Who’s that cheeky babygirl about 15 seconds in?
I feel quite privileged to have worked on this movie. We had such an incredible cast and crew, and of course, Halina Reijn at the helm, who fostered such a wonderful environment. Merry Christmas! Go to the theater!
"Bodies Bodies Bodies" filmmaker Halina Reijn writes and directs the A24 thriller premiering in competition at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival.
UPDATE! —Nicole was awarded the prestigious Volpi Cup for best actress! And I think SOME of credit has to go to her incredible scene partner, but I WON’T SAY WHO.
“Babygirl” is among 21 films competing for the prestigious Golden Lion award, the top prize at Venice.
The upcoming erotic thriller follows Nicole Kidman as a powerful CEO who engages in a illicit affair with a much younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson. The cast also includes Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, and hilariously enough, Yours Truly.
After its premiere at Venice, Babygirl is set to release in theaters on December 20th.
From the MINDS that brought The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong to Broadway comes a hilarious new Goes Wrong comedy by Mischief!
Join the “Mind Mangler” as he returns to the stage following a disappointing two-night run at the Scranton, PA Holiday Inn conference center, suite 2b. His new one-man show is predicted to spiral into chaos as he attempts to read your MIND…
Photo: Pamela Raith
Direct from sold-out West End performances, Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion is “Breathlessly Funny and Packed with Nonstop Laughs!” (TheaterMania)
Mind Mangler is based on a character originally created in Magic Goes Wrong by Penn Jillette, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields & Teller.
“HILARIOUS!” - Daily Beast
“BREATHLESSLY FUNNY!
PACKED WITH NONSTOP LAUGHS!” - TheaterMania
“ABSOLUTE THEATER MAGIC!” - DC Theater Arts
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “AN ABSOLUTE RIOT!” - British Theatre Guide
“A MASTERPIECE OF MISCHIEF!” - New York Stage Review
“YOU WILL END UP ROARING WITH LAUGHTER!” - Theater Pizzazz
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “GLORIOUS COMEDY AND OLD-FASHIONED MAGIC!” - Theatre Weekly
NO SURVIVORS. DIED LAUGHING.
Film and stage favorites Daniel Dae Kim and Bradley Whitford will guest star during the limited run!
UPDATE: Now extended through September 17th! Featuring Neil Patrick Harris!
From Playbill:
Fresh on the heels of finishing up its Broadway debut run, Peter Pan Goes Wrong flies—or at least tries to—into Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre via Center Theatre Group for a West Coast premiere beginning August 8. Opening night is August 11, and performances will continue through September 10.
Daniel Dae Kim, featuring idiots. From Broadway World.
Just like the recent Broadway bow, the California run will feature special celebrity guest stars appearing as Francis, the evening's narrator. The Los Angeles run will feature The West Wing and tick, tick...BOOM! star Bradley Whitford August 9-20 and Hawaii 5-0 and Lost star Daniel Dae Kim August 30-September 10.
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
And following his month on on Broadway with us, Neil Patrick Harris joins the cast in LA for our closing week!
The Cornley Drama Society returns to the Ahmanson, battling technical hitches, flying mishaps, and cast disputes as they attempt to present J.M. Barrie's much-loved tale. But will they ever make it to Neverland?
Tickets can be purchased here!
The great privilege of performing in a lauded historical venue, squandered.
A limited engagement of Broadway and West End favorite The Play That Goes Wrong takes the stage at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater July 20, with performances continuing through August 13 at the Washington, D.C. venue. The cast comprises alum from the work's various U.S. productions, with actors hailing from its Broadway, Off-Broadway, touring, and Chicago runs.
The Kennedy Center bow features Bartley Booz as Dennis, Joseph Anthony Byrd as Jonathan, Peyton Crim as Robert, Mara Davi as Sandra, Matt Harrington as Chris, Kai Almeda Heath as Annie, Alex Mandell as Max, and Akron Watson as Trevor. Rounding out the company as standbys are Brett Cassidy, Kullan S. Edberg, and Brandon Haagenson.
Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong introduces The Cornley University Drama Society, which is attempting to put on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong does as the accident-prone thespians battle on against all odds to get to their final curtain call.
Somehow this has become my career. Maybe it’ll go better this time.
Mischief Theater is back on Broadway with a follow-up to The Play That Goes Wrong - Peter Pan Goes Wrong, which sees the Cornley Drama Society back to present J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, with even more technical misfires. Directed by Adam Meggido and featuring much of its original West End cast, it's a theatrical disaster you won't want to miss.
I'll begin the show’s run in the role of Dennis -a nice follow up to my time playing him in The Play That Goes Wrong- from March 17 through April 9, after which co-writer and Mischief co-founder Jonathan Sayer will take on the role full time beginning on April 11.
From Broadway World:
This spring, brace yourself for an awfully big adventure as you finally get the chance to laugh again on Broadway. Co-written by Mischief company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned and inspired slapstick, delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring. The play sees the 'Cornley Drama Society' back on stage battling technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes as they attempt to present J.M Barrie's much-loved tale. But will they ever make it to Neverland?
The cast of Peter Pan Goes Wrong will feature Bartley Booz as Dennis (March 17 - April 9), Matthew Cavendish as Max, Bianca Horn as Jill, Harry Kershaw as Francis, Chris Leask as Trevor, Henry Lewis as Robert, Ellie Morris as Lucy, Charlie Russell as Sandra, Jonathan Sayer as Dennis (starting April 11), Henry Shields as Chris, Greg Tannahill as Jonathan and Nancy Zamit as Annie. The company is completed by Ryan Vincent Anderson, Stephen James Anthony, Fred Gray, and Brenann Stacker.
Peter Pan Goes Wrong will begin performances on Friday, March 17th and open on Wednesday, April 19th at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) on Broadway for a limited 16 ½ week engagement.
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is directed by Adam Meggido, with set designs by Simon Scullion, costumes by Roberto Surace, lighting by Matt Haskins, sound by Ella Wahlström, and original music by Richard Baker and Rob Falconer.
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Come laugh again on Broadway. It's a very silly time, and I'm very lucky to be part of it. No one makes me laugh harder than these fools.
But don’t just take my word for it:
★★★★★
"An absolute must see!"
-WhatsOnStage
★★★★★
"A dizzying, dazzling display of meta-theatrical brilliance!"
-The Stage
★★★★
"Joyous physical comedy and disaster!"
-London Evening Standard
★★★★
"Irresistibly funny!"
-Financial Times
Come see me in this hilarious play about cancer!
At a skin cancer clinic in NYC (not the famous one), patients wait to find out how much of themselves they’re about to lose.
From Playbill:
Atlantic Theater Company's season opener, the world premiere of Gracie Gardner's I'm Revolting, directed by Knud Adams. The new play will begin at the Off-Broadway company's Linda Gross Theater September 8, with opening night set for September 28. The limited engagement will continue through October 16.
The cast will feature Tony nominee Gabby Beans (The Skin of Our Teeth), Bartley Booz (Hamlet/Oresteia at Park Avenue Armory), Laura Esterman (The Woman's Party), Glenn Fitzgerald (The True), Peter Gerety (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Emily Cass McDonnell (Bodies They Ritual), Alicia Pilgrim (Cullud Wattah), Portia (To Kill a Mockingbird), and Patrick Vaill (Oklahoma!).
The production will feature scenic design by Marsha Ginsberg, costume design by Enver Chakartash, lighting design by Kate McGee, and sound design by Bray Poor. Casting is by William Cantler and Destiny Lilly of The Telsey Office, and Alex H. Hajjar is production stage manager.
Tickets are on sale right now! You can get them by clicking HERE!
Listen to my best efforts at a JFK impression! I’m sure you’ll laugh whichever way it turns out.
From Audible:
“What if President John F. Kennedy had survived and rocketed the Space Race of the 1960s into overdrive? And what if he was, maybe, not quite...himself?
Space: 1969 is a wild and outrageous sci-fi comedy from the mind of Emmy-winning writer Bill Oakley (The Simpsons, Futurama, Portlandia).
Nancy Kranich (played by Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne of Russian Doll and Orange Is the New Black) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station. But Nancy hates her job, is sick of space, and longs to find adventure and a safe place to smoke cigarettes that won’t blow everyone up.
But when Nancy gets caught up in an outer-space conspiracy involving President Kennedy (serving his third term), former vice-president Richard Nixon (now a miserable, forgotten lawyer practicing estate law in New York City), and an intergalactic object that could change the course of history, she gets way more adventure than she bargained for.
Can Nurse Nancy save herself, the Moon Colony, and the future of the entire United States of America?
Space: 1969 is a retro sci-fi comedy adventure that has to be heard to be believed!”
I am lucky enough to understudy several roles in these plays, and am honestly just a massive fan of these productions, so you should come see regardless of if I’m playing or not.
“These productions will play in repertory with each other for the first time, allowing audiences to experience the throughlines and connections in these classic dramas—depicting two epic family sagas written over 2,000 years apart—performed by the same cast.”
“For this is the glory of Robert Icke’s production…it is whole and entire of itself. ”
—Financial Times (London), ★★★★★
“Robert Icke is one of the most important forces in today’s theatre…Every moment of the text rings with significance.”
—The Guardian (UK), ★★★★★
“Robert Icke’s production of Hamlet remains extraordinarily, heartbreakingly beautiful.”
—Time Out London (UK), ★★★★★
Hailed as “one of the most important forces in today’s theatre” (The Observer, UK), Robert Icke has drawn acclaim from critics and audiences alike for his intelligent and accessible productions that bring fresh, new perspectives to classical texts. The Olivier Award–winning director unleashes his visionary creativity at the Armory with the North American premiere of a radical new staging of Shakespeare’s classic.
This highly charged staging transforms the traditional family drama into a psychological thriller, transporting the action to our current surveillance society in which rolling media news feeds provide juicy updates of a life lived on screen while blurring the lines between public and private life. Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game, The Last Duel, The French Dispatch, Black Mirror) portrays the obsessive prince consumed by grief, brilliantly embodying his mental decay to boldly examine the devastating effects his anguish has not only on his own psyche, but on his family and country.
“[Icke’s] exhilarating adaptation is in part a demolition…It dispenses with stage conventions. Yet this is not destruction, but revelation.…it is whole and entire of itself.”
—The Guardian (UK), ★★★★★
“Robert Icke’s extraordinary adaptation of Aeschylus’s Oresteia makes it feel as if you have electrodes wired into your soul.”
—Time Out London, ★★★★
Aeschylus’ greatest and final play is a searing familial saga that examines the sins of a family over several decades and explores whether justice can ever really be done. Robert Icke‘s Olivier Award-winning adaptation of this moral dilemma comes to the Armory for its North American premiere following sold-out runs at the Almeida Theatre and on London’s West End.
Icke radically reimagines this Greek drama for the modern stage, condensing the tragic trilogy into a single performance that electrifies and devastates in equal measure with Olivier Award-nominated Anastasia Hille (The Effect, The Master Builder) in the role of Klytemnestra. This daring update allows audiences to investigate the justification of vengeance, the possibility of finding justice in retaliation, and the role of judicial democracy at work—themes that continue to resonate nearly two and a half millennia after the play was written.
The Olivier-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong will return to Off-Broadway's New World Stages this fall with performances set to resume October 15.
Based on CDC and New York State guidelines at the time of performance, safety protocols may include mask enforcement and vaccination or negative test verification. New protective systems, including sanitization and filtration requirements, will be implemented by the venue ahead of the show's return.
We’re bAAAaaack!
Co-written by Mischief company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong is a send-up of the theatre. The play introduces The Cornley University Drama Society who are attempting to put on a 1920s’ murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does, as the accident prone thespians battle on against all odds to get to their final curtain call.
Directed by Matt DiCarlo, the Off-Broadway production opened at New World Stages February 20, 2019, after opening on Broadway April 2, 2017, at the Lyceum Theatre. The Play That Goes Wrong features a Tony-winning set design by Nigel Hook, costume design by Roberto Surace, lighting design by Jeremy Cunningham, and sound design by Beth Lake.
[Excerpt from Playbill.com]
[ Of course, due to COVID-19, we’re postponed to May. July. November. January. OCTOBER. Hope to see you again then! ]
The time is right to see THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Broadway's funniest smash hit! This Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it’s “A RIOTOUS EXPLOSION OF COMEDY!” (The Daily Beast) and “TONS OF FUN FOR ALL AGES!” (HuffPost). Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG “A GUT-BUSTING HIT,” and Cindy Adams of the New York Post has just one word for you: “GO!” Get tickets now – it would be WRONG to wait!
Previews begin February 11th!
Opens February 20th!
Click HERE for tickets!
Curated by Director of New Play Development Abigail Katz, the Amplified Reading Series presents four bold new plays throughout the season with an expanded rehearsal process for more meaningful engagement with the material and the playwright.
Come see me in a reading of Gracie Gardener’s I’M REVOLTING, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
A group of people are waiting to be called into a room one by one. Some of them have skin cancer, some of them are there to give support. A play about doctors and medicine and the space in between the two.
Lucille Lortel Theatre | 121 Christopher Street
RSVP HERE
Bartley singlehandedly saves the day and tries to plant one on Chris Meloni in Episode 5 of Happy! on Syfy. Merry Christmas Chris!
Bartley appears in his true form as a quasi-Irish, semi-blurry, Continental Militiaman, this Saturday (Aug 5) on TURN: Washington's Spies on AMC!
TURN: Washington's Spies Sneak Peek (Season Four, Episode Nine : Reckoning)
An evening of short plays exploring the world of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. From the Panorama to the Playground for All Children, the 1939 World's Fair to the 2016 US Open, "Park Plays" takes the audience on a journey celebrating the bold, inclusive spirit of the park which Queens Theatre calls home.
"Lauren Yee ventures into Robert Moses territory with “What We Once Were.” Set in the Queens Museum’s Panorama of the City of New York, it’s nicely acted, particularly by Bartley Booz as a baffled new hire." -Laura Collins-Huges - NEW YORK TIMES
Friday 8pm
Saturday 2pm & 8pm
Sunday 3pm
Additional performance on Thursday, August 3 at 7:30
Audio Description performances on Saturday, August 5 at 2pm and 8pm.
Tickets: $18
Students/Seniors/Members: $15
Presented by Queens Theatre, in association with Theatre 167.
Festival Director: Brant Russell
"Park Plays" is supported, in part, by an Art Works award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
““Well, they’re definitely working some kind of charm in Queens Theatre’s ‘Park Plays’.””
Make sure to check out Bartley's Axe Commercial as part of “One Night Only: Alec Baldwin” on Spike TV “One Night Only: Alec Baldwin” will premiere on Sunday, July 9 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Spike TV.
AXE Black Tie Only Director: Crobin Copywriter: Crobin Production Company: Gravy Films Producer: Corey Deckler DP: Justin Derry Production Designer: Nick Tong Audio: Sonic Union Editor: Eddie Ringer (WAX) Client: Axe Agency: Velocity
So her sisters of the Beta Tau Alpha sorority at SUNY Onondaga are memorializing her in the best way they know how:
They're putting on a play.
For Annie uses Greek chorus, pop music, dance, and a lot of glitter to explore grief, guilt, sisterhood, and what it means to remember.
Presented by The Hearth
Buy tickets HERE!
““Dark-haired, wiry and intense, the physically slight Bartley Booz winningly plays the student who acts out the role of the volatile Nick. The boyish Mr. Booz strikingly succeeds at humanizing this villain with his offbeat vocal delivery that is simultaneously humorous and chilling.”
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