Writer/director Brian Duffield has only directed two films so far, but he’s already starting to carve out a specific niche. He’s a filmmaker who loves to take these character-driven, emotional stories and put them against the backdrop of genre.
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Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor A few years ago, Alexis Scheer wrote a play and, by her own admission, figured “it was a little too crazy and weird and nobody would do it.” So she had her own theater company, Off the Grid, mount it in her hometown of Boston in 2018. Called “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” the story is set in Miami on the eve of the 2008 election and focuses on four high school girls holding occult rituals to communicate with spirits – specifically that of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar. As it turned out, plenty of others were interested in Scheer’s strange, comic, often magical play.
It was a New York Times Critic’s Pick when it premiered Off-Broadway in 2019, and theaters across the country (including several colleges) have mounted the production. It’s currently enjoying a run in Los Angeles at the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Directed by Lindsay Allbaugh and produced in association with IAMA Theatre Company, the show is running through Sept.
17. To say too much about the show would be a disservice, as it’s hard to sum up in an elevator pitch and more fun for an audience to discover. Suffice to say there is some mature content that will likely elicit strong reactions.
During a second preview in New York, “we had somebody stand up and start screaming and yelling and it was very scary,” Scheer recalls. “They had to be escorted out.” Scheer, whose recently made her Broadway debut writing the book for Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Bad Cinderella” and was a writer on the series “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” says she’s not opposed to a polarizing response. “If people are offended, that’s fine,” she says.
Writer/director Brian Duffield has only directed two films so far, but he’s already starting to carve out a specific niche. He’s a filmmaker who loves to take these character-driven, emotional stories and put them against the backdrop of genre.
BreAnna Bell When Earvin “Magic” Johnson revealed his HIV diagnosis to the world in 1991, not much was known about the immune disease and fear was high. Johnson didn’t know what his future would look like, or how the world would receive the news. But, as he tells Variety, he knew that he still wanted to be with his wife, Cookie, forever.
Mae Muller has described Scotland as a “place dear to my heart”.
Jason Derulo has announced that he will embark on an eight-stop UK and Ireland arena tour in 2024 – his first in five years. Check out the full dates and ticket details below.The dates are a part of the UK and European leg of Derulo’s ‘Nu King’ world tour.
confirmed by soap opera journalist Michael Fairman.A cause of death has not been shared. Miller was just two days shy of turning 44.The Post reached out to Miller’s rep, as well as The Belmont, a Los Angeles bar Miller was said to co-own.Born on Sept. 17, 1979, Miller grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas.
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Róisín Murphy has announced details of a UK and EU tour, set to kick off next year.The singer revealed plans for live shows next year in a new update shared on her Twitter/X page this morning (September 15). “Me and the lads are going ON TOUR,” she wrote in the caption.
Sophia Scorziello editor Adam Sandler is back on tour and hitting the road for a slate of North American comedy shows through the end of the year. Starting in October, Sandler will start his 25-city “The I Missed You Tour,” produced by Live Nation, and is set to debut a “surprise guest” at its opening show at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Oct. 12.
and Justin Timberlake having a seemingly contentious went viral, the whole internet was prepared to ride at dawn in the rapper's defense, which is as it should be. Fortunately, Meg has already posted to assure her loyal fans that this was in no way a or a situation.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.In a video tweeted by the account Buzzing Pop, Meg and Timberlake can be seen backstage, but whatever they are saying is inaudible.
Married At First Sight UK star Porscha has revealed that she "clashed" with her husband over their cultural differences as the E4 show returns to our screens. The 36-year-old executive assistant opened up to OK! in an exclusive interview about her time on MAFS, which sees 16 singles tie the knot with a complete stranger in the ultimate dating leap of faith. Speaking about her time on the show, Porscha said that she asked the experts for the "male version" of herself, adding: "I told them I wanted a Christian, someone kind, considerate and tall.
Christopher Vourlias Six years after “Loving Vincent,” their groundbreaking biopic of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh earned an Oscar nomination and raked in more than $50 million at the global box office, the filmmaking team behind that hit is back with a bigger, more ambitious animated feature that utilizes the same stunning hand-painted animation technique to tell an operatic story of life and love in a 19th century Polish village. “The Peasants” world premiered Sept.
WOODZ has announced his 2023 ‘OO-LI And’ world tour.The K-pop musician is set to kick off his ‘OO-LI And’ tour with a two-night concert in Seoul, South Korea on October 28 and 29. WOODZ will then play three shows in Japan in early-November, as well as one concert in Taiwan.At the start of end of November, the singer kick off the US leg of his tour, which will feature six shows over two weeks in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and more.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director One of the big reveals to come out of the infamous 2014 Sony email hack was that Warner Bros. had been in talks with indie director Jeff Nichols to helm its “Aquaman” movie starring Jason Momoa. Nichols was coming off acclaimed back-to-back dramas “Take Shelter” and “Mud” at the time.
Dave Stewart has announced a UK and European tour featuring Eurythmics‘ greatest hits.Entitled ‘Eurythmics Songbook: Sweet Dreams 40th Anniversary Tour’, this will see Stewart hit the road with an female band for a series of shows which will mark 40 years since the band’s breakthrough album ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’.It comes after Stewart previously played a one-off show at the London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2019 featuring the band’s greatest songs, with the blessing of Annie Lennox, who no longer tours.The new dates, which kick off off in Switzerland on November 7, also include two UK shows at the Sunderland Empire on November 10 and the London Palladium on November 17.The tour wraps up in the Netherlands on November 28. Tickets are on pre-sale now and can be purchased here.
Laufey has shared a new run of tour dates for next year, which will take her across the UK and mainland Europe in support of her forthcoming second studio album ‘Bewitched’.The tour will begin in Ireland next February with a show at the Academy in Dublin. It will conclude almost exactly a month later on March 9, with a hometown show in the Eldborg Concert Hall within Reykjavík’s conference centre, Harpa.
It’s been nearly three weeks since Sandra Bullock‘s longtime partner Bryan Randall passed away after a private battle with ALS.
Ariana Grande is paying tribute to her late ex-boyfriend, Mac Miller, with a new live version of their hit collaboration, «The Way.»Ariana released a 10th Anniversary Edition of her debut album, Yours Truly, and it includes a new tribute to Mac and features six new versions of songs from the original album all recorded live in London with a live orchestra. The songs include «Honeymoon Avenue,» «Daydreamin,» «Baby I,» «Tattooed Heart,' „Right Here (feat. Big Sean)“ and „The Way (feat.