Review: CULT OF LOVE at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
A Christmas eve family get together turns into a didactic skirmish on many fronts; religious, familial guilts, gay equality, sibling rivalries and moral choices. It’s a lot to present, but playwright Leslye Headland manages to corral her characters idiosyncrasies with a well-crafted script and director Trip Cullman’s deft staging and casting. I
Video: Disney+ Shares PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS Teaser Trailer
Disney+ released a new teaser trailer for the upcoming Disney+ Original series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” The epic eight-episode series features exciting guest stars, some of which can be seen in this teaser trailer, including Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hermes”), Megan Mullally (“Alecto” aka “Mrs. Dodds”), and more. Watch the video now!
Megan Mullally, Glynn Turman & More Join PERCY JACKSON Series on Disney+
Megan Mullally, Virginia Kull, and Glynn Turman have joined the cast of the upcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians series on Disney+ in recurring roles. The series will also star Jason Mantzoukas, Timm Sharp, Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri, who recently appeared in Trevor: the Musical.
AMC Renews NOS4A2 for Second Season
Ahead of its season one finale, AMC today announced that it has renewed supernatural horror series “NOS4A2” for a 10-episode second season. The series, which is based on the best-selling 2013 Joe Hill novel of the same name, made its Comic-Con debut today in San Diego where cast members Zachary Quinto and Ashley Cummings, showrunner and executive producer Jami O'Brien and executive producer Joe Hill shared the news of the renewal during the show's panel. For the current television season, “NOS4A2” ranks as a Top 20 cable drama and the #2 new basic cable drama among adults 25-54 and 18-49 in Nielsen Live +3 viewing. The second season of “NOS4A2” will go into production this fall and will air on AMC in 2020.
BBC Two Acquires THE LOOMING TOWER
BBC Two has acquired ten-part series, The Looming Tower, based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction book about the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11.
Animus Revives SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME By Frank McGuinness
Animus Theatre Company (Jonathan Judge-Russo, Founding Artistic Director), an ensemble of young, dynamic artists exploring the resilience of the human spirit through new and under-represented works, continues their fourth full season with Frank McGuinness' gripping drama about ideologies held hostage, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, directed by the acclaimed theatre professional, Alan Langdon.