RLJE Films, Shudder & AMC+ Acquire THE APOLOGY Starring Anna Gunn
by Michael Major - Oct 12, 2022
RLJE Films, Shudder and AMC+ have partnered and financed the highly anticipated thriller, THE APOLOGY. Directed and written by Alison Star Locke, in her feature film writing/directing debut, THE APOLOGY stars Anna Gunn (“Breaking Bad,” Sully), Linus Roache (My Policeman, “Homeland”), and Janeane Garofalo (Wet Hot American Summer, Reality Bites).
Tenri Cultural Institute Presents Donna Weng Friedman's Heritage & Harmony
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2022
On Sunday, May 15th at 4pm, the Tenri Cultural Institute will present Heritage and Harmony, live in concert- a series created by pianist Donna Weng Friedman in 2020 to promote understanding and tolerance among people of all backgrounds. Heritage and Harmony programs aim to bring people together through stories, music & dance.
RLJE Films Acquires NO MAN OF GOD
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 6, 2021
Directed by Amber Sealey (No Light and No Land Anywhere), NO MAN OF GOD stars Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy), Luke Kirby (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Aleksa Palladino (The Irishman) and Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) and was written by Kit Lesser.
BWW Review: Folger Theatre's NELL GWYNN Features Starpower Galore
by Andrew White - Feb 9, 2019
The performance of Alison Luff in the title role is nothing short of miraculous; her transformation from a trash-talking orange-monger to a star of the stage is unforgettable, and for theatre-goers to neglect this rare gem would border on criminal negligence.
Artemis Theatrical Aims to Give a Voice to Women-Identifying Storytellers Through Collaboration and Cabaret
by Amy Oestreicher - Jan 31, 2017
Last year, Manda Leigh Blunt graduated from New York University with a dream many musical theatre writers share: to get their work seen and heard. All it took were inspiring words from another female artist to launch something truly ground breaking, just a few months later.
"My friends and I attended a session with Judith Light, which was incredible," Blunt recounted. "A lot of what I was hearing, especially from the other women who attended, echoed what I had felt and had been hearing in the conversations all around me at NYU. Once you graduate, there seemed to be so few opportunities as a musical theatre writer still in the development process. You can have these big 29-hour readings or productions---if you get that---but there are fewer in-between moments where you can get yourself heard in a supportive environment, where a women-identified writer can say, 'This is where we are in this draft, and we're using this opportunity to move forward.'"
So Blunt decided to do something about it. By that August, she founded Artemis Theatricals, a non-profit company with the mission to empower women storytellers in musical theatre through curated cabarets and additional styles of performance.