Marine Corps veteran Brian-Brown Easley was at the end of his rope when he walked into a Marietta Wells Fargo branch office in 2017 and told employees he had a bomb, before taking two hostages. The Veteran Affairs office had misplaced his disability check, and, facing the prospect of not being able to pay his…
As if dealing with life as a 30-something lawyer and single woman wasn’t enough stress for her, Jennifer Walters has an added dimension. She’s also a 6-foot-7 green Hulk. The new series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, filmed in Atlanta, begins streaming on Disney+ Thursday. Starring Tatiana Maslany as the titular figure, who works on superhuman-oriented…
He’s seen only in a painting in the center of the stage early on, but the character of Michael casts a substantial shadow across John Mabey’s A Complicated Hope. He’s the connective thread linking the trio of others in this new work, presented of part of the 2022 Essential Theatre Play Festival. Running through August…
Three-time Academy Award nominee John Logan grew up watching horror films, and while he loved the genre, he didn’t always like what he saw when it came to representation. When the screenwriter-playwright finally got around to making his own such film, he wanted it to celebrate queerness. They/Them, debuting on Peacock on Friday, stars Kevin…
It’s no stretch to say that performers Blake McIver and Emerson Collins have spent a significant chunk of their lives in show business. When he was 6 years old, McIver became the junior vocal champion on Star Search and later reached the masses as Derek in Full House, among numerous other gigs. A producer, director…
It was an incident Shay Youngblood would never forget. She was riding on a train en route to studying with playwright Paula Vogel when she picked up a copy of The New York Times and saw an image of a Black baseball player with a price tag around his body. The rage she felt at seeing…
After the success of her 2004 film Mean Girls, which she wrote and starred in as calculus teacher Ms. Norbury, many expected and hoped that Tina Fey would take on a sequel. Instead she went a different route and decided to turn the movie into a stage musical. Theater purists already dismayed at the sheer…
Mia Isaac has known for a while that she wanted to get into acting, but even she didn’t expect her first major film role to be a lead. In the new drama Don’t Make Me Go, the 18-year-old stands front and center with veteran co-star John Cho. After premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival,…
Steven Spielberg’s lauded remake of the 1961 film version of West Side Story last year did wonders to remind people of the musical’s durability as well as introduce the material to a new generation with more authentic casting. It all clicked so seamlessly (save for Ansel Elgort’s work as Tony) — with defining performances by…
Actress Holland Taylor was attending a luncheon hosted by her friend Liz Smith at a restaurant in New York one afternoon a long time ago when all of a sudden, a hush befell the room. She looked up and saw former Texas Governor Ann Richards, with her unmistakable head of white hair, enter. “She came…
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