tv echo November 27, 2024 Share November 27, 2024 (edited) Tala Ashe is going to make her Broadway debut next year... Roundabout Announces Complete Casting for English on Broadway Linda Buchwald November 26, 2024 https://www.theatermania.com/news/roundabout-announces-complete-casting-for-english-on-broadway_1756887/ Quote Roundabout Theatre Company announced complete casting for the upcoming Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play English by Sanaz Toossi (Wish You Were Here) and directed by Knud Adams (Primary Trust). English will run January 3, 2025-May 2, 2025, with an official opening on January 23, at the Todd Haimes Theatre. The Broadway premiere of English will feature the original cast from the off-Broadway world premiere, all making their Broadway debuts: Tala Ashe (Legends of Tomorrow) as Elham, Ava Lalezarzadeh (Before) as Goli, Pooya Mohseni (In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot) as Roya, Marjan Neshat (Wish You Were Here) as Marjan, and Hadi Tabbal (The Vagrant Trilogy) as Omid. Toossi and Adams are also making their Broadway debuts. Expand Edited November 27, 2024 by tv echo Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8519226
tv echo December 24, 2024 Share December 24, 2024 Matt’s Inside Line: Scoop on Ghosts, The Rookie, Ahsoka, Downton Abbey, NCIS, The Recruit, The Way Home, Skeleton Crew, Matlock and More! By Matt Webb Mitovich December 23, 2024 https://tvline.com/lists/ghosts-season-4-spoilers-hetty-power-revealed-ahsoka-renewed-season-2/ Quote Is there any chance that Caity Lotz will appear on NCIS: Origins, seeing as her husband (Kyle Schmid) plays Mike Franks? Just a thought from a die-hard Arrow/Legends fan! — Leanne I like how you think, Leanne! And we are not alone. “We’ve actually talked about that with Kyle — it was brought up one time before — and that’d be so awesome,” co-showrunner David J. North shared with me. “Caity is fantastic, and we’d be so lucky to have her.” Expand Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8539792
tv echo January 10 Share January 10 (edited) English officially opens on Broadway on Jan 23, but started performances on Jan 7 (Tala Ashe appears at the 2:59 mark in this video)... Meet the Cast of ENGLISH on Broadway BroadwayWorld Jan 7, 2025 Edited January 10 by tv echo Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8550998
tv echo January 17 Share January 17 Sanaz Toossi, Tala Ashe, and More Discuss "English" on Broadway Playbill Jan 16, 2025 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8557003
tv echo January 24 Share January 24 (edited) ‘English’: The Broadway Play Everyone Needs to See Right Now The play “English” won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Now that it’s open on Broadway, it’s easy to see why. Tim Teeman Updated Jan 24, 2025 https://www.thedailybeast.com/english-review-the-broadway-play-everyone-needs-to-see-right-now/ Quote This act of design self-sabotage doesn’t detract from the brilliance of the play and cast. Of the pupils, Elham (Tala Ashe, whose spikiness gives the play a welcome motor), in her late twenties, wants to study gastroenterology in Australia. This is her fifth attempt at such a class, and she wants to ace it to become a teaching assistant to help earn money in her quest to leave the country. However, Elham is not only tired of the failed attempts, but questioning what the objective of the class is. * * * Roya says Elham is so obnoxious personally in an English context she will have “no redeeming qualities.” This may be true, but Ashe adeptly makes all of Elham’s jagged edges—and there are many—totally understandable. Indeed, we cheer for her when she finally beats know-it-all Omid in a game of “Things you find in a kitchen.” Expand Edited January 24 by tv echo Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8562860
tv echo February 2 Share February 2 Abby Miller and Jes Macallan to Star in James Takata’s California Scenario Ritesh Sharma January 30, 2025 https://thecinemaholic.com/california-scenario-cast/ Quote Two familiar television faces will star in James Takata’s debut feature! The Cinemaholic has learned that Abby Miller and Jes Macallan will lead the drama movie ‘California Scenario.’ The project is about to enter production in Costa Mesa, California. Miller and Macallan will star alongside Emmylou Diaz, Reema Zaman, Dove Meir, Zhaleh, Jack Stuart, James Saito, and James Doi. * * * The narrative centers on Jacob Hara and Laura Acker, who confront disruptive family secrets. Jacob assists his daughter, Lexi, face a concealed truth that challenges her understanding of their family history. Laura, after leaving an abusive marriage, strives to protect her daughter, Phoebe, while managing a strained co-parenting relationship. The film includes flashbacks to earlier generations of the Hara and Acker families, depicting their experiences during the Japanese American internment and the Holocaust. These historical contexts converge at Isamu Noguchi’s “California Scenario” Garden. Expand Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8570276
tv echo February 13 Share February 13 Tala Ashe talks Pulitzer Prizing- winning Broadway show 'English' PIX11 News Feb 12, 2025 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8579881
tv echo February 15 Share February 15 Brandon Routh was part of this "Many Faces of Superman" panel at MegaCon Orlando on Feb. 8... Megacon 2025 Superman Panel - A T.U.O. Special Presentation The Unchosen Ones Podcast - T.U.O. posted Feb. 13, 2025 Quote Six Supermen: George Newbern, Tyler Hoechlin, Tim Daly, Brandon Routh, Dean Cain and Tom Welling, discuss their tenure as the Man of Steel. Expand Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8581573
tv echo February 18 Share February 18 Ep378 - Tala Ashe: From "Legends of Tomorrow" to Broadway Today The Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales Feb 18, 2025 Quote Tala Ashe is an Iranian-American actress best known for her role as Zari Tomaz/Zari Tarazi in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. She has also appeared in Smash, American Odyssey, Covert Affairs, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and As the World Turns. On stage, she received critical acclaim for her performance in English, Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, and is now making her Broadway debut in its transfer. A graduate of Boston University’s School of Theatre, she has built a career focused on complex, fully realized characters that challenge stereotypes and expand representation. Expand Interview: ENGLISH's Tala Ashe is the February 2025 Debut of the Month By: Chloe Rabinowitz Feb. 13, 2025 https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Interview-ENGLISHs-Tala-Ashe-is-the-February-2025-Debut-of-the-Month-20250213 Quote Tala Ashe is currently making her Broadway debut in English by Sanaz Toossi. Ashe previously received a Best Actress Drama Desk Award nomination for her performance in English at the Atlantic Theater Company. For five years, Tala was a series regular on DC'S Legends of Tomorrow, starring as Zari Tomaz. Additional TV credits include Girls on the Bus for HBO Max, NBC's Smash and American Odyssey, and more. Her stage credits include Breaking the Story at Second Stage, Lunch Break at PlayCo, The Vagrant Trilogy at The Public Theater, The Profane at Playwrights Horizons, Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare in the Park and more. Expand Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8584364
tv echo February 25 Share February 25 (edited) “The Laughter Is a Trojan Horse”: Behind the Scenes of English With Tala Ashe By Jasmine Vojdani Feb 25, 2025 https://www.interviewmagazine.com/theater/behind-the-scenes-of-english-with-tala-ashe Quote As much as Elham struggles to articulate herself in English, Ashe’s performance deftly reveals her character’s layers over the course of this play, which undercuts the inherent comedy of language acquisition with the tragedy of assimilation, of giving up parts of yourself in the often botched translation. Elham is spicy, competitive, prickly toward the more advanced students in the class and combative with her increasingly impatient teacher, who refuses to speak a word of Farsi with her. She is also so vulnerable and alive on the stage that we can feel her yearning and her frustration. Inevitably, we root for her. * * * VOJDANI: Completely. I’m curious how you originally came to the role and what the original casting process was like. ASHE: So, I was working on a television show in Vancouver and I had three-month hiatuses between seasons so I wasn’t really available to do theater for five years, which was kind of killing me. But I did a reading of the play in 2019. I read it one afternoon in a basement and I just thought, “Wow, this is a really good play.” But I went to Vancouver to continue shooting. The show was slated to happen in 2020. Of course, it got pushed, which actually made it so that I was available to do the show. The exact dates happened to slot into where I could fit that in my hiatus with another play that I was already slated to do. The other day, I found an email that I had sent to my manager that said, “I’m very, very tired.” I was coming off a crazy season of television. I said, “I think I’m going to kick myself if I don’t do this,” and I’m so glad I did. * * * VOJDANI: But I’m curious, were there any scenes that you found super challenging or that you were nervous about? ASHE: I wouldn’t say nervous, but the final scene of the play is a bit of a tightrope act. Not to give anything away, Elham is re-entering the classroom with a secret and also a need and balancing those two things. There is sort of cat and mouse-ness to that final scene as she is prodding her teacher. At the same time, she is realizing, “Okay, I got what it is that I wanted.” I think a lot of us experience this: you get that thing that you wanted and it feels completely different than you realize. In her case, it means that she has to say goodbye to her country. It’s an enormous thing to hold. I knew how important that scene was and that it culminated in us hearing the Persian language for 30 seconds and for the audience to, for the first time, have the experience that the characters have been having the entire time, that sense of alienation. It’s such an important and artful scene. So it’s important to me to go on that ride every night truthfully because I think it requires a kind of delicate balancing act. Expand Edited February 25 by tv echo Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/50066-legends-are-everywhere-lot-actors-in-other-roles/page/3/#findComment-8590551
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