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Plot: After receiving a diagnosis of Stage IV cancer, Molly leaves her husband Steve and begins to explore the full breadth and complexity of her sexual desires for the first time in her life. Her best friend Nikki is by her side throughout the journey, on hand for medical appointments, vibrator emergencies, topping lessons and oh so many laughs..

Review: It would be an incredible understatement to say that every dying person’s journey is powerful, but the impact lingers even longer for those close to the person who passes. After experiencing her best friend succumbing to a terminal illness, Nikki Boyer chronicled the ups and downs of Molly Kochan’s final year in the beautiful podcast Dying for Sex. Full of hilarious moments in equal measure with heartbreakingly sad ones, the story of Molly’s exploration of herself has become the eight-episode limited series of the same name. With...

New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold and Tony Award-nominated Kevin Del Aguila will join the previously announced Daniel Dae Kim on Broadway this fall in David Henry Hwang’s much anticipated Yellow Face.

Eggold will be making his Broadway debut.

Complete casting for the production was announced today by the Roundabout Theatre Company, and also includes Francis Jue, Marinda Anderson, Greg Keller and Shannon Tyo.

Yellow Face, directed by Leigh Silverman, will begin previews on Friday, September 13, 2024, at Roundabout’s at Todd Haimes Theatre, with opening night on Friday, October 1, 2024, 227 West 42nd Street) on Broadway. The limited engagement runs through Sunday, November 24.

The synopsis: Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.

Kim,...

Tom Kirdahy, Broadway producer and husband of the late theater icon Terrence McNally, announced today the creation of the Terrence McNally Foundation, “continuing the legendary playwright’s singular legacy of mentorship and activism.”

Today would have been the playwright’s 84th birthday. He died of complications from Covid at age 81 on March 24, 2020.

The nonprofit organization will be committed to supporting what today’s announcement describes as “bold new voices in the American Theatre” by providing financial and institutional support to early-career playwrights. In addition, the Terrence McNally Foundation is committed to supporting LGBTQ+ causes, as McNally did throughout his life.

“Art and activism were central to Terrence’s life,” said Kirdahy in a statement. “At a time when living as an out gay man came at great professional cost, Terrence wrote and loved fearlessly. Terrence was a truth teller who never wrote in code. His groundbreaking plays and musicals fundamentally...

AMC Studios is getting into the fashion business.

The AMC Networks division is teaming with Perry Mason co-creator Rolin Jones to adapt Maureen Callahan's 2015 novel Champagne Supernovas for television. AMC Studios will shop the series to third-party buyers, meaning the potential drama series will not be produced for one of its in-house networks.

Champagne Supernovas chronicles the rise and indiscriminate demise of the genius designers, stylists, models, photographers, patrons, gossips, ravers and muses that invaded the fashion world in the 1990s with just enough rope to hang themselves (and revolutionize an industry).

Jones and Sheila Callaghan will serve as ...

Jose speaks to playwrightactivist Sheila Callaghan about The Kilroys 2017 list and her play Not Water currently at 3Ld Art amp Technology Center.

The 69th Annual Writers Guild Awards were handed out Sunday night in Los Angeles and New York City, and FX walked away with four of the most coveted trophies.

Donald Glover’s Atlanta was recognized as both TV’s Best Comedy and Best New Series, while The Americans took home the gold for Best Drama and The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won for Best Long-Form Adapted Series.

RelatedNAACP Image Awards: This Is Us, black-ish, Queen Sugar Among Winners

NBC’s This Is Us and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt earned individual episode accolades. Fellow Netflix laugher...

Recently, Showtime released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Shameless" episode 10 of season 5. The episode is entitled, "South Side Rules," and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting stuff go down with Frank as he gets totally rejected by some chick he's caught feelings for ,and more. In the new, 10th episode press release: Frank will be having a ball with a new sick friend ,Bianca, but when Bianca thinks Frank might be developing feelings for her, she is going to kick him to the curb. But Frank is going to return to put up a fight, assuring her that he won’t put her through what her family is putting her through. Press release number 2: Frank will start to enjoy the company of his new sick friend and formerly uptight doctor, but she is going to dump him when she suspects he is developing feelings for her.

The same festival that helped launch the careers of Diane Paulus, Pam MacKinnon, John Rando, and over 300 other eminent directors returns Dec. 13–16 at Tbg Theatre. DirectorFest 2014, an evening of four short plays presented by the Drama League Directors Project fall fellows, promises to showcase the American theater’s foremost rising talents. Directors Elena Heyman, Michael Leibenluft, Caitlin Sullivan, and Michael Osinski will premiere new work from Callie Kimball, Clare Barron, Dipika Guha, and Sheila Callaghan, respectively, at the 31st annual one-act festival. “There is no better way to see the future of theatre than at DirectorFest,” said Gabriel Shanks, executive director of the Drama League, in a statement. “The imagination and daring of these four directors is incredibly inspiring; I can’t wait, once they inevitably make it to Broadway and beyond, to say that DirectorFest is where they began their journeys.” Shanks also pointed out all four of this...

The Sundance Institute has selected nine projects to participate in its 2014 Theatre Lab that runs from July 7-27 at the Sundance Resort in Utah.

The projects selected for the 2014 Sundance Institute Lab are:

Caught, dir Tba;

Ghost Supper (Spalding Gray, You’re Invited, Too), dir Leigh Silverman;

The Good Book, dir Lisa Peterson;

The Last Of The Little Hours, dir Annie Baker;

Posterity, dir Doug Wright;

Skeleton Crew, dir Kamilah Forbes;

So Go The Ghosts Of Mexico, Part Two, dir Lee Sunday Evans;

T., dir James MacDonald; and

Bed by Sheila Callaghan (playwright-in-residence).

The Lab supports emerging and established playwrights and directors developing new work for the stage.

“Development opportunities for independent artists are exceedingly rare and yet critical to the success of their projects and careers,” said Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam (pictured). “Our Lab model offers an independent-minded environment for artists to engage with their work, ask questions, build text and...

Dracula

In a further departure from the original source material, NBC's new "Dracula" series will not have Jonathan Rhys Meyers's vampire count sleeping in a coffin, or a gothic castle.

Instead, he'll occupy a lavish mansion with cutting edge technology at the time of the show's 1896 setting. The series has Dracula posing as an American industrialist introducing modern science to Victorian-era London. [Source: THR]

More Time With Family

CBS has given a put pilot commitment to the multi-camera half-hour comedy "More Time With Family" which Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are set to executive produce. Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith will co-write the series.

Comedian Tom Papa plays a guy who changes his career and gives up a life on the road to spend more time at home with his family — but when he gets there, he realizes no one asked him to do that. [Source: Deadline]

Bright Young Things

ABC has begun...

Exclusive: ABC has put in development Bright Young Things, a drama based on Alloy’s best-selling Bright Young Things book series written by Anna Godbersen. Produced by John Wells Prods. and Alloy Entertainment through Warner Bros. TV, the adaptation will be written by playwright/screenwriter Sheila Callaghan. It is set in 1929 and centers on two women who escape their small Midwestern town and end up in Manhattan. One discovers that the father she’s never known is the head of a crime ring, while the other struggles to become a singer. John Wells Prods.’ Wells and Andrew Stearn and Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Cheryl Dolins executive produce, with Callaghan co-executive producing. The Bright Young Things book series was launched in 2010 with a novel by that name, followed by Beautiful Days and The Lucky Ones. This marks a rare collaboration of two of Warner Bros. TV’s biggest production companies on the same project: Jwp,...

Sony has been working on a big screen adaptation of the "I Dream of Jeannie" TV show for years. Rita Hsiao ("Mulan") attempted writing the script back in 2008 and Sheila Callaghan ("The United States of Tara") tried in 2010, but nothing ever materialized. Now comes word that the studio is once again trying to get the film off the ground and is now looking at Katherine Heigl (Killers, Knocked Up) to play the title character. Several years ago, Lindsay Lohan was rumored to star. Many believe that an "I Dream of Jeannie" movie will never happen since in 2005 the similar-themed "Bewitched," which starred Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell, flopped in theaters. Click here to read more about "I Dream of Jeannie."...

Off the Map co-star Caroline Dhavernas has landed the female lead in the USA pilot Over/Under. The project, from Fox TV Studios and Universal Cable Prods, centers on Paul (Steven Pasquale), a day trader with a massive gambling problem who is fired from his job six months after a bad trade costs his firm millions. Shut out of the job market, he and his wife (Dhavernas) -- a professional photographer specializing in nude portraits and a devoted Manhattanite -- move to Brooklyn. There, Paul finds an unlikely partner, expectant father Marino (Anthony Carrigan), to start a high-end bookie business. Bronwen Hughes is set to direct the pilot from a script by Sheila Callaghan. Dhavernas is with Gersh. Bailee Madison (Just Go With It) has joined FX's drama pilot Powers. Based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, the project, written by Charles H. Eglee...

Exclusive: Meet USA Network's new leading man. Rescue Me co-star Steven Pasquale has been tapped as the lead of USA Network's hourlong pilot Over/Under. The project, from Fox TV Studios and Universal Cable Prods., centers on Paul (Pasquale), a day trader with a massive gambling problem who is fired from his job six months after a bad trade costs his firm millions.  Shut out of the job market, he and his wife move to Brooklyn. There, Paul  finds an unlikely partner, expectant father Marino (Anthony Carrigan), to start a high-end bookie business. Bronwen Hughes is set to direct the pilot from a script by Sheila Callaghan. Pasquale, repped by Icm and Emily Gerson-Saines, is best known for his role as young firefighter Sean Garrity on the FX drama Rescue Me, which is wrapping its seven-season this summer. On stage, he co-starred in Neil Labute's reasons to...

Of all the '60s-era TV shows, it's hard to think of one that translates less well to the 21-century than I Dream of Jeannie. Sure, the story of a subservient female genie who wears skimpy clothes, lives in a bottle, grants her boyfriend's every wish and calls him “Master” was a huge hit in its time. But now it's difficult to see how any remake could be anything but a feminist nightmare. Not that that has kept Hollywood from trying.

The long-stalled I Dream of Jeannie big-screen adaptation is apparently back on again. The project has been in the works for years with everyone from Jessica Alba to Lindsay Lohan considered to star. Concepts from the writers of National Treasure and Mulan and the director of Bend It Like Beckham have all fell through. But now, according to The Los Angeles Times, producers have decided to go with New...

According to reports, Columbia Pictures has hired writer Sheila Callaghan ("United States of Tara") to write a new screenplay for the upcoming fantasy feature "I Dream of Jeannie", based on the 1960's sitcom.

Created by Sidney Sheldon in 1965 to compete against ABC's "Bewitched", "I Dream Of Jeannie" starred actress Barbara Eden, as a 2000-year-old female 'genie' and actor Larry Hagman ("Dallas") as an astronaut who becomes her master and eventual lover, for episodic directors Gene Nelson, Hal Cooper and Claudio Guzman.

In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut 'Captain Tony Nelson, Us Air Force', is on a space flight when his one-man capsule 'Stardust One' comes down far from the planned recovery area, near a deserted island in the South Pacific.

On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts shooting out and a...

Years after it was first put into development, an I Dream of Jeannie movie is finally moving ahead over at Sony. The Los Angeles Times informs us that the studio is dismissing all the previous script drafts and casting ideas to start over from scratch. Ironically, the delay in getting the film made has lasted longer than Jeannie was on the air.

At one point, Lindsay Lohan was believed to be the top pick for the title role. That should tell you how far back this dates. There's no information on who might fill Barbara Eden's bottle now, although my immediate thought is Teresa Palmer from the upcoming Sorcerer's Apprentice. And while Jimmy Fallon was reportedly under contract to play Major Nelson (the Larry Hagman role), I doubt it would happen now, anyway, even without Fallon's talk show.

The latest development involves United States of Tara writer and playwright Sheila Callaghan,...

-- Zooey Deschanel is Ada Lovelace in "Enchantress of Numbers," a new biopic about the math genius directed by Bruce Beresford. Billy Crudup co-stars as her husband William King, while Toby Jones has been cast as mathematician and philosopher Charles Babbage. [Production Weekly]

-- "Lost" actor Daniel Dae Kim is keeping busy. He's already signed on for the "Hawaii Five-o" television remake and now he's slated to star in "Deathgames" as a Kendo master opposite the previously cast Samuel L. Jackson and Kellan Lutz. [Heat Vision]

-- "Asskicking western" isn't the first phrase that comes to mind when thinking of Bobcat Goldthwait, but the comedian and director is looking to develop just that with a brand new action/adventure story about "crooked cops, unavenged murders, injustice, discrimination and drag." [Slash Film]

-- Sony Pictures has dreamed up a way to tackle "I Dream of Jeannie" by hiring "The United States of Tara" scribe Sheila Callaghan to...

I Dream of Jeannie, the sitcom about a hot chick who says "Yes, Master" to her white slave owner who no doubt beats her silly when she doesn't obey him, has been stuck in a bottle for years now trying to get developed in a feature length film. Why? I have no idea. You can't top all of the porno spoofs of the TV show anyway.The La Times has info on who is assigned with tackling Jeannie's stomach next:Now producers and Sony have a better idea. According to sources' info, as well as a listing on a nice little development board called It's On The Grid, they've hired Sheila Callaghan, a writer on Showtime's "The United States of Tara," to offer her take. You have to give them credit; they're going out of the bottle -- er, box -- with Callaghan. The writer has written on a number of "Tara" episodes,...

I believe no one out there really needs this movie, but it looks like "I Dream of Jeannie" is not quite dead yet. The Los Angeles Times reports Sheila Callaghan from "The United States of Tara" has been recruited to write a draft. The film will obviously be based on the popular sitcom. I just don't understand why they are all so keen on doing this adaptation, especially considering many efforts to do so already failed in the past. Oh well...

With Gilligan's Island getting a new pack of 3-hour tourists, there's not much '60s TV fare for Hollywood to revisit ... except for the long-gestating I Dream of Jeannie. Five years ago, the project boasted Jessica Alba and Jimmy Fallon. Two years ago, there was a new pitch. Now, The Los Angeles Times reports that Sony has grabbed The United States of Tara scribe Sheila Callaghan to give her twist on the story.

We've been here before. That new pitch from Rita Hsiao in '08 was said to have "a terrific, bright, fresh approach," so has the project really moved forward? Here's the thing -- Hsiao's pen hit paper for Mulan and Toy Story 2. Callaghan, on the other hand, has got the Diablo Cody show and no features under her belt, but she did make a name for herself as a New York playwright who has tackled a retelling...

I have always been a fan of I Dream of Jeannie. I watched every single episode on Nick at Nite in the '90s, dressed as (a modest) Jeannie as a fourth-grader, and squealed with delight after unwrapping the complete first season on DVD this past Christmas. Yet, I had never desired to see the Barbara Eden-Larry Hagman classic series find its way to the big screen...until now. You can't really blame me. We've seen the film go through so many iterations, it seemed bound to suffer a disaster of epic, Bewitched-2005 proportions. At one point, Lindsay Lohan...

Another week, another story from Hollywood about a beloved TV show being turned into a feature film. Last week it was 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' and this week it's ... 'I Dream of Jeannie.' Yes, yes, they've talked about this one before. But that was then and this is now and the Los Angeles Times reports that 'I Dream of Jeannie' is back on with Sheila Callaghan, one of the scribes on 'United States of Tara,' has been handed the assignment. That means whatever the writers from 'National Treasure' and 'Mulan' and 'Bend It Like Beckham' who've taken a swing at it in the past few years weren't able to make it work.

There is an essential problem with 'Jeannie,' as anyone who knows the shows realizes. How do you make the story of a love-crazed, subservient slave-like genie who...

For years I could never remember the difference between Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, two 60s sitcoms about wives with special powers that aired constantly on Nick at Nite throughout my childhood. Then in 2005 the difference became pretty easy-- one became an awful movie, and one didn't. Now they're taking even that away from me. Apparently undeterred by Nora Ephron's flop take on Bewitched, the wheels have started spinning at Sony once again on a feature film take on I Dream of Jeannie. Sheila Callaghan, a writer for The United States of Tara, has been offered the screenwriting job , according to The La Times. Callaghan is known best as a New York City playwright, having had the gumption to retell James Joyce's Ulysses onstage along with other work. And before you ask, no, they're not going to make it some story about searching for a new Jeannie...

I Dream of Jeannie has found it's writer in Sheila Callaghan A staple of 1960s television is about to get the reboot treatment for the big screen. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Sony has hired United States of Tara writer Sheila Callaghan to write a film remake of I Dream of Jeannie.

The series ran from 1965 to 1970 and starred Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Bill Daily and Hayden Rorke. The remake has been in development for quite some time and it was said that the studio had been having a hard time trying to make a contemporary take on the show and its, "pre-feminist notions." Callaghan, however, besides writing for United States of Tara, is also a noted playwright who has dealt with feminist themes in the past.

Filmmakers such Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, Rita Hsiao and Gurinder Chadha had been attached to the project throughout the years.

I Dream of Jeannie...

Numerous attempts have been made to adapt classic sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" into a film, and now another version is underway with Sheila Callaghan (TV's "United States of Tara") hired to pen the script for Sony Pictures reports The Los Angeles Times.

The difficulty with any modern film version is that the sitcom was very much a series of its time and comes across as both anachronistic and misogynistic these days, not to mention downright campy.

Then of course there's the lesson Sony faced with 2005's "Bewitched" which tried its own post-modern 'meta' approach to the genre and became a critical bomb and box-office disappointment.

No further dates or involvement from cast or crew have been mentioned.

· You might have thought it was a good thing -- or at least some cosmic sign -- that screen adaptations of the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie had stalled over the years. But Sony is determined to mine that brand for all its worth, bringing on scribe Sheila Callaghan to have a pass at the material. A regular, acclaimed contributor to The United States of Tara, Callaghan faces four decades of series obsolescence and the challenge of making a subservient-woman-locked-in-a-bottle work in the 21st century. Wish her the best. [Lat]

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After a number of false starts, the Los Angeles Times says that Columbia Pictures has hired "United States of Tara" writer Sheila Callaghan to pen a new draft of the screenplay for the feature I Dream of Jeannie , based on the 1960s series. The newspaper says Callaghan is "best known as a downtown New York playwright, writing an acclaimed retelling of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and a Reagan-era romantic drama set in Greece titled 'Lascivious Something,' among some other well-regarded work." They add that one of the hard things for the producers to do is to figure out how to update the series, which starred Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Bill Daily and Hayden Rorke.

"I Dream of Jeannie" television show has been trying to make it to the big screen for many years. Writers have been putting together screenplays and directors have been signed on, only to see the project fall apart every time. At one point, Lindsay Lohan was on board to star as Jeannie. La Times is now reporting that Sony has hired Sheila Callaghan (Showtime's "The United States of Tara") to come up with her own take. The most difficult thing the studio sees is to update the 1960s sitcom without the many pre-feminist ideas. After all, the show revolves around an astronaut who keeps a subservient woman in a bottle. Many believe that it will be difficult to write an "I Dream of Jeannie" script that Sony will like. But even if that happens, the studio may reconsider the entire thing since the similar-themed "Bewitched" flopped in theaters back in 2005. Stay tuned.