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• Mum: season two finale review – 'I can’t be the only person who cried'

  27-03-2018 23:30
  Would Cathy and Michael’s on-off romance finally be well and truly on? The finale kept us guessing till the endSo, did it happen? Did Michael (Peter Mullan) and Cathy (Lesley Manville) finally throw caution to the wind in the season finale of Mum, embrace their destiny, tell each other how they felt and set off for a bright new future together? Well, sort of. The great skill of Stefan Golaszewski’s sitcom is the way in which it recognises that big over-the-top declarations, while per
  
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• Come Home review – why would a woman walk out on her family?

  27-03-2018 23:00
  Christopher Eccleston is entirely convincing as an ordinary man baffled by his wife’s actions – but all is not what it seems in this compelling new dramaChristopher Eccleston goes soft! It’s up there with Garbo Speaks! as the herald of a new era, but it’s true. In Come Home, he plays – with what an Ulsterman of my acquaintance assures me is an eminently passable Northern Irish accent – mechanic and single-parent father-of-three Greg Farrell. We first meet Greg
  
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• Emily Blunt Shares Her and John Krasinski's Secret to Mixing Work With Marriage

  27-03-2018 22:47 via feeds.eonline.com
  Emily Blunt and John Krasinski go from couple to co-stars in the upcoming thriller, A Quiet Place. But as the actress explained to E! News, there's definitely a method to the madness of mixing...
  
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• Katrina Lenk’s Sultry Performance of Fiddler on the Roof Is Truly Something to Behold

  27-03-2018 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve been lucky enough to see Indecent or The Band’s Visit, you’d know there isn’t a performer on Broadway today who could match the sultry magnetism of Katrina Lenk, something that’s apparent even when she’s performing a part she’d never really get to play. At MCC Theater’s annual Miscast...More »
  
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• Fiction: Sean Penn, Satirist, Swings at America in a Wild Debut Novel

  27-03-2018 22:00 via nytimes.com
  The actor spares no one in “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,” about a hired killer (maybe) and politics (for sure): “We are a nation in need of an assassin.”
  
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• Big Little Lies Is Indulging Us With Sexy Surfer Character for Season 2

  27-03-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hang ten for this casting news, folks! Per Deadline, Douglas Smith has been added as a recurring cast member for season two of Big Little Lies, where he will be playing a newbie named Corey Brockfield who’s an “off-beat surfer, aspiring marine biologist, and Jane’s co-worker.” You may remember Smith...More »
  
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• Groot Is a Sassy, Foul-Mouthed Teen in Avengers: Infinity War Trailer

  27-03-2018 21:14 via feeds.eonline.com
  Say hello to a grown up Groot!
  A new trailer for Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War was released today, and it appears Groot, voiced by Vin Diesel, has grown into a moody teenager. A...
  
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• Review: Imagining a Fusion of Classical and Classic Rock in Rocktopia

  27-03-2018 21:00
  Rob Evan and Randall Craig Fleischer's "classical revolution" touches down at the Broadway Theatre.
  
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• A New Film Studio From the Moguls Behind Justin Bieber and Marvel

  27-03-2018 21:00 via nytimes.com
  Scooter Braun, the music manager, and David Maisel, the founding chairman of Marvel Studios, are joining forces for a company focused on comic-book properties.
  
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• UnREAL Star Brandon Jay McLaren on Dr. Simon’s Big ‘Conundrum’

  27-03-2018 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  In its third season, UnREAL returns to the essential pleasures that captured audiences in the first place: a blend of arch, soap-opera dynamics and winking self-awareness filtered through a modern feminist lens. The show-within-a-show Everlasting is a maelstrom of warring appetites and hellish mistakes, with spiraling Rachel (Shiri Appleby) and...More »
  
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• Scene City: A Marathon Opening Day (and Night) for ‘Angels in America’

  27-03-2018 20:42 via nytimes.com
  Frances McDormand, RuPaul and Glenn Close were among those who spent their entire Sunday at the theater.
  
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• 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films

  27-03-2018 20:19 via nytimes.com
  For its 47th edition, this venerable festival is showcasing work from around the world, with results that are sometimes revelatory.
  
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• If You Like Dour British Detective Shows, Watch Collateral

  27-03-2018 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  For those who enjoy kicking back and relaxing while dour British women in coats unravel elaborate criminal schemes: (1) So do I, we should hang out sometime, and (2) you should watch Collateral, which debuted on Netflix in the U.S. earlier this month.Collateral stars Carey Mulligan as a former pole-vaulter...More »
  
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• ‘Carousel’ Revival to Credit Agnes de Mille’s Original Choreography

  27-03-2018 20:08 via nytimes.com
  Ms. de Mille’s work on the 1945 production is considered an important development in musical theater, and it will be noted in Playbills starting next week.
  
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• Review: Eliza Doolittle Speaks to the Immigrant Experience in a Revival of Pygmalion

  27-03-2018 20:00
  The Bedlam theater company gives modern resonance to George Bernard Shaw's classic.
  
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• Leah Nanako Winkler Is Awarded the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize

  27-03-2018 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar chose Ms. Nanako Winkler’s play “God Said This” from more than 1,600 submissions.
  
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• Trailer: ‘The House With a Clock in Its Walls,’ Starring Jack Black

  27-03-2018 19:54 via nytimes.com
  The adaptation of John Bellairs’ young-adult novel also features Cate Blanchett. Eli Roth directs.
  
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• Theater Director Held in Russia Finds an Audience in Berlin

  27-03-2018 18:41 via nytimes.com
  A German residency for the Gogol Center, a leading Moscow avant-garde group, drew attention to the plight of its leader, Kirill S. Serebrennikov.
  
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• Kodachrome Trailer: Ed Harris and Jason Sudeikis Do Daddy Issues

  27-03-2018 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elizabethtown, but make it Netflix: Director Mark Raso presents an earnest movie about dying fathers, daddy issues, and moody cross-country road trips. Jason Sudeikis stars as Matt Ryder, the wayward son of a genius, crotchety photographer Ben Ryder (Ed Harris). When Ben needs someone to drive him to a special...More »
  
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• Video Flash: EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Fisher Sings "I'm Here" From The Color Purple at MCC's Miscast

  27-03-2018 18:00
  Fisher, a Hamilton veteran, takes on Celie's 11-o'clock number.
  
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• Wild Wild Country: Where Are They Now?

  27-03-2018 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wild Wild Country, the compelling Netflix docuseries produced by Jay and Mark Duplass and directed by Chapman and Maclain Way, unpacks the Byzantine saga of an Indian commune that moved into a rural Oregon town and got caught in all manner of criminal activity. After you spend six-plus hours watching...More »
  
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• FX Prevails in ‘Feud’ Defamation Suit Filed by Olivia de Havilland

  27-03-2018 17:28 via nytimes.com
  A California appellate court tossed a suit filed by Dame Olivia de Havilland objecting to her portrayal in FX’s “Feud: Bette and Joan.”
  
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• Peter Rabbit thumps Pacific Rim: Uprising at the UK box office

  27-03-2018 17:11
  The family-friendly adventure hangs on to the top spot for a second week as A Wrinkle in Time clocks in at No 6 Easily resisting the challenge of mega-budget sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, Peter Rabbit was a convincing winner at the box office in its second week. Takings fell by a reasonable 37% from a stellar opening, with £4.6m over the weekend period and £13.6m after 10 days. The good news for distributor Sony is that the Easter school holiday is still to come. Continue reading...
  
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• Sean Penn, Puffing Cigs on Colbert, Complains About All the #Content

  27-03-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Sean Penn rolled up to the Late Show, he had some grim truths to share. Penn is largely over the whole acting thing — he says he “doesn’t play well with others” — and has moved on to writing novels, like his book Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff....More »
  
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• Beyoncé Taught Chloe x Halle to Take Creative Control of Their Own Album

  27-03-2018 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The story of the Bailey sisters, Chloe x Halle, famously goes like this: The two posted Beyoncé covers on YouTube when they were preteens that showcased the vocal ability of people twice their age; eventually impressed the queen herself enough to become the first signees to Beyoncé’s label; sat beside...More »
  
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• Small-screen time jumps: forward-thinking TV or lazy storytelling?

  27-03-2018 16:45
  Leaps forward for new seasons of The Americans and Fear the Walking Dead join an increasing trend of showrunners skipping to the good bitsA new trailer for Fear the Walking Dead appears to have confirmed a huge fan theory: a time jump is in the works for season four, vaulting the entire show far into the future. It would appear that this decision was taken to bring Fear the Walking Dead in line with its parent show, to make way for greater crossover potential. Either that or the producers got so
  
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• Splitting Up Together May Not Be Worth the Commitment

  27-03-2018 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Splitting Up Together is a more upbeat, mainstream version of HBO’s Divorce. It’s a half-hour series that follows a married couple in the process of settling into ex-hood but, unlike the Sarah Jessica Parker–Thomas Haden Church vehicle, is more blatantly a comedy.Adapted from the Danish program of the same name...More »
  
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• What Should We Do With Season 9 of Roseanne?

  27-03-2018 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first thing to say about the ninth season of Roseanne is that it is a mess. Strange, scattered, and self-conscious, the last season of the show is a fundamentally different thing than the eight seasons that preceded it. And because the new Roseanne series is designed as a continuation...More »
  
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• If Nathan for You Were a Podcast, It’d Sound a Lot Like Personal Best

  27-03-2018 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These little things that we want to change, and that annoy us, actually make us interesting, nuanced creatures.” The line is uttered by Rob Norman, a co-host on CBC’s new podcast Personal Best, during its first episode. It is part of a longer throwaway joke deployed to keep things moving...More »
  
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• Roseanne review – bittersweet reboot explores life under Trump

  27-03-2018 16:10
  The much-anticipated return for the hit sitcom is a mostly successful retread with an interestingly political bent and a confident toneThe current wave of television nostalgia has brought with it some successes and some failures, as reviving old favourites is likely to do. The rebooted Gilmore Girls, for example, was a strangely cold and unloveable affair, while Will & Grace has adapted itself to the modern age in a way that surprised those sceptical that its more neutered 90s incarnation wo
  
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• Theater News: Twisted Sister's Dee Snider to Join Broadway Cast of Rocktopia

  27-03-2018 16:00
  Snider returns to Broadway following his 2010 run in Rock of Ages.
  
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• Theater News: Leah Nanako Winkler Earns 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize for God Said This

  27-03-2018 16:00
  Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar selected this year's winning play.
  
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• HBO’s Being Serena Trailer: Serena Williams Is Not Done With Tennis Yet, Fools

  27-03-2018 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Oh my god, how am I gonna play?” asks Serena Williams in the trailer for her new HBO documentary Being Serena. “I put so much pressure on myself. I want to make sure that I’m the best. I don’t know if there’s anything left for me in tennis.” Um …...More »
  
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• Jeff Goldblum, Uh, Teases That Laura Dern, Um, Might Be in a Future Jurassic World Movie

  27-03-2018 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Leave it to Jeff Goldlbum to promise that the one Jurassic Park actor more exciting than Jeff Goldblum might appear in the Jurassic World universe. After telling Entertainment Tonight that Laura Dern might appear in a future installment of the resurrected franchise, Goldblum doubled down on Watch What Happens Live....More »
  
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• American Idol Recap: Wig in the City

  27-03-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Los Angeles residents get one major bonus out of watching these Hollywood Week episodes: We are aware that the renowned Dolby Theatre, located smack in the middle of town under the Hollywood sign, is … part of an average mall with terrible pedestrian traffic. It’s not where you want to...More »
  
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• Stephen Colbert Beseeches John Kelly to Spank Donald Trump With a Magazine

  27-03-2018 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In her 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday, Stormy Daniels recalled her alleged first encounter with Donald Trump, one that reportedly had her joke-spanking the now-President with a Forbes magazine. After she laid into him, Daniels claims, she and Trump had a much more natural, more “appropriate” interaction....More »
  
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• Review: The Stone Witch Looks for the Fountain of Youth in a Storybook

  27-03-2018 15:00
  Dan Lauria stars in Shem Bitterman's play of childhood fantasy at the Westside Theatre.
  
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• Who Should Play Prince Philip on The Crown?

  27-03-2018 14:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  With The Crown’s pay-gap scandal now somewhat behind us, there’s another pressing matter for Anglophiles around the world: fan-casting Prince Philip. As we now know, Paul Bettany was set to play Queen Elizabeth’s boo before dropping out in the midst of his negotiations, leaving Philip as the only major Crown...More »
  
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• Theater News: Elizabeth Swados's Runaways to Receive Concert Performance

  27-03-2018 14:00
  Directed by Sam Pinkleton, the production will be presented at the Public Theater's annual gala.
  
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• Bertelsmann chief warns of hit from EU ‘digital tax’

  27-03-2018 13:17 via ft.com
  Rabe says levy targeting US tech groups could have bigger impact on European companies
  
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• Theater News: Playwrights Realm Announces Lineup for 2018 Ink'd Festival

  27-03-2018 13:00
  New plays by Christina Quintana, Celine Song, and others will receive staged readings.
  
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• Theater News: Julie Taymor to Receive 2018 "Mr. Abbott" Award at SDC Gala

  27-03-2018 13:00
  The evening will include a performance from Taymor's Tony-winning musical The Lion King.
  
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• Theater News: Julie Taymor to Receive 2018 "Mr. Abbott" Award at SDC Foundation Gala

  27-03-2018 13:00
  The evening will include a performance from Taymor's Tony-winning musical The Lion King.
  
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• Theater News: Drew Gehling to Star in New Musical Dave at Arena Stage

  27-03-2018 13:00
  Gehling will take on the title role in the production, which features music by Tom Kitt and lyrics by Nell Benjamin.
  
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• Review: Language and History Collide in Translations

  27-03-2018 13:00
  Brian Friel's play, in a new production at Studio Theatre, investigates the power of words and the sense of place.
  
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• Interviews: From Doctor Who to Yerma: Billie Piper Thinks Inside the Box

  27-03-2018 13:00
  Piper brings her award-winning performance to the Park Avenue Armory.
  
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• Theater News: Kerry Butler and the Hercules Muses Join New York Pops Gala Celebrating Alan Menken

  27-03-2018 12:00
  A tribute to the Tony-winning composer will be held on April 30 at Carnegie Hall.
  
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