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Corruption (play)
''Corruption'' is a play by J. T. Rogers, recounting (in dramatized form) the true-life phone hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in 2011, stunning the world and upending British politics. The production is based on the 2012 book '' Dial M for Murdoch''. The play premiered Off-Broadway in February 2024 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center. The play was directed by Bartlett Sher, who previously directed Rogers' previous play ''Oslo'' (2016) which won the Tony Award for Best Play. Overview The play set in 2011 revolves around parliament member Tom Watson who gets quickly engulfed into the News International phone hacking scandal. Watson is on a mission to investigate those behind the hacking while balancing his personal life. Various figures involved in the story include Rebekah Brooks, James Murdoch, and Gordon Brown. Origins J.T. Rogers adapted the play from the 2012 book '' Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitzi E
Mitzi or Mitzy (sometimes Mitzie) is a feminine given name of German origin. Originally a nickname for girls named Maria in German-speaking populations, Mitzi became a given name in its own right, even outside of Germany. Several early-20th-century American actresses chose it as part of their stage name, for example Mitzi Green and Mitzi Gaynor, increasing its popularity. In the United States, Mitzi first appeared on the Social Security Administration's list of the top 1,000 most popular names for baby girls in 1930, peaked in 1955, and has since fallen out of favor, dropping off the list entirely after 1979. People *Mitzi Cajayon (born 1978), Filipino politician * Mitzie Collins (born 1941), American folk musician *Mitzi Cunliffe (1918–2006), American sculptor *Mitzi Gaynor (born 1931), American actress, singer and dancer born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber * Mitzi Green (1920–1969), American child actress born Elizabeth Keno *Mitzi Hajos (1889–1970), Hungarian bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Watson (Labour Politician)
Thomas Anthony Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest (born 8 January 1967) is a British politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2019. A member of the House of Lords since 2022, he was the member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East from 2001 to 2019. Born in Sheffield, Watson was raised in Kidderminster, where he was educated at King Charles I School. He first became involved in Labour Party and trade-union activism while studying at the University of Hull and was chair of the National Organisation of Labour Students from 1992 to 1993. After working in marketing and advertising, he began working full-time for the Labour Party, including on its 1997 general election campaign, and then for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union. Elected MP for West Bromwich East at the 2001 general election, Watson was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans from May to September 2006 and Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Bryant
Sir Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British politician and former Anglican priest who has served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda and Ogmore (UK Parliament constituency), Rhondda and Ogmore, and previously Rhondda (UK Parliament constituency), Rhondda, since 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, he has been the Minister of State for Data Protection and Telecoms and Minister of State for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism since 2024. Born in Cardiff, Bryant was privately educated at Cheltenham College before studying English at Mansfield College, Oxford. After graduating with a further degree in theology, he worked as a Church of England priest, as well as having roles at the BBC and Common Purpose. He was elected for Rhondda at the 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001 general election. He previously served in government as Leader of the House of Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Behlmann
John Behlmann is an American actor known for such plays, musicals, films and television series as '' The 39 Steps'', ''Significant Other'', '' Tootsie'', '' The Wolf of Wall Street'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''Guiding Light'' and ''All My Children''. Education He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and The National Theatre Conservatory. Personal life John Behlmann was born in Florissant, Missouri outside of St. Louis. He moved to England when he was in grade school, living there for two years. After England he moved to Katy, Texas Katy is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in the Greater Katy area, itself forming the western part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Homes and businesses may have Katy postal addresses without being in the City of Katy. The city ..., where he lived until moving to Connecticut to attend Wesleyan University. After graduation he attended the national Theater Conservatory in Denver and moved to New York to pursue his love of theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Hunt
Sir Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2022 to 2024 and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019, having previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament for Godalming and Ash, formerly South West Surrey, since 2005. Hunt also served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Shadow Cabinet of Rishi Sunak from July to November 2024. The son of an Admiral of the Royal Navy, Hunt was born in Kennington and studied philosophy, politics and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 2005 and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Disabled People and later as Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Brooks (racehorse Trainer)
Charles Patrick Evelyn Brooks (born 3 March 1963) is a British socialite, newspaper columnist, racehorse trainer and former amateur jockey. He is best known as the husband of Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News UK. The couple are seen as leading lights of the so-called ' Chipping Norton set', a politically influential clique close to the former leadership of the Conservative Party. On 15 May 2012, Brooks and his wife were charged with perverting the course of justice. On 24 June 2014, the High Court found Brooks and his wife Rebekah not guilty.BBC News Online (June 2014)“Hacking trial: Coulson guilty, Brooks cleared of charges” BBC 24 June 2014. Accessed 4 July 2014 Early life Brooks was born Charles Patrick Evelyn Brooks on 3 March 1963 in Chipping Norton. His father died when he was 12. Educated at Eton College, which he attended with future Prime Minister David Cameron (three years his junior), Brooks became an amateur jockey and assistant racehorse trainer to Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100. An "off-Broadway production" is a production of a play, musical, or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Some shows that premiere off-Broadway are subsequently produced on Broadway. History The term originally referred to any venue, and its productions, on a street intersecting Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District, the hub of the American theatre industry. It later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in Manhattan with a seating capacity of at least 100, but not more than 499, or a production that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Previously, regardless of the si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Numrich
Seth Numrich ( ; born January 19, 1987) is an American stage, television, and film actor. Early life Numrich was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Charles Numrich, is an actor who in 1981 founded the non-profit theatre company Creative Theater Unlimited, which he ran until 2008. Seth earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at The Juilliard School, graduating in acting in 2006 with Group 36. At the time, he was the youngest person to be admitted into Juilliard's Drama Division, a record previously held by actor Val Kilmer. Career Numrich was a teaching artist for Artists Striving to End Poverty from 2005 to 2012. Theatre Numrich made his Broadway debut as Lorenzo in the 2010 revival of '' The Merchant of Venice'' and has played the boxer Joe Bonaparte in '' Golden Boy'' and as Albert in '' War Horse'' both at the Lincoln Center Theater on Broadway. He has also acted Off-Broadway in ''Slipping'', ''Yosemite'' and ''Blind'' as part of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saffron Burrows
Saffron Burrows (born 22 October 1972) is a British and American actress who has appeared in films such as '' Circle of Friends,'' '' Wing Commander,'' '' Deep Blue Sea,'' '' Gangster No. 1,'' '' Enigma,'' ''Troy,'' '' Reign Over Me'', and '' The Bank Job''. On the small screen she starred as Lorraine Weller on '' Boston Legal,'' Dr. Norah Skinner on '' My Own Worst Enemy,'' Detective Serena Stevens on '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent,'' and Victoria Hand on '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''. She appeared as Cynthia Taylor on the Prime Video series '' Mozart in the Jungle'' and as Dottie Quinn in the Netflix series '' You''. Early life A Londoner, Saffron Burrows was born in St Pancras in central London and grew up in Stoke Newington. Her mother is a trade unionist and primary school teacher in Hackney and her father is an architect and teacher. Her parents and stepfather were Socialist Workers Party members, and Burrows was politically active from a young age. Burrows attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Mulcaire
Glenn Michael Mulcaire (born 8 September 1970) is an author and English private investigator and former non-league footballer. He was closely involved in the News International phone hacking scandal, and was imprisoned for six months in 2007 for his role in phone hacking and given a six-month suspended sentence at the hacking trial of 2013–14. Football career Mulcaire is a former non-league footballer who played in the lower tiers of the English football league system, including a spell at the then newly formed AFC Wimbledon, when he was also known as "Trigger". He previously played for Fulham youth team, Dorking, Egham Town and Harrow Borough. Mulcaire became the first man to score a goal for AFC Wimbledon when playing against Bromley in July 2002. Mulcaire played in several pre-season friendlies and for the newly formed AFC Wimbledon scoring twice (in their third and fourth games). Once the 2002–03 season started he only started once and appeared as a substitute six ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Crone
Tom Crone is a British barrister, last working for News International as Legal Affairs manager, before he resigned during the News International phone hacking scandal in 2011. Career Crone qualified as a barrister, and after five years of private practise joined Mirror Group Newspapers. In 1985, he joined News International, appointed as Legal Affairs manager. During his time at the group, acting for ''The Sun'' and the ''News of the World'', he won plaudits from both colleagues and rivals for his unerring journalistic instinct: "He is a unique lawyer in that he has great journalistic instincts. He is sort of 10% journalist and is incredibly streetwise." A close personal friend of the late George Carman QC, Crone was one of the first media managers to use libel defence specialist John Kelsey-Fry QC. He also hit out at then Attorney General for England and Wales Lord Goldsmith for clamping down on media coverage of high-profile cases, such as the allegations of rape made against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Baker
Dylan Baker (born October 7, 1959) is an American actor. He gained recognition for his roles in films such as '' Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''Happiness'' (1998), '' Thirteen Days'' (2000), '' Road to Perdition'' (2002), ''Spider-Man 2'' (2004), ''Spider-Man 3'' (2007), '' Trick 'r Treat'' (2007), '' Revolutionary Road'' (2008), '' Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues'' (2013), and '' Selma'' (2014). On television he has had prominent roles in series such as '' Murder One'' (1995–1996), ''The Good Wife'' (2010–2015), ''Damages'' (2011), ''The Americans'' (2016), and ''Homeland'' (2018). For ''The Good Wife'' he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Baker was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the original production of '' La Bête'' in 1991. He made his directorial debut with the film '' 23 Blast'' in 2013. Early life and education Baker was born in Syracuse, New York and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia. He began his act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
