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Marin Theatre Company to Digitally Premiere The Catastrophist, a New Play About Pandemics Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about "virus hunter" Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now its set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month. Gunderson, whose one-woman show Natural Shocks has been available to hear a radio play via Marin Theatre Company after its in-person premiere...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard The film industry has been greatly changing over the past few years. Many of these changes have occurred as a result of conversation over representation/ inclusion, both behind and in front of the camera. Lately theres been a more specific debate around casting straight actors in LGBT roles, given how few and far between these characters often are. And now Big Bang Theory alum and queer actor Jim Parsons has weighed in. Jim Parsons came out of the closet in 2013 i...

Russell T Davies in his office at his home in Manchester. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Observer Russell T Davies in his office at his home in Manchester. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Observer The acclaimed screenwriter recalls his life during the 1980s Aids crisis, and reveals why it is only now, with his new TV series It’s a Sin, that he feels able to tell a story that has haunted him for decades RussellTDavies Sun 3 Jan 2021 03.00 EST Last modified on Sat 30 Jan 2021 10.09 EST Ther...

>>William McDonald, The New York Times Published: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Updated: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Chadwick Boseman in Beverly Hills, Calif, Jan 30, 2018. Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. Boseman died on Aug. 28, 2020. (Brinson+Banks/The New York Times Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. It swept the world riding the back of the coronavirus. It galvanised a Black Lives Matter movement across the United States and abroad, sending people of all c...

Jewish and LGBTQ? Here’s When Hollywood Got It Right Ariel Sobel is a TED talker, writer and Bluecat Screenplay Competition Winner. For the LGBTQ community, it’s important to be represented onscreen, especially when same-sex romance is still stigmatized by the media. In 2016, Delta Airlines omitted all the love scenes, even just kissing in the lesbian drama “Carol.” Despite considerable outrage from LGBTQ groups, the airline continued to remove queer romance from 2019’s...

The departed: Heroes, celebrities and rogues, from Oregon and beyond, who died in 2020 Updated Dec 28, 2020; Posted Dec 28, 2020 Among those we lost in 2020 (clockwise): Retired Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, Sisters of the Road co-founder Genny Nelson, former Trail Blazers executive Harry Glickman and sexuality expert Shere Hite. Facebook Share 2020 has been a rough year, and we’ve lost far too many people along the way. Below The Oregonian/OregonLive offers up a list, far from exhaus...

Chicago got the ball rolling. Then it was followed by the dismal Nine and the disastrous Into The Woods. Marshalls next project? The live-action The Little Mermaid. Now Ryan Murphy, who shares Marshalls initials, as well as his taste for bombast and Meryl Streep, has entered the fray with his big screen version of the Tony-nominated 2018 musical The Prom (Netflix). Murphys love of musicals and theatrics can be traced back to his inexplicably popular network TV series Glee. His Emmy-winning ...

David Lee The director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of August Wilson’s 1982 play that’s streaming now on Netflix, is discussing Hollywood’s seemingly reinvigorated appetite for adapting theater—evident in recent productions like The Boys in the Band, The Prom, Cats, and even his own latest—but doesn’t believe it’s anything new. “I think what is true is that Hollywood is filled with closeted theater folk,” he says. “And then periodically some of those peop...

The reasons why we are optimistic about 2021 After a year to forget, 40 well-known figures tell us why they’re feeling positive about the future Brighter days will follow Credit: Illustration: Ellice Weaver for the telegraph Is there too much negativity in the world? If there is, it’s probably our fault – the media, that is. Famously in the hard-hearted world of journalism, “if it bleeds it leads,” and our tendency to highlight bad news may have made an objectively terrible year seem ...