After Spike’s Mike Tyson inspired drama ‘Da Brick’ failed to move at HBO – Spike has now taken his newfound love for the boxing legend to stage! TMZ has learned the director will helm the one-man show “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” when it comes to Broadway later this year.
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Jason Reitman, who recently directed the Charlize Theron film, ‘Young Adult,’ is looking to do a Los Angeles one-time-only live staged-reading of Quentin Tarantino‘s 1992 film, ‘Reservoir Dogs,‘ and will be using an all-black cast.
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(via Huffington Post) Bill T. Jones has stormed Broadway in recent years with his Tony Award winning choreography in Spring Awakening and Fela! Yet Jones is no newcomer to the dance world. He has been a leading dancer and choreographer since arriving in New York in the 1970s with partner and collaborator Arnie Zane.
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The character Barbary is a throwaway mention in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” a one-line reference buried in Act IV of the dense and dark tale of passion and betrayal. But Barbary — the African nurse who raised Othello’s ill-fated wife, Desdemona — is at the very center, the beating heart, of Toni Morrison’s bold re-imagining of the tragedy.
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Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett attend the premiere of their new Broadway play ‘The Mountaintop,’ which portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the eve of his assassination. Watch below:
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Returning to his roots actor Wood Harris joins the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ play ‘A Street Street Car Named Desire.’
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On the eve of its 50th anniversary a reworked production of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 cult novel ‘A Clock Work Orange’ will debut at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East. In Burgess’ version…the story takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive, totalitarian super-State. In this society, ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency, blind to the insidious growth of a rampant, violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex, a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang called nadsat, which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. (Source) In the adaption super-intelligent Alex’s ultra-violent life style catches ...
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The beautiful and talented Rutina Wesley will leave her ’True Blood’ character Tara Thornton behind in Bon Temps, and head for the bright lights of Off Broadway to star in playwright Jeff Talbott’s play ‘The Submission’.
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Actor Dorien Wilson best known for his role as Professor Stanley Oglevee in the hit series ‘The Parkers’ will debut his one man show ‘UnRinging the Bell’ at the 2011 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Keith Hamilton Cobb who is best known for his role as the sexy locs wearing Noah Keifer in the ABC soap ‘All My Children‘ and to sci-fi fans as Tyr Anasazi in Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Andromeda‘ followed by starring/guest appearance on ‘Young & the Restless, ‘Noah’s Arc’ and ‘CSI: Miami’ has taken a break from Hollywood and returned to his first love … the theatre. Beginning January 28 - April 23, 2011 the NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate will appear in The Denver Center Theatre Company’s productions of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nigh how to use my ipad t’s Dream and Lynn Nottage’s Ruined. Happy ...
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