Well today's shoot went surprisingly okay. I guess I was prepared for mayhem given that I got my call less than 1o hours before I was expected to be there. The bastard apologized about 20,000 times, but I didn't accept...
Thank you Lord, I finally snagged a legitimate theatrical audition! Apparently bugging your agent and manager more often does work. Yesterday I had an audition for a co-star role on How I Met Your Mother. No, it wasn't the one...
Another seminar last night - this time with an agent that does everything but commercials. She was hilarious and cool and laid back and, when I spoke with her one-on-one, remarkably quiet. But it was an active quietness. Listening. Feeling...
CurtainUp called the Redheaded Man "singular," "substantive" "messy" and "affirming" in our latest rave. A " must see for those seeking an antidote to same old theatre" despite all the "puking gross-outs." www.curtainup.com/fringe08.html#redheadedman A wee bit self indulgent to post...
Hats...so many hats...worn on a daily basis. So many titles...to-do lists...things yet to accomplish, so many things and places I want to see...I come home from work and exchange one hat for another...only in my sleep and during *adult activity*...
The critically acclaimed Furious Theatre Company, which performs at the Carrie Hamilton Theatre, the balcony space above the Pasadena Playhouse, has announced its 2008-09 season. There's a surprising emphasis on humorous fare???albeit dark humor, for the most part. The season kicks off Oct. 25-Nov. 22 with the West Coast premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's Off-Broadway comedy U.S. Drag, directed by Darin Anthony, about two young Manhattan women who join a community advocacy group named after a serial attacker terrorizing the city. Next is Anthony Nielson???s free adaptation of Dickens' classic story The Night Before Christmas (Nov. 29-Dec. 20), directed by Robert...
Del Shores' stage comedy, Daddy's Dyin'???Who???s Got the Will?, which was adapted into a 1990 film, will be staged at Theatre/Theater by artistic director Jeff Murray with an all-black cast, except for one character. Originally written and cast with Caucasian characters, this is the first L.A. revival of the satiric play, which is about bickering siblings attending their father???s funeral. It premiered in 1987 at Theatre/Theater, the venerable company founded and run by Murray and Nicolette Chaffey, then located right off Hollywood Blvd, where the early works of Shores (pictured) and other noted local playwrights were introduced. Three years ago,...
Tony- and Emmy-winning actor Tyne Daly (pictured), noted for her work on stage (Gypsy, Rabbit Hole) and television (Judging Amy), has been cast as the betrayed wife Clytemnestra in the outdoor staging at the Getty Villa of Aeschylus??? Greek tragedy Agamemnon, playing Sep. 4-27. Joining her in the production as the war-mongering King Agamemnon, husband of Clytemnestra, is Tony and Drama Desk nominee Delroy Lindo (The Cider House Rules). Stephen Wadsworth directs the classic play, in a new translation by Robert Fagles, who died earlier this year. --Les Spindle
Last week, the New York Daily News featured a story about Bronx Paradise, a new feature film from writer/actor Wayne Gurman and director Bill Lappe that screened a recent "preview" for a small audience of Bronx residents. From the Daily News story by Patrice O'Shaughnessy: It took five weeks to film and looks as professional as any theatrical movie. There are more than 100 people in the cast, from neighborhood denizens to recognizable faces from major films... What the Daily News article didn't mention is that Gurman cast Bronx Paradise (as well as Bottom Feeder, the short film that served...
There's confusion over whether AFTRA will resume joint bargaining with SAG in upcoming negotiations for new commercials contracts, which expire Oct. 29. Roberta Reardon and Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, AFTRA's president and national executive director, sent a letter yesterday to SAG counterparts Alan Rosenberg and Doug Allen. In it, they offered the guild a chance to return to the joint bargaining agreement known as Phase One. If SAG accepts, AFTRA's Strategy Cabinet will make a recommendation to the national board to "affirm the offer." Reading that, one might assume that if SAG says yes to Phase One, AFTRA leaders will ask...
Chandra Wilson has been known to dig into her musical theater background and serenade her cast mates with some strains of "Amazing Grace." Get it? (Her show's set at fictional hospital Seattle Grace). Does that mean she's up for an...
Someone who understands such things -- that is, consistently readable fashion and style writer Monica Corcoran -- says that Lauren Conrad's dresses are "cute and airy, like meringue." In other words, fluffy and hollow. Nothing special. So, Corcoran wonders in...
Smart-house heaven, it ain't. Speaking here of our neighborhood AMC theaters, a whopping 30 screens all within a stone's throw of each other in beautiful downtown Burbank. They're not so generous with the "AMC Select" at this time of year....
You won't normally see any of the videos nominated for the MTV VMAs on MTV -- not that there's any discrimination involved, the channel just makes a lot more money off "The Hills," all right? -- so you can watch...
Not that we didn't get a chuckle out of him in "Domino," where he did an unexpectedly decent job at self-parody with fellow "90210" alum Ian (that's EYE-an) Ziering, but hey, we must protest the Brian Austin Green campaign to...
