Keira Knightley is to star alongside Austrian actor Christoph Waltz in a new film about the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the moviepilot.de website reported Monday.
British actress Knightley, best known for the “Pirates Of The Caribbean” movies, will play one of Freuds patients in “The Talking Cure”.
TV Land has assembled the cast of the comedy pilot “Retired at 35,” one of its first forays into original scripted series.
“Retired” follows David (McClain), a successful young businessman who decides to leave the New York rat race behind and move into his father Alans (Segal) Florida retirement home.
Movie producer and actor Tyler Perry says he is taking his sharp-tongued character “Madea” back on tour.
Perry says he will begin touring with his new play, “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” the iron-willed Southern matriarch he portrays in a wig and padded suit. She is the central character of many of his films, including “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail.
The Serbian world number three tennis player Novak Djokovic is to play Yugoslavias first king in a television series to be shot next year, local media reported Thursday.
The tennis champion and first-time actor will play Aleksandar during his reign, which came to a brutal end in 1934 when he was assassinated in the port of Marseilles while trying to set up an alliance with France against Germany.
A sibling relationship shadowed by mental illness is the focus of Pioneer Theatre Companys world premiere of Bess Wohls Touch, to play the resident theatre in Salt Lake City, UT, Jan. 8-23, 2010.
According to PTC notes, “Smart, artistic, empathetic and funny, Emma is everything a younger sister would idolize.
Keira Knightley has chosen well for her West End stage debut as a spoiled young movie star who is the center of attention in Martin Crimps rhymed update of Molieres “The Misanthrope.”
Lewis is Alceste, a playwright whose general demeanor fits the title of the play. “Call it insanity, but I take issue with all of humanity,” he says.
A Little Night Music took 36 years to get back to Broadway, but the memory of the original still seems to weigh heavily in the air at the new production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheelers classic, which stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury. Trevor Nunn directed the staging, which opened Dec.
Actress Keira Knightley drew mixed reviews Friday for her debut on the London stage, where she fittingly plays a glamourous Hollywood starlet in an update of Molieres play “The Misanthrope”.
While the play has a cast of experienced actors, including Damian Lewis as the conflicted Alceste, Knightleys presence is likely to be the main attraction for audiences — and the focus of most first-night reviews.
Actress Annie Potts, now starring in God of Carnage, trained in the stage arts, but she never got much chance to use it. A little thing called episodic television got in the way.
Playbill.com: This is your Broadway debut, right?Annie Potts: It is.
Following film successes in “Ghostbusters” and “Pretty in Pink,” she took a job as one of the original stars of the long-running “Designing Women.
Tom Stoppards The Real Thing is to be revived at Londons Old Vic Theatre in a new production that will star Toby Stephens and be directed by Anna Mackmin. It will begin performances April 10, prior to an official opening April 21.
In the play, which examines “the complex nature of love, art and reality,” according to press materials, Henry (Toby Stephens) is a successful and talented playwright married to Charlotte, an actress playing the lead in his current play about adultery.