Marina Kamen aka MARINA first had the pleasure of meeting Playwright/Director Eureka Lewis and her son Musical Director/Musician/Composer, Andre Chez Lewis while at one of their plays called "What They' Remember!'...
Today, Showtime Networks announced that Oscar® winner and four-time Emmy®-nominated actress Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking) will appear on the hit drama series RAY DONOVAN in a season-long guest arc....
The story or Sister Helen and a convicted double murderer at Kauffman Center...
The cast of Raven Theatre Company's premiere of Tennessee Williams' Not About Nightingales has been announced, with Raven Founding Artistic Director Michael Menendian directing. The play's action revolves around the tyrannical prison warden Boss Whalen's inhumane treatment of the inmates in his isla...
The Washington National Opera opened Dead Man Walking on February 25, which continues throughMarch 11, 2017 in the Opera House. It is based on Sister Helen Prejean's acclaimed 1993 memoir, which tells of her time working with death row inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary and of a particular rela...
The Elmwood Playhouse of Nyack NY will be presenting 'A Lesson Before Dying', written by Romulus Linney and directed by Kathy Gnazzo. 'A Lesson Before Dying' is a bold and moving statement about the link between learning and dignity. "A Lesson Before Dying' runs March 17th thru April 8th Fridays and...
Today's subject Michael Mayes is living his theatre life playing a murderer on death row in the Washington National Opera production of Dead Man Walking. Michael has performed the role of Joseph De Rocher in multiple productions –including one at Central City Opera in Denver, Colorado – and now ...
Rooted in the moral conflict between society's thirst for justice and Christianity's tenet of forgiveness, the modern American opera DEAD MAN WALKING is an apt selection for the Washington National Opera this season. With a moving score by Jake Heggie and an honest, straightforward libretto by Terre...
KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP tells this haunting story - that of a former motel manager sentenced to die for orchestrating a murder that he swears he had nothing to do with. KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP, a world premiere two-night event, kicks off Monday, April 17 at 9/8c exclusively on ID....
Hub Theatre Company of Boston will kick off its highly anticipated fifth season with the riveting drama Coyote on a Fence by Bruce Graham Friday, March 31 - Saturday, April 15 at First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough Street in Boston's Back Bay....
The Actors' Gang is presenting the groundbreaking multimedia production LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN, a solo show written and performed by Bryonn Bain and directed by Gina Belafonte, which tells Bryonn Bain's true story of racial profiling and wrongful incarceration at the hands of New York City police and ...
A gruesome double murder and the trial of a suspect who might be headed to death row consumes a community for a decade. Readers can follow the action from an anonymous tip through the process of justice in a new book, expected to be released soon by Dog Ear Publishing. 'Reelfoot Killins' centers ...
KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP, a world premiere two-night event, kicks off Sunday, March 5 at 9/8c exclusively on ID....
The Actors' Gang will begin 2017 with a one night only special event, featuring Sister Helen Prejean, (Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty), and The Actors Gang Artistic Director Tim Robbins. The event is the first of Actors' Gang Axis Mundi 2017 season, a series of s...
Park City Institute continues its rich tradition of engaging in dialogue on important issues, presenting a panel on Criminal Justice Reform, with Van Jones, January 7 at 7:30 PM. Jones, an attorney who has spent countless hours on CNN as a political commentator, will share his insights on the ways...
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn announced today that they will host a 20th anniversary screening of PARADISE LOST: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's captivating documentary about the West Memphis Three, on December 14th. Co-presented by the International Do...
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ Just weeks after Nebraska voters decided to reinstate the death penalty, there is new information in the case of John Joubertone of the last criminals to be executed in the state. Former KMTV-3 anchorman and investigative reporter, Mark Pettit, has obtained and...
Dramatic explosion with 'What They'll Remember" explores this question: Why would average women commit murder?...
Premiering tonight, November 16, BBC AMERICA's UNDERCOVER is a bold new political thriller told through a family on the brink of destruction....
The Actors' Gang's Cynthia Ettinger ever so smoothly directs her very exceptional cast as they infuse life to six real-life, wrongly convicted death row survivors and the peripheral people besides them. Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's script of THE EXONERATED vividly illustrates how these six people...
Premiering on November 16, BBC AMERICA's UNDERCOVER is a bold new political thriller told through a family on the brink of destruction....
The newly published autobiography from Lauretta Eason (http://www.laurettaeason.com/) explores what it takes to persevere - and keep one's faith - in the face of unimaginable obstacles. In 'Daughter of Sacred Steel,' Eason describes how she survived a difficult childhood, only to transition into a m...
Celebrated hip-hop recording artist Michel'le will speak up and speak out about the darker side of Compton hip-hop as she narrates the Lifetime Original Movie, SURVIVING COMPTON: DRE, SUGE & MICHEL'LE, based on her life story, premiering Today, October 15...
Let's get serious for a second. With the election upon us it's time for Post5 to take on one of the most serious issues facing our country. The issue of the mass incarceration of our populous. With this in mind we have decided to produce Bruce Graham's stirring, Coyote on a Fence....
Solo shows written and performed by their authors need to be told with enough personal stage presence to be truly interesting to the audience. Such is the case in Lucy Alibar's world premiere THROW ME ON THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UP in which she enthusiastically and humorously shares journal entrie...
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