Down South is an upcoming Reality television series that is expected to air on CMT in the Fall of 2013. The series was created by Jersey Shore creator SallyAnn Salsano and 495 Productions and is being shot in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. The series is a Southern spin on Jersey Shore and depicts the South
Primary Stages to Present the 2026 Fresh Ink Reading Series
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 11, 2026
Primary Stages has revealed programming for the 2026 Fresh Ink Reading Series, the first opportunity to hear brand new plays from the playwrights in the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group....
Video: Kara Young Stars in First Trailer for IS GOD IS Film Adaptation
by Josh Sharpe - February 20, 2026
The first trailer has dropped for Is God Is, the new feature adaptation of Aleshea Harris' award-winning play of the same name. The movie marks Harris's feature directorial debut and stars two-time Tony winner Kara Young and Mallori Johnson. Watch it now....
Chalse Okeke, Sheldon J. Nicholas, Bryce Foley, & Celestine Rae Set For Benefit Reading Of IS GOD IS
by A.A. Cristi - February 10, 2026
Terry Knickerbocker Studio will present a one-day-only reading of IS GOD IS by Aleshea Harris on Sunday February 22nd at 3pm at The Landing In Industry City, benefiting the Equity in Acting Excellence Project....
Chalse Okeke, Sheldon J. Nicholas, Bryce Foley, & Celestine Rae Set for Benefit Reading of IS GOD IS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 10, 2026
Terry Knickerbocker Studio has will present a one-day-only reading of IS GOD IS by Aleshea Harris at The Landing In Industry City, benefiting the Equity in Acting Excellence Project....
Fust Unveils New Southern-Themed Album 'Big Ugly'
by Josh Sharpe - March 07, 2025
Fust have released their new record Big Ugly, out now. With the album, the band joins a long tradition of artists that have tried to present life in the dirty South. Listen to the album here....
Fust Share New Single 'Bleached' From Upcoming Album
by Josh Sharpe - January 30, 2025
Fust have shared the second single from their highly anticipated new album Big Ugly, due out March 7th. This Spring, Fust will embark on a run of East Coast tour dates with support from Dead Gowns, Merce Lemon and Styrofoam Winos. Listen to the new track and check out the tour dates here....
Fust Share Lead Single 'Spangled' From Newly Announced Album
by Josh Sharpe - January 09, 2025
Fust have announced their highly anticipated new album Big Ugly, due out March 7th. Lead single “Spangled”, available now, combines big chords and band leader Aaron Dowdy’s instantly recognizable voice for a 21st century anthem about reckoning with the ghosts and trauma imbued in the histo...
Kara Young to Star in Film Adaptation of Alesha Harris' IS GOD IS Play
by Josh Sharpe - October 31, 2024
Kara Young and Mallori Johnson are set to star as the main twin sisters in a new feature adaptation of Alesha Harris' award-winning play Is God Is. Sterling K. Brown, Vivica A. Fox and Janelle Monae have also been cast in the film, which Harris is adapting from her play....
Charlotte Street Launches Three-Part Guest Curator Series
by Stephi Wild - April 09, 2024
Charlotte Street has announced its 2024 The Guest Curator lecture series featuring Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, MCA Chicago; and Carlos Quijon, Jr., Curator, Philippine Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale and C-MAP Fellow...
Shane West, Willa Holland, and Dermot Mulroney Star in SHE'S A CRIMINAL AFM Premiere
by Blair Ingenthron - October 28, 2023
SHE’S A CRIMINAL (aka The Dirty South) premieres at AFM Market. Shane West, Willa Holland, and Dermot Mulroney star in this gritty crime thriller. Film Mode Entertainment acquires the film, set for a North American release on November 10, 2023....
Chelsea Film Festival's Star-Studded Success Extends Access To Global Audiences
by Michael Major - October 27, 2023
This year's festival included the most expansive and compelling local, regional, national and international selection in its history, including THESE DAYS (first El Salvadoran NY feature film), THE DIRTY SOUTH starring Willa Holland and Dermot Mulroney, IBIZA BLUE (Spain), ADDICTED TO LIFE (MOME's g...
Guitarist Eric Johanson Releases New Single & More Samantha Fish Tour Dates
by Michael Major - June 28, 2023
Filmed at Snake & Jake’s Christmas Club Lounge, in New Orleans, LA., the video for 'The Deep and the Dirty' was directed by Kaylie McCarthy & Lizzie Smith with videography by Kaylie McCarthy and edited by Eric Johanson. About the video Johanson declared, 'On one level 'The Deep And The Dirty' is t...
A Red Orchid Theatre Extends IS GOD IS
by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2023
A Red Orchid Theatre will be extending its current production: the Chicago premiere of Is God Is by Aleshea Harris, directed by Marti Gobel. ...
Oakland Theater Project Presents the Bay Area Premiere of IS GOD IS
by Stephi Wild - March 08, 2023
A smash hit Off-Broadway in 2018 and a runaway success in London's West End, Aleshea Harris' multi-award-winning play, Is God Is, is finally making its Bay Area debut in an all-new production at Oakland Theater Project. ...
Cast Announced for IS GOD IS Chicago Premiere at A Red Orchid Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 07, 2023
A Red Orchid Theatre has announced the cast for the Chicago Premiere of Is God Is by Aleshea Harris, directed by Marti Gobel. ...
IS GOD IS Chicago Premiere to Open at A Red Orchid Theatre This Spring
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 14, 2023
A Red Orchid Theatre will present the Chicago Premiere of Is God Is by Aleshea Harris, directed by Marti Gobel. Is God Is runs April 6 – May 28, 2023....
Oakland Theater Project Announces Six-Production 2023 Season: HISTORY VS. HOPE
by A.A. Cristi - November 21, 2022
Oakland Theater Project has announced its 2023 Season: History vs. Hope, a six-production lineup featuring groundbreaking new plays, re-mounted classics, and the company's first musical....
IS GOD IS Makes its Houston Premiere at Rec Room Arts Next Month
by Stephi Wild - June 28, 2022
Rec Room Arts will begin preview performances on Thursday, July 14 for IS GOD IS, written by Aleshea Harris and directed by Candice D'Meza. Following exciting and award-winning productions at Soho Rep in New York and Royal Court in London, IS GOD IS will make its Houston premiere this summer at Rec ...
Oyin Oladejo and Vanessa Sears Lead Canadian Premiere Of IS GOD IS
by Stephi Wild - March 23, 2022
Continuing the 21.22 season, Canadian Stage partners with Obsidian Theatre Company and Necessary Angel Theatre Company to present the Canadian Premiere of the explosive and ground-breaking IS GOD IS byAleshea Harris. ...
Casting Announced For IS GOD IS at the Royal Court Theatre in September
by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2021
Vivienne Acheampong, Adelayo Adedayo, Ray Emmet Brown, Ernest Kingsley Jnr, Tamara Lawrance, Rudolphe Mdlongwa, Mark Monero and Cecilia Noble have been cast in the UK premiere of Is God Is written by Aleshea Harris and directed by Royal Court Associate Director Ola Ince. ...
Average Joes' 'Mud Digger 12' Compilation Will Drop July 2
by Sarah Jae Leiber - June 15, 2021
Also featured on 'Mud Digger 12' are country-rap stars Nappy Roots, Sarah Ross, the 'Mud Digger King,' Lenny Cooper, and more of the genre's top-selling artists....
MotorTrend Greenlights Sophomore Season of FASTEST CARS IN THE DIRTY SOUTH
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 03, 2020
MotorTrend Group, a Discovery company, announced today the season two greenlight of the hit MotorTrend TV series FASTEST CARS IN THE DIRTY SOUTH which takes viewers inside the unique world of grudge racing throughout the southern United States....
IS GOD IS Opens September 21 At Mixed Blood Theatre
by Julie Musbach - August 21, 2018
Mixed Blood is the only regional theater in America producing, in the playwright's words, this "nuanced exploration of Black female anger." IS GOD IS "explores the taboo of black female anger and the complexity of survival. It's terrifyingly funny and absurdly violent. It's about love and loyalty ...
Mixed Blood Announces 2018-19 Season
by Julie Musbach - June 15, 2018
Mixed Blood Theatre is pleased to announce its 2018-19 Season, Transforming the Impossible to the Probable. Speaking truth to power and upending the status quo through theater via provocative programming in which comedy, drama, satire, and extravaganza take on Me Too, automation, Black Lives Matter,...
Soho Rep Adds Second Extension For IS GOD IS, Now Through 3/31
by A.A. Cristi - February 21, 2018
Soho Rep. (Sarah Benson, Artistic Director; Cynthia Flowers, Executive Director), has extended the world premiere of Aleshea Harris's Relentless Award-winning Is God Is, directed by Taibi Magar, a second time, through March 31....
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