Chris White News

For football fans across the globe, all roads lead to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, now taking place in Russia. And while the thrill and excitement of the games ensue, The Workers Cup by Adam Sobel is set to premiere on the PBS documentary series POV on Monday, July 9 at 10 p.m. (check local listings), the day before the first game of the semifinals.

POV recently acquired the U.S. broadcast rights for306 Hollywood by Elan and Jonathan Bogarín.  The film will join POV's early 2019 schedule with AmDoc/POV Co-production Minding the Gap by Bing Liu, which announced last week a Hulu Originals acquisition for an August 2018 theatrical and streaming release. These 2019 films build on POV's recent announcements regarding the acquisition of On Her Shoulders and The Silence of Others.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its 56th season with its second Main Stage production, Titus Andronicus. Resident Director Brian B. Crowe will helm this rarely produced Shakespearean tragedy. STNJ veteran Bruce Cromer will play the title role; Tony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli and returning company members Vanessa Morosco and Benjamin Eakeley will play leading roles amongst a cast of 20 actors that also includes young artists from the Theatre's renowned Summer Professional Training Program.

The PBS television series POV, the longest-running independent documentary series on American television, has acquired two of the year's top award-winning and critically-acclaimed documentary feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year.

Sundance Award-Winning Documentary MINDING THE GAP Acquired by Hulu

POV's 'Last Men in Aleppo' Receives Historic Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary Feature

2018 marks the return of Oxford-based sludge-metal titans Desert Storm as they prepare to follow the release of 2014's critically-acclaimed 'Omniscient' album with their new opus 'Sentinels', confirmed for release this coming March 16th via APF Records.

Catherine Lamb is an actress and Artistic Director of Fabricate Theatre. She's about to take the stage in her new production of Jack Thorne's Bunny at the Tristan Bates Theatre directed by Lucy Curtis.

Bill Nye Fights for Science Documentary of TV Personality and Climate Advocate Coming to POV 4/18

The Benny Anderson-Tim Rice-Bj rn Ulvaeus musical Chess, which began life as a two-LP recording in 1984, will be presented at 7:30 PM on March 10th, 2018 at the Madison Theatre at Molloy College in Rockville Center, NY.

First seen in Vibrant A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, the world premiere of a first play by Cornish playwright Henry Darke, Booby's Bay opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 30 January 2018.

The Twelfth Annual Beaufort International Film Festival (BIFF) will host thousands of film lovers from around the world starting Feb. 21 and continuing to Feb 25 in the historic coastal town of Beaufort, SC.

The acclaimed documentary Class of '27 has won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast journalism, it was announced today by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Filmed in the hollows of Appalachia, on native lands of the Upper Midwest and in West Coast migrant camps, Class of '27 presents distinct yet complementary personal stories from places too often ignored in America.

Festival to Present a Record-Breaking 180 Films, 25 World Premieres, and 65 Los Angeles Premieres. Panelists and Honorees to Include TIPPI HEDREN, VERONICA CARTWRIGHT, MICHAEL WESTMORE, CASPER VAN DIEN, SARAH FINN, AND MORE

The Burbank International Film Festival today announced official program selections for the 9th Annual edition of the festival set for Wednesday, September 6th, through Sunday, September 10th, 2017. 

Through home movies, audio recordings, family photos, letters and interviews, Cecilia Aldarondo's MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART reconstructs her uncle Miguel's New York life, one he lived far from his family, especially his religious mother.

The Zombies continue their remarkable 21st-century resurgence with additional North American tour dates, which includes a stop at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, January 11 at 8 pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 28 at 10 am.

The Hangar Theatre will present A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as this season's musical from June 29 until July 15, 2017. The musical combines the classical Broadway fare, the comedy of ancient Rome, and a healthy shake of vaudeville.

Our country—and world—is divided, or so say the talking heads and headlines. As newsfeeds and timelines update in rapid-fire succession and phones buzz with ever-constant breaking news, POV's 30th season steps in, presenting powerful stories from the unseen and unheard, and from seemingly distant and disparate communities.

Artwork (seen left) has been revealed today for Ed Brody's Penthouse, which premieres this August at Edinburgh Fringe.