John Shane

In a time when confined couples all across the country are getting lots of extra and unexpected quality time together, the stars of 'Life After Lockup' have invaluable experience with quarantine and, luckily for fans, cameras to capture all the drama. The addicting 'Love After Lockup' spin-off returns for a four-part event on Friday, September 11.

Paperclip Ltd, the production company co-founded by Yeardley Smith and Ben Cornwell, announces today that principal photography has begun on “Gossamer Folds,” a feature-length drama co-produced by Paperclip Ltd and Mill House Motion Pictures. The film tells the story of Gossamer, a transgender woman, who befriends her new neighbor, Tate. The friendship changes his life and the lives of their families, forever. The project will be directed by award-winning filmmaker and queer advocate Lisa Donato (Signature Move, There You Are, The Great Now What).

I am the Lord of Hartforth, an ancient village located aside Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England. Not a lot goes on there. It is highly conservative, where people pride themselves on proper behavior. 42 miles to the south is Rylstone, an equally proper village. The Rylstone Women's Institute shot to fame with its 1999 society calendar because its distinguished ladies were photographed nude. Angela Baker, whose husband John, an assistant national park officer, died from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in July 1998 at age 54, inspiring the idea for the calendar. There were a lot of people riled up in Rylstone; this simply was not proper English protocol. When Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, was caught topless in August 1992, she was kicked out of Balmoral Castle and banned from the royal household for some 16 years. Likewise, the 11 women featured in the nudie calendar certainly raised eyebrows, even among the liberal folks; however, the women also raised £2million for leukaemia research and their publicity stunt spawned a hit movie starring Helen Mirren. The movie spawned a stage play, CALENDAR GIRLS.

Nick Enright's GOOD WORKS examines the difference between the orchestrated image people present for the world to see and the truth of human character in a moving 90 minute work. Director Ian Sinclair presents this complex emotional work that crosses time to show how decisions made under the guise of 'Good Works' have shaken and changed lives.

With A Whimper - A darkly comedic tale about the end of the world, runs July 19 - August 12 in the Frank & Katrina Basile Theatre at the Phoenix in a world premiere production by Pete McElligott. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

West Bank, UK - a world-premiere musical about a Palestinian and an Israeli who must share a rent-controlled apartment in London's West Bank - by Oren Safdie and Ronnie Cohen, creators of the popular musical about interfaith dating, Jews & Jesus, will be presented by La MaMa ETC, in association with Malibu Stage Company, for a limited New York run, with previews set to begin November 29, prior to an official press opening December 2 at La MaMa ETC.