2025 Tony Award Nominations: Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending Lead the Pack
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2025 Tony Award Nominations: Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending Lead the Pack

Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending all tied to become the most nominated productions of the season, each including the much coveted Best Musical. (With a Special Tony Award being bestowed on Buena Vista Social Club's band, the musical is technically the most recognized in this nomination announcement.)

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Theater Review | ‘Parents in Chains’
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Theater Review | ‘Parents in Chains’

Full of clever, sometimes-brutal humor, and tender, relatable discussions about moving through life’s most overwhelming shifts, Parents in Chains, presented as a “disguised” reading by Ensemble Theatre Company in association with J. Todd Harris, is a smooth, comic pleasure.

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Patricia Clarkson on movie ‘Lilly’: 'The proudest moment of my life'
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Patricia Clarkson on movie ‘Lilly’: 'The proudest moment of my life'

Actor Patricia Clarkson talks about her latest film “Lilly,” where she plays Lilly Ledbetter, the tire factory worker who fought for equal pay. She discusses Ledbetter's legacy in history and what it meant to her to portray the activist. “It was the privilege of my life to play this great woman,” she says.

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William H. Macy, John Corbett, Joel Courtney & Others Set For Sean McNamara Pic ‘On Fire’ Based On True Story Of Severe Burn Survivor John O’Leary
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William H. Macy, John Corbett, Joel Courtney & Others Set For Sean McNamara Pic ‘On Fire’ Based On True Story Of Severe Burn Survivor John O’Leary

EXCLUSIVE: William H. Macy (Shameless), John Corbett (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Joel Courtney (The Kissing Booth), DeVon Franklin (Jesus Revolution), and Stephanie Szostak (A Million Little Things) are among those set to star in On Fire, another new film from Sean McNamara (Reagan) that has landed a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement and will begin production in St. Louis November 6.

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‘12 Mighty Orphans’ Review: Luke Wilson & Martin Sheen Score In Inspiring Depression-Era Texas Football Drama – Tribeca Fest
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‘12 Mighty Orphans’ Review: Luke Wilson & Martin Sheen Score In Inspiring Depression-Era Texas Football Drama – Tribeca Fest

12 Mighty Orphans, a Spotlight Narrative entry at Tribeca Fest, is a film that looks and feels like it might have been made in the 1930s Depression era in which it is set. You half expect Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney to show up any minute, like in Boys Town. In the cynical exploitative social media-driven world we live in, this true story of a good and decent man and his ragtag football team of orphans is positively quaint and out of place, but somehow comforting in all it represents of an America long ago.

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Broadway-Bound Soul Train to Premiere at American Conservatory Theater in Fall 2022
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Broadway-Bound Soul Train to Premiere at American Conservatory Theater in Fall 2022

It's time to boogie! Soul Train, a new musical based on Don Cornelius' landmark TV show, will have its world premiere at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater next year. The show will run from September 16 to October 23, 2022 where COVID-19 protocols will be in place in accordance with the City and County of San Francisco’s regulations. The production was originally eyeing a 2021 Broadway bow prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused theaters to shutdown.

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