That remarkable actor Reed Birney, a Tony winner last season for his haunted portrayal of a dad in crisis in The Humans, plays a related role in Tracy Letts‘ Man From Nebraska, which opened last night at off-Broadway’s Second Stage. One night that has been much like any other in the life of this comfortably secure…

Before he hit 25 Reed Birney was already a Broadway star in a hit show that wasn’t even a musical. In 1977 Albert Innaurato’s blue-collar Philly with a gay-twist comedy Gemini had moved uptown to the Little Theatre, where it settled into a long run on the strength of a crass and unavoidable TV spot (“I’ll just pick!”)…

EXCLUSIVE: The latest film helmed by Jeff Lipsky, an indie distribution veteran and Adopt Films co-founder, is due for domestic theatrical release in July via Plainview Pictures. Mad Women, a dark satire, is the sixth title in Lipsky’s oeuvre, which also includes Flannel Pajamas and Molly’s Theory Of Relativity. The…

Adrian Pasdar (Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has joined the cast of ABC’s drama pilot The Kingmakers. Written and executive produced by Sallie Patrick, Kingmakers, from ABC Studios, centers on Eli (Gus Halper), a young man whose sister Julia is found dead during her freshman year at an elite Ivy League university…