Tucked away in a storefront not too far from the Senior Center, the Funky Little Theater Company is the sort of daring, grassroots company I had not expected to find in Colorado Springs. Yet here Chris Medina's brainchild is, and in choosing Neil LaBute's In a Dark, Dark, House for its debut show, FLTC declares its intention to sail bravely into dark dramatic territory.
This isn't the news correspondent's image of war. This is the soldiers' war - their words, their footage, their horrors. Following the success of National Geographic Channel's (NGC) series Inside Combat Rescue comes two new boots-on-the-ground war series: Battleground Afghanistan, a one-hour series premiering Monday, July 1, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and Eyewitness War, a 30-minute series that follows at 10 and 10:30 p.m. For more information, see natgeotv.com and @NGC_PR on Twitter.
Usually directors tell actors they are being over-the-top and need to pull it back, but exactly the opposite needed to happen with this production.
Spark Theater opens its new home with the deliciously wrong comedy, The Love Potion.
David Zwirner will present People Who Work Here, an exhibition in the gallery's 519 West 19th Street space. Comprising, as its title suggests, a group of artists who work at the gallery, the show is complementary to David Zwirner's main program, which features forty internationally acclaimed artists.
In a last minute switch by American Idol, Wednesday night's episode featured just one hour of Las Vegas Beatlemania instead of the scheduled two. Because of the change, Idol fans got an early taste of the ever dramatic and always bittersweet Green Mile portion of the show, when each contestant took the long and painful walk to their impending doom.
In tonight's episode of American Idol, the top 61 contestants tackled one of the vastest song catalogs in the history of music- The Beatles. And where better to tribute the Fab Four than on the set of Cirque Du Soleil's LOVE in Las Vegas.
There's good news for Idol this week: for the first time in the show's history, American Idol went up against CBS's megahit Survivor. In fact, while contestants were shakin' it in group numbers last night, the rival reality show's most recent adaptation, Redemption Island had its season premiere; and rating results were mortifying. Fox crushed CBS with more than double the viewers, marking Redemption Island as the lowest rated premiere in Survivor history. That's embarrassing.
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