Morgan Freeman News

Ernest Borgnine, who is exuberantly entering his seventh decade of creating memorable characters and award-winning performances, will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)'s most prestigious accolade-the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.

Phantom of the Opera, a new musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell plays through July 18 at The Players Theatre. A bold new vision of the classic French novel by Gaston Leroux, this heart-racing musical unravels the mystery of a passionate man living deep beneath the grand Paris Opera House. Was he a madman? A musical genius? Or just a lonely soul yearning to be loved? Phantom is an intimate production filled with intrigue, passion, danger and desire featuring provocative music performed by a live chamber ensemble at the Players Theatre.

Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman, and Ashley Judd are in talks to star in Charles Martin Smith's upcoming 3-D 'Dolphin Tale' film, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The plot is based on the true story of Winter, a dolphin who was found off the coast of Florida and brought to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. The film will focus on a boy who finds a dolphin who is missing her tail. With the help of some friends, including Connick, Jr. as a veterinarian and Freeman as a doctor, he creates a man-made tail to replace the lost one.

Phantom of the Opera, a new musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell plays through July 18 at The Players Theatre. A bold new vision of the classic French novel by Gaston Leroux, this heart-racing musical unravels the mystery of a passionate man living deep beneath the grand Paris Opera House. Was he a madman? A musical genius? Or just a lonely soul yearning to be loved? Phantom is an intimate production filled with intrigue, passion, danger and desire featuring provocative music performed by a live chamber ensemble at the Players Theatre.

Morgan Freeman will be this year's guest of honor at Bosnia's Sarajevo Film Festival, Variety reports. The festival will run from July 23 to July 31.

Boldly re-imagined and retold from the perspective of the dinosaurs, Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical is an unflinching meditation on gender, sexual, and racial identity in an evolving landscape destined to stun you with its importance.

Emmy Award-winner Alec Baldwin will give life to the words of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, when he joins conductor Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for a performance of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA on Sunday July 18 at 2:30 PM. A video download link will be sent by email immediately following Alec Baldwin's narration at approximately 3:30 PM.

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Morgan Freeman will be this year's guest of honor at Bosnia's Sarajevo Film Festival, Variety reports. The festival will run from July 23 to July 31.

Emmy Award-winner Alec Baldwin gave life to the words of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, when he joined conductor Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for a performance of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA today, Sunday July 18.

Emmy Award-winner Alec Baldwin will give life to the words of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, when he joins conductor Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for a performance of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA on Sunday July 18 at 2:30 PM. A video download link will be sent by email immediately following Alec Baldwin's narration at approximately 3:30 PM.

Phantom of the Opera, a new musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell plays through July 18 at The Players Theatre. A bold new vision of the classic French novel by Gaston Leroux, this heart-racing musical unravels the mystery of a passionate man living deep beneath the grand Paris Opera House. Was he a madman? A musical genius? Or just a lonely soul yearning to be loved? Phantom is an intimate production filled with intrigue, passion, danger and desire featuring provocative music performed by a live chamber ensemble at the Players Theatre.

On July 4, the Boston Pops will release a CD featuring the live recording of the world premiere performances of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, which took place at Symphony Hall May 18 & 19 with guest narrators Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, and Cherry Jones, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, under the direction of Keith Lockhart.

Producers Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich announced today that Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave will return to the New York stage this Fall to star opposite one another in the Broadway Premiere of Alfred Uhry‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy. Directed by David Esbjornson (The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?), Driving Miss Daisy will begin performances on October 7, 2010, at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street), with an official opening on Monday, October 25, 2010.

On July 4, the Boston Pops will release a CD featuring the live recording of the world premiere performances of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, which took place at Symphony Hall May 18 & 19 with guest narrators Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, and Cherry Jones, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, under the direction of Keith Lockhart.

After a two-decade absence from the stage, former Saturday Night Live writer, Paul Barrosse and his wife, Victoria Zielinski, will perform in The Vic & Paul Show, an original two-person comedy revue with music that will play for three weeks this June at PUSH Lounge in Woodland Hills.

Baz Bamigboye reports in the U.K. Daily Mail today that Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove will lead a new production of Clifford Odets' THE COUNTRY GIRL in the West End, opening in October of this year at the Apollo Theatre. Rufus Norris reportedly directs.

Morgan Freeman will be this year's guest of honor at Bosnia's Sarajevo Film Festival, Variety reports. The festival will run from July 23 to July 31.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT), the professional producing arm of the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, continues its Nutmeg Summer Series with the David Ives' comedy, All in the Timing, playing June 10 through 20, 2010 in the Nafe Katter Theatre.