On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8pm - Film, Television and Broadway star SHERYL LEE RALPH (Sister Act 2, The Flintstones, OBC of Dreamgirls) will bring 'with Love on Valentines Day' to the Upright Cabaret on Vermont (located within Vermont Restaurant complex), 1714 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 28th season - a season of American stories - with Stick Fly, Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lydia R Diamond's smart, moving, and funny portrait of a complex African-American family.
Tickets for the first Broadway revival of FENCES, the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by August Wilson, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington and featuring Tony Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee Viola Davis are now on sale exclusively to American Express card members and to the general public beginning January 30.
Two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, who is set to appear in August Wilson's FENCES this spring, expressed some lingering regret in turning down the Brad Pitt role in the 1995 thriller SEVEN. Washington told Entertainment Weekly, 'The only film that was sort of dark that I'd turned down was SEVEN. They offered me the Brad Pitt part, but I was like, 'This is so dark & evil.' Then when I saw the movie, I was like, 'Oh Shoot.'
The 41st NAACP Image Awards nominees were announced today during a press conference at The SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills. Taye Diggs ('Private Practice' - ABC), Michael Strahan ('Brothers' - FOX) and 'FOX NFL Sunday'), Wanda Sykes ('The Wanda Sykes Show' - FOX), Kyle Massey ('That's SRaven,' 'Cory in the House' - Disney Channel), Chris Massey ('Zoey 101' - Nickelodeon)
and Tatyana Ali (Young and the Restless - CBS) joined NAACP Image Awards Committee Chair, Clayola Brown, and Vicangelo Bulluck, Executive Producer of the telecast, to announce the categories and nominees. The 41st NAACP Image Awards will air live on Friday, February 26 (8:00 - 10:00 PM ET/PT Tape-Delayed) on FOX.
Two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington will star in the first Broadway revival of FENCES, the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by August Wilson. The production will also star Tony Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee Viola Davis. FENCES, directed by Kenny Leon, will open on Monday, April 26, 2010 at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street). The strictly limited 14 week engagement will begin previews on April 14.
The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park will continue its Marx Theatre season with best-selling author Walter Mosley and his first-ever play, THE FALL OF HEAVEN. This hip and inventive new play will receive its world premiere at the Playhouse January 23rd through February 20th.
On Wed & Thurs, Dec 30-31, 2009 - Film, Television and Broadway star SHERYL LEE RALPH (Sister Act 2, The Flintstones, Tony Nominee from Dreamgirls) will be 'singin' and swingin' into 2010' at Upright Cabaret on Vermont (located within Vermont Restaurant complex), 1714 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
On Wed & Thurs, Dec 30-31, 2009 - Film, Television and Broadway star SHERYL LEE RALPH (Sister Act 2, The Flintstones, Tony Nominee from Dreamgirls) will be 'singin' and swingin' into 2010' at Upright Cabaret on Vermont (located within Vermont Restaurant complex), 1714 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
THE EMPEROR JONES' John Douglas Thompson has a thing or two to say about persistence: it's worth it. After losing his job as a computer salesman in 1994, he shifted gears, got an MFA from Trinity Rep and now, fifteen years after the fact, is a certified star player. A recent profile in New York Magazine recounts Thompson's career achievements and his impact on the acting community in New York City.
On Wed & Thurs, Dec 30-31, 2009 - Film, Television and Broadway star SHERYL LEE RALPH (Sister Act 2, The Flintstones, Tony Nominee from Dreamgirls) will be 'singin' and swingin' into 2010' at Upright Cabaret on Vermont (located within Vermont Restaurant complex), 1714 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Calling it 'One of the most successful theatrical runs in the history of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe,' Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Daniel Gallant and Del Valle Productions, Inc. proudly announce SPECIAL ENCORE performances in 2010 of the multiple festival and award-winning, autobiographical Latina?s coming of age story, BROWNSVILLE BRED...Growing Up Elaine.
Real-life married couple Paige Davis and Patrick Page will star in a special engagement of I Do! I Do!, the classic Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical based on The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog, in The Old Globe's new Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. The well-loved classic, by the creators of The Fantasticks, spans five decades in the life of a married couple - from the nervousness of their wedding day to the wisdom of old age. I Do! I Do! will run Dec. 11 - 20, 2009. Previews take place on Dec. 11 at 8:00 p.m. and Dec. 12 at 2:00 p.m. Opening night is Saturday, Dec. 12 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are currently on sale to subscribers only. Single tickets go on sale on Oct. 25 and can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office.
The New York Times has confirmed that The Soho Playhouse will close MADE IN HEAVEN on Monday, December 7 to make way for the transfer of EMPEROR JONES by Eugene O'Neil. EMPEROR JONES will begin performances on December 15th.
Tickets are now on sale for Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh's A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, which begins previews on Broadway on February 15, 2010 and opens on March 4, 2010. The production stars Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken and stage and screen stars Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan. Directed by John Crowley, A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE will play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Tickets are on sale through Telecharge.com, or by phone at 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250, for this strictly limited engagement which will run for 16 weeks only.
Following its sold-out run, The Irish Repertory Theatre Co. Inc. and Darren Lee Cole Theatricals are set to present The Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's THE EMPEROR JONES - starring John Douglas Thompson as the charismatic Brutus Jones -- Off-Broadway for a strictly limited 7-week engagement, with previews set to begin Tuesday, December 15 prior to an official press opening December 22, at SoHo Playhouse. Ciaran O'Reilly directs.
Tickets are now on sale for the upcoming Broadway production of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, beginning previews on Broadway February 15th with an official opening date of March 4th. he four-member cast of Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh's A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE stars Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken and stage and screen stars Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan.