Suits star Patrick J. Adams will make his Broadway debut opposite the previously announced Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams in the upcoming Second Stage Theater revival of Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning play Take Me Out, producers announced today.
Adams will play Kippy Sunderstrom, best friend of Williams’ lead character Darren Lemming.
Directed by Scott Ellis, the revival of the 2002 play will begin previews April 2, 2020, at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater, with an official opening night of April 23. The casting announcement was made today by Second Stage president/artistic director Carole Rothman and executive director Casey Reitz.
Take Me Out follows pro baseball player Darren Lemming who decides to come out publicly as gay, forcing him to face some hostile teammates during a difficult championship season. Old friendships are put to the test as the play also examines the challenges faced by gay people of color.
The original Broadway...
Adams will play Kippy Sunderstrom, best friend of Williams’ lead character Darren Lemming.
Directed by Scott Ellis, the revival of the 2002 play will begin previews April 2, 2020, at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater, with an official opening night of April 23. The casting announcement was made today by Second Stage president/artistic director Carole Rothman and executive director Casey Reitz.
Take Me Out follows pro baseball player Darren Lemming who decides to come out publicly as gay, forcing him to face some hostile teammates during a difficult championship season. Old friendships are put to the test as the play also examines the challenges faced by gay people of color.
The original Broadway...
- 11/1/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group, announced today that Matthew Broderick, Tyne Daly, Louis Gossett Jr., Thomas Sadoski, Jimmy Smits, Rene Auberjonois, Jon Robin Baitz, Bill Cain, Anthony Crivello, Culture Clash, Merle Dandridge, Tim Dang, Keith David, Shaila Essley, Davis Gaines, Harry Groener, Clint Holmes, David Henry Hwang, Gregory Itzin, Dale Kristien, Doug Labrecque, Tzi Ma, Alan Mandell, Dakin Matthews, Christina Saffran, Benjamin Schrader, Shoshannah Stern, Lisa Vroman, Ed Waterstreet and Aryana Williams are set to take the stage at Center Theatre Group's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
- 5/8/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Sheen Center for Thought amp Culture 18 Bleecker Street hasannounced the Spring programming of the 2016-2017 season. Featuring a varied array of thought-provoking theater, film, music, art, and discourse, The Sheen Center delves deeper into its many signature series, and for the first time will produce a mainstage theatrical production The New York premiere of Bill Cain's acclaimed play, 9 Circles.
- 1/9/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Troian Bellisario and Patrick J. Adams tied the knot in front of friends and family over the weekend, and incorporated bohemian and camp-style vibes throughout their rustic-chic wedding.
After three years of dating, the couple, who got engaged in February 2014, said “I do” in Southern California on Saturday and celebrated their nuptials with 200 guests, who spent the wedding weekend in glamorous camping tents that were set up at the wedding venue.
“The entire weekend was just as relaxed and beautiful as Troian and Patrick. They had people from all parts of their lives there but there was never a feel...
After three years of dating, the couple, who got engaged in February 2014, said “I do” in Southern California on Saturday and celebrated their nuptials with 200 guests, who spent the wedding weekend in glamorous camping tents that were set up at the wedding venue.
“The entire weekend was just as relaxed and beautiful as Troian and Patrick. They had people from all parts of their lives there but there was never a feel...
- 12/12/2016
- by nstonepeople
- PEOPLE.com
The Old Globe's world premiere of Anna Ziegler's The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor, stars real-life fiancesPatrick J. Adams Tim SAG Award-nominated star of TV's 'Suits,' Garland Award for Bill Cain's play Nine Circles and Troian Bellisario Mallory star of TV's 'Pretty Little Liars,' Equivocation and Farragut North at Geffen Playhouse. The show will run in theSheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, now through March 13, 2016. The Last MATCHopens tonight, February 18, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the stars onstage below...
- 2/18/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the Original Screenplay honor at the recently concluded Writers Guild Awards while Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" took home the Adapted Screenplay trophy. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swarts" written by Brian Knappenberger won Documentary Screenplay award. The film is not nominated for an Academy award.
In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Original Screenplay
Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films
Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner
Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films
Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics
Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper,...
In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:
Feature Film
Original Screenplay
Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films
Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner
Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films
Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics
Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper,...
- 2/16/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Writers Guild of America announced the TV nominees for the 2015 WGA Awards on Thursday (December 4) morning and several new shows broke into the fields in a big way. And, of course, there were a number of big WGA Award nomination head-scratchers. Specifically, where the heck was FX's "Fargo"? The answer is below. Making perhaps the biggest splash was "Transparent," which earned three nominations and, since "Orange Is The New Black" earned two nods and "House of Cards" pick up one, that meant that Amazon Prime and Netflix are, at least for one award-giving organization, on equal footing as creators of original programming. The Jill Soloway-created "Transparent" is nominated for New Series, where it will go against "The Affair," "The Knick," "Silicon Valley" and "True Detective." "Transparent" and "Silicon Valley" are also up for Comedy Series, going against "Louie," "Veep" and "Orange Is The New Black." Lest you panic...
- 12/5/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
House of Cards, Season 2
Written by Beau Willimon, Bill Cain, Laura Eason, Kenneth Lin, John Mankiewicz, David Mason, and Bill Kennedy
Directed by Carl Franklin, James Foley, John Coles, Jodie Foster, and Robin Wright
Premiered Friday, Feb. 14th on Netflix
House of Cards premiered last year to tremendous buzz, the highly-anticipated, prestige-soaked first original program from Netflix. Viewers embraced the series and no one was surprised to see it rack up nomination after nomination, both for the Golden Globes and Emmys. After the initial furor died down however, many critics were left cold by the show’s self-satisfaction and paint-by-numbers approach, the strong individual performances let down by predictable plotting and under-developed characterization. Fortunately season two of House of Cards, while still flawed, greatly improves on many of the first season’s biggest problem areas and this self-awareness bodes well for the already-commissioned season three.
The single biggest problem of...
Written by Beau Willimon, Bill Cain, Laura Eason, Kenneth Lin, John Mankiewicz, David Mason, and Bill Kennedy
Directed by Carl Franklin, James Foley, John Coles, Jodie Foster, and Robin Wright
Premiered Friday, Feb. 14th on Netflix
House of Cards premiered last year to tremendous buzz, the highly-anticipated, prestige-soaked first original program from Netflix. Viewers embraced the series and no one was surprised to see it rack up nomination after nomination, both for the Golden Globes and Emmys. After the initial furor died down however, many critics were left cold by the show’s self-satisfaction and paint-by-numbers approach, the strong individual performances let down by predictable plotting and under-developed characterization. Fortunately season two of House of Cards, while still flawed, greatly improves on many of the first season’s biggest problem areas and this self-awareness bodes well for the already-commissioned season three.
The single biggest problem of...
- 2/15/2014
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
With the country still reeling from a sluggish economy, the Actors Theatre of Louisville offered a stimulus package of new plays. The theater's 34th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, which concluded March 28, featured seven full-length works, plus four one-acts. During a special weekend for the press and theater professionals, the outlook for regional productions of new works appeared healthy.At a panel on the relationship between playwrights and regional theaters, Atl artistic director Marc Masterson pointed out that about 20 regional theaters now have new-play initiatives, compared with just a handful 10 years ago. Representatives from Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, New York's Public Theater, the Denver Center Theatre, and Atl detailed their programs, which include script development workshops, readings, and full productions. In addition, at one of the many networking parties, Freddie Ashley—artistic director of Atlanta's Actor's Express, which focuses on new plays...
- 4/7/2010
- backstage.com
The American Theatre Critics Association (Atca) has named Bill Cain's "Equivocation" winner of the 2010 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/Atca New Play Award, which recognizes the best scripts which premiered professionally in 2009 outside New York City. No play is eligible if it goes on to a production in New York, where there are plenty of awards, during the same award year.
- 3/27/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
Geffen Playhouse / Westwood, CA On through 20 December http://geffenplayhouse.com/equivocation Bill Cain’s new play, which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is about “how to tell the truth in difficult times.” We are thrust into Shakespeare’s London to witness the playwright and his band of merry men grapple with the theatrical re-telling of the Gunpowder plot, commissioned by [...]...
- 11/23/2009
- by JP
- JoyHog!
It was a busy week on the boards. Sunday saw the opening of a Broadway revival of the musical Ragtime (pictured right), which EW's Melissa Rose Bernardo calls "dazzling" and gives an A. Also on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl's provocatively titled comic play In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play opened to a decidedly lukewarm review from yours truly: "Ruhl's play could have benefited from a broader, farcical touch." Elsewhere on Broadway, the Julia Stiles-Bill Pullman revival of David Mamet's Oleanna announced plans to close on Jan. 3. Off Broadway, we raved about both Alan Ayckbourn's My...
- 11/21/2009
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Recently graduated from the University of Southern California's theater program, Troian Bellisario is debuting this week at one of Los Angeles' preeminent midsize theaters, the Geffen Playhouse, in Bill Cain's "Equivocation." The play, directed by David Esbjornson, centers on William Shakespeare (Joe Spano) and the request by King John that the bard write the "true" history of the Gunpowder Plot—the botched attempt to blow up Britain's Parliament and assassinate the royal family.This summer, Bellisario understudied in "Farragut North" at the Geffen, in the role of a young intern on a high-octane presidential campaign. In "Equivocation," Bellisario plays Shakespeare's daughter. Back Stage spoke with her during previews.Back Stage: Where are you from and where did you train?Troian Bellisario: I was born in Los Angeles, in Studio City. And I went to the same school—I went to Campbell Hall from kindergarten to 12th grade.
- 11/20/2009
- backstage.com
After playing some of theater's most famous roles, actor Joe Spano takes on the role of theater's most famous scribe: William Shakespeare. Spano, best known for his roles on television's NCIS and Hill Street Blues, portrays Shakespeare (fondly called ‘Shag' after playwright Bill Cain's favorite contemporary spelling of the Bard's name: ‘Shagspeare' or ‘Shagespeare') in the Los Angeles premiere of Equivocation. Spano is joined by two-time Tony Award nominee Harry Groener as Richard, the second in command of Shag's winsome acting troupe, as well as Patrick J. Adams, Brian Henderson and Connor Trinneer, who comprise the rest of Shag's theater company - Sharpe, Armin and Nate, respectively. That said, as Equivocation's tale unwinds onstage, the actors ultimately play about two dozen roles ranging from conspirators and priests to Lady Macbeth and King Lear. The cast also features Troian Bellisario as Judith, Shakespeare's omnipresent daughter.
- 11/18/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rounding out the final directorial slot for the Geffen Playhouse's 09/10 season, renowned director David Esbjornson (The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) comes on board to helm Bill Cain's Equivocation, which is set to open November 18, 2009. Equivocation, a witty historical fiction with Shakespeare asits protagonist, is the second production in the Geffen's season, directly following the world premiere of Blair Singer's uproarious satire Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas, which opens on September 16, 2009.
- 7/29/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Geffen Playhouse adds Bill Cain?s new play Equivocation to its 2009/2010 lineup as well as confirms director John Rando to helm Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas. The Geffen Playhouse?s 2009 / 2010 season boasts award-winning actors (including Annette Bening, Laurence Fishburne and Matthew Modine), acclaimed directors (Randall Arney, Gil Cates, Leonard Foglia and John Rando) and contemporary new works, including two world premieres, a North American premiere and a West Coast premiere.
- 4/2/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and Producing Director Ryan Rilette announce Marin Theatre Company's 2009-2010 season, featuring five productions in its Boyer Theatre. The company's 43rd season opens September 15, 2009 with the West Coast Premiere of Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev, adapted by Aaron Posner. It continues with boom by Marin native Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, followed by a National New Play Network World Premiere of Sunlight by Sharr White, and the Bay Area Premiere of Equivocation by Bill Cain. Woody Guthrie's American Song, conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer, rounds out the season.
- 2/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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