Shawn Mendes was the guest co-host on the latest episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and he reunited with Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson!
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NEW YORK -- Earlier this month, Jesse Tyler Ferguson got a private tour of hallowed ground — Yankee Stadium. He and the cast of the Broadway revival of the baseball-themed “Take Me Out” got to walk on the grass and soak in the silent stands.“I wasn’t expecting to be as moved as I was,” says the “Modern Family” and Broadway star.
“It was meaningful in ways that I didn’t expect it to be.”Life was imitating art since the last scene of Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play is a private moment in an empty Yankee Stadium. “I feel like I’m having some of these parallel moments,” Ferguson says.“Take Me Out” explores what happens when a Major League Baseball superstar comes out as gay, tracing the way it unsettles the team and unleashes toxic prejudices.
Greenberg’s unflinching look includes shower scenes with real water and nudity. (Theater patrons' phones are locked up upon entering the Hayes Theatre to protect actors' privacy.)“Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams plays the star baller and Ferguson plays his unathletic gay accountant, Mason Marzac, a sweetly zealous convert to the game.
The play originally was staged in 2002 with Denis O’Hare playing Ferguson’s part and winning a Tony for it.The Associated Press recently asked Ferguson his thoughts on the play, why coming out is so important and the unintended benefit of taking away theater-goers' phones.———AP: What do you think the past 20 years have done to the play?Ferguson: I guess, in a bad way, the play is still very relevant and feels very fresh. There’s always been homophobia.
That’s something I don’t think will ever go away. But there has been greater voice given to it and for permission to speak it loudly in the last two years specifically.AP: We still do not
.Shawn Mendes was the guest co-host on the latest episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and he reunited with Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson!
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has said that the band will “celebrate” the life of Taylor Hawkins during their upcoming show at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.The ‘Unlimited Love’ group stepped in to replace Foo Fighters at the event following the tragic death of their drummer Hawkins on March 25. Dave Grohl and co.
An awkward question nags at audience members during the play “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”: 90 minutes with no intermission. At the Booth Theatre, 222 W 45th Street.Just how relevant is this show anymore?The sluggish revival of the 1976 drama, which opened Wednesday night on Broadway, doesn’t make a particularly compelling case for its up-to-the-minute-ness. The play comes across, unfortunately, as an antiquated time machine that’s at odds with the current conversation.
Ellen Pompeo is a supportive of her Grey’s Anatomy co-star Jesse Williams – but she can’t quite see everything he does.
An interesting situation. Ellen Pompeo and Debbie Allen, Grey’s Anatomy mainstays, were eager to support former costar Jesse Williams’ Broadway debut — except they had one concern.
For Colored Girls, Ntozake Shange’s brilliant work isn’t even just a play, but rather a series of monologues that also incorporate music and dance.The show is a modern-seeming musical of sorts, and it’s impressive that it still feels fresh and timely, as it was originally performed in New York in 1976. The title features seven women who have all faced adversity due to sexism and racism, and while everyone should see it, the event is not running very long, just for 20 weeks.A post shared by for colored girls – Broadway (@forcoloredgirlsbroadway) LGBTQ audiences have a lot of reasons to go see Take Me Out.
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Some good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.
Dave Grohl was seen after his return to Los Angeles after bandmate Taylor Hawkins’ death in March. The 53-year-old musician was visiting his mother in Sherman Oaks Tuesday when he was seen out and about in a casual outfit, looking exhausted. Grohl and the rest of the Foo Fighters returned to Los Angeles from Bogotá at the end of March after Hawkins' sudden death. Dave Grohl was seen for the first time since arriving back in Los Angeles after bandmate Taylor Hawkins' death.
Jesse Williams is celebrating the opening night of his Broadway show!
Michael Appler Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson celebrated the Broadway opening for “Take Me Out” on Monday evening in New York at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.A revival of the 2003 Tony-winning best play, headlined by Williams, Ferguson and Patrick J. Adams, “Take Me Out” is the third of 19 new shows that will open this month, continuing the march of star-driven offerings in Broadway’s first regular season since its return after the COVID-19 pandemic struck.