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Deadline reports that actor, writer, comedian, musician, and regular human bartenderMatt Berry will reprise the role of high-winds actor, voiceover artist, bon vivant, noted proponent of Blue Spruce, and regular human failure Steven Toast for a new BBC series, tentatively called
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As implied by the working title, Berry’s latest collaboration with Arthur Matthews will transplant the mustachioed thespian from his familiar confines in old Blighty to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, where he’ll take his chances on becoming a movie star. Say, didn’t something similar work out for the stagehand briefly seen in the first series of
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If 2020 was a trying transitional time for the performing arts, 2021 is the time of understanding what everyone learned when forced by necessity to innovate. Last fall, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company artistic director Daniel Charon observed that while creating a new work at a time when it wasn t clear whether it would be for a live audience or a virtual presentation, he had to be thinking about it in both ways simultaneously. Now, with the understanding that virtual presentation was definitely the platform for Ririe-Woodbury s
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Why Idris Elba chose comedy to tell his most personal story
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With In the Long Run, Idris Elba wanted to turn his parents hardships and integration into the UK into stories that were lighthearted, he said. Photo / Getty Images
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By: Salamishah Tillet
In the Long Run, a sweetly comic series set in 1980s London, is based on the real-life childhood of an actor best known for intense dramas like The Wire and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
In the Long Run, which wrapped up its third season last year, is a comedy based on actor Idris Elba s childhood in the Holly Street Estate, a racially diverse public housing community in the Hackney borough of London. Set in the fictionalised Eastbridge Estate in the early 80s, Elba, who created the series for Britain s Sky One, plays Walter Easmon, who, like Elba s actual father, Winston, immigrated to England from Sierra Leone and worked in a nearby American-owned car parts factory.