The 49th Annual NASHVILLE Film Festival continues its rollout of film announcements with the short films in competition. This year the festival received nearly 5,000 shorts submissions and 215 shorts were selected. Selected shorts this year include films made by Dev Patel, Justine Bateman, and Neill Blomkamp and starring Natalia Dyer, Armie Hammer, Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver, and Kerri Kenney.
McCarter Theatre Center completes the 2017-2018 Theater Series with
Christopher Durang's Turning Off the Morning News. His third world premiere commission for McCarter, Durang's follow-up to Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013 Tony Award for Best Play), is a decidedly dark and daring comedy taking hilarious aim at today's absurd and
dangerous world. Directed by McCarter's Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann, the play runs May 4 - June 3 in the Berlind Theatre. Press opening is Saturday, May 12 at 8 p.m.
The Minnie's Food Pantry Feed Just One Gala 10th Annivesary celebration was nothing short of magical as global media leader and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey took the stage and inspired a sold-out room of 760 people to pledge a total of $1.3 million to support the organization in their mission to reduce hunger.
Southbank Centre today announces (B)old, a brand new festival celebrating age and creativity, supported by The Baring Foundation. Championing new and established artists aged 65 years and over, (B)old features a week of vibrant programming from Monday 14 - Sunday 20 May 2018 taking place across Southbank Centre's 17 acre site including the newly reopened Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room.
As previously announced, the acclaimed Second Act Series, which has presented an array of lesser-known musicals in concert, will celebrate the short-lived Charles Strouse and Alan Jay Lerner musical Dance A Little Closer at New York's Green Room 42 on Monday, April 16th at 7:00pm.
As the only professional theatre company in the country producing full seasons of new work by local playwrights, Plan B Theatre is thrilled to announce our 28th season of unique and socially conscious works created exploring how truth finds us and what we do with it once it does.
Indican Pictures is set to release Jonathan Zuck's terrifier Within the Darkness. Set for an early April release, Within the Darkness stars: Tonya Kay (“Criminal Minds”), John C. Bailey (Clowns, 2014), Shanna Forrestall (The Last Exorcism, 2010), Cheyenne Phillips (The Sandman, 2017) and many more up-and-comers. The film tells a story of several ghost hunters. They go in search of fame and fortune; but, they raise a demon instead.
Last night, the second season of “Nobodies”, Paramount Network's original scripted comedy, premiered with a slew of cameos from Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Michael McDonald, Leslie Bibb, and Cheryl Hines.
RIVERDALE returns from its hiatus in soon with the highly anticipated episode 'Chapter Thirty-One: A Night to Remember'. As previously reported, The CW's high school drama RIVERDALE will be staging a production of CARRIE: THE MUSICAL this spring. The show's resident bad girl Cheryl Blossom (played by Madelaine Petsch) will play Carrie White in the episode.
The last offering in the Good Theater's current season is cause for celebration! Ken Ludwig's 2015 comedy, A Comedy of Tenors, serves up a frothy concoction of revolving door farce, sophisticated irony and broad parody, witty double entendres, and a breathlessly wacky plot line that makes the evening speed by joyously.
Family Circle,the No.1-selling food and family magazine, and MASTERCHEF, America's most-watched cooking series, announced today an expansion of theirpartnership to now include MASTERCHEF JUNIOR, airing Fridays (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
The episode will air on April 18 at 8:00 p.m. ET. Unlike in other high school shows that feature known musicals, RIVERDALE will feature 11 songs from the show by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford.
Originally set to run through May 13, the Off-Broadway musical, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK, will extend its run at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre (410 W 42 Street) through June 30, 2018. Get a preview from the video below!
Out of the Box Theatrics and Founder and Producing Artistic Director Elizabeth Flemming have announced en extension of the new Off-Broadway Revival of Adam Rapp's Nocturne.
Kerry Butler (Audrey in the Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors), and Cheryl Freeman, Roz Ryan, Vaneese Thomas, and Lillias White (voices of the Muses in Disney's animated classic Hercules) will join The New York Pops, led by Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, for its 35th Birthday Gala, Part of His World: The Songs of Alan Menken on Monday, April 30, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, presented by The New York Pops.
As previously announced, the acclaimed Second Act Series, which has presented an array of lesser-known musicals in concert, will celebrate the short-lived Charles Strouse and Alan Jay Lerner musical Dance A Little Closer at New York's Green Room 42 on Monday, April 16th at 7:00pm. The one-night-only concert reading will star Beautiful's Julia Knitel (Bye, Bye, Birdie), currently starring in A Letter to Harvey Milk as Cynthia Drama Desk Award-winner Ed Dixon (Georgie, Sunday In The Park With George, Les Miserables) in the role created by his lifelong friend and colleague George Rose. Joining them as Bebe is Cheryl Howard, returning to the role she originated in the original 1983 production, and Arbender Robinson (The Book of Mormon, Shuffle Along, In Transit) as Charles, the role originated by Brent Barrett.
92nd Street Y's 48th season of Lyrics & Lyricists continued this weekend with an essential American story, Irving Berlin: American, celebrating Berlin's extraordinary life and work. On the occasion of the centenary of the writing of "God Bless America" - our nation's "other anthem," - artistic director, co-writer and choreographer, Noah Racey (Lyrics & Lyricists veteran, Thoroughly Modern Millie), and co-writer Cheryl L. Davis (Barnstormer, Maid's Door, Bridges) explore how the five-year-old Russian immigrant who arrived at Ellis Island speaking no English came to create songs that epitomize American music, and how he became the spokesman in song for the country that allowed him to flourish.