Katie Holmes is impressively meticulous when it comes to her craft.
Over coffee at Sant Ambroeus in SoHo, she’s discussing the importance of pacing in “The Wanderers,” an Off Broadway play in which she portrays a movie star named Julia Cheever, who becomes intertwined with one of the show’s two central and seemingly very different Brooklyn-based couples.
“When we were rehearsing, our director Barry Edelstein was like, ‘The play works at one hour and 37 minutes or one hour and 38 minutes. If you hop up to one hour and 40 minutes, then you aren’t faster than the audience. Your thoughts have to be faster than the audience,'” she recalls.
“You were there on Tuesday, right?” she asks. “We were, like, one hour and 38 minutes that night. The other weekend, we were at one hour and 37 minutes, and immediately, we had this overwhelming response.”
The attention to rhythm (and...
Over coffee at Sant Ambroeus in SoHo, she’s discussing the importance of pacing in “The Wanderers,” an Off Broadway play in which she portrays a movie star named Julia Cheever, who becomes intertwined with one of the show’s two central and seemingly very different Brooklyn-based couples.
“When we were rehearsing, our director Barry Edelstein was like, ‘The play works at one hour and 37 minutes or one hour and 38 minutes. If you hop up to one hour and 40 minutes, then you aren’t faster than the audience. Your thoughts have to be faster than the audience,'” she recalls.
“You were there on Tuesday, right?” she asks. “We were, like, one hour and 38 minutes that night. The other weekend, we were at one hour and 37 minutes, and immediately, we had this overwhelming response.”
The attention to rhythm (and...
- 3/28/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Joshua Malina, best known his roles on the television series Scandal, Sports Night and The West Wing, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation
Malina’s relationship with The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin began with his Broadway debut in the ensemble cast of Sorkin’s A Few Good Men. Malina went on to star as Will Bailey on seasons 4-7 of NBC’s Sorkin-created The West Wing. With over 500 hours of television to his credit, Malina has guest-starred on numerous series and currently recurs on NBC’s American Auto. He is known for his portrayal of David Rosen on all seven seasons of ABC’s Scandal. He also played the major recurring role of Professor Siebert on The Big Bang Theory. On the film side, he co-starred opposite Warren Beatty and Halle Berry in Bulworth and is wrapping up production on two upcoming indie films. He also was host...
Malina’s relationship with The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin began with his Broadway debut in the ensemble cast of Sorkin’s A Few Good Men. Malina went on to star as Will Bailey on seasons 4-7 of NBC’s Sorkin-created The West Wing. With over 500 hours of television to his credit, Malina has guest-starred on numerous series and currently recurs on NBC’s American Auto. He is known for his portrayal of David Rosen on all seven seasons of ABC’s Scandal. He also played the major recurring role of Professor Siebert on The Big Bang Theory. On the film side, he co-starred opposite Warren Beatty and Halle Berry in Bulworth and is wrapping up production on two upcoming indie films. He also was host...
- 12/16/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Katie Holmes has been set to star in The Wanderers, a new Off Broadway play from the Roundabout Theatre Company. The New York debut of Anna Ziegler’s latest will begin preview performances January 26, 2023 head of a February 16 opening at the Laura Pels Theater in New York.
The limited engagement will run through March 26, the theater group said Thursday.
The Wanderers centers on Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli who are newly married, and their future written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future…until an unexpected email from a movie star, Julia Cheever (Holmes), puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong. The play begs the question: Can we be happy with what we have while we have it?
Barry Edelstein is directing. The remaining cast and design team will be announced soon.
The limited engagement will run through March 26, the theater group said Thursday.
The Wanderers centers on Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli who are newly married, and their future written in the laws of the Torah. Secular Jew Abe is a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future…until an unexpected email from a movie star, Julia Cheever (Holmes), puts his marriage to the test and threatens to prove him wrong. The play begs the question: Can we be happy with what we have while we have it?
Barry Edelstein is directing. The remaining cast and design team will be announced soon.
- 10/27/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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Katie Holmes is returning to the stage for the New York premiere of Roundabout Theatre Company’s The Wanderers.
Written by The Last Match‘s Anna Ziegler and directed by Barry Edelstein, Holmes is set to play movie star Julia Cheever, who sends an unexpected email to secular Jew Abe, a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future. It’s a notion that is put to the test by Cheever’s arrival, whose presence tests both Abe’s beliefs and both of their marriages.
This story also follows Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli, a newly married couple whose future is written in the laws of the Torah. Ziegler’s modern love story ultimately asks whether both couples can be happy with what they have while they have it.
The limited engagement is set to open Feb. 16, 2023, at the Laura Pels...
Katie Holmes is returning to the stage for the New York premiere of Roundabout Theatre Company’s The Wanderers.
Written by The Last Match‘s Anna Ziegler and directed by Barry Edelstein, Holmes is set to play movie star Julia Cheever, who sends an unexpected email to secular Jew Abe, a famous novelist who believes he can write his own future. It’s a notion that is put to the test by Cheever’s arrival, whose presence tests both Abe’s beliefs and both of their marriages.
This story also follows Orthodox Jews Esther and Schmuli, a newly married couple whose future is written in the laws of the Torah. Ziegler’s modern love story ultimately asks whether both couples can be happy with what they have while they have it.
The limited engagement is set to open Feb. 16, 2023, at the Laura Pels...
- 10/27/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Come Fall In Love, a new musical based on the acclaimed 1995 Bollywood blockbuster film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, will open on Broadway during the 2022-23 season after a world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in September 2022.
Widely known by its initials Ddlj, the film was directed by Aditya Chopra, who will make his stage directing debut with the musical. The Indian and US-based creative team will include Indian songwriters Vishal Dadlani & Shekhar Ravjiani, who will compose the music, Neil Benjamin writing book and lyrics, and Rob Ashford (Frozen) choreographing with associate choreographer Shruti Merchant. Derek McLane (Moulin Rouge!) will design the sets. Adam Zotovich is Executive Producer.
The announcement came today from producers Yash Raj Films, India’s largest film studio, chaired by Chopra and owned by his family. The musical will mark the studio’s 50th anniversary.
Chopra made his directorial debut on the Ddlj film,...
Widely known by its initials Ddlj, the film was directed by Aditya Chopra, who will make his stage directing debut with the musical. The Indian and US-based creative team will include Indian songwriters Vishal Dadlani & Shekhar Ravjiani, who will compose the music, Neil Benjamin writing book and lyrics, and Rob Ashford (Frozen) choreographing with associate choreographer Shruti Merchant. Derek McLane (Moulin Rouge!) will design the sets. Adam Zotovich is Executive Producer.
The announcement came today from producers Yash Raj Films, India’s largest film studio, chaired by Chopra and owned by his family. The musical will mark the studio’s 50th anniversary.
Chopra made his directorial debut on the Ddlj film,...
- 10/22/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company has unveiled its post-shutdown production schedule, with both the much-anticipated revival of Caroline, Or Change starring Sharon D Clarke and the Broadway debut of Alice Childress’ 1955 play Trouble in Mind both beginning previews in October.
Birthday Candles, Noah Haidle’s new play starring Debra Messing, will begin previews in March, and the previously announced revival of 1776 will bow in fall 2022.
The Roundabout lineup was announced by Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO.
In addition to the not-for-profit’s Broadway lineup, Roundabout also announced scheduling for its Off Broadway slate: Mansa Ra’s …what the end will be and Dave Harris’ Exception to the Rule (both April 2022) and Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers (July 2022).
See below for specific dates and descriptions.
The Roundabout announcements are the latest in a rush of openings and reopenings since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week that Broadway could reopen...
Birthday Candles, Noah Haidle’s new play starring Debra Messing, will begin previews in March, and the previously announced revival of 1776 will bow in fall 2022.
The Roundabout lineup was announced by Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO.
In addition to the not-for-profit’s Broadway lineup, Roundabout also announced scheduling for its Off Broadway slate: Mansa Ra’s …what the end will be and Dave Harris’ Exception to the Rule (both April 2022) and Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers (July 2022).
See below for specific dates and descriptions.
The Roundabout announcements are the latest in a rush of openings and reopenings since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last week that Broadway could reopen...
- 5/10/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“Almost Famous,” a new musical based on the Oscar-winning film, has lined up its creative team and cast.
The show, which will kick off the 2019-2020 Season at the Old Globe, will include Colin Donnell as rock star Russell Hammond, Casey Likes as teenage journalist William Miller, and Solea Pfeiffer as groupie Penny Lane. The show features a book and lyrics by Cameron Crowe, the movie’s writer and director. Crowe based the story on his own experience as a young writer for Rolling Stone and how he came-of-age while following a promising band that was on the verge of breaking into the big time.
Likes is a 17-year-old who will make his professional theater debut with the pivotal role, serving as a stage surrogate for Crowe.
The rest of the cast includes Drew Gehling as Jeff Bebe, Anika Larsen as Elaine Miller, Robert Colletti as Lester Bangs, Matt Bittner as Larry Fellows,...
The show, which will kick off the 2019-2020 Season at the Old Globe, will include Colin Donnell as rock star Russell Hammond, Casey Likes as teenage journalist William Miller, and Solea Pfeiffer as groupie Penny Lane. The show features a book and lyrics by Cameron Crowe, the movie’s writer and director. Crowe based the story on his own experience as a young writer for Rolling Stone and how he came-of-age while following a promising band that was on the verge of breaking into the big time.
Likes is a 17-year-old who will make his professional theater debut with the pivotal role, serving as a stage surrogate for Crowe.
The rest of the cast includes Drew Gehling as Jeff Bebe, Anika Larsen as Elaine Miller, Robert Colletti as Lester Bangs, Matt Bittner as Larry Fellows,...
- 8/1/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Old Globe's 2017-2018 Season continues with today's announcement of the complete cast and creative team for the Globe-commissioned world premiere of Anna Ziegler's new American play The Wanderers, directed by Barry Edelstein, the Globe's Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director. The Wanderers will run April 6 - May 6, 2018 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets start at 30.00 and are on sale to the general public now. Previews run April 6-12. Opening night is Friday, April 13 at 800 p.m.
- 3/9/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Al Pacino prepared for his role in an upcoming production of The Merchant Of Venice by visiting a Jewish temple in New York.
The actor is preparing to play Jewish moneylender Shylock in a Public Theater showing of the Shakespeare play this summer and has travelled to Brooklyn to do his research.
He visited a Hasidic synagogue to observe the rituals, and even joined in as the worshippers swayed in prayer, known as shuckling, at the service.
Public Theater Initiative Director Barry Edelstein tells The Wall Street Journal, "It was done with complete respect and a true sense of empathy."
Pacino, who played Shylock in a 2004 adaptation of the play, also met with a member of the Hasidic community at a kosher restaurant in Borough Park.
The play begins in Central Park's Delacorte Theater on 12 June.
The actor is preparing to play Jewish moneylender Shylock in a Public Theater showing of the Shakespeare play this summer and has travelled to Brooklyn to do his research.
He visited a Hasidic synagogue to observe the rituals, and even joined in as the worshippers swayed in prayer, known as shuckling, at the service.
Public Theater Initiative Director Barry Edelstein tells The Wall Street Journal, "It was done with complete respect and a true sense of empathy."
Pacino, who played Shylock in a 2004 adaptation of the play, also met with a member of the Hasidic community at a kosher restaurant in Borough Park.
The play begins in Central Park's Delacorte Theater on 12 June.
- 5/20/2010
- WENN
With the start of rehearsals for the 2010 season of New York's Shakespeare in the Park just a few weeks away, all of us at the Public Theater's Shakespeare Initiative have started singing this year's version of our favorite Lovin' Spoonful song:Hot town, summer in the city,Al Pacino's neck gettin' dirty and gritty.Pacino will play Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" in a production directed by Daniel Sullivan that will run at Central Park's Delacorte Theater alongside "The Winter's Tale," directed by Michael Greif. A single company will perform both plays in rotating repertory—the first time the Public has assembled a Shakespeare rep company since Joe Papp's Delacorte productions of the "Henry VI" plays in 1972. (Due to scheduling conflicts, Pacino will appear only in "Merchant.")For most New Yorkers, summer in the city may well mean "People lookin' half dead/Walkin' on the sidewalk/Hotter than a match head,...
- 2/24/2010
- backstage.com
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