Tom Hanks goes time-traveling, tripping repeatedly from more than 50 years in the future back to 1939, in “This World of Tomorrow,” a new play at the Shed adapted by its star and James Glossman from ...
It's not surprising that a famous actor, best known for his many screen performances, would write a play that's really a screenplay. What is surprising is how much that play resembles a movie … from ...
NEW YORK — A good chunk of the audience at The Shed clearly didn’t recognize Tom Hanks when he first walked out on stage in “This World of Tomorrow,” even though Tom Hanks was who people had come to ...
The play’s futuristic framework notwithstanding, and despite the distinct “Groundhog Day” element to its conceit, connoisseurs of Nora Ephron’s movie “You’ve Got Mail” will detect several echoes of ...
Not even America’s Dad can save this show! Sources tell Straight Shuter that Tom Hanks’ long-awaited stage project This World of Tomorrow is struggling to sell seats — despite sky-high buzz and costar ...
In “This World of Tomorrow,” a nostalgic time-travel romance by Tom Hanks and James Glossman, now at the Shed, the Oscar-winning actor (and novice playwright) plays Bert Allenberry, a tech titan ...
For a playwright who specializes in adapting extant texts for the stage, there's no higher praise than when a living author calls to say, "Nice work." And when the bearer of compliments happens to be ...
It’s not surprising that a famous actor, best known for his many screen performances, would write a play that’s really a screenplay. What is surprising is how much that play resembles a movie … from ...