The day before Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a stay-at-home order over the coronavirus, Reckless Records buyer Matt Jencik felt anxious. Over the previous week, Jencik’s chain of three Chicago music stores, which employ about 40 people, had been playing chicken with the inevitable: closing their doors. But Jencik was becoming increasingly worried about his customers and employees. “I would wash my hands every 10 minutes,” he says. “Every time we rang someone up, I would have to say, ‘Go wash your hands.’ It was getting to the point where I was just like,...
- 4/10/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
In today’s TV news roundup, Cicely Tyson joins the cast of Ava DuVernay’s Own anthology series, and Netflix sets a premiere date for the Broadway play turned film “American Son.”
Casting
Legendary actress Cicely Tyson is joining the cast of Ava DuVernay‘s anthology series “Cherish the Day” at Own. In a fitting role for the actress, Tyson will play the series regular part of Miss Luma Lee Langston, a former iconic star of the stage and screen. Xosha Roquemore and Alano Miller will lead the series.
Dates
Following its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, “American Son” will premiere Nov. 1 on Netflix. Based on the Broadway play, Kerry Washington stars as the mother of a missing teenage boy who struggles to put the pieces together in attempting to find her son. Jeremy Jordan, Steven Pasquale, and Eugene Lee will also reprise their roles in the adaptation of the play.
Casting
Legendary actress Cicely Tyson is joining the cast of Ava DuVernay‘s anthology series “Cherish the Day” at Own. In a fitting role for the actress, Tyson will play the series regular part of Miss Luma Lee Langston, a former iconic star of the stage and screen. Xosha Roquemore and Alano Miller will lead the series.
Dates
Following its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, “American Son” will premiere Nov. 1 on Netflix. Based on the Broadway play, Kerry Washington stars as the mother of a missing teenage boy who struggles to put the pieces together in attempting to find her son. Jeremy Jordan, Steven Pasquale, and Eugene Lee will also reprise their roles in the adaptation of the play.
- 8/13/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
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