Company members Mark H. Dold and Max Wolkowitz are appearing in Barrington Stage Company’s new production of Waiting for Godot. Mark plays Vladimir and Max plays Lucky. Directed by Joe Calarco, the pair are joined by Kevin Isola as Estragon and Christopher Innvar as Pozzo. One of the great absurdist plays of the 20th century, life is vaudeville, tragedy, philosophy,1 and confusion in Beckett’s archaic world, all seamlessly woven together with the playwright’s masterful blend of poetry and humor. The production runs through September 4 in Pittsfield, MA. Listen to the cast talk about the show or watch the trailer online.
Company member Ethan Dubin appears in two episodes of the new limited series Mike, chronicling the life of controversial heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson. Ethan plays boxing legend commentator, Teddy Atlas, and appears alongside Harvey Keitel, who plays boxing coach Cus D’Amato, and B.J. Minor, who plays teenaged Mike Tyson. The “unauthorized and no-holds-barred” series from creator/screenwriter Steven Rogers and showrunner Karin Gist stars Trevante Rhodes, examining class, race, fame, the power of media, misogyny, the wealth divide, the promise of the American Dream, and ultimately our own role in shaping Mike’s story. The first two episodes are available now, with new episodes every Thursday.
Company members Ellen Adair and Nikkole Salter appear in Love and Communication, a new film from writer/director James Christy. Based on his 2010 play, which premiered at Passage Theatre, the film follows a young couple struggling with how to treat their son’s autism, forced to use desperate means to do what they think is best for their child. The cast includes Briana Evigan and Ryan Kennedy, alongside Lev Gorn and Ariel Shafir. The film is currently on the festival circuit, appearing at the New Hope Film Festival and Arizona International Film Festival. Watch the trailer.
Company member Ato Blankson-Wood plays Orlando in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It, a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery. The adaptation premiered for a five-night run in the 2017 Public Works program. It was scheduled to return for the summer season in 2020, but postponed due to the pandemic. Laurie Woolery directs a cast that includes Rebecca Naomi Jones and Darius de Haas. Similar to the Public Works production, the summer staging features two rotating ensembles of 127 New Yorkers from all five boroughs. Performances run through September 11 at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Company members Kathryn Markey and Dee Pelletier, who founded the play reading series Plays for Us, have been announced as inaugural recipients of Honor Roll! Honors, a new award from the 1,700-member organization Honor Roll!, an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over forty, whose goal is greater inclusion in theater. Plays for Us was one of four recipients, and recognized in the category of Inclusionary Festival for their work over the past three years highlighting plays that are largely written by women 40+ and featuring great roles for women in middle age and up. With Plays for Us, Kathryn and Dee have presented 28 evenings of work, including 44 women playwrights, since its founding in 2019.
Company member Sarah Baskin stars in a new short film, Minyan Duty, from writer/director Ivan Kander. Hoping to say Kaddish after their mother’s death, Leah and Ariel, two sisters with diametrically opposed views and personalities, find themselves one person short of making a Minyan and must wait for another person to join their evening service in this moving comedy. The film is currently screening on the festival circuit. Watch the trailer.
Company member Brian McManamon joins the cast of a new production of playwright Bess Wohl’s Grand Horizons, directed by Jackson Gay at People’s Light in Malvern, PA. Over a quiet dinner for two, Bill and Nancy serenely decide to divorce after fifty years of marriage. While Nancy feels liberated and Bill seems unfazed, their adult sons Brian and Ben don’t exactly take it well. As the “kids” descend on the Grand Horizons senior living community in an attempt to mediate, everything they thought they knew about their parents comes crashing down. The production runs through August 28, and a filmed version of Grand Horizons streams August 26 through September 9.
Company member Malcolm Gets stars alongside Colman Domingo in a new short film, North Star. From writer/director P.J. Palmer, the films tells the story of a rural rancher (Domingo) and his ailing husband (Gets), struggling against poverty and isolation, who make a heartbreaking decision in order to preserve the dignity of their marriage. The film also features Audrey Wasilewski, Chris Sheffield, Laura Innes, and Kevin Bacon. The film is currently screening on the festival circuit, most recently at Outfest 2022, the LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Los Angeles. Watch the trailer.
Company member Adriana Gaviria, a founding member of The Sol Project—a national theater initiative dedicated to amplifying Latiné voices and building a body of work for the new American theater—recently produced the fifth annual SolFest: A Latiné Theatre Festival, in partnership with Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. The four-day program ran August 7-10 with both online and in-person events including two evenings of live programming at PRTT in Manhattan. Read more about the festival and mission.
Company member Emma Ramos stars alongside Lorena Russi in Blessed and Highly Favored (“Bendecidas y Afortunadas”), which recently premiered at Outfest 2022 in Los Angeles. From writer/directors Marianne Amelinckx and Julieta Messmer, the short film is a half hour queer comedy about Millie and Hope, two spoiled latinas who come to the U.S. trying to make it in the Hollywood film industry. But when their destinies—and work visas—are held hostage by immigration services, they decide to make ends meet by taking a cash-paid job on a marijuana farm in Northern California. Watch the trailer.