Anthony Ray

Artistic Director Yamin Choudury and the whole team at Hackney Empire have announced details of some of the shows and events now on sale for 2024, including comedy, music, spoken word, live podcasts, youth talent shows, charity galas, and youth focussed provision, as part of the Creative Futures programme.  

Whether it’s a musical, drama, horror, or comedy, BroadwayWorld is pulling back the curtain on some of the best movies about backstage stories!

I believe it’s original advertisement sums up the history of the musical quite well. “There’s Never Been a Musical Like Her'-- there has never been a musical like Carrie.

Michael B. Jordan (“Black Panther,” “Creed,” “Creed II”) and Oscar winners Jamie Foxx (“Ray,” “Baby Driver,” “Django: Unchained”) and Brie Larson (“Room,” “The Glass Castle,” “Captain Marvel”) star in “Just Mercy,” an inspiring drama that brings one of the most important stories of our time to the big screen. 

The nominees for the 50th NAACP Image Awards were exclusively announced today at the Television Critics Association's (TCA) TV One's joint press conference with Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP and Alfred Liggins, Chairman and CEO of TV One. The winners will be revealed during the Two-Hour LIVE TV special airing on TV One on Saturday, March 30, 2019.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and Hearst Magazines announced today that Oprah Winfrey's in-depth conversation with Michelle Obama about her new memoir Becoming will air as a primetime special “Oprah Winfrey Presents:  Becoming Michelle Obama” on Thursday, November 15 at 8:00 PT/ET on OWN, with an extended unedited version available on “Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations” podcast starting the same day, with part two available on November 19. In addition, the full interview will be streamed on Oprah's Facebook on Sunday, November 18 at 11:00 am ET/PT. The interview will also be featured in O, The Oprah Magazine on newsstands November 20, with behind-the-scenes content available on Oprahmag.com as well as globally across multiple Hearst Magazines' titles, including the December cover of ELLE.

Anthony Ray - better known as the Grammy(R) award winning rap artist Sir Mix-A-Lot - will not lie when he wows fans with his home renovation skills in DIY Network's Sir Mix-A-Lot's House Remix. Premiering Today, June 30, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, the one-hour special will feature Sir Mix-A-Lot as he buys, transforms and flips a rundown home in his beloved Seattle hometown.

Anthony Ray - better known as the Grammy(R) award winning rap artist Sir Mix-A-Lot - will not lie when he wows fans with his home renovation skills in DIY Network's Sir Mix-A-Lot's House Remix. Premiering Saturday, June 30, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, the one-hour special will feature Sir Mix-A-Lot as he buys, transforms and flips a rundown home in his beloved Seattle hometown.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and O, The Oprah Magazine announced today the newest Oprah's Book Club selection, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, a revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

After 10 years in the UK and two West End seasons, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical masterpiece, Evita, will visit Birmingham Hippodrome as part of a major new International and UK tour from Tues 20 - Sat 24 Mar.

After 10 years in the UK and two West End seasons, Evita is captivating audiences across the world as it continues on an International and UK tour in 2018. Having already visited Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates, the story of an ordinary woman's meteoric rise to power at a time of extraordinary political unrest will run at the King's Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday 15 May - Saturday 19 May 2018.

After 10 years in the UK and two West End seasons, Evita is captivating audiences across the world as it continues on an International and UK tour in 2018. Having already visited Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates, the story of an ordinary woman's meteoric rise to power at a time of extraordinary political unrest is about to embark on a tour of the UK and Italy, opening at Torquay Princess Theatre on the 13 March.

Christopher Rice (Broadway's The Book of Mormon) directs this larger than life music video featuring songs from the hit Disney Channel Original Movie. High School Musical 2 debuted on television 10 years ago and it's time to relive your favorite moments from the film with this brand new tribute video. Featuring Direction by Rice, Broadway performers from Newsies, A Bronx Tale, Mean Girls, Amelie, Aladdin, and more come together to rock out Kenny Ortega's iconic steps from the film along with brand new choreography by Christopher Rice and Audra Bryant! You'll have a FABULOUS time! Check it out!

Much like music, “love has a way of outliving everything,” and multi-platinum selling BBR Music Group/ Red Bow Records artist JOE NICHOLS has a lifelong way of delivering that traditional country sound, as displayed on his new album NEVER GETS OLD, out today.

DIY Network cannot lie - the network has produced a house flipping pilot starring Anthony Ray, better known by his stage name, Sir Mix-A-Lot.

Bay City Players announces the cast for the musical MY FAIR LADY, Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and Music by Frederick Loewe. "Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture "PYGMALION."

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will launch the region-wide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love with HIPPIE MODERNISM: THE STRUGGLE FOR UTOPIA. This major exhibition examines the intersection of the radical art, architecture, and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s and the resonance of these innovations today. A traveling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center and assembled with the assistance of BAMPFA, Hippie Modernism will be on view in Berkeley from February 8 through May 21, 2017. The exhibition will coincide with the first anniversary of BAMPFA's new Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed building in downtown Berkeley.

At the top of her show, SEE JANE SING!, Jane Lynch jokes that she always wanted to be the kind of TV celebrity that held an audience hostage for an hour as she dabbled in the art of cabaret. Luckily for us, deft comedienne Lynch surprises the audience by being a fantastic singer, leaving the audience begging her for more encores.

RAW DEATH, written and directed by Vassilea Terzaki, sponsored by Fractured Atlas, will play The Kraine Theatre, 85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003. Performances run tonight, June 26 at 7.30, Friday, June 27 at 7.30 and Saturday, June 28 at 7.30 p.m.

RAW DEATH, written and directed by Vassilea Terzaki, sponsored by Fractured Atlas, will play The Kraine Theatre, 85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003. Performances run Thursday, June 26 at 7.30, Friday, June 27 at 7.30 and Saturday, June 28 at 7.30 p.m.