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Macbeth bits 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Press:Toby Zinman for the Philadelphia InquirerBlogs:Jenn: initially digs the show, then changes her mind.AnnLynn: digs the Macbeth
s' chemistry.thelineofeld: digs.teddyann: digs Mr Schreiber's hotness.
O'Brien on Coast of Utopia Trilogy 1970-01-01 00:59:59 From Rob Kozlowski's blog.Lincoln Center has settled on start and finish dates for the fall 2006 U.S. debut of Tom Stoppard's ambitious series of plays known as The Coast
of Utopia
.The trilogy will begin on Oct. 10 with the first performance of the first play, Voyage. All three works will have opened and concluded their runs by March 3, 2007. The plays will open separately, one after another. They will begin to play in rep later in the schedule.Jack O'Brien, the Broadway director of Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Henry IV and The Invention of Love, will helm the New York bow of the nine-hour Coast of Utopia triptych. The works first appeared under the direction of Trevor Nunn in 2002 at the National Theatre in England.The Coast of Utopia is centered on the political and philosophical idealism and debates of mid-nineteenth-century Russia, examining the movements that excited artists and thinkers in those days. The show moves chronologically on from the 1830s, when the great Roma Read more:Trilogy
Open captioned Macbeth 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Public Theatre's site says that there will be an open-captioned performance of Macbeth
on July 2nd. The Sign-interpreted one is on the 9th.
Mad hot 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Pictures from opening night are up at Getty Images and Wireimage. If those links don't work, just go to the Getty and Wireimage home pages and search for Ehle. Will try to get some without watermarks. Check out other photos from the event as well, mega star wattage in the audience as onstage.And lo! The Charlie Rose interview is now available for free at Google Video, thanks to some sponsorship thing. Here's the transcript.[edit: Playbill has a photo call, none of her but there's a shot of Julianna Margulies and others][subliminal message]Please buy Tuesday's Women's Wear Daily and share![/brainwash]
Macbeth web media reviews 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Let's start with a report sent by Katie Heape of Cincinnati (thanks!).I just got back from a vacation to New York City. I saw Macbeth
two nights in a row and I must say it was wonderful! I have never enjoyed Shakespeare more. It rained both days I was in line for tickets but it was worth it. Liev Schreiber was great as Macbeth. He played the part with such conviction. Jennifer Ehle was very convincing as Lady Macbeth. She was the perfect match for Liev. And I have never seen Jennifer look more beautiful. She looked radiant.The first night I saw Macbeth it drizzled through most of the performance. But the actor's were troopers and the show went on. The stage was pretty wet just before the intermission and I was afraid that Jennifer would slip in her heels. But thankfully she didn't and the show was great. After the play was finished, Liev thanked the audience for sticking it out through the weather.Now to the press. Bits mentioning Ms Ehle are excerpted.Alexis Greene of the Hollywood Read more:reviews
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Last chance 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Only two more performances of Macbeth left! Don't miss out. Sunday's performance is Sign-interpreted by the way. Read more:chance
Suxors and roxors 1970-01-01 00:59:59 There's no pleasing some people. Michael Sommers of the Star Ledger hardly likes anything about Macbeth. But it's ok, he hasn't liked any other production of it either. Jacques Le Sourd of The Journal News only sees black as well.However! From Writing with Zest:The short review: OMG It r0x0rs! Why I feel the need to type bad L33T: No clue.I have seen some bad Shakespeare in the Parkin my time. Just becase some big, famous actor or actors are in it doesn't mean the thing is oing to be any good. Twefth Night 4 years ago? Worst. Production. Evar. Where is John Carroll when you need him? Anyway, I didn't get my hopes up too high even though Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle play Macbeth and his Lady. It might still have been bad Good thing it SO wasn't. It was the opposite of bad times ten. So, so good.Read on to see why her loins go "HELLO, Dolly!".Over at Press 53 they've got the proof of John Ehle's The Land Breakers ready. Check out the info about the launch at On the Same Page.
Must dash 1970-01-01 00:59:59 But look, new photos from opening night! and blog from someone who went to the gala.Thanks to Josie for these!
"With Best Wishes" 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Quick, buy this signed card for 2.25 GBP. It says "With best wishes, Jennifer Ehle". Just over 7 hours left. Read more:Wishes
Alpha Male production notes 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Verve Pics now has full production notes on Alpha
Male on their website in PDF and Word format. It includes a synopsis, cast/crew biographies and full credits. Here's the synopsis with spoilers.Alpha Male is a story of family life. It is a film about the force of personality, about family politics, repressed emotions, great love and devastating loss. Jim Ferris is the archetypal "alpha male". Warm, charismatic, ambitious and successful, he is the driving force of his business and the linchpin of his family life. He is the consummate provider for his wife Alice and for his children, Jack and Elyssa, both in terms of material comfort and emotional support. It feels as though nothing can touch the idyllic world he has created, so that his sudden illness and death come as the most profound shock. Alice and the children are left stunned and adrift in the limbo of bereavement and loneliness.The young Jack, charged with the task of being the man of the house, takes his new responsibility
Macbeth print reviews 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Excerpts contain summaries of the review and bits about Ms Ehle.David Rooney of Variety:The complexities behind Macbeth
's surrender to evil and to overpowering destiny are compellingly embodied in Schreiber's contained performance but less so in other aspects of Moises Kaufman's intermittently forceful Shakespeare in the Park production. It takes more than a commanding lead to make this most brutal and brisk of tragedies resonate fully....The doomed antihero has a glam ice queen in Jennifer Ehle's Lady Macbeth, and the sexual chemistry between her and Schreiber adds spark to their scenes. Looking like she's stepped out of the pages of a vintage movie magazine, Ehle works hard to override her natural softness; she plays the role about a decade later than Kaufman's time frame, coming across like a steely '40s film noir manipulatrix. The approach works even if Ehle is more persuasive when summoning "direst cruelty" to galvanize her wavering husband to action than when later succumb Read more:reviews
Brainwashing works 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ok not really, Factiva works. The press review onslaught continues and will be blogged later, but for tonight read Jennifer Ehle's intentions for her Lady Macbeth in Women's Wear Daily.PORTRAIT OF A LADYElisa Lipsky-Karasz27 June 2006Women's Wear DailyEnglishCopyright 2006 Fairchild Publications, Inc. All Rights ReservedNEW YORK - Jennifer Ehle is one of those rare creatures whose ethereal beauty almost blossoms more from having her head shaved. But though her high cheekbones and sparkling blue eyes may benefit from the crop - for a part in the upcoming film "Pride and Glory" - it's probable her self-effacing personality doesn't appreciate the extra stares that result. For Ehle, despite her many accolades, is shy. So shy, in fact, that when she was a drama student in England in the late Eighties, the North Carolina native adopted an English accent "to camouflage myself," she says.Ehle is not one to shy away from a challenge, however. So after a nearly four-year break from acting, Read more:Brainwashing
Coast of Utopia to Be Published by Faber and Faber 1970-01-01 00:59:59 From Playbill NewsTom Stoppard's ambitious three-part play The Coast
of Utopia
, set to make its American debut at Lincoln Center Theater this fall, will be published by Faber and Faber on June 30.The 288-page volume will include all three of the play's parts: Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage.Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Ethan Hawke, Martha Plimpton and the previously reported BrÃan F. O'Byrne will star in the U.S. debut of The Coast of Utopia, Lincoln Center Theater confirmed.The cast includes quite a few Stoppard experts. Easton won a Tony Award for his performance in 2001's The Invention of Love. Ehle won her Tony for the 2000 revival of The Real Thing. And Crudup first made his mark as part of the 1995 Lincoln Center Theatre U.S. premiere of Stoppard's Arcadia.Plimpton and O'Byrne are currently in the Broadway cast of Conor McPherson's Shining City. Hamilton most recently acted on the New York stage in Hurlyburly, which also feature
Nth Macbeth roundup 1970-01-01 00:59:59 First, Playbill interviews Liev Schreiber . My pick of the best bits (but it's all interesting):...PLAYBILL.COM: What makes Macbeth
the right role for you to perform now?LS: For the Public Theater, it's a wartime play. It's something that is topical to people. I don't know if I respond to things in an openly political way. I just think they're planted in your subconscious. For me, what's fascinating about the character is the war that he wages in his mind—the interior battle of morality and conscience. It's good stuff.PLAYBILL.COM: And how do you personally compare to Macbeth?LS: Well, I've never killed anyone, so that's kind of a leap for me. But I certainly identify with the same issues of conscience. We all have ambitions and anxieties that get in the way of our daily lives. I think that Macbeth's are just all-consuming....PLAYBILL.COM: What time period does the production take place in?LS: Our director Moises Kaufman is playing with is a period that draws its i
Jack O'Brien on Utopia 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This is excerpted from a 2003 interview with Jack O'Brien, who will be directing The Coast of Utopia
.Q: Why are you interested in Tom Stoppard's play, Coast of Utopia, which deals with a subject and characters that most of us know nothing about.JG: And the history is unknown. I think in England, as well. Jack, does this worry you at all in making it accessible to an audience?JO: Yes, it does. In other words(and that's what I said) it's my job. And it's Tom's job. And we have to find a way to awaken an immediate sense of excitement and accessibility to you. There are a lot of characters in theater you don't know when you walk in the door. You think you do, but you don't. And, quite frankly, if they're not rendered in three dimensions, they don't grab you. There are other productions of this play itself that could be intolerable to you if you saw them not properly handled. And so I have to believe, as I inevitably do, in the quality of the writing. And when a writer, like Shake
Round two 1970-01-01 00:59:59 We're now getting some reports from people who've seen the show in early previews and returned a second time. Puck from Schreiber land:anyway, things were pretty much the same as before except jennifer ehle slowed down a LOT, which i assume most people will be happy about. it did help make her monologue much more understandable. i kind of liked it though when she was running through the lines. there was a lot more energy in it. this was still a pretty solid performance. i think liev was a bit less energetic this time around as well. the rain delay and the cool temperature seemed to set up a more laid back atmosphere that took some of the bite out of the leads' performances. but they were still very good, and god knows everyone was a lot more comfortable. several issues of motivation and the transition in the characters made more sense this time too, though i think it's just because it's the second time i've seen it, not because anything was performed differently. i appreciated th
Are they seeing the same show? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 First here's an article by NY Daily News with and about Liev Schreiber. An excerpt:"Liev has an incredible amount of craft and talent," says Tony Award-nominated director Moises Kaufman, who's guiding "Macbeth." "The thing that's wonderful about working with these two," he adds, referring to Schreiber and Ehle, "is that their instruments are so finely tuned - their voices, their emotions. It's delightful to watch."Plus, the actor actually enjoys Macbeth, as a character. "I really like him," Schreiber says. "I think he's incredibly noble. Initially, his conscience won't let him kill Duncan, but when he does, his sense of nobility prevents him from blaming his wife. He's a great leader, but it's not enough. Once that seed is planted in his mind by the witches, the battle begins between his conscience and his desire."Another day, another wide spectrum of opinion on Macbeth: "serviceable, but ultimately disappointing" and worse vs "best Macbeth...ever seen" or even best Shakespeare
Confirmation 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Have heard from the Lincoln Center that Jennifer Ehle is going to be in all three plays of The Coast of Utopia. Your genius of an editor didn't think to ask which roles, but anywho, joy! Read more:Confirmation
"Tom Stoppard on Literary Criticism" 1970-01-01 00:59:59 From the blog, Critical Mass:"Tom Soppard's dying literary critic, Vissarion Belinsky, has this to say about his--and our--chosen calling, in "Shipwreck," Part II of "The Coast of Utopia" trilogy:"I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life. No woman had a more fervent or steadfast adorer. I picked up every handkerchief she let fall, lace, linen, snot rag, it made no difference. Every writer dead or alive was writing for me personally, to transport me, insult me, make me shout for joy or tear my hair out, and I wasn't fooled often."That's a loftier view of the profession than that of his philosopher Nicholas Stankevich, who in Part I, "Voyage," calls literary criticism "a job for people whose second book didn't come up to expectations."-Heller McAlpin, NBCC member and current board candidate"An Actor Repairs comments on their experience getting free tickets to Shipwreck, and the difference between American actors and Russian actors. Read more:Literary
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Bgah! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Curses to subscription content - rush out and buy Women's Wear Daily, dear readers! Look at this preview of "Portrait of a Lady".NEW YORK — Jennifer Ehle is one of those rare creatures whose ethereal beauty almost blossoms more from having her head shaved. But though her high cheekbones and sparkling blue eyes may benefit from the crop — for a part in the upcoming film "Pride and Glory" — it's probable her self-effacing personality doesn't appreciate the extra stares that result. For Ehle, despite her many accolades, is shy. So shy, in fact, that when she was a drama student in England in the late Eighties, the North Carolina native adopted an English accent "to camouflage myself," she says.Yep, that's all the free content! (Blue?!)Apologies for jumping to the Island of Conclusions and spreading the misinformation about the hair being for Macbeth. Obviously we don't know nothin' bout nothin'.
Pride and Glory Expenses 1970-01-01 00:59:59 From Times Online.Farrell has to toil twice as hard as Morton bows outThe Irish actor Colin Farrell has had to reshoot scenes in his latest film after the producers fell out with the British actress Samantha Morton, best known for her role in Jim Sheridan's In America. According to the Hollywood press, Morton left the set of the cop drama Pride
and Glory because of "scheduling conflicts". But the director, Gavin O'Connor, and his brother Greg told Sue they both found it "impossible" to work with her and clashed with the actress over her homework for the role, which included studying life in an Irish-American New York family. The O'Connor brothers brought in Jennifer Ehle instead and spent more than €100,000 reshooting scenes with Farrell, Ed Norton and Jon Voight. The film, based on stories the O'Connors heard from their father, a retired New York cop, features Voight as the patriarch of a family of police officers torn apart by a corruption scandal. In further news f Read more:Expenses
Rough Schedule 1970-01-01 00:59:59 For the Utopia Trilogy, provided by Playbill News.Some of the top stage stars of our day have jumped at the opportunity to play 19th century Russia's top intellectuals. Either that, or they were just excited about appearing in a new Tom Stoppard play. The work is the huge, three-parter The Coast of Utopia , and it will star Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Ethan Hawke, BrÃan F. O'Byrne and Martha Plimpton.The thesps will work hard for their meal ticket. The three parts, called Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage , will open on Nov. 5, Dec. 21 and Feb. 15, 2007, respectively. During the final three-and-one-half weeks of the production's run, audiences will have the opportunity to see all three parts in succession. Also, on three Saturdays—Feb. 24, March 3 and March 10—theatregoers will be able to see all three plays in one-day marathons beginning at 11 AM. Hope those guys get Sunday off on those weekends. Me too. Read more:Rough
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Going a-googling 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Some random resources about Coast of Utopia, coming right up. Most relate to the 2002 production but give some idea about the story and style.Edit again: scratch the NYT, Variety has more details about the who-plays-what:In Utopia, O'Byrne will play the mid-19th century Russia radical theorist and editor, Alexander Herzen.Stephen Dillane essayed the part in London. Crudup will play literary critic Vissarion Belinsky. Hawke is the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin and Hamilton will be the poet Nicholas Ogarev. Easton, Ehle, Harbour and Plimpton will be featured in multiple roles throughout the three-part work.BBC's brief synopsis of the trilogyPlaybill has pages for all three parts up: Voyage, Shipwreck and SalvageComplete Review collates reviews from the 2002 production of Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage. Also, t2k reviews the whole trilogy.The National Theatre's site with a list of some characters; Auditions.com has descriptions of some of the roles. Let the speculation beg Read more:Going
HOLY ZEUS! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 You will not believe this. Our cup runneth over! There's a new project in the works!!This just in via USA Today:NEW YORK (AP) — The New York production of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard's trilogy of plays lasting more than nine hours, will feature a cast that includes Billy Crudup, Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton, it was announced Tuesday.Lincoln Center Theater will devote much of its 2006-07 season to Utopia, the collective title for the three works. Among the other, more than two dozen actors in the mammoth production will be Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour and Brian F. O'Byrne.Utopia, which will be directed by Jack O'Brien, focuses on a group of 19th-century Russian intellectuals, including novelist Ivan Turgenev and radical theorist Alexander Herzen, over a turbulent 30-year period.It starts with Voyage, opening Nov. 5, moves on to Shipwreck, opening Dec. 21, and finishes with Salvage, opening Feb. 15. The engagement at the Vivian Beaumont Theat
Pinky's report 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Reports are flooding in at the moment. Thanks everyone, we appreciate it. This one's from Pinky
of EhleNews.We were in row P in the center. The theatre is not that big plus it's stadium seating so the sight lines on any of the seats are good. It was a warm good night but there was a breeze so that it was so great to be outdoors watching a great Shakespeare play with great actors! The play started a little later than 8:30 because they were waiting for it to be darker to get more of an ambiance i guess.As the audience comes in, Dunkan the king is sitting in the middle of the stage (in character). There were wounded soldiers laying on the floor and some hanging on the scaffoldings on the stage. I tried discretely to take a pic of the stage before the play started and was caught by an usher ooops!I must say, the staging of the play was really amazing. How the stage moved and changed scenes particularly the scene when Macbeth was being confronted by Malcolm and MacDuff was really w Read more:report
Macbeth bits and pieces 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Jason, a fan of both Macbeth
and the World Cup:wednesday night was yet another treat. elvira and siblings had a spare ticket for shakespeare in the park and i was of course up to it, knowing how good those central park plays are and how difficult getting a ticket is. macbeth did not disappoint. liev schreiber (known for scary movie and the manchurian candidate) and the rest of the cast did well. also, seeing the play in an open theater under the backdrop of stars, trees, and um flying airplanes was quite magical. and as always, was nice being surrounded by a group of dutchies (especially that the germany win that day was a good starting point for conversation).And from Kerri:So I forgot how AMAZING New York can be in the summer...even if it means sweating constantly! So I've had a great past week! Last Thursday I went to see Shakespeare in the Park...Central Park! And let me tell you...it's no ordinary Shakespeare in the Park. The tickets are free, which is great, and it is in an act Read more:pieces
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