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The Normal Heart’s May 26 performance gave the opportunity for theatregoers under the age of 30 to see the performance for a special discounted price. The night also featured a pre-party at Sardi’s as well as a talkback with the cast after the performance, hosted by NY1 theatre producer and reporter Frank DiLella and Playbill magazine editor in chief Blake Ross.
If you missed out on The Normal Heart’s big night, you can check out the entire talkback here on Playbill.com. DiLella and Ross were joined on stage by cast members Jim Parsons, Luke Macfarlane, Lee Pace and Wayne Wilcox. Joe Mantello, John Benjamin Hickey and Ellen Barkin also made special appearances, and author Larry Kramer was on hand to distribute a “Please Know” note that informs audiences that the HIV/AIDS crisis is an issue that our society still faces.
The actors talked about how they got involved with the show, the themes of Kramer’s work, and the impact the play has had on their own lives and the lives of others.
The play is described as “the story of a city in denial.” The Normal Heart “unfolds like a real-life political thriller—as a tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians and the press bury the truth of an unspoken epidemic behind a wall of silence. A quarter-century after it was written, this outrageous, unflinching, and totally unforgettable look at the sexual politics of New York during the AIDS crisis remains one of the theatre’s most powerful evenings ever.”
The limited engagement runs until July 10.
To watch the entire talkback, look below:
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
The 2011 AfterElton Hot 100!
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6. Luke Macfarlane
Sadly Brothers & Sisters has been canceled, so that means we won't be seeing any more of the adorable Scotty Wandell. But you can bet this won't be the last you see of handsome, out Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane. Five years on Brothers & Sisters showed us his talents as an actor, a singer (did you see the episode where he sang that touching Irish funeral song?), and even a potential underwear model-- at least based upon what we saw in a few brief briefs scenes. Hubba hubba.
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6. Luke Macfarlane
Rank last year: 4
Sadly Brothers & Sisters has been canceled, so that means we won't be seeing any more of the adorable Scotty Wandell. But you can bet this won't be the last you see of handsome, out Canadian actor Luke Macfarlane. Five years on Brothers & Sisters showed us his talents as an actor, a singer (did you see the episode where he sang that touching Irish funeral song?), and even a potential underwear model-- at least based upon what we saw in a few brief briefs scenes. Hubba hubba.
Okay, he's probably too serious an actor to pursue underwear modeling, but keep your options open, Luke. And come back to television soon, we're going to miss you!
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52. Matthew Rhys
Rank last year: 34
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The GAYS Of DAYTIME- The Blog.: GOOD BYE, MY FAVORITE TV FAMILY!
The GAYS Of DAYTIME- The Blog.: GOOD BYE, MY FAVORITE TV FAMILY!: "I waited a while to post on this so I could calm down. Otherwise this post would have consisted mainly of expletives pointed in the direct..."
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Marriage ends with "Brothers & Sisters" cancellation
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Matthew Rhys, Luke Macfarlane Marriage Ends With 'Brothers & Sisters' Cancellation
On Top Magazine Staff
Published: May 15, 2011
ABC split apart Matthew Rhys and Luke Macfarlane on Friday with the announcement that it has canceled Brothers & Sisters.
According to Michael Ausiello's TV Line, the show won't return next year.
“Though, as Deadline [Hollywood] reported, the network was trying to find a way to bring back B&S for an abridged final season, in the end, the suits elected to free up their post-Desperate Housewives time slot for a new show. As a result, last Sunday's B&S season finale is now, retroactively, the series' finale.”
Rhy's Kevin Walker and Macfarlane's Scotty Wandell married on the season 2 finale of the family drama and remained the show's most durable couple.
During the show's fifth and final season, producers capped off Kevin's evolution from a down-with-love closeted corporate lawyer to a family man by giving the couple two children: daughter Olivia and son Daniel.
The men adopted Olivia after their surrogate claimed she had miscarried their baby. But in the show's final episodes, its revealed that Daniel wasn't lost and he joins his fathers.
On Top Magazine Staff
Published: May 15, 2011
ABC split apart Matthew Rhys and Luke Macfarlane on Friday with the announcement that it has canceled Brothers & Sisters.
According to Michael Ausiello's TV Line, the show won't return next year.
“Though, as Deadline [Hollywood] reported, the network was trying to find a way to bring back B&S for an abridged final season, in the end, the suits elected to free up their post-Desperate Housewives time slot for a new show. As a result, last Sunday's B&S season finale is now, retroactively, the series' finale.”
Rhy's Kevin Walker and Macfarlane's Scotty Wandell married on the season 2 finale of the family drama and remained the show's most durable couple.
During the show's fifth and final season, producers capped off Kevin's evolution from a down-with-love closeted corporate lawyer to a family man by giving the couple two children: daughter Olivia and son Daniel.
The men adopted Olivia after their surrogate claimed she had miscarried their baby. But in the show's final episodes, its revealed that Daniel wasn't lost and he joins his fathers.
Friday, 13 May 2011
An article from AfterElton
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ABC Cancels "Brothers & Sisters"
Posted by Michael Jensen, Editor on May 13, 2011
When it comes to the television shows that had the biggest impact on AfterElton.com readers in this site's early days, there are two series that truly stand out in terms of GLBT visibility.
I totally agree with Michael Jensen. For the moment, I don't know where I can see Luke again except a theatre where I can't go. I hope he will appear soon on some TV shows.
ABC Cancels "Brothers & Sisters"
Posted by Michael Jensen, Editor on May 13, 2011
When it comes to the television shows that had the biggest impact on AfterElton.com readers in this site's early days, there are two series that truly stand out in terms of GLBT visibility.
The first is Torchwood. The second is Brothers & Sisters, which makes it just that much sadder to announce that according to TVLine.com B&S has just been canceled. While the show was never a ratings juggernaut, it had done well enough this season that there was much speculation that the show would be given an abbreviated sixth and final season.
Kevin and Scotty
But that's not to be. It's hard to overstate what an impact the show first made on many gay viewers when it debuted back in 2006. Created by Jon Robin Baitz, an out gay man, the show included Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys) an out and proud gay character who would go on to date, have a love life, and eventually a family with his husband Scotty Wandell (Luke Macfarlane).
To my mind, the show really marked the start of what has been a pretty strong resurgence in the development of fully fleshed out, complicated GLBT characters and it deserves credit for making same-sex affection and relationships normal for millions of viewers who might otherwise never see gay people falling in love, getting married and having kids.
No, the show wasn't perfect by a longshot, but I'll certainly miss seeing Kevin and Scotty cuddling on their couch.
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AE >> No, the show wasn't perfect by a longshot, but I'll certainly miss seeing Kevin and Scotty cuddling on their couch.
I totally agree with Michael Jensen. For the moment, I don't know where I can see Luke again except a theatre where I can't go. I hope he will appear soon on some TV shows.
Brothers & Sisters... Cancelled
As almost all of us expected, Brothers & Sisters is cancelled. I really loved to see Luke as Scotty though, I guess it's time to move on.
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UPDATE: 'Brothers & Sisters' Canceled, As Is 'V'
By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 11:48am PDT
UPDATE: It's official, there will be no sixth season of ABC's family drama Brothers and Sisters. And V won't return for a third season either. ABC just made the calls.
PREVIOUS: Barring any last-minute miracle, it looks like this is the end of the road for ABC's veteran family drama Brothers and Sisters. There had been a serious effort by ABC and producing studio ABC Studios to find a price point at which they could bring the show back for an abbreviated sixth and final season. There have been talks with star Calista Flockhart to return for six episodes next season. Last May, Brothers and Sisters clinched a last-minute 18-episode order that was subsequently expanded to 22 episodes. But the indications are, with so many drama pilots scoring high in testings and screenings this year, ABC is ready to say good-bye to the Walker clan.
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