Abigail Breslin shows off her straight straight hair in this new shot from the February 2010 issue of Nylon mag.
The 13-year-old actress makes her Broadway debut in The Miracle Worker, an updated version of the William Gibson play. Abigail plays Helen Keller, the deaf and blind activist and author who learned to communicate with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan (Alison Pill).
Abigail shared, “Helen Keller is one of my heroes. When I got a call asking if I would play her, I said, ‘Heck, yes!’”
Even though she’s working on Broadway, she’s still a teen girl at heart. Which means, she’s obsessed with Twilight. “I’m a crazy, obsessed fan. I went to see the first movie on opening day. But I felt left out because everyone in the audience had Twilight t-shirts and I didn’t. So I have Twilight T-shirts now. And have you seen those Twilight water bottles? I have one of those,” she said.
Check out Abigail’s full interview in the new issue of Nylon mag — out on stands NOW.
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Full casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of William Gibson’s Tony Award-winning play The Miracle Worker, which is set to begin performances on February 12 at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater. The show, which will open on March 3, will be directed by Kate Whoriskey.

The work, which debuted on Broadway in 1959, tells the real-life story of Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, and Annie Sullivan, the teacher who taught Keller to communicate with the world.

In addition to Abigail Breslin, who will play Helen, and Alison Pill, who will play Annie, the cast will include Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Modine, Elizabeth Franz, Tobias Segal, Daniel Oreskes, Michael Cummings, Simone Joy Jones, Yvette Ganier, and Lance Chantiles-Wentz.

source: theatermania.com

Here’s an article from villagevoice.com:

Abigail Breslin made a spectacular child star at age 10 in the Oscar winning Little Miss Sunshine, and she’s now onto a full-fledged career as an adolescent, making even more movies than La Streep and heading to Broadway in a Miracle Worker revival that could turn her into the new Patty Duke.

Macaulay Culkin was also a fine young star at 10 when he helped make Home Alone a monster hit, though his Edvard Munchian open-mouth pose unfortunately made him fall prey to Michael Jackson’s friendship advances. (Kidding. Mac has nothing bad to say about Jackson. Or nothing much to say about it at all.)

But my top child movie star of all time has to be the obvious one–Shirley Temple, with her dimpled face and curly top twinkling so winningly in a succession of films that made her a veritable Duse of cuteness.

Child stars don’t get any better than that, though they often grow up to be Republicans.

Your favorite child star, boo-boo-pee-do?

Broadway bosses have appeased campaigners for disabled actors by casting a visually impaired girl as ABIGAIL BRESLIN’s understudy in THE MIRACLE WORKER, after the star’s appointment as a deaf and blind girl was met with criticism.
The Oscar nominee, 13, will make her Broadway debut next year (10) as Helen Keller in the revival of William Gibson’s play, about a youngster who is taught how to communicate by her instructor.
Campaigners for impaired actors at the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts hit out at Breslin’s casting, insisting a disabled actress should have been considered for the starring role.
The Miracle Worker’s producer, David Richenthal, took note of the advocacy group’s comments and invited the Alliance’s executive director, Sharon Jensen, to hold auditions for a suitable understudy.
Ten-year-old Kyra Ynez Siegel, who suffered an injury to her right eye at the age of nine which left her with only partial sight, will now stand in for Breslin if the star is forced to miss a performance – but the producer insists she won the role based on her talents alone.
Richenthal tells the New York Times, “Kyra gave the best audition, showing real acting talent and physical skill and physical stamina. We were aware she had significant vision loss, but I can’t say that influenced us one way or another. I’m pleased we found a brilliant young actress as a result of this outreach.”
The Miracle Worker is set to open on 3 March (10), marking the 50th anniversary of the show’s Broadway debut.

source: contact music

Genre Film festival
Location New Farm Park, New Farm
Date December4 and 5
Tickets Free
More information www.q150.qld.gov.au

Abigail Breslin stars in Nim’s Island, one of the films featured in the festival program.

New Farm Park is home of outdoor cinema this summer with the Q150 Film Festival kicking off the season this weekend.

Before Moonlight Cinema launches it’s hefty program, film lovers will have the chance to catch eight films – both feature and short length – in the park from Friday as part of Queensland’s big birthday celebrations.

Each of the films to be screened have a special Queensland connection and there’s something to appeal to everyone – from the family classic, animated penguin adventure, Happy Feet to some of the state’s earliest films complete with insightful narration.

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One of the most gleefully entertaining films of the year has surely been the horror-comedy Zombieland, a movie that not only proved to be something of a hit, but one that also gave Woody Harrelson his best movie role in years.There had been some doubt about a sequel to the film, with it, at one point, getting pulled into a debate about movie piracy. But it seems that somewhere along the lines, common sense has prevailed. As such, Moviehole has discovered that, not only is Sony very keen to move forward with a sequel, but that the film’s cast – Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone – are also primed and ready to return. Original director Ruben Fleischer is up for it, too.

The film, the site reports, is a couple of years off, and Fleischer also plans to make it in 3D. To be honest, he could make it standing in a pot of yoghurt for all we care, as long we get a Zombieland 2 out of it at the end.

He will be turning his attention to a different project before he does the Zombieland sequel, however. So our guess is we’re looking at somewhere around 2012 before we see it.

source: denofgeek.com

Abigail attended a new event “The Cinema Society & D&G Host A Screening Of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”" this month:

My Sister’s Keeper (2009, Sony, PG-13, $29) — Abigail Breslin stars as a young girl who sues her parents (Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric) for the rights to her own body after refusing to donate a kidney to her leukemia-stricken sister (Sofia Vassilieva). The solid performances aren’t enough to lift this film from the depths of melodrama. Scenes with Joan Cusack as a grieving judge, Alec Baldwin as a showboating attorney and Thomas Dekker as a rebel chemo patient are spiked with humor and pathos, but the rest of the film lacks true insight. Extras: 15 minutes of deleted scenes. Read more… »