March 2017: Entertainment

Film.

–The Shack follows a father’s spiritual journey after he suffers a family tragedy – March 3

–Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in Logan – March 3

–The Last Word starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried is a comedy about an unlikely life-changing friendship – March 3

–Kong: Skull Island, starring Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson and John Goodman, is about exactly what you think it’s about – March 10

–Song to Song is Terence Malik’s latest, about romance in the Austin, TX songwriting industry – March 17 (it appropriately debuts at SXSW)

–Beauty and the Beast, a new live-action version of the beloved classic starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens – March 17

–An international space crew discovers life beyond Earth that proves to be far more intelligent than anticipated in Life, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal – March 24

Television.

–Feud, a new series on FX, tells the story of the backstage bickering between Hollywood divas Joan Crawford and Bette Davis during the production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962); starring Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange – March 5

–Netflix releases the second season of Love – March 10

–Iron Fist, Netflix’s fourth Marvel series, stars Finn Jones as the eponymous Buddhist monk/kung-fu expert (yep, you heard that right) – March 17

–Grace and Frankie –another Netflix fan favorite- returns for its 3^rd season – March 24

Theater.

–Ugly Lies the Bone makes its European premier at the Lyttleton Theatre, London – March 1

–Significant Other, a new American play at the Booth Theater written by Joshua Harmon and directed by Trip Cullman, follows four 20-something friends as they navigate love, friendship and New York – March 2

–The revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, produced by Scott Rudin and starring Sally Field and Joe Mantello, opens at the Belasco Theatre – March 9

–Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London – March 9

–Come From Away, the new musical about the thousands of passengers diverted to Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, opens at the Schoenfeld – March 12

–Griff Rhys Jones returns to the West End in a new adaption of Moliere’s classic comedy The Miser at the Garrick Theater, London– March 13

–The revival of Arthur Miller’s The Price opens at the American Airlines Theater, with Mark Ruffalo starring as a son returning to his childhood home to sell his parents’ estate; Jessica Hecht, Tony Shalhoub and Danny De Vito round out the cast – March 16

–An American in Paris opens at the Dominion Theatre, London – March 21

–How to Transcend a Happy Marriageby Sarah Ruhl, opening at Lincoln Center Theater and starring Marisa Tomei and Lena Hall, explores the impact of a New Year’s Eve party in the wilds of New Jersey involving two married couples, a polyamorous young woman and her two boyfriends – March 20

–Miss Saigon opens at the Broadway Theater, New York – March 23

–Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, about blue collar workers in Pennsylvania at the turn of the millennium, moves from the Public Theater to Broadway’s Studio 54 Theater – March 26

Popular Music.

–Luke Bryan’s Kill the Light Tour stops at Madison Square Garden – March 1

–Ed Sheeren releases his third album, ÷ – March 3

–English band Temples releases its sophomore album, Volcano – March 3

–The critically-acclaimed trio The XX bring their emotive indie-folk to the 02 Academy in Brixton to promote their new album I See You – March 8-15

–Oakland, CA native Jay Som’s debut album Everybody Works drops March 10

–British folk singer Laura Marling releases her sixth album Semper Femina – March 10

–Bruno Mars opens his 24K Magic world tour at the Monte Carlo, Las Vegas – March 11

–Climate Change, Pitbull’s tenth album, drops March 17

–The latest works from Goldfrapp, Jamiroquai, Nelly Furtado, Tinie Tempah and Bob Dylan (his 38^thalbum!) all release on March 31

Literature.

–“One Book, One New York,” the city government’s initiative to get all citizens to read the same title at the same time, reveals the final pick the first week of March; given 5 choices selected by a blue-ribbon panel, a city-wide vote will determine the finalist.

–Ill Will is the first thriller from literary novelist Dan Chaon – March 7

–Exit West is the latest from one of our favorite novelists, Mohsin Hamid – March 7

–South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion is comprised of excerpts from the writer’s notebooks – March 7

–Will Eisner’s A Contract With God mirrors a real-life tragedy endured by the author and is set at the height of the Great Depression – March 7

–Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by Helen Cooper weaves through the highs and lows of Sirleaf’s journey from ordinary mother to first female elected head of state in Africa’s history – March 7

–The London Book Fair’s buzzed-about offerings from America include short fiction by Tom Hanks and Jeffrey Eugenides; new novels by Dean Koontz and Jennifer Egan; and nonfiction by Garry Kasaparov and Masha Gessen – March 14-16

–The Idiot is the first novel from New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman – set at Harvard in the mid-‘90s, it tells a picaresque tale of a young woman’s freshman year – March 14

–Hari Kunzru’s novel White Tears is a mash-up of a ghost story, a mystery and a meditation on race set in the world of blues music – March 14

–Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell is the story of a woman returning to her childhood home to learn why her brother killed himself – March 14

–World Poetry Day is March 21

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