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To Kill A Mockingbird (2018 Play)
''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is a 2018 play based on the To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, adapted for the stage by Aaron Sorkin. It opened on Broadway theatre, Broadway at the Shubert Theatre (New York City), Shubert Theatre on December 13, 2018. The play opened in London's West End theatre, West End at the Gielgud Theatre in March 2022. The show follows the story of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in 1930s Alabama, as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of rape. Varying from the book, the play has Atticus as the protagonist, not his daughter Scout, allowing his character to change throughout the show. During development the show was involved in two legal disputes, the first with the Lee estate over the faithfulness of the play to the original book, and the second was due to exclusivity to the rights with productions using an earlier script by Christopher Sergel. During opening week, the production garnered more than $1.5 million in box off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playbill
''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for Audience, theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's Programme (booklet), program. ''Playbill'' was first printed in 1884 for a single theater on 21st Street in New York City. The magazine is now used at nearly every Broadway theatre as well as many Off-Broadway productions. Outside New York City, ''Playbill'' is used at theaters throughout the United States. its Magazine circulation, circulation was 4,073,680. History What is known today as ''Playbill'' started in 1884, when Frank Vance Strauss founded the New York Theatre Program Corporation specializing in printing theater programs. Strauss reimagined the concept of a theater program, making advertisements a standard feature and thus transforming what was then a leaflet into a fully designed magazine. The new format proved popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Moore
Melanie Moore (born September 17, 1991) is an American professional dancer and actress best known as the winner of the eighth season of the U.S. reality television competition '' So You Think You Can Dance''. According to the results announced on the broadcast, Moore won "overwhelmingly", garnering 47% of the vote in a four-way final tally for 1st place. Early life and education Moore was educated in Marietta, Georgia, where she attended Lassiter High School and was crowned homecoming queen. At the time of the SYTYCD competition, she was a 19-year-old college freshman attending Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City. Moore trained and competed for twelve years at Centre Stage School of Dance, followed by training and competing at Rhythm Dance Center, both located in Marietta. Moore won the National JUMP Senior Female VIP in 2010. Career Moore appeared on the Oxygen TV show ''All the Right Moves'' as a member of the Shaping Sound Dance Company. She also appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Natale
Anthony Natale is a deaf Canadian - American actor who has performed in many movies such as ''Jerry Maguire'' and ''Mr. Holland's Opus'' and TV shows like ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', ''Ellen,'' and as Captain Thom in ''Nancy Drew''. He also portrayed Cameron Bledsoe on '' Switched at Birth''. Early life Anthony Natale was born June 13, 1967, in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He has an older brother and younger sister. He attended Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf before transferring to a mainstreaming program for gifted students where he graduated as valedictorian. He then earned a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production and a minor in Theater Arts from California State University, Northridge. Career In ''Mr. Holland's Opus'', he played Coltrane "Cole" Holland (age 28), Glenn and Iris' son, who is 90% deaf. He appeared prominently in an episode of the sitcom ''Ellen'' in 1997 (episode "Ellen's Deaf Comedy Jam"). He also appeared in ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' and the films ''Jerry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Huff
Neal Huff is an American actor from New York City. In April 2018, he performed as Willie Oban in the Broadway revival of '' The Iceman Cometh''. In December 2018, Huff began performing in ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', adapted for stage by Aaron Sorkin on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre as Link Deas. Life and career He received his MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University. He has appeared on Broadway in revivals of ''The Tempest'' (1995) and '' The Lion in Winter'' (1999) and the Tony Award-winning '' Take Me Out'' (2003). Off-Broadway he has appeared in '' The Foreigner'' (2004) and '' The Little Dog Laughed'' (2006). Neal Huff portrayed chief of staff Michael Steintorf in ''The Wire''. More recently, he appeared in '' A Murder at the End of the World''. He played Roger, a ghoul, in '' Fallout''. On television Huff has also been featured in ''Law & Order'', '' Six Degrees'', '' Fringe'', ''The Blacklist'', '' Person of Interest'', '' The Affair'', '' G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poppy Lee Friar
Poppy Lee Friar (born 16 April 1995) is an English actress. She has starred in several popular series such as Missy Booth in the Channel 4 drama '' Ackley Bridge'', Lydia in the BBC Three series '' In My Skin'' and Eve in the CBBC series ''Eve''. As well as appearing in numerous television roles, she has also appeared in various films and theatre productions. For her work, Friar has received accolades including nominations at the AACTAs and the BAFTAs, as well as winning an RTS Award. Career Friar made her television debut in 2001 in ''Wilhelmina'' and was featured in several West End theatre productions between 2002 and 2007, including ''Macbeth'' at the Gielgud Theatre, Jane Banks in ''Mary Poppins'' at the Prince Edward Theatre and Louisa in ''The Sound of Music'' at the London Palladium. From 2005 to 2009, Friar voiced the role of June in the British version of the animated series ''Little Einsteins''. In 2008, Friar played Hannah in the BBC television film '' Dustbin Baby' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Wilhelmi
Erin Wilhelmi is an American actress. She is known for her role as Alice in ''The Perks of Being a Wallflower (film), The Perks of Being a Wallflower'', and as Mayella in Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Filmography Film Television Stage Awards and nominations References External links * * * 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Louisville, Kentucky American film actresses Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American television actresses American stage actresses University of Evansville alumni {{Louisville-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Poe
Richard Poe (born January 25, 1946) is an American actor. He has worked in movies, television and on Broadway. Biography Poe was born in Portola, California. He graduated from Pittsburg Senior High School in 1964 then from the University of San Francisco in 1967. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War era. Along with Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Mark Lenard, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Armin Shimerman and John de Lancie he is one of only a few actors to play the same character on three different ''Star Trek'' series. He played Gul Evek in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987), '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993) and '' Star Trek: Voyager'' (1995). He appeared in ''A Christmas Carol'' at Ford's Theatre, 2006, as Ebenezer Scrooge, and appeared on Broadway in fourteen productions, including the original M. Butterfly (Tony Award), Our Country's Good, The Pajama Game (Tony Award), Journey's End (Tony Award) and All The Way (Tony Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Norton (Irish Actor)
Jim Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish stage, film and television character actor, known for his work in the theatre, most notably in Conor McPherson's '' The Seafarer'', and on television as Bishop Brennan in the sitcom ''Father Ted''. Early life Jim Norton was born on 4 January 1938 in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Synge Street CBS. From an early age he wanted to be an actor, and regularly attended performances at the Abbey Theatre. His mother, Frances, played the violin and his father, Eugene, was a baritone singer. Eugene worked as a bakery manager. Jim had one sibling, the late acting teacher Betty Ann Norton. Career Norton has been acting for over fifty years in theatre, television, and film, and frequently plays clergymen, most notably Bishop Brennan in the sitcom ''Father Ted'', as well as roles in '' The Sweeney'' (1975), '' Peak Practice'' (1993), ''Sunset Heights'' (1997), ''A Love Divided'' (1999), ''Rebus: Black and Blue'' (2000), ''Mad About Mambo'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakin Matthews
Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews (born November 7, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar. He is best known as Herb Kelcher in '' My Two Dads'' (1987–1989), Hanlin Charleston in '' Gilmore Girls'' (2000–2007), Joe Heffernan in ''The King of Queens'' (1998-2007), and as Reverend Sikes in '' Desperate Housewives'' (2004–2012). Early life Melvin Richard Matthews was born in Oakland, California. He initially aspired to become a Roman Catholic priest, studying in San Francisco and then at Gregorian University in Rome in the 1960s. However, his growing interest in drama led him to the Juilliard School, where he taught, among others, Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone. He acted and taught at the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco where Annette Bening was one of his students. He also attended graduate school at New York University. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, East Bay in Haywa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sturzaker
David Sturzaker is an English actor born in Hammersmith in London, who played Dr. Simon Bond in the BBC soap, Doctors from 2009 to 2011. Early life Sturzaker was born in Hammersmith in west London and grew up in Dulwich. He has an older brother named Matt. Education Sturzaker was educated at Rosendale Primary School in West Dulwich, followed by Dulwich College in West Dulwich, a boarding and day independent school for boys, which he attended for five years. He then went to Christ the King Sixth Form College in south London, followed by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), where he studied drama. Theatre Sturzaker graduated from LAMDA and starred as Stanhope in Journey's End at the Playhouse Theatre in London. He has also appeared in several plays at Shakespeare's Globe, including ''Nell Gwynn''. In early 2011, after leaving ''Doctors'', he toured as Orlando in a production of Shakespeare's ''As You Like It''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stark Sands
Stark Sands (born ) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Tunny in the original Broadway cast of ''American Idiot'', and originating the role of Charlie Price in '' Kinky Boots'' on Broadway. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee. He is also known for the roles of Lance Sussman in ''Die, Mommie, Die!'' and Lt. Nathaniel Fick in ''Generation Kill''. He starred as Dash Parker in FOX's series '' Minority Report''. Early life and education Sands was born in Dallas, Texas. Stark is his mother's maiden name, and Bunker was his late father's middle name, as well as his maternal great-grandmother's maiden name. He has a fraternal twin brother, Jacob, and an older sister. Sands attended Highland Park High School, and went on to gain his BFA in acting from the University of Southern California (class of 2001). Career In 2002, Sands played Toby, a recurring love interest to the angst-ridden teen, Claire Fisher (played by Lauren Ambrose), on the HBO television series '' Six Feet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Olugbenga Enitan Temitope Akinnagbe ( , ; born December 12, 1978) is a Nigerian American actor and writer, best known for his roles as Chris Partlow on the HBO series ''The Wire'' and as Larry Brown on the HBO series '' The Deuce''. Early life Akinnagbe was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Yoruba Nigerian parents, and was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the second oldest of six children, with one older sister and four younger brothers, and the first in his family to be born in the United States. He attended Colonel Zadok A. Magruder High School in Rockville, Maryland. He attended Bucknell University on a wrestling scholarship, and graduated in 2000 with a degree in Political Science and English. Akinnagbe's cousin is rapper Wale. Career Akinnagbe played Ben Ellis in the episode "Contenders" on the TV series ''Numb3rs''. In the summer of 2006, Akinnagbe performed the role of "Zim" in the NYC Fringe Festival's "Outstanding Play" award-winning production of ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |