Actor John Wayne starred in Western and war movies that filled his filmography. However, he didn’t initially get his start in front of the camera. First, Wayne worked at Fox in the props department on several films before getting his first leading role in Raoul Walsh’s 1930 Western adventure called The Big Trail. Here are the eight movies Wayne worked on in the props department before he was famous.
John Wayne | ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images ‘The Great K & A Train Robbery’ (1926) L-r: Dorothy Dwan as Madge Cullen and Tom Mix as Tom Gordon | Fox
A detective poses as a bandit in an undercover mission to stop a streak of train robberies from continuing. Meanwhile, he falls in love with the railroad president’s daughter.
The Great K & A Train Robbery is a silent film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by John Stone from Paul Leicester Ford’s novel.
John Wayne | ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images ‘The Great K & A Train Robbery’ (1926) L-r: Dorothy Dwan as Madge Cullen and Tom Mix as Tom Gordon | Fox
A detective poses as a bandit in an undercover mission to stop a streak of train robberies from continuing. Meanwhile, he falls in love with the railroad president’s daughter.
The Great K & A Train Robbery is a silent film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by John Stone from Paul Leicester Ford’s novel.
- 3/1/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Despite lobbying from Chris Columbus, there isn't a new Harry Potter film on the cards just yet.
But the Potterverse will expand next year with the launch of a new play in two parts: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Below is everything you need to know about the theatrical event.
Harry Potter's 8 movie adventures ranked from worst to best
9 reasons why Harry Potter author Jk Rowling is pure magic
1. It isn't a prequel - it's a sequel
pic.twitter.com/JgbAz5iQKl
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 29, 2015
The play was first spoken about in 2013, just two years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 concluded the movie series.
It was long-rumoured to be a prequel to the events of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Not so.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is actually a sequel. The eighth part of the story picks up where Deathly Hallows left off,...
But the Potterverse will expand next year with the launch of a new play in two parts: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Below is everything you need to know about the theatrical event.
Harry Potter's 8 movie adventures ranked from worst to best
9 reasons why Harry Potter author Jk Rowling is pure magic
1. It isn't a prequel - it's a sequel
pic.twitter.com/JgbAz5iQKl
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 29, 2015
The play was first spoken about in 2013, just two years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 concluded the movie series.
It was long-rumoured to be a prequel to the events of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Not so.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is actually a sequel. The eighth part of the story picks up where Deathly Hallows left off,...
- 10/23/2015
- Digital Spy
Despite lobbying from Chris Columbus, there isn't a new Harry Potter film on the cards just yet.
But the Potterverse will expand next year with the launch of a new play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Below, we round up everything we know so far about the production.
Harry Potter's 8 movie adventures ranked from worst to best
9 reasons why Harry Potter author Jk Rowling is pure magic
1. It isn't a prequel
pic.twitter.com/JgbAz5iQKl
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 29, 2015
The play was first spoken about in 2013, just two years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 concluded the movie series.
It was long-rumoured to be a prequel to the events of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Not so.
"I don't want to spoil what I know will be a real treat for fans. However, I can say that it is not a prequel!
But the Potterverse will expand next year with the launch of a new play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Below, we round up everything we know so far about the production.
Harry Potter's 8 movie adventures ranked from worst to best
9 reasons why Harry Potter author Jk Rowling is pure magic
1. It isn't a prequel
pic.twitter.com/JgbAz5iQKl
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 29, 2015
The play was first spoken about in 2013, just two years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 concluded the movie series.
It was long-rumoured to be a prequel to the events of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Not so.
"I don't want to spoil what I know will be a real treat for fans. However, I can say that it is not a prequel!
- 9/25/2015
- Digital Spy
J.K. Rowling announced today that Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, a spin-off play about the boy wizard, will open in London’s West End in summer 2016. The play, which is described as filling in the untold story of Potter including what happened to his parents, is written by much in-demand Brit scribe Jack Thorne (This Is England), with music by Imogen Heap. Cursed Child will be staged by the Once and Black Watch team of John Tiffany (director) and Steven Hoggett…...
- 6/26/2015
- Deadline
One of the major pleasant surprises at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, ’71, a gripping and thoughtful drama set in Belfast during The Troubles, hits theatres this Friday. The film stars Unbroken‘s Jack O’Connell as Gary Hook, a British serviceman trapped behind enemy lines during a night of intense sectarian unrest in Northern Ireland.
The film marks the feature film debut for director Yann Demange, who cut his teeth on numerous British television series before making the jump to the big screen. We caught up with Demange (and the film’s star, O’Connell) back at Tiff to talk about his transition from TV to cinema, and what separates ’71 from other war films.
Check it out below, and enjoy!
You had a very successful start on TV, what were you looking for when deciding to do your first feature?
Yann Demange: I had been looking for...
The film marks the feature film debut for director Yann Demange, who cut his teeth on numerous British television series before making the jump to the big screen. We caught up with Demange (and the film’s star, O’Connell) back at Tiff to talk about his transition from TV to cinema, and what separates ’71 from other war films.
Check it out below, and enjoy!
You had a very successful start on TV, what were you looking for when deciding to do your first feature?
Yann Demange: I had been looking for...
- 2/25/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
The frequent collaborators John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett seem to be everywhere these days, not just geographically but narratively. Whether the tale they’re telling is psychological (as in the recent Broadway Glass Menagerie) or sociopolitical (Black Watch) or mytho-historical (the Alan Cumming Macbeth) or just groovy (What’s It All About?, the Burt Bacharach revue Hoggett put together) they almost always manage the difficult trick of cutting to the bone while raising the emotional temperature. To do this, they bring a certain amount of magic to their realism, as when Laura in that great Glass Menagerie made her first entrance and final exit through a kind of memory-wormhole in a sofa. But they also bring a certain amount of realism to their magic, and that’s an iffier proposition. At any rate, it’s a problem in their production of Let the Right One In, a vampire romance now at St.
- 1/26/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Opening Night – World Premiere
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
- 8/20/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Jack O’Connell looks set to be 2014′s breakout star, with a leading role in Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken (a movie which is released just in time for awards season) and a recent appearance in prison drama Starred Up.
After glowing reviews for the actor following the movie’s premiere at this year’s Berlin Film Festival – you can find the HeyUGuys verdict by clicking here – ’71 looks set to go a long way in putting O’Connell on the path to becoming a household name, and today, we have the first very impressive trailer for you.
Jack O’Connell plays Gary Hook, a young British soldier accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast. Unable to tell friend from foe, and increasingly wary of his own comrades, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.
After glowing reviews for the actor following the movie’s premiere at this year’s Berlin Film Festival – you can find the HeyUGuys verdict by clicking here – ’71 looks set to go a long way in putting O’Connell on the path to becoming a household name, and today, we have the first very impressive trailer for you.
Jack O’Connell plays Gary Hook, a young British soldier accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast. Unable to tell friend from foe, and increasingly wary of his own comrades, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.
- 8/19/2014
- by Josh Wilding
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jk Rowling has reportedly chosen Tony award-winning director John Tiffany to oversee the Harry Potter West End play.
The production will focus on the boy wizard's early years and his parents' backstory, rather than a new version of the books and films, the Daily Mail reports.
In Rowling's books, Harry's parents are killed by Lord Voldemort when he is just 15 months old.
The paper claims that Tiffany is Rowling's first choice as director, after he staged the current West End version of Let the Right One In. His recent credits also include Black Watch and Once.
Writer Jack Thorne and producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender are also linked with the production.
A Warner Bros representative is quoted as saying: "We will see what we have when it's written, and proceed from there. Remember: it's a play, not a musical; so we may not require a great big theatre."
This...
The production will focus on the boy wizard's early years and his parents' backstory, rather than a new version of the books and films, the Daily Mail reports.
In Rowling's books, Harry's parents are killed by Lord Voldemort when he is just 15 months old.
The paper claims that Tiffany is Rowling's first choice as director, after he staged the current West End version of Let the Right One In. His recent credits also include Black Watch and Once.
Writer Jack Thorne and producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender are also linked with the production.
A Warner Bros representative is quoted as saying: "We will see what we have when it's written, and proceed from there. Remember: it's a play, not a musical; so we may not require a great big theatre."
This...
- 5/9/2014
- Digital Spy
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of these images from the stage play of Let the Right One In, they may just have been underestimating that number. You want beauty? Here's beauty.
According to Live for Films, the critically-acclaimed South Bank Sky Arts award-winning production will transfer to London’s West End on 26 March for a strictly limited season. Based on the Swedish novel and cult-hit film by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let The Right One In will be the first show to play the recently refurbished and re-opened Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.
Tony and Olivier Award-winning director John Tiffany (Black Watch, Once) heads up a creative team including Olivier Award-winning associate director Steven Hoggett (Black Watch, Beautiful Burnout, American Idiot).
The cast includes Martin Quinn and Rebecca Benson, who reprise their original roles. Check out the images below.
Synopsis
Oskar is a bullied...
According to Live for Films, the critically-acclaimed South Bank Sky Arts award-winning production will transfer to London’s West End on 26 March for a strictly limited season. Based on the Swedish novel and cult-hit film by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let The Right One In will be the first show to play the recently refurbished and re-opened Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.
Tony and Olivier Award-winning director John Tiffany (Black Watch, Once) heads up a creative team including Olivier Award-winning associate director Steven Hoggett (Black Watch, Beautiful Burnout, American Idiot).
The cast includes Martin Quinn and Rebecca Benson, who reprise their original roles. Check out the images below.
Synopsis
Oskar is a bullied...
- 3/6/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The 64th Berlinale was enlivened by the likes of George Clooney, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Nick Cave – and the best pulled pork ever
Some long-established film festivals, such as Cannes and Venice, can legitimately claim to be timeless. Berlin, however, seems to be stuck in the past, and not only because the event somewhat coasts on its bygone reputation as a festival of discovery. It's also because, amid the corporate monumentalist architecture of Potsdamer Platz, the atmosphere seems frozen in the mid-1990s. The Berlinale's synth-heavy trip-hop anthem plays before every film, accompanying the CGI fireworks of the festival trailer, and as you emerge from the Palast, the first thing you see is the billboard for the long-running show by hoary postmodernist novelty act Blue Man Group.
The Berlinale's 64th edition was the most lukewarm in years. You don't usually expect swoons and scandals here, but you do hope...
Some long-established film festivals, such as Cannes and Venice, can legitimately claim to be timeless. Berlin, however, seems to be stuck in the past, and not only because the event somewhat coasts on its bygone reputation as a festival of discovery. It's also because, amid the corporate monumentalist architecture of Potsdamer Platz, the atmosphere seems frozen in the mid-1990s. The Berlinale's synth-heavy trip-hop anthem plays before every film, accompanying the CGI fireworks of the festival trailer, and as you emerge from the Palast, the first thing you see is the billboard for the long-running show by hoary postmodernist novelty act Blue Man Group.
The Berlinale's 64th edition was the most lukewarm in years. You don't usually expect swoons and scandals here, but you do hope...
- 2/16/2014
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
A young English squaddie is trapped in a hostile area of Belfast, 1971 in director Yann Demange's harrowing drama, writes Andrew Pulver
• Berlin 2014: Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel - review
• More on the Berlin film festival
The Northern Ireland Troubles emerge as a phantasmagoric nightmare in this harrowing, powerful study of a single violent night in Belfast in, as the title indicates, 1971. The date is key: the sectarian conflict in the North had only recently reignited after the civil rights campaigns of the mid 60s, and British soldiers deployed on the streets in 1969. Within a short time both republican and loyalists were engaged in copious bloodletting; the British army, jumpy and out of its depth, had little experience with dealing with hostile civilians so close to home. 1971 saw internment introduced; the following year, 1972, was the Troubles' most deadly, with nearly 500 killings.
This, then, is the historical backdrop: we...
• Berlin 2014: Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel - review
• More on the Berlin film festival
The Northern Ireland Troubles emerge as a phantasmagoric nightmare in this harrowing, powerful study of a single violent night in Belfast in, as the title indicates, 1971. The date is key: the sectarian conflict in the North had only recently reignited after the civil rights campaigns of the mid 60s, and British soldiers deployed on the streets in 1969. Within a short time both republican and loyalists were engaged in copious bloodletting; the British army, jumpy and out of its depth, had little experience with dealing with hostile civilians so close to home. 1971 saw internment introduced; the following year, 1972, was the Troubles' most deadly, with nearly 500 killings.
This, then, is the historical backdrop: we...
- 2/7/2014
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's hit musical is a savage, brilliant satire, and is making millions. So why do musicals thrive in a recession?
This week, the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon opened in London. Even before a single review had appeared, tickets were being resold at up to £350. The show has already earned millions for its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who also gifted the world with South Park. It's enough to make you ask: "Crisis? What crisis?"
There's no mystery about the show's recession-busting success, in the Us and – one feels safe in predicting – here. It's simply a work of genius, so brilliantly conceived and executed that it makes astonishingly savage and sophisticated satire into joyous, hilarious, literally all-singing, all-dancing fun and glamour.
Remarkably, despite the fact that there's barely a moment's respite from robust engagement with issues generally guaranteed to provoke hysterical controversy, The...
This week, the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon opened in London. Even before a single review had appeared, tickets were being resold at up to £350. The show has already earned millions for its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who also gifted the world with South Park. It's enough to make you ask: "Crisis? What crisis?"
There's no mystery about the show's recession-busting success, in the Us and – one feels safe in predicting – here. It's simply a work of genius, so brilliantly conceived and executed that it makes astonishingly savage and sophisticated satire into joyous, hilarious, literally all-singing, all-dancing fun and glamour.
Remarkably, despite the fact that there's barely a moment's respite from robust engagement with issues generally guaranteed to provoke hysterical controversy, The...
- 3/23/2013
- by Deborah Orr
- The Guardian - Film News
Once was a surprise cinema hit – a micro-budget romance about an Irish busker and a Czech flower seller. Who better to adapt it for stage than self-confessed misanthrope Enda Walsh? The playwright recalls his journey from cynic to proud, emotional wreck
We don't do musicals in Ireland. Well, not much. We like to keep our actors and musicians separate at all times. In separate counties, even. There is possibly a musical theatre company hidden on Sherkin Island doing a production of Wicked right now, but they haven't been found yet. And when they do find them, it will be a heavy dose of Samuel Beckett for those grinning fools. Why break into song and dance to exorcise your inner emotions when you can talk yourself through it? Over the years, I've added my own fair share of words to Irish theatre. You can't help it as an Irish person. We talk.
We don't do musicals in Ireland. Well, not much. We like to keep our actors and musicians separate at all times. In separate counties, even. There is possibly a musical theatre company hidden on Sherkin Island doing a production of Wicked right now, but they haven't been found yet. And when they do find them, it will be a heavy dose of Samuel Beckett for those grinning fools. Why break into song and dance to exorcise your inner emotions when you can talk yourself through it? Over the years, I've added my own fair share of words to Irish theatre. You can't help it as an Irish person. We talk.
- 3/18/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Producers of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Once announced today that the production has recouped its capitalization after only 21 weeks (169 performances), faster than any new Broadway musical in more than a decade. Once is produced by Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, The Shubert Organization and Executive Producer Robert Cole, in association with New York Theatre Workshop. Once opened on Sunday, March 18, 2012 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, and went on to win eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. The production was also named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critic Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards. Once features a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter, Enda Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom), the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, direction by the acclaimed John Tiffany...
- 8/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Macbeth’s “vaulting ambition” famously parts him from human society; Alan Cumming’s parts him from his clothes. Thus, two famously eccentric Caledonians merge in the National Theatre of Scotland’s (literally) stripped-down Macbeth, directed by John Tiffany (Black Watch, Once) and Andrew Goldberg, with now-goaty, now-gliding movement choreographed by Christine Devaney, an imposing mid-century mental-institution set constructed by Merle Hensel, and (almost) all parts performed by Cumming, whose hobgoblin DNA has made him a reliable imp in all media since his star turn in Sam Mendes’s Cabaret. Here, he executes a highly impressive performance that never stops trying to impress — and thus never ceases to be anything more than a performance. For all his half-puckish, half-thuggish antics and perfectly flexed physical storytelling, this bloody Thane never threatens to o’erleap himself ... or the proscenium line. He’s the very definition of mad-in-craft, safely contained behind a Plexiglas of...
- 7/10/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
The week when theatre-goers sat still for eight hours, the artworld shipped out to Documenta and Danny Boyle presented sheep, rainclouds, ducks and real hills for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics
• Danny Boyle unveiled his set model for the Olympics opening ceremony, which looked like a lovely big train set but without the trains. Glastonbury Tor, valleys and hills, a real plough doing actual ploughing; sheep, horses, ducks and chickens; a real cricket match; rainclouds emitting real rain: all will be part of the opening scene, but expect surprises – the narrative will move on to present a more urban vision of Britain. (Some of my Twitter pals thought that a giant Wicker Man might be rather good to match this "mythic landscape".) Report from our Olympics editor Owen Gibson. You'd think the Mail would love this green-and-pleasant business, but they thought it resembled Tellytubbyland. The Mail also rather...
• Danny Boyle unveiled his set model for the Olympics opening ceremony, which looked like a lovely big train set but without the trains. Glastonbury Tor, valleys and hills, a real plough doing actual ploughing; sheep, horses, ducks and chickens; a real cricket match; rainclouds emitting real rain: all will be part of the opening scene, but expect surprises – the narrative will move on to present a more urban vision of Britain. (Some of my Twitter pals thought that a giant Wicker Man might be rather good to match this "mythic landscape".) Report from our Olympics editor Owen Gibson. You'd think the Mail would love this green-and-pleasant business, but they thought it resembled Tellytubbyland. The Mail also rather...
- 6/14/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
James Corden also nominated for Broadway's biggest theatre gongs for his role in One Man, Two Guvnors – as is Tracie Bennett, for her turn as Judy Garland
The National theatre's Broadway version of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden as a gluttonous buffoon, has received seven nominations at this year's Tony Awards – but was trumped by the largely British creative team behind Once, which picked up 11 to lead the pack.
Corden goes head to head with Hollywood stars such as Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Earl Jones for best actor in a leading role in a play, while the National theatre's artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, is up for best director.
Corden, in particular, seems to have gone down well with American audiences – his nomination takes his Broadway tally to four, following similar nods at the Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk awards. Nonetheless, the National will be...
The National theatre's Broadway version of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden as a gluttonous buffoon, has received seven nominations at this year's Tony Awards – but was trumped by the largely British creative team behind Once, which picked up 11 to lead the pack.
Corden goes head to head with Hollywood stars such as Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Earl Jones for best actor in a leading role in a play, while the National theatre's artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, is up for best director.
Corden, in particular, seems to have gone down well with American audiences – his nomination takes his Broadway tally to four, following similar nods at the Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk awards. Nonetheless, the National will be...
- 5/2/2012
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
Don’t lump the upcoming adaptation of Irish indie Once together with this season’s other Broadway film-to-stage musicals, Ghost, Newsies, and Leap of Faith. The story is simple: A Dublin street busker and a Czech pianist make beautiful musical together over the course of five days. The score is unusual: The film’s original songwriters’ Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová blended tracks from the film (including the Oscar-winning “Falling Slowly,” see our exclusive clip below) with some of their subsequent recordings as the duo the Swell Season, and then added Irish and Czech folk tunes. All the instruments — piano,...
- 2/15/2012
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
Once begins previews on Broadway Tuesday, February 28, 2012 with an opening night set for Sunday, March 18, 2012. The production features the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markta Irglov, a book by award-winning Irish playwright amp screenwriter, Enda Walsh Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom, direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch, John Tiffany, movement by Steven Hoggett Black Watch, American Idiot and musical direction by Martin Lowe Mamma Mia. The set and costume design are by five time Tony Award winner Bob Crowley The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins, lighting design is by Tony winner Natasha Katz Aida, The Coast of Utopia, and sound design is by Clive Goodwin.Previously, BroadwayWorld brought you a look at the marquee beginnings at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and today we brings you a look at the complete exterior...
- 2/8/2012
- by Up On The Marquee
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- Once upon a time, they made a little indie movie for $150,000 about an Irish street musician and a Czech flower-seller in Dublin. Its breezy, improvisational feel, pleasing folk-pop songs and melancholy romance touched the hearts of countless fans, and it raked in $20 million.
As if that weren't enough, the movie's two stars and composers, 18 years apart, fell in love during filming, adding to the lore. Oh, and they won the 2007 original song Oscar for the hypnotic "Falling Slowly," bringing many to tears once again with their moving acceptance speeches.
That Cinderella of a movie was, of course, "Once," now being lovingly revived at off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop – and will make the leap to Broadway next year – for eager audiences, many of whom fell for the film – not slowly, but fast – and are ready to fall yet again.
How these fans will feel about the inevitable story...
As if that weren't enough, the movie's two stars and composers, 18 years apart, fell in love during filming, adding to the lore. Oh, and they won the 2007 original song Oscar for the hypnotic "Falling Slowly," bringing many to tears once again with their moving acceptance speeches.
That Cinderella of a movie was, of course, "Once," now being lovingly revived at off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop – and will make the leap to Broadway next year – for eager audiences, many of whom fell for the film – not slowly, but fast – and are ready to fall yet again.
How these fans will feel about the inevitable story...
- 12/7/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Joan Marcus The cast of “Once” at New York Theatre Workshop.
Used to be, you couldn’t take your drink to your seats at the theater. At “Once,” the musical based on the 2008 film which opens Tuesday night at New York Theatre Workshop, not only can you take your drink to your seat, it’s for sale onstage before the show and during intermission. And there’s not just entrance music, there’s an entrance jam going on as the audience enters.
Used to be, you couldn’t take your drink to your seats at the theater. At “Once,” the musical based on the 2008 film which opens Tuesday night at New York Theatre Workshop, not only can you take your drink to your seat, it’s for sale onstage before the show and during intermission. And there’s not just entrance music, there’s an entrance jam going on as the audience enters.
- 12/5/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The new musical “Once,” inspired by the 2006 Dublin-set Indie film, will now premiere off-Broadway in November, and not on Broadway as was previously announced. The musical follows an Irish singer and guitarist and a Czech songwriter who collaborate to build a relationship through music in Dublin. During an eventful week the two meet and begin writing songs together, rehearsing and recording their songs to take to London in hopes of landing a music contract. Through the music they write, the duo works through their past loves, and are confronted with their new feelings for each other. ---------------------- Read More: IrishCentral’s top ten most beloved Irish songwriters - Photos & Videos U2’s Bono and Glen Hansard perform at Sargent Shriver funeral mass - See Video Falling slowly in (and out) of love ---------------------- The production will be launched at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop, a spokesman for Nytw confirmed. A...
- 6/7/2011
- IrishCentral
A musical based on the Oscar-winning film, Once, will be part of the New York Theatre Workshop’s 2011-2012 season. The 2007 film’s stars and songwriters, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, are collaborating with director John Tiffany (Black Watch), choreographer Steven Hoggett (Black Watch), and playwright Enda Walsh (Disco Pigs).
Read more:
‘Once’ to get Broadway treatment
‘Once’ more: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová on their break-up, their new record, and the future of their band
Gallery: 25 Most Romantic Gestures in Film...
Read more:
‘Once’ to get Broadway treatment
‘Once’ more: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová on their break-up, their new record, and the future of their band
Gallery: 25 Most Romantic Gestures in Film...
- 6/6/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Can Martin Scorsese pull off a horror movie? Is Glasgow the new Venice? And what's Ricky Gervais up to in Reading? Our critics pick next year's hottest tickets
Film
Cemetery Junction
Having conquered Hollywood, Ricky Gervais is coming home. With his long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant, he has set out to create a British film in the tradition of Billy Liar and the Likely Lads – and of course his own masterpiece The Office – about three blokes working for the Prudential insurance company in Gervais's hometown of Reading. Released on 7 April.
A Single Man
The smart money says Colin Firth will be bringing home a certain gold, bald-headed statuette for his performance as a bereaved gay man in Los Angeles. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the movie – fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut – follows one day in the life of Firth's literature academic as he confronts his own mortality. Released on 12 February.
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Cemetery Junction
Having conquered Hollywood, Ricky Gervais is coming home. With his long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant, he has set out to create a British film in the tradition of Billy Liar and the Likely Lads – and of course his own masterpiece The Office – about three blokes working for the Prudential insurance company in Gervais's hometown of Reading. Released on 7 April.
A Single Man
The smart money says Colin Firth will be bringing home a certain gold, bald-headed statuette for his performance as a bereaved gay man in Los Angeles. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the movie – fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut – follows one day in the life of Firth's literature academic as he confronts his own mortality. Released on 12 February.
- 12/31/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
Ruined, by Lynn Nottage, today won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Nydcc) for Best Play of the 2008-2009 season. The Best Musical award was given to Billy Elliot, music by Elton John, and book and lyrics by Lee Hall. The award for Best Foreign Play was given to Black Watch by Gregory Burke. The selections were made at the 74th annual voting meeting of the organization today at the offices of Time Out New York in Manhattan.
- 5/5/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Olivier Awards -- London's equivalent to the Tony Awards -- were dominated by home-grown winners when the 33rd edition of the kudos unwrapped Sunday night in an event hosted by James Nesbitt at Grosvenor House.
Only one of the top awards went to an American production, as the 2006 Tony best musical champ "Jersey Boys" took the tuner prize. The show, which recounts the story of the Four Seasons using their songs, prevailed against only one other contender -- "Zorro," a telling of the old tale set to the music of the Gipsy Kings.
The 2008 Tony-winning best play "August: Osage County" was bested by Gregory Burke's drama "Black Watch," while its leading lady -- the Tony-winning Deanna Dunagan -- lost to Margaret Tyzack for a revival of "The Chalk Garden." That production of the 1955 Enid Bagnold psychological drama, which also won lighting design, originated at the Donmar Warehouse. That...
Only one of the top awards went to an American production, as the 2006 Tony best musical champ "Jersey Boys" took the tuner prize. The show, which recounts the story of the Four Seasons using their songs, prevailed against only one other contender -- "Zorro," a telling of the old tale set to the music of the Gipsy Kings.
The 2008 Tony-winning best play "August: Osage County" was bested by Gregory Burke's drama "Black Watch," while its leading lady -- the Tony-winning Deanna Dunagan -- lost to Margaret Tyzack for a revival of "The Chalk Garden." That production of the 1955 Enid Bagnold psychological drama, which also won lighting design, originated at the Donmar Warehouse. That...
- 3/9/2009
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
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