Laurence Fishburne, known for films like The Matrix and Apocalypse Now, reveals a touching, raw and emotional side to him in his one-man stage show, Like They Do in the Movies. The show, written by Fishburne and directed by Leonard Foglia, opened on March 21 at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City.
Fishburne opens up about his acting career, spearheaded by his mother when he was a child. Hattie Fishburne saw talent in her son at a young age and pushed him into the performing arts. In contrast to usual well-known tough and authoritative roles, Fishburne’s performance in Like They Do in the Movies is soft and intimate as he narrates his life to the audience. Though, that doesn’t mean it isn’t powerful.
As a solo performer, Fishburne embodies each person/character that impacted his life and career, such as a Hurricane Katrina survivor, a homeless man and more.
Fishburne opens up about his acting career, spearheaded by his mother when he was a child. Hattie Fishburne saw talent in her son at a young age and pushed him into the performing arts. In contrast to usual well-known tough and authoritative roles, Fishburne’s performance in Like They Do in the Movies is soft and intimate as he narrates his life to the audience. Though, that doesn’t mean it isn’t powerful.
As a solo performer, Fishburne embodies each person/character that impacted his life and career, such as a Hurricane Katrina survivor, a homeless man and more.
- 3/23/2024
- by Ann Hoang
- Uinterview
Exclusive: Actor Laurence Fishburne will present a workshop of his new solo stage show Like They Do In The Movies this July as part of the New York Stage and Film Summer Season at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Directed by Leonard Foglia, Like They Do In The Movies, written and performed by Fishburne, will makes its world premiere with a Nysaf staging on July 28 and 29. The Matrix Trilogy star Fishburne describes the solo show as “the stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself.”
Fishburne won a Tony Award in 1992 for his portrayal of Sterling Johnson in the Broadway production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running.
The 38-year-old Nysaf is considered to be among the preeminent theater incubators in the country. Among the theater works with developmental roots there are Hamilton, Hadestown, Side Man, The Humans, American Idiot, Doubt...
Directed by Leonard Foglia, Like They Do In The Movies, written and performed by Fishburne, will makes its world premiere with a Nysaf staging on July 28 and 29. The Matrix Trilogy star Fishburne describes the solo show as “the stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself.”
Fishburne won a Tony Award in 1992 for his portrayal of Sterling Johnson in the Broadway production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running.
The 38-year-old Nysaf is considered to be among the preeminent theater incubators in the country. Among the theater works with developmental roots there are Hamilton, Hadestown, Side Man, The Humans, American Idiot, Doubt...
- 3/30/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, will begin previews on Friday, September 18. The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia Master Class, Thurgood opens Tuesday, October 13 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016. Check out photos of the marquee below...
- 7/8/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pre-sale for Citi cardmembers and Audience Rewards members has been announced for the new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia Master Class, Thurgood opens Tuesday, October 13 at the Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. Previews begin Friday, September 18. The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016.
- 6/23/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson will be getting back together on Broadway this fall. The two Tony winners will share a Broadway stage for the first time in nearly fifty years in a new staging of D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia. The production is set to begin previews Sept. 21 before its Oct. 13 opening at the John Golden Theatre, the same venue where the play originally opened in 1977. Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, that production ran for more than a year, winning Tandy her
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- 4/24/2015
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I haven't been to a Broadway show in a few years, but this is one that I'd definitely pay the high ticket fee to see. Via a tweet from New York theater journalist/critic Jonathan Mandell, James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson will be sharing the same Broadway stage, starring in a revival of D.L. Coburn's "The Gin Game," at the Golden Theatre, with previews set to begin on September 21. Directed by Leonard Foglia, the production will officially open October 13. In the play, an elderly man and woman play repeated games of gin in their retirement home, as they slowly come to grips with what is left of their lives, in their old age, Jones and Tyson last shared a...
- 4/22/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Today in 1931, Broadway veteran James Earl Jones was born. He has won Tony awards in 1969 for The Great White Hope and in 1987 for Fences. He has acted in many Shakespearean roles Othello, King Lear, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Abhorson in Measure for Measure, and Claudius in Hamlet. On April 7, 2005, James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams headed the cast in an African-American Broadway revival version of On Golden Pond, directed by Leonard Foglia and produced by Jeffrey Finn. In February 2008, he starred on Broadway as Big Daddy in a limited-run, all-African-American production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen and mounted at the Broadhurst Theatre. In October 2010, Jones returned to the Broadway stage in Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy along with Vanessa Redgrave at the Golden Theatre. In November 2011, Jones starred in Driving Miss Daisy in London's West End,...
- 1/17/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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