#tina landau

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this tweet from Tina Landua 😭

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Ethan Slater with Tina Landau at the Meet The Press event at New 42nd Street Studios (October 11, 2017)

(See more pics of Ethan 📸)

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Paula Vogel, Tina Landau, and the Room That Made 'Mother Play'

Originally published by American Theatre Magazine on June 5, 2024 Once begun, the play took just two weeks to write. But in many ways it had been decades in the making. So had the collaboration. Paula Vogel and Tina Landau have known one another since the 1990s, the same decade Vogel’s late brother Carl and a version of herself first appeared onstage in her play The Baltimore Waltz. Later that…

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'Mother Play,' Stellar Performances by Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons

The 'Mother Play' by Paula Vogel is a must-see for its profound themes and especially for its marvelous performances by Jessica Lange, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons.

(L to R): Celia Kennan-Bolger, Jessica Lange in Mother Play (Joan Marcus) One of the keys to understanding Mother Play, A Play in Five Evictions by Paula Vogel is in the narration. Currently running in its premiere at 2NDSTAGE, directed by Tina Landau, Vogel’s play is has some elements of her own life, by is not naturalistic. It is stylized, quirky, humorous, imaginative and figurative, like…

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2ST Broadway's "Mother Play" is Truly a Dynamic Daughter/Mother Unpacking

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: @2STNYC's #MotherPlay on #Broadway by #PaulaVogel d: #TinaLandau w/ #JessicaLange #CeliaKeenanBolger #JimParsons #MotherPlayBway #2STMotherPlay

Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jessica Lange in 2ST Broadway’s Mother Play. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Broadway Theatre Review: 2ST’s Mother Play By Ross ‘A play in five evictions’, reads the subtitle of the new Broadway star-filled gem of a play, Mother Play, unpacking heartache, disappointment, and complicated attachments, literally, at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater. Its one compelling treasure trove…

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Beautifull, incredible, pristine, delicious, good vibes, so rad-

[ID: Gifs from the “Hero is My Middle Name” scene of the Spongebob musical. The scenery is lit up in dark shades of blue and purple, and giant jellyfish puppets are being swung around in the background. image 1: Sandy and Spongebob cartwheel to the center of the stage. Patrick follows them, simply doing a little hop.

image 2: Spongebob does a small hip thrust as he sings, while on either side of him, Patrick and Sandy throw their hands onto their hips and puff out their chests.

image 3: The trio pats their thighs then their chests in sync before wrapping their arms around each other’s shoulders, still standing in a row.

image 4: With his friends supporting his back, Spongebob does a backflip. End ID.]

Hero is our middle name! Fixin’ trouble is our game!

Just give it the old know-how!

There’s no better time than now!

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Beyoncé getting ready for Glamour Magazine’s “Women of the Year” awards at Paradise Club at The Times Square EDITION. Ms. Tina was one of the honorees of the “Mothers of the Year” award. Marilyn Monroe been mighty quiet lately. 👩🏼💅🏽😂🤣 (10/8/24)

Bey is wearing Spring/Summer 2025 Sergio Hudson Look 2, chloé rosie cat-eye sunglasses, and a adrienne landau faux fur stole.

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Things read & watched in February

Articles & Essays:

I’m Willing To Throw People Under The Bus If It Means Pretending To Relive My Childhood

Reading is precious--which is why I've been giving away my books

In the shallow world of BookTok, being ‘a reader’ is more important than actually reading

My Book Blew Up on Instagram. Why isn't TikTok for Me?

Before Nirvana or Pearl Jam, there was Tina Bell, the godmother of grunge.

Anthony Bourdain's Last Interview

Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name

Why I Was Never A Riot Grrrl

My Insider Experience as a Seatfiller at the Grammys

“Jackass” Made Me the Trans Woman I Am

The Essential Judy Blume

Fall of the Progressive Boy King

Creatures That Don't Conform

An Interview with Franny Choi

Our Enduring LGBTQ Symbols

World's First Anime AMV Creator Has Passed Away

This Is What Netflix Thinks Your Family Is

The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel”

Why Do We Let “Genius” Directors Get Away With Abusive Behavior?

Colour & Shape: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Science Museum Group Collection

Poetry:

Edge of the Wild by Leah Umansky

A DEATH MASK IS A WAY TO PERPETUATE THE TRANSITORY by Chuck Carlise

Song For The Old Ones by Maya Angelou

People by D. H. Lawrence

Rain, First Morning by Joanna Klink

The Almost Love Poem of Eloise and Kofi by Brian Gyamfi

Let Him Rest by George Abraham

Two Shabbats with Paul Celan by Miller Oberman

Flesh by Deborah Landau

Harold Norse says, “Poetry meant being a sissy and worse. A fairy. A friend of mine once asked me why all poets were fairies. Well, I answered, that’s because they can fly.” by Tyler Raso

Books:

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Reading 'Lolita' in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Devotions by Mary Oliver

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

Films:

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April 5, 2024: May 5, 2020, John Okrent

May 5, 2020 John Okrent

It is beautiful to be glad to see a person every time you see them, as I was to see Juan, the maintenance man, with whom it was always the same brotherly greeting—each of us thumping a fist over his heart and grinning, as though we shared a joke, or bread. I barely knew him. Evenings in clinic, me finishing my work, him beginning his— fluorescence softening in the early dark. He wasn't even fifty, had four grandchildren, fixed what was broken, cleaned for us, caught the virus, and died on his couch last weekend. And what right have I to write this poem, who will not see him in his uniform of ashes, only remember him, in his Seahawks cap, and far from sick, locking up after me, turning up his music.

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More like this:

Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry, Jericho Brown

When people say, “we have made it through worse before”, Clint Smith

Today in:

2023: Homeric Hymn, A.E. Stallings 2022: The Mower, Philip Larkin 2021: When people say, “we have made it through worse before”, Clint Smith 2020: Untitled, James Baldwin 2019: To Yahweh, Tina Kelley 2018: from how many of us have them?, Danez Smith 2017: Sad Dictionary, Richard Siken 2016: Lucia, Ravi Shankar 2015: Overjoyed, Ada Limón 2014: Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing, Margaret Atwood 2013: Anniversary, Cecilia Woloch 2012: Poem for Jack Spicer, Matthew Zapruder 2011: Now comes the long blue cold, Mary Oliver 2010: Jackie Robinson, Lucille Clifton 2009: In the Nursing Home, Jane Kenyon 2008: To the Couple Lingering on the Doorstep, Deborah Landau 2007: White Apples, Donald Hall 2006: Late Confession, Gary Soto 2005: Steps, Frank O’Hara

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Jim Parsons is opening up about how "beautiful" it was to reprise his Big Bang Theory role as adult Sheldon Cooper for the Young Sheldon series finale.

While speaking with ET's Rachel Smith about his Broadway project, Mother Play, Parsons shared that, yes, he has already taped his part for the Young Sheldon series finale. He's reprising his role alongside Mayim Bialik's Amy Farrah Fowler. Parsons said going back to a familiar role went so much better than he expected.

"It was beautiful. It was even more beautiful than I expected it to be. One of the reasons I was excited to do it is because what they wrote is so sweet and I think they worked Mayim and I into that show so beautifully," Parsons tells ET. "I hope everyone agrees. But also for us the way that they tape -- because they're a single-camera show and we're multi-camera -- the whole look of the show was a really special experience. To get to go with Mayim, in a world we're really guests and revisit these characters a little older, just a completely different circumstance."

When they reprise their roles on Young Sheldon on what will likely be a flash-forward scene, it'll be the first time Parsons and Bialik reprise their roles and appear on-screen together since The Big Bang Theory ended in May 2019. Parsons said that since leaving the show, everything's been like "one big wash of a memory, but to go back" it felt different.

"We're older and we haven't seen these people," he says. "It just felt different, but it felt really, really sweet."

"Well, yes and no. We finished our first read-through, we didn't tape it. We just went in and felt around the set, and Mayim nailed it when she walked back and said, 'Uh, I thought I'd feel a lot more confident than this.' I said, 'Me, too,'" Parsons admitted. "I really thought it'd be like putting on a pair of old shoes and then eventually it was, but not for about an hour or so. And I was like, 'Do I still know how to talk like this?' It was weird."

When Young Sheldon comes to a close with the season 7 finale in April, fans can expect the Big Bang Theory universe to expand once again, as it's been reported that CBS ordered a Young Sheldon spinoff series centered around George and Mandy raising their family in Texas. Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Steve Holland are the creators. The trio's also the brains behind The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.

"I really think it goes back to the writers," said Parsons, explaining what makes the shows successful. "They have continuously created such characters that people connect to, that people enjoy watching. It was always the key to our show, that I thought it was a group of people that who each individually were such well-defined deep characters. And it's the same with Young Sheldon and now they've got two more to go with. It's crazy."

In the meantime, fans can catch Parsons star opposite Jessica Lange and Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play, a Broadway feature from Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel. The 1-hour, 30-minute play (no intermission) is directed by Tina Landau, and the play centers around Parsons, Lange and Keenan-Bolger sharing the stage as a dysfunctional but moving family. 

Mother Play begins preview performances on Broadway on April 2.

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Cast for The Spongebob Musical's UK premiere announced

Casting has been unveiled for the UK premiere of The Spongebob Musical, based on the beloved animated series.

Featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Eugene and Gary the Snail, the musical has original tunes by the likes of Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Sara Bareilles, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Plain White T's and more. It is written by Kyle Jarrow and conceived by Tina Landau, and there are additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton and additional music by Tom Kitt.

The tour will open at Southampton on 5 April 2023, before visiting Birmingham, Bradford, Oxford, Dublin, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff, Blackpool, Peterborough, Wolverhampton, Norwich, Leicester and Aberdeen ahead of spending five weeks over the summer at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall prior to visiting Plymouth.

Set to appear in the show will be Gareth Gates (he/him) as Squidward, Divina de Campo (she/her) as Sheldon J Plankton, Lewis Cornay (he/him) as SpongeBob, Irfan Damani (he/him) as Patrick, Chrissie Bhima (she/her) as Sandy, Richard J Hunt (he/him) as Mr Krabs, Sarah Freer (she/her) as Pearl, Eloise Davies (she/her) as Mrs Puff, Hannah Lowther (she/her) as Karen and Rebecca Lisewski (she/her) as Mayor.

They are joined by Sam Beveridge (he/him), Jeremiah Olaleye (he/him), Eleanor Turiansky (she/her), Rhys Batten (he/him) and Reece Kerridge (he/him).

Gates is not currently set to appear in Bradford, Manchester, Peterborough, Wolverhampton, Leicester, Aberdeen, London and Plymouth.

The tour is set to be directed by Tara Overfield Wilkinson (she/her), with choreographer Fabian Aloise (he/him), designer Steve Howell (he/him), musical supervisor Mark Crossland (he/him), musical director Marcus Carter-Adams (he/him), costume designer Sarah Mercade (she/her), lighting and video designer Ben Bull (he/him), sound designer Ben Harrison (he/him), costume and wig supervisor Megan Rarity (she/her), associate choreographer Paris Green (she/her) and casting director Harry Blumenau casting (he/him).

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'Mother Play,' Stellar Performances by Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons

The 'Mother Play' by Paula Vogel is a must-see for its profound themes and especially for its marvelous performances by Jessica Lange, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons.

(L to R): Celia Kennan-Bolger, Jessica Lange in Mother Play (Joan Marcus) One of the keys to understanding Mother Play, A Play in Five Evictions by Paula Vogel is in the narration. Currently running in its premiere at 2NDSTAGE, directed by Tina Landau, Vogel’s play is has some elements of her own life, by is not naturalistic. It is stylized, quirky, humorous, imaginative and figurative, like…

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The power imbalance thing is HUGE. I think people don’t want to acknowledge it because it’s a woman with all the potter in this situation, if the roles were reversed things would be EXTREMELY different. I also think that a huge piece that people are missing, particularly people uninitiated with SBTM and the theatre works as a whole, is just how big of a deal SpongeBob was when it first came to Broadway. I’ll never forget how the majority of people were vehemently against SpongeBob the musical ever being made let alone going to Broadway. People were literally calling it the death of art and stuff. But then it opened on Broadway to RAVE reviews and was considered the biggest triumph of the past several seasons, and a massive part of that unexpected success was due to Ethan himself; Tina Landau herself said so. So many people changed their minds about that show after seeing it and it became so popular and beloved for good reason, it was a true underdog story. Nobody believed in them, everyone wanted them to fail, but they did it anyways and literally came out as heroes and martyrs. For Ethan to constantly be posted as “the guy who played SpongeBob on Broadway” by media outlets and twitter users is majorly undercutting the impact that that musical (and he himself) had on the theatre world in 2018. Probably intentionally.

This 100%. If the roles were switched, people would be calling out the power imbalance left and right.

Oh yeah, people are doing a great disservice not only to Ethan himself, but to SBTM as a whole by just calling him "the guy who played SpongeBob". SBTM was essentially The Little Show That Could, and I've seen so many people through the years comment on the fact the success of the show is hugely due to how Ethan portrayed the role (and just his charm in general).