Carl Foreman

Eight-time Broadway actress Vasthy Mompoint ( High School Musical the Series, The Prom) and actress Geri Courtney-Austein (Better Call Saul, Atypical) are the creators and ringleaders of the cabaret spectacular, The Telephone Gospel, debuting as part of the Forget About Spaghetti Festival at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles on October 29th at 7:30 pm.

A new episode of the adult cartoon series 'Fairview' is set to premiere tonight at 8:30pm EST on Comedy Central. The episode is the 108th from the series and is entitled 'Moral Anarchy'. After Pastor Marv catches Ashley engaging in deviance inside church, Kelly and the gang lead a campaign to bring morality back to Fairview. Meanwhile, Todd gives Ashley more direction in her life.

The boundary-pushing, provocative animated political satire feature, Washingtonia will premiere in fall 2021. Fairview a weekly, hyper-topical, half-hour, eight episode series set to premiere in early 2022.

CBS today announced the 20 performers participating in the 2020 SHOWCASE, which will begin its run of six shows on Jan. 14 at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today published the rules and timeline for the EE British Academy Film Awards 2020, following its annual review of all categories. BAFTA's Film Committee undertakes this review each year in consultation with a wide range of stakeholders across the industry.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA Los Angeles) is pleased to announce that Academy Award Winner and “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen will receive The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing at the 2018 British Academy Britannia Awards. The award will be presented by Academy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Viola Davis.

Axis Company presents High Noon, an adaptation of the screenplay for the 1952 Western film, devised by an ensemble led by Artistic Director Randy Sharp. In Axis' High Noon, the Wild West is not the place of heroes and rollicking adventure, but a landscape of overbearing nothingness where humans, and their troubled moral compasses, are cast in glaring light. As a town awaits the alleged return, and potential revenge streak, of a released murderer on an incoming train, their just-married, retiring marshal decides to try to rally a crowd to fight him.

Darkest Hour director Joe Wright will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 54th Annual CAS Awards on February 24th, at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles.

On the heels of the critically acclaimed Brockmire, the highest-rated first season show in the network's history, IFC has today announced 11 new comedy projects as part of their development slate for 2018 series consideration including a new scripted half hour executive produced by Oliver Platt.

Yellow Earth Theatre Company's ACADEMY is now in its 8th year and will run from July 17th to July 28th at ALRA in a bid to inspire the next generation of British East Asian* actors. This intensive, two week, fully funded course led by professionals working in the industry will give students a taste of drama school training, some vital skills and a host of insiders' tips on how to become a professional actor in theatre, TV, film or radio.

IFC announced that two new original digital series, Frank & Lamar and Sport Court, will premiere today on the Comedy Crib (ifc.com/comedy-crib), the network's online hub for original, short-form comedy. The shows will join the Crib's current array of acclaimed web series including Quirks, The Mirror, and Boxed In.

Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, which was part of Jamie Lloyd's second Trafalgar Transformed season, directed by Sam Yates, on a 16 week National Tour from tonight 11 June 2015, commencing at Theatre Royal, Brighton. East is East is designed by Tom Scutt, with lighting by Richard Howell and sound and music by Alex Baranowski.

Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, embarking on a 16 week national tour and making its Scottish debut at the Theatre Royal Glasgow from Monday 10 until Saturday 15 August 2015.

Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, which was part of Jamie Lloyd's second Trafalgar Transformed season, directed by Sam Yates, on a 16 week National Tour from 11 June 2015, commencing at Theatre Royal, Brighton. East is East is designed by Tom Scutt, with lighting by Richard Howell and sound and music by Alex Baranowski.

In a recent interview with the Daily Mail, West End theatre producer Judy Craymer revealed that she is back at work with her MAMMA MIA! team on a new project. She told the Daily Mail: 'I'm working on something with Bjorn and Benny. Mamma Mia! was such a success and we work very well together.'

Award-winning playwright Ayub Khan Din's first play, East is East, which premiered at the Royal Court and was later turned into a much-loved feature film, returns to the London stage after 17 years. This hilarious and ever-pertinent modern classic about growing up in multiracial England will star the multi award-winning stage and screen actress Jane Horrocks (Young Vic's Annie Get Your Gun,Sunshine on Leith, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Absolutely Fabulous) as Ella Khan, one of the greatest female roles written for modern theatre.

The Bridge on the River Kwai will be shown at Hershey Theatre on Saturday, September 8 at 7:30 p.m. The 1957 classic stars William Holden, Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa. The film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for the legendary British filmmaker David Lean and Best Actor for Guinness. It also won Best Screenplay for Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman.

Judy Craymer, producer of the global film and theatre smash hit, Mamma Mia!, has announced an agreement with Simon Fuller's new XIX company, The Spice Girls and Universal Music. Judy Craymer Productions is to create and produce a new musical, under the working title Viva Forever, based on the songs of another world-wide phenomenon, The Spice Girls.

Local favorites propel colorful and diverse outings as Boston area theaters wind down their 2008-2009 seasons in style

If you think you know David Mamet, think again. This famously terse playwright is a master of biting comedy. The A.R.T. - producer of the world premieres of Mamet's Oleanna, Cryptogram, The Old Neighborhood, and Boston Marriage - is pleased to present Sex, Satire, Romance, and Ducks - a celebration of comic work spanning Mamet's career.