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Broadway.com #LiveatFive with Emma Kingston and Waylon Jacobs of The Last Five Years

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 14 2020 @ 1:24 pm

We chat with Emma Kingston and Waylon Jacobs, who are currently starring in a production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, England.

Dreamgirls Icon Jennifer Holliday to Celebrate 60th Birthday with Online Concert Event

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 14 2020 @ 1:16 pm

Jennifer Holliday is throwing a birthday party... and you're invited! The Tony Award-winning star of Dreamgirls will celebrate her 60th birthday on October 19 with a intimate online concert event. Jennifer Holliday's 60th Birthday Concert will stream exclusively on Goldstar.com at 8PM and feature Holliday backed by a six-piece band. Tickets are $20 with a $60 option that includes a VIP Virtual Meet and Greet.

Holliday promises songs from Dreamgirls as well as her Grammy-winning R&B and gospel recording career. In addition, she plans to pay tribute to her idol, the late, great Aretha Franklin. "I looked back to see what Aretha was doing in 1960, the year of my birth," Holliday says. "She had just signed with Columbia Records at the age of 18—the same age I was first performing on Broadway!—so I thought it'd be fun to include some of the music she was recording at that time."

Holliday is best known for her heart-wrenching performance as Effie Melody White in the high 1981 musical Dreamgirls, and her show-stopping rendition of the song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." She earned a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for the show, …

Watch the Starry Trailer for Aaron Sorkin's New Film The Trial of the Chicago 7

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 14 2020 @ 11:31 am

Tony winners Frank Langella, Mark Rylance and Eddie Redmayne join Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jonathan Majors in To Kill a Mockingbird scribe Aaron Sorkin's new film The Trial of the Chicago 7. Written and directed by Sorkin, the movie centers on a group of antiwar activists who were accused by the federal government of conspiracy and incitement to riot due to the protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The Trial of the Chicago 7 is scheduled to arrive on Netflix on October 16. Watch the electrifying trailer below!

Anybody Have a Map? Dear Evan Hansen's Jessica Phillips Opens Up About Gains & Lessons

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 14 2020 @ 11:20 am

Living near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty theater palaces sitting in repose, waiting for the lights and stars to return. In this new Broadway.com photo feature, he reunites members of the theater community with their Broadway home Away From Home.

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Though Jessica Phillips is no longer playing Jordan Fisher's mother in Dear Evan Hansen eight times a week with Broadway shut down, she has been able to spend a lot of quality time with her two teenage sons Malcolm and Jonah. Before assuming her role as Heidi Hansen in the Tony-winning musical, Phillips appeared on Broadway in Leap of Faith, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Next to Normal and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Here, she opens up about the best part of her time away, learning to be kinder to herself and why human connection feels like a luxury. 

"In a crisis, you imagine the worst case scenario and then at the same time, you’re thinking, ‘Nothing too drastic could happen.’ That Thursday [March 12, the day of the shutdown], I had friends who had come to town the weekend …

West End Revival of Good, Starring David Tennant, Announces Dates & Venue

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 14 2020 @ 11:02 am

As previously reported, the West End revival of C.P. Taylor’s Good, starring David Tennant and directed by Dominic Cooke, has been postponed until the spring of 2021 as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The production was originally scheduled to begin previews on October 6 and officially open on October 14 at the Playhouse Theatre. The play will now run at the Harold Pinter Theatre beginning on April 21, 2021 through July 17. Opening night is set for April 27.

Good is set just as World War II is about to begin. John Halder (Tennant), a decent, intelligent, music-loving German professor, finds himself swept away into a movement that crescendos toward an unthinkable finale.

Tennant's stage credits include Don Juan in Soho, Richard II, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and Lobby Hero. His film credits include Mary Queen of Scots, You Me & Him, Mad to Be Normal, Fright Night, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Bright Young Things. In addition to his performance on Doctor Who, he has been seen on television in Deadwater Fell, Good Omens, Criminal and There She Goes.