Alfre Woodard News

Praised by The New Yorker as 'a revelatory historical drama' and by The Village Voice as the most “clear-eyed account of union organizing on film,” THE KILLING FLOOR (1984/1985) is the first feature film directed by Bill Duke.

Legends virtually unite Sunday, October 25th for Lift Every Voice, a special concert from the Lift Every Voice Victory Fund raising funds and mobilizing voters. Funds raised will be divided among a coalition of political action committees, including Color of Change PAC, The Collective PAC, CTRL Z and Higher Heights Political Fund. 

Following the 2019 live-action remake, Disney has tapped Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins to helm the sequel to 'The Lion King.'

Today (September 22) in live streaming: Will Swenson visits the Producer's Perspective, Ravi Coltrane Quartet plays at Birdland, and so much more!

Stars in the House continues tonight (8pm) with Guest Host Brenda Braxton and friends!

While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's highlights from some of your favorites, including Jeremy Jordan, Sarah Jessica Parker, and more!

Variety reports that Daniel Dae Kim, Giancarlo Esposito, and more have united to read Superman radio plays from the 1940s. 

AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups® Awards will move to March 4, 2021, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lifetime extends their partnership with trusted journalist Robin Roberts for four new movies under the Robin Roberts Presents banner. The network greenlights their next foray into the gospel music world with the biopic Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story.

This one-night-only benefit concert celebrates the legacy, mission, and spirit of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and supports the school's commitment to return to free tuition for all undergraduate students.

Weston Playhouse Theatre Company is launching its Reimagined 2020 Season with the online premiere of ONE ROOM, the first project in its new works initiative, Weston Writers.

Alfre Woodard has announced today's AFI Movie Club selection: MCCABE & MRS. MILLER. AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Warren Beatty teamed up with Julie Christie and director Robert Altman to bring MCCABE & MRS. MILLER to the silver screen, which AFI named as one of the greatest westerns in film history.

Cape Rep Theatre will present Summer Starlight, A Virtual 35th Anniversary Celebration, Sunday, August 2 at 7 pm, with guest of honor, award winning stage and screen actor Alfred Molina.

Riding a new wave of critical acclaim from A Different War, her incredibly timely and most politically charged album to date, widely heralded Biracial blues-rocker DANIELIA COTTON has risen again into the light, fiercely and defiantly, to join a star-studded lineup for “Rock for Relief,” the star-studded benefit concert supporting Feeding America's COVID-19 Response Fund on July 3 at 8pm ET and again at 11pm ET broadcasted at www.rockforrelief.net.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Kristin Linklater, world-renowned vocal coach and mother of Broadway veteran Hamish Linklater, passed away earlier this month in her Orkney home. She was 84 years old.

Over 30 LGBTQI writers, playwrights, activists, and artists will read passages on camera from their favorite influential works of queer literature and poetry for the first marathon Virtual Global Queer READ-IN. Join 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri, actor Alfre Woodard, playwright Charles Busch, writer/poet Alexis De Veaux, singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins and more of this famous roster Thursday, June 25th starting at noon (Pacific Time) on Zoom and Twitch.

A new coalition of artists, Black Theatre United, has been announced to influence widespread reform and combat systemic racism within the theatre industry and throughout the nation.

John Lloyd Young has released a new song 'Alone Together (Shelter in Place Mix).'

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that James Lipton, executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, has died at age 93.

Outfest — the non-profit organization with the mission to create visibility for diverse LGBTQ+ stories and empower tomorrow's artists and storytellers by building empathy to drive meaningful social change through its tentpole festivals, Outfest Forward educational labs, fellowships, and Legacy film restoration program — has announced the official lineup for Outfest Fusion 2020: Culture. Film. Music. Story. presented by Comcast NBCUniversal.  Now in its 17th year, Outfest Fusion will celebrate 5 days of screenings, performances, panels, galas, workshops, and world premieres across 6 unique LA venues. This year's festival takes place March 6 - 10, 2020.