Viola Davis Outshines a Stodgy Drama

Edit The Wrap 18 Apr 2016
See Video ... Lapine unwisely uses this dead little girl as a recurring symbol, opening “Custody” with ghostly images of her staring at the camera in a woebegone way, and he even has the ghost of this dead girl bluntly turn up when the prosecutor in the Diaz case, played by Raúl Esparza, is feeling guilty over his role in returning her to an unsafe home ... See Video. Viola Davis at SAG Awards. 'Diversity Is Not a Trending Topic'....

As the curtain falls on life in an aisle seat, a theater critic remembers

Edit The Miami Herald 18 Dec 2015
I have spent more than half my life in aisle seats, watching and analyzing the magic that theater artists work so hard to create ... On Friday, as of the end of the day, my long run as the Herald’s theater critic has come to an end, thanks to a bittersweet word. retirement ... Raúl Esparza, on his way to Broadway and a Tony nomination, playing Bobby in the revival of Company at Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park in 2006 ... Anna in the Tropics ... ....

Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'

Edit The Los Angeles Times 07 Oct 2015
Raúl Esparza and Mariska Hargitay in "Law & Order. Special Victims Unit" on NBC. Michael Parmelee / NBC. Child services fails on NBC's "Law & Order. Special Victims Unit," with Raúl Esparza and Mariska Hargitay. (Michael Parmelee / NBC). Ed StocklyContact Reporter. CNBC's new series "Jay Leno's Garage" is all about cars. Customized TV Listings are available here. www.latimes.com/tvtimes ... SERIES ... CNBC ... FX....

Hannibal: Bryan Fuller talks season 4, sexual fluidity, and how Will became Clarice Starling

Edit Digital Spy 06 Sep 2015
It's now been a week since Hannibal's third and possibly final season came to its breathtaking, blood-soaked and unexpectedly romantic ending, and we're no closer to an answer on the show's uncertain future ... I love the idea of Raúl Esparza, underneath this trauma, still being Raúl Esparza. Raúl has such facility with language, and the cadence of his speech is so much fun that I would have bent over backwards to keep him alive ... ....

Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater headline a feel-good ‘Cymbeline’

Edit New York Post 11 Aug 2015
As in so many Shakes plays, a key part of the plot involves a man (Linklater’s Posthumus) who questions the fidelity of his wife (Rabe’s Imogen) based on flimsy evidence supplied by a double–crossing friend (Raúl Esparza’s Iachimo) ... Burton’s queen is in Elizabethan garb, but Esparza — who’s the show’s standout — wears a sleek ’60s-style suit ......

'Cymbeline' review: Enchanting Shakespeare in Central Park

Edit Newsday 11 Aug 2015
+ -. Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe in The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Photo Credit. Carol Rosegg. advertisement . advertise on newsday. REVIEW ... The language is uneven ... But Raúl Esparza is a sleazoid joy ride as Iachimo, the Italian scoundrel who, in this vision, is also a kind of Sinatra smoothie in Rome, which is now a casino town ... ....

13 recurring actors from Bryan Fuller's 'Fullerverse'

Edit Entertainment Weekly 04 Jun 2015
By the time they have their third or fourth show on the air, most successful television showrunners have a favorite crop of actors they continually draw from. Joss Whedon and Shonda Rhimes often revisit familiar faces when casting their projects, as does Bryan Fuller ... Related ... Surrender to destiny ... Lee Pace ... Raúl Esparza ... Esparza must long for the days when he was simply a traveling antidepressant salesman with a crush on Olive Snook ... ....

Major decisions, flashbacks and reveals take on TV this week

Edit New York Post 17 May 2015
Mad Men”. Sunday, 10 p.m., AMC. Photo. AMC. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) has shed everything except his fake name and acquired life after he stopped being Dick Whitman and launched a brilliant career in advertising ... Co-starring Vincent Kartheiser. “The Flash” ... Photo. CW ... Dr ... team ... Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and ADA Barba (Raúl Esparza) take Johnny D (Charles Halford) to trial for sex trafficking, rape, assault and kidnapping ... ....

Mads Mikkelsen: 'Hannibal Lecter is not a psychopath in the classic sense'

Edit Digital Spy 15 Sep 2014
Now that this year's Emmy buzz has been and gone, we can all go back to realising just how invalid the entire awards ceremony is when it fails to honour a show as demonstrably spectacular as NBC's Hannibal ... © NBC Universal. Hannibal season 3 ... Yeah, if he can persuade Dr Chilton to be part of it, I'm fine with it - he can bring his little cane! And Raúl Esparza is a musical star, so I'll just need to background dance on that one ... ....

Hannibal: what we learned about season three at Comic-Con

Edit The Guardian 25 Jul 2014
Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter ... While Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy and Laurence Fishburne were not in attendance (Mikkelsen and Dancy sent video messages), showrunner Bryan Fuller was joined by a panel including Caroline Dhavernas, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams and Raúl Esparza, and wasn't coy in dropping some fairly major hints about where the show is going ... Fuller, introducing Esparza (who plays Dr Chilton), said ... Esparza is excited ... ....

Hannibal: Comic-Con 2014 panel live blog

Edit Digital Spy 25 Jul 2014
This page will update automatically. On . Off. It's Pannibal time, Fannibals! ... 01.00Fuller confirms that season three will introduce a lot more characters from the noels that hadn't been in the series yet ... 00.55"I can't believe how much people fell in love with Chilton this season," says Esparza ... 00.55Chilton himself, Raúl Esparza is here, confirming the long-boiling rumours that he is very much not dead ... OMG! ... Pretzel dog, anyone? ... ....

Hannibal season 3: Everything we learned at Comic-Con

Edit Digital Spy 25 Jul 2014
One of the highlights of Comic-Con's opening day this year was the Hannibal "Pannibal", which saw showrunner Bryan Fuller take to the Ballroom 20 stage alongside several members of the show's cast and crew ... © NBC Universal ... No word on what that means for Anderson's contract. 2) Raúl Esparza made a surprise appearance at the panel, confirming everybody's suspicion that it takes more than getting shot in the face to stop Chilton ... ....

Hannibal's Comic-Con 2014 panel: As it happened

Edit Digital Spy 25 Jul 2014
01.11What are everybody's favourite grisly moments in the show's history? Esparza's is the blood angels from season one, because "that was the first time I went 'They're fuckin' doing this on network television?' ... 01.07"Bryan, am I coming back?" Esparza asks ... 00.55Chilton himself, Raúl Esparza is here, confirming the long-boiling rumours that he is very much not dead....
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