No sector of the entertainment industry may have been hit harder than live theater during the pandemic.
While most have relied on streaming performances, the Geffen Playhouse has rolled out a series of sold-out interactive shows, including its summer Zoom hit, The Present. Extended three times, it starred illusionist Helder Guimarães and was directed by renowned producer Frank Marshall.
Now, its sequel, The Future — which runs Dec. 4 to Jan. 31 — already is selling out many showings at $95 a ticket. Guimarães performs from his Glendale apartment, while Marshall returns, directing remotely from his Brentwood home. (The Geffen also has ...
While most have relied on streaming performances, the Geffen Playhouse has rolled out a series of sold-out interactive shows, including its summer Zoom hit, The Present. Extended three times, it starred illusionist Helder Guimarães and was directed by renowned producer Frank Marshall.
Now, its sequel, The Future — which runs Dec. 4 to Jan. 31 — already is selling out many showings at $95 a ticket. Guimarães performs from his Glendale apartment, while Marshall returns, directing remotely from his Brentwood home. (The Geffen also has ...
- 12/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
No sector of the entertainment industry may have been hit harder than live theater during the pandemic.
While most have relied on streaming performances, the Geffen Playhouse has rolled out a series of sold-out interactive shows, including its summer Zoom hit, The Present. Extended three times, it starred illusionist Helder Guimarães and was directed by renowned producer Frank Marshall.
Now, its sequel, The Future — which runs Dec. 4 to Jan. 31 — already is selling out many showings at $95 a ticket. Guimarães performs from his Glendale apartment, while Marshall returns, directing remotely from his Brentwood home. (The Geffen also has ...
While most have relied on streaming performances, the Geffen Playhouse has rolled out a series of sold-out interactive shows, including its summer Zoom hit, The Present. Extended three times, it starred illusionist Helder Guimarães and was directed by renowned producer Frank Marshall.
Now, its sequel, The Future — which runs Dec. 4 to Jan. 31 — already is selling out many showings at $95 a ticket. Guimarães performs from his Glendale apartment, while Marshall returns, directing remotely from his Brentwood home. (The Geffen also has ...
- 12/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Editors’ Note: Deadline’s Coping With Covid-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an exchange of ideas and experiences, and suggestions on how businesses and individuals can best ride out the crisis.
Few artists can say they’ve surmounted social-distancing obstacles as magically as Portuguese illusionist Helder Guimarães.
The impact of social distancing on the performing arts needn’t be re-stated here: In one way or another, most installments of Deadline’s Coping With Covid-19 Crisis series have dealt with just that topic, as performers – or those aspiring to be – have conveyed newly acquired personal tactics and insights discovered and developed during life in a pandemic.
But Guimarães is a performer who not only needs an audience, but needs an audience to actively participate in the performance of his latest show.
Few artists can say they’ve surmounted social-distancing obstacles as magically as Portuguese illusionist Helder Guimarães.
The impact of social distancing on the performing arts needn’t be re-stated here: In one way or another, most installments of Deadline’s Coping With Covid-19 Crisis series have dealt with just that topic, as performers – or those aspiring to be – have conveyed newly acquired personal tactics and insights discovered and developed during life in a pandemic.
But Guimarães is a performer who not only needs an audience, but needs an audience to actively participate in the performance of his latest show.
- 5/27/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Musician Moby is set to compose original music for Invisible Tango, the new Geffen Playhouse production directed by Oscar-nominated producer Frank Marshall that puts magician Helder Guimarães front and center. The one-man show is set to premiere May 7 and run through June 16 at the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater in Los Angeles.
Guimarães’s show will explore the nature of secrets and how far we are willing to go to discover them. In the midst of the information age and our culture of over-sharing, Guimarães challenges our interaction with the unknown and explores how we can embrace the magic of wonder and mystery. He previously took the Geffen stage in 2012 with his two-man show Nothing To Hide with Derek DelGaudio and directed by Neil Patrick Harris. The show was extended four times in Los Angeles before it moved to New York. Moby admits he is a fan of magic, making...
Guimarães’s show will explore the nature of secrets and how far we are willing to go to discover them. In the midst of the information age and our culture of over-sharing, Guimarães challenges our interaction with the unknown and explores how we can embrace the magic of wonder and mystery. He previously took the Geffen stage in 2012 with his two-man show Nothing To Hide with Derek DelGaudio and directed by Neil Patrick Harris. The show was extended four times in Los Angeles before it moved to New York. Moby admits he is a fan of magic, making...
- 3/18/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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