When Cillian Murphy won his first Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer, the first person he turned to was his wife, Yvonne McGuinness. McGuinness supported her husband at the ceremony, and she has been by his side for years. The couple fell in love after meeting just before Murphy rose to prominence.
Cillian Murphy met his wife in 1996
In 1996, Murphy, then a law student, decided to try his hand at acting. He landed his first role in the play Disco Pigs, which was so successful that the cast toured with it for 18 months. Around this time, he met McGuinness, a visual artist. She joined him on the tour.
Yvonne McGuinness, Cillian Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr. | Christopher Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images
“It was like being in a band again. Except that people actually came to the shows,” Murphy told The Guardian. “That time, making Disco Pigs,...
Cillian Murphy met his wife in 1996
In 1996, Murphy, then a law student, decided to try his hand at acting. He landed his first role in the play Disco Pigs, which was so successful that the cast toured with it for 18 months. Around this time, he met McGuinness, a visual artist. She joined him on the tour.
Yvonne McGuinness, Cillian Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr. | Christopher Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images
“It was like being in a band again. Except that people actually came to the shows,” Murphy told The Guardian. “That time, making Disco Pigs,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
One thing that rankles about some historical dramas is their tendency to indicate the story’s epoch using the broadest possible signifiers. Movies about the 1980s in particular often draw as much from the spirit of ’80s-themed house parties as they do from history. In contrast, Tim Mielant’s Small Things Like These fashions a believable and at times engrossing vision of the mid-’80s, even if its story could’ve benefited from similar nuance.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, the film takes place during the 1985 Christmas season in New Ross, Ireland. In this working-class town, not everything is “from” the ‘80s: People wear clothes that look like they’re from the ’60s, the kids watch ’70s cartoons like Danger Mouse, and some of the vehicles even seem as they’re from the ’40s. Small Things Like These understands how the vestiges of the...
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, the film takes place during the 1985 Christmas season in New Ross, Ireland. In this working-class town, not everything is “from” the ‘80s: People wear clothes that look like they’re from the ’60s, the kids watch ’70s cartoons like Danger Mouse, and some of the vehicles even seem as they’re from the ’40s. Small Things Like These understands how the vestiges of the...
- 2/17/2024
- by Pat Brown
- Slant Magazine
Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history
As producer and lead actor, Cillian Murphy has brought to the screen a piercingly painful and sad story with a very literary intensity, juxtaposing the detail of the present with flashback memories of the past. It is about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries: the church’s homes for unwed mothers who were made to work in an atmosphere of wretchedness and shame and had their babies taken away and sold to foster parents. Enda Walsh has adapted the much admired novel by Claire Keegan and the director is Tim Mielants.
This subdued but absorbing and eventful film is rather different from Peter Mullan’s extravagant The Magdalene Sisters – which also featured Eileen Walsh in its cast – and different also from Stephen Frears’ bittersweet dramedy Philomena. Murphy...
As producer and lead actor, Cillian Murphy has brought to the screen a piercingly painful and sad story with a very literary intensity, juxtaposing the detail of the present with flashback memories of the past. It is about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries: the church’s homes for unwed mothers who were made to work in an atmosphere of wretchedness and shame and had their babies taken away and sold to foster parents. Enda Walsh has adapted the much admired novel by Claire Keegan and the director is Tim Mielants.
This subdued but absorbing and eventful film is rather different from Peter Mullan’s extravagant The Magdalene Sisters – which also featured Eileen Walsh in its cast – and different also from Stephen Frears’ bittersweet dramedy Philomena. Murphy...
- 2/16/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Opening nights at major festivals often lean towards the showier end of the spectrum, reaching for films with starry, red carpet-friendly casts and headline-grabbing premises to kick off proceedings in flashy style. The past two Berlinales boasted fun but forgettable openers — Rebecca Miller’s “She Came To Me” and Francois Ozon’s “Peter von Kant” — which is why it’s a pleasant surprise that this year’s Berlinale Opening Night offers something altogether subtler, a genuinely profound low-key gem which will be remembered long after the champagne and sequins have been swept away.
On the surface, “Small Things Like These,” produced by and starring the freshly Oscar-nominated Cillian Murphy (and with “Oppenheimer” co-star Matt Damon also on board as producer) fits the Opening Night brief well. In reality, however, this is a surprisingly understated film, dour and difficult to watch in places, and firmly rooted in Irish culture and history.
On the surface, “Small Things Like These,” produced by and starring the freshly Oscar-nominated Cillian Murphy (and with “Oppenheimer” co-star Matt Damon also on board as producer) fits the Opening Night brief well. In reality, however, this is a surprisingly understated film, dour and difficult to watch in places, and firmly rooted in Irish culture and history.
- 2/15/2024
- by Rachel Pronger
- Indiewire
Anyone looking to debate the limits of progress should cast an eye on 1980s Ireland. As a generation born in revolution and civil war moved from farms to towns, a middle class emerged. Some people had televisions; if they were good, some of their kids had Levi’s jeans. As certain things loosened, the Catholic church’s grip on most aspects of Irish life seemed to only grow tighter. Between 1922 and 1996, and aided by a callow state, the church was responsible for imprisoning tens of thousands of women (mostly young single mothers who couldn’t afford the child) into what was essentially indentured servitude. In these “laundries,” women worked seven days a week and weren’t allowed to leave. Their babies were taken from them and sold for adoption, or worse. Around 1,600 women died. The number of babies is estimated to be in the thousands.
The awful tragedy of those events...
The awful tragedy of those events...
- 2/15/2024
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Unlike Peter Mullan’s searing 2008 Venice Golden Lion winner, The Magdalene Sisters, or Joni Mitchell’s piercingly sad ballad, “The Magdalene Laundries,” the name given to the notorious workhouse institutions controlled by Irish religious orders is never spoken in Small Things Like These. But its Biblical evocation of the “fallen woman” is clear as a bell in this acutely affecting drama about how a glimpse of cruelty behind convent walls reopens the psychological wounds of a kind family man who has strived to build a life untainted by the stigma and sorrow of his childhood.
That man is Bill Furlong, a hard-working coal merchant and loving father of five daughters, played by Cillian Murphy in a performance that rips your heart out despite being an unimpeachable model of restraint.
The actor’s work here could scarcely be more of a contrast to his fine-grained characterization as the soft-spoken but imposing title figure in Oppenheimer,...
That man is Bill Furlong, a hard-working coal merchant and loving father of five daughters, played by Cillian Murphy in a performance that rips your heart out despite being an unimpeachable model of restraint.
The actor’s work here could scarcely be more of a contrast to his fine-grained characterization as the soft-spoken but imposing title figure in Oppenheimer,...
- 2/15/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Right from the start, there is no doubt where we are. Narrow, gray streets in the dim daylight of winter, peat hills between cramped villages, a crow sitting on a church spire: this is western Ireland in the ’80s, when the Celtic Tiger was yet to roar and jobs were scarce, divorce was illegal, condoms available only on prescription and central heating unknown.
It is also the Ireland of the Magdalene laundries, businesses run jointly by Church and the Irish state where unwed mothers were consigned to repent of their sins, do hard labor for a living and ultimately deliver their babies for adoption. Academic research estimates that 35,000 women were forced into this service. Around 1,600 women and 6,000 babies are believed to have died behind the convents’ walls. Nobody — apparently — asked why. The last of these institutions closed only in 1996.
In the Berlin Film festival opener Small Things Like These, adapted...
It is also the Ireland of the Magdalene laundries, businesses run jointly by Church and the Irish state where unwed mothers were consigned to repent of their sins, do hard labor for a living and ultimately deliver their babies for adoption. Academic research estimates that 35,000 women were forced into this service. Around 1,600 women and 6,000 babies are believed to have died behind the convents’ walls. Nobody — apparently — asked why. The last of these institutions closed only in 1996.
In the Berlin Film festival opener Small Things Like These, adapted...
- 2/15/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
From “28 Days Later” through to his recent, Oscar-nominated turn in “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy has cultivated a reputation as a strong, silent type — all while resisting the inscrutability associated with that masculine cliché. His beautiful, sharp-boned face twitches and tightens and teems with feeling. Closeups always catch it thinking, wrestling with surges of vulnerability or violence, or watching other characters in turn. It’s always busy, never blank. A story of the unspeakable gradually leaving the realm of the unsaid, “Small Things Like These” rests on both his quiet and his disquiet as an actor. As a blue-collar family man growing increasingly alert to misdeeds in the sacred heart of his community, he’s not just the conscience of Belgian director Tim Mielants’ delicate, understated film, but its live emotional current.
For if Murphy’s character Bill Furlong is quiet, the town around him is practically petrified. A sleepy settlement in Ireland’s County Wexford,...
For if Murphy’s character Bill Furlong is quiet, the town around him is practically petrified. A sleepy settlement in Ireland’s County Wexford,...
- 2/15/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
During the Berlin Film Festival press conference for his newest movie “Small Things Like These,” Cillian Murphy reflected on the “collective trauma” of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.
Based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These” focuses on the “horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women,’” according to its synopsis. The story is told through the eyes of Murphy’s devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 discovers some “startling secrets” kept by his local convent.
“It was a collective trauma, particularly for people of a certain age, and I think that we’re still processing that,” Murphy said of the dark moment in Irish history. “I also think that art can be a really useful balm for that wound. The book certainly was a huge seller in Ireland, it seems like everybody read it.
Based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These” focuses on the “horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women,’” according to its synopsis. The story is told through the eyes of Murphy’s devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 discovers some “startling secrets” kept by his local convent.
“It was a collective trauma, particularly for people of a certain age, and I think that we’re still processing that,” Murphy said of the dark moment in Irish history. “I also think that art can be a really useful balm for that wound. The book certainly was a huge seller in Ireland, it seems like everybody read it.
- 2/15/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Passing the time between Oppenheimer takes in a New Mexico bunker one morning at about 4 a.m., Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon sowed the seeds of a future collaboration. Fast-forward to today, and Small Things Like These is opening the Berlin Film Festival.
Murphy stars in and produced Small Things Like These alongside his Big Things Films partner Alan Moloney. Damon is also a producer — his and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity financed the film that’s based on Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novel and was adapted for the screen by Enda Walsh. Tim Mielants directs.
Though it deals with a serious subject matter, the road to making the movie was “blissful,” and married “kismet” with “serendipity,” Damon and Murphy told me recently in a conversation that also touched on how Artists Equity acts as “facilitator” and not “babysitter”, the...
Murphy stars in and produced Small Things Like These alongside his Big Things Films partner Alan Moloney. Damon is also a producer — his and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity financed the film that’s based on Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novel and was adapted for the screen by Enda Walsh. Tim Mielants directs.
Though it deals with a serious subject matter, the road to making the movie was “blissful,” and married “kismet” with “serendipity,” Damon and Murphy told me recently in a conversation that also touched on how Artists Equity acts as “facilitator” and not “babysitter”, the...
- 2/15/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Berlin: Cillian Murphy on How Christopher Nolan Influenced His Fest Opener ‘Small Things Like These’
It continues to be a busy winter for Cillian Murphy, having landed a best actor Oscar nomination for his $1 billion grosser Oppenheimer. Nonetheless, Murphy will be on hand at the Berlin Film Festival for the opening night premiere of his latest film, Small Things Like These.
Directed by Tim Mielants, the period drama is adapted from the novel of the same name by Irish writer Claire Keegan — who also wrote the source material for Colm Bairéad’s Oscar-nominated drama The Quiet Girl — and plays out in a small Irish town in 1985 in the weeks before Christmas. Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man who becomes aware of abuse happening at the local convent, abuse that forces him to confront the trauma of his own childhood and make a moral choice. The backdrop is the real history of the Magdalene Laundries, asylums and workhouses run by the Catholic...
Directed by Tim Mielants, the period drama is adapted from the novel of the same name by Irish writer Claire Keegan — who also wrote the source material for Colm Bairéad’s Oscar-nominated drama The Quiet Girl — and plays out in a small Irish town in 1985 in the weeks before Christmas. Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man who becomes aware of abuse happening at the local convent, abuse that forces him to confront the trauma of his own childhood and make a moral choice. The backdrop is the real history of the Magdalene Laundries, asylums and workhouses run by the Catholic...
- 2/15/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: On Thursday, the Berlin Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, who also produces, and marking the first time an Irish movie opens the Berlinale. In the exclusive first-look at the 1985-set drama (check it out above), Murphy’s family man Bill Furlong comes face-to-face with Emily Watson’s formidable Sister Mary whose convent is concealing dark and disturbing secrets.
Also starring Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Zara Devlin, the story plays out in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1985. Bill, a devoted husband, father and coal merchant living in the traditional Irish town of New Ross in County Wexford, is facing his busiest season. During his delivery rounds, he discovers that the local convent is in fact a cruel institution that takes in so-called ‘fallen girls and women.’ His reaction to this discovery forces him to confront some hard truths about the convent,...
Also starring Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Zara Devlin, the story plays out in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1985. Bill, a devoted husband, father and coal merchant living in the traditional Irish town of New Ross in County Wexford, is facing his busiest season. During his delivery rounds, he discovers that the local convent is in fact a cruel institution that takes in so-called ‘fallen girls and women.’ His reaction to this discovery forces him to confront some hard truths about the convent,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cillian Murphy, fresh off of the massive global success of Oppenheimer — and as he gets ready to debut Small Things Like These (in which he stars and he produced) as the opening-night gala of the Berlin Film Festival next week — has set his next starring and producing gig with Steve.
This adaptation of Max Porter’s novel Shy also officially launches Murphy’s production company, Big Things Films, with longtime collaborator Alan Moloney. (See below for our discussion with the duo.)
Netflix has greenlighted Steve in collaboration with Big Things and will distribute globally. Production begins in the spring.
Steve is a reimagining of Porter’s Shy and traces a pivotal 24 hours in the life of its eponymous character, a headteacher (Murphy) of a last-chance reform school who struggles to keep his students in line, while also grappling with his spiraling mental health.
Moloney and Murphy are producers. Small Things Like These...
This adaptation of Max Porter’s novel Shy also officially launches Murphy’s production company, Big Things Films, with longtime collaborator Alan Moloney. (See below for our discussion with the duo.)
Netflix has greenlighted Steve in collaboration with Big Things and will distribute globally. Production begins in the spring.
Steve is a reimagining of Porter’s Shy and traces a pivotal 24 hours in the life of its eponymous character, a headteacher (Murphy) of a last-chance reform school who struggles to keep his students in line, while also grappling with his spiraling mental health.
Moloney and Murphy are producers. Small Things Like These...
- 2/8/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Cillian Murphy first cut his teeth at the Corcadorca Theatre Company in his hometown of Cork, Ireland at the age of 20, where he nailed the audition for his first acting role in Enda Walsh’s “Disco Pigs” play. Murphy made enough of an impression to not only land the role for the theater part, but he also starred in the film adaptation years later. Although the movie wasn’t necessarily a renowned success, his performance caught the eye of Danny Boyle: the legendary filmmaker, then searching for a lead in his post-apocalyptic thriller, “28 Days Later.” That movie would significantly boost Murphy’s profile, earning him nominations for Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards and Breakthrough Male Performance at the MTV Movie Awards.
With 40 movies and 27 years to his career, Murphy seems to be progressing with each appearance, and his latest role was his biggest yet. As the titular...
With 40 movies and 27 years to his career, Murphy seems to be progressing with each appearance, and his latest role was his biggest yet. As the titular...
- 1/25/2024
- by Marcos Franco and Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Cillian Murphy In Small Things Like These Photo: Courtesy of Berlinale Films featuring Stephen Fry, Rooney Mara, Cillian Murphy and Gael Garcia Bernal are in the line-up for this year’s Berlin Film Festival, which was announced today.
The festival will open on February 15 with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, based on the historical bestseller by Irish author Clare Keegan and adapted by Enda Walsh. Directed by Belgian Tim Mielants, it stars Murphy as a coal merchant who makes shocking discoveries about the Magdalene Laundries. A Cop Movie director Alonso Ruizpalacious returns with La Cocina, which sees Mara playing a waitress at a restaurant who is in a romantic entanglement with Garcia Bernal’s cook Pedro, who becomes the chief suspect in a theft from the till. It will compete for the Golden Bear. From the US, A Different Man will compete after it's premiere at Sundance this week.
The festival will open on February 15 with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, based on the historical bestseller by Irish author Clare Keegan and adapted by Enda Walsh. Directed by Belgian Tim Mielants, it stars Murphy as a coal merchant who makes shocking discoveries about the Magdalene Laundries. A Cop Movie director Alonso Ruizpalacious returns with La Cocina, which sees Mara playing a waitress at a restaurant who is in a romantic entanglement with Garcia Bernal’s cook Pedro, who becomes the chief suspect in a theft from the till. It will compete for the Golden Bear. From the US, A Different Man will compete after it's premiere at Sundance this week.
- 1/22/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Films include a sci-fi about a man who rents out his dead wife’s body and a documentary about a hippo owned by Pablo Escobar
Colombian cocaine hippos, a Star Wars parody set in northern France and an unlikely father-daughter pairing of Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham all feature in an eclectic lineup at this year’s Berlin film festival, which was unveiled on Monday.
The 74th edition of the 10-day Berlinale will open on 15 February with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, based on Irish author Clare Keegan’s bestselling historical novel. Adapted to the big screen by Enda Walsh, the film sees Cillian Murphy reuniting with Belgian director Tim Mielants, who directed the third series of Peaky Blinders.
Colombian cocaine hippos, a Star Wars parody set in northern France and an unlikely father-daughter pairing of Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham all feature in an eclectic lineup at this year’s Berlin film festival, which was unveiled on Monday.
The 74th edition of the 10-day Berlinale will open on 15 February with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, based on Irish author Clare Keegan’s bestselling historical novel. Adapted to the big screen by Enda Walsh, the film sees Cillian Murphy reuniting with Belgian director Tim Mielants, who directed the third series of Peaky Blinders.
- 1/22/2024
- by Philip Oltermann European culture editor
- The Guardian - Film News
‘Small Things Like These’, a historical drama starring Cillian Murphy, is set to open this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The film has been directed by Tim Mielants from a script by Enda Walsh, and will have its world premiere in the festival’s competition on February 15, reports Variety.
It is based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, ‘Small Things Like These’, and it “reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women’,” as per its synopsis.
As per Variety, Keegan previously penned ‘Foster’ which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated Irish-language film ‘The Quiet Girl’.
Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson also star in ‘Small Things Like These’.
Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 “discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town,...
It is based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, ‘Small Things Like These’, and it “reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women’,” as per its synopsis.
As per Variety, Keegan previously penned ‘Foster’ which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated Irish-language film ‘The Quiet Girl’.
Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson also star in ‘Small Things Like These’.
Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 “discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Small Things Like These featuring Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy will open this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.
Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a devoted father and coal merchant living in 1980s Ireland who discovers shocking truths about the infamous Magdalen laundries, the horrific asylums run by the Roman Catholic Church for “fallen women.”
Tim Mielants directed Small Things Like These from a screenplay by Enda Walsh. Emily Watson, Eileen Walsh and Michelle Fairley co-star. Eileen Walsh also starred in Peter Mulllan’s acclaimed 2002 drama The Magdalene Sisters which focused on the Magdalen asylums.
Small Things Like These is based on the book by award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan, whose novel Foster was adapted as the Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl.
Small Things Like These will open the 74th Berlinale on Feb. 15, screening in competition.
“With Small Things Like These, Tim Mielants tells the story of a man of few words, with wide open eyes,...
Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a devoted father and coal merchant living in 1980s Ireland who discovers shocking truths about the infamous Magdalen laundries, the horrific asylums run by the Roman Catholic Church for “fallen women.”
Tim Mielants directed Small Things Like These from a screenplay by Enda Walsh. Emily Watson, Eileen Walsh and Michelle Fairley co-star. Eileen Walsh also starred in Peter Mulllan’s acclaimed 2002 drama The Magdalene Sisters which focused on the Magdalen asylums.
Small Things Like These is based on the book by award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan, whose novel Foster was adapted as the Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl.
Small Things Like These will open the 74th Berlinale on Feb. 15, screening in competition.
“With Small Things Like These, Tim Mielants tells the story of a man of few words, with wide open eyes,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tim Mielants’ drama Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, is set to open the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15.
The Ireland-Belgian production will receive its world premiere at the festival and will play in Competition. A first look at Oppenheimer star Murphy in the film can be seen above.
Set over Christmas 1985, Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who discovers shocking secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some truths of his own. The cast also includes Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson.
The film is set against the backdrop of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries,...
The Ireland-Belgian production will receive its world premiere at the festival and will play in Competition. A first look at Oppenheimer star Murphy in the film can be seen above.
Set over Christmas 1985, Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who discovers shocking secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some truths of his own. The cast also includes Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson.
The film is set against the backdrop of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries,...
- 1/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
“Small Things Like These,” a historical drama starring Cillian Murphy, is set to open this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Directed by Tim Mielants from a script by Enda Walsh, the film will have its world premiere in the festival’s competition on Feb. 15. Based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These” “reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries – horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women,'” according to its synopsis. Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson also star.
Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 “discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own,” as a press release states.
Murphy also produced the film alongside Alan Moloney for their banner Big Things Films with Catherine Magee. Matt Damon...
Directed by Tim Mielants from a script by Enda Walsh, the film will have its world premiere in the festival’s competition on Feb. 15. Based on the book of the same name by Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These” “reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries – horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform ‘fallen young women,'” according to its synopsis. Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson also star.
Murphy plays devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong, who during Christmas 1985 “discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own,” as a press release states.
Murphy also produced the film alongside Alan Moloney for their banner Big Things Films with Catherine Magee. Matt Damon...
- 1/18/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Cillian Murphy's latest role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" has garnered significant buzz and critical acclaim, with some predicting that his intimate, complex portrayal of the man behind the atomic bomb will earn him an Oscar nomination. Though Murphy is undoubtedly brilliant in the biographical epic, the Irish actor has had over 25 years of preparation for the role through a number of projects in film, TV, and theater.
Murphy, like many actors, began his acting career on stage. In 1996, he made his stage debut in Enda Walsh's play "Disco Pigs," which was later adapted into a feature film starring Murphy in 2001. By the early 2000s, the actor took on several roles, but his role as Jim in the post-apocalyptic horror film "28 Days Later" propelled him into Hollywood. In 2005, he starred in "Batman Begins" and began what would become a decades-long collaborative friendship with Christopher Nolan.
Murphy, like many actors, began his acting career on stage. In 1996, he made his stage debut in Enda Walsh's play "Disco Pigs," which was later adapted into a feature film starring Murphy in 2001. By the early 2000s, the actor took on several roles, but his role as Jim in the post-apocalyptic horror film "28 Days Later" propelled him into Hollywood. In 2005, he starred in "Batman Begins" and began what would become a decades-long collaborative friendship with Christopher Nolan.
- 8/2/2023
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
Cillian Murphy is a celebrated Irish actor who is best known for his engrossing role as Tommy Shelby in the British drama series Peaky Blinders and for starring roles A Quiet Place Part 2 and Oppenheimer, incredible performances which earned him international recognition.
Cillian Murphy Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Cillian Murphy was born on May 25, 1976 (Cillian Murphy age: 47) in Douglas, Cork, Ireland. His father was employed by the Department of Education, while his mother taught French. Murphy’s grandfather, aunts, and uncles were also, ironically, teachers.
Murphy grew up in Ballintemple, Cork, along with his two younger sisters, Orla and Sile, as well as his younger brother Páidi.
At ten years old, Murphy began writing and performing songs he created. He was raised Catholic and studied at the Catholic secondary school Presentation Brothers College, where he excelled academically, but frequently found himself getting into trouble due to mischievous behavior.
Cillian Murphy Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Cillian Murphy was born on May 25, 1976 (Cillian Murphy age: 47) in Douglas, Cork, Ireland. His father was employed by the Department of Education, while his mother taught French. Murphy’s grandfather, aunts, and uncles were also, ironically, teachers.
Murphy grew up in Ballintemple, Cork, along with his two younger sisters, Orla and Sile, as well as his younger brother Páidi.
At ten years old, Murphy began writing and performing songs he created. He was raised Catholic and studied at the Catholic secondary school Presentation Brothers College, where he excelled academically, but frequently found himself getting into trouble due to mischievous behavior.
- 7/28/2023
- by Trevor Hanuka
- Uinterview
Hollywood star Benedict Cumberbatch has signed to star in Dylan Southern’s adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novel ‘Grief is the Thing With Feathers’.
The story follows a father and his two young sons dealing with the sudden death of their wife and mother, reports ‘Deadline’.
Cumberbatch will play a young father whose hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
This mysterious creature, known as ‘Crow’, seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take.
As per ‘Deadline’, the feature adaptation, entitled ‘The Thing With Feathers’, is produced by Andrea Cornwell with SunnyMarch’s Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke. The script was developed with Film4,...
The story follows a father and his two young sons dealing with the sudden death of their wife and mother, reports ‘Deadline’.
Cumberbatch will play a young father whose hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
This mysterious creature, known as ‘Crow’, seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take.
As per ‘Deadline’, the feature adaptation, entitled ‘The Thing With Feathers’, is produced by Andrea Cornwell with SunnyMarch’s Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke. The script was developed with Film4,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Benedict Cumberbatch has signed to star in Dylan Southern’s adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing With Feathers, about a father and his two young sons dealing with the sudden death of their wife and mother.
Cumberbatch will play a young father whose hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
This mysterious creature, known as “Crow,” seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take.
Related: Cannes Film Festival Full Coverage
The feature adaptation, entitled The Thing With Feathers, is produced by Andrea Cornwell with SunnyMarch’s Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke. The script was developed with Film4,...
Cumberbatch will play a young father whose hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
This mysterious creature, known as “Crow,” seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take.
Related: Cannes Film Festival Full Coverage
The feature adaptation, entitled The Thing With Feathers, is produced by Andrea Cornwell with SunnyMarch’s Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke. The script was developed with Film4,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Seven Kings Must Die concludes the story of Uhtred Ragnarsson, a decades-long frenemy of the English crown since the days of King Alfred the Great. It’s largely adapted from Bernard Cornwell’s final instalment in his Saxon Stories books, War Lord, along with elements of the two previous novels, and tracks the contested succession to the royal throne following the death of King Edward.
A significant time jump has taken place since the final moments of The Last Kingdom season five, during which Aelswith, Hild and Eadith have all passed or moved away. A core of male characters remains though, including Uhtred, Finan, Sihtric, Father Pyrlig and Aldhelm. They’re joined by brand new characters, as below.
Laurie Davidson as Ingilmundr
The biggest addition to The Last Kingdom’s regular cast is Aethelstan’s new trusted advisor, Ingilmundr, a Danish-born Christian who shows a powerful influence over King Edward’s successor.
A significant time jump has taken place since the final moments of The Last Kingdom season five, during which Aelswith, Hild and Eadith have all passed or moved away. A core of male characters remains though, including Uhtred, Finan, Sihtric, Father Pyrlig and Aldhelm. They’re joined by brand new characters, as below.
Laurie Davidson as Ingilmundr
The biggest addition to The Last Kingdom’s regular cast is Aethelstan’s new trusted advisor, Ingilmundr, a Danish-born Christian who shows a powerful influence over King Edward’s successor.
- 4/14/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Some disturbing memories will come to light when Cillian Murphy joins the production of Small Things Like These, an upcoming project based on Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novel. Murphy is boarding his next endeavor after completing work on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which goes off in theaters on July 21, 2023. In addition to his starring role, Murphy will produce Small Things Like These, with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity financing the project.
Ciaran Hinds and Emily Watson also star in the Dickens-like adaptation, with Tim Mielants directing. The story for Small Things Like These takes place in 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong (Murphy), a coal merchant and family man, faces his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silences...
Ciaran Hinds and Emily Watson also star in the Dickens-like adaptation, with Tim Mielants directing. The story for Small Things Like These takes place in 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong (Murphy), a coal merchant and family man, faces his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silences...
- 3/20/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place Part II and Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy is embarking on his next project with the feature adaptation of Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novel Small Things Like These. Murphy will star in and produce the film that’s been greenlighted by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity, which will finance the project. Principal photography is underway in Ireland.
Ciarán Hinds and Emily Watson are also starring in the drama whose source material has been likened to a Dickens tale. The story takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers the startling secrets being kept by the convent in his town, and some shocking truths about his own life as well.
The project reunites director Tim Mielants and Murphy, who previously worked together on the BAFTA-winning Peaky Blinders. Enda Walsh, a longtime collaborator of Murphy’s, wrote the script. Murphy...
Ciarán Hinds and Emily Watson are also starring in the drama whose source material has been likened to a Dickens tale. The story takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers the startling secrets being kept by the convent in his town, and some shocking truths about his own life as well.
The project reunites director Tim Mielants and Murphy, who previously worked together on the BAFTA-winning Peaky Blinders. Enda Walsh, a longtime collaborator of Murphy’s, wrote the script. Murphy...
- 3/20/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Yesterday, IndieWire took a peek at the blueprints of “The House,” the animated Netflix film from directors Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, and Paloma Baeza. Today, in the conclusion of a two-part series, the filmmakers and writer Enda Walsh talk about the shared setting of their stop-motion fables, and break down the three segments that make up “The House.”
On the Meaning of the Structure Itself
There’s a synergy between theme and location across “The House.” “The house places characters in a space where they feel completely lost, vulnerable, clueless, and frightened,” Walsh said. “Being in it keeps them in that anxious state. It’s a story that feeds on all the feelings of loss and ineptitude we all have at times.”
Roels and De Swaef agree. Their spooky period piece, about a family who sells their humble abode to a mysterious architect...
On the Meaning of the Structure Itself
There’s a synergy between theme and location across “The House.” “The house places characters in a space where they feel completely lost, vulnerable, clueless, and frightened,” Walsh said. “Being in it keeps them in that anxious state. It’s a story that feeds on all the feelings of loss and ineptitude we all have at times.”
Roels and De Swaef agree. Their spooky period piece, about a family who sells their humble abode to a mysterious architect...
- 6/14/2022
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Indiewire
Within the halls of an entrancing property, three otherworldly fables unfold, across different time periods and encompassing multiple sets of characters — not all of them human. Beyond the shared setting, an unnerving tone serves as the common denominator. Welcome to “The House.”
Produced by Nexus Studios and currently vying to be the first animated film ever nominated for Outstanding Television Movie at the Primetime Emmy Awards, “The House” brings together some of the finest artists working in stop-motion today. The separately realized but spiritually related segments by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels (“This Magnificent Cake”), Niki Lindroth von Bahr (“The Burden”), and Paloma Baeza (“Poles Apart”) amount to a grand work that’s as thematically intriguing as it is aesthetically imposing in its handcraft. In “And Heard Again Within a Lie is Spun,” De Swaef and Roels tell the tale of a family who move into a lavish mansion with seemingly ever-shifting interiors.
Produced by Nexus Studios and currently vying to be the first animated film ever nominated for Outstanding Television Movie at the Primetime Emmy Awards, “The House” brings together some of the finest artists working in stop-motion today. The separately realized but spiritually related segments by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels (“This Magnificent Cake”), Niki Lindroth von Bahr (“The Burden”), and Paloma Baeza (“Poles Apart”) amount to a grand work that’s as thematically intriguing as it is aesthetically imposing in its handcraft. In “And Heard Again Within a Lie is Spun,” De Swaef and Roels tell the tale of a family who move into a lavish mansion with seemingly ever-shifting interiors.
- 6/13/2022
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Indiewire
Photo: 'The House' What made ‘Coraline’ such an iconic film was the strong contradiction between playful stop-motion animation and sinister themes; the new Netflix anthology series ‘The House’ has a similar effect on its audience. Despite two of the protagonists being animals and one being a child, the content of the stories is not necessarily suitable for younger audiences. Each episode is directed by a different filmmaker which makes for a visually stunning story that is both darkly funny and simultaneously disturbing. “‘The House’ hones in on the anxieties that come with a home, whether it’s the control that others have over it, the critters inside the walls, or the attachment that could lead to one's demise. With its rising directors each employing a surreal style, it creates a rich balance of ethereal, existential storytelling with stop-motion animation that’s so detailed and alive you can practically feel it on your fingertips,...
- 1/31/2022
- by Kylie Bolter
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Domhnall Gleeson has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Steve Carell in The Patient, FX’s 10-episode half-hour limited series from The Americans creative duo Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, and FX Productions.
Also joining the cast are Linda Emond, Laura Niemi and Andrew Leeds.
Co-written by Fields and Weisberg, in The Patient, a psychotherapist (Carell) finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer (Gleeson) with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges. But unwinding the mind of this man while also dealing with the waves of his own repressed troubles creates a journey perhaps as treacherous as his captivity.
Chris Long has come on board as an executive producer and will direct the first two episodes of the series, with production scheduled to begin this week. Kevin Bray and Gwyneth Horder-Payton will also be directing on the series.
Fields and Weisberg executive produce along with Carell, Caroline Moore, Victor Hsu and Long.
The Tony-nominated Gleeson recently finished a sold-out run of Enda Walsh’s play Medicine at New York’s St. Ann’s Warehouse. He’ll next be seen in David Mandel’s HBO limited series White House Plumbers in the role of John Dean opposite Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively. Recently, Gleeson appeared in Frank of Ireland for Channel 4 and Amazon, a series he also co-produced and wrote with Michael Moloney and brother Brian Gleeson, and in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway opposite Rose Byrne and James Corden.
Gleeson is repped by Paradigm and The Agency.
Also joining the cast are Linda Emond, Laura Niemi and Andrew Leeds.
Co-written by Fields and Weisberg, in The Patient, a psychotherapist (Carell) finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer (Gleeson) with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges. But unwinding the mind of this man while also dealing with the waves of his own repressed troubles creates a journey perhaps as treacherous as his captivity.
Chris Long has come on board as an executive producer and will direct the first two episodes of the series, with production scheduled to begin this week. Kevin Bray and Gwyneth Horder-Payton will also be directing on the series.
Fields and Weisberg executive produce along with Carell, Caroline Moore, Victor Hsu and Long.
The Tony-nominated Gleeson recently finished a sold-out run of Enda Walsh’s play Medicine at New York’s St. Ann’s Warehouse. He’ll next be seen in David Mandel’s HBO limited series White House Plumbers in the role of John Dean opposite Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively. Recently, Gleeson appeared in Frank of Ireland for Channel 4 and Amazon, a series he also co-produced and wrote with Michael Moloney and brother Brian Gleeson, and in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway opposite Rose Byrne and James Corden.
Gleeson is repped by Paradigm and The Agency.
- 1/11/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
All Arts unveiled the fall lineup for “The First Twenty,” a new content initiative exploring how the first two decades of the 21st century have impacted American art and culture.
“The First Twenty” includes three new specials. Premiering on Sept. 7 is “Afterwards” by playwright Enda Walsh. Jeremy Dennis’ “Ma’s House” premieres on Oct. 11 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Twenty Years of Asian American Playwriting” by Ralph Peña and the Ma-Yi Theater Company will air in November. All three will stream on the All Arts app and website, and premiere in the New York Metro area on the All Arts TV channel.
“Our mission with ‘The First Twenty’ initiative is to contemplate and investigate contemporary society and its challenges through alternative lenses,” said James King, artistic director of All Arts. “We are inviting artists from traditionally underserved communities to create exciting new content that illuminates their unique cultures and perspectives.
“The First Twenty” includes three new specials. Premiering on Sept. 7 is “Afterwards” by playwright Enda Walsh. Jeremy Dennis’ “Ma’s House” premieres on Oct. 11 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Twenty Years of Asian American Playwriting” by Ralph Peña and the Ma-Yi Theater Company will air in November. All three will stream on the All Arts app and website, and premiere in the New York Metro area on the All Arts TV channel.
“Our mission with ‘The First Twenty’ initiative is to contemplate and investigate contemporary society and its challenges through alternative lenses,” said James King, artistic director of All Arts. “We are inviting artists from traditionally underserved communities to create exciting new content that illuminates their unique cultures and perspectives.
- 8/26/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
The Irish playwright is known both for feverishly claustrophobic plays – including his latest, Medicine – and big commercial hits. If a project doesn’t feel right, he fires himself
Lockdown, went one joke on Twitter, was like being in a play by Enda Walsh. The closed worlds of the Irish dramatist could have been made for the pandemic. His characters don’t need a government edict to stay at home; they are too ensnared by their own warped logic to do anything else.
Walsh takes introspection to feverish, funny and surreal extremes. His breakthrough hit, Disco Pigs, was about two teenagers who spoke only in a private language. The Walworth Farce imagined a family of Irish expats endlessly re-enacting a play in their front room. Ballyturk took place in a hermetically sealed house where two men invented the life of the town outside.
Lockdown, went one joke on Twitter, was like being in a play by Enda Walsh. The closed worlds of the Irish dramatist could have been made for the pandemic. His characters don’t need a government edict to stay at home; they are too ensnared by their own warped logic to do anything else.
Walsh takes introspection to feverish, funny and surreal extremes. His breakthrough hit, Disco Pigs, was about two teenagers who spoke only in a private language. The Walworth Farce imagined a family of Irish expats endlessly re-enacting a play in their front room. Ballyturk took place in a hermetically sealed house where two men invented the life of the town outside.
- 7/12/2021
- by Mark Fisher
- The Guardian - Film News
James C. Nicola, whose tenure as artistic director of Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop included the development of such prominent stage works as Rent, Once, Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me, Slave Play and David Bowie’s Lazarus, will leave the post next year, the company announced today.
“In July of 2022, I will reach the age of 72,” Nicola said in a statement. “In my mind, that has always been the moment to interrupt whatever patterns there might be in my life, and to leap off a cliff into reinvention. So that is my plan.”
Nicola will depart Nytw on June 30, 2022. He has been the artistic director since 1988.
Under his stewardship, Nytw has cemented a reputation as an important force in the production and development of new theater work, many of which have gone on to Broadway runs. A partial list of important works developed at the Nytw includes Jonathan Larson’s Rent,...
“In July of 2022, I will reach the age of 72,” Nicola said in a statement. “In my mind, that has always been the moment to interrupt whatever patterns there might be in my life, and to leap off a cliff into reinvention. So that is my plan.”
Nicola will depart Nytw on June 30, 2022. He has been the artistic director since 1988.
Under his stewardship, Nytw has cemented a reputation as an important force in the production and development of new theater work, many of which have gone on to Broadway runs. A partial list of important works developed at the Nytw includes Jonathan Larson’s Rent,...
- 4/16/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The filmed London production of the David Bowie musical Lazarus starring Michael C. Hall will stream for three performances this weekend to mark both the late singer’s Jan. 8 birthday and the fifth anniversary of his Jan. 10 death.
Producers Robert Fox and Rzo Entertainment announced the exclusive release of the streamed performances today. The production was captured live on stage during the musical’s sold-out 2016 run at King’s Cross Theatre. Lazarus premiered in 2015 at The New York Theatre Workshop, one of Bowie’s final completed projects.
Inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis (The Queen’s Gambit) and serving as a sequel to the both the book and the 1976 film starring Bowie, Lazarus utilizes classic songs from the Bowie catalog as well as several numbers written for the stage show such as the title song. Directed by...
Producers Robert Fox and Rzo Entertainment announced the exclusive release of the streamed performances today. The production was captured live on stage during the musical’s sold-out 2016 run at King’s Cross Theatre. Lazarus premiered in 2015 at The New York Theatre Workshop, one of Bowie’s final completed projects.
Inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis (The Queen’s Gambit) and serving as a sequel to the both the book and the 1976 film starring Bowie, Lazarus utilizes classic songs from the Bowie catalog as well as several numbers written for the stage show such as the title song. Directed by...
- 1/4/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Prolific producer also discusses new Rose Glass feature, a documentary and TV projects.
One of the few UK titles selected for this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival is Rose Glass’ psychological horror Saint Maud.
Programmed in the Kinoscope Surreal sidebar, the film was feted in Toronto but has been stuck in limbo due to the Covid-19 crisis, which saw cinemas close around the world.
“Just to see the brakes going on it, of course, it is frustrating,” said Saint Maud producer Andrea Cornwell. “We were days away from getting on a plane and doing a Q&a tour around the States when lockdown happened.
One of the few UK titles selected for this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival is Rose Glass’ psychological horror Saint Maud.
Programmed in the Kinoscope Surreal sidebar, the film was feted in Toronto but has been stuck in limbo due to the Covid-19 crisis, which saw cinemas close around the world.
“Just to see the brakes going on it, of course, it is frustrating,” said Saint Maud producer Andrea Cornwell. “We were days away from getting on a plane and doing a Q&a tour around the States when lockdown happened.
- 8/14/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Sing Street, the sold-out Off Broadway musical that was set to begin performances at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre just as the Covid-19 shutdown hit, now is targeting an opening sometime between winter 2021 and winter 2022.
The announcement was made Monday by producers Barbara Broccoli, Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Michael Wilson, Orin Wolf and Frederick Zollo. An as-yet-unspecified Shubert Organization theater will house the production.
“We want to be responsible and strategic about creating a proper runway to launch our new musical on Broadway,” the producers said in a statement, “which includes a longer period of time from when Broadway theater reopens. We will announce a new date to open on Broadway sometime between the winter of 2021 and 2022 based on the availability of a Shubert Theater.”
The musical was staged Off Broadway in 2019 by the New York Theatre Workshop with music and lyrics by Gary Clark & John Carney, a book by...
The announcement was made Monday by producers Barbara Broccoli, Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Michael Wilson, Orin Wolf and Frederick Zollo. An as-yet-unspecified Shubert Organization theater will house the production.
“We want to be responsible and strategic about creating a proper runway to launch our new musical on Broadway,” the producers said in a statement, “which includes a longer period of time from when Broadway theater reopens. We will announce a new date to open on Broadway sometime between the winter of 2021 and 2022 based on the availability of a Shubert Theater.”
The musical was staged Off Broadway in 2019 by the New York Theatre Workshop with music and lyrics by Gary Clark & John Carney, a book by...
- 8/3/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Inheritance, Sea Wall/A Life, Slave Play and Girl From The North Country are among the Broadway nominees of this year’s Drama League Awards, along with a significant shows of Off Broadway productions.
Honoring productions that opened during the Covid-shortened 2019-2020 season, the nominations were announced by Beetlejuice’s Alex Brightman and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer via livestream last night. Voting is currently open for Drama League members through May 22, with winners to be announced via livestream in June.
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Among the individual performers nominated for the League’s Distinguished Performance Award were Raúl Esparza, David Alan Grier, Jonathan Groff, Jake Gyllenhaal,...
Honoring productions that opened during the Covid-shortened 2019-2020 season, the nominations were announced by Beetlejuice’s Alex Brightman and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer via livestream last night. Voting is currently open for Drama League members through May 22, with winners to be announced via livestream in June.
More from DeadlineWatch: Terrence McNally Video Tribute Set For Drama League Awards Online EventBroadway's 'Moulin Rouge!' Star Aaron Tveit Tests Positive For Covid-19, Symptoms "Very Mild"Broadway's 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' Cancels Today's Performances "Out Of Abundance Of Caution"; No Positive Tests For Coronavirus - Update
Among the individual performers nominated for the League’s Distinguished Performance Award were Raúl Esparza, David Alan Grier, Jonathan Groff, Jake Gyllenhaal,...
- 5/1/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Live performances may be on pause, but fans of Sing Street, John Carney’s cinematic ode to Eighties British bands, can still get their fix. On Wednesday, the cast of Sing Street‘s Broadway adaptation premiered a short video for “Riddle of the Model” — includes Brendan C. Callahan, Zara Devlin, Jakeim Hart, Brenock O’Connor, Gian Perez, Sam Poon, and Anthony Genovesi — and announced that Sing Street: Original Broadway Cast Recording will be out on Tuesday, April 21st.
The theater production of Sing Street — Carney’s semi-autobiographical story of a teenage...
The theater production of Sing Street — Carney’s semi-autobiographical story of a teenage...
- 4/15/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The off-Broadway musical adaptation of Sing Street at the New York Workshop Theatre carries on the starry and head-banging spirit of John Carney’s 2016 indie hit. The stage script is adapted and expanded by Enda Walsh, who also penned the Tony-winning stage musical treatment for Carney’s Once. It’s 1982 in Dublin, Ireland and the family […]
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- 1/17/2020
- by Caroline Cao
- Slash Film
Off Broadway’s hit Sing Street, a musical adaptation of the 2016 film about a group of Dublin teens in the 1980s who form a New Wave band to escape troubled home lives and small town drudgery, will transfer to Broadway in March.
Previews begin Thursday, March 26, at the Lyceum Theatre, with an opening night on Sunday April 19.
Staged Off Broadway by the New York Theatre Workshop with a book by playwright Enda Walsh (Lazarus) based on the film written and directed by John Carney – the same triumvirate behind Broadway’s smash Once – the sold-out show’s transfer was not unexpected. Reviews were mostly positive and generally encouraging if not full-on raves, with some critics pointing to fixable flaws like pacing while almost universally praising the lead performance by young Brenock O’Connor.
O’Connor and the rest of the Off Broadway...
Previews begin Thursday, March 26, at the Lyceum Theatre, with an opening night on Sunday April 19.
Staged Off Broadway by the New York Theatre Workshop with a book by playwright Enda Walsh (Lazarus) based on the film written and directed by John Carney – the same triumvirate behind Broadway’s smash Once – the sold-out show’s transfer was not unexpected. Reviews were mostly positive and generally encouraging if not full-on raves, with some critics pointing to fixable flaws like pacing while almost universally praising the lead performance by young Brenock O’Connor.
O’Connor and the rest of the Off Broadway...
- 1/8/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
New York Theatre Workshop Nytw Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker announced today a one-week final extension for the World Premiere of Sing Street, a new musical based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney Once, Begin Again. Sing Street features a book by Tony Award winner Nytw Usual Suspect Enda Walsh Once, Lazarus, music and lyrics by Gary Clark frontman of Danny Wilson Carney, direction by Tony Award winner Nytw Usual Suspect Rebecca Taichman Indecent and choreography by Obie Award winner Sonya Tayeh Hundred Days.
- 11/13/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Greta Gerwig and Oscar Isaac will star in an Off Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, directed by the Tony-winning Sam Gold for New York Theater Workshop’s 2019/20 season, the Nytw announced today.
Performance schedules and additional casting will be announced later, but the production is expected to close the Nytw’s season.
The production will mark a reunion for the director and his two stars: Gold directed Gerwig in the 2014 Off Broadway production of The Village Bike at the Lucille Lortel Theater, and Isaac in the 2017 Public Theater production of Hamlet.
The production was one of two announced today, rounding out the prestigious company’s previously announced season. The other new entry is Endlings by Celine Song (Tom & Eliza), directed by Sammi Cannold, set for winter 2020.
Gerwig was Oscar-nominated for her direction and screenplay of Lady Bird, starring the also-nominated Saoirse Ronin and Laurie Metcalf. She recently...
Performance schedules and additional casting will be announced later, but the production is expected to close the Nytw’s season.
The production will mark a reunion for the director and his two stars: Gold directed Gerwig in the 2014 Off Broadway production of The Village Bike at the Lucille Lortel Theater, and Isaac in the 2017 Public Theater production of Hamlet.
The production was one of two announced today, rounding out the prestigious company’s previously announced season. The other new entry is Endlings by Celine Song (Tom & Eliza), directed by Sammi Cannold, set for winter 2020.
Gerwig was Oscar-nominated for her direction and screenplay of Lady Bird, starring the also-nominated Saoirse Ronin and Laurie Metcalf. She recently...
- 7/16/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
James C. Nicola and Jeffrey Horowitz, two longtime stalwarts of New York’s theater community, particularly its downtown scene, will be honored with special Obie Awards for Lifetime Achievement at the 64th annual Obie Awards ceremony May 20.
Nicola is the Artistic Director of New York Theatre Workshop, and Horowitz is Artistic Director and founder of Theatre For A New Audience.
Under Nicola’s guidance since 1988, Nytw has built a roster of credits that include Jonathan Larson’s Rent; plays by Tony Kushner, Doug Wright, Claudia Shear, Paul Rudnick, Enda Walsh, and David Bowie. Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown and Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, both of Broadway, had early Nytw productions.
Horowitz founded Theatre for a New Audience in 1979, and has produced twenty-four of Shakespeare’s plays, nurtured relationships with many of the finest American and European directors including JoAnne Akaliatis, Peter Brook, Karin Coonrod, Ron Daniels,...
Nicola is the Artistic Director of New York Theatre Workshop, and Horowitz is Artistic Director and founder of Theatre For A New Audience.
Under Nicola’s guidance since 1988, Nytw has built a roster of credits that include Jonathan Larson’s Rent; plays by Tony Kushner, Doug Wright, Claudia Shear, Paul Rudnick, Enda Walsh, and David Bowie. Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown and Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, both of Broadway, had early Nytw productions.
Horowitz founded Theatre for a New Audience in 1979, and has produced twenty-four of Shakespeare’s plays, nurtured relationships with many of the finest American and European directors including JoAnne Akaliatis, Peter Brook, Karin Coonrod, Ron Daniels,...
- 5/13/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
A new stage musical based on John Carney’s 2016 feature film Sing Street will have its world premiere at Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop during the 2019/20 season, the theater announced today. Enda Walsh, who wrote the book for the Tony-winning musical adaptation of Carney’s Once, will reunite with Carney for Sing Street.
The new production, to be directed by Rebecca Taichman, will feature music and lyrics by Carney and Gary Clark, book by Walsh and choreography by Sonya Tayeh.
The Sing Street musical was one of three productions announced today by Nytw for the 2019/20 season. The others were a double bill by Mfoniso Udofia of plays runboyrun and In Old Age; and Sanctuary City by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok.
The line-up was announced today by Nytw Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker. Production dates and casting were not disclosed. Nytw premiered Once in 2011.
As described by Nytw,...
The new production, to be directed by Rebecca Taichman, will feature music and lyrics by Carney and Gary Clark, book by Walsh and choreography by Sonya Tayeh.
The Sing Street musical was one of three productions announced today by Nytw for the 2019/20 season. The others were a double bill by Mfoniso Udofia of plays runboyrun and In Old Age; and Sanctuary City by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok.
The line-up was announced today by Nytw Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker. Production dates and casting were not disclosed. Nytw premiered Once in 2011.
As described by Nytw,...
- 4/29/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“Sing Street,” the 2016 coming-of-age musical film from director John Carney, is set to become a stage musical from the same team that developed the stage adaptation of the Tony-winning “Once.”
Carney, who directed both films “Once” and “Sing Street,” has — along with Gary Clark — provided the music and lyrics for the “Sing Street” musical. The book is written by Enda Walsh, who also wrote “Once” and “Lazarus.” Rebecca Taichman (“Indecent”) will direct, with choreography by Sonya Tayeh.
The production will debut off-Broadway as part of the 2050 Artistic Fellowship At New York Theatre Workshop, which is the same location where “Once” initially made its premiere in 2011.
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Set in 1985 Dublin at a time when everyone is out of work and thousands are seeking bluer skies across the Irish Sea, “Sing Street” follows 16-year-old Conor and his schoolmates,...
Carney, who directed both films “Once” and “Sing Street,” has — along with Gary Clark — provided the music and lyrics for the “Sing Street” musical. The book is written by Enda Walsh, who also wrote “Once” and “Lazarus.” Rebecca Taichman (“Indecent”) will direct, with choreography by Sonya Tayeh.
The production will debut off-Broadway as part of the 2050 Artistic Fellowship At New York Theatre Workshop, which is the same location where “Once” initially made its premiere in 2011.
Also Read: 'Beetlejuice' Broadway Review: Tim Burton's Ghosts Turn Scarily Uncomic in Musical Misfire
Set in 1985 Dublin at a time when everyone is out of work and thousands are seeking bluer skies across the Irish Sea, “Sing Street” follows 16-year-old Conor and his schoolmates,...
- 4/29/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“Cold War” director Pawel Pawlikowski remembers, very distinctly, his experience of watching the British documentary “Up” Series in which director Michael Apted has followed the lives of fourteen children, beginning in 1964. Starting when the subjects were seven years old (“7 Up”), the series has revisited his subjects every seven years, with the most recent installment being in 2012 with “56 Up.”
“The thrill you have finding someone seven years later and seeing how much they’ve changed,” said Pawlikowski when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “Sometimes it’s surprising, yet kind of inevitable, and sometimes it’s completely shocking. Sometimes it makes complete sense, but that effect of jumping in time and discovering ‘Where are we now,’ it gives you a real thrill when you watch it.”
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“The thrill you have finding someone seven years later and seeing how much they’ve changed,” said Pawlikowski when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “Sometimes it’s surprising, yet kind of inevitable, and sometimes it’s completely shocking. Sometimes it makes complete sense, but that effect of jumping in time and discovering ‘Where are we now,’ it gives you a real thrill when you watch it.”
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- 12/28/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Evanna Lynch is joining the 27th season of “Dancing with the Stars,” and she’ll be the very first “Harry Potter” alum to compete for the Mirror Ball Trophy. Will she cast a spell on the judges and viewers at home? The new season begins on September 24, so before Lynch and her competitors take the stage, let’s consider her pros and cons as a contestant.
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Pros
At the age of 14 Lynch won the role of Luna Lovegood in the second half of the “Harry Potter” film series, beginning with 2007’s “Order of the Phoenix” and concluding with 2011’s “Deathly Hallows, Part 2.” Since then Lynch reprised her role as Luna in a stage musical titled “A Very Potter Senior Year” opposite Darren Criss in the title role. The enormous fan base behind “Harry Potter” could give her a big boost...
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At the age of 14 Lynch won the role of Luna Lovegood in the second half of the “Harry Potter” film series, beginning with 2007’s “Order of the Phoenix” and concluding with 2011’s “Deathly Hallows, Part 2.” Since then Lynch reprised her role as Luna in a stage musical titled “A Very Potter Senior Year” opposite Darren Criss in the title role. The enormous fan base behind “Harry Potter” could give her a big boost...
- 9/19/2018
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
The pre-Broadway Beetlejuice has found its ghost and the teenager who summons him: Alex Brightman (School of Rock) will play the title character, and Sophia Anne Caruso, who knocked ’em dead with her rendition of “Life on Mars?” in the David Bowie Off-Broadway musical Lazarus, has been cast as Lydia.
The actors join the previously announced creative team – including director Alex Timbers and choreographer Connor Gallagher – for the pre-Broadway staging at the National Theatre in Washington D.C.
Performances in D.C. begin Sunday, October 14, with an official opening on Sunday, November 4.
The casting announcement was made today by producers Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ Mark Kaufman and Langley Park Productions’ Kevin McCormick. Additional casting will be announced shortly. The musical adaptation of Beetlejuice features an original score by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown & Anthony King.
Brightman will take the role made famous by Michael Keaton in...
The actors join the previously announced creative team – including director Alex Timbers and choreographer Connor Gallagher – for the pre-Broadway staging at the National Theatre in Washington D.C.
Performances in D.C. begin Sunday, October 14, with an official opening on Sunday, November 4.
The casting announcement was made today by producers Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures’ Mark Kaufman and Langley Park Productions’ Kevin McCormick. Additional casting will be announced shortly. The musical adaptation of Beetlejuice features an original score by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown & Anthony King.
Brightman will take the role made famous by Michael Keaton in...
- 8/16/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael C. Hall will hit the stage solo in an Off Broadway revival of Thom Pain (based on nothing), Will Eno’s 2004 monologue and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The Signature Theatre production begins its limited engagement Oct. 23, with a Nov. 11 opening date and closing Nov. 25. Thom Pain will be performed on the Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
Hall, known to TV audiences for Dexter and Six Feet Under, has extensive stage credits, most recently starring in Ivo van Hove’s 2015 Off Broadway production of Lazarus by David Bowie & Enda Walsh. Hall made his Broadway debut in 1999 in Sam Mendes’ Cabaret revival, and has also appeared in Chicago and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, among others.
Thom Pain will be directed by Oliver Butler. The rest of the creative team has yet to be announced.
The play is described by Signature as...
The Signature Theatre production begins its limited engagement Oct. 23, with a Nov. 11 opening date and closing Nov. 25. Thom Pain will be performed on the Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
Hall, known to TV audiences for Dexter and Six Feet Under, has extensive stage credits, most recently starring in Ivo van Hove’s 2015 Off Broadway production of Lazarus by David Bowie & Enda Walsh. Hall made his Broadway debut in 1999 in Sam Mendes’ Cabaret revival, and has also appeared in Chicago and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, among others.
Thom Pain will be directed by Oliver Butler. The rest of the creative team has yet to be announced.
The play is described by Signature as...
- 8/7/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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