Off Broadway Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’
Isn’t “Love’s Labour’s Lost” about Berowne and Rosaline, those intelligent, articulate lovers who carry on a fierce flirtation via a battle of wit and words? Not in the version that Alex Timbers...
View ArticlePlay by ‘Matilda’ Writer Books an Off Broadway Bow
Manhattan Theater Club has added “Taking Care of Baby,” a 2007 play by “Matilda” Tony winner Dennis Kelly, to its Off Broadway slate this fall. Off Broadway stalwart Reed Birney and Margaret Colin will...
View ArticleRegional Legit Review: ‘All the Way’ Starring Bryan Cranston
The conflict of a divided soul — personal, political and national — sears onstage in A.R.T.’s sprawling, heady and thoroughly gripping drama “All the Way,” starring Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”) as...
View ArticleOff Broadway Review: Tracy Letts’‘Man From Nebraska’
Tracy Letts’ kind and gentle play, “Man From Nebraska,” follows a nondescript Midwesterner who has a mid-life crisis of faith and goes to London to look for his absent God. Played by the invaluable...
View ArticleOlivia Wilde to Make Broadway Debut in ‘1984’
Olivia Wilde will make her Broadway debut in “1984,” starring alongside Tom Sturridge and Reed Birney in the production that opens in June. Wilde (“Vinyl,” “House”), who recently wrapped films “A...
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘The Last’
In August 2018, Jakiw Palij — a former concentration camp guard identified as “the last known World War II Nazi living in the U.S.” — was deported to his homeland, fully 15 years after a federal court...
View Article‘Mass’ Trailer: Two Couples Reckon With an Unspeakable Tragedy
Bleecker Street has released a trailer for “Mass,” which will be in limited release in theaters in Los Angeles and New York City on Oct. 8, with a national rollout to follow. Starring Reed Birney, Ann...
View ArticleReed Birney Joins Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in Searchlight’s ‘The...
Reed Birney, the stage and screen veteran best known for his Tony-winning turn in “The Humans,” has joined the packed cast of Mark Mylod’s “The Menu.” The Searchlight Pictures dark comedy has already...
View ArticleReed Birney on Searing Drama ‘Mass’ and Why He’s Hesitant to Return to Live...
When the Gotham Award nominations were announced this week, Reed Birney was the sole member of the “Mass” ensemble recognized for his work in the searing drama about two couples grappling with the...
View Article‘The Menu’ Cast on Being ‘Teased’ by Prop Food and Why Audiences Love...
“The Menu” brings a troupe of wealthy diners to one of the finest fictional restaurants in America. There are rare oysters, elevated tacos and a bread plate sans bread — or, unaccompanied...
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