The witty and notoriously tempestuous Citizen Kane screenwriter comes into focus in this conversation between a Mankiewicz biographer and Fincher, whose new film Mank is remarkably faithful to the details of Hollywood history.
New musical tells story of Madame Curie
Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre will present a streaming production of “Madame Curie,” a new musical by David Kurkowski that is directed by Cate Cammarata, starring a professional cast led by Kerry Conte. The show relates the life of the first female Nobel Prize-winning scientist, who emigrated 1,000 miles from Poland to France, overcame xenophobia and sexism, and pioneered the public’s understanding of radioactivity, including helping more than one million WWI soldiers by invention mobile X-ray units.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday
Where: https://www.facebook.com/jester51 or on YouTube at CCTC HJT
Brownwood’s Lyric Theatre recently revealed the schedule of general productions for the 2021 calendar year, with more plans for the coming year expected to be released in the not too distant future.
“We are proposing the full season of performed shows, and what we’ve put out to this point is what our general shows are,” Lyric Theatre Executive Director Eric Evans said. “In addition to that, there’s a slate of kids shows and our summer stuff. We’re also going to be offering movies this year and we’re trying to determine how that looks.”
Evans further elaborated on the addition of movies.
NEW HOPE Singer Kim Sledge, a member of one of the most iconic music groups of the disco era, will take center stage at the historic Bucks County Playhouse for an all-new holiday concert. âKim Sledge: Home for the Holidays â Live from Bucks County Playhouseâ will make its world-wide streaming debut on Christmas Eve.
Currently residing in Bucks County, Kim Sledge comes home for the holidays to present an all-new, family friendly concert of holiday favorites. Alongside her band, and with musical direction by Drew Wutke, Sledge will perform both inspirational and traditional holiday songs including âIâll Be Home for Christmas,â âJoy to the World,â âEmanuel,â âRise and Shineâ and more.
Mank, directed by David Fincher (
Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gone Girl) from a 1994 screenplay written by his late father, Jack Fincher, is a biographical drama about American screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his role, or purported role, in the creation of
Citizen Kane (1941), the first film directed by and featuring Orson Welles. It is a Netflix Original film.
Much can be said about this subject, but we will have to limit ourselves.
Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman in
Mank
An initial title in
Mank informs us that Welles was brought to Hollywood in 1940 at the age of 24 by a struggling RKO Pictures and “given absolute creative autonomy, would suffer no oversight, and could make any movie, about any subject, with any collaborator he wished…”