The Theater Project, Maplewood's professional theater company, welcomes performers to their Open Mike Night at The Highland Place Restaurant in Maplewood on January 20, at 7:30PM. Singers, singer-songwriters, musicians, poets, comics, actors -- performers of any specialty are invited -- everyone gets an opportunity to unleash their inner diva, try out new material in front of an audience, or just have fun.
Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for its 2014 January Screenwriters Lab, an immersive, five-day (January 10-15) writers' workshop at the Sundance Resort in Utah.
The Internet has a new entertainment network, fresh and live from the heart of Hollywood… BiteSizeTV. Ron Bloom's BiteSizeTV today launched the PUBLIC BETA of its much anticipated BiteSizeTV.com (www.bitesizetv.com), a new fully integrated Online Entertainment Network– a first-of-its-kind online, multi-network, multi-channel destination delivering fresh, unscripted daily programming across six networks, and broadcasting live 24/7 from the brand new BiteSize Studios on Hollywood Blvd., in the heart of Hollywood.
The Theater Project, an award-winning, professional theater in Maplewood, NJ, is now soliciting short plays for "Fast Forward," its first annual short play competition February 14-16, 2014. The contest is open to adult playwrights in the New Jersey-New York area.
Baby boomer and Millennial, senior and teen playwrights are represented in The Theater Project's Kaleidoscope Kabaret, an annual festival of one-act plays by New Jersey playwrights. This fall, the Festival runs November 8, 9, and 10 at the United Methodist Church, on the corner of Lincoln and Walnut Avenues in Cranford.
The Theater Project, Maplewood's professional theater company, welcomes performers to their Open Mike Night at The Highland Place Restaurant in Maplewood on October 28, at 7:30PM. Singers, singer-songwriters, musicians, poets, comics, actors -- performers of any specialty are invited - Everyone gets an opportunity to unleash their inner diva, try out new material in front of an audience, or just have fun.
JFK, LBJ, MLK, RFK - to millenials, this could mean anything from a cable TV network to some new I-phone app, but for an older generation, these initials conjure the giants of the 20th century. In 1968, the fatal shooting of Robert Francis Kennedy less than 5 years after the assassination of his older brother shook a nation already reeling from the murder of Martin Luther King only two months before. In 2013, the 50thanniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is being observed across the nation. The Theater Project, a professional company in Maplewood, NJ, will honor the Kennedy legacy with a reading and discussion of the play RFK by Jack Holmes. The play uses many of Kennedy's speeches to evoke his persona and present his political views. The event will take place at the Maplewood Memorial Library, 51 Baker Street, at 2 PM, Saturday, November 2. Admission is free.
To make sure that no one is kept from live professional theater by rising ticket prices, The Theater Project at the Burgdorff Center in Maplewood is offering a special performance at 8 PM, Thursday, October 3, when patrons will pay whatever they choose for admission.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES runs September 26 - October 13, but the October 3 performance has been set aside as PAY WHAT YOU CAN night. The parody of Conan Doyle's famous detective novel is by Steve Canny and John Nicholson.
The Theater Project, the professional company at the Burgdorff Center in Maplewood will present a comedy, SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES September 26 - October 13. The hound is more funny than ferocious in this comic retelling of the famous Conan Doyle mystery by Steve Canny and John Nicholson.
The Theater Project inaugurates a monthly theatrical presentation at the Maplewood Memorial Library, OPENING NIGHTS IN THE AFTERNOON. Each month, professional actors who regularly appear with the Project and other tri-state area companies will offer a script-in-hand performance of a play being considered for future production, followed by a discussion with audience, actors, director and Theater Project staff about the pros and cons of future full production of the script.
Cleveland Play House (CPH) raised and donated over $8,000 from its recent production of "8," Dustin Lance Black's play about the California Proposition 8 trial. The donation continues CPH's mission to serve the community, with the $8,231 shared equally between the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the Cleveland chapter of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dustin Lance Black will pen a semi-autobiographical eight-hour miniseries for the ABC network which centers on his strong advocacy for gay rights and his Mormon background.
Cleveland Play House, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, presents a one-night-only reading of '8,' a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black.
Milk screenwriter and '8' playwright Dustin Lance Black and Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about Hollywood's impact on the Supreme Court's June 26th decision to overturn DOMA and Proposition 8. Click below to hear what they had to say!
This morning, the Supreme Court declared that legislation which says marriage must be between a man and a woman is unconstitutional, thus allowing homosexual couples to receive the same benefits as heterosexual couples. The Court also struck down California's Proposition 8. Playwright and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for his MILK screenplay and penned the play '8' about California's ban on same-sex marriage, commented on today's Supreme Court rulings.
Bay Area Cabaret concluded its 2012-2013 season by honoring the memory and legendary career of composer Marvin Hamlisch on June 2, 2013. Selections from his work (A Chorus Line, The Way We Were, They're Playing Our Song) were performed by special guests, including Broadway stars Lisa Vroman (The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd) and Karen Mason (Mamma Mia!, Sunset Boulevard), Grammy Award winner Billy Stritch, 2012 Bay Area Teen Idol winner Bobby Conte Thornton, Academy Award-winning songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and more. Scroll down for photos from the celebration!
Cleveland Play House, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact, will produce a one-night-only staged reading of '8,' a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black.
Bay Area Cabaret will conclude its 2012-2013 season by honoring the memory and legendary career of composer Marvin Hamlisch. Selections from his work (A Chorus Line, The Way We Were, They're Playing Our Song) will be performed by special guests including Broadway stars Lisa Vroman (The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd) and Karen Mason (Mamma Mia!, Sunset Boulevard), Grammy Award winner Billy Stritch, 2012 Bay Area Teen Idol winner Bobby Conte Thornton, Academy Award-winning songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and other guest artists to be announced. Having performed with Bay Area Cabaret for the grand re-opening of the Venetian Room in 2010, Mr. Hamlisch will always hold a special place in Bay Area Cabaret's history. This tribute to his legacy will take place on the late composer's 69th birthday, tonight, June 2, 2013, at 8pm in the historic Venetian Room of the Fairmont San Francisco (950 Mason Street). Tickets ($75 - $100) are available at www.bayareacabaret.org or by phone at City Box Office (415) 392-4400.
USA Network will air Milk as the next film in the quarterly series that builds upon the Characters Unite public service campaign to advance the national dialogue to help combat hate and discrimination and promote greater tolerance and acceptance. With a personal introduction by Emmy(R) Award-winner and activist Neil Patrick Harris, Milk will be featured in commemoration of Pride Month, with limited commercial interruptions, tonight, June 1 at 8/7c.
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