Odds & Ends: Viola Davis' Dream Broadway Role, Anna Kendrick & Stephen Colbert Geek Out Over Sondheim & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.

Viola Davis' Dream B'way Role
Two-time Tony winner Viola Davis is currently killing it on the small screen in How to Get Away With Murder, but that doesn't mean that she's given up on theater. "I'd do Nora in A Doll's House on Broadway," Davis told Vulture. "Are you kidding me? I would love to do that. It's a beautiful role. It's tremendous. Hedda Gabler. Anything that's tremendous and big and bold." We hope to see her back on the Great White Way soon!

Sydney Lucas Tapped for AMC Series
Sydney Lucas, who was Tony nominated for her Broadway debut in Fun Home, has been enlisted to star opposite Sam Neill in AMC’s The Son. According to TV Line, the 10-episode drama series is based on Philipp Meyer’s novel and will follow a family witnessing the birth of the Lone Star State. Lucas is set to play Neill’s stubborn tomboy granddaughter.

Brian D’Arcy James' Latest Film
Fresh off triumphantly standing on the Oscar stage, Something Rotten!’s Brian D’Arcy James, along with Tony and Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, four-time Tony nominee Victor Garber and more have been tapped for Danny Strong’s Rebel in the Rye. Deadline reports that the biopic will explore J.D. Salinger, played by Nicholas Hoult, before he pens The Catcher in the Rye. Tony nominee Hope Davis, Zoey Deutch and Laura Dern will also feature in the movie.

Kendrick & Colbert Geek Out Over Sondheim
Will Anna Kendrick just come and do a Broadway musical again already? The Into the Woods and Pitch Perfect screen star stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on March 10 and the result was all we could have wished it to be. The duo sang "They Say It's Wonderful" from Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, geeked out over Stephen Sondheim and talked her childhood Main Stem turn. Check it out below.


P.S. The annual Easter Bonnet Competition, produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is scheduled to celebrate its festive 30th edition on April 25 at the Minskoff Theatre. Participants will be announced later.