Exclusive: Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó has been tapped by Straight Up Films and Phoenix Pictures to direct a film about the life of Joseph Merrick, best known as The Elephant Man. The story will follow an unlikely love story between Joseph and the young woman assigned to his care at the Fawsley Hall Estate, where he’s been invited to experience nature and leisure in the final weeks of his life.
The Elephant Man was a popular stage play originated in 1970s London by Bernard Pomerance. Bradley Cooper starred as Merrick in the most recent 12-week theater revival, a performance that earned him a Tony nomination. David Lynch also adapted a 1980 film version starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins that picked up multiple Oscar noms.
Co-CEOs and founders of Straight Up Films Kate Cohen and Marisa Polvino will produce the latest feature adaptation with Shutter Island and Black Swan producer...
The Elephant Man was a popular stage play originated in 1970s London by Bernard Pomerance. Bradley Cooper starred as Merrick in the most recent 12-week theater revival, a performance that earned him a Tony nomination. David Lynch also adapted a 1980 film version starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins that picked up multiple Oscar noms.
Co-CEOs and founders of Straight Up Films Kate Cohen and Marisa Polvino will produce the latest feature adaptation with Shutter Island and Black Swan producer...
- 11/7/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Bernard Pomerance, the American playwright and poet who wrote the Tony Award winning play The Elephant Man, died at his home in Galisteo, New Mexico on the morning of Saturday, August 26, 2017.
- 8/29/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bernard Pomerance, the American playwright who wrote the 1979 Tony Award-winning play The Elephant Man, has died. He was 76.
Pomerance died Saturday of complications from cancer at his home in Galisteo, N.M., his longtime agent Alan Brodie announced.
Pomerance wrote The Elephant Man for his theater company, Foco Novo, and it became one of the most successful plays to ever come out of London. Set in the Victorian era, it opened in April 1979 on Broadway at the Booth Theatre and went on to play 916 performances, capturing the Tony Award for best play.
The leading role of the...
Pomerance died Saturday of complications from cancer at his home in Galisteo, N.M., his longtime agent Alan Brodie announced.
Pomerance wrote The Elephant Man for his theater company, Foco Novo, and it became one of the most successful plays to ever come out of London. Set in the Victorian era, it opened in April 1979 on Broadway at the Booth Theatre and went on to play 916 performances, capturing the Tony Award for best play.
The leading role of the...
- 8/29/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bernard Pomerance, the American playwright and poet who wrote the Tony-winning 1977 play “The Elephant Man,” died Saturday of complications from cancer at his home in Galisteo, New Mexico. He was 74. The death was confirmed by his long time agent, Alan Brodie. The Brooklyn-born Pomerance first wrote “The Elephant Man” — the story of the 19th-century man John Merrick who was born with severe physical deformities — for the London-based theater company Foco Novo. After premiering in London in 1977, it then opened on Broadway in 1979 and played for 916 performances. The show also won three Tony Awards, including Best Play. Also Read:...
- 8/29/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Eric Bergren, an Oscar nominee for co-writing The Elephant Man, has died. He was 62. The WGA said he died July 14 of complications from liver cancer in his hometown of Pasadena. Bergren shared the adapted screenplay Academy Award nom with his writing partner Christopher De Vore and David Lynch, who directed the 1980 film based on Bernard Pomerance’s 1977 play. The trio also scored Golden Globe, WGA and BAFTA noms for the pic, which starred John Hurt as a severely deformed…...
- 8/2/2016
- Deadline
David Bowie in 'The Hunger' with Catherine Deneuve. David Bowie movies: Iconic singer memorable as fast-aging vampire in 'The Hunger,' Nikola Tesla in 'The Prestige' Singer and sometime actor David Bowie, one of the iconic figures of the English-language music scene of the second half of the 20th century, died of cancer yesterday, Jan. 10, '16. Bowie (born David Robert Jones in the London suburb of Brixton) had turned 69 on Jan. 8. His son, filmmaker Duncan Jones (Moon), has confirmed Bowie's death on Twitter. Bowie was seen in only a couple of dozen movies during his four-decade show business career. Among his most memorable film roles were those in the titles listed below. The Man Who Fell to Earth Directed by Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout, Don't Look Now) from a screenplay by Paul Mayersberg (based on a novel by Walter Tevis), The Man Who Fell to Earth...
- 1/11/2016
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe in Peter Morgan's The Audience
Last night at the 69th Tony Awards held at Radio City Music Hall, British stars conquered Broadway, winning three of the four Best Play Performance categories, Best Revival of a Play and Best Play.
Nominees Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, and Alessandro Nivola with their dates (mums) for the Tony Awards. The Elephant Man stars will be flying back to London today to continue their run in the revival of Bernard Pomerance's play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket through August 8. Photo: Alessandro Nivola
Simon Stephens' adaptation of Mark Haddon's mystery novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time won Best Play after newcomer Alex Sharp garnered Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. David Hare's Skylight, starring Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy, and Matthew Beard took home Best Revival of a Play.
Last night at the 69th Tony Awards held at Radio City Music Hall, British stars conquered Broadway, winning three of the four Best Play Performance categories, Best Revival of a Play and Best Play.
Nominees Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, and Alessandro Nivola with their dates (mums) for the Tony Awards. The Elephant Man stars will be flying back to London today to continue their run in the revival of Bernard Pomerance's play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket through August 8. Photo: Alessandro Nivola
Simon Stephens' adaptation of Mark Haddon's mystery novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time won Best Play after newcomer Alex Sharp garnered Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. David Hare's Skylight, starring Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy, and Matthew Beard took home Best Revival of a Play.
- 6/8/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's The Audience
On this Sunday, June 7, 2015, the British invasion of film and theatre stars who crossed the Atlantic to Broadway will be honoured during the 69th Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, co-hosted by Scotland's own Alan Cumming. Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe for Peter Morgan's The Audience, Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy, and Matthew Beard for the revival of David Hare's Skylight, Ben Miles, Lydia Leonard, and Nathaniel Parker for Hilary Mantel and Mike Poulton's Wolf Hall Parts One & Two.
Even honorary Brits, Bradley Cooper, Alessandro Nivola and Patricia Clarkson, who are nominated and currently starring in the revival of Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London through August 8 are flying in for the ceremony.
Alessandro wrote on Thursday when I inquired about their plans for the Tony Awards. He responded: "Hi - yes...
On this Sunday, June 7, 2015, the British invasion of film and theatre stars who crossed the Atlantic to Broadway will be honoured during the 69th Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, co-hosted by Scotland's own Alan Cumming. Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe for Peter Morgan's The Audience, Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy, and Matthew Beard for the revival of David Hare's Skylight, Ben Miles, Lydia Leonard, and Nathaniel Parker for Hilary Mantel and Mike Poulton's Wolf Hall Parts One & Two.
Even honorary Brits, Bradley Cooper, Alessandro Nivola and Patricia Clarkson, who are nominated and currently starring in the revival of Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London through August 8 are flying in for the ceremony.
Alessandro wrote on Thursday when I inquired about their plans for the Tony Awards. He responded: "Hi - yes...
- 6/7/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Before the Tony Awards this Sunday, June 7, get to know your nominees and the stellar performances they delivered this season! Here are the nominated actors in this year’s plays. And be sure to check out the nominees from this year’s musical productions! Actor In A Leading Role In A Play Steven Boyer, “Hand to God”Because Boyer embodies Robert Askins’ two protagonists—the shy Jason and the demonic Tyrone—so precisely, it’s easy to forget the latter is a hand puppet. With astonishing technical prowess, he reacts as one while voicing the other, playing catharsis as brilliantly as rage. They’re the two best performances of the season. Bradley Cooper, “The Elephant Man”Cooper brought to life a long-held dream to play Bernard Pomerance’s deformed hero John Merrick; the results were stunning. The actor delivered a carefully crafted performance that felt as emotionally devastating as it was physically transformative.
- 6/4/2015
- backstage.com
Three-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola will play their final Broadway performance in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning classic The Elephant Man on Saturday, February 21 after 35 previews and 83 regular performances. Directed by 6-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, the production began performances on November 7, 2014 and officially opened on December 7, 2014 at Broadway's Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC. The Elephant Man begins a 12 week limited engagement at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket on May 19, 2015 for a limited engagement through August 8, 2015.
- 2/20/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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The stage directions for Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man strictly call for “no prosthetic makeup” to be worn by the actor playing the severely deformed character of Joseph Merrick. It's only during a scene in which surgeon Frederick Treves explains to the audience what his deformities consisted of, that we get to see the actor playing Merrick become “the Elephant Man”.
Seeing Bradley Cooper play the part of Merrick, it's tough to believe it's as same actor you've just seen in his Oscar nominated role as Chris Kyle in American Sniper. [More...]...
The stage directions for Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man strictly call for “no prosthetic makeup” to be worn by the actor playing the severely deformed character of Joseph Merrick. It's only during a scene in which surgeon Frederick Treves explains to the audience what his deformities consisted of, that we get to see the actor playing Merrick become “the Elephant Man”.
Seeing Bradley Cooper play the part of Merrick, it's tough to believe it's as same actor you've just seen in his Oscar nominated role as Chris Kyle in American Sniper. [More...]...
- 2/13/2015
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Joseph Merrick is going home. Bradley Cooper will take his acclaimed portrayal of Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man - an Englishman with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity in Victorian times - to London this summer, as the Broadway production transfers to the West End. "Never did we think we would have the privilege to perform this show on Broadway, let alone in London," Cooper, 40, said in a statement. "I'm honored that Alessandro [Nivola], Patricia [Clarkson], the entire company and I have the opportunity to continue to tell his story." The American Sniper star will perform in...
- 1/23/2015
- by Tim Nudd, @nudd
- PEOPLE.com
Joseph Merrick is going home. Bradley Cooper will take his acclaimed portrayal of Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man - an Englishman with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity in Victorian times - to London this summer, as the Broadway production transfers to the West End. "Never did we think we would have the privilege to perform this show on Broadway, let alone in London," Cooper, 40, said in a statement. "I'm honored that Alessandro [Nivola], Patricia [Clarkson], the entire company and I have the opportunity to continue to tell his story." The American Sniper star will perform in...
- 1/23/2015
- by Tim Nudd, @nudd
- PEOPLE.com
The Elephant Man premiered on Broadway thirty-five years ago at the Booth Theatre, and when the Bradley Cooper-led production opened at the same house on Sunday night, the headliner wouldn't have had it any other way. "It was the only one to do it in — it was [the Booth] or nothing so we got lucky," Cooper told The Hollywood Reporter on opening night. The actor cites the 766-seat space's intimacy as perfect for Scott Ellis' production of Bernard Pomerance’s play, and the exterior of the theater boasts no photos of the production's stars. Instead, it's an
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- 12/8/2014
- by Suzy Evans
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
2014 was supposed to be the year of the Chrises, but nobody told Bradley Cooper. People's 2011 Sexiest Man Alive is making a serious play for dominance in 2014: His voiceover performance in Guardians of the Galaxy wrung a surprising amount of pathos from the role of a gun-toting space raccoon, his performance in American Sniper is already garnering Oscar buzz, and he's starring in playwright Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man, which officially opened on Broadway Sunday night. Unlike John Hurt in director David Lynch's 1980 movie about the life of Joseph "John" Merrick, actors playing the real-life role on the stage do so without prosthetics,...
- 12/8/2014
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
As Peter Pan is traditionally portrayed by a gamine actress, and Hairspray’s Edna Turnblad by a chunky actor, theatrical tradition dictates that John Merrick, the grotesquely deformed title character of Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man, be embodied by an extremely handsome, seminude star eager to demonstrate his stage chops. (Among those who have played Merrick on Broadway since Philip Anglim created the role in 1979 are David Bowie, Mark Hamill, and Billy Crudup.) In the new revival, based on the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival production, Bradley Cooper more than qualifies: He is extremely handsome, he is seminude (at least part of the time), and not only demonstrates but proves those chops. His concept of Merrick’s physical attributes, meant to be suggestive rather than documentary, is smartly thought out and beautifully rendered: the involuted right hand, the third-position turnout, the strangled French horn of a voice, the watery diction like...
- 12/8/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Bradley Cooper, by his own account, traces his earliest desire to be an actor to seeing the David Lynch film, The Elephant Man, at age 12. His investment in the tragic real-life character of Joseph Merrick, known as John, intensified when he performed the physically demanding role in Bernard Pomerance's play for his Actors Studio master's thesis, and again further when he appeared in a full production at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival. That staging now comes to Broadway, bearing ample evidence of Cooper's personal connection to the material, which goes far beyond technical craft to a place of
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- 12/8/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning play The Elephant Man, starring two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper as John Merrick, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson as Mrs. Kendal, and Alessandro Nivola as Dr. Frederick Treves, is directed by Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. The production officially opens at Broadway's Booth Theatre tonight, December 7, 2014. Scroll down to learn more about the company and watch interviews with the cast...
- 12/7/2014
- by Meet the Cast
- BroadwayWorld.com
The last time Bradley Cooper was on Broadway, in 2006’s Three Days of Rain, the news was all about his co-star Julia Roberts, who made the play an instant sellout despite mixed reviews. But Cooper has since broken through as a major Hollywood name, and the results are evident in the opening-weekend box office of The Elephant Man. The 1977 Bernard Pomerance play, a passion project that Cooper has pursued since his graduate days at the Actors Studio Drama School, played its first previews at the Booth Theatre over the weekend. The play, co-starring Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola, made
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- 11/10/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Performances begin in New York City tomorrow, Friday, November 7th for the Broadway return of two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson, and Alessandro Nivola in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning classic The Elephant Man, directed by six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. The production opens on Sunday, December 7, 2014 at the Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC for a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15, 2015. Tickets are on sale now.
- 11/6/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson, and Alessandro Nivola will soon return to Broadway in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning classicThe Elephant Man, directed by six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. The production begins performances on Friday, November 7, 2014 and opens on Sunday, December 7, 2014 at Broadway's Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15. Tickets are on sale now.The cast met the press this morning and BroadwayWorld was there for the exciting event. Check out full photo coverage below...
- 10/22/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson, and Alessandro Nivola will soon return to Broadway in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning classicThe Elephant Man, directed by six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. The production begins performances on Friday, November 7, 2014 and opens on Sunday, December 7, 2014 at Broadway's Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15. Tickets are on sale now.The cast met the press this morning and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was on hand to chat with the full company about the exciting new revival. Check out interviews with Nivola, Clarkson and Cooper himself below...
- 10/21/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson, and Alessandro Nivola will soon return to Broadway in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning classic The Elephant Man, directed by six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. The production begins performances on Friday, November 7, 2014 and opens on Sunday, December 7, 2014 at Broadway's Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15. Tickets are on sale now.The cast met the press this morning and BroadwayWorld brings you a photo preview from the event below. Check back later for complete coverage...
- 10/21/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The aura of Alessandro Nivola - Dr. Treves in The Elephant Man: "An England which informs me daily by the way it lives that it wants to die." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Alessandro Nivola will next be seen on the big screen in J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year with Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo and Albert Brooks. Bradley Cooper, with whom he worked on David O Russell's American Hustle and Patricia Clarkson will come to Broadway to co-star with him in Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man directed by Scott Ellis.
When I showed up to have a conversation with Alessandro on his upcoming adventures - including Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer - Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman were having breakfast with him. Robert Redford's commanding performance in and integrity surrounding Chandor's riveting All Is Lost and Warren Beatty's with Reds turned into...
Alessandro Nivola will next be seen on the big screen in J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year with Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo and Albert Brooks. Bradley Cooper, with whom he worked on David O Russell's American Hustle and Patricia Clarkson will come to Broadway to co-star with him in Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man directed by Scott Ellis.
When I showed up to have a conversation with Alessandro on his upcoming adventures - including Doll & Em with Emily Mortimer - Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman were having breakfast with him. Robert Redford's commanding performance in and integrity surrounding Chandor's riveting All Is Lost and Warren Beatty's with Reds turned into...
- 10/12/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola return to Broadway in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning classic The Elephant Man, directed by Tony nominee Scott Ellis. The production begins performances on Friday, November 7, 2014and opens on Sunday, December 7, 2014 at Broadway's Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15. Tickets are on sale now.BroadwayWorld is excited to bring you an exclusive look at a commercial for the play below...
- 10/3/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC box office opens today, Friday, September 5 at 10 a.m., for tickets to Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning play The Elephant Man. Starring two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola, the production is directed by Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. Performances begin on Friday, November 7, 2014 and the production officially opens on Sunday, December 7, 2014. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15.
- 9/5/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Full casting has been announced for Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning play The Elephant Man starring two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola, directed by Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. The production begins performances on Friday, November 7, 2014 and opens on Sunday, December 7, 2014 at Broadway's Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street, NYC. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, February 15. Tickets are on sale now.
- 8/27/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York — The starry Broadway revival of Bernard Pomerance's Tony-winning play The Elephant Man has been delayed due to scheduling conflicts. Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola headline the production, which is one of the most eagerly anticipated entries of Broadway's fall season. Directed by Scott Ellis, it now begins previews Nov. 7 at the Booth Theatre, with official opening night moved to Sunday, Dec. 7, almost a month after its originally announced date. The limited engagement had initially been scheduled to run through Jan. 18 but will now close on Feb. 15 to accommodate the date change.
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- 7/9/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tickets are now available exclusively to American Express Card Members for two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning play The Elephant Man, directed by Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. Preferred seating is available to Gold Card, Platinum Card, and Centurion members. For tickets, call 212-239-6200 or visit Telecharge.com. The general public on sale will begin on Saturday, June 28 at 10 Am. Check out photos of the marquee below...
- 6/12/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper Will Take Broadway's Booth Theatre; Performances to Begin 10/18
Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, June 4 at 10 Am exclusively to American Express Card Members for two-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola in Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning play The Elephant Man, directed by Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis. Preferred seating is available to Gold Card, Platinum Card, and Centurion members. For tickets, call 212-239-6200 or visit Telecharge.com. The general public on sale will begin on Saturday, June 28 at 10 Am.
- 6/3/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper announced this week (in an EW exclusive) that he’ll be returning to Broadway this fall to star in a revival of The Elephant Man opposite Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola. (Yes, it sounds like a stretch for People’s former Sexiest Man Alive — especially since Bernard Pomerance’s play does not require any prosthetics for the title role.) The David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, which made EW’s Top 10 list last year, will return to the Public Theater in March for an open-ended run. And there were a handful of notable openings on both coasts,...
- 1/25/2014
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson will head the cast of The Elephant Man when the 1977 drama by Bernard Pomerance returns to Broadway this coming fall. Scheduled to run at the Shubert Theatre with exact dates yet to be announced, the Tony-winning play will be directed by Scott Ellis and produced by James L. Nederlander. Much of the cast including Clarkson (as Mrs. Kendal), Cooper (as John Merrick) and Alessandro Nivola (as Dr. Fredrik Treves) appeared together in the 2012 Williamstown Theater Festival production of the play, which was also staged by Ellis. The classic tale of a disfigured man who went
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- 1/24/2014
- by Debbie Emery, David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bradley Cooper is taking his Oscar nomination cred to Broadway.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the 39-year-old will star in a revival of "The Elephant Man," the Bernard Pomerance play that took home the Best Drama Tony Award in 1979.
The play is reportedly due to open in the fall. Further casting and show information has yet to be announced.
Photos: Bradley Cooper: Hollywood's Heartthrob!
"The Elephant Man" was last on Broadway in 2002 with Billy Crudup and Kate Burton, who were both nominated for Tony Awards.
The "American Hustle" star previously appeared in the physically ...
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According to Entertainment Weekly, the 39-year-old will star in a revival of "The Elephant Man," the Bernard Pomerance play that took home the Best Drama Tony Award in 1979.
The play is reportedly due to open in the fall. Further casting and show information has yet to be announced.
Photos: Bradley Cooper: Hollywood's Heartthrob!
"The Elephant Man" was last on Broadway in 2002 with Billy Crudup and Kate Burton, who were both nominated for Tony Awards.
The "American Hustle" star previously appeared in the physically ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 1/22/2014
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
He’s long been celebrated for his handsome appearance on the silver screen and now Bradley Cooper is taking his career in a completely different direction.
The “American Hustle” hunk has signed on to star in a Broadway revival of Bernard Pomerance’s 1979 Tony-Award-winning play “The Elephant Man.”
Cooper will contort his flawless face as he embodies John Merrick, a disfigured 19th-century Englishman whose condition made it difficult for him to live a dignified life.
Back in 2012, Bradley received rave reviews for his performance in a limited run of the play at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Berkshire Eagle critic Jeffrey Borak declared, “For anyone who has any doubts, Mr. Cooper is not just a movie star, he’s an actor.”...
The “American Hustle” hunk has signed on to star in a Broadway revival of Bernard Pomerance’s 1979 Tony-Award-winning play “The Elephant Man.”
Cooper will contort his flawless face as he embodies John Merrick, a disfigured 19th-century Englishman whose condition made it difficult for him to live a dignified life.
Back in 2012, Bradley received rave reviews for his performance in a limited run of the play at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Berkshire Eagle critic Jeffrey Borak declared, “For anyone who has any doubts, Mr. Cooper is not just a movie star, he’s an actor.”...
- 1/22/2014
- GossipCenter
Hollywood heads to the Great White Way, with Close appearing in an unnamed production, Bradley Cooper playing The Elephant Man and Hugh Jackman teaming up with Jez Butterworth
Broadway will welcome an influx of Hollywood superstars as Bradley Cooper and Hugh Jackman have confirmed forthcoming runs on the Great White Way. However, both have been overshadowed by the news that Glenn Close – a three-time Tony award-winner – will end a Broadway absence of more than 10 years to star in a play in the autumn.
Jackman took to Twitter to confirm reports that he will lead the Us premiere of Jez Butterworth's The River, which was first staged at the Royal Court, in London, in 2012. He will play a hobbyist fisherman seen taking two different women to a remote wood cabin retreat. The production, directed by Ian Rickson, is likely to open in early 2015.
Jackman is one of the most valuable...
Broadway will welcome an influx of Hollywood superstars as Bradley Cooper and Hugh Jackman have confirmed forthcoming runs on the Great White Way. However, both have been overshadowed by the news that Glenn Close – a three-time Tony award-winner – will end a Broadway absence of more than 10 years to star in a play in the autumn.
Jackman took to Twitter to confirm reports that he will lead the Us premiere of Jez Butterworth's The River, which was first staged at the Royal Court, in London, in 2012. He will play a hobbyist fisherman seen taking two different women to a remote wood cabin retreat. The production, directed by Ian Rickson, is likely to open in early 2015.
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- 1/22/2014
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
So much for the old adage that movie stars head to Broadway to revive their flagging film careers - or to announce that they are available to appear on television. No less than Bradley Cooper, currently Oscar nominated for his role in American Hustle, is bound for the Great White Way, in a revival of Bernard Pomerance's 1979 Tony-winning best drama, The Elephant Man, reports Entertainment Weekly. The show is due to open in the fall. Further details and other casting news have yet to be announced. Actor Philip Anglim was nominated for a Tony for his performance in the original Broadway production,...
- 1/22/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Bradley Cooper is set to make a welcome return to the New York stage in a revival of Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man on Broadway.
The 39-year-old actor, who was nominated for an Oscar last week for his role in American Hustle, will play the lead of the heavily disfigured John Merrick once again. He first appeared in the role at the Williamstown Theatre Festival two years ago.
As in the 2012 production, Cooper will portray the character's deformity through physicality rather than with the aid of prosthetic make-up, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola starred alongside Cooper in the Williamstown production, but further casting announcements for the Broadway revival are yet to be announced.
The show, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1979, was first revived on Broadway in 2002 with Billy Crudup and Kate Burton.
John Hurt famously played Merrick in David Lynch's movie adaptation in 1980.
Cooper,...
The 39-year-old actor, who was nominated for an Oscar last week for his role in American Hustle, will play the lead of the heavily disfigured John Merrick once again. He first appeared in the role at the Williamstown Theatre Festival two years ago.
As in the 2012 production, Cooper will portray the character's deformity through physicality rather than with the aid of prosthetic make-up, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola starred alongside Cooper in the Williamstown production, but further casting announcements for the Broadway revival are yet to be announced.
The show, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1979, was first revived on Broadway in 2002 with Billy Crudup and Kate Burton.
John Hurt famously played Merrick in David Lynch's movie adaptation in 1980.
Cooper,...
- 1/22/2014
- Digital Spy
Bradley Cooper will soon be trading in his Hustle perm, taking on the lead role as Joseph Merrick in the Bernard Pomerance play The Elephant Man — a role that he played previously in last year's Williamstown Theatre Festival. Vulture previously reported that Cooper took a role in Cameron Crowe's still-untitled next film so that recently Egot'd producer Scott Rudin would help Cooper take Elephant Man to Broadway. Guess their partnership is final, because Cooper's Elephant Man will be the second revival of the play, after Billy Crudup played the lead role in a 2002 production (that also earned him a Tony nomination). Is Cooper also after the illustrious Egot? Coming soon: Bradley Cooper books a guest appearance on The Good Wife.
- 1/21/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
If you’ve ever had the burning desire to see one of the hottest film stars of the moment bray, “I am not an animal!” you’re in luck. Bradley Cooper, who just received his second Oscar nomination in as many years for his fussy, conflicted G-man in David O. Russell’s American Hustle, will be returning to Broadway after an eight-year absence, the actor’s reps tell EW. (His last appearance was opposite Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd in 2006′s Three Days of Rain, for which he got very good notices.)
The red-hot actor will headline a revival of...
The red-hot actor will headline a revival of...
- 1/21/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
V&A, London
"David Bowie is": the title is an unfinished sentence, which gives the verb a subject but no object, and it suggests that Bowie is everything and perhaps nothing, a whirligig of dressed-up personae, not a person. To begin with, he isn't even David Bowie. He was born David Jones, then renamed by a bossy manager. But is he Bowie, like the knife, or should his adopted surname be pronounced Boughie, like the branch? Or is any earthly appellation just an alias for a man – if he is one, since he always enjoyed flaunting his androgyny – who once announced: "I am a cyborg"?
On a grey arch through which you pass into the V&A's multimedia circus, Bowie himself makes a grand statement that introduces the proceedings. "All art is unstable," he says. "There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings." By talking this kind of talk,...
"David Bowie is": the title is an unfinished sentence, which gives the verb a subject but no object, and it suggests that Bowie is everything and perhaps nothing, a whirligig of dressed-up personae, not a person. To begin with, he isn't even David Bowie. He was born David Jones, then renamed by a bossy manager. But is he Bowie, like the knife, or should his adopted surname be pronounced Boughie, like the branch? Or is any earthly appellation just an alias for a man – if he is one, since he always enjoyed flaunting his androgyny – who once announced: "I am a cyborg"?
On a grey arch through which you pass into the V&A's multimedia circus, Bowie himself makes a grand statement that introduces the proceedings. "All art is unstable," he says. "There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings." By talking this kind of talk,...
- 3/24/2013
- by Peter Conrad
- The Guardian - Film News
We were beaten to the punch last night on breaking the news that Bradley Cooper will be joining Cameron Crowe’s next film, a currently untitled drama that will also star Emma Stone. But that’s just part of the story. What’s missing from the other reports is why — and what comes after.Cooper is coming aboard thanks to the involvement of Scott Rudin, the New York–based producer who is as potent in film as he is in theater (having Egot-ed earlier this year with a Grammy for the album to The Book of Mormon). We’re told that Cooper, who spent the summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival performing in Bernard Pomerance’s play The Elephant Man, has made no bones about the fact that he wants to take the production to Broadway for a limited run. As a blandishment for joining Crowe's movie, Rudin is working...
- 10/25/2012
- by Claude Brodesser-Akner
- Vulture
Bradley Cooper just wrapped a stint as the deformed title character in "The Elephant Man" at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and now he has his sights set on the Great White Way. "We're going to try to do it on Broadway next fall," the actor told E! News, adding that he's aiming to do "a limited run" of the production. Cooper played the titular role at annual theater festival in Williamstown, Mass. from July 25. In the production, based on Bernard Pomerance's play and directed by Scott Ellis, Cooper transformed himself into John Merrick,...
- 8/18/2012
- by Kasia Anderson
- The Wrap
Bradley Cooper's shirtless, hairless run in "The Elephant Man" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival just ended, and the actor tells E! Online he's ready to take the production to Broadway.
Speaking to Marc Malkin at the premiere of his new comedy, "Hit And Run," Cooper said:
"We're going to try to do it on Broadway next fall. We're going to try to nail it down and do a limited run."
The Williamstown Theatre Festival, which closes this weekend in Williamstown Mass., prides itself on functioning as a regional feeder to Broadway. In a prepared statement, director Jenny Gersten called "The Elephant Man" a "season highlight," but stated "there is nothing confirmed beyond that at this point."
Gersten told the Huffington Post during a phone interview she happened on the news, but she wasn't surprised. "When [Cooper] was here in the production, he said, 'I really am interested in this play.
Speaking to Marc Malkin at the premiere of his new comedy, "Hit And Run," Cooper said:
"We're going to try to do it on Broadway next fall. We're going to try to nail it down and do a limited run."
The Williamstown Theatre Festival, which closes this weekend in Williamstown Mass., prides itself on functioning as a regional feeder to Broadway. In a prepared statement, director Jenny Gersten called "The Elephant Man" a "season highlight," but stated "there is nothing confirmed beyond that at this point."
Gersten told the Huffington Post during a phone interview she happened on the news, but she wasn't surprised. "When [Cooper] was here in the production, he said, 'I really am interested in this play.
- 8/16/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Los Angeles, California (x17online) - Bradley Cooper looks to solidify his acting chops as the Hollywood heartthrob will play The Elephant Man on stage. Cooper will portray John Merrick, the deformed medical curiosity from Bernard Pomerance's famous 1977 play, at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts this summer. The actor previously played the part for his senior thesis while attending the Actors Studio Drama School. The production will also co-star Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson (Shutter Island) and will be directed by Scott Ellis during its run from July 25-August 5.
- 4/16/2012
- x17online.com
Bradley Cooper is more than just a pretty face: He can inhabit a famously deformed one, too. The Williamstown Theater Festival announced today that Cooper will play the lead in their theatrical production of Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play, The Elephant Man, which will be directed by Scott Ellis and co-star Patricia Clarkson. It's not Cooper's first crack at John Merrick, the deformed Victorian-era character who was also the subject of David Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant Man; in fact, a young Cooper played that role for his senior thesis at acting school. Take that, Gosling.
- 4/16/2012
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Bradley Cooper, People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2011, is set to play a slightly less sexy role in the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man.
In a departure from previous pretty parts of performances past, Cooper takes on the role of John Merrick, a deformed man whose notoriety fascinates London’s Victorian high society (and interestingly enough, a role that Cooper played as part of his senior thesis for the Actor’s Studio Drama School).
Patricia Clarkson is set to star alongside Cooper as an actress who befriends the ‘Elephant Man’ in the hospital.
In a departure from previous pretty parts of performances past, Cooper takes on the role of John Merrick, a deformed man whose notoriety fascinates London’s Victorian high society (and interestingly enough, a role that Cooper played as part of his senior thesis for the Actor’s Studio Drama School).
Patricia Clarkson is set to star alongside Cooper as an actress who befriends the ‘Elephant Man’ in the hospital.
- 4/16/2012
- by Marc Snetiker
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York -- Stepping as far away from Hollywood hunk roles as he could possibly go, Bradley Cooper has signed on to play John Merrick, the severely deformed Victorian-era medical curiosity who became a famous figure in London society, depicted in Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play, The Elephant Man. Directed by Scott Ellis and also starring Patricia Clarkson, the production will run July 25-August 5 at this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival. Cooper previously played the role as part of his senior thesis for the Actors Studio Drama School. Both Cooper and Clarkson are vets of the Massachusetts fest, having most
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- 4/16/2012
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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