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ER star Anthony Edwards made his Broadway musical debut Friday night as “Dr. Walker” in the Tony-nominated Girl From The North Country. With several members of the company out of the show because of Covid-19 infections, Edwards stepped in at the last moment (and after only an hour of rehearsal time) to ensure that the show would go on.

He starred opposite his wife, Mare Winningham, who was recently nominated for a Tony Award for her role.

Lead producer of Girl From The North Country Tristan Baker made a pre-show announcement to express his gratitude to the production’s swings and understudies, and let the house know they were in for an extra special show. Baker asked if “There was a doctor in the house” to play the role of Dr. Walker this evening, before surprising the audience with the...

Girl From The North Country, Conor McPherson’s acclaimed musical that reimagines the songs of Bob Dylan, will return to Broadway from its three-month Covid hiatus, with a return date set for April 29. The production will conclude its 50-performance limited engagement on June 11.

“We are so thrilled to bring this incredible production back to Broadway and to return to our home at the Belasco Theatre,” said producers Tristan Baker and Charlie Parsons. “As Broadway’s recovery continues, we are so grateful to be a part of this exciting season and to give more audiences a chance to visit us in the North Country and experience the magic of Bob Dylan’s songs and Conor McPherson’s remarkable storytelling.”

Girl From The North Country originally opened on Broadway on March 5, 2020, but closed just a week later due to New York’s Covid shutdown. The production re-opened on Broadway last October but...

The acclaimed Bob Dylan musical Girl From The North Country will play its final Broadway performance at The Belasco Theatre on Jan. 23, with producers saying they’re in advanced conversations with the Shubert Organization to re-open in the spring after the Omicron surge subsides.

The unusual announcement follows a similar plan confirmed by producers of Mrs. Doubtfire, which closed on Jan. 10 with the intention of returning to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on March 14.

“Girl From The North Country is an important part of this season,” said Robert E. Wankel, Chairman and CEO of The Shubert Organization, in a statement. “We have always been supportive of this show, and we are excited about bringing it to another theater in the spring.”

The musical, written and directed by playwright Conor McPherson, reimagines the songs of Bob Dylan to tell the story of a Depression-era boarding house and its various inhabitants. Though critically acclaimed,...

Hadestown and Girl From The North Country announced their Broadway returns today, with the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown set to become the first production to resume performances on Broadway when its curtain rises on Thursday, Sept. 2.

Girl From The North Country, the musical that features songs from Bob Dylan’s catalogue, will resume performances on Wednesday, Oct. 13.

The Hadestown re-launch will mark the first Broadway production to begin performances since the March 12, 2020, pandemic shutdown. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had previously said that Broadway would be permitted to open at full capacity on Sept. 14, but Hadestown producers said today that the early opening was worked out in coordination with the Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of the Hadestown’s Walter Kerr Theatre, the Governor’s office and in cooperation with The Broadway League.

A spokesperson for Hadestown said the early relaunch is due to the timing of the Hadestown touring production schedule:...

How well can a parent ever really know a child?

Although Apple TV Plus’ new limited series “Defending Jacob” has a murder mystery at the center of the story, it is the larger, more relatable themes about how love for a family member can be tested that writer and executive producer Mark Bomback was most interested in exploring.

“I have four children and I live in the suburbs of New York, and my central preoccupation is how much I’m succeeding or messing up with raising my kids. Really the mysteries that come with being a parent is a subject that I’m fascinated with, so the fact that that was the underlying human story in this particular thriller, that was what really put it over the top,” he tells Variety.

Bomback created his eight-episode series by adapting William Landay’s 2012 novel of the same name. The novel was told in the past tense,...

Veteran Actor Elizabeth McGovern steps out with her first producing gig in The Chaperone. The title is also the first narrative release for PBS Distribution, which had a who’s who screening earlier this week at MoMA in New York, hosted by publicity maven Peggy Siegal. McGovern stars opposite Haley Lu Richardson in the period drama, directed by Downton Abbey director, Michael Engler. It is a packed weekend of Specialty releases. Writer-director Kent Jones heads out with Diane, starring Mary Kay Place via IFC Films. Sundance debut doc The Brink opens via Magnolia Pictures, which financed the intimate feature profiling infamous right-winter Steve Bannon. Also opening is Israeli drama Working Woman from Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber. Greenwich Entertainment is maximizing the opening of the baseball season with doc Screwball. American Relapse is a self-distributed non-fiction title which captures 72 hours of two ex-addicts diving in to help others on the streets.

Steven Dietz's landmark play Lonely Planet stars Arnie Burton The Government Inspector and Matt McGrath The Legend of Georgia McBride in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street, beginning tonight, October 3rd, and continuing through November 18th only, with opening night set for Thursday, October 19th.

Today Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced that Steven Dietz's landmark play Lonely Planet would star Arnie Burton The Government Inspector and Matt McGrath The Legend of Georgia McBride. The design team will include Anshuman Bhatia scenic, Jennifer Paar costumes, Paul Hudson lighting and Bart Fasbender sound.

The New Group presents the world premiere of Steve, a new play by Mark Gerrard. Directed by Cynthia Nixon, this production features Ashlie Atkinson and Francisco Pryor Garat, and as announced, Mario Cantone, Jerry Dixon,Malcolm Gets and Matt McGrath. A limited Off-Broadway engagement plays now through December 27 at The Pershing Square Signature Center, with Opening Night set for tonight, November 18. Let's see what the critic had to say...

The York Theatre Companyhas announced today Broadway's Klea Blackhurst York's Call Me Madame Mario Cantone Assassins, Erin Davie York's Silk Stockings, Side Show, Matt McGrath Nice Work If You Can Get It, and Mary Louise Wilson On the Twentieth Century, along with the acclaimed Yale Wiffenpoofs, have joined the roster of illustrious special guest performers who will gather to honor Broadway and Hollywood legend Angela Lansbury at 2015 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre on Monday, November 16, 2015 at Guastavino's 409 East 59th Street.

The New Group will present the world premiere of Steve, a new play by Mark Gerrard. Directed by Cynthia Nixon, this production features Ashlie Atkinson and Francisco Pryor Garat, and as announced, Mario Cantone, Jerry Dixon, Malcolm Gets and Matt McGrath. A limited Off-Broadway engagement plays November 3 - December 27 at The Pershing Square Signature Center TheRomulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street, with Official Opening Night set for Wednesday, November 18.

Dave Thomas Brown, recently of Heathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Keith Nobbs Lombardi, 'The Black Donnellys' and Afton C. Williamson'Nashville,' 'Homeland', in Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride, the first production of McC's 2015-16 Main Stage Season.

Dave Thomas Brown, recently of Heathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Keith Nobbs Lombardi, 'The Black Donnellys' and Afton C. Williamson'Nashville,' 'Homeland', in Matthew Lopez'sThe Legend of Georgia McBride, the first production of McC's 2015-16 Main Stage Season.BroadwayWorld brings you photos from opening night below...

Dave Thomas Brown, recently ofHeathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Keith Nobbs Lombardi, 'The Black Donnellys' and Afton C. Williamson 'Nashville,' 'Homeland', inMatthew Lopez's The Legend Of Georgia McBride,the first production of McC's 2015-16 Main Stage Season. The Legend Of Georgia McBride begins previews tonight, August 20, 2015 ahead of a September 9, 2015 opening night.

Dave Thomas Brown, recently of Heathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Keith Nobbs Lombardi, 'The Black Donnellys' and Afton C. Williamson 'Nashville,' 'Homeland', in Matthew Lopez'sThe Legend of Georgia McBride, the first production of McC's 2015-16 Main Stage Season. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...

Dave Thomas Brown, recently ofHeathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Keith Nobbs Lombardi, 'The Black Donnellys' and Afton C. Williamson 'Nashville,' 'Homeland', inMatthew Lopez's The Legend Of Georgia McBride,the first production of McC's 2015-16 Main Stage Season. The Legend Of Georgia McBride begins previews tonight, August 20, 2015 ahead of a September 9, 2015 opening night.

Dave Thomas Brown, recently of Heathers The Musical at New World Stages, leads a cast that also includes Wayne Duvall O Brother Where Art Thou, Leatherheads, Matt McGrath Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Keith NobbsLombardi, 'The Black Donnellys' and Afton C. Williamson 'Nashville,' 'Homeland' will star in Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride, the first production of McC's 2015-16 Main Stage Season.

The LCT3Lincoln Center Theater world premiere production of Verite, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, is currently in previews. The play features Anna Camp, Oliver Hollmann, Matt McGrath, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Robert Sella, Jeanine Serralles, and Danny Wolohanand will run through Sunday, March 15 at the Claire Tow Theater 150 West 65 Street. The production opened last night, Wednesday, February 18. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a look inside the festivities...

The LCT3Lincoln Center Theater world premiere production of Verite, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, opens tonight, February 18, 2015. The play features Anna Camp, Oliver Hollmann, Matt McGrath, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Robert Sella, Jeanine Serralles, and Danny Wolohan and will run through Sunday, March 15 at the Claire Tow Theater 150 West 65 Street. Scroll down for a look at the cast in action...

The LCT3Lincoln Center Theater world premiere production of Verite, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, is currently in previews. The play features Anna Camp, Oliver Hollmann, Matt McGrath, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Robert Sella, Jeanine Serralles, and Danny Wolohan and will run through Sunday, March 15 at the Claire Tow Theater 150 West 65 Street. Opening night is Wednesday, February 18. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...

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In the 2000 gay-oriented romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Club, Matt McGrath’s character Howie perfectly sums up the representation of gay/bisexual men in film:

“There isn’t a movie in the cinema canon that depicts a gay character that we would aspire to be. What are our options… noble, suffering AIDS victims, the friends of noble, suffering AIDS victims, sex addicts, common street hustlers and the newest addition to the lot, stylish confidantes to lovelorn women. Just once I would like to see someone who is not sick, hasn’t been laid in about three months and is behind on his student loans.”

While Howie’s statement stands the test of time fourteen years after the fact, there’s no denying that there have been plenty of memorable and wonderful representations of gay/bi men in movies in spite of the obvious stereotypes and tropes they were meant to embody.

New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 30th year of their Powerhouse Theater collaboration, is currently featuring Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Kyra Sedgwick in Academy Award and Tony Award winner John Patrick Shanley's new play The Danish Widow, which continues through July 27, 2014 at Hallie Flanagan-Davis Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College. Shanley also directs the cast which also includes multitalented Broadway vets Craig Bierko and Matt McGrath, as well as stage and screen actress Annika Boras. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below...

New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 30th year of their Powerhouse Theater collaboration, previously announced that Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Kyra Sedgwick would lead the cast of Academy Award and Tony Award winner John Patrick Shanley's new play The Danish Widow, which premieres today, July 16, and continues through July 27, 2014 at Hallie Flanagan-Davis Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College. Shanley also directs the cast which also includes multitalented Broadway vets Craig Bierko and Matt McGrath, as well as stage and screen actress Annika Boras.

New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 30th year of their Powerhouse Theater collaboration, announced that Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Kyra Sedgwick will lead the cast of Academy Award and Tony Award winner John Patrick Shanley's new play The Danish Widow, which will premiere July 16-27, 2014 at Hallie Flanagan-Davis Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College. Shanley also directs the cast which also includes multitalented Broadway vets Craig Bierko and Matt McGrath, as well as stage and screen actress Annika Boras.

League Two Accrington Stanley condemned Middlesbrough to their second defeat in four days as they beat last year’s quarter finalists 2-1 at The Riverside.

Lukas Jutkiewicz’s ninth minute strike was cancelled out by Marcus Carver just before half time.

Piero Mingoia sealed the cupset in the 79th minute. But Boro will be frustrated by the amount of chances they wasted as they were the only side who looked like winning for the first 80 minutes.

The Teessiders were playing their first home game in the League Cup since they beat Yeovil 5-1 back in 2008. A run that has seen them clock up in excess of 3,500 midweek miles.

Their opponents Stanley were looking to avoid going out in the 1st round for the second year running.

It was the first time these two teams had met in any fixture and it was Stanley who came out on top in a very one sided game.

Network Ten has appointed Matt McGrath in the newly created role of Chief Brand Officer. McGrath, previously the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Y&R Brands Australia and New Zealand, will be responsible for brand communications, marketing and promotions for the network. Network Ten Chief Executive Officer, Hamish McLennan, said: .I have known Matt for many years and he is without doubt one of the best creative and strategic minds in the Australian media and marketing sector. .I am delighted he has agreed to join Network Ten to work on our external and internal marketing, including our messaging around our core programs. .Matt will create a consistent view of our brand, on and off air, and bring innovative thinking to howwe communicate with consumers and advertisers..

Ana Gasteyer, from Saturday Night Live and Suburgatory and Brian d'Arcy James from the new hit series Smash performed to a sold-out crowd last night, May 26, at Bay Street Theatre. Gasteyer and James mingled with the crowd, including actress Blythe Danner, at the post-show VIP soiree. Among the evenings attendees, Board Chairman Frank Filipo, Board Member Jane Holden as well as Hamptonites Bruce Sloan and Sal amp Mary Lou Ranieri and Matt McGrath, a Bay Street Theatre Artistic Associate and the director of the upcoming Mainstage production of Polly Draper in My Brilliant Divorce, by Geraldine Aron. See below for photos from the after-party...

You know you are in David Mamet's world when the expletives fly rapid fire, one distasteful zinger after another, breaking every taboo. You laugh, and hearing the rhythms, you call it poetry. The title Romance may suggest a candlelit evening, but here that candle may be a stick of dynamite up our cultural ass. Four tight scenes performed in an hour and a half, Romance features a fine ensemble: Richard Kind, Darrell Hammond, Chris Bauer, Matt McGrath, Reg Rogers, Joey Slotnick and Joe Pallister, expertly directed by Lisa Peterson. Like the language, time zings by. Mamet's writing has never been this funny, or have I missed something in recent productions? Race seems more an acted out essay on that subject, Oleanna too, on the subject of sexual harassment to the point of who is manipulating whom. Romance adds slapstick and shtick...

Sundance Selects has picked up comedy "Colin Fitz Lives!" which will find release on VOD in August. William H. Macy, Martha Plimpton, John C. McGinley, Matt McGrath and Mary McCormack star. Robert Bella directs "Fitz" which screened at 1997's Sundance Film Festival. Since then, the film has seen festivals including the Austin Film Festival, where it took top feature prize. Tom Morrissey-written story tells of two security guards who are hired to watch over the grave of a dead rock legend. Sundance Selects will send out a new cut of "Fitz" with unseen footage and new music recordings.

Sundance Selects has acquired Robert Bella's black comedy "Colin Fitz Lives!," starring William H. Macy, which it will distribute as a VOD offering Aug. 4.

Written by Tom Morrissey, it centers on two eccentric security guards hired to guard the grave of a dead rock legend, the eponymous Colin Fitz.  The cast also includes Martha Plimpton, Matt McGrath, John C. McGinley and Mary McCormack.

"Colin" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was named best feature film at the Austin Film Festival. A re-mastered cut screens Thursday in San Francisco as the closing night film of the 2010 Lol-sf Film Festival.  Its Los Angeles bow will be hosted by the American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre on Aug. 5.

Sundance Selects acquisition executive Arianna Bocco brokered the deal with Bella, who recently re-worked the film after buying back the rights from his investors.  ...

Lino Brocka‘s Macho Dancer (top); Deak Evgenikos, The Owls (middle); Dean Cain, Andrew Keegan, The Broken Hearts Club (bottom) Monday at Outfest 2010: Cheryl Dunye‘s The Owls is described as a mix of narrative thriller and documentary, featuring a quartet of middle-aged lesbians (Dunye among them) whose lives take a turn for the tragic when they befriend a much younger woman (Deak Evgenikos) who couldn’t care less about older trailblazers. "OWLs," the Outfest site explains, is an acronym for "Old Wise Lesbians." Cheryl Dunye, by the way, is the director of the 1986 cult classic The Watermelon Woman. Featuring Ben Weber, Dean Cain, Timothy Olyphant, Zach Braff, Matt McGrath, and Andrew Keegan, Greg Berlanti‘s 2000 romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Club is set in West Hollywood, a place where boys play with both baseballs and with one another. Also in the Broken Hearts Club cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Justin Theroux,...

The recent documentary Surfwise considers how children raised as ascetics grow up and struggle to make their way in a materialistic society. David Munro's debut feature, Full Grown Men, comes at the problem from the opposite direction. Matt McGrath plays a middle-aged family man and former class clown who still clings to the instant-gratification culture he grew up with: a world of action figures, kung-fu movies, sugar cereals, and amusement parks. Now 35 and having trouble dealing with his responsibilities as a husband and father, McGrath packs a bunch of his vintage toys in a suitcase and travels across Florida, planning to sell his collection, reconnect with his boyhood best friend Judah Friedlander, and go to "Diggityland." Not on his itinerary? Growing the hell up. Full Grown Men is intended as a commentary on a phenomenon that cartoonist Bill Griffith once dubbed "kidults": adults who dress, behave, and entertain.

By Neil Pedley

As the temperature rises, romance blooms amongst the geriatric set, "Mary Poppins" goes Bollywood, and parents will get their first chance to lay eyes on that which will likely have them driving to Toys "R" Us all summer long.

"Elsa and Fred"

Seeing anyone under 30 fall in love on screen is elusive these days, and so director Marcos Carnevale's gentle and endearing tale of romance between a couple with a real-life combined age of 176 is quite the breath of fresh air. In a role that nabbed several awards in his native Spain, Manuel Alexandre stars as Fred, an embittered widower whose chance encounter with Elsa (China Zorilla), a mischievous Fellini fanatic, leads the pair to Italy to fulfill her dream of reenacting the famous Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." In Spanish with subtitles.

Opens in limited release.

"Finding Amanda"

Fans of the small...