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Tens of thousands of people converged on the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois during the recent Wizard World Comic Con in the hope of getting an autograph or shaking the hand of the man whose movies had changed their lives-Hollywood megastar Burt Reynolds. Scroll down for photos!
The Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre recently announced its fall/winter schedule, which includes a new and exciting intensive on-camera Acting in Commercials course taught by television and radio personality Jo Ann Pflug.
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54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents LINDSEY ALLEY in "BLOOD, SWEAT & MOUSEKETEARS" on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 9:30 p.m.
While Tom Cruise blows up the box office this weekend in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, critic/reporter David Sheehan's original web series 'Sheehan & The Stars' spotlights an upclose over-the-years look at Cruise
Beginning Monday, August 3, Burt Reynolds' fans and friends will have the opportunity to fulfill the dream of a lifetime. Through the courtesy of Dream Giveaways' Mark Breiner and Patrick Meehan, the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre will launch a building fund sweepstakes through which one lucky winner will have the chance to drive away in a beautifully restored 1979 Trans Am while wearing a Stetson hat custom made for this event. Both car and hat have been signed by the Bandit himself. Reynolds' signature will also be found in the log book chronicling the car's full history since it came off the assembly line, including the original sales order form, window sticker, broadcast sheets, and all service and restoration work.
The weekend visit to Georgia reunited Reynolds with some very dear long-time friends including Captain Chaos, a fictional superhero from his Cannonball Run movies.
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For the August 17 show at 7pm at The Triad (Stage 72 -- 158 West 72nd Street), New York's funniest show Celebrity Autobiography will feature in its cast several stars of stage & screen, including actress/comedian Sherri Shepherd (Cinderella on Broadway, Top Five, 30 Rock), Michael Urie (Show For Days, Buyer & Cellar, Ugly Betty), Tate Donovan (Argo, Damages, 24), Rachel Dratch (SNL), Scott Adsit (Big Hero 6, 30 Rock), comedy legend & Tony Award-winner Alan Zweibel, and Drama Desk-winners Eugene Pack & Dayle Reyfel.
Cynthia Morrison, of Palm Beach Florida, is a graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute. This month she will travel to New York City where her short play, "Going Up?", will be featured as a finalist in the New York Equity Library Summer Playwriting festival.
What has 21 hit songs, 47 set pieces, 55 sound cues, 119 light cues, and 311 breathtaking costume pieces worn by a cast of 24 incredibly talented actors, singers, and dancers, who have cumulatively performed for 657 years in 599 productions over 15 states, Puerto Rico, and France? Nicky Wood's Welcome to Broadway!
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner will make his Wizard World Comic Con debut in Chicago on Sunday, August 23.
The Ringwald Theatre dips into the "Classics" well for their 9th Season!
New York's funniest show Celebrity Autobiography had a show on Mon. June 8 at 7pm which featured in the cast star of stage and screen Brooke Shields, Ramona Singer (The Real Housewives of NYC), Tate Donovan (Broadway in Amy's View, Good People, TV's 24, Damages), Lucy DeVito, Elayne Boosler, Tony Award-winner Alan Zweibel (Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me), Tim Kazurinsky (SNL, Police Academy, Broadway's An Act of God), Eugene Pack & Dayle Reyfel.
The Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors today announced that Vice Chair Gil Cates, Jr. will serve as the permanent Executive Director for the not-for-profit theater after leading in an interim capacity since February, 2015.
Burt Reynolds, film and TV star and sex symbol for decades, will make his second Wizard World Comic Con appearance when he appears at Wizard World Comic Con Chicago
