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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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