Sounds downright Shakespearian. I wonder which one of these guys dresses in drag to play Pem? Link: Photo Tease: Farnsworth Guys. The new fact-based drama The Farnsworth Invention is now in rehearsals for a start date of October 15 at the Music Box Theatre. We got a look at the testosterone-heavy cast at a meet-and-greet […]
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Some readers who are following the beginning of "previews" of The Farnsworth Invention on October 15, followed by the official "opening" on November 14, will perhaps find this article in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal by theater critic Terry Teachout instructive: Why have previews in the first place? Because you can’t tell what a show is
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With rehearsals for the Broadway play beginning this week in New York, the entire cast of The Farnsworth Invention has been announced: Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s new play about the advent of television, The Farnsworth Invention, starring Hank Azaria as David Sarnoff and Jimmi Simpon as Philo
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Today’s New York Times takes note of the building interest in Aaron Sorkin’s play coming to Broadway, heralding the show as this coming season’s equivalent of the highly acclaimed "Frost/Nixon:" The most notable entry in the field, “The Farnsworth Invention,” comes from the television writer Aaron Sorkin, his first play since “A Few Good Men”
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Before we all settle back this evening in front of our wide-screen, High Definition flat-panel video display to watch the latest in blockbusting home entertaiment; or before we cozy up to our computers to witness the world’s latest hi-jinks via YouTube, it might be constructive to remember how it all began: in a makeshift loft
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It’s starting to look like The Farnsworth Invention is one of the most anticipated openings of coming Broadway season. In a detailed run-down of the new season’s offerings, one observer writes: The Farnsworth Invention (November 14) Now this is the one that I am really looking forward to this season. It is a new drama
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After watching this, I dare anybody to say there’s nothing worth watching on television (even if it is YouTube):
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Hank Azaria seems like a rather odd choice for the roll of David Sarnoff in the pending Broadway production of Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention Hank Azaria will play David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, and Jimmi Simpson (“The Rainmaker”) will portray the inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. Des McAnuff will direct the production, opening on
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From Los Angeles Times critic Patrick Goldstein, an "unabashed admirer" of Sorkin’s work Sorkin’s much-touted NBC series, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," whose last episode aired just a few weeks ago, was canceled before the end of its first season, a victim of bad ratings and mediocre reviews. But it was also ambushed by
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Nothing in this particular item about a Spielberg/Dreamworks interest in The Farnsworth Invention, but it does call for three screenplays, and near as we know the film rights for that one are still up in the air… Aaron Sorkin has signed a three-picture deal with DreamWorks and is already set to pen The Trial of
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