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Reeve Carney, Adam Driver & More Tapped for Upcoming Lady Gaga-Led Gucci Film

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: August 21 2020 @ 11:01 am

A slew of stage and screen stars have been announced to star in MGM's Gucci, the upcoming Ridley Scott-directed film that highlights Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of fashion mogul Maurizio Gucci, who was convicted of orchestrating his assassination in 1995. According to Deadline, Hadestown star Reeve Carney, Tony nominee Adam Driver, two-time Tony winner Al Pacino, Robert de Niro and Jack Huston are all in talks to join the movie. Lady Gaga was previously confirmed to headline the film as as Reggiani.

Gucci follows the story of Reggiani and how she served 18 years in jail before being let out in 2016 for orchestrating the assasination of ex-husband Maurizio Gucci, who left her for another woman. Reggiani originally received a sentence of 29 years.

Carney is known for playing Orpheus in the Tony-winning musical Hadestown. He made his Broadway debut as the title character in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. His screen credits include Penny Dreadful, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, Gemini and more.

Driver earned a Tony nomination for the 2019 Burn This revival. He previously appeared on Broadway in Man and Boy and Mrs. Warren's …

Miss Hearing Stage Manager Calls? Hadestown Assistant Stage Manager Cherie B. Tay Has Got It Covered

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: August 21 2020 @ 10:42 am

Stage performers are not the only ones coming up with creative ways to keep the transformative effects of theater alive in quarantine! Hadestown assistant stage manager Cherie B. Tay recently posted a video of herself calling half hour, places and other important top-of-show moments. Forget guided meditations—this video will be bringing theater lovers much joy and calm for the foreseeable future. Enjoy it below.

The Boys in the Band Movie Is Heading to Netflix This September

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: August 21 2020 @ 10:29 am

Get your black turtleneck ready! Netflix has announced that its new film adaptation of Mart Crowley's groundbreaking comic drama The Boys in the Band—with the complete cast of the Tony-winning Broadway production repeating their work on-screen—will arrive on September 30. As previously reported, Ryan Murphy and David Stone have repeated their work as producers from the Broadway staging, along with Ned Martel. Joe Mantello, who directed the Broadway mounting, also helmed the film.

The star-packed cast includes Emmy nominee Matt Bomer as Donald, Emmy nominee Zachary Quinto as Harold, Emmy winner Jim Parsons as Michael, two-time Tony nominee Andrew Rannells as Larry, three-time Tony nominee Robin De Jesús as Emory, Brian Hutchison as Alan, Michael Benjamin Washington as Bernard, Tuc Watkins as Hank and Charlie Carver as Cowboy.

The Boys in the Band centers on a group of gay men who gather in an NYC apartment for a friend’s birthday party. After the drinks are poured and the music is turned up, the evening slowly exposes the fault lines beneath their friendships and the self-inflicted heartache that threatens their solidarity.

The play was first seen in 1968 at New York's Theater Four, which was followed by a …

Two Actors Pursue Berkeley Rep And Their Union For Violating Contracts On Last Day Before COVID Shutdown

Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: August 21 2020 @ 10:02 am

On the day in March when the Bay Area got lockdown orders, Berkeley Repertory Theatre called the cast of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which was still in rehearsal, to come in on their day off. When the actors arrived, they were told to get into costume and perform the […]

Jake Gyllenhaal to Star in A Suspense Novelist's Trail of Deceptions Series Based on Viral The New Yorker Interview

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: August 20 2020 @ 4:28 pm

Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal has been tapped to star in A Suspense Novelist's Trail of Deceptions, a new series based on the viral 2019 New Yorker article on Dan Mallory, author of suspense novel The Woman in the Window. According to Entertainment Weekly, the show will be written and directed by Janicza Bravo.

Gyllenhaal, who was most recently seen on stage in Sea Wall/A Life, starred in the Broadway productions of Sunday in the Park with George and Constellations. His production company Nine Stories also was a producer for Slave Play and the upcoming Caroline, Or Change revival. Gyllenhaal is set to reprise his leading turn in Sunday in the Park with George in London in 2021 and has secured the rights to produce and star in a film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Fun Home. In 2005, Gyllenhaal earned an Oscar nomination for Brokeback Mountain.

After the success of Mallory's The Woman in the Window, which he released under the pseudonym A.J. Finn, The New Yorker released an article titled A Suspense Novelist's Trail of Deceptions. The feature accusses Mallory of fabricating aspects of his life, including his earning a doctorate from the University …