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Jenna Ortega is one of the biggest rising stars in Hollywood, and fans are determined for her to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but considering her previous MCU appearance, it could be easier to set up. Ortega may have blown up in terms of fame since her appearance in Netflix's Wednesday, but the young star has been acting for years. In fact, her feature film debut was actually a small part in the MCU where Jenna Ortega played the daughter of the Vice President in Iron Man 3.

At the time, Ortega was given a non-speaking role, but it was pivotal nonetheless as she played a girl who had one leg, indicating the Vice President wanted Extremis to work in order to grow his daughter a new leg. Now that Ortega is all grown up, and her star is rising, fans are calling out for her to appear in the MCU,...

Sneaky, menacing and funny are descriptions that come up more than once in Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, but not one of the three words quite does justice to this irresistibly pitch-black comedy, opening tonight at the Golden Theatre on Broadway.

Then again, justice has very little to do with what goes on in this deliciously wicked tale of bloodstained propriety and revenge, state-sanctioned or otherwise. Set mostly in a Lancashire pub in the mid-1960s during the last days of England’s legal capital punishment, the Olivier Award-winning Hangmen resurrects not only an era of U.K. history but the playwright’s early fascination with very dark impulses.

And no one does dark impulses with as much comedic flare – yes, it’s sneaky, menacing and funny – as McDonagh at full tilt.

Directed with deadly assurance by Matthew Dunster,...

Hangmen, Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning comedy that became (seemingly) an early casualty of Broadway’s 2020 Covid shutdown, has gotten a reprieve: The play will begin previews at Broadway’s Golden Theatre on Friday, April 8, with an opening night set for Thursday, April 21.

Co-starring in the limited 10-week engagement will be Alfie Allen, best known to American audiences for his indelible Game of Thrones portrayal of Theon “Reek” Greyjoy, and David Threlfall, returning to Broadway for the first time in 25 years.

The Royal Court Theatre/Atlantic Theater Company production of Hangmen will be directed by Matthew Dunster, who directed the pre-shutdown Broadway staging that co-starred Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones‘ Mark Addy as Harry (now to be played by Threlfall).

Prior to the shutdown, Hangmen began previews at the Golden on February 28, 2020, and was scheduled...

Producer Oge Egbuonu’s directorial debut “(In)Visible Portraits” arrives having perhaps committed the first-feature error of wanting to say everything. Even so, the documentary’s emotional generosity and mindful elegance impress. A rumination on Black women in America, the film’s release was moved up from fall 2020 to June 19. The timing couldn’t be more resonant. The spirit of the documentary sways and marches to chants like “Say Their Names” and “Justice for Breonna Taylor.”

There is a poetic justice to releasing the film on Juneteenth, the holiday that celebrates emancipation even as it reminds us how diabolical racism was — and remains. (The date marks the moment slaves in Texas learned that they’d been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation — signed nearly three years earlier.) With the assist of a number of female scholars, the film dives into the traumatic legacy of slavery but also pays tribute to the fortitude of Black women,...

Update, with Broadway relief agreement The Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s new comedy Hangmen will not resume performances when the coronavirus shutdown is lifted. The producers of the Olivier Award-winning play, starring Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones‘ Mark Addy, said today that they do not “have the economic resources” to reopen.

In a statement, producers Robert Fox, Jean Doumanian, Elizabeth I. McCann and Craig Balsam said, “Because of the current health crisis which has created circumstances beyond our control, it is with deep regret that we are not able to resume performances of Hangmen. With no definite end in sight of the government’s closure and Broadway’s suspension, we have no alternative but to release the actors from their contracts and close the production.”

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The complete cast for the Broadway premiere of the Royal Court TheatreAtlantic Theater Company production of Martin McDonagh's new comedy Hangmen features Mark Addy as Harry, Tracie Bennett as Alice, Ewen Bremner as Syd, Owen Campbell as Clegg, Jeremy Crutchley as Inspector Fry, Gaby French as Shirley, Josh Goulding as Hennessy, John Hodgkinson as Pierrepoint, Richard Hollis as Bill, John Horton as Arthur, Ryan Pope as Charlie and Dan Stevens as Mooney, joined by understudies Sebastian Beacon, Pete Bradbury, Katie Fabel, and Colin McPhillamy. Directed by Matthew Dunster, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen begins performances on Friday, February 28, 2020, and officially opens on Thursday, March 19, 2020, at Broadway's Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street.

Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones‘ Mark Addy will head up the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy Hangmen, arriving at the Golden Theatre Friday, Feb. 28, for a limited 20-week engagement and an opening night of Thursday, March 19.

Stevens will play Mooney, a mysterious newcomer to the Northern England pub where Harry holds court as one of England’s last executioners.

The production will be Stevens’ first on Broadway since his debut in 2013’s The Heiress, opposite Jessica Chastain.

Joining Stevens and Addy will be:

Two-time Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) as Alice; Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) as Syd; Owen Campbell (Indian Summer) as Clegg; Gaby French (Military Wives) as Shirley; Olivier Award nominee John Hodgkinson (The Ferryman) as Pierrepoint; Richard Hollis (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time...

Encores will presentMe and My Girl asthe final production of the Encores at 25 season at New YorkCity Center. Me and My Girl, the first Encores production originally written and produced in London's West End, will starChristian Borle,Suzzanne Douglas,Mark Evans,Harriet Harris,Edward Hibbert,John Horton,Simon Jones,Laura Michelle Kelly,Lisa O'Hare,Ken Page, andDon Stephenson. Check out the cast in action and get to know the stars in front of and behind the scenes below...

Rebecca Lea Oct 30, 2017

Our lookbacks at the screen adaptations of Stephen King find us at Thinner, starring Robert John Burke...

The film: Morbidly obese and deeply unpleasant lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) runs over an old gypsy woman with his car, distracted by his wife Heidi (Lucinda Jenney) who is doing something rather rude to him. His ties to the local law enforcement, Judge Cary Rossington (John Horton) and Chief of Police Duncan Hopley (Daniel von Bargen), means the case is dismissed before it gets to court. However, the old woman’s father (Michael Constantine) has a different kind of justice in mind. He curses Halleck with the word ‘thinner’ and soon, Halleck begins to lose weight at a dangerous and ever-increasing rate.

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