BROOKLYN, NY – FEBRUARY 17
Actor Jeremy Irons attends the Bridge Project benefit at BAM on February 17, 2009 in Brooklyn, New York.
Liz Smith on “Impressionism”
From the New York Post
February 17, 2009
TALK MAY be cheap, but there’s plenty of it about the coming Broadway pro duction “Impressionism,” which will star Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Marsha Mason – an excellent cast – opening March 12.
No wonder, it is being directed by the genius Jack O’Brien and was written by Michael Jacobs. Now here’s a story. Producer Bill Haber recently heard from a woman he’d represented 30 years ago, Susan Harris. He describes her as “the creator of ‘Soap,’ ‘The Golden Girls,’ ‘Empty Nest’ and a billion dollars worth of other writing. She is considered one of the smartest of all TV people.”
Susan said she’d seen the ad for “Impressionism” and talked CAA into lending her a script. She wanted Bill to know that the play “is the finest I’ve read in years. I went back and read it again! Who is this guy – Michael Jacobs? I’m going to stop writing plays since I can never match this. Thanks for doing something this adventuresome, courageous and sensitive.”
Now that’s the kind of pre-inside talk everybody wants. Haber says, “This moved me and reminded me again why we’re doing this play.”
In spotlight after 25-year absence – Jeremy Irons in Impressionism
In spotlight after 25-year absence
Sunday, February 8, 2009
NorthJersey.com
STAFF WRITER
IMPRESSIONISM
andre rau
Opening night: March 12, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Untried doesn’t mean untrue, says Jeremy Irons.
If the Oscar- and Tony-winning actor, about to open in “Impressionism,” hasn’t appeared on Broadway since 1984, it’s partly because he hasn’t been offered anything really new.
“People say, ‘Why haven’t you gone back to Broadway before?’ and the answer is, I haven’t been offered a new play that makes me buzz,” he says. “I’ve been offered a lot of revivals, but in a way I’m not a jobbing actor in that sense. I like to go on a journey into the unknown.”
That would be “Impressionism,” a new play by Michael Jacobs, co-starring Joan Allen, Marsha Mason and Andre De Shields, and directed by Jack O’Brien, that promises to be every bit as much of a puzzler as those first Degas and Monets were to the staid members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
A press release describes it thusly: “the story of a world traveling photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who discover each other and also that there might be an art to repairing broken lives.”
But that doesn’t really convey the odd construction of Jacobs’ (“Cheaters,” “Getting Along Famously”) play, which shifts back and forth in time and casts each of the main actors in multiple roles. Irons, in addition to playing the photojournalist, is also at different moments the former lover and father of the gallery owner. Allen, the gallery owner, is also a nurse in Africa, where Irons is photojournalizing.
“It’s unlike any play I’ve ever come across before,” Irons says. “Rather in the same way that maybe the first art critics who looked at Impressionist paintings thought, ‘I never saw anything like this before.’ It’s not a normal play, not a conventional structure.”
Just as an Impressionist painting may look like just a lot of dots or brush strokes up close, and only reveal its full meaning when viewed whole, so “Impressionism,” Irons says, takes the whole length of its roughly 100-minute running time to make itself clear.
“I suppose what you might say is, you don’t get the full story till the end of the picture,” Irons says. “I think it will be a fascinating evening.”
Irons was last seen on Broadway 25 years ago, in Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing.” He won a Tony for that role, and has had a busy career in several media since, having established himself as the nonpareil for playing brainy, languid characters of ambiguous virtue (“Brideshead Revisited” on TV, “Reversal of Fortune” and “Lolita” onscreen).
One of his most recent projects, by happy coincidence, teamed him with his current co-star, Allen. In “Georgia O’Keefe,” a Lifetime Television biopic set to air later this year, he played another photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, to Joan Allen’s O’Keefe. So when the two met again for “Impressionism,” they were already road-tested.
“I was able to get to know her,” Irons says. “So by the time I came to rehearsal [for the play], I knew her work and she knew mine, and there was a sort of trust.”
E-mail: beckerman@northjersey.com
Jeremy puckers up for charity
Puckering up for charity
photos from http://www.journallive.co.uk
Feb 7 2009 by Ben Guy, The Journal
HOLLYWOOD kisses will be auctioned off to raise money for a good cause.
Silver screen superstars including Ewan McGregor, Kate Winslet, Liam Neeson and Helena Bonham-Carter have all puckered up to raise money for a 50-seat cinema in the new children’s hospital at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
They have left the imprint of their lips on cards and signed them, and the prints are featured in the window of Newcastle’s famous Fenwick store.
More than 50 signed smackers have been secured by MediCinema, the charity which brings the magic of the big screen to patients, including those in beds and wheelchairs.
They will then be auctioned off later this year.
Ewan McGregor, who is a longstanding patron of MediCinema, said: “I have seen at first-hand how much patients and their families look forward to an all-encompassing cinema experience.”
Other celebrities who have donated their lips to the charity are Bill Nighy, Dame Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Bryan Ferry, Jamie Bell and Lauren Laverne.
The new children’s hospital is due to be finished in 2010, but it is hoped the cinema will be completed later this year.
It will bring together all children’s treatments under one roof. Helen Lamont of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust welcomed the venture. She said: “This is a particularly innovative idea which will significantly enhance a patient’s stay in hospital”.
For more information on the collection of celebrity kisses, visit http://www.medicinema.org.uk.
Impressionism Tickets Now on Sale
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NOW ON SALE!!! IMPRESSIONISM Tony Award winners Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen return to Broadway in Impressionism, a love story – no matter how you look at it. Set in Manhattan, Impressionism is the story of an international photojournalist and a New York gallery owner whose unexpected brush with intimacy leads them to realize that there is quite an art to repairing broken lives. Written by Michael Jacobs and directed by three-time Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien, this remarkable portrait of human nature marks Mr. Irons first Broadway appearance since his 1984 Tony-winning turn in The Real Thing, and Ms. Allen’s first since her Tony-nominated performance in The Heidi Chronicles in 1989.
Preview performances begin at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Wednesday February 28th, 2009, and tickets are on sale for performances through Sunday, July 5th, 2009. Service charges apply to phone and internet orders. Schedule subject to change. Ticket availability is subject to prior sale to subscribers, groups and theatre parties. There is a 25 ticket limit per 7 day period, per name, credit card account, billing address, phone number, IP address, and/or e-mail address. Tickets purchased which exceed this limit will be canceled without notification. Certain types of seating may have a different ticket limit.
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Who Do You Think Your Are? Series 3 on DVD in UK
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Celebrity shows are everywhere – but here’s one which is bigger than the sum of its famous stars.
I don’t know why it has taken the BBC so long to get the DVDs out, considering we’ve seen Series 5 on TV already.
What’s great about Who Do You Think You Are? is that the celebrities are picked on the strength of their family stories, not on how famous or popular they are, so you get a great eclectic mix.
Even David Dickinson – usually such an irritant – is watchable as he talks about his adoption and finding his real parents.
You also get stars who are so keen to take part, they put aside their usual reticence about doing publicity. So you get to find out more about usually shy celebs like David Tennant and Robert Lindsay.
It’s also beautifully filmed. Jeremy Irons galloping across fields on his horse near his home in Ireland is stunning (if a little luvvie).
Buy the boxset with series one to three, and you also get a DVD about how to trace your ancestors.
Jeremy Irons supports Amnesty International’s Protect the Human campaign
View all of the celebrity photos of the Protect the Human campaign here:
Impressionism rehearsals begin January 20th
Rehearsals for the new American play IMPRESSIONISM starring Tony Award winners Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen will begin on Tuesday January 20 in New York.
The production, which will be directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien, will begin preview performances on February 28 and open on March 12 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45 Street).
The cast features Marsha Mason, Andre DeShields, Michael T. Weiss, Aaron Lazar, and Margarita Levieva.
IMPRESSIONISM’s creative team is Scott Pask (scenic design), Catherine Zuber (costume design), Natasha Katz (lighting design), Elaine McCarthy (projection design) and Leon Rothenberg (sound design). Original music is by Bob James.
The production will mark Ms. Allen’s first return to Broadway since The Heidi Chronicles in 1989, and Mr. Irons’ first time on Broadway since The Real Thing in 1984.
IMPRESSIONISM will be produced by Ostar Productions.
IMPRESSIONISM is the story of a world traveling photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who discover each other and also that there might be an art to repairing broken lives.
Jeremy Irons is appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association.
Appaloosa special features screen-caps
Jeremy Irons has brief appearances in two of the special features clips on the DVD of Appaloosa. He is in the “Bringing the Characters of Appaloosa to Life” and “Historic Accuracy of Appaloosa” featurettes. He is also featured in the deleted scene “Town Hall Meeting.”
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