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Alex Moffat, an actor and comedian best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live,” rarely shouts at deer. But during a tense scene in the new crime comedy “Bad Monkey,” a Key deer, a member of an endangered species native to the Florida Keys, kept entering the frame. Not a lot of shows shoot in Florida — blame the lack of film infrastructure; blame the absence of tax breaks; blame the deer and the gnats and the 99 percent humidity. Even shows set in the state will typically shoot in North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana or, as in the case of Lawrence’s Florida-centric comedy “Cougar Town,” Los Angeles. He strongly preferred a Florida shoot, especially for the scenes set in the Keys.
Persons: Alex Moffat, , Moffat, , it’s, Bill Lawrence, Andrew Yancy, Vince Vaughn, Carl Hiaasen’s Organizations: Apple, wranglers, Miami Herald, Hollywood Locations: Florida, North Carolina , Georgia, Louisiana, Los Angeles, Culver City
‘Veep’ Is Re-elected
  + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Veep,” HBO’s merciless satire of Washington politics, went out with a gleeful whimper in 2019, a casualty of the Trump presidency. “We felt we couldn’t keep up with that,” Frank Rich, an executive producer of the series, said on Monday. The internet was suddenly rife with “Veep” clips, GIFs and fancams. “Was the HBO show ‘Veep’ just a documentary filmed in the past about the future?” one post read. “Now we know what HBO’s ‘Veep’ writers were doing during the strike,” read another.
Persons: , , Trump, ” Frank Rich, Biden, Kamala Harris, Max, Veep Organizations: Democratic Locations: Washington, Veep
In ‘The Bear,’ Abby Elliott Follows a New Recipe
  + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Abby Elliott knows her way around a comedy. “I kind of went into it like, Oh, should I do a voice?” Elliott said. That could be fun.”That show was “The Bear,” which returns for its third season on Thursday, on Hulu. Set largely in the fraught kitchen of a Chicago restaurant, it stars Jeremy Allen White as a troubled chef. “The Bear” is a comedy only in the classical sense, in that it emphasizes human foibles and does not end in disaster.
Persons: Abby Elliott, , ” Elliott, , Jeremy Allen White, Elliott, ideation Organizations: Upright Citizens Brigade, FX, Hulu Locations: Chicago
“Baby,” Ariana DeBose confided, “you are always on.”DeBose, an Oscar winner and a longtime Broadway phenom, was speaking of herself, in the second person, last Saturday evening. Dressed in a beige ribbed tank, athletic shorts and chunky heeled boots, she was still glistening from a rehearsal for Sunday’s Tony Awards broadcast. “On” is an understatement: This will be her third time hosting the ceremony, and her first time producing and choreographing. Soon, she would take herself out for a hurried plate of pasta before racing to an evening show. For the past two weeks, DeBose has been on a mission, however implausible, to see all of the nominated plays and musicals.
Persons: ” Ariana DeBose, , , Broadway phenom, Tony, I’ll, DeBose Organizations: Broadway
The rumble had to feel as impactful as a punch to the throat, without any underscoring. In “The Outsiders,” music expresses what can’t be uttered. So the only sounds are the train, the rain and the sonically enhanced punches. Cody Spencer, the sound designer, set speakers around the theater. “We really want to make it feel like you are part of this rumble,” Spencer said.
Persons: Cody Spencer, ” Spencer
In ‘Clipped,’ Cleopatra Coleman Spreads Her Wings
  + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Cleopatra Coleman began with red, swirling it toward pink with a fine-tipped brush. An oval appeared on the paper, and then smaller marks joined it — ears, eyebrows, a line for a nose. “I always draw this woman,” Coleman said. “I don’t know why.”This was on a bright May morning and Coleman, a star of the FX limited series “Clipped,” premiering Tuesday on Hulu, was at Happy Medium, an art cafe around the corner from her temporary apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. So this morning, on a day off from filming a new series, “Black Rabbit,” she had taken herself on a date.
Persons: Cleopatra Coleman, ” Coleman, , Coleman, George, , “ It’s, Donald Sterling Organizations: New York State Summer School, Arts, Los Angeles Clippers Locations: Hulu, Greenpoint , Brooklyn, Manhattan
Here are our thoughts on this season’s inadvertent (and possibly advertent) snubs, delightful (or mystifying) surprises and other notable anomalies. A melancholy morning for ‘Vanya.’Television stars are considered good box office but not always good Tony bait. This year’s crop, including Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Steve Carell and William Jackson Harper, complicates that wisdom. Spreading all that love helped take the show to Number One with a Bullet — the most nominated play in Broadway history. On the other hand, the superb ensemble casts of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” and “Illinoise” were skunked.
Persons: , ‘ Vanya, , Tony, Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Paulson, Carell, Harper, Uncle Vanya, , Chekhov, David Adjmi’s, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon, Juliana Canfield, Will Brill, Eli Gelb, Illinoise Organizations: Broadway, Lincoln Center Theater
The philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch has prioritized donations to environmental causes for more than a decade. She has, she said, a deep understanding of how inhospitable the planet will become if climate change is not addressed. An episode might include a visit to a floating village or a conversation about artificial intelligence with the musician Grimes. “There’s room for screaming,” Wallach said. Climate optimism as opposed to climate fatalism.
Persons: Kathryn Murdoch, , Murdoch, Ari Wallach, , Wallach, Grimes, ” Wallach, Hannah Ritchie’s “ Organizations: PBS, Amazon Prime
“We’ve been teenage girls,” Lily Gladstone said. Which means that Gladstone and her co-star, Riley Keough, know what teenage girls can do. Six teenage girls and one teenage boy, many of them Virk’s classmates, were eventually convicted. Keough, who also produced the series, plays a version of Godfrey. Gladstone plays Cam, an invented character, a Native law enforcement officer who was adopted as a child by a white family.
Persons: “ We’ve, ” Lily Gladstone, Gladstone, Riley Keough, Keough, Reena, Rebecca Godfrey’s, Virk’s, Manjit, Godfrey, Quinn Shephard Organizations: Hulu Locations: Cam
Madonna and Barbra Are Fans. Broadway, Meet Lempicka.
  + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The playwright Carson Kreitzer specializes in difficult women, disparaged women, women who should be better known. But 14 years ago, when a friend suggested the painter Tamara de Lempicka as a potential subject, Kreitzer wasn’t initially enthusiastic. Flipping through the monograph, image after glossy image, Kreitzer realized that she already knew Lempicka’s brash, gleaming work. “Tamara made me a musical writer,” Kreitzer, who had never written a musical before, said in a recent phone interview. “She demanded it.”After years of development, “Lempicka,” a biomusical by Kreitzer (book and lyrics) and Matt Gould (book and music), opens on April 14 at Broadway’s Longacre Theater.
Persons: Carson Kreitzer, Tamara de Lempicka, Kreitzer wasn’t, Kreitzer, Van Cleef, “ Tamara, ” Kreitzer, , , Matt Gould Organizations: Broadway’s Longacre Locations: Van
The first time that Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead shot a scene together, they were in a bathtub, mostly naked. McGregor, in a maximally unflattering wig, was sticking his gut out as far as it would go. This was on a recent afternoon in the chilly basement of a midtown hotel where McGregor and Winstead perched on a love seat, his jacket over his shoulders, his hand on her knee. Two years later, in 2019, they filmed “Birds of Prey” but did not share scenes. Now, they have reunited onscreen for “A Gentleman in Moscow,” which premiered Friday on Paramount+ and debuts Sunday on Showtime.
Persons: Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, McGregor, , ” Winstead, Winstead, , Ray Stussy, Nikki Swango, Emmit Stussy, — McGregor, Wan, Amor, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, Anna Urbanova Organizations: , Wars, Paramount, Showtime Locations: “ Fargo, Moscow, , Russian
Spanning decades and traversing the ancient Mediterranean like some deeply misbegotten Carnival Cruise, this Shakespeare play mingles comedy, tragedy and Christian allegory. There are two assassination plots, two shipwrecks, a brothel, a riddle, a tournament and some very convenient pirates. A devised theater ensemble founded by half a dozen Brown MFA graduates, Fiasco has a soft spot for Shakespeare’s less loved works. Rather than relying on the published text of “Pericles,” Fiasco has set much of the poetry to music — sometimes supplying original words — and interpolated passages from a prose version by George Wilkins, a pamphleteer and publican. Ben Steinfeld, a company member and the director, stages this revised text at Classic Stage Company using Fiasco’s poor-theater playbook — a mostly bare stage furnished with charisma, invention, spirit and song.
Persons: Pericles ”, Ben Jonson, Fiasco, , Verona, “ Pericles, ” Fiasco, George Wilkins, Wilkins, disbelieve, Shakespeare, Ben Steinfeld Organizations: Gentlemen Locations:
At the sound of a gunshot, a performer, wreathed in white silks, tumbles from the ceiling. His body somersaults, over and over, faster and faster, until it hangs suspended, just above the stage floor. This scene, in the first act of “Water for Elephants,” a new musical that begins previews Feb. 24 at the Imperial Theater, portrays the death of an injured horse. And it captures the singular methods of the show — a synthesis of theater and circus, bedazzled for a Broadway audience. “In musicals, you talk until you have to sing and you sing until you have to dance,” Jessica Stone, the director of “Water for Elephants,” explained.
Persons: Jessica Stone, , Rick Elice, Sara Gruen’s, Jacob Jankowski, Grant Gustin, Gregg Edelman Organizations: Imperial, PigPen Theater
For Tobias Menzies, Acting Is All About Less Is More
  + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On a morning in early February, the actor Tobias Menzies walked the Brooklyn Heights Promenade in the relative anonymity he prefers. Menzies wasn’t hiding. But the past few years, including multi-season stints on “The Crown” and “Outlander,” have brought him a new visibility, which still makes him uneasy. Back in 2019, Menzies had originated the stage role of Lucas, a preschool teacher falsely accused of exposing himself to a child, in a London production. A member of a local hunting club, Lucas now finds himself targeted by the community that once embraced him.
Persons: Tobias Menzies, Menzies wasn’t, , , “ I’m, I’m, ” Menzies, Thomas Vinterberg, Menzies, Lucas Organizations: St Locations: Brooklyn, Ann’s, London
Joan Lader Keeps Broadway in Tune
  + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
For 41 years, Joan Lader has rented a slender studio apartment just west of Union Square in Manhattan. But for two generations of Broadway stars, as well as dozens of opera singers and pop and rock luminaries, she remains an indispensable vocal therapist and vocal coach. She continues to work seven hours each day, seven days a week. For Lader, 77, the work is her calling, a synthesis of artistry, science and according to her clients and fans, something akin to magic. “I’ve called her a witch in front of people, many times,” the music director Rob Fisher said.
Persons: Joan Lader, Lader, ” Patti LuPone, I’ve, Rob Fisher, “ I’ve, Locations: Union, Manhattan
Jesse L. Martin Is Watching You
  + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Jesse L. Martin can tell when you’re lying. “There’s also intense eye contact,” he said, demonstrating this across a low table in the bar of a downtown hotel last week. Martin, 55, plays Alec Mercer, a professor of behavioral science at a fictional university. He solves each week’s case by applying one or more behavioral science concepts — the halo effect, the Barnum effect, paradoxical persuasion. Almost pathologically observant, Alec is based on Dan Ariely, a superstar in the field of behavioral science, and Martin has absorbed a morsel of those powers.
Persons: Jesse L, Martin, “ There’s, , Alec Mercer, Alec, Barnum, Dan Ariely, Martin — Organizations: NBC, Broadway, NBC’s “ Locations: New York, Vancouver, British Columbia
“What would happen if James Bond had a blister?” Maya Erskine wondered recently. Erskine, 36, an actor and writer, has been thinking of hypotheticals like these ever since Donald Glover (“Atlanta,” “Swarm”) approached her about starring in “Mr. This eight-episode series, created by Glover and the writer Francesca Sloane, arrives on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 2. The new John and Jane Smith, played by Glover and Erskine, are spies hired by a shadowy organization to pose as a married couple. While completing high-risk missions and racking up casualties, John and Jane are also achieving various relationship milestones — first date, first kiss, first vacation.
Persons: James Bond, Erskine, Donald Glover, , Smith, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Glover, Francesca Sloane, John, Jane Smith, Phoebe Waller, Jane, , Organizations: Amazon Prime, Glover’s Locations: Atlanta
The world first met Cady Heron, Regina George and the Plastics when “Mean Girls” hit movie theaters in 2004. Written by Tina Fey and based on a nonfiction book about social dynamics among high school girls, “Mean Girls” tells the story of a formerly home-schooled 16-year-old who becomes entangled with a group of popular students at her new high school. Its stars became famous, its quotable lines were ubiquitous and young people started wearing pink on Wednesdays. This month, a new version of “Mean Girls” has hit cinemas. Alissa Wilkinson, a film critic, and Alexis Soloski, a culture reporter, discuss their relationships with “Mean Girls,” how the world has changed since the original movie and what the new “Mean Girls” has to say to audiences today.
Persons: Cady Heron, Regina George, Tina Fey, Alissa Wilkinson, Alexis Soloski Organizations: Plastics
Christina Applegate made a rare public appearance to present the first Emmy, for supporting actress in a comedy series. Glamorous in a plunging gown and visibly overcome by the long standing ovation she received, she still made self-deprecating jokes about Ozempic and disability. “You’re totally shaming me with disability by standing up,” she told the crowd. Applegate hasn’t announced any new projects since receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2021. (“It’s not like I came on the other side of it, like, ‘Woohoo, I’m totally fine,’” she told The Times in 2022, speaking of that diagnosis.
Persons: Christina Applegate, “ You’re, , ” Applegate, Quinta Brunson, “ Abbott, prettiness, Jen, Linda Cardellini’s Judy, Applegate hasn’t, I’m, Applegate, Kelly Bundy, Samantha Who ” Organizations: Netflix, Times
When Trailers Hit Mute on the Musical
  + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Despite what its marketing might suggest, “Mean Girls” (in theaters), the latest in a set of pink-accented nesting dolls, is irrefutably a movie musical. Adapted from the 2018 Broadway musical, which was itself based on the 2004 film, which was in turn inspired by the 2002 nonfiction book “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” this new version has singing. It has one delectable moment in which the members of the school marching band raise their saxophones and tubas high. Barring a split-second shot of the band, you wouldn’t know that from the film’s trailers. It was made to look instead like a vaguely edgier remix of the 2004 film.
Persons: Regina George, , Olivia Rodrigo’s “ Organizations: Bees
John Rando, who directed the “Back to the Future” musical, hired Likes for his youth, his amiability, his soulful rock tenor. Once previews began, he was also impressed with the confidence that Likes brought to the role and his effortless engagement with viewers. Likes knows that he has to get the audience on his side, smile by smile, note by note. This week the “Back to the Future” team, the Pinheads, would play the “Kimberly Akimbo” team, Pinberly Akimbowl. Asked if his co-star Roger Bart (who plays Doc Brown) was on the team, Likes shook his head and laughed.
Persons: John Rando, ” Rando, Patrick Fugit, Michael J, , , Kimberly Akimbo ”, Pinberly Akimbowl, Spareolines, Roger Bart, Doc Brown, Likes, Bart, “ He’s, don’t Organizations: Fox, Broadway Locations: “ Moulin Rouge
“I have no idea what I like,” Emma Corrin said. This was on a recent Friday afternoon at the Mysterious Bookshop, a Manhattan emporium dedicated to thrillers, detective stories, spy stories and noir classics. Corrin appealed to the store’s manager, Tom Wickersham. They play Darby Hart, an amateur detective who becomes a true-crime author after solving a case involving unidentified women in the Midwest. Between setups, Corrin would read aloud from selected books, including a collection of erotica.
Persons: Emma Corrin, Paolo Pasolini, Corrin, Tom Wickersham, , ” Corrin, Darby Hart, Locations: Manhattan, London
There’s some torque applied to the characters and the situations, which reminds me of comedy, but it isn’t always a comedy. I guess that’s maybe the mortality. Maybe I could try to elicit the audience’s sympathy for someone, but I wouldn’t want to with this show. It wasn’t like, Oh, let’s try and push people away or draw them in. But if it could happen or would happen, we’d always say, let’s do it.
Persons: isn’t, I’d, Nick Britell, Robert Maxwell, Rupert, Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, let’s, we’d Locations: British
Mary Kathryn Nagle moved to Manhattan in 2010. These dueling histories, recent and long ago, inspired Nagle’s play “Manahatta.” Now in previews at the Public Theater, it will run through Dec. 23. Named for the Lenape word for Manhattan, which translates to “island of many hills,” the drama volleys between the 17th century and the early 21st, and between Manahatta and Manhattan and Anadarko. The seven actors in the cast each play a character in each period. This is the play’s third production, but the first on the island on which it is largely set.
Persons: Mary Kathryn Nagle, , Nagle, Quinn Emanuel Organizations: Cherokee, Delaware Indians, National Museum of, Public Locations: Manhattan, Oklahoma, Delaware, Anadarko, Bartlesville, New York, Manahatta
If confetti supplies have plummeted, if a spangle shortage now afflicts Manhattan, blame a tent at the southwestern corner of Lincoln Center. Yes, the Big Apple Circus has returned and for a little over a month New York will glimmer more brightly. In 2016, after operating as a nonprofit for nearly 40 years, the original outfit shut down and filed for bankruptcy. An affiliate of a corporate restructuring firm bought it in 2017, then switched out its management and character several times. In 2021, it was sold again, to a corporation that counts the famed aerialist Nik Wallenda as a minority owner, and became a bit more death-defying.
Persons: Nik Wallenda Organizations: Lincoln Center, Big Apple Locations: Manhattan, New York
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