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• Harper Lee Estate Sues Over Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway To Kill a Mockingbird

  14-03-2018 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Broadway’s big-name adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch, and set to open this fall, has run into trouble with Harper Lee’s estate. Per the New York Times, the estate filed a suit Tuesday in Alabama federal court claiming that Sorkin’s...More »
  
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• Key and Peele Are Reuniting For Wendell and Wild

  14-03-2018 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even though Jordan Peele has announced his intention to stay away from sketch comedy for the foreseeable future, his partnership with friend and big fan Keegan-Michael Key is still burning bright. Variety reports that the two have signed on to lend their voices to Netflix’s Wendell and Wild, the next...More »
  
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• Alexis Bledel’s Fate in The Handmaid’s Tale Season Two Revealed

  14-03-2018 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, Hulu gave fans another glimpse at season two of The Handmaid’s Tale with a look at Emmy Award winner Alexis Bledel reprising the role of Ofglen. Despite her dramatic attack on Gilead’s guards in season one, she appears alive and well, or, maybe not so well. Fans of Margaret...More »
  
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• Harper Lee’s Estate Sues Over Broadway Version of ‘Mockingbird’

  14-03-2018 22:32 via nytimes.com
  The federal suit says that Aaron Sorkin’s script for the play, set this fall for Broadway, deviates too much from “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
  
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• Jessica Jones Recap: Shots and Chasers

  14-03-2018 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  What happened to Trish? According to Jess, “An asshole happened to her.” Doctors don’t really know what to expect — what’s going on inside of her body, or if she’ll ever wake up — but apparently other “back alley” doctors do sketchy surgeries to try to give superpowers to normals,...More »
  
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• MTV Is Reportedly Canceling TRL — Again

  14-03-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  When MTV debuted a new version of TRL last fall, Vulture asked “Why Does the TRL Reboot Exist?” The network apparently didn’t have an answer for that question, and so it is reportedly shutting down the program one again. TMZ is reporting that they’ve obtained internal messages sent to employees...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Maineland’ Considers America With Help From Chinese Students

  14-03-2018 21:49 via nytimes.com
  Miao Wang’s documentary explores an increasingly common cultural exchange between the United States and China.
  
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• All the Ways Rise Is Different From the Book That Inspired It

  14-03-2018 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new NBC series Rise is based on the book Drama High, Michael Sokolove’s account of the nationally respected theater program at Harry S. Truman High School in Levittown, Pennsylvania. As Rise creator Jason Katims recently explained, he used the book as “a jumping-off point” to tell a different story...More »
  
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• Adrift Trailer: Shailene Woodley Finds Love and a Hurricane

  14-03-2018 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  After living as a single mom among fashionable elites in Monterey, Shailene Woodley went sailing with Sam Claflin. In the new movie Adrift, Woodley and Claflin play Tami and Richard, a pair of adventurous, attractive people who hook up and, shortly after, commit to sailing across the open seas together....More »
  
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• Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin Are Lovers Lost at Sea in Adrift Trailer

  14-03-2018 21:31 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's Titanic meets The Perfect Storm meets Waterworld.
  In the new film Adrift, whose trailer was released on Wednesday, Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin play romantic couple Tami...
  
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• Modern Love: Modern Love Podcast: Kate Winslet Reads ‘When a Couch Is More Than a Couch’

  14-03-2018 21:16 via nytimes.com
  This week, the actress reads Nina Riggs’s essay about how cancer can complicate the relationship between people and their possessions.
  
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• Oprah Politely Allows a Legally Blonde Stan to Have Her Moment

  14-03-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The latest of the very good Wrinkle in Time press appearances: If you wrote your dissertation about Legally Blonde, wouldn’t you take the opportunity to print it out, spritz it with perfume, and hand it to Reese Witherspoon herself? When Bauer Media writer Lucy Ford was face to face with...More »
  
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• Jessica Jones Recap: I’ll Be Seeing You

  14-03-2018 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jessica Jones does not want to be a murderer. Yet here she is, standing over the body of a man she just blunt-force-trauma-ed to death. All kinds of thoughts are bouncing around the inside of her skull, fears about mother-daughter cellmates and how maybe she should make it look like...More »
  
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• Alicia Vikander’s Friends Call Her Mrs. Google … Because She Is Good at Google

  14-03-2018 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  In addition to starring in the new Tomb Raider, Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander has all sorts of secret talents. Specifically, one talent. Specifically, she is … very good at using search engines? In an interview with BuzzFeed, Vikander revealed that “my friends call me Mrs. Google. I’m really good...More »
  
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• Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking

  14-03-2018 19:34 via nytimes.com
  Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike are among the stars of this new drama about a 1976 terrorist attack and rescue.
  
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• Edinburgh International Festival Embraces Youth at 71

  14-03-2018 19:31 via nytimes.com
  The opener is to feature 250 young people and the festival lineup includes youth orchestras, as well as stars like Christine Goerke and a work by Geoff Sobelle.
  
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• Walt Disney unveils shake up to focus on streaming services

  14-03-2018 19:12 via ft.com
  Media company reorganises as it looks to take on Netflix and cord-cutting
  
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• Logic’s Bobby Tarantino II Forgets What’s Great About Logic

  14-03-2018 19:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  If Logic didn’t rap, he’d have to be a youth pastor, or a popular local car salesman, or a high-school principal who moonlights as debate-team coach — something that would make good use of the upbeat, affable energy he radiates. He seems to have been served a little more of...More »
  
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• Review: Middle-Age Malaise Takes the Stage in Later Life

  14-03-2018 19:00
  The Keen Company revives A.R. Gurney's play of love after 50 at Theatre Row.
  
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• Review: Education Ponders Whether Flag-Burning Is an Appropriate School Activity

  14-03-2018 19:00
  Brian Dykstra takes on the First Amendment and a whole host of other issues in this new drama.
  
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• Yara Shahidi, Mark Hamill, and More Celebs Tweet Support for School Walkout

  14-03-2018 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the one-month anniversary of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, thousands of students walked out of classrooms and schools to protest gun violence. As they started the 17-minute walkout — a minute for each person who died in the attack — Hollywood stars voiced...More »
  
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• The Blow-Job-Obsessed Flower Is a Bizarrely Off-Putting Teen Fabrication

  14-03-2018 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s incredible what happens when the wildly inaccurate conjectures that adolescent boys have about adolescent girls are allowed to flourish, unchecked, all the way until said adolescent boy is a grown man given the keys to a quirky indie movie. Thoroughbreds was one such fantasia, its teen anti-heroines rendered flat...More »
  
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• See Elena and Lila Together in the First Photos From HBO’s My Brilliant Friend

  14-03-2018 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meet Elena and Lila … and Elena and Lila. HBO and Italy’s RAI Fiction have hired two pairs of actresses, two young girls and two teenagers, to play the friends at the heart of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels in the upcoming adaptation of the first book in the series, My...More »
  
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• A Romantic Comedy About a Gay Teenager? What Took So Long?

  14-03-2018 17:13 via nytimes.com
  “Love, Simon” is the rare major studio movie revolving around a gay teenager, and hopes are high that it will pass the box office test.
  
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• Love, Simon Star Nick Robinson Was ‘Popular-ish’ in High School

  14-03-2018 17:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nick Robinson grew up watching the classic high-school movies that inspired Love, Simon. Directed by Dawson’s Creek alum and DC handler Greg Berlanti, Love, Simon puts a gay lead at the center of a high-school coming-of-age story complete with awkward romance and friendship drama, where two closeted teens strike up...More »
  
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• Watch This Exclusive Video Introducing the Dogs of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs

  14-03-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For many directors, electronic press kits are little more than space-filling extras on Blu-ray discs — but many directors are not Wes Anderson. For his latest movie, Isle of Dogs — a stop-motion animated film starring the voices of Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Ed Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Liev...More »
  
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• Theater News: Rainn Wilson, Chris Rock Set for Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2018 Gala

  14-03-2018 17:00
  Artistic director Anna D. Shapiro and the Steppenwolf ensemble will curate the evening.
  
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• Theater News: New Disney Stage Adaptation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks to Have World Premiere

  14-03-2018 17:00
  The musical will be written by Brian Hill and Neil Bartram, with songs from the classic film.
  
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• Theater News: New Disney Stage Adapation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks to Have World Premiere

  14-03-2018 17:00
  The musical will be written by Brian Hill and Neil Bartram, with songs from the classic film.
  
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• Theater News: Cast Announced for Geffen Playhouse's Significant Other

  14-03-2018 17:00
  Stephen Brackett will direct the play by Joshua Harmon.
  
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• Photo Flash: Chilina Kennedy Marks 1,000th Performance as Carole King in Broadway's Beautiful

  14-03-2018 17:00
  Kennedy has played the role in New York, Toronto, and across the country.
  
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• Photo Flash: Check Out Alison Luff, Paul Alexander Nolan in Escape to Margaritaville

  14-03-2018 17:00
  Christopher Ashley directs the production set to open March 15.
  
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• Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes)

  14-03-2018 16:58 via nytimes.com
  Playwrights talk about how to use profanities for maximum effect — and how they can backfire.
  
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• Cardi B, Jack White, and More Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear This Spring

  14-03-2018 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spring is almost here, which means the music industry wakes up from its early year hibernation and starts pumping out albums that are meant to soundtrack being outside, thinking about being outside, or staring wistfully out your window while you imagine what it must be like outside. Before we get...More »
  
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• Jim Bowen obituary

  14-03-2018 16:14 via theguardian.com
  Comedian and host of the long-running TV gameshow BullseyeJim Bowen, who has died aged 80, claimed he was the fifth choice to host the long-running TV gameshow Bullseye, but the friendly northern comedian proved to be the perfect fit for the role. After a slow start in 1981, shuttling around the schedules, Bullseye’s unsophisticated mix of darts and trivia attracted early Sunday evening audiences of 17 million. For 14 years, accompanied by the show’s mascot, Bully, Bowen delivered th
  
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• Review: Humans of Ohio Steal the Spotlight in Dogs of Rwanda

  14-03-2018 16:00
  Sean Christopher Lewis tells the story of Rwandan genocide from an unlikely perspective: that of an upper-middle-class white American.
  
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• Eighth Grade Trailer: Being a Tween Right Now Looks Rough

  14-03-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Back to back, like they’re Jordan ’96, ’97”: A24 has another suburban girl’s coming-of-age story. Eighth Grade, comedian Bo Burnham’s directorial debut, follows 13-year-old Kayla Day’s last week of middle school. “Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird,” Day (Elsie Fisher) admits. After she’s voted the quietest...More »
  
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• This Is Us Creator Unites Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde in Life Itself Trailer

  14-03-2018 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dan Fogelman is bringing his dramatic time-traveling to the big screen: The This Is Us creator’s new movie follows the love story of Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde across generations and continents. On the sidelines is is Dr. Kate Morris (Annette Bening), a bespectacled therapist pinning down exactly when this...More »
  
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• Jim Bowen, Bullseye host and comedian, dies aged 80

  14-03-2018 14:58 via theguardian.com
  Famous for his ‘Nothing for two in a bed’ catchphrase, he became household name on darts gameshowJim Bowen, the comedian and broadcaster who was best known for hosting the darts-based gameshow Bullseye, has died at the age of 80.
  A former teacher and one of a generation of comedians who earned and learned their trade in front of the audiences of working men’s clubs and other venues on the northern club circuit, he became a household name when he started to present Bullseye on I
  
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• Sara Bareilles Doesn’t Know How to Love John Legend in a Jesus Christ Superstar Live Trailer

  14-03-2018 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jesus is coming, and he’s wearing some nice fitted white T-shirts. In a new trailer for NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, we meet John Legend’s Jesus, Alice Cooper’s Herod, and Sara Bareilles’s Mary Magdalene, who’s singing a bit of “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” The live...More »
  
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• America’s Next Top Model Recap: Babes Who Book

  14-03-2018 14:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  All hail the glorious return of go-sees! Or, um, “castings,” as we call them in a post-Ora world? For a Top Model cycle that seems intent on deflating every remaining pocket of fun and levity that makes the show great, the least the producers could do was keep such a...More »
  
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• Eddie Redmayne and Other Celebrities Mourn Stephen Hawking

  14-03-2018 14:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died at 76 last night at his home in Cambridge, England. In addition to his contributions to the study of astrophysics, space, and time, Hawking, who was diagnosed with ALS in 1963 at 21 years old, is believed to have been the longest-living person...More »
  
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• Theater News: Waitress to Host MSNBC Host Joy-Ann Reid, Diane Paulus in Postshow Talkback

  14-03-2018 14:00
  This will be the second in a series of conversations during National Women's History Month.
  
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• Theater News: The Low Road, With Harriet Harris and Chukwudi Iwuji, Extends Run

  14-03-2018 14:00
  Michael Greif directs a new play by Bruce Norris at the Public Theater.
  
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