A stage adaptation of The Pianist, based on the Władysław Szpilman memoir that was the source of the Oscar-nominated 2002 film, is being developed by director Emily Mann with an eye toward Broadway. An industry reading is set for New York City this month with Tony Award winner Santino Fontana (Tootsie) starring as Szpilman.
The project was announced today by producers Robin de Levita Productions, Gorgeous Entertainment, and Wolk Transfer Company. Described as a play with music, The Pianist features an original score by Dutch concert pianist Iris Hond.
The invitation-only industry reading is set for June 23, with Fontana leading a company that includes Richard Topol, Georgia Warner, Claire Beckman, Arielle Goldman, Paul Spera, Addison Finley, Jordan Lage, Robert David Grant and Tina Benko.
The Pianist tells the true story of Szpilman, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Warsaw in World War II. The 2002 film adaptation of Szpilman’s 1946 memoir won Adrien Brody...
The project was announced today by producers Robin de Levita Productions, Gorgeous Entertainment, and Wolk Transfer Company. Described as a play with music, The Pianist features an original score by Dutch concert pianist Iris Hond.
The invitation-only industry reading is set for June 23, with Fontana leading a company that includes Richard Topol, Georgia Warner, Claire Beckman, Arielle Goldman, Paul Spera, Addison Finley, Jordan Lage, Robert David Grant and Tina Benko.
The Pianist tells the true story of Szpilman, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Warsaw in World War II. The 2002 film adaptation of Szpilman’s 1946 memoir won Adrien Brody...
- 6/21/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Mina Walker, Joan Glackin, Jordan Lage, Sandra Gartner, Ariel Zevon | Written and Directed by Barak Barkan
The horror genre has actually got a fairly decent history of using disabilities in its movie in a positive way. There are of course plenty of bad examples but there are also films like Hush, A Quiet Place and Ropes. Silence and Darkness deals with a family that involves a father who has a deaf daughter and a blind daughter and shows us how they live there lives.
The sisters relationship is a huge part of the story and it’s both brilliant and fascinating. Personally, the use of sign language always draws me into a movie, I know a little sign language myself and I know how important it is and I love to see it used prominently in a film. Here the sisters, Anna and Beth, show a special bond that...
The horror genre has actually got a fairly decent history of using disabilities in its movie in a positive way. There are of course plenty of bad examples but there are also films like Hush, A Quiet Place and Ropes. Silence and Darkness deals with a family that involves a father who has a deaf daughter and a blind daughter and shows us how they live there lives.
The sisters relationship is a huge part of the story and it’s both brilliant and fascinating. Personally, the use of sign language always draws me into a movie, I know a little sign language myself and I know how important it is and I love to see it used prominently in a film. Here the sisters, Anna and Beth, show a special bond that...
- 1/20/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Anna (Mina Walker) and Beth (Joan Glackin) are just like any other pair of teenage sisters stuck at home on a long, quiet day. Beth wants to watch gymnastics on the television; Anna wants music. The latter has the more forceful personality and gets her way, so Beth, who is deaf, has to press her hands up against the set to feel its vibrations and follow what's happening. They discuss it with their fingers running along one another's forearms; signing is not possible for Anna because she's blind.
Deafness and blindness have some of the same causes so at first this situation doesn't seem all that unlikely. Neither does the fact that their father (Jordan Lage), a doctor, keeps them largely separated from the rest of the world, in his spacious country home. They were not completely cut off. People in the nearby village, which they visit on a shopping expedition,...
Deafness and blindness have some of the same causes so at first this situation doesn't seem all that unlikely. Neither does the fact that their father (Jordan Lage), a doctor, keeps them largely separated from the rest of the world, in his spacious country home. They were not completely cut off. People in the nearby village, which they visit on a shopping expedition,...
- 1/4/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dan Cody's Yacht is now in previews ahead of a Wednesday, June 6 opening night at Mtc at New York City Center - Stage I 131 West 55th Street. The cast of Dan Cody's Yacht features Kristen Bush Taking Care of Baby at Mtc, The City of Conversation, Meredith Forlenza 1984, The Winslow Boy, Laura Kai Chen Her, Days of Our Lives,Rick Holmes Junk, Peter and the Starcatcher, John Kroft Dracula, Jordan Lage Race, Speed-the-Plow, Roxanna Hope Radja Ruins of Civilization at Mtc, Torch Song, and Casey Whyland Billy Elliot the Musical.
- 5/31/2018
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
A film we called "a remarkable, ambitious directorial debut" with a "a fascinating feminine story," "The Girl In The Book" is one of those finds that are discovered outside the usual Berlin/Cannes/Venice/Tiff lineups. Instead, our own Katie Walsh caught the picture at the Los Angeles Film Festival this past summer, and now you see what captured her attention. Read More: Review: 'The Girl In The Book' Starring Emily VanCamp Is A Remarkable, Ambitious Debut Directed by Marya Cohn, and starring Emily VanCamp, Michael Nyqvist, David Call, Michael Cristofer, Talia Balsam, Ana Mulvoy-Ten, Jordan Lage, and Ali Ahn, the story follows a young woman who is forced to confront her past when she crosses paths with a man she hasn't seen in fifteen years. Here's the official synopsis: 29-year-old assistant editor and aspiring writer Alice Harvey is funny, smart and emotionally self-destructive. Climbing the ranks at a notable publishing company,...
- 12/4/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Atlantic Theater Company presents the New York premiere of Harper Regan, by Oliver Award winner Simon Stephens, starring an ensemble cast featuring Vandit Bhatt, Christopher Innvar, Mahira Kakkar, Jordan Lage, Madeleine Martin, Mary McCann, Mary Beth Peil, Gareth Saxe, Peter Scanavino, John Sharian and Stephen Tyrone Williams, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.Harper Regan officially opened last night, October 10 and plays a limited engagement through Sunday, October 28 Off-Broadway at Atlantics main stage Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street. Check out photos from opening night below...
- 10/11/2012
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
A constituent angrily tells a politician, "You've become a bottle of smoke," in John Patrick Shanley's new drama, "Storefront Church," which is about the nature of faith with a capital F.
Written and directed by Shanley, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, the intense drama about several related crises of faith opened in a quirky yet searing production Monday night off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's newly renovated Linda Gross Theater.
Featuring an accomplished cast, the edgy "Storefront Church" completes what Shanley calls his "Church and State" trilogy, following his 2004 "Doubt" (which won a drama Pulitzer) and his 2006 "Defiance." Thrown together by a mortgage crisis, a basically decent, ethically-conflicted, fictional Bronx borough president and a high-minded preacher who's a Katrina refugee from New Orleans square off in an intense confrontation about their individual commitments to their social and spiritual beliefs.
Giancarlo Esposito is scrappy and cynical as up-and-coming politician Donaldo Calderon,...
Written and directed by Shanley, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, the intense drama about several related crises of faith opened in a quirky yet searing production Monday night off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's newly renovated Linda Gross Theater.
Featuring an accomplished cast, the edgy "Storefront Church" completes what Shanley calls his "Church and State" trilogy, following his 2004 "Doubt" (which won a drama Pulitzer) and his 2006 "Defiance." Thrown together by a mortgage crisis, a basically decent, ethically-conflicted, fictional Bronx borough president and a high-minded preacher who's a Katrina refugee from New Orleans square off in an intense confrontation about their individual commitments to their social and spiritual beliefs.
Giancarlo Esposito is scrappy and cynical as up-and-coming politician Donaldo Calderon,...
- 6/12/2012
- by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
- Huffington Post
Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) will present the New York and world premieres of a double bill of one-act plays from Atlantic's founder. Two Unrelated Plays By David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon And School, directed by Neil Pepe, will feature the ensemble cast of Jeffrey Addiss, Michael Cassidy, Steven Hawley, J.J. Johnston, Jordan Lage, Brian Murray, Rod McLachlan, John Pankow, Jonathan Rossetti, Jack Wallaceand Todd Weeks.
- 9/2/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting for the New York and world premieres of a double bill of one-act plays from Atlantic's founder. Two Unrelated Plays By David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon And School, directed by Neil Pepe, will feature the ensemble cast of Jeffrey Addiss, Michael Cassidy, Steven Hawley, J.J. Johnston, Jordan Lage, Brian Murray, Rod McLachlan, John Pankow, Jonathan Rossetti, Jack Wallace and Todd Weeks.
- 8/17/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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