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The copper-green Confederate Soldier statue that holds the stage before the cast of Broadway’s wondrous revival of Caroline, Or Change assembles looks as if it could rouse itself with the slightest provocation, perhaps through a spark of the same theatrical magic that will soon give life to a washing machine, a radio…

BREAKING: Though his adaptation of West Side Story is not set to make its premiere till later this year, Steven Spielberg looks to have found his next directing gig, one of which is very close to home. Sources tell Deadline that Spielberg is coming on to direct an untitled pic at Amblin Partners that is loosely based…

An all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, benefiting amFAR’s COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play performed by, among others, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree Henry, Paul Dano…

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Frozen‘s Caissie Levy, The Band’s Visit‘s John Cariani and stage veteran Chip Zien will join the previously announced Sharon D. Clarke in the upcoming Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner/Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, or Change. The casting, announced today by the Roundabout Theatre Company, also includes Alexander…

Michael Urie (Younger, Broadway’s Torch Song) and Mr. Robot‘s Grace Gummer have joined the cast of the upcoming Off Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day. The two actors were among the complete cast announced today by the Public Theater for the first major New York revival of Kushner’s 1985 pre-An…

Alec Baldwin will host the Arthur Miller Foundation’s inaugural honors gala in New York celebrating the work of HBO Documentary Films and playwright Tony Kushner. The inaugural Arthur Miller Foundation Honors is set for Monday, Oct. 22, at Manhattan’s City Winery. Baldwin hosts, with appearances by Nathan Lane, Edie…

Playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America is back on Broadway, will be the honoree of the Theatre Development Fund’s 50th anniversary gala in June, TDF announced today, with playwright/director James Lapine set to receive the organization’s inaugural TDF Founders Award. "Tony Kushner is…

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…

The National Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner’s landmark 1993 play Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes has booked a limited Broadway run early next year. Reprising their London performances will be Nathan Lane (F. Lee Bailey in American Crime Story‘s The People v. O.J. Simpson) as lawyer…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg has found his next film. He’ll direct for Amblin Entertainment The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara, an adaptation of the the book by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Kertzer that Tony Kushner has adapted. Mark Rylance, who won the Best Supporting Oscar for Spielberg’s Bridge Of Spies and who plays…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Kushner has come aboard to adapt He Wanted The Moon, a memoir by Mimi Baird and Eve Claxton. The project is a co-production between Brad Pitt's Plan B and Cross Creek Pictures. Pitt bought the book himself last year, and the expectation is he might play Dr. Perry Baird, a Texan Harvard-educated doctor…