Maggie Gyllenhaal on making ‘The Bride!’: ‘Something really alive was born’

Maggie Gyllenhaal on making ‘The Bride!’: ‘Something really alive was born’

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> It starts with the exclamation point, right there in the title. β€œThe Bride!” is a wild, willfully over-the-top double-barreled reinvigoration of 1935’s β€œBride of Frankenstein” that is always doing something a little extra in telling its unpredictable story of identity and the reclamation of the self. β€œI probably can’t definitively explain it,” says…

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‘American Classic’ review: Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s theater love letter

‘American Classic’ review: Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s theater love letter

The lovely, funny β€œAmerican Classic,” premiering Sunday on MGM+, is a love letter to theater, community and community theater. Kevin Kline plays Richard Bean, a narcissistic stage actor. He’s famous enough to be opening on Broadway in β€œKing Lear,” but he has to be pushed onstage and is forgetting lines. After he drunkenly assails a…

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