comedy star Tate portraying multiple characters to capture the British penal system at its brutal and humorous best.
Smith told Deadline the six-parter is a departure from Tate’s previous work such as the BBC’s The Catherine Tate Show and said it is unique in the TV landscape.
“There’s real pathos to this, it’s proper storytelling” he added. “The show is laugh out loud funny and everything people love about Catherine is there but you will see moments of great tragedy, real...
Hard Cell, which drops today, features a fake documentary crew following the inmates and staff of Hmp Woldsley, with beloved UK comedy star Tate portraying multiple characters to capture the British penal system at its brutal and humorous best.
Smith told Deadline the six-parter is a departure from Tate’s previous work such as the BBC’s The Catherine Tate Show and said it is unique in the TV landscape.
“There’s real pathos to this, it’s proper storytelling” he added. “The show is laugh out loud funny and everything people love about Catherine is there but you will see moments of great tragedy, real...
- 4/12/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC has launched “Culture In Quarantine,” an arts and culture initiative that will run across the service’s U.K. radio, television and digital platforms.
The initiative follows the U.K. government’s social distancing advice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in the closure of most cultural spaces across the country.
The initiative, which will be spread across BBC radio as well as channels BBC Two and BBC Four and catch-up service iPlayer, will include guides to shuttered exhibitions or permanent collections in museums and galleries; performances from musicians and comedians; new plays created especially for broadcast; the experience of book festivals with access to authors; and quarantine diaries from creative visionaries.
New filmed recordings of writer Mike Bartlett’s “Albion,” director Emma Rice’s “Wise Children,” realized by digital agency The Space, and choreographer Crystal Pite’s “Revisor” will be among the content available.
The initiative follows the U.K. government’s social distancing advice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in the closure of most cultural spaces across the country.
The initiative, which will be spread across BBC radio as well as channels BBC Two and BBC Four and catch-up service iPlayer, will include guides to shuttered exhibitions or permanent collections in museums and galleries; performances from musicians and comedians; new plays created especially for broadcast; the experience of book festivals with access to authors; and quarantine diaries from creative visionaries.
New filmed recordings of writer Mike Bartlett’s “Albion,” director Emma Rice’s “Wise Children,” realized by digital agency The Space, and choreographer Crystal Pite’s “Revisor” will be among the content available.
- 3/19/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Hello and welcome back to our weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of stage, screen, and telly. The accidental theme this week seems to be ch-ch-ch-changes as we reflect on the news of a new Doctor Who, artistic director, and the slow introduction of leading women in superhero films. Stage Just in case you missed it...it was announced last week that the actress Michelle Terry will be Shakespeare’s Globe’s artistic director starting in April of 2018. She takes over from the outgoing artistic director, Emma Rice, who—after being booted out unceremoniously—is off to set up a new theatre company called Wise Children. Terry is no stranger to The Globe. The Olivier Award-winner appeared on the stage in the 2015 “As You Like It”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” back in 2013, and “Love’s Labour’s Lost” in 2007. She directed short films of “Richard III...
- 8/1/2017
- backstage.com
London's critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe, under the artistic direction of Emma Rice, will light up Us stages and screens this summer and fall, with a three-city limited engagement of The Merchant of Venice, which will play limited engagements in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago in July and August. Two-time Olivier- and Tony Award-winner Jonathan Prycestars as Shylock. The production is directed by Jonathan Munby.
- 7/25/2016
- by Review Roundups
- BroadwayWorld.com
London's critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe, under the artistic direction of Emma Rice, will light up Us stages and screens this summer and fall, with a three-city limited engagement of The Merchant of Venice, which will play limited engagements in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago in July and August. Two-time Olivier- and Tony Award-winner Jonathan Pryce stars as Shylock. The production is directed by Jonathan Munby.
- 7/21/2016
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Shakespeare's Globe's new artistic director Emma Rice has just announced the line-up for the historic theatre's new season. Called the 'Wonder Season,' all of the productions will include elements of folklore and magic. Watch below to find out more about the season, which is set to include Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream and many more.
- 1/6/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
A Cornish knight, an Irish princess, and the king they both betray by falling in love: For centuries the tale circulated Europe in various forms. But after Wagner’s monumental Tristan und Isolde had its premiere in 1865, his idiosyncratic version seemed to supplant all others. If you know the story today, it’s probably through his music, the epitome of high Romantic sincerity. Still, writes Emma Rice, an artistic director of the Cornish theater company Kneehigh, it was a local story, “asking to be told,” and so she set out to create a less bombastic and more vernacular take, “not an epic tale of grand romantic love held at arm’s length from our own experience, but a tender unraveling of love in all its beautiful and painful forms.” The result, first presented in Cornwall in 2003 and extensively produced on tour since then, is Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult, which has...
- 11/25/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
While construction continues and St. Ann's works to raise the final 2 million of its 30 million capital campaign, the organization will present a stellar final season in its temporary home at 29 Jay Street in Dumbo. It kicks off this October when Tr Warszawa and director Grzegorz Jarzyna return for the American Premiere of their internationally acclaimed production of Sarah Kane's 448 Psychosis, which St. Ann's Founder Artistic Director Susan Feldman has wanted to bring to New York since she first saw it in February 2004 -- the same year St. Ann's presented the American Premiere of the original Royal Court production of Kane's play. St. Ann's Warehouse also announced the following season highlights today Emma Rice and Kneehigh, The Wooster Group, the Slovenian choral group Carmina Slovenica, and The Tiger Lillies.
- 7/30/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Drama Desk Awards — commonly known as the theater world’s Golden Globes, though nominees are represented across all NYC productions in a season — are the last precursor to the Tony Awards (check EW.com tomorrow morning for a full list of those). And judging by the list below, it’s going to be quite a competitive year, with some pretty heavy-hitters mixed in with longshots, not to mention some major snubs (Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Fiona Shaw, Chaplin’s Rob McClure to name a few). The winners will be announced at NYC’s Town Hall on May 19. Below is...
- 4/29/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
In a rare treat for Off Broadway audiences, the incomparable Vanessa Redgrave is playing a Polish septuagenarian opposite Jesse Eisenberg in Eisenberg’s own play The Revisionist. I can’t imagine the last time the Oscar- and Tony-award-winning actress has played in a venue as small as the 179-seat Cherry Lane Theatre. But The Revisionist isn’t the only starry premiere on the boards this week; here’s a roundup of notable openings (click links for the full review).
The Revisionist Vanessa Redgrave displays “a well-wrought accent and hard-earned professional brio” in Jesse Eisenberg’s new drama about a young...
The Revisionist Vanessa Redgrave displays “a well-wrought accent and hard-earned professional brio” in Jesse Eisenberg’s new drama about a young...
- 3/1/2013
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
You've got less than three weeks to catch The Wild Bride, the latest splashy, genre-braiding fantasy from visionary Emma Rice and Britain's Kneehigh Theatre (Brief Encounter, The Red Shoes). In supersaturated color and wraparound sound, Rice and composer Stu Barker have created a blues-inflected take on The Handless Maiden, one of the Brother's Grimm's grimmer fairy tales. There's mud, there's blood, there's amputation — there's even a Tim Burton-ish pair of crude hand-replacements, made out of rusty farm tools. The Wild Bride is a stylish, pop-art bricolage that pits the Maiden — played in three stages of life by three mind-blowingly talented dancer/singer/musician/actresses (Audrey Brisson, Patrycja Kujawska, Etta Murfitt) — against The Devil (formidable tenor and dapper gremlin Andrew Durand). Caught between them is a clueless father-husband figure, amusingly and poignantly assayed by Stuart Goodwin. The band is hot, the atmosphere is charged with comic-book energy — we're in some...
- 3/1/2013
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
Vibrant actor who achieved success in Bollywood films, West End musicals and on Coronation Street
Sophiya Haque's performance in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade, which opened last month at the Noël Coward theatre, marked a high point in the beautiful British Asian actor's West End career, launched 10 years ago with Andrew Lloyd Webber's presentation of Bombay Dreams. As the lustrous Welsh Eurasian Sylvia Morgan, Haque held her own among the knobbly-kneed privates, led by Simon Russell Beale's outrageous Captain Terri Dennis. However, illness forced her to withdraw from the production before the end of the year and she has died of cancer at the age of 41.
Born in Portsmouth, Haque was the youngest of three daughters. She was raised by her mother, Thelma, a divorced schoolteacher. She attended Priory comprehensive school and took dance lessons from the age of two and a half at Mary Forrester's...
Sophiya Haque's performance in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade, which opened last month at the Noël Coward theatre, marked a high point in the beautiful British Asian actor's West End career, launched 10 years ago with Andrew Lloyd Webber's presentation of Bombay Dreams. As the lustrous Welsh Eurasian Sylvia Morgan, Haque held her own among the knobbly-kneed privates, led by Simon Russell Beale's outrageous Captain Terri Dennis. However, illness forced her to withdraw from the production before the end of the year and she has died of cancer at the age of 41.
Born in Portsmouth, Haque was the youngest of three daughters. She was raised by her mother, Thelma, a divorced schoolteacher. She attended Priory comprehensive school and took dance lessons from the age of two and a half at Mary Forrester's...
- 1/19/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Peacock, London
You could translate "wah! wah!" – how some Indian audiences express their pleasure at a performance – as "bravo!". Sadly, there's far more woe than wah in this feeble attempt to create a British Bollywood musical, which seems to owe more to a dull episode of EastEnders than it does to rich traditions elsewhere. The costumes often have a bright, jewelled swagger, but the rest of Keith Khan's designs, including what appears to be a papier-mache red London bus, look cheap and tacky, as if the budget had unexpectedly run out.
As is so often the case with unsuccessful musicals, though, the real fault lies in the book and lack of rigorous dramaturgy. Even the framing device is weak: when Bindi's husband goes away for a few days, he implores her not to spend all her time watching Bollywood movies. But as soon as he's out of the door, she's in front of the flatscreen,...
You could translate "wah! wah!" – how some Indian audiences express their pleasure at a performance – as "bravo!". Sadly, there's far more woe than wah in this feeble attempt to create a British Bollywood musical, which seems to owe more to a dull episode of EastEnders than it does to rich traditions elsewhere. The costumes often have a bright, jewelled swagger, but the rest of Keith Khan's designs, including what appears to be a papier-mache red London bus, look cheap and tacky, as if the budget had unexpectedly run out.
As is so often the case with unsuccessful musicals, though, the real fault lies in the book and lack of rigorous dramaturgy. Even the framing device is weak: when Bindi's husband goes away for a few days, he implores her not to spend all her time watching Bollywood movies. But as soon as he's out of the door, she's in front of the flatscreen,...
- 6/1/2012
- by Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
From Lorca and Euripides in a festival of chaos to breathtaking circus in a cathedral, our critics pick the best theatrical experiences of the spring
A Marvellous Year for Plums
Long before Iraq, Britain's 1956 invasion of Suez divided the nation and destroyed the reputation of the Pm. In those days it was Sir Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as "half mad baronet and half beautiful woman" and now played by Anthony Andrews in a new piece by Hugh Whitemore. Mb Chichester Festival theatre (01243 781 312), 11 May to 2 June. cft.org.uk
Posh
Time should have given new traction to Laura Wade's play about an elite Oxford dining club filled with arrogant young toffs who presume they are born to rule. First seen at the Royal Court shortly before the last election, it was thought by some to offer an exaggerated portrait of upper-class swagger. Now Lyndsey Turner's production, with many of the original cast,...
A Marvellous Year for Plums
Long before Iraq, Britain's 1956 invasion of Suez divided the nation and destroyed the reputation of the Pm. In those days it was Sir Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as "half mad baronet and half beautiful woman" and now played by Anthony Andrews in a new piece by Hugh Whitemore. Mb Chichester Festival theatre (01243 781 312), 11 May to 2 June. cft.org.uk
Posh
Time should have given new traction to Laura Wade's play about an elite Oxford dining club filled with arrogant young toffs who presume they are born to rule. First seen at the Royal Court shortly before the last election, it was thought by some to offer an exaggerated portrait of upper-class swagger. Now Lyndsey Turner's production, with many of the original cast,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Michael Billington, Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
From Snow White to Jack White, and Cumbria to Cannes, the Observer's critics pick the season's highlights. What are you most looking forward to? Post your comments below
Download the spring arts calendar 2012
April
2 Pop Dr John The New Orleans legend decamps to Nashville to record with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach; excellence ensues on the Locked Down LP.
4 Art Damien Hirst The world's richest living artist enjoys a major survey of more than 20 years of his work, including medicine cabinets, diamond skull and a certain preserved shark. Tate Modern, London until 9 September.
6 Film This Must Be the Place Sean Penn plays a retired rock star scouring America for the fugitive Nazi who tormented his father in Auschwitz. Paolo Sorrentino escapes from the art house in his first English-language film.
7 Theatre Where Have I Been All My Life? Following the success of London Road, her verbatim musical at the National,...
Download the spring arts calendar 2012
April
2 Pop Dr John The New Orleans legend decamps to Nashville to record with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach; excellence ensues on the Locked Down LP.
4 Art Damien Hirst The world's richest living artist enjoys a major survey of more than 20 years of his work, including medicine cabinets, diamond skull and a certain preserved shark. Tate Modern, London until 9 September.
6 Film This Must Be the Place Sean Penn plays a retired rock star scouring America for the fugitive Nazi who tormented his father in Auschwitz. Paolo Sorrentino escapes from the art house in his first English-language film.
7 Theatre Where Have I Been All My Life? Following the success of London Road, her verbatim musical at the National,...
- 3/31/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
The 61st Outer Critics Circle Award nominations were announced this morning for outstanding stage achievements on Broadway and Off-Broadway. Here's the full list: Outstanding New Broadway Play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Good People The Motherf**ker With the Hat War Horse Outstanding New Broadway Musical The Book of Mormon Priscilla Queen of the Desert Sister Act Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Outstanding New Off-broadway Play Blood From a Stone Kin Other Desert Cities The Other Place Outstanding New Off-broadway Musical Freckleface Strawberry In Transit The Kid Tomorrow Morning Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) The Book of Mormon Catch Me If You Can Sister Act Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Outstanding Revival Of A Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Born Yesterday The Importance of Being Earnest The Merchant of Venice The Normal Heart Outstanding Revival Of A Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Anything Goes...
- 4/26/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The multi award-winning composer made his name on the very French 1964 musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. So why would he want a Cornish company to adapt it for the stage?
In the spring of 2008, the French composer Michel Legrand fell violently in love – with a theatre show. The winner of multiple Oscars and Grammys was in London supervising the opening of his new musical, Marguerite, and popped into the Haymarket cinema, where an unconventional production of Brief Encounter was being staged. "For the first time," he says, in French-roughened English, "I see a musical with so many lyrical ideas, with so many inventions, with a new style, with a new way to approach the musicals."
Legrand was so enthralled he hatched a plot to work with Brief Encounter's creators: the Cornish theatre company Kneehigh, and especially their artistic director, Emma Rice. What he wanted Rice to do was...
In the spring of 2008, the French composer Michel Legrand fell violently in love – with a theatre show. The winner of multiple Oscars and Grammys was in London supervising the opening of his new musical, Marguerite, and popped into the Haymarket cinema, where an unconventional production of Brief Encounter was being staged. "For the first time," he says, in French-roughened English, "I see a musical with so many lyrical ideas, with so many inventions, with a new style, with a new way to approach the musicals."
Legrand was so enthralled he hatched a plot to work with Brief Encounter's creators: the Cornish theatre company Kneehigh, and especially their artistic director, Emma Rice. What he wanted Rice to do was...
- 3/17/2011
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
Our critics pick the season's highlights. From Elisabeth Moss on stage to Adele's new album, these are the dates for your cultural diary
January
5 Film 127 Hours
Danny Boyle's 10th film tells the story of Aron Ralston, played by James Franco who severed his own arm with a penknife to escape after becoming trapped while hiking in Utah.
7 Film The King's Speech
Colin Firth is introverted monarch George VI, battling a debilitating stutter with the aid of an extroverted therapist (Geoffrey Rush). The ensuing friendship is touching – and, when the second world war breaks out, of national importance.
9 Classical Hollywood Rhapsody
The Bbcso and Chorus celebrate Hollywood's golden age. Composers include Korngold, Waxman, Rózsa; films range from The Wizard of Oz to Gone with the Wind. Barbican, London. 9 Jan only.
11 Theatre Twelfth Night
To mark his 80th birthday, Peter Hall returns to the National theatre, which he ran until 1988. He directs his daughter Rebecca,...
January
5 Film 127 Hours
Danny Boyle's 10th film tells the story of Aron Ralston, played by James Franco who severed his own arm with a penknife to escape after becoming trapped while hiking in Utah.
7 Film The King's Speech
Colin Firth is introverted monarch George VI, battling a debilitating stutter with the aid of an extroverted therapist (Geoffrey Rush). The ensuing friendship is touching – and, when the second world war breaks out, of national importance.
9 Classical Hollywood Rhapsody
The Bbcso and Chorus celebrate Hollywood's golden age. Composers include Korngold, Waxman, Rózsa; films range from The Wizard of Oz to Gone with the Wind. Barbican, London. 9 Jan only.
11 Theatre Twelfth Night
To mark his 80th birthday, Peter Hall returns to the National theatre, which he ran until 1988. He directs his daughter Rebecca,...
- 12/26/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Unlike other kudos, the Tony Awards decide eligibility on a rolling basis and the 23 members of the Administration Committee met earlier this week for the first of four times this season. They decided that the first Broadway staging of Alfred Uhry's 1987 off-Broadway hit "Driving Miss Daisy" will be eligible only for Best Play Revival as will the first rialto run of David Mamet's 1977 two-hander "Life in the Theater." However, they ruled that the first stage version of Noel Coward's 1945 film script for "Brief Encounter" can contend for Best Play with adapter Emma Rice receiving a co-credit. And Colin Quinn's one-man show "Long Story Short" is also eligible for Best Play. As the defacto rule is that only those actors billed above the title compete as leads, producers have to petition for any changes. Judith Light ("Lombardi") and Joanna Lumley ("La Bete") have dropped down to Featured Actress in a Play w.
- 12/13/2010
- Gold Derby
Taylor Swift has been captured on camera going out with Jake Gyllenhaal recently. Just days after catching media headlines with report she spent Thanksgiving together with the "Love and Other Drugs" actor in Brooklyn, the "Mine" hitmaker was snapped getting a late breakfast with him at Fido, a coffeehouse and cafe near Vanderbilt University and Music Row in Nashville.
During the Saturday afternoon, November 27's outing, Taylor and Jake reportedly gave the impression they are more than just friends. "They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other's company. They didn't look like [just] friends," fellow diner Elaina Mishu told People magazine. Customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair, added, "They seemed close."
Just few days before, the "Love Story" singer sparked rumor she was spending her Thanksgiving with the ex-boyfriend of actress Reese Witherspoon after the two were spotted going out together.
During the Saturday afternoon, November 27's outing, Taylor and Jake reportedly gave the impression they are more than just friends. "They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other's company. They didn't look like [just] friends," fellow diner Elaina Mishu told People magazine. Customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair, added, "They seemed close."
Just few days before, the "Love Story" singer sparked rumor she was spending her Thanksgiving with the ex-boyfriend of actress Reese Witherspoon after the two were spotted going out together.
- 11/29/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal spent more time together this weekend. After spotted in Brooklyn, New York on Thanksgiving, the rumored lovers were pictured hitting Swift's hometown in Nashville, Tennessee two days later on Saturday afternoon, November 27.
In their casual outfits, the 20-year-old country music singer and the "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" hunk stopped by Fido, a coffeehouse near Vanderbilt University and Music Row, reportedly to get brunch. According to customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair, they were "very cute" and "seemed close."
Fellow diner Elaina Mishu additionally told People, "They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other's company. They didn't look like [just] friends." Another eyewitness added, "They were not trying to be discreet by any means. They were definitely a couple. They looked very happy."
Previously on November 25, Swift and Gyllenhaal were spotted grabbing lattes at the...
In their casual outfits, the 20-year-old country music singer and the "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" hunk stopped by Fido, a coffeehouse near Vanderbilt University and Music Row, reportedly to get brunch. According to customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair, they were "very cute" and "seemed close."
Fellow diner Elaina Mishu additionally told People, "They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other's company. They didn't look like [just] friends." Another eyewitness added, "They were not trying to be discreet by any means. They were definitely a couple. They looked very happy."
Previously on November 25, Swift and Gyllenhaal were spotted grabbing lattes at the...
- 11/29/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The cute new couple is surely managing to stay caffeinated as they were snapped grabbing a beverage two days after their Thanksgiving coffee run in Brooklyn!
After spending Thanksgiving with Jake Gyllenhaal and his family in Brooklyn it appears Jake is returning the favor as he was spotted with new squeeze Taylor Swift in her hometown of Nashville at the cafe Fido Nov. 27. “They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other’s company,” Elaina Mishu told People. “They didn’t look like [just] friends.”
Customer Emma Rice seemed to reiterate these statements to the mag, saying the couple was “very nice” and “seemed close.” Emma even managed to grab the above shot of the two, the first clear shot anyone has seen of the couple in public.
It looks like it won’t be long until we see the 20-year-old singer and the 29-year-old actor...
After spending Thanksgiving with Jake Gyllenhaal and his family in Brooklyn it appears Jake is returning the favor as he was spotted with new squeeze Taylor Swift in her hometown of Nashville at the cafe Fido Nov. 27. “They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other’s company,” Elaina Mishu told People. “They didn’t look like [just] friends.”
Customer Emma Rice seemed to reiterate these statements to the mag, saying the couple was “very nice” and “seemed close.” Emma even managed to grab the above shot of the two, the first clear shot anyone has seen of the couple in public.
It looks like it won’t be long until we see the 20-year-old singer and the 29-year-old actor...
- 11/28/2010
- by cspargo
- HollywoodLife
Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal have fuelled rumours of a new romance as they were spotted in the singer's hometown of Nashville on Thanksgiving.The couple was spotted getting a late breakfast at Fido, a coffeehouse and cafe near Vanderbilt University and Music Row."They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other's company," People.com quoted a fellow diner Elaina Mishu, as saying."They didn't look like [just] friends," said Mishu.Another customer Emma Rice, who clicked a photo of the pair and posted it online, called the duo "very cute" and said, "They seemed close."The ...
- 11/28/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
Singer Taylor Swift and actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Source Code) were scene taking in a post Black Friday latte this Saturday in Swift's hometown of Nashville. People caught the update from Elaina Mishu who snapped the photo of the Swift and Gyllenhaal. "They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other's company," fellow diner Elaina Mishu tells People. "They didn't look like [just] friends." "They were not trying to be discreet by any means," another eyewitness says of the pair, who sat at a table near a window. "They were definitely a couple. They looked very happy." On Thanksgiving morning, the two were reported to be "sipping maple syrup lattes" at a Brooklyn café, near Jake sister Maggie Gyllenhaal home. While the two may not "officially" be a couple, everything about the Gyllenhaal and Swift's cafe driven rendezvous is both sweet and cute. *Image Copyright Emma Rice...
- 11/28/2010
- by Alexis James-Whitehead
- BuzzFocus.com
It's been a busy travel weekend for most Americans - and especially for Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal. Two days after enjoying maple lattes together in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thanksgiving, Swift and Gyllenhaal popped up in the singer's hometown of Nashville. On Saturday afternoon, the couple were spotted getting a late breakfast at Fido, a coffeehouse and café near Vanderbilt University and Music Row. "They were smiling and laughing. They were talking a lot and enjoying each other's company," fellow diner Elaina Mishu tells People. "They didn't look like [just] friends." Customer Emma Rice, who snapped a photo of the pair,...
- 11/28/2010
- by Joey Bartolomeo
- PEOPLE.com
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