DC "League of Super Pets", the CG-animated feature based on DC Comics' family of crime-fighting animals, directed by Jared Stern and Sam Levine, stars Dwayne Johnson as the voice of 'Krypto the Superdog' and Kevin Hart as 'Ace the Bat-Hound', with Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna and Keanu Reeves, streaming September 26, 2022 on HBO Max:
The 'Super Pets', debuted with 'Krypto' the superdog in DC's "Adventure" #210 (1955).
'The Legion of Super-Pets' debuted in "Adventure Comics" #293 (1962).
Other DC animals include 'Misty the Manta', 'Como the Chimp', 'Ice Bear', 'Starlene the Raccoon', 'Chameleon Collie', 'Batcow', 'Rebound the Koala', 'Ace Bunny', 'Sneaky the Chameleon'...
...'Prophetic Pup', 'Thundermutt', 'Kolli', 'Paw Pooch', 'Gratch the Mantis', 'Jumpa the Kanga', 'Supersquirrel', 'Plastic Frog', 'Jimmy the Rat', 'Charlie the Parrot', 'Blue the Heron', 'Giggles the Hyena'...
...'Daring Dog', 'Action Cat', 'Scoop the Chihuahua', 'Freckles the Dalmatian', 'Haley the Monkey', 'Cranky the Croc', 'Superturtle',...
The 'Super Pets', debuted with 'Krypto' the superdog in DC's "Adventure" #210 (1955).
'The Legion of Super-Pets' debuted in "Adventure Comics" #293 (1962).
Other DC animals include 'Misty the Manta', 'Como the Chimp', 'Ice Bear', 'Starlene the Raccoon', 'Chameleon Collie', 'Batcow', 'Rebound the Koala', 'Ace Bunny', 'Sneaky the Chameleon'...
...'Prophetic Pup', 'Thundermutt', 'Kolli', 'Paw Pooch', 'Gratch the Mantis', 'Jumpa the Kanga', 'Supersquirrel', 'Plastic Frog', 'Jimmy the Rat', 'Charlie the Parrot', 'Blue the Heron', 'Giggles the Hyena'...
...'Daring Dog', 'Action Cat', 'Scoop the Chihuahua', 'Freckles the Dalmatian', 'Haley the Monkey', 'Cranky the Croc', 'Superturtle',...
- 9/20/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Although primarily known as a documentary filmmaker, director Eric Steel makes his narrative feature debut with Minyan, a faithful yet surprising adaptation of a coming-of-age short story by David Bezmozgis. Set in the Russian Jewish community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in the 1980s, Minyan tells the story of David (Samuel H. Levine) who, while helping his grandfather (Ron Rifkin) transition into a retirement home, befriends two closeted gay men. As David begins to identify and expand on his own desires, his sense of self begins […]
The post Brighton Beach and the East Village in the ’80s: Eric Steel on Minyan first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Brighton Beach and the East Village in the ’80s: Eric Steel on Minyan first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 10/27/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The year is 1986, the setting is New York City, and the AIDS epidemic is running rampant. Our hero David (Samuel H. Levine) is a teenager living in Brighton Beach, going to school while doing his damndest to get his grandfather (the great Ron Rifkin) into a retirement home nearby. The young man has a temper that stems from a budding rebellious streak, the long-gestating product of his strict Russian Jewish upbringing.
Directed by Eric Steel, who co-wrote the script with Daniel Pearle, Minyan is a deeply personal piece of work. Adapted from David Bezmozgis’s short story of the same name, it’s clear Steel is pulling from his own experience in bringing the written word to the big screen. Levine is sufficiently awkward as the lead, manifesting many of David’s growing pains quite literally on camera. This is an unsure soul, whether it be regarding his sexuality, his religion,...
Directed by Eric Steel, who co-wrote the script with Daniel Pearle, Minyan is a deeply personal piece of work. Adapted from David Bezmozgis’s short story of the same name, it’s clear Steel is pulling from his own experience in bringing the written word to the big screen. Levine is sufficiently awkward as the lead, manifesting many of David’s growing pains quite literally on camera. This is an unsure soul, whether it be regarding his sexuality, his religion,...
- 10/19/2021
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
"He isn't a stranger to himself anymore, he can see inside himself." Strand Releasing has unveiled a new US trailer for an indie drama titled Minyan, which originally premiered at last year's Berlin Film Festival. It also played at Outfest last year, and stopped by the New York Jewish Film Festival earlier this year. The film stars Samuel H. Levine as a young Russian Jewish immigrant caught between thrilling private trysts and his repressive family. Set in 1980s Brooklyn, he develops a close friendship with his grandfather's neighbors, two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss–and explores the East Village where he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth, desire, and risk. The cast includes Ron Rifkin, Christopher McCann, Chris Perfetti, Elizabeth Loyacano, and Zuzanna Szadkowski. Looks like a distinct coming-of-age film with intense passion carefully worked into the story.
- 9/29/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Strand Releasing has unveiled the trailer for Eric Steel’s coming-of-age film “Minyan” which world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won a special mention at the Jerusalem fest.
The feature debut will have its North American premiere in New York on Oct. 22., followed by a release in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and across the country. On top of its win at Jerusalem, the movie won the Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. narrative feature at Outfest.
“Minyan” tells the story of David, a young man from Brooklyn coming to terms with his sexual identity amidst the AIDS crisis in the 80’s, as well as his place within the Jewish community. He bonds with older gay couple whom he ends up supporting when one dies and the other is forced with an eviction from his housing project. David eventually creates a “minyan” to help provide protection for...
The feature debut will have its North American premiere in New York on Oct. 22., followed by a release in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and across the country. On top of its win at Jerusalem, the movie won the Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. narrative feature at Outfest.
“Minyan” tells the story of David, a young man from Brooklyn coming to terms with his sexual identity amidst the AIDS crisis in the 80’s, as well as his place within the Jewish community. He bonds with older gay couple whom he ends up supporting when one dies and the other is forced with an eviction from his housing project. David eventually creates a “minyan” to help provide protection for...
- 9/20/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Sam Abbas Releases Trailer For LGBTQ Feature ‘Alia’s Birth’
Sam Abbas has released the trailer for the LGBTQ feature “Alia’s Birth,” which will release exclusively in theaters this December.
The film will feature a live home-birth with a resuscitation as well as a live set by queer superstar Nicole Moudaber in a New York warehouse hosted by Teksupport.
The cast includes Poorna Jagannathan (“Never Have I Ever”), Nikohl Boosheri (“The Bold Type”), Samuel H. Levine (“Minyan”) and Maya Kazan (“Boardwalk Empire”).
Abbas is an Egyptian-American director who recently worked on “Erēmīta,” an anthology of short documentaries produced during the Covid-19 pandemic. He produced the film with Tatiana Bears, Nicole Townsend and Neal Kumar.
In an official statement, Abbas discussed why he chose to not promote his film at a festival.
“I’m really excited to start working with a theatre booker and bring the film to cinemas in December,...
Sam Abbas has released the trailer for the LGBTQ feature “Alia’s Birth,” which will release exclusively in theaters this December.
The film will feature a live home-birth with a resuscitation as well as a live set by queer superstar Nicole Moudaber in a New York warehouse hosted by Teksupport.
The cast includes Poorna Jagannathan (“Never Have I Ever”), Nikohl Boosheri (“The Bold Type”), Samuel H. Levine (“Minyan”) and Maya Kazan (“Boardwalk Empire”).
Abbas is an Egyptian-American director who recently worked on “Erēmīta,” an anthology of short documentaries produced during the Covid-19 pandemic. He produced the film with Tatiana Bears, Nicole Townsend and Neal Kumar.
In an official statement, Abbas discussed why he chose to not promote his film at a festival.
“I’m really excited to start working with a theatre booker and bring the film to cinemas in December,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
“Minyan,” an acclaimed tale of sexual and spiritual identity directed by Eric Steel, has sold to Strand Releasing in North America.
The film, starring stage breakout Samuel H. Levine of Broadway and the West End’s “The Inheritance,” played in the official selection at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win Outfest’s grand jury prize for U.S. narrative feature.
In Judaism, a minyan refers to the minimum amount of celebrants required for certain religious traditions. Set in 1980s Brighton Beach, the film follows a young Russian Jewish immigrant who is caught up in the tight constraints of his community. He develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors — two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss. In the East Village, he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth,...
The film, starring stage breakout Samuel H. Levine of Broadway and the West End’s “The Inheritance,” played in the official selection at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win Outfest’s grand jury prize for U.S. narrative feature.
In Judaism, a minyan refers to the minimum amount of celebrants required for certain religious traditions. Set in 1980s Brighton Beach, the film follows a young Russian Jewish immigrant who is caught up in the tight constraints of his community. He develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors — two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss. In the East Village, he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
The 32nd annual NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival is bringing queer cinema to audience’s homes this year in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The diverse offerings at this year’s virtual festival should delight LGBTQ cinephiles of many tastes. The queer film fest will offer screenings through October 27, and the following five movies are some of the best on display.
“Ammonite”
NewFest 2020 is not completely devoid of in-person events, thanks to a select few drive-in screenings. The first of which was “Ammonite,” the highest profile awards contender of the lineup. The film by Francis Lee depicts the real life relationship between paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and a young woman (Saorise Ronan) in the 1840s. Those in attendance at the Queen’s Drive-In were lucky enough not only to experience the sweeping period romance, but also witnessed Winslet virtually present the inaugural World Queer Visionary Award to director Francis Lee.
“Ammonite”
NewFest 2020 is not completely devoid of in-person events, thanks to a select few drive-in screenings. The first of which was “Ammonite,” the highest profile awards contender of the lineup. The film by Francis Lee depicts the real life relationship between paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and a young woman (Saorise Ronan) in the 1840s. Those in attendance at the Queen’s Drive-In were lucky enough not only to experience the sweeping period romance, but also witnessed Winslet virtually present the inaugural World Queer Visionary Award to director Francis Lee.
- 10/26/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
The 2020 Tony Awards may represent a shortened Broadway season, but there is a wealth of contenders to consider for the play categories. Fall and winter on the rialto was full of non-musical dramas, which will make for plenty of tense races at this year’s ceremony. Nominations will be announced October 15 with a virtual ceremony sometime later this fall. To help you predict which productions and performers might come out on top this year, take a read of the potential nominees for the play categories below.
See 2020 Tony Awards: Every eligible contender from the shortened 2019-2020 Broadway season
Best Play
There are 10 eligible dramas from the 2019-2020 season, which should give us five nomination slots. The two biggest conversation starters of the fall were “The Inheritance” by Matthew Lopez and “Slave Play” by Jeremy O. Harris. Both should easily land a spot. I’m also betting that Adam Rapp grabs...
See 2020 Tony Awards: Every eligible contender from the shortened 2019-2020 Broadway season
Best Play
There are 10 eligible dramas from the 2019-2020 season, which should give us five nomination slots. The two biggest conversation starters of the fall were “The Inheritance” by Matthew Lopez and “Slave Play” by Jeremy O. Harris. Both should easily land a spot. I’m also betting that Adam Rapp grabs...
- 10/12/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
If you’re confused as to who is actually able to compete for the newly announced virtual Tony Awards this fall, you’re not alone. The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced a new cut off date of February 19, 2020. That means that the 2019-2020 Broadway season was cut incredibly short.
Musical races are most heavily affected by the shortened season. “West Side Story” will have to wait until next year to compete as it opened after the February 19th eligibility cutoff date. Other scheduled revivals of “Caroline, or Change” and “Company” were postponed due to the Broadway shutdown. As such there will be no Revival of a Musical category this year. Other categories, like Best Musical and Director of a Musical, will likely see their number of nominees reduced to three due to a limited number of contenders.
Luckily, there are plenty of plays in contention since many of these non-musical outings premiere in the fall.
Musical races are most heavily affected by the shortened season. “West Side Story” will have to wait until next year to compete as it opened after the February 19th eligibility cutoff date. Other scheduled revivals of “Caroline, or Change” and “Company” were postponed due to the Broadway shutdown. As such there will be no Revival of a Musical category this year. Other categories, like Best Musical and Director of a Musical, will likely see their number of nominees reduced to three due to a limited number of contenders.
Luckily, there are plenty of plays in contention since many of these non-musical outings premiere in the fall.
- 8/29/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
While independent filmmakers have taken a hit with all the festival postponements, cancelations, and re-imaginings, there is a silver lining to upending business as usual. In the past, LGBTQ cinephiles hungry for quality films that represent the breadth and depth of queer life would have to go to a queer film festival to see the international titles or small comedies that may never make their way to Netflix. This year, they can stream some of the freshest films from all across the globe at home.
Which is why the 2020 Outfest Film Festival is more exciting than ever, with drive-ins, a streaming platform, and plenty of world premieres. In this year’s lineup, 70 percent of the films are directed by women or filmmakers of color. Beginning August 20 and lasting for 11 days, the films will be available to stream via Vimeo’s Ott platform. In addition, the festival will host six nights...
Which is why the 2020 Outfest Film Festival is more exciting than ever, with drive-ins, a streaming platform, and plenty of world premieres. In this year’s lineup, 70 percent of the films are directed by women or filmmakers of color. Beginning August 20 and lasting for 11 days, the films will be available to stream via Vimeo’s Ott platform. In addition, the festival will host six nights...
- 8/21/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Madman, Front Row, Gravitas Ventures, NonStop among international buyers.
Visit Films has closed a wave of deals including territories on Berlinale entries Minyan and White Riot, and Sundance selections Dinner In America, The Last Shift, and Feels Good Man.
The New York-based company licensed the drama Minyan starring Samuel H. Levine and Ron Rifkin in Germany and Austria to Salzgeber and in Benelux to Arti Film.
Sundance comedy Dinner In America with Kyle Gallner and Emily Skeggs has gone to Madman in Australia and New Zealand and Lev Cinemas in Israel. Visit closed a deal on Richard Jenkins dramedy The Last Shift...
Visit Films has closed a wave of deals including territories on Berlinale entries Minyan and White Riot, and Sundance selections Dinner In America, The Last Shift, and Feels Good Man.
The New York-based company licensed the drama Minyan starring Samuel H. Levine and Ron Rifkin in Germany and Austria to Salzgeber and in Benelux to Arti Film.
Sundance comedy Dinner In America with Kyle Gallner and Emily Skeggs has gone to Madman in Australia and New Zealand and Lev Cinemas in Israel. Visit closed a deal on Richard Jenkins dramedy The Last Shift...
- 5/8/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Best known for the unexpectedly soul-shattering San Francisco suicide doc “The Bridge,” indie filmmaker Eric Steel came out and came of age in 1980s New York at a moment just before AIDS devastated the city’s gay community. Such timing must have been surreal, to assume something so liberating about one’s own identity, only to watch in fear and uncertainty as this fraternity of newfound freedom collapsed around him. One can feel the traces of that experience — nostalgia for old-school, in-person sexual discovery, tinged with survivor’s guilt — lurking in Steel’s narrative debut, “Minyan,” a movie about an outsider among outsiders: a closeted kid adrift in Brighton Beach’s Russian Jewish community circa 1986.
Steel took a long time to make his narrative debut, and he comes to the project in the wake of other adolescent tales depicting the same era and milieu, such as Dito Montiel’s relatively...
Steel took a long time to make his narrative debut, and he comes to the project in the wake of other adolescent tales depicting the same era and milieu, such as Dito Montiel’s relatively...
- 3/28/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
When grandpa needs a place to live and his congregation needs a tenth man, what’s a good Jewish boy to do? For a mensch like David (Samuel H. Levine), the answer is clear. That’s a rarity in David’s religious Jewish faith — where answers are as hard to come by as Christmas hams. Like the meandering stories his grandfather tells on the walk to shul, Judaism is a faith that meets questions with more questions. In “Minyan,”
The film opens and closes with two deaths, which both set events in motion that bring David closer to knowing himself. The first shot is an elegantly composed family portrait scored to the even drone of the Mourner’s Kaddish, the Jewish call to grief, recited with perfunctory solemnity. After his grandmother’s death, David’s grandfather Josef (a note-perfect Ron Rifkin) must downsize apartments for financial reasons. When a highly...
The film opens and closes with two deaths, which both set events in motion that bring David closer to knowing himself. The first shot is an elegantly composed family portrait scored to the even drone of the Mourner’s Kaddish, the Jewish call to grief, recited with perfunctory solemnity. After his grandmother’s death, David’s grandfather Josef (a note-perfect Ron Rifkin) must downsize apartments for financial reasons. When a highly...
- 2/24/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Documentary maker Eric Steel interweaves multiple threads with admirable skill and balance in his engrossing narrative feature debut, Minyan. Samuel H. Levine, who has turned heads this season on Broadway as one of the leads in the two-part play The Inheritance, brings sensitivity, heart and questioning intelligence to the central role of David, the 17-year-old gay son of a Russian Jewish family in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in the 1980s. The shadow of AIDS looms as he explores his sexuality, while religious tradition, immigrant isolation and community expectations all weigh on his search for identity in a minor-key drama observed with a lucid ...
- 2/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Documentary maker Eric Steel interweaves multiple threads with admirable skill and balance in his engrossing narrative feature debut, Minyan. Samuel H. Levine, who has turned heads this season on Broadway as one of the leads in the two-part play The Inheritance, brings sensitivity, heart and questioning intelligence to the central role of David, the 17-year-old gay son of a Russian Jewish family in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in the 1980s. The shadow of AIDS looms as he explores his sexuality, while religious tradition, immigrant isolation and community expectations all weigh on his search for identity in a minor-key drama observed with a lucid ...
- 2/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Inheritance, playwright Matthew Lopez’s two-part drama that re-imagines E.M. Forster’s Howards End as a 21st Century tale set among gay men in Manhattan, will close on Sunday, March 15, producers announced today.
Directed by Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance began previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Friday, September 27, with an opening night on November 17. When it closes, it will have played 46 previews (28 of the play’s Part 1 and 18 of Part 2) and 138 regular performances.
The Broadway staging followed a sold-out London engagement. Though it received mostly positive reviews here – if less ecstatic than in London – The Inheritance has struggled at the box office. For the week ending Feb. 16, the two-part production grossed $345,984, just 30% of its $1.1M weekly potential. Attendance of 4,372 was at slightly more than half of capacity. The production hit its box office high point of $738,918 in early November, shortly before opening night.
The...
Directed by Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance began previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Friday, September 27, with an opening night on November 17. When it closes, it will have played 46 previews (28 of the play’s Part 1 and 18 of Part 2) and 138 regular performances.
The Broadway staging followed a sold-out London engagement. Though it received mostly positive reviews here – if less ecstatic than in London – The Inheritance has struggled at the box office. For the week ending Feb. 16, the two-part production grossed $345,984, just 30% of its $1.1M weekly potential. Attendance of 4,372 was at slightly more than half of capacity. The production hit its box office high point of $738,918 in early November, shortly before opening night.
The...
- 2/21/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Kampe screening all three in the market.
Visit Films heads to the Efm in Berlin this week with a slate bolstered by Sundance acquisitions The Last Shift and Feels Good Man, and Berlin Panorama selection Minyan.
Ryan Kampe and his team will screen all three in Berlin, alongside previously announced punk rock documentary and Generations selection White Riot, Park City premieres Summer White and Dinner In America, and Toronto title Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
The Last Shift stars Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie and screened in the Premieres section. Jenkins plays a fast food worker about...
Visit Films heads to the Efm in Berlin this week with a slate bolstered by Sundance acquisitions The Last Shift and Feels Good Man, and Berlin Panorama selection Minyan.
Ryan Kampe and his team will screen all three in Berlin, alongside previously announced punk rock documentary and Generations selection White Riot, Park City premieres Summer White and Dinner In America, and Toronto title Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
The Last Shift stars Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie and screened in the Premieres section. Jenkins plays a fast food worker about...
- 2/17/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the second time during the 2019-2020 Broadway season to discuss eligibility of eleven productions for the 2020 American Theatre Wing’s 74th Annual Tony Awards.
The productions considered were: “The Great Society,” “Slave Play,” “Linda Vista,” “The Rose Tattoo,” “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” “The Sound Inside,” “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical,” “The Inheritance,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Jagged Little Pill” and “My Name is Lucy Barton.”
The following determinations were made:
David Weiner (lighting designer) and Victoria Sagady (projection designer) will be considered jointly eligible in the Best Lighting Design of a Play category for their work on “The Great Society.”
Joaquina Kalukango will be considered eligible in the Lead Actress in a Play category for her performance in “Slave Play.”
Ian Barford will be considered eligible in the Lead Actor in a Play category for his performance in “Linda Vista.”
Marisa Tomei...
The productions considered were: “The Great Society,” “Slave Play,” “Linda Vista,” “The Rose Tattoo,” “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” “The Sound Inside,” “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical,” “The Inheritance,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Jagged Little Pill” and “My Name is Lucy Barton.”
The following determinations were made:
David Weiner (lighting designer) and Victoria Sagady (projection designer) will be considered jointly eligible in the Best Lighting Design of a Play category for their work on “The Great Society.”
Joaquina Kalukango will be considered eligible in the Lead Actress in a Play category for her performance in “Slave Play.”
Ian Barford will be considered eligible in the Lead Actor in a Play category for his performance in “Linda Vista.”
Marisa Tomei...
- 1/31/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Tony Goldwyn, last seen on the New York stage co-starring with Bryan Cranston in Network, will make a four-month return to Broadway when he joins the cast of Matthew Lopez’ The Inheritance.
Starting Sunday Jan. 5, Goldwyn will take over the role of Henry Wilcox from John Benjamin Hickey, who’s taking a leave of absence to direct the Broadway-bound production of Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Goldwyn, best known to TV audiences for his seven-season run as Scandal‘s President Fitzgerald Grant, has starred in such other Broadway productions as Promises, Promises and Holiday. Off Broadway credits include The Water’s Edge, The Dying Gaul, Spike Heels and The Sum of Us, among others.
The Inheritance, playing at the Barrymore Theatre, is Lopez’s re-imagining of E.M. Forster’s Howards End, updated to 21st Century Manhattan and shifting the characters to a group of gay men,...
Starting Sunday Jan. 5, Goldwyn will take over the role of Henry Wilcox from John Benjamin Hickey, who’s taking a leave of absence to direct the Broadway-bound production of Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Goldwyn, best known to TV audiences for his seven-season run as Scandal‘s President Fitzgerald Grant, has starred in such other Broadway productions as Promises, Promises and Holiday. Off Broadway credits include The Water’s Edge, The Dying Gaul, Spike Heels and The Sum of Us, among others.
The Inheritance, playing at the Barrymore Theatre, is Lopez’s re-imagining of E.M. Forster’s Howards End, updated to 21st Century Manhattan and shifting the characters to a group of gay men,...
- 12/9/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The best advice about seeing The Inheritance on Broadway — which you definitely should if you’re looking for a head-spinning, heart-rending theatrical experience — is to forget the hype surrounding it. And that won’t be easy. Playwright Matthew Lopez, a Puerto Rican transplanted to New York City from the Florida panhandle, is fresh from London where his ardently ambitious play about different generations of gay men living in post-AIDs Manhattan won an armful of Oliviers (the Brit Tonys named after the late, great Lord Larry) and gushy reviews that called...
- 11/18/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
One may as well begin with Forster, E.M. to state the obvious, called Morgan in Matthew Lopez’ The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, an ambitious, often powerful two-part epic of gay history as refracted and reconsidered through Forster’s Howards End. In very human, bespectacled form, Morgan serves as combination tour guide, writing coach, gay mentor, social conscience and overall sage to a collection of 21st Century Manhattan lost boys – young men, really, who seem more inclined to indulge their sense of nostalgia with Forster’s buttoned up era than the bloodier, uglier recent past that decimated their kind. The ghosts of the Plague hover still, invisible to the younger men who live from their sacrifices, ignorant for having never looked into the sunken eyes that filled Christopher Street not all that long ago.
Before the end of this two-part, six-and-a-half-hour play – opening tonight at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre...
Before the end of this two-part, six-and-a-half-hour play – opening tonight at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre...
- 11/18/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Producers of Matthew Lopez’ two-part Broadway-bound Olivier Award winning The Inheritance announced the cast today, with five actors reprising their performances from the acclaimed London staging.
Making the transition from the West End will be Andrew Burnap, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, and Kyle Soller. Soller won the 2019 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Producers Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman Productions, and Hunter Arnold made the casting announcement for the production of Matthew Lopez’ two-part play. Stephen Daldry will direct, as he did in London, as does scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley.
The Broadway cast for the play will feature Jordan Barbour, Jonathan Burke, Andrew Burnap, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Dylan Frederick, Kyle Harris, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, Carson McCalley, Lois Smith, Kyle Soller, and Arturo Luis Soria. The company will also include understudies Mark H. Dold,...
Making the transition from the West End will be Andrew Burnap, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, and Kyle Soller. Soller won the 2019 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Producers Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman Productions, and Hunter Arnold made the casting announcement for the production of Matthew Lopez’ two-part play. Stephen Daldry will direct, as he did in London, as does scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley.
The Broadway cast for the play will feature Jordan Barbour, Jonathan Burke, Andrew Burnap, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Dylan Frederick, Kyle Harris, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, Carson McCalley, Lois Smith, Kyle Soller, and Arturo Luis Soria. The company will also include understudies Mark H. Dold,...
- 8/15/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Matthew Lopez’s Olivier Award-winning two-part West End production The Inheritance will make its Broadway debut this fall, producers Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman Productions and Hunter Arnold announced today.
The play, a re-envisioning E. M. Forster’s Howards End set in 21st Century New York, will begin previews at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Friday, Sept. 27, with an official opening night on Sunday, Nov. 17.
The producers said casting will be announced in the coming weeks. The West End cast featured Hugo Bolton, Robert Boulter, Andrew Burnap, Hubert Burton, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, Syrus Lowe, Michael Marcus, Jack Riddiford, Kyle Soller, Michael Walters and Vanessa Redgrave.
Directed by Stephen Daldry and designed by Bob Crowley The Inheritance won the 2019 Oliver Award for Best Play. As described in today’s announcement, the two-parter “begins with a gathering of young,...
The play, a re-envisioning E. M. Forster’s Howards End set in 21st Century New York, will begin previews at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Friday, Sept. 27, with an official opening night on Sunday, Nov. 17.
The producers said casting will be announced in the coming weeks. The West End cast featured Hugo Bolton, Robert Boulter, Andrew Burnap, Hubert Burton, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Hilton, Samuel H. Levine, Syrus Lowe, Michael Marcus, Jack Riddiford, Kyle Soller, Michael Walters and Vanessa Redgrave.
Directed by Stephen Daldry and designed by Bob Crowley The Inheritance won the 2019 Oliver Award for Best Play. As described in today’s announcement, the two-parter “begins with a gathering of young,...
- 6/6/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Eddie Marsan, David Morse, Richard Brake, and Diora Baird are aboard as the supporting cast of The Virtuoso, a modern day noir thriller directed and produced by Nick Stagliano. They will play opposite previously announced stars Anthony Hopkins, Anson Mount and Abbie Cornish as the occupants of a sleepy, small-town diner, to which The Virtuoso (Mount) is sent to find and execute his latest mark, as directed by his “Mentor” (Hopkins). Without a name or description of his intended victim, the Virtuoso cannot immediately identify or eliminate any one of them as his assigned target, including the establishment’s waitress (Cornish). Stagliano’s Nazz Productions financed the project, which is being introduced to buyers at Cannes. Fred Fuchs, Nancy Stagliano, and Chris Bongirne serve as executive producers. Double Dutch International is overseeing international rights,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
“Angels in America” has cast a long shadow: Tony Kushner’s fantastical dramatization of the AIDS crisis has long seemed near definitive. But over six acts and seven hours at London’s Young Vic, Matthew Lopez’s sweeping two-parter “The Inheritance” not only picks up its mantle, it might just measure up. Like “Angels in America,” “The Inheritance,” directed by Stephen Daldry, is a vast, imperfect and unwieldy masterpiece that unpicks queer politics and neoliberal economics anew. In addressing the debt gay men owe to their forebears, it dares to ask whether the past hasn’t also sold the present up short.
If Lopez steps out of Kushner’s shadow, he does so by constantly acknowledging his lineage — one character crashes a party in white wings — but his play owes more to another gay writer: E. M. Forster. A very loose retelling of his novel “Howard’s End,” “The Inheritance...
If Lopez steps out of Kushner’s shadow, he does so by constantly acknowledging his lineage — one character crashes a party in white wings — but his play owes more to another gay writer: E. M. Forster. A very loose retelling of his novel “Howard’s End,” “The Inheritance...
- 3/29/2018
- by Matt Trueman
- Variety Film + TV
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