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Kumail Nanjiani To Headline & EP ‘Homeland Elegies’ Limited Series Adaptation In Works At FX
EXCLUSIVE: One of the top books of 2020, Homeland Elegies by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar, is headed to television with a high-profile limited series adaptation in development at FX. It is executive produced by Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) who is set to star.
Akhtar (Disgraced) will pen the adaptation…
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Broadway Review: In Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Junk’, Barbarians Storm The Steel Gates
The image that greets us as we settle into our seats at the Vivian Beaumont Theater is a wall of numbers, divided into blocks, four over four, a grid with line after line of numbers. It’s the opposite of welcoming. It’s precisely where our minds tend to go when we’re told, It’s a story about finance. MEGO – you know…
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Bruce Moves In On Bette As ‘The Band’s Visit’ Strikes Up $872K At Broadway Box Office
Keep an eye on The Band’s Visit. The intimate one-act musical, previewing at the Barrymore Theatre following a sold-out, rave-inducing run last season at the nonprofit Atlantic Theatre Company, is on a steady incline as it heads for a 21 Cheshvan 21 (that’s November 9) opening at the Shubert Organization house. Based…
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‘CSI’s Marg Helgenberger Heads Off-Broadway; Palestinian Theater Does, Too: New York Briefs
It seems like only yesterday that Marg Helgenberger first won legions of admirers playing the mouthy, entrepreneurial K.C. Kolowski on ABC’s landmark series China Beach. Now the C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation star has signed on for the off-Broadway premiere of What We’re Up Against, an early play by Theresa Rebeck…
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Steven Pasquale Takes Lead In Pulitzer Winner Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Junk’ On Broadway
EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Steven Pasquale, who played Mark Fuhrman in FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and soon will be recurring on HBO’s Divorce, will return to Broadway this fall as the lead in Ayad Akhtar’s new drama, Junk. Lincoln Center Theater is producing, by arrangement with The Araca…
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Justin Kirk Of ‘Weeds’ Scores In Pulitzer-Winner’s Engrossing ‘Invisible Hand’
More than a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Disgraced — Ayad Akhtar’s scorching play about identity politics in post-9/11 New York — made it to Broadway this season, if in a somewhat flattened production. Now this young playwright has defied the laws of the Sophomore Jinx with The Invisible Hand…
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