You can now like Jesse L. Martin on Facebook and stay up to date on all his latest projects.
Website Update
Updated galleries: Sexual Healing, 20?? | SMASH, 2013 | 2005 - See What I Wanna See | 2013 - What Are We Wroth?
|
News
You can now like Jesse L. Martin on Facebook and stay up to date on all his latest projects. Website Update Updated galleries: Sexual Healing, 20?? | SMASH, 2013 | 2005 - See What I Wanna See | 2013 - What Are We Wroth?
0 Comments
News
Jesse L. Martin will join Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Porter, Steve Kazee, Mariska Hargitay, Daphne Rubin-Vega and many others for Paul Rudd's second annual All-Star Bowling Benefit on October 21st, 2013 at Lucky Strike Lanes. The gala/event benefits Our Time, a non profit organisation that helps kids who stutter. (Source: Broadway.com.) Season 13 of Law & Order will be released on DVD on November 5th, 2013. Miscellaneous Norm Lewis on Jesse L. Martin (while discussing Bright Lights, Big City): "Let me see, I think I was basically Jesse L. Martin's understudy and I got to play his role in a workshop of it. I always joke around and say I was his understudy even though I was actually playing it and I wasn't his understudy. [Laughs.] It's a joke we have because I think he's so amazing." (Source: BroadwayWorld.com.) Jesse L. Martin will join a fantastic list of actors and directors in a historic event that will see the ten-play American Century Cycle by August Wilson, which captures 100 years of African American life decade by decade during the 20th century, recorded. They will be presented and recorded Aug. 26-Sept. 28 at The Greene Space in Manhattan.
Dramatic readings of each play will be presented in front of a live studio audience and recorded for the NYPR archives. The recording sessions will also be available as live video webcasts on NYPR websites, and the audio recordings will be preserved in NYPR’s archives for future research and educational purposes. Tickets are $40, and may be purchased at www.thegreenespace.org. Viewers across the country and around the world will be able to watch via live video webcasts at www.thegreenespace.org. Cultural partner Two Rivers Theater in Red Bank, NJ, home to many productions of August Wilson plays, will also offer live video webcasts at www.trtc.org. WNYC 93.9 FM will broadcast select recordings on Sundays beginning in January 2014. WNYC will also make the recordings plays available for radio broadcast on other public radio stations. All readings start at 7 pm at The Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street),Downtown Manhattan. Fences–Wednesday, August 28 Directed by Kenny Leon Eugene Lee………………………………… Jim Bono Jesse L. Martin………………………………….Lyons Ray Anthony Thomas………………………….Gabriel Jonathan Majors………………………………….Cory More information: The Greene Space, Playbill.com, NY Times, WSAV News With only three weeks of filming left in the Marvin Gaye biopic, filming has been stopped for the past month. Initially it was due to problems with getting certain filming locations which then led to schedule conflicts with actors' schedules. However, different sources are reporting that there have been financing issues and the future of the film is uncertain. Crew members have apparently not been paid in full as a result of a cash flow problem with an American investor, however, it has been suggested that this has been resolved. Focus Features, who boarded with the film in April, has now dropped out. Stay tuned for further development. (Screen Daily) (Shadow and Act) (Vibe) (The Playlist) Don't forget that if you're in New York next week to check out the Public Theater's forum on justice and money. Actors, including Jesse L. Martin, Vanessa Redgrave, Matt Damon, Alan Alda, Gloria Reuben, Christine Baranski, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater and others, will read from Shakespeare, while Harvard professor Michael Sandel will lead a conversation about the rise of the language of money. Tickets are free and will be distributed, two per person, at noon on June 17th, 2013 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The event will take place that evening at 8 pm. For more information, visit the Shakespeare in the Park Website. (Broadway.com) (NY Times Art Beats) Website Update The site is still under going construction/changes in certain sections; apologies for any inconvenience you may encounter. New photos and GIFs have been added to various galleries, including new GIF sets from RENT 10. Miscellaneous Recent interview with well-known Broadway casting director Bernie Telsie on The Graham Show where he discusses Jesse L. Martin and how he knew he (Jesse L. Martin) would make it big: From BroadwayWorld.com:
The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) and the Aspen Institute Arts Program (Director, Damian Woetzel) announced today that a special free Public Forum program, WHAT ARE WE WORTH? SHAKESPEARE, MONEY, AND MORALS, will take place at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Monday, June 17 at 8:00 p.m. Now in its third year, Public Forum is a series of lectures, conversations, and performances featuring leading voices in politics, media, and the arts. Are there some things money can't buy? Do we have obligations to each other as citizens? In the spirit of free exchange epitomized by more than 50 years of The Public's Shakespeare in the Park, join in an evening of theatre and public debate. This one-night-only Public Forum will include Shakespeare readings about money and justice by Alan Alda, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Raúl Esparza, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Lily Rabe, Vanessa Redgrave, Liev Schreiber, and others, as well as a lively town-hall conversation with the audience conducted by Harvard professor and best-selling author Michael Sandel about the way the language of money has been taking over our lives - the subject of his recent book, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Free Public Forum Tickets will be distributed, two per person, at 12:00 p.m. on June 17 at the Delacorte Theater. Free tickets will also be available via the Virtual Ticketing drawing at www.shakespeareinthepark.org on the day of the event. Public Forum Supporter tickets are also available for a tax-deductible donation of $75. For information and to donate, call 212-967-7555. For more information, visit BroadwayWorld.com or Shakespeare in the Park. News
Filming of the upcoming Marvin Gaye has been stopped for two weeks. However, the suspension is not due to financial problems or anything else that will prevent the film from being made, but rather certain locations became unavailable, which led to certain cast members being unavailable and vice-versa. (Shadow and Act) On May 10th, NBC announced that the pilot The Secret Lives of Husband and Wives was not being picked up. (Deadline) Site Update New photos and GIFs have been added to the RENT galleries, along with new GIFs from Law & Order and pictures from the Made in NY awards in 2008. Certain pages have been re-organised, with several more undergoing changes. The Ally McBeal videos are, regrettably, unavailable at the moment but will hopefully be up and running again shortly. News On April 26th, 2013, it was announced that Focus Features International had picked up the Untitled Marvin Gaye film and would present the title to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival next month. (Hollywood Reporter) The first photo of Martin in the upcoming Marvin Gaye biopic was posted on Twitter by @AndreasWiseman. Don't forget to watch Jesse L. Martin's second appearance on NBC's SMASH tomorrow (March 19th). Check your local listings for the time and channel.
It was announced last week that Martin's Law & Order co-star, S. Epatha Merkerson, will join the Marvin Gaye biopic, portraying Gaye's mother. Meanwhile, Janis Gaye, Marvin Gaye's ex-wife, is urging Martin to walk away from the project.
TVline.com has confirmed that Martin will be joining the pilot for NBC's The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives. He will be one of the leads, in the role of Greg Cooke, a former hedge fund manager whose dire financial situation forces him into partnering with an unsavory business associate. Source |