Casting Announced for Kushner Play

December 14, 2010, 6:37 pm

By ERIK PIEPENBURG

7:17 p.m. | Updated Initial casting has been announced for the New York production of Tony Kushner’s new play, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures,” which will run at the Public Theater from March 22 through June 12, 2011, with opening night set for May 5.

Michael Cristofer, Linda Emond, Michael Esper and Stephen Spinella will reprise their roles from the production at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where the play premiered in 2009. Joining them will be the actors Bill Camp (“Notes From Underground”) and Steven Pasquale (“reasons to be pretty”), who are replacing Mark Benninghofen and Ron Menzel, respectively. Additional casting is still to be announced.

“The Intelligent Homosexual,” or “iHo,” as it was referred to at one point, is a co-production of the Public and the Signature Theater Company, where the Off Broadway revival of Mr. Kushner’s play “Angels in America” is now running. The director Michael Greif, who mounted the Guthrie production, will do the same for the Public.

Mr. Kushner’s play, his first large-scale work since “Angels in America,” is an exploration of politics, sexual identity and the labor movement as seen through the eyes of a Brooklyn family.

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No small roles: "The Hobbit" announces its first members casting

October 21, 2010, 10: 44 a.m.

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Everywhere where its "Hobbit" films are made, Peter Jackson wants you to know that it has a cast to appear in the.

While new surrounding Mr. Jackson has planned two-film adaptation of j. r. r. Tolkien's fantasy novel has recently focused on labour dispute between the filmmaker and the unions actors New Zealand and Australia and If it goes through the movie outside of its native New Zealand accordingly, Mr. Jackson and studios Hollywood behind the "Hobbit" features thrown enthusiastic spectators a casting Thursday by disclosing some of the main actors in the movies.

In a statement published by the Hollywood Reporter, Mr. Jackson and executives at Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer said that the character of Bilbo Baggins will be played by Martin Freeman, a version of "The Office" British television actor and film "from Hitchhiker." Guide to the Galaxy

"Jackson said in the statement that Mr. Freeman M." is smart, funny, surprising and courageous - exactly like Bilbo and feel incredibly proud to be able to announce that our Hobbit.?

Additional members include Richard Armitage as the dwarf dwarf Thorin Oakenshield; Aidan Turner and Rob Kazinsky as the Dwarfs Kili Fili; Graham McTavish, John Callen, Stephen Hunter, Mark Hadlow and Peter Hambleton, like other members of society.

Other key roles are not immediately announced, including the wizard Gandalf, a character portrayed in the film of "Lord of the rings of" Mr. Jackson by Ian McKellen.

Mr. Jackson and studios reiterated in the statement that "Hobbit" films will be released in December 2012 and December 2013.

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