Andrea Navedo to Star in Joy Behar’s Off-Broadway Play “My First Ex-Husband”

Andrea Navedo is preparing for an Off-Broadway run…

The 55-year-old Puerto Rican actress and former Jane the Virgin star will take part in The View co-host Joy Behar‘s upcoming Off Broadway comedic play My First Ex-Husband.

Andrea NavedoThe play, directed by Randal Myler at the newly renovated MMAC Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, will feature a rotating line-up of performers, with the cast of four changing each month.

A Behar-led cast of Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh and Adrienne C. Moore will be first up, running from January 29 to February 23.

From February 26 to March 23, the second cast will feature comedienne Judy Gold, Emmy-winner Susan Lucci, Cathy Moriarty and Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins.

From March 26 to April 20, the third cast will be Veanne Cox; Gina Gershon, who will only be performing April 2-20; Emmy-nominee Jackie Hoffman and Navedo.

The official synopsis: “If half of all marriages end in divorce, then in My First Ex-Husband, women live to laugh about it….In the world of the play, you’ll meet women married to the mob, to their jobs, to their faith, to money and ultimately to the wrong man. Their stories are your stories…only funnier.”

The show is produced by Rose Caiola and Cyrena Esposito with Associate Producers Mark Rubinsky and Tony Castrigno.

 

HBO Releases First Full Trailer for Oscar Isaac’s Limited Series “Scenes from a Marriage”

Here’s a look at Oscar Isaac’s Marriage

HBO has released the first full trailer for the 42-year-old Guatemalan & Cuban actor’s HBO limited series Scenes from a Marriage.

Oscar Isaac x Jessica Chastain, Scenes from a Marriage

The clip opens with Isaac’s co-star Jessica Chastain climbing into bed, with body language telling a story. Before she can speak, he asks, “What is it?”

The series, which will premiere on Sunday, September 12, is adapted from Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 Swedish miniseries. It re-examines its iconic depiction of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple.

Chastain plays Mira, a confident, ambitious tech executive left unfulfilled by her marriage. Isaac is Jonathan, a cerebral and accommodating philosophy professor desperate to keep their relationship intact.

The five-part Scenes from a Marriage addresses the complexity of Jonathan and Mira as individuals who ultimately know their marriage isn’t being ripped apart by any one event or flaw.

Viewers will eavesdrop on private conversations between two people torn between feelings of hate and love.

“You just believe that, as a couple, nothing can hurt you,” we hear Mira say. “And then you gradually start to realize that actually, anything can hurt you.”

Sunita Mani, Nicole Beharie, Corey Stoll and Tovah Feldshuh co-star.

The limited series from Media Res and Endeavor Content reunites Chastain and Isaac, who were classmates at Julliard, are longtime friends and starred together in 2014’s A Most Violent Year.

Both also executive produce, along with Hagai Levi and Michael Ellenberg via Media Res, Lars Blomgren, Daniel Bergman, Blair Breard and Amy Herzog.