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

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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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I knew it!!! So exciting!!

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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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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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"Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins is one of my favorite musicals. It's coming to Broadway this year, which is great. And I love Sondheim, like everyone else," Jesse Eisenberg says on Soundtracking with Edith Bowman. You can hear their conversation here. You can hear the Original Cast Recording of Floyd Collins, released on Nonesuch in 1997, here. And you can get tickets to the upcoming Lincoln Center Theater production of Floyd Collins, starring Jeremy Jordan and directed by Tina Landau, here.

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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).

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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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Tina Landau and Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins comes to Broadway for the first time ever this year!

The musical begins previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater March 27, 2025, and opens April 21. Tina Landau directs.

The cast stars Jeremy Jordan as Floyd Collins, as well as Jason Gotay, Sean Allan Krill, Marc Kudisch, Lizzy McAlpine, Wade McCollum, Jessica Molaskey, Cole Vaughan and Taylor Trensch.

They will be joined by Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kristen Hahn, Happy McPartlin, Kevyn Morrow, Zak Resnick, Justin Showell, Colin Trudell, and Clyde Voce.

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Martin Landau by Tina & Joe Via Flickr: Without Warning (1980)