The first half of Elvis Evolution is slick and informative, focusing on Elvis's childhood best friend, Sam Bell, offering a different perspective on The King.
The traditional nonprofit theater model isn't sustainable anymore, and our choice in this moment was really innovation over inertia, says Raphael Picciarelli, managing director of strategy and transformation at Williamstown.
"This is a show that makes demands of its audience, perhaps sometimes unreasonable ones," Time Out New York's Adam Feldman wrote in his five-star review. "But as Charley sings during a loving argument with his friends: 'What's the point of demands you can meet?'"
"If we go into a creative project with so many preconceptions, we can be blocked as artists. The exploration and the love of exploration is why I continue to do what I do."
The play imagines a future scenario in which Prince George comes out as gay, creating a narrative that intertwines with themes of power, privilege, and colonization.
Jonathan Bailey's journey in acting progressed from his early debut in A Christmas Carol at age seven to achieving fame as Anthony Bridgerton in Bridgerton, a project that transformed his career.