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Posted: 2/28/07 at 12:41am
Ever-busy playwright Adam Rapp, who is the director of the Flea Theater's current production of Los Angeles, will see two of his plays make the stage-to-screen jump.
Rapp told Playbill.com that Red Light Winter, which played an Obie-winning run at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006, will be produced for the screen by Scott Rudin. Rudin and Paramount Pictures produced the show's Off-Broadway run with Robyn Goodman, Roger Berlind and Stuart Thompson. Rapp, who is still working on the screenplay, said he would like to use the original stage cast — Gary Wilmes, Christopher Denham and Lisa Joyce — but no official casting decisions have been made. Rapp will direct the film.
Red Light Winter, according to press notes for the Off-Broadway run, "follows two men and a woman in very foreign territory. College friends Davis and Matt spend a wild, unforgettable evening in Amsterdam’s Red Light District with a beautiful young prostitute, Christina. They find that their lives have changed forever when their bizarre love triangle plays out in unexpected ways a year later in the East Village." The play was a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Another of Rapp's plays, Blackbird, will make its screen debut March 12 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX. Paul Sparks, who starred in the play's original run at the Edge Theatre Company, heads the cast of the film, which was directed by Rapp. The film's cast also includes Gillian Jacobs, Michael Shannon, Danny Hoch, Annie Parisse, Gary Wilmes, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Dallas Roberts and Rosemarie Dewitt.
Adam Rapp's "Red Light Winter" to Hit Silver Screen; "Blackbird," Too
Rapp told Playbill.com that Red Light Winter, which played an Obie-winning run at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006, will be produced for the screen by Scott Rudin. Rudin and Paramount Pictures produced the show's Off-Broadway run with Robyn Goodman, Roger Berlind and Stuart Thompson. Rapp, who is still working on the screenplay, said he would like to use the original stage cast — Gary Wilmes, Christopher Denham and Lisa Joyce — but no official casting decisions have been made. Rapp will direct the film.
Red Light Winter, according to press notes for the Off-Broadway run, "follows two men and a woman in very foreign territory. College friends Davis and Matt spend a wild, unforgettable evening in Amsterdam’s Red Light District with a beautiful young prostitute, Christina. They find that their lives have changed forever when their bizarre love triangle plays out in unexpected ways a year later in the East Village." The play was a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Another of Rapp's plays, Blackbird, will make its screen debut March 12 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX. Paul Sparks, who starred in the play's original run at the Edge Theatre Company, heads the cast of the film, which was directed by Rapp. The film's cast also includes Gillian Jacobs, Michael Shannon, Danny Hoch, Annie Parisse, Gary Wilmes, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Dallas Roberts and Rosemarie Dewitt.
Adam Rapp's "Red Light Winter" to Hit Silver Screen; "Blackbird," Too
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
