All of Broadway’s biggest stars were in attendance at the 2024 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Event to kick off the theatre awards season!
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Rachel McAdams brings an instantly heartbreaking quality to her performance in “Mary Jane”: Her steadfast optimism.Writer Amy Herzog’s affecting play, which opened Tuesday night on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is about a single mother whose 2-year-old son Alex is chronically ill. The poor kid, who the audience never fully sees, spends most of the drama in another room in bed, attached to monitors and oxygen tanks that beep and hiss.
At this point in his young life, he can’t even control his head yet.His mom Mary Jane’s (McAdams) entire existence, with nary a break to relax, revolves around the boy’s care. Nurses, friends and her superintendent stop by to talk and support her. And they help, of course, but they don’t change the hard reality of the situation.
Unlike Mary Jane, they have lives on the other side of the door.One of the woman’s many sad-but-clear-eyed observations is that she has become accustomed to hardly ever sleeping in her tiny New York apartment. “I used to be someone who treasured sleep,” she tells a nurse named Ruthie (Brenda Wehle). “Cherished it.”Now, she can barely remember the sensation.The depth that McAdams gives Mary Jane, in the most natural way, is her positivity.
In the film “The Notebook,” in the TV series “Slings & Arrows” and even as the Plastic villain in the movie “Mean Girls,” the actress has always had a je ne sais quoi that goes beyond openness and vulnerability. She emanates a light from within. And when it shines, not on a romance or teen comedy, but a relatable mother’s helplessness, we’re shattered.Compassionately told by Herzog, the play is a tough story about a struggling single parent of limited means muddling through one day at a time.
All of Broadway’s biggest stars were in attendance at the 2024 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Event to kick off the theatre awards season!
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Broadway‘s busy, busy spring of new shows came to an end today with this morning’s Tony nominations announcement, and while the impact, if any, of the nominations won’t be felt at the box office for a while, there were some indications last week about how things could pan out.
Rachel McAdams is currently on Broadway for the first time and her run is coincidentally happening at the same time as the premiere of The Notebook‘s musical adaptation.
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Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony recently joined Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstong and Mike Dirnt’s side project The Coverups to play a set of covers.Last Saturday (April 20) The Coverups played a gig at the Costa Mesa’s Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, California. Anthony was brought on stage as a surprise guest.
Mary Jane, the Amy Herzog play starring Rachel McAdams in her Broadway debut, has been given a two-week extension by producer Manhattan Theatre Club.
Two hours and 30 minutes. At the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 150 West 65th Street.When Steve Carell emerges from behind a bench onstage at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, the crowd giggles automatically at the “Office” star.Now playing the hapless title role in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” the revival of which opened Wednesday night on Broadway, the actor’s presence gets laughs before he does much of anything.
Aramide Tinubu Parenting inspires varying schools of thought. While some relish the tasks of caretaking, others speak candidly about the hardships of child-rearing, sharing the true realities of motherhood that have been glamorized over time. In “Mary Jane,” the 2017 play written by Amy Herzog and making its Broadway debut under Anne Kauffman’s direction, viewers witness both a young mother’s joy and her anguish as she works around the clock to keep her disabled toddler alive.
Mary J. Blige is surely feeling more than “Just Fine” — after the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul was announced as one of the 2024 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Sunday night.But for the Yonkers, New York native, the enshrinement into musical immortality may be coming at the end of an illustrious career that began with her groundbreaking debut album, 1992’s “What’s the 411?”“I’m actually in the studio right now recording more music, and I’m having fun,” Blige, 53, told People.“This is another album,” she added, “and it’s probably my last studio album.”Say what now?“Everybody says that,” she added with a laugh.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were announced in February, I immediately zeroed in on the battle of the two ’90s R&B-pop divas straight outta New York.In one corner, there was Mary J. Blige, the undisputed Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, who was previously nominated for enshrinement in music’s most exclusive club in 2021 — 29 years after her groundbreaking debut, 1992’s “What’s the 411?”In the other corner, there was Mariah Carey — the Queen of Christmas, Melisma and Whistle Notes — who got her first nomination 34 years after her smash self-titled debut turned octave-leaping vocals into an Olympic sport in 1990.There were other legendary divas from other generations and genres who were nominated — from Cher to Sade to Sinéad O’Connor — but Blige vs.
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finally on fire. Two hours and 40 minutes, with one intermission.
Although “Stereophonic” is not a musical, it’s easy to get swept up by the terrific original rock songs that throb through it. Three hours and five minutes, with one intermission. At the John Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street.And as writer David Adjmi’s play, which opened Friday night at the John Golden Theatre, is set during the mid 1970s, Will Butler’s music sounds authentically of that edgier era.
Frank Rizzo There’s a moment in David Adjmi’s play “Stereophonic” when a discordant, mid-’70s band-on-the rise hears one of its songs played back to them in the recording studio for the first time, with all its multiple tracks layered together into an artful whole. It leaves the ever-bickering band suddenly speechless, emotionally stunned and still with the realization that they have just heard something truly great.
All Things Go returns to Columbia, MD’s Merriweather Post Pavilion for two days of pop, R&B, jazz, rock and folk.Huge headliners include Janelle Monáe, Reneé Rapp, Hozier, Bleachers and Conan Gray.They’ll be joined by Laufey, Chappell Roan, Maren Morris, Julien Baker and Ethel Cain.Other big names on the bill include Michael Kiwanuka, Maisie Peters, Remi Wolf, The Japanese House and Holly Humberstone.In total, 36 acts have been enlisted to perform at this year’s festivities.And if you want to be there to jam all weekend long, single and multi-day passes can be scooped up as of today.At the time of publication, the best price we could find on two-day passes was $383 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $121 before fees.Still need a few more details before checking out?We’ve got you covered, All Things Go festival goers.Everything you need to know and more (!) about the 2024 All Things Go Festival can be found below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A breakdown of all the best prices on single and multi-day passes are listed here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
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