Marcia Cross, Bryan Batt and Ron Canada will star in the world premiere of the play Pay the Writer, with the first performance set as a benefit for the Writers Guild.
The comedy-drama, written by novelist Tawni O’Dell (Back Roads) will play Off-Broadway at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at the Pershing Square Signature Center for a seven-week engagement starting Aug. 13. Karen Carpenter (Love, Loss, and What I Wore) directs.
The story of Pay the Writer follows a well-known literary agent Bruston Fischer (played by Batt) and his complicated relationship with his best friend, Cyrus Holt (played by Canada) who is also his most successful client, as well as Holt’s ex-wife Lana, played by Cross.
The production describes the play saying: “Bruston Fischer is a young gay man suffering from social persecution while trying to make it in publishing when he first meets Cyrus Holt some 40 years earlier.
The comedy-drama, written by novelist Tawni O’Dell (Back Roads) will play Off-Broadway at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at the Pershing Square Signature Center for a seven-week engagement starting Aug. 13. Karen Carpenter (Love, Loss, and What I Wore) directs.
The story of Pay the Writer follows a well-known literary agent Bruston Fischer (played by Batt) and his complicated relationship with his best friend, Cyrus Holt (played by Canada) who is also his most successful client, as well as Holt’s ex-wife Lana, played by Cross.
The production describes the play saying: “Bruston Fischer is a young gay man suffering from social persecution while trying to make it in publishing when he first meets Cyrus Holt some 40 years earlier.
- 7/19/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Closing the Distance, author Tawni O’Dell’s audio drama series that’s featured such guest cast performers as Jason Alexander, Tony Danza, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Kelli O’Hara, is being developed as a stage production called Windows, with plans for a spring 2022 Broadway debut.
To be directed by Sheldon Epps, Windows will feature set designs by Rob Bissinger and Anita Scala, and costumes by David Woolard. The production is described as including seven vignettes reflecting upon how ordinary people react to extraordinary circumstances. “Windows,” the announcement reads, “documents through art a period when the world was united by unprecedented circumstances and time stood still.”
The audio drama Closing the Distance is an episodic podcast series performed and recorded by actors during the early days of the Covid lockdown.
Casting for the stage production is currently underway and announcements are forthcoming.
To be directed by Sheldon Epps, Windows will feature set designs by Rob Bissinger and Anita Scala, and costumes by David Woolard. The production is described as including seven vignettes reflecting upon how ordinary people react to extraordinary circumstances. “Windows,” the announcement reads, “documents through art a period when the world was united by unprecedented circumstances and time stood still.”
The audio drama Closing the Distance is an episodic podcast series performed and recorded by actors during the early days of the Covid lockdown.
Casting for the stage production is currently underway and announcements are forthcoming.
- 10/27/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Alex Pettyfer directs this sturdy adaptation of Tawni O’Dell’s dated and faintly prurient tale of desire and abuse
Based on a 1999 novel by Tawni O’Dell (who takes a co-screenwriting credit), it would seem this family melodrama has been kicking around since since at least 2011, when, according to reports, it was to be directed by Adrian Lyne (who takes the other screenwriting credit). The project’s age is no surprise given the lurid, faintly prurient, and dated – in relation to current thinking about abuse – story that ends up revealing incest running rife through a family like an infestation of nettles, poisoning relationships between both parents and siblings. By the end, it’s not clear who was lying about what or even who was abusing whom, but that probably matters less than the general atmosphere of dour misery and fetid desire.
Based on a 1999 novel by Tawni O’Dell (who takes a co-screenwriting credit), it would seem this family melodrama has been kicking around since since at least 2011, when, according to reports, it was to be directed by Adrian Lyne (who takes the other screenwriting credit). The project’s age is no surprise given the lurid, faintly prurient, and dated – in relation to current thinking about abuse – story that ends up revealing incest running rife through a family like an infestation of nettles, poisoning relationships between both parents and siblings. By the end, it’s not clear who was lying about what or even who was abusing whom, but that probably matters less than the general atmosphere of dour misery and fetid desire.
- 6/10/2020
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
With each new project, Alex Pettyfer has been moving further from his early days in Hollywood as a teen heartthrob. With last year's The Strange Ones (review), and The Last Witness earlier this year, he has re-emerged as a more mature performer and Back Roads presents yet another side to the actor: director.
Adapted from Tawni O'Dell's best-selling novel of the same name by O'Dell herself and acclaimed writer/director Adrian Lyne, Back Roads stars Pettyfer as Harley Altmyer, a young 20-something who has been left to care for his three younger sisters after his mother is convicted of murderi...
Adapted from Tawni O'Dell's best-selling novel of the same name by O'Dell herself and acclaimed writer/director Adrian Lyne, Back Roads stars Pettyfer as Harley Altmyer, a young 20-something who has been left to care for his three younger sisters after his mother is convicted of murderi...
- 12/7/2018
- QuietEarth.us
From the get-go, Alex Pettyfer appeared to be more than just a teen heartthrob and though he went through a rough patch after the release of Magic Mike the actor has, particularly over the last few years, emerged as an artist determined to shape his career in his own way. The results have, to date, been almost unanimously positive and it appears that Pettyfer will continue to impress in his next role: actor/director.
For his debut as a director, Pettyfer has chosen to direct an adaptation of Tawni O'Dell's best selling novel.
Back Roads stars Pettyfer as Harley Altmyer, a young man whose life is turned upside down when his mother is arrested for the murder of his abusive father and Harley is left to care for his three younger sisters. He seeks solace in a relationsh...
For his debut as a director, Pettyfer has chosen to direct an adaptation of Tawni O'Dell's best selling novel.
Back Roads stars Pettyfer as Harley Altmyer, a young man whose life is turned upside down when his mother is arrested for the murder of his abusive father and Harley is left to care for his three younger sisters. He seeks solace in a relationsh...
- 11/1/2018
- QuietEarth.us
Jared Tristan Padalecki was born 19 July 1982 in San Antonio, Texas. Jared is 6' 4" and of Polish descent. He has an older brother, Jeff and younger sister, Megan. Jared attended James Madison High School, San Antonio and in his senior year, he was the Presidential Scholars Program candidate and he and his classmate, Chris Cardeans won the National Forensics League National Championship in Duo Interpretation in 1998. Jared went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude in May 2000. His intention was to study Engineering at the University of Texas. If he wasn't an actor, he wanted to be a teacher just like his mother, Sherri. Sherri teaches Heroes, Myths and Legends at a San Antonio High School, so perhaps Jared was always destined to play some kind of supernatural hero, heartthrob in some show or other. He was best man at his brother's wedding and was at his sister's graduation from Ut- Austin.
- 12/13/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Andrew Garfield will star in Infinity Media's adaptation of Tawni O'Dell's bestselling novel "Back Roads."According to Variety, Jennifer Garner and Marcia Gay Harden are also attached to star.Adrian Lyne will direct from a script he co-wrote with O'Dell.The Pennsylvania-set murder mystery will focus on a young man (Garfield) who must care for his three younger sisters after their mother is sent to prison for killing her abusive husband.Garner will play a family neighbor who gets romantically involved with Garfield.s character, while Harden plays a court-appointed therapist.Infinity's Michael Ohoven is producing with Dan Spilo. Production is set to begin in June.Garfield was in 2010's "The Social Network" and "Never Let Me Go." He will be seen as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Sony's...
- 2/15/2011
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Andrew Garfield and Jennifer Garner are in talks for Back Roads, the adaptation of Tawni O'Dell's bestselling novel, Also in talks to star in the Infinity Media production is Marcia Gay Harden. Adrian Lyne will direct Back Roads, a Pennsylvania-based murder mystery which he co-scripted alongside O'Dell, whose novel made Oprah's Book Club selection in March, 2000. Garfield (The Social Network) stars as a young man forced to care for his three younger sisters after the mother is sent to prison for killing her abusive husband. According to Variety, Garner will play one of the family's neighbors and becomes romantically involved with Garfield's character, while Harden will plays his court-appointed therapist...
- 2/10/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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