Brookie McIlvaine

Dec 4, 2024 | netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine

5 min readAdapting The Piano Lesson, one of the most often produced plays of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, was equally intimidating and thrilling for co-writers Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington. “It’s sacred text for sure,” says Washington, who took on the challenge for his directorial debut.

Nov 4, 2024 | netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine

Martha Stewart, business maven and cultural legend, looks back in R.J. Cutler's powerful documentary. 6 min readMartha Stewart claims an incomparably protean decades-long career, paving a historic path across an unprecedented range of industries. For the first time, she looks back on her storied ups and downs in MARTHA, a documentary from the Emmy-winning director R.J. Cutler (Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, The September Issue).

Oct 18, 2024 | netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine

The James Beard-nominated pasta aficionado and Chef’s Table: Noodles star sets the table for his dream gathering. 5 min readThroughout Evan Funke’s busy career, one thing has remained consistent: a love of pasta.

Aug 21, 2024 | netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine

Malcolm Washington makes his directorial debut with an adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. For his feature directorial debut, Malcolm Washington set his sights on adapting August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, the fourth installment of the playwright’s American Century Cycle, Wilson’s magnum opus about the African American experience through the twentieth century.

Jul 31, 2024 | netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine

A look back on six seasons of Peter Morgan’s indelible series, and how it has forever changed TV. As Netflix’s first original show produced and filmed in the U.K., The Crown has been in the habit of breaking records and setting precedent for prestige television since the day it debuted in November of 2016. Six seasons, 60 episodes, and 341 award nominations (and counting) later, the dynastic series has earned millions of fans and proved what TV craftsmanship can be, at its best.