David Carbonara

?Melissa Kent is a well-known name in the industry as a highly respected film editor and although she may not be known to the general public, her work certainly is. Kent's filmography includes The Age of Adaline, The Vow, The Virgin Suicides and the upcoming American Pastoral starring Ewan McGregor. Now lending her skills as a director to a short film that allows us to enjoy the very first date of Bernie and Rebecca, this entertaining film will have its U.K. premiere at the prestigious Edinburgh Film Festival.

Seminar starts out strong, ripping into the fabric of the business of teaching fiction writing with knife-edged one-liners and characters you love to despise; then, as the plot, the characterizations, and the theme take a hairpin turn, it emerges that, no, the teaching is not a scam after all, the students' fiction has possibilities, and the characters are not what we thought them. All Rebeck's hilarious savagery dissipates. Like Rebeck's writing and show-running for the first season of TV's Smash, it is a little too affectionate toward the business and the people in it to stay as scathing as Rebeck could and should keep it.

On November 18 at 8:00pm, The New York Pops orchestra, conducted by Music Director Steven Reineke, took audiences back to the Mad Men era, when Bossa Nova was new and dance music was smooth and hip. The performance featured guest artist Cheyenne Jackson, star of Broadway, 30 Rock, and Glee, in a cool, swinging program that included 'Feeling Good,' 'Luck Be a Lady,' and 'Sway' at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Aside from the treat of Jackson himself, the audience was also treated to surprise guest Jane Krawkoski and other guest stars - Michael Winthers and Paul Castree. After the concert, BroadwayWorld.com went backstage to capture some shots of the triumphant stars!

Variety is reporting that the 'Mad Men' musical revue that played the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles last month as a benefit for the L.A. chapter of the Recording Academy will continue in some form with future dates being planned, but it is in the very early stages of development explains the trade paper.