![]() ![]() Jackson’s masterpiece, A Strange Loop, starring Jaquel Spivey as Usher. Now six months later, the Lyceum is home to Michael R. was nominated for best lead actress in a play (O’Connell), best direction of a play (Waters), and, unsurprisingly, best sound design of a play (Mikhail Fiksel). That these two shows played to packed houses-and both got two week-extensions-speaks to the appetite for unconventional work in Broadway houses post-COVID. ran alongside Is This a Room, the equally unsettling and true story of Reality Winner’s FBI interrogation that script is a transcription of the original interview, but, unlike Dana H., the actors are speaking the words themselves. It is a singular performance without precedent when in Tony history has there been a nominee who did not utter a word of their own but was directed, mouth and body, by an offstage recording? Dana H. Higginbotham is the mother of playwright Lucas Hnath, who recorded her brutal recounting of the ordeal and set it to stage-and for an uninterrupted 75 minutes, O’Connell mouthed Higginbotham’s words with uncanny synchronicity, less a lip sync than a total possession of the character and an incantation of the vagaries and fog of trauma itself. Starring Dierdre O’Connell and directed by Les Waters, the play, which ran for eight weeks at the Lyceum Theatre last fall, is the harrowing true story of Dana Higginbotham’s abduction and five-month-long torture at the hands of a white-supremacist criminal she becomes involved with while working as a chaplain at a Florida hospital. And not only did audiences show up but these endeavors were also rewarded by the Tony Awards, which will air on Sunday, June 12 with recent Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose as host. ![]() Though utterly debilitating for the industry, the year-and-a-half-long COVID break-which ended when the play Pass Over began previews on August 4 ( Springsteen on Broadway reopened in June but was billed as a concert)-forced a reset that shook up Broadway houses and made room for some of the most wildly compelling and surprising commercial theater in recent memory. To the higher power who bestowed upon us these joyous images of Phoebe - and for Phoebe herself, for giving us a truly perfect season of TV - we are eternally grateful.A one-woman lip-sync marathon a metafictional musical about race, sexuality, and identity Rachel Dratch crawling around on hallucinogens-these are just some of the revelatory Tony-nominated productions and performances on offer this Broadway season, the first since theaters closed in March of 2020. (And one more smoking picture, taken by Josh Cole from BBC Studios, for good measure.)Īll hail the queen □ #Fleabag #Emmys2019 /TFkMvQRAXt- Josh Cole September 23, 2019 They were so happy □ /gQfm1oI06x- Esmée September 23, 2019 Phoebe collecting her Emmys □□ - Phoebe Waller-Bridge Source September 23, 2019Īnd smile alongside the Hot Priest, who can pull off a suit just as well as he can a clerical robe. Phoebe waller-bridge swallowing a "fuck!" is extremely fleabag energy #Emmys /VsMG3SCSVM- Morgan A Baila September 23, 2019Īnd juggle them at the show’s conclusion. Watch her hold back uttering “fuck” after winning one of her three awards. While the aforementioned photo has garnered the most adulation on social media, every photo and video to have surfaced of the Fleabag celebrating her multiple wins have been glorious. (Alas, this is also where I must emphasize that smoking is bad.) And throughout it all, she looked incredibly cool. And she had at least one drink, though probably more like two or six. So of course, at the conclusion of the awards show, she was ready to party. Earlier in the night, Waller-Bridge had won three of the four Emmys for which she was nominated, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy. The photo, which has been shared repeatedly on Twitter with captions like “ happy bi visibility day” and “ I’m unWELL,” captured a beautiful, rare sight - a rightful award-winner basking in the glory of their deserved recognition. My vision board is just this photo 500 times /pOJdnUPx4f- Dana Schwartz □ September 23, 2019 Sometime on Monday morning, the day after the 2019 Emmy Awards, out of the ether emerged a stunning visual that has entranced basically every person who has laid their eyes on it: a photo of Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, elegantly reclined in a chair and surrounded by her three Emmys at the Chateau Marmont, taking a drag from a cigarette in one hand, and clutching a coupe with the other. ![]() Photo: Todd Williamson/JanuaryImages/Shutterstock Martin McDonagh and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. ![]()
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