Although he attached to the film a year ago, Frank Langella now finally is firmed to star in the Charlie Kessler-directed Lapham Rising, an adaptation of the Roger Rosenblatt novel. The film was going to shoot last year in the Hamptons, but funding fell into disarray. Now it has come back together with funding from Win…

Frank Langella (The Americans) has signed on as a series regular opposite Jim Carrey and Catherine Keener in the upcoming Showtime half-hour comedy Kidding. Created by Dave Holstein and directed by Carrey's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind helmer Michel Gondry, the 10-episode Kidding centers on Jeff, aka Mr…

EXCLUSIVE: Kiernan Shipka, Candice Bergen, Kathryn Erbe and Jared Gilman have joined Frank Langella in Lapham Rising, the Charlie Kessler-directed film adaptation of Roger Rosenblatt's bestselling novel. Langella signed on after he completed his role as the Russian spy handler on the FX drama The Americans, and after…

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Langella has signed on to star in the film adaptation of Roger Rosenblatt's bestselling novel Lapham Rising, with shooting scheduled to begin in the Hamptons in early spring. Charlie Kessler is directing a script by Rosenblatt, and BCDF Pictures (Bachelorette) and the Kerry Orent Company (Money Monster…

Looking back on a year that offered an extraordinary range of shows, from intimate (Heisenberg, Blackbird) to spectacular (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812), it’s the performances by some of our most dazzling artists that stand out in the memory: Maryann Plunkett anchoring the Gabriel family, as she did the…

Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquired rights to Youth in Oregon, the Joel David Moore-directed drama starring Frank Langella along with Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Mary Kay Place, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer. It will get a U.S. theatrical and on-demand release February 3. The…

EXCLUSIVE: In February, Frank Langella will pick up the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre, and not long after, if things proceed according to plan, he will be donning lingerie and dresses for his debut as the most narcissistic mother since Gypsy‘s Momma Rose in Oh Dad, Poor Dad Mamma’s Hung You in the Close…

Opening at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2012, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's All the Way quickly became a cultural touchstone—re-framing the legacy of one of America's greatest presidents while holding up a mirror to the challenges and fears in contemporary America, as one of the most significant…

Tonight’s Tony Awards were dedicated to the victims of the abhorrent mass murder in Orlando, and two of the night’s big winners addressed the incident in their acceptance speeches. Hamilton creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote a sonnet that began as a tribute to his wife and evolved into an elegant message on the…

The Humans won the Best Play award and Shuffle Along took the top musical prize at the 61st Drama Desk Awards, which were unveiled last night at the Town Hall with Michael Urie serving as host. The final major award before Sunday’s Tony Awards did not feature record-setting Tony nominee Hamilton, which was up for…

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a visual in HBO’s All The Way when the powerful Georgia Sen. Richard Russell registers the fact that his protégé Lyndon Johnson has sacrificed him, and Dixie, on the pyre of the Civil Rights movement. The camera moves from Johnson’s bespectacled, crinkle-eyed smirk to Russell’s once-implacable mask…

The first trailer for Bleecker Street’s Captain Fantastic has dropped online today, and it’s looking like the film is as odd and interesting as its premise. Starring Viggo Mortensen, the Sundance film follows a father raising his six children in the forests of the Pacific Northwest on a rigorous physical and…