David Alpert News

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced this morning the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy® Award nominations, recognizing AMC with 26 nominations

Celebrate summer with AMC's "Dead, White and Blue" Weekend from Today, July 4 through Sunday, July 6.

Below, watch two behind-the-scenes videos with the cast and crew of AMC's THE WALKING DEAD on the set of Season 5! In the first, Andrew Lincoln and company welcome you back to the set, and in the second, the team recounts their favorite walker kills, deadly props, and exhausting moments in the Georgia heat while filming the series. Click below!

THE WONDERFUL MR. & MRS. O'LEARY, written by Matte O'Brien and directed by David Alpert, will be presented as part of TACT's newTACTics series tonight, June 25 and Thursday, June 26 at 7 p.m. The production will feature Aaron Ramey, Alice Ripley, Sebastian Thomas, and Cassidy VanVonno.

Celebrate summer with AMC's “Dead, White and Blue” Weekend from Friday, July 4 through Sunday, July 6.

THE WONDERFUL MR. & MRS. O'LEARY, written by Matte O'Brien and directed by David Alpert, will be presented as part of TACT's newTACTics series on Wednesday, June 25 and Thursday, June 26 at 7 p.m. The production will feature Aaron Ramey, Alice Ripley, Sebastian Thomas, and Cassidy VanVonno.

Barnyard Follies is a new musical intended for young performers, written by Sam Carner of the Carner & Gregor team (Unlock'd, Island Song). Directing the reading is David Alpert (Associate Director of If/Then, The Best Man, A Trip to Bountiful) and musical direction is provided by Jason Wetzel (Assistant Conductor for After Midnight and numerous touring credits including Young Frankenstein, The Drowsy Chaperone). The cast features 24 young performers ranging in age from seven to nineteen and includes Sebastian Hedges Thomas, currently on Broadway as Young Charlie in Kinky Boots. The reading will take place at 6pm on May 28th at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons.

IDW Entertainment and Entertainment One Television (eOne Television) announced today that V-Wars will be the first series project developed under the recently announced first-look co-production agreement.

Building on the momentum of Syfy's growing slate of cutting edge, provocative original programming, Syfy today announced it was developing adaptations of the graphic novels Clone, from Robert Kirkman and David Alpert (The Walking Dead) and Letter 44, from Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3), as well as the popular novels The Magicians, based on the book series by Lev Grossman.

Syfy today announced that it will develop as longform programming Pax Romana, Jonathan Hickman's graphic novel about a time traveling clash of ages and arms, and Ronin, based on Frank Miller's (300) comic book series, about an avenging samurai.

On May 5th, Katie Thompson (Giant, 'So You Think You Can Dance'), Hannah Elless (Godspell, Somewhere in Time, The Other Josh Cohen), Cedric Neal (After Midnight, Porgy and Bess), Blake Whyte (Mamma Mia!, Wicked), Patrick Newton (Blue Man Group), and Isaac Woofter (War Horse) will star in the premiere New York presentation of The Moon and the Sea, a new musical by Creighton Irons.

Recently launched IDW Entertainment, along with George Lopez and his Travieso Production Company, announced today they are developing Wormwood as an animated television series based on the acclaimed IDW comics, created by artist Ben Templesmith.

Lionsgate has announced that production is set to begin today in New Orleans on the studio's action comedy film AMERICAN ULTRA.

Below, check out a sneak peek of the next episode of AMC's The Walking Dead titled 'The Grove.' The all new episode airs Sun., March 16th at 9/8c on AMC.

A hilarious new photo showcasing the cast of the highly anticipated new Broadway musical IF/THEN, starring Tony Award-winning stage and screen star Idina Menzel is now available to view via a social media image shared by the associate director earlier this week.

Skybound Entertainment, founded by 'The Walking Dead's' Robert Kirkman, has announced it is producing a sci-fi movie titled Air.

Now in its sixth year, LIVING FOR TODAY is an annual concert featuring Broadway's brightest stars to benefit Gilana's Fund. The latest concert, held on Sunday, January 19 at Joe's Pub, featured the talents of La Chanze, Alice Ripley, Eric Anderson, Tituss Burgess, Julia Murney and more! BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the event below!

This week at Joe's Pub at the Public -- January 14 through January 19, 2014 -- will feature Morley, Jackie Hoffman, William Blake, The Real Americans, The Meeting, I Beg Your Parton, Elizaveta, Caroline Rose and Kaylyn Marie, Zion80, Come On Get Mad and Living For Today. Details below!

AMC has released four new TV spots giving viewers a sneak peek at the storylines for the second half of the series Season 2.

Below, check out poster art for the second half of AMC's THE WALKING DEAD, Season 4. The artwork features Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) along with the tagline, Don't Look Back.