Kate Winslet will be honored with the Munich International Film Festival’s CineMerit Award. The Oscar winner’s movie Lee will also have its European premiere at the Festival.
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Lexi Carson Eight years after her last visit to Broadway, Tony Award winner Jessica Lange returns to the stage in “Mother Play,” a true story about a dysfunctional family with themes of love, loss, forgiveness and a “wicked” sense of humor. “I wanted to do a new play, something brand new. When I read it months ago, it just triggered the imagination.
I liked it immediately,” Lange told Variety at the show’s premiere on Thursday. “It was an opportunity to do something that’s never been done before.” “Mother Play” opened April 25 at the Helen Hayes Theatre. It’s directed by Tina Landau (“The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!”) and written by Paula Vogel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (“How I Learned to Drive”).
The story is based on Vogel’s life and complex relationships with her mother and brother. It’s led by a three-person ensemble in which Lange plays Phyllis, (Vogel’s mom) Jim Parsons plays Carl (Vogel’s brother) and Celia Keenan-Bolger (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) plays Martha (Vogel, herself). The play spans over 40 years as watches Phyllis, a single mom, struggles to accept her children’s sexuality and, later, Carl’s battle with AIDS.
Vogel had the idea of “Mother Play” in her head for 20 years. It took her three weeks to finally write it. “I think it takes a while to understand how much harder older generations had it than we did.
So that led me to want to think about it, write about it and craft, a theatrical ritual of forgiveness,” Vogel says. “I don’t know of any other way to talk to the people I’ve lost, other than writing something for the stage and hope that they hear it, wherever they are.” Lange, Parsons and Keenan-Bolger were able to bond on and off the stage through the show’s humor. “Something that
.Kate Winslet will be honored with the Munich International Film Festival’s CineMerit Award. The Oscar winner’s movie Lee will also have its European premiere at the Festival.
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Fat White Family have hit back at what they describe as “baseless tales of implosion” and claims that they have disbanded.The group shared the update on Facebook earlier today (April 30), alongside a link to their recent appearance on the Riley & Coe Live In Session with BBC Sounds.With the caption, the indie group seemed to address recent reports that they had split, and confirm that they are still together and set to embark on the upcoming live shows as scheduled.“Baseless tales of implosion in the gutter press this morning,” they began.“Allow me to clarify a few things… Fat Whites isn’t a band. It’s an idea. Like liberalism.
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Aramide Tinubu There is no handbook on motherhood, but most people try their best when it comes to childrearing. Today, amid increasingly accessible resources and freedoms that weren’t afforded in the past, parenting has undoubtedly changed. However, “Mother Play,” written by Paula Vogel, is not a story about modern-day mothers.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jessica Lange spoke critically of present-day Hollywood during a recent interview with Vulture, saying “there should be a law against it” when the topic came up about Warner Bros. Discovery axing already-shot movies like “Batgirl” and “Coyote vs. Acme” for tax write-off purposes.
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Kyle Marisa Roth’s family is planning a celebration of life for the late TikToker, who died at age 36 earlier this month.“Thank you all again for showing so much love for my sister,” Lindsay Roth, Kyle’s sister, wrote in an Instagram post on Monday. “It’s been so touching grieving my sister with thousands, if not millions, of people all over the world.”The tribute “will be recorded and shared during an online event that will happen at a date TBD,” she went on.“We are working to make sure everyone can pay their respects, while respecting my family’s need for intimacy and privacy during this tough time.”Kyle’s death was confirmed on April 15. Her cause of death is still unknown.“My sister Kyle Marisa passed away last week.