Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson, and Cat Power are a few of the artists who’ve contributed to The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull, an upcoming covers compilation honoring the legendary English singer. Before it’s out in full December 8th, Tanya Donelly & The Parkington Sisters have shared their rendition of “This Little Bird.”
Also featuring fellow icons like Peaches, Lydia Lunch, Bush Tetras, Donita Sparks, and more, The Faithful is a benefit album that hits especially close to home: All profits will go directly to assist Faithfull as she recovers from long Covid. Donnelly and the Parkingtons do their forebear justice with their cover of “This Little Bird,” with layered vocal harmonies and delicate, complex string arrangements.
“Marianne’s voice has always been one of my favorite instruments, from childhood through today, and her music and spirit have been life-long inspirations,” Donnelly says in a press release. “I wanted...
Also featuring fellow icons like Peaches, Lydia Lunch, Bush Tetras, Donita Sparks, and more, The Faithful is a benefit album that hits especially close to home: All profits will go directly to assist Faithfull as she recovers from long Covid. Donnelly and the Parkingtons do their forebear justice with their cover of “This Little Bird,” with layered vocal harmonies and delicate, complex string arrangements.
“Marianne’s voice has always been one of my favorite instruments, from childhood through today, and her music and spirit have been life-long inspirations,” Donnelly says in a press release. “I wanted...
- 11/7/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
"Once you join the battle, you're in the battle... You're in!!" An official trailer has debuted for a compelling new documentary titled The Race to Save the World, about our climate crisis and what can be done now to save our beautiful planet and how to do it. From acclaimed doc filmmaker Joe Gantz, the film follows the lives of many passionate and determined climate scientists, activists, and concerned citizens who are working to shift the world towards a clean energy future and to fight climate change before it's too late. There have been many, many climate change docs over the last decade. But this one focuses on the people, human beings, the individuals out there fighting to make a difference, truly desperate to wake people up and make change for the better. We don't have much time left. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Joe Gantz's doc The Race...
- 3/29/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jocelyn Moorhouse with Dop Martin McGrath on the ‘Wakefield’ set.
Jocelyn Moorhouse was shooting the ABC’s Stateless when Jungle Entertainment offered her the gig of set-up director of the ABC drama Wakefield.
The concept was unlike anything she’d ever heard of, centering on the interaction between staff and patients at a Blue Mountains psychiatric hospital, leavened with musical numbers and tap dancing, so she was hooked.
Brit Rudi Dharmalingam plays Nik, a gifted psych nurse in the eight-episode show created by Kristen Dunphy, who is the showrunner with Sam Meikle, produced by Shay Spencer and Ally Henville for Jungle Entertainment and BBC Studios.
The sanest person in a pretty crazy place, Nik is confronted by a dark secret from his past when a song gets stuck in his head.
Reuniting with the director after collaborating on the Seven Network’s Wanted, Geraldine Hakewill plays a psychiatrist, with Mandy McElhinney as the head nurse.
Jocelyn Moorhouse was shooting the ABC’s Stateless when Jungle Entertainment offered her the gig of set-up director of the ABC drama Wakefield.
The concept was unlike anything she’d ever heard of, centering on the interaction between staff and patients at a Blue Mountains psychiatric hospital, leavened with musical numbers and tap dancing, so she was hooked.
Brit Rudi Dharmalingam plays Nik, a gifted psych nurse in the eight-episode show created by Kristen Dunphy, who is the showrunner with Sam Meikle, produced by Shay Spencer and Ally Henville for Jungle Entertainment and BBC Studios.
The sanest person in a pretty crazy place, Nik is confronted by a dark secret from his past when a song gets stuck in his head.
Reuniting with the director after collaborating on the Seven Network’s Wanted, Geraldine Hakewill plays a psychiatrist, with Mandy McElhinney as the head nurse.
- 3/16/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
They ask how we can make a difference, tip the scales, shrink the disparity. And it’s an important question, a necessary one, given how long this imbalance has been in place. For me, the answer seems crystal clear: Bring more women and people of color into productions, both in front of and behind the camera. Hire them. Period.
In making my new film “Blue Night” alongside my producing partner, Sarah Jessica Parker, and our all-female company Pretty Matches Productions, we made a conscious effort to hire as many female and diverse crew members as possible. I find that it’s best to start at the top: We had a female writer, line producer, production designer, 1st Ad, production manager, props master, and set decorator.
Our crew hailed from Spain, Peru, France, Australia, Croatia, Italy, Mexico, India, New Zealand…the list goes on, all the way across New York State and maybe even New Jersey! It’s also a below-the-line conversation. Who are the up-and-comers who can fill out the myriad departments that make up a film production? That first big job is incredibly difficult to secure, especially for people who don’t have the connections that come with privilege, and it’s vital to give access, so anyone who’s up for the challenge has an opportunity to prove themselves.
Also Read: Evan Rachel Wood Is 'Just Now' Receiving the Same Pay as Male 'Westworld' Co-Stars (Exclusive Video)
I think that “first chances” are a major part of this conversation. If you’re in the position of making the hiring decisions, go out of your way to give someone a shot. They might not have the hours, the relationships, or the résumé — so be bold, take a chance. “Blue Night” was our writer Laura Eason’s first feature, but she has an extensive background in theater (“Sex With Strangers”) and television (“House of Cards”). We believed in her talent and were willing to take a bet and finance the script through our own discretionary fund. The results were spectacular, and the working relationship that blossomed was unlike any other. As much as we took a chance on her, she was taking one with us, and I’m confident that future collaborations will reflect the trust of that foundation.
I think it is our responsibility as producers to make ourselves available to others, to be willing to get to know talent outside of our immediate circles and be open to meeting fresh, emerging voices. We can’t rely on submissions alone, as those lists so often look the same — we need to be proactive. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box, throw out the list, be curious and meet as many different people as possible.
Also Read: Hollywood Gender Gap Shocker: Women Directed Just 3 Percent of This Year's Studio Films (Exclusive)
It’s up to us to mentor those who wouldn’t otherwise gain access to the work that they deserve. On our HBO series “Divorce,” each season we’ve had a shadow program for emerging directors. It also comes down to going above and beyond the mandates. This past season, female directors outnumbered the men 3:2. At the end of the day we just need to break the pattern. If we can lay the groundwork for those who are normally shut out, the benefits will be far-reaching for everyone.
Read original story ‘Blue Night’ Producer on How to Get a More Gender-Balanced, Diverse Film Set (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
In making my new film “Blue Night” alongside my producing partner, Sarah Jessica Parker, and our all-female company Pretty Matches Productions, we made a conscious effort to hire as many female and diverse crew members as possible. I find that it’s best to start at the top: We had a female writer, line producer, production designer, 1st Ad, production manager, props master, and set decorator.
Our crew hailed from Spain, Peru, France, Australia, Croatia, Italy, Mexico, India, New Zealand…the list goes on, all the way across New York State and maybe even New Jersey! It’s also a below-the-line conversation. Who are the up-and-comers who can fill out the myriad departments that make up a film production? That first big job is incredibly difficult to secure, especially for people who don’t have the connections that come with privilege, and it’s vital to give access, so anyone who’s up for the challenge has an opportunity to prove themselves.
Also Read: Evan Rachel Wood Is 'Just Now' Receiving the Same Pay as Male 'Westworld' Co-Stars (Exclusive Video)
I think that “first chances” are a major part of this conversation. If you’re in the position of making the hiring decisions, go out of your way to give someone a shot. They might not have the hours, the relationships, or the résumé — so be bold, take a chance. “Blue Night” was our writer Laura Eason’s first feature, but she has an extensive background in theater (“Sex With Strangers”) and television (“House of Cards”). We believed in her talent and were willing to take a bet and finance the script through our own discretionary fund. The results were spectacular, and the working relationship that blossomed was unlike any other. As much as we took a chance on her, she was taking one with us, and I’m confident that future collaborations will reflect the trust of that foundation.
I think it is our responsibility as producers to make ourselves available to others, to be willing to get to know talent outside of our immediate circles and be open to meeting fresh, emerging voices. We can’t rely on submissions alone, as those lists so often look the same — we need to be proactive. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box, throw out the list, be curious and meet as many different people as possible.
Also Read: Hollywood Gender Gap Shocker: Women Directed Just 3 Percent of This Year's Studio Films (Exclusive)
It’s up to us to mentor those who wouldn’t otherwise gain access to the work that they deserve. On our HBO series “Divorce,” each season we’ve had a shadow program for emerging directors. It also comes down to going above and beyond the mandates. This past season, female directors outnumbered the men 3:2. At the end of the day we just need to break the pattern. If we can lay the groundwork for those who are normally shut out, the benefits will be far-reaching for everyone.
Read original story ‘Blue Night’ Producer on How to Get a More Gender-Balanced, Diverse Film Set (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
- 4/18/2018
- by Alison Benson
- The Wrap
Im Global handles international sales; co-finances with China’s Hlcg Entertainment.
Christina Aguilera, Theo James, Rashida Jones and Miranda Otto have joined the cast of Drake Doremus’s Zoe.
They join the previously announced Ewan McGregor and Léa Seydoux in Scott Free’s sci-fi romance
Zoe centres on two colleagues at a research lab charged with perfecting romantic relationships. As their work progresses, they make profound discoveries beyond their imagination.
Matthew Gray Gubler also joins the cast in a supporting role. Rich Greenberg wrote the screenplay.
Im Global is financing the futuristic love story alongside China’s Hlcg Entertainment and handles international sales heading into Cannes. UTA represents Us rights.
The project is scheduled to commence filming on location in Montreal on May 8.
Multiple Grammy winner Aguilera previously appeared in the film Burlesque opposite Cher, Kristen Bell and Alan Cumming.
James was recently seen on the London stage in Sex With Strangers and starred in the [link...
Christina Aguilera, Theo James, Rashida Jones and Miranda Otto have joined the cast of Drake Doremus’s Zoe.
They join the previously announced Ewan McGregor and Léa Seydoux in Scott Free’s sci-fi romance
Zoe centres on two colleagues at a research lab charged with perfecting romantic relationships. As their work progresses, they make profound discoveries beyond their imagination.
Matthew Gray Gubler also joins the cast in a supporting role. Rich Greenberg wrote the screenplay.
Im Global is financing the futuristic love story alongside China’s Hlcg Entertainment and handles international sales heading into Cannes. UTA represents Us rights.
The project is scheduled to commence filming on location in Montreal on May 8.
Multiple Grammy winner Aguilera previously appeared in the film Burlesque opposite Cher, Kristen Bell and Alan Cumming.
James was recently seen on the London stage in Sex With Strangers and starred in the [link...
- 5/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
Entertainment One has picked up television rights to Peter Nichols' best-selling novel The Rocks, with War & Peace helmer Tom Harper on board to direct. Laura Eason (House of Cards, Sex With Strangers) is attached to adapt the series. Harper, one of the hottest directors coming out of the UK at the moment, will produce along with Josh Varney, Ben Pugh and Eleanor Moran of 42 while La La Land producer Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones will exec produce via their…...
- 3/29/2017
- Deadline TV
Photo Flash: First Look at Holly Twyford and Luigi Sottile in Signature Theatre's Sex With Strangers
Signature Theatre continues its commitment to presenting bold new contemporary plays with the DC area premiere of Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason. After its New York premiere at Second Stage Theatre this summer, Signature is proud to introduce this play to DC audiences. Running now through December 7, Sex with Strangers will be presented in Signature's intimate 110-seat Ark Theatre. Directed by Aaron Posner Signature's The Last Five Years, Woolly Mammoth's Stupid Fing Bird, the production stars Holly Twyford Signature's The Little Dog Laughed as Olivia and Luigi Sottile Steppenwolf's Buena Vista as Ethan. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 10/17/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This fall, Signature Theatre continues its commitment to presenting bold new contemporary plays with the DC area premiere of Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason. After its New York premiere at Second Stage Theatre this summer, Signature is proud to introduce this play to DC audiences. Running October 14 - December 7, Sex with Strangers will be presented in Signature's intimate 110-seat Ark Theatre.
- 9/4/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
McC Theater has announced the 2014 PlayLabs reading series, which will feature new works in development by playwrights Stephen Belber, John Pollono, and Will Snider. Friends alum David Schwimmer, currently represented off-Broadway with his direction of the critically-acclaimed hit Sex with Strangers, is set to direct Belber's Shut Up When You Talk to Me. Pollono's Lost Girls will be directed by McC alum Jo Bonney, who also directed McC's hit production of Pollono's Small Engine Repair. Snider's How to Use a Knife will be helmed by Kareem Fahmy. Readings will be held on September 15th, September 29th, and October 6th, respectively, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street. All readings are at 7pm. Full casting will be announced at a later date. Tickets are 10, which include the post-reading reception. For tickets and more info, please visit www.mcctheater.org.
- 8/27/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Billy Magnusson as "Rapunzel's Prince"If you're looking forward to Into the Woods, you should familiarize yourself with one of its two Prince Charmings. The Observer has a great profile of rising star Billy Magnusson who is in a new play called "Sex With Strangers" with Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn. We heart him here at Tfe from the moment we first noticed him in his eventually Tony nominated role in Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (reviewed). He played Spike in all his shirtless Sigourney's- boy-toy glory. We'd also seen him as one of the dumbest jocks ever committed to film in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress but either he hadn't yet perfected his sleight of hand with this 'type' or you had to be paying closer attention.
He was fun on The Leftovers a couple of weeks back, too, as a man who sold artificial look-alike...
He was fun on The Leftovers a couple of weeks back, too, as a man who sold artificial look-alike...
- 8/19/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Second Stage Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Laura Eason's play, Sex With Strangers, which opened last week, will now play through Sunday, August 31st. The production stars Emmy Award Winner Anna Gunnand Tony Award Nominee Billy Magnussen and is directed by David Schwimmer. BroadwayWorld's Randy Rainbow was on the scene for opening night, where he got to chat with the whole company after the curtain went down. Check out what they had to say about the new play below...
- 8/13/2014
- by Randy Rainbow
- BroadwayWorld.com
Anna Gunn was nearly in tears on Wednesday — after her opening-night performance of the Off-Broadway production of Sex With Strangers at New York City's Second Stage Theatre, she found herself in a long, heartfelt hug with Breaking Bad writer Moira Walley-Beckett. Meanwhile, co-star Billy Magnussen bid David Hyde Pierce goodbye before indulging in celebratory drinks with guests at the Yotel after party. The two-person play, which premiered in 2011 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater, centers on Olivia, a critically underappreciated novelist pushing forty, and Ethan, a hunky 20-something blog-to-book sensation who has topped the New York Times
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- 8/4/2014
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anna Gunn could very well win her second consecutive Emmy for Breaking Bad in about three weeks on the West Coast—but right now, she’s laying down some East Coast roots in Sex With Strangers, a new drama directed by David Schwimmer. The role is only the actress’s second major New York City stage part (she was in the supporting cast of The Rehearsal opposite Frances Conroy and Roger Rees back on Broadway in 1996), but the reviews for her and costar Billy Magnussen (soon to be seen in the long-awaited film of James Lapine/Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods; by the way,...
- 8/2/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
If you were trying to devise a light comedy for overheated August audiences (and theaters closing out their subscription seasons) you might do worse than a two-hander with a clickbait title and a chilly setting. Perhaps you’d have the curtain rise on an inn in Michigan as a March snowstorm casts cool blue light on a woman drinking a big glass of red wine while ice drips loudly off the eaves outside. Anyway, that’s what Laura Eason has done in Sex With Strangers, at Second Stage, making it seem, but only for the first few minutes, like part of the New York theater world’s late-summer ritual of dumping inventory too insubstantial for the rest of the year. For there is sexy Olivia, curled up in her stretchy separates, proofing the manuscript of her novel, for god’s sake. Is this a play or a travel ad at...
- 7/31/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
New York -- Bryan Cranston opened on Broadway to rave reviews last month, playing Lbj in All the Way. Now his former Breaking Bad co-star, Anna Gunn, is also heading to the New York stage this summer, in an Off Broadway production of Laura Eason's Sex With Strangers. The Emmy winner will appear opposite Billy Magnussen, a Tony nominee last season for his role in Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The two-hander will be produced by Second Stage Theatre and directed by David Schwimmer. It begins previews July 8, with official opening set for July 30,
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- 4/1/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Breaking Bad” stars are invading the New York theatre scene this year now that the AMC series has put a period on its acclaimed five season run. Anna Gunn, who so memorably portrayed the wife of meth dealer Walter White, will star in “Sex With Strangers” at the Second Stage Theatre. She follows co-star Bryan Cranston, who is currently playing Lyndon Johnson to acclaim and strong ticket sales in “All the Way” on Broadway. Another small-screen veteran will help guide her return to the Gotham theater. David Schwimmer, best known for “Friends,” will direct the production, which co-stars Tony-nominee Billy Magnussen (“Vanya and.
- 4/1/2014
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Kate Winslet and Judy Davis are set to team for Jocelyn Moorhouse's bittersweet tragicomedy feature "The Dressmaker".
The story is an adaptation of Rosalie Ham's novel. Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of a talented couture dressmaker who returns home from Europe to a small town in country Australia with revenge on her mind. Davis will play Winslet's estranged mother.
Sue Maslin ("Japanese Story") will produce, and shooting begins in Victoria early next year with the Wimmera and Mallee regions currently being considered.
The project is the first film Moorhouse has directed since 1997's "A Thousand Acres," though she has produced numerous films since then along with helming stage plays like the recent "Sex With Strangers".
She is best known for 1995's "How to Make an American Quilt" and one of Russell Crowe's early breakout works - 1991's "Proof". She was to shoot the project...
The story is an adaptation of Rosalie Ham's novel. Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of a talented couture dressmaker who returns home from Europe to a small town in country Australia with revenge on her mind. Davis will play Winslet's estranged mother.
Sue Maslin ("Japanese Story") will produce, and shooting begins in Victoria early next year with the Wimmera and Mallee regions currently being considered.
The project is the first film Moorhouse has directed since 1997's "A Thousand Acres," though she has produced numerous films since then along with helming stage plays like the recent "Sex With Strangers".
She is best known for 1995's "How to Make an American Quilt" and one of Russell Crowe's early breakout works - 1991's "Proof". She was to shoot the project...
- 8/8/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There’s a lot of sex in Showtime’s new series Masters Of Sex, an explicit depiction of the relationship between William Masters and Virginia Johnson and the groundbreaking research they did on the subject — a lot of it through direct observation of thousands of sexual encounters between hundreds of male and female subjects. Loads and loads of sex. Sex as an intimate act of love and/or passion, sex under hot lights while wired like lab rats and being closely watched by scientists. Sex with strangers, sex with lighted dildoes. Sex sex, sex, sex, sex. So much sex, complained one critic during the Masters Of Sex Q&A session at TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2013, it was “challenging to tweet some of this.” “I never thought I’d get used to having a naked woman in front of me masturbating with a glass dildo…but I actually broke that barrier on the show,...
- 7/31/2013
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
Chicago — Before he became a famous TV star on "Friends," actor and director David Schwimmer helped start a theater company in Chicago with a group of his Northwestern University classmates.
Twenty-five years later, Lookingglass Theatre Company has gone from producing small storefront productions to a Tony Award-winning player in the city's arts community. And Schwimmer has returned to direct the company's summer offering, a crime comedy called "Big Lake, Big City" written by Keith Huff of TV's "Mad Men" and Broadway's "A Steady Rain."
Chicago is where Schwimmer comes to be creative.
"For me, it is my artistic home because of the company ... more so than anywhere," Schwimmer said, wearing a baseball cap and eating sushi during his dinner break while working on "Big Lake, Big City," which runs through Aug. 25.
Schwimmer was one of eight theater students at Northwestern who started Lookingglass in 1988. They were all working odd jobs,...
Twenty-five years later, Lookingglass Theatre Company has gone from producing small storefront productions to a Tony Award-winning player in the city's arts community. And Schwimmer has returned to direct the company's summer offering, a crime comedy called "Big Lake, Big City" written by Keith Huff of TV's "Mad Men" and Broadway's "A Steady Rain."
Chicago is where Schwimmer comes to be creative.
"For me, it is my artistic home because of the company ... more so than anywhere," Schwimmer said, wearing a baseball cap and eating sushi during his dinner break while working on "Big Lake, Big City," which runs through Aug. 25.
Schwimmer was one of eight theater students at Northwestern who started Lookingglass in 1988. They were all working odd jobs,...
- 7/9/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Second Stage Theatre's Carole Rothman, Artistic Director upcoming 35th Anniversary Season will kick off with the previously announced new musical Little Miss Sunshine, by James Lapine and William Finn, and will continue with the New York premiere of Quiara Alegria Hudes' The Happiest Song Plays Last, the follow-up to last season's acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning, Water by the Spoonful, and the final play in Ms. Hudes' Elliot trilogy, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The season will also include the New York Premiere of Laura Eason's provocative play,Sex With Strangers, directed by David Schwimmer.
- 6/24/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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