John Ford News

Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees, announced today the Board's decision to honor Jane Fonda with the 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award

FAKE FLOWERS DON'T DIE, winner of this year's Macy's New Play Prize For Young Audiences, opens the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2013-14 Off the Hill season with performances at more than a dozen Tristate community centers from tonight, Sept. 28 through Nov. 2. The script, by nationally acclaimed playwright John Yearley, is the 12th recipient of the Macy's New Play Prize, for which national playwrights are chosen by The Playhouse to create new work specifically for younger audiences.

This fall, Music Box Theatre's monthly Second Saturday Silent Cinema series screens a trio of excellent matinees. John Ford's remarkable first picture Straight Shooting - a Western, naturally - bows today, September 14, followed by Buster Keaton's must-see masterpiece The General on October 12 and the stop-motion sci-fi classic The Lost World on November 9. Named by Chicago magazine as the Best New Film Series of 2011 and hailed by the Chicago Reader's J.R. Jones as one of the best movie matinee series in the city, the Silent Cinema Series is presented the second Saturday of each month at noon. All films are shown authentically in 35mm at proper silent film speed and aspect ratio with live accompaniment by Dennis Scott at the Music Box theatre organ.

Warner Archive Collection announces new releases including NICHOLS: THE COMPLETE SERIES (1971-72)

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes the return of The Directors Company with the New York premiere of JERICHO, written by Jack Canfora and directed by Evan Bergman. JERICHO begins performances on Friday, October 4 for a limited engagement through Sunday, November 3. Press opening is Thursday, October 10 at 7:15 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:15 PM; Friday at 8:15 PM; Saturday at 2:15 PM & 8:15 PM; and Sunday at 3:15 PM. Please note, there are no performances on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $35 ($24.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) will present their Tenth Anniversary Season at Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theater, including Off Broadway revivals of modern classics by the iconoclastic Joe Orton and Charles Ludlam - writing in the tradition of Marlowe and Aristophanes - alongside Revelation Readings of Jacobean gems such as 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and The Roaring Girl, and of rarities like the American Premiere of Nabokov's Tragedy of Mr. Morn, Brecht & Weill's musical Happy End, and Thornton Wilder's Alcestiad, offering something for every lover of classic theater to relish.

FAKE FLOWERS DON'T DIE, winner of this year's Macy's New Play Prize For Young Audiences, opens the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2013-14 Off the Hill season with performances at more than a dozen Tristate community centers from Sept. 28 through Nov. 2.

This fall, Music Box Theatre's monthly Second Saturday Silent Cinema series screens a trio of excellent matinées. John Ford's remarkable first picture Straight Shooting - a Western, naturally - bows September 14, followed by Buster Keaton's must-see masterpiece The General on October 12 and the stop-motion sci-fi classic The Lost World on November 9. Named by Chicago magazine as the Best New Film Series of 2011 and hailed by the Chicago Reader's J.R. Jones as one of the best movie matinée series in the city, the Silent Cinema Series is presented the second Saturday of each month at noon. All films are shown authentically in 35mm at proper silent film speed and aspect ratio with live accompaniment by Dennis Scott at the Music Box theatre organ.

Cygnet Theatre, in collaboration with Playwrights Project, is proud to present the second annual Playwrights in Process: New Play Festival. Cygnet Theatre has long been committed to celebrating human stories through the medium of live theatre. Playwrights in Process will present four readings of new plays by Rachael VanWormer, Ross Tedford Kendall, Robert John Ford and Todd Goodlett, each of whom is a Southern California playwright or a writer with strong regional connections. The four winners were selected from 54 submissions from across the country.

The Wrap reports that Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) is in talks to adapt THE GRAPES OF WRATH for DreamWorks' new film version.

When SAIL ROCK docks on the banks of the beautiful Fox River at Aurora's new RiverEdge Park today, August 10, seven great music artists will share the stage for one unforgettable night, with a set list that plays like a soundtrack to the summers of the 70's and early 80's.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced Fasten Your Seatbelts (Part 2): 20th Century Fox (today, August 9-15), a summertime big screen showcase of some of the movie studio's most beloved and unforgettable films. Presented via DCP restorations and beautiful studio library 35mm prints, with a focus on a single artist and their creative contribution to each film, Fasten Your Seatbelts is sure to be a truly rare movie-going event. In the summer of 2010, FSLC presented the first Fasten Your Seatbelts series to coincide with and celebrate 20th Century Fox's 75th Anniversary. The popularity of that series, including screenings of classics like ALL ABOUT EVE, M*A*S*H and ALIEN all but demanded that Film Society and the studio present a 'sequel' at some point.

What do you get when you combine such classic songs as 'Ride Like The Wind,' 'Still The One,' 'Dream Weaver,' 'You Are The Woman,' 'I'd Really Love to See You Tonight,' 'Steal Away' and 'Baby Come Back?' An amazing flashback concert spectacle called the SAIL ROCK tour featuring Christopher Cross, Orleans, Gary Wright, Firefall, John Ford Coley, Robbie Dupree and Player. Sail Rock comes to the Mayo Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 8 pm. Tickets are $59-99.

When SAIL ROCK docks on the banks of the beautiful Fox River at Aurora's new RiverEdge Park on Saturday, August 10, seven great music artists will share the stage for one unforgettable night, with a set list that plays like a soundtrack to the summers of the 70's and early 80's.

Hey country fans, y'all won't want to miss the smokin' hot Trace Adkins Country Lineup - Trace Adkins, Aaron Lewis, Blackberry Smoke and Drake White - at downtown Aurora's new RiverEdge Park today, July 13.

Having worked as a coal miner, journalist, and screenwriter, Richard Llewellyn crafted stories of rural mining towns in Wales with a clarity that brought the countryside vividly to life. How Green Was My Valley won the National Book Award in 1940, and in 1941, John Ford directed its Best Picture Academy Award-winning film adaptation.

Whether you're a T-bird or a Pink Lady, Jock or a Nerd, Goody-Two-Shoes or a Beauty School Dropout, everyone will LOVE belting out We Go Together, doing the Hand Jive and singing You're The One That I Want when RiverEdge Park, 360 North Broadway in downtown Aurora, presents an outdoor Sing-a-long-a GREASE, Friday, August 9.

According to Deadline.com, DreamWorks has entered negotiations with John Steinbeck's estate for the rights to create a new version of THE GRAPES OF WRATH, which was last adapted for the big screen by John Ford in 1940. Steven Spielberg is interested in producing the new film.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today Fasten Your Seatbelts (Part 2): 20th Century Fox (August 9-15), a summertime big screen showcase of some of the movie studio's most beloved and unforgettable films.

Hey country fans, y'all won't want to miss the smokin' hot Trace Adkins Country Lineup - Trace Adkins, Aaron Lewis, Blackberry Smoke and Drake White - at downtown Aurora's new RiverEdge Park on Saturday, July 13.