Bel Powley, Diary of a Teenage Girl, SF Ballet's Nutcracker, Looking, Steve Jobs, Detour San Francisco

Bel Powley Best actress, 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl'

DON’T BOTHER VOTING ON THE OSCARS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN… BEL POWLEY IN THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL - BY MATTHEW ENG

‘Spotlight,’ Dano, Powley Big Winners At Gotham Independent Film Awards

Bel Powley Wins Best Actress At Gotham Awards 2015!


Bel Powley winning the Best Actress Gotham Award for THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

Marielle Heller's 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Dated and Detailed for Blu-ray - The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, lossless 5.1 audio, and supplements include: Deleted Scenes; Marielles Journey: Bringing The Diary To Life A Making-of Featurette; and LA Film Festival Q&A with Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, and Marielle Heller.

Nutcracker returns to SF Ballet

Top 10 TV Episodes of 2015 - Time

7. Looking, "Looking for a Plot" "HBO’s moody half-hour came in for criticism throughout its now-concluded run for being “boring.” This was the series’s most eventful episode, sure–encompassing a trip to a funeral in Modesto and a car crash. But for all the incident, “Looking for a Plot” was as deliberate and thoughtful as fans of the show had reason to expect. A scene at a gay bar, in which the show’s characters contemplate what life would be like had they never grown up and gone West, is as fuzzily moving as any the show produced."

Los Angeles Film Critics
Best Actor: Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”)

‘Steve Jobs’ Flops at Box Office, and Silicon Valley Cheers - New York Times

Wallace Shawn

A life in theater, how it happens:

"About seven years later. In 1970, I started working as a writer for André Gregory and his acting company. And in those days André’s troupe used to teach acting workshops every summer at NYU, so for three summers I participated and sort of informally studied acting with André and his gang. And then in 1977 or so, Wilford Leach got Joe Papp to commission me to translate The Mandrake by Machiavelli. At that time I was totally broke—more than broke. I was enormously in debt, because I basically lived by borrowing money from friends. And when I completed the translation, Wilford said, to my amazement, The other actors and I would like you to be in the play. In the play? How could I be in the play? I’m not an actor! And Wilford said, It’ll be easy for you. You’ll be the prologue. You’re the translator, so that’s very appropriate. And then you can be the servant, because he really doesn’t do much. He’s onstage for the whole play, but he doesn’t have many lines. And he said they would pay me a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week. Well, Deborah, Wilford, and I were having dinner when this all came up, and I had been considering becoming a taxi driver. And Deborah said, Do this instead. It’s much better. Because you can’t really drive."


http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6154/the-art-of-theater-no-17-wallace-shawn

Nutcracker, etc.

San Francisco Ballet Wows China and Vice Versa

Westfield San Francisco Centre Announces Annual San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker Under the Dome Holiday Festivities

Holiday Dance 2015: It’s that ‘Nutcracker’ time of year

Only in SF: Wooden Shack in San Francisco Sells for $408,000