Dear Evan Hansen Will Play Return Engagement in Los Angeles →
Following a record-breaking, sold-out engagement in Los Angeles, the national tour of Dear Evan Hansen will play a return L.A. engagement in Center Theatre Group’s 2020–2021 season at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Read More‘Tender Is The Night’: TV Series Based On F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Classic Lands At Hulu For Development From Playground →
Hulu has landed Tender Is The Night, a limited series adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, sources said. The project, from Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment, which had optioned the rights earlier this year, is in early stages in development.
Read MoreEmma Thompson on returning to Shakespeare in King Lear after two decades away →
Many film fans associate Emma Thompson with Jane Austen — the image of her traipsing through the English countryside as Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, or taking the stage at the 1995 Oscars to accept the Best Adapted Screenplay award for that same movie.
Read MoreBrit by Brit: Sir Anthony Hopkins — as the mad monarch — heads a cast flush with acting royalty in Amazon’s new King Lear. →
Dotted around the set of Amazon's new production of King Lear is the unlikely sight of several bowls of Altoids.
Next to one is a note: "Lose a voice, lose the show."
Watching the filming at Hatfield House near London, you soon see what the mints are for: Sir Anthony Hopkins, playing Lear, is absolutely belting it out. It's the moment in Act Two of Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy when Lear's daughters Goneril (Emma Thompson) and Regan (Emily Watson) finally reveal their treachery.
Read MoreAnthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge →
SAMPHIRE HOE, England — High above the sea, on the white cliffs of Dover, soldiers hoisted equipment and secured tents in what looked like a military encampment. A man appeared at the edge of a tent, his white hair close-cropped, his grizzled face shadowed by a ragged beard. “Shall we get on with it?” Anthony Hopkins said.
Read MoreThe Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Album Will Released November 2 →
Sony Music Masterworks will release The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in stores and digitally November 2, with pre-orders available now.
The album will preserve Imogen Heap's Drama Desk-winning score for the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, now playing on Broadway and London's West End. Though the two-part play contains more than 100 moments of music, Heap has put together four suites of music based on the score specifically for the album, each corresponding to one of the play's four acts.
Read MoreCast Set for Australian Harry Potter and the Cursed Child →
The upcoming Australian production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has found its stars who will bring the Wizarding World to the Melbourne stage in 2019. As previously reported, performances will begin January 16 at the Princess Theatre.
Read MoreTopic Studios & Playground Developing ‘States Of America’ Dystopian Drama For TV →
Topic Studios and Playground are developing States of America, an hourlong dystopian drama written by Tom King, a former CIA officer turned bestselling author and comic book writer, as a television series.
Read More‘Harry Potter’ producer has quite a packed ‘Callender’ →
After producer Colin Callender opened “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Broadway, he didn’t have much time to reflect on the raves.
Days later, he was at the US premiere of his PBS and Masterpiece miniseries “Little Women,” which stars newcomer Maya Hawke, daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, as well as Angela Lansbury, Michael Gambon and Emily Watson. (Maya’s also just been cast in the next season of “Stranger Things.”)
Read MoreStarz Picks Up 'White Queen' Drama Series, Colin Callender To EP In 2-Year Starz Deal →
EXCLUSIVE: Starz has picked up The White Queen, a 10-episode drama series based on the best-selling historical novels by Philippa Gregory. The pay cable network has brought in former HBO Films president Colin Callender as executive producer for the series, produced by the UK’s Company Pictures. Callender’s duties on White Queen are part of a larger two-year agreement his company Playground has signed with Starz. Under the pact, Callender also will serve as an exec producer on the second season of Starz’s period drama Magic City.
Read MoreProducer Colin Callender On His Next Chapter, Converging Theater, Film & Television And Taking On Harry Potter →
Colin Callender‘s first producing effort, a nine-hour TV adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage production of The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby launched UK’s Channel 4 and won him his first Emmy in 1983. After a stint as an independent producer in his native Britain, Callender joined HBO where he shepherded films and miniseries like Angels In America, John Adams, Maria Full Of Grace and American Splendor to the tune of 104 Emmy Awards, 29 Golden Globes, 3 Oscars, and top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Since leaving HBO in 2008, he has kept a low profile.
Read MoreStarz Orders Historical Drama Based on Philippa Gregory's 'Cousins of War' Book Trilogy →
In keeping with the premium cable network’s straight-to-series strategy, Starz has ordered 10 episodes of a drama adapted from Philippa Gregory‘s New York Times best-selling novel series, The Cousins War. Set against the backdrop of England’s Wars of the Roses during the 15th century, the story revolves around women caught up in the ongoing conflict for the throne. They are some of the most ruthless players in history and will stop at nothing to support their own causes and those of the ones they love.
Read MoreCallender Says He Still Intends to Bring Ephron Play to Broadway →
One of the theater producers aiming Nora Ephron’s new play “Lucky Guy” for Broadway confirmed on Thursday that he is going forward with the show, a bio-drama about the New York newspaper columnist Mike McAlary. Ms. Ephron, a celebrated humorist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, died on Tuesday at the age of 71 from pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia.
Read MoreA Broadway Debut in Works for Tom Hanks →
Tom Hanks is in negotiations to make his Broadway debut next year playing the Daily News columnist Mike McAlary in a new bio-drama by Nora Ephron, Mr. Hanks’s spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday.
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