Jane Fonda News

Sirius XM Radio announced today that Academy Award-winning actress, activist, writer and fitness icon Jane Fonda will be the featured guest on an upcoming installment of SiriusXM's 'Town Hall' series, intimate gatherings with iconic entertainers and figures sitting down with a studio audience of SiriusXM listeners.

Observed for the first time this year, Giving Tuesday is a charitable alternative to the excess of the holiday season, where presents can change lives instead of simply changing hands.

Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality HoWard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning today, November 20.

The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of THE VANDAL by Hamish Linklater. The play will star Holly Hunter, Zach Grenier and Noah Robbins, with direction by Jim Simpson, The Flea's founder and Artistic Director. This limited Off-Broadway engagement begins previews January 18 with opening slated for January 31.

The Women's Media Center's 2012 Women's Media Awards will honor Martha Nelson, Editorial Director of Time Inc., with The Women's Media Center's first annual Going The Distance Award.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), NYC's foremost progressive dance education and performance center, and FitEngine, a solutions-centered service helping exercise enthusiasts navigate the complex world of fitness and wellness, partner to pilot a new fitness program, Fitness @ DNA, which began yesterday, November 5, 2012.

Matt Dillon received an Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award Nov. 2 at the 15th annual Savannah Film Festival, presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design. Dillon was honored for his work in films such as 'City of Ghosts,' 'Crash' and 'The Outsiders.'

Matt Dillon received an Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award Nov. 2 at the 15th annual Savannah Film Festival, presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design. Dillon was honored for his work in films such as 'City of Ghosts,' 'Crash' and 'The Outsiders.'

And Toto too Theatre Company today announces their final production of the 2012 season, the World Premiere of Naked in Encino by Wendy Kout.

Diane Lane received the Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award Nov. 1 at the 15th annual Savannah Film Festival, presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Academy Award Nominated Actress Anne Hathaway will host The 2012 Women's Media Awards on November 13th at Guastavino's in New York City. The announcement was made by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, Co-Founders of the Women's Media Center.

Hollywood legend and Broadway vet Lily Tomlin appeared on CBS's THE TALK yesterday to dish on working with Reba McEntire on the upcoming new ABC series 'Malibu Country'. Check out the appearance below!

TV talk-show host and Oscar nominee Oprah Winfrey appeared as a special guest anchor on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA on ABC and revealed her plans to perform on a Broadway stage. "My dream is to do Broadway," asserted Winfrey. "That is going to happen."

Five aging friends decide to move in together in Stephane Robelin's crowd-pleasing comedy, starring Jane Fonda (in her first French-language film since Godard's TOUT VA BIEN), Geraldine Chaplin, and Claude Rich. Comfortably retired, they hire a handsome graduate student (Daniel Bruehl) as a live-in caretaker and rediscover the joys of 'communal' living--but when old secrets and long-simmering jealousies emerge, discord among the group begins to grow.

Deadline reports that Jane Fonda will star in an upcoming comedy currently in development at the ABC Network to be titled NOW WHAT?. The project was written on spec by Pushing Daisies' Abby Gewanter. Scott Ellis is set to direct and executive produce with Mike Tollin.

Former child star and teenage heartthrob actress/singer Renn Woods, best known for her roles as Fanta in the Emmy Award winning TV mini-series Roots, her unforgettable interpretation of "Aquarius" in Milos Forman's movie musical Hair, and as Dorothy in the first national tour of the Broadway musical hit The Wiz, has written a new stage musical, titled Sold: Renn Woods In Concert (A Play in Rhythm and Blues) adapted from her successful autobiographical one-woman show, A Diva Like Me. Musical selections from the first act of the new show will be presented for an invitation-only audience of theatre industry executives on Saturday, Oct. 20, 7 PM in PH1 Studio at Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor (and short stairway to Penthouse 1).

Resident professional theatre company Festival Stage of Winston-Salem will return to downtown's Hanesbrands Theatre for its third season in 2012-13, presenting the Southern comedy The Last Night of Ballyhoo; North Carolina's first production of the drama 33 Variations; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof. The final production of the current season, Hatchetman, takes place May 11-27.

Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality Howard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning November 20.

Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality Howard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning November 20.