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Boston Globe
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
A surprise from ‘demon of screamin' Steven Tyler, plus James Taylor's Tanglewood guests
An estimated 40,000 metalheads were on hand to watch the original lineup of Black Sabbath — singer Ozzy Osbourne, bassist (and lyricist) Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward, and guitarist Tony Iommi — do their thing, as only they can do it, one final time. (Osbourne, 76, is in failing health.) The band performed four songs: ' Advertisement A seeming cast of thousands took the stage throughout the day, including Axl Rose and Slash of Guns n' Roses, the entirety of Metallica; Tool singer Maynard James Keenan and drummer Danny Carey; Smashing Pumpkins frontman Bill Corgan; Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker; Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid; Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt; Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, and Sammy Hagar. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Tyler performed three songs, beginning with 'Train Kept A-Rollin',' which featured Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones on guitar. He then led the band through Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way' before closing the set with the Led Zeppelin classic 'Whole Lotta Love.' Tyler's voice held up for three songs, but it's hard to imagine he could sustain such a howl for a full show. Related : Advertisement Closer to home, meanwhile, the creative team that's working on a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, who's writing the musical — to be titled 'Fire and Rain' — attended the show with his wife, the 'White Lotus' actress Carrie Coon, and also Tony Award-winning director David Cromer, who's set to direct the JT musical. (It was Letts's 60th birthday.) From left: "White Lotus" actress Carrie Coon, playwright Tracy Letts ("August: Osage County"), Kim and James Taylor and Broadway director David Cromer ("Goodnight and Good Luck") Kathleen Drohan The musical is bound for Broadway, but it's not clear when. The 77-year-old Taylor, who lives in the Berkshires, wrote ' Related : Mark Shanahan can be reached at
The Guardian
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Susan Sarandon ‘terrified but excited' to make UK theatrical debut in September
Susan Sarandon is to make her UK theatre debut alongside Andrea Riseborough, when the pair portray the same woman at different ages, in Tracy Letts' drama Mary Page Marlowe. The play will be staged this autumn at the Old Vic in London by Matthew Warchus, in his final season as artistic director. Several actors portray the title character, which is described as a 'time-jumping mosaic' spanning 70 years in the life of an accountant and mother of two in Ohio. It marks a high-profile return to the stage for Sarandon, who made her Broadway debut in 1972 in An Evening with Richard Nixon and … by Gore Vidal before her breakout film role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. By the time she was next on Broadway, in Exit the King in 2009, she was a household name and five-time Oscar nominee (who won for Dead Man Walking). Sarandon said: 'I'm so honoured to be asked to be in a play during Matthew Warchus's final season at the Old Vic,' adding that she was 'terrified but excited'. Riseborough, similarly better known as a film star, has not acted on stage for 15 years. Her last major London role was in Ivanov opposite Kenneth Branagh at the Donmar Warehouse in 2008. She recently appeared in Warchus's screen version of Matilda the Musical. Riseborough said: 'It's an honour to be taking on the role of Mary – amongst others – in Tracy Letts' poignant play, alongside the extraordinary Susan Sarandon. I'm so very grateful to be working with Matthew again and thrilled to finally work at the Old Vic, a beautiful space.' Warchus called Letts 'one of America's greatest living writers' and said the play would be staged in-the-round – as will all the productions in his final season. Mary Page Marlowe will run from 23 September to 1 November. Letts is best known for his Pulitzer winner August: Osage County, which was directed by Anna D Shapiro in a Chicago Steppenwolf production that played at London's National Theatre in 2008. Shapiro directed the premiere of Mary Page Marlowe for the Steppenwolf theatre in 2016. In his review, the New York Times critic Charles Isherwood wrote: 'Some may find the play's form frustrating; I found it beautiful and affecting, like flipping through a friend's photo album in no particular order, finding some faces familiar, others unexpected. And then you come upon someone entirely unknown – who obviously meant much to your friend – and you realize, with a pang of sadness, that your knowledge of even those closest to you will always be fragmentary and incomplete.' This will be the play's UK premiere. Letts said: 'From my first experiences as a playwright here 30 years ago, to the run of August: Osage County at the National, London is an integral part of my development as an artist. I'm deeply gratified to have Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic, directed by Matthew, featuring these remarkable actresses. A genuine thrill.' Warchus will step down from the Old Vic in September next year, when he will be succeeded by Rupert Goold, who in turn will be replaced in the top job at the Almeida theatre by Dominic Cooke.
The Guardian
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Susan Sarandon ‘terrified but excited' to make UK theatrical debut in September
Susan Sarandon is to make her UK theatre debut alongside Andrea Riseborough, when the pair portray the same woman at different ages, in Tracy Letts' drama Mary Page Marlowe. The play will be staged this autumn at the Old Vic in London by Matthew Warchus, in his final season as artistic director. Several actors portray the title character, which is described as a 'time-jumping mosaic' spanning 70 years in the life of an accountant and mother of two in Ohio. It marks a high-profile return to the stage for Sarandon, who made her Broadway debut in 1972 in An Evening with Richard Nixon and … by Gore Vidal before her breakout film role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. By the time she was next on Broadway, in Exit the King in 2009, she was a household name and five-time Oscar nominee (who won for Dead Man Walking). Sarandon said: 'I'm so honoured to be asked to be in a play during Matthew Warchus's final season at the Old Vic,' adding that she was 'terrified but excited'. Riseborough, similarly better known as a film star, has not acted on stage for 15 years. Her last major London role was in Ivanov opposite Kenneth Branagh at the Donmar Warehouse in 2008. She recently appeared in Warchus's screen version of Matilda the Musical. Riseborough said: 'It's an honour to be taking on the role of Mary – amongst others – in Tracy Letts' poignant play, alongside the extraordinary Susan Sarandon. I'm so very grateful to be working with Matthew again and thrilled to finally work at the Old Vic, a beautiful space.' Warchus called Letts 'one of America's greatest living writers' and said the play would be staged in-the-round – as will all the productions in his final season. Mary Page Marlowe will run from 23 September to 1 November. Letts is best known for his Pulitzer winner August: Osage County, which was directed by Anna D Shapiro in a Chicago Steppenwolf production that played at London's National Theatre in 2008. Shapiro directed the premiere of Mary Page Marlowe for the Steppenwolf theatre in 2016. In his review, the New York Times critic Charles Isherwood wrote: 'Some may find the play's form frustrating; I found it beautiful and affecting, like flipping through a friend's photo album in no particular order, finding some faces familiar, others unexpected. And then you come upon someone entirely unknown – who obviously meant much to your friend – and you realize, with a pang of sadness, that your knowledge of even those closest to you will always be fragmentary and incomplete.' This will be the play's UK premiere. Letts said: 'From my first experiences as a playwright here 30 years ago, to the run of August: Osage County at the National, London is an integral part of my development as an artist. I'm deeply gratified to have Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic, directed by Matthew, featuring these remarkable actresses. A genuine thrill.' Warchus will step down from the Old Vic in September next year, when he will be succeeded by Rupert Goold, who in turn will be replaced in the top job at the Almeida theatre by Dominic Cooke.
Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marc Maron on Ending His Podcast and the Responsibility He Feels to His ‘WTF' Listeners
Marc Maron is contemplating what life will be like post-podcast as he approaches the end of the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast. Speaking after the Tribeca Film Festival screening Saturday of Are We Good?, a documentary about Maron grappling with the loss of his partner Lynn Shelton and trying to channel his grief into his work, Maron was asked about giving so much of himself to the public via his long-running podcast, his comedy specials and even on his Instagram. Maron had announced earlier this month that the podcast would be ending this fall after 16 years. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Stick' Review: Owen Wilson's Endearing Apple TV+ Golf Comedy Is Ideal Summer Comfort Viewing Marc Maron's 'WTF' Podcast Ending in the Fall: "We're Burnt Out" Lemonada Media, Home to Major Podcasts, Sells to Sweden's PodX Group 'I do put a lot of it out there. And I can handle it, and I can be gracious about it. And I don't know what it's going to be like not to do that twice a week,' Maron said in reference to the podcast. 'And I don't know what part of it is my own neediness or my own need to connect. But I can feel the weight of abandoning these people who have written over the years, 'You saved my life,' 'I got sober because of you,' 'I didn't kill myself.' And there's part of me that's like 'Are they going to be ok? Should I reach out to them personally?'' Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, a friend of Maron's, led the talkback, which also included documentary director Steven Feinartz. 'It's a bit much, Tracy, is what I'm saying, and I think I deserve to try to figure out how to live my life not with privacy, but without that responsibility a little bit,' Maron added. WTF has been one of the most streamed podcasts since it launched on Sept. 1, 2009, and has included interviews between Maron and famous figures such as Robin Williams, Keith Richards, Nicole Kidman and former President Barack Obama. The episodes, conducted out of Maron's garage, also offer a revealing look at Maron's own life, with the host often talking about his personal life, pet peeves and grudges and relationships with the guests on the show. He announced the end of the show June 2, saying that he and his producing partner Brendan McDonald were 'burnt out' after doing two shows every week for 16 years. In the talkback, Maron added that he had not started the podcast with the goal of making money or creating content, but rather was looking to create a connection with each guest and have 'an empathic conversation with somebody about who they are.' He added that it was also his 'whole fucking social life.' 'It meant the world to me and really evolved my sense of self and my sense of being a person,' he said. 'All of this stuff that I do has fueled whatever my particular creativity is. And I'm sure I'm not going to disappear after the podcast,' Maron continued. 'But the goal will now be to figure out where to channel that creativity.' In the near term that will include another HBO comedy special set to release in August, and the new Apple show Stick, alongside Owen Wilson. Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire
South China Morning Post
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Carrie Coon's Pulitzer Prize-winning husband, Tracy Letts? The White Lotus actress just clarified that they are not in an ‘open' marriage, telling the internet to ‘settle down'
The White Lotus actress Carrie Coon, who plays Laurie Duffy in the show, has been forced to clarify that she does not have an open marriage with her husband Tracy Letts, after netizens misinterpreted her comments in a recent interview. 'Settle down, internet! I said 'open minded' not 'open',' she wrote on X in response to the rumours. Advertisement During the 44-year-old's recent appearance on the WTF With Marc Maron Podcast, she chatted with the host about her marriage to Letts. 'That's the nice thing about a marriage where everything's on the table; you talk about everything,' she said. 'We're not jealous people. Like, we don't have any of those hang-ups. So we never wanna be, like, the police, you know? So it's nice to be in a relationship where we can always talk about, like, 'Who are you attracted to on set?'' 'Tracy's the kind of person who notices every single woman on the street … and he always tells me who he has a crush on,' she added. 'It's fun. It's interesting to know what your partner's into. I think it's titillating.' Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts have a 15-year age gap. Photo: @carriecoon/Instagram = Here's what we know about Carrie Coon's husband. Is Tracy Letts related to Billie Letts? Tracy Letts is an award winning playwright and actor. Photo: @carriecoon/Instagram Tracy Letts is indeed the son of the late American novelist Billie Letts. She was known for books such as Where the Heart Is and The Honk and the Holler Opening Soon. 'I think mum was always more interested in telling stories of working-class people,' Tracy told The New York Times in an interview. Tracy's father, Dennis, was an English professor and aspiring actor, per Britannica. Tracy was born and raised in Oklahoma. 'My parents were hugely influential on my creative life,' he told Roundabout Theatre in a 2019 interview. 'They both had wonderful and surprising second careers, my father as an actor and my mother as a writer. They were both funny and mercurial and passionate and curious. Gifted storytellers.'
