Ed Begley News

Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning actress Patricia Clarkson will receive the ShoWest Independent Award for Excellence in Acting, it was announced today by Mitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the event, which will be held March 30-April 2, 2009, in Las Vegas. Clarkson will be presented with the ShoWest Independent Award for Excellence in Acting at a special luncheon 'Celebrating the Importance of Independent and Specialty Film' on Thursday, April 2, at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas.

The Tribeca Film Festival will herald Woody Allen's return to making his films in New York City by debuting his new movie, 'Whatever Works' on the festival's opening night April 22nd, 2009.

Two uniquely beautiful performance pieces compiled from the music and letters of Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt by award-winning British pianist Lucy Parham, will be given their U.S. premieres by L.A. Theatre Works.

Last week Easy To Assemble was the most watched video on TV.com getting more views than big network shows like Prison Break or Terminator Chronicles.

Last week CEO Les Moonves at the Advertising Bureau's Interactive Conference announced CBS's new initiative to create original web content saying 'internet content is a lab for the network.'

Rubicon International Theatre Festival will kick off their preview season with an opening ceremony hosted by Ed Begley Jr.

Producer Eric Falkenstein has confirmed that John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes will star in a new Broadway production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons directed by Simon McBurney scheduled to open on Broadway this fall. Theatre and dates to be announced.

van Straaten Entertainment, inc. is pleased to announce the extension of What's My Line? - Live On Stage through May 26th. The show is a live, non-broadcast stage presentation of the popular game show that ran on American television for over 25 years.

The 23rd Film Independent Spirit Awards were held in Santa Monica Beach, CA on February 23, 2008.

Inherit the Wind star Brian Dennehy will be interviewed on 'Theater Talk' this Friday, July 6th at 12:30 AM.

Inherit the Wind stars Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy will be featured on WABC's 'Eyewitness News' tomorrow, Thursday June 28th at 6:15am.

Tony Award-winning Hairspray star Marissa Jaret Winokur joined What the Other Mothers Know co-creators Ilene Graff and Donna Rosenstein, among many other luminaries, for a recent pre-Mothers' Day party at Spago in Beverly Hills.

Tonight is opening night for Inherit the Wind, starring two time Tony Award-winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy

Broadway's INHERIT THE WIND was featured on NPR's Morning Edition this morning Tuesday, April 10.

Two time Tony Award-winner Brian Dennehy, currently starring in Inherit the Wind on Broadway opposite two time Tony Award winner Christopher Plummer will appear on WOR Radio's 'Joan Hamburg Show' on Wednesday, April 4 between 10:30-11 AM.

L.A. Theatre Works adds Arthur Miller's first Broadway play, which debuted in 1944 and enjoyed an enormously successful Broadway revival in 2002, to its previously-recorded collection of eight Arthur Miller works

Performances of Inherit the Wind begin tonight, Monday, March 19th.

Angie Dickinson, Dennis Hopper, Cloris Leachman, Quincy Jones, Edward Norton and John Turturro are among additions to the line-up of peers, family members and childhood friends featured in Brando, a new original two-part documentary premiering May 1-2, that sifts through the mystery behind one of Hollywood's most-respected and celebrated practitioners of the art and craft of acting.

The producers of the upcoming Broadway production of INHERIT THE WIND starring two time Tony® Award winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy have announced the complete 34-member company.

The previously announced Broadway revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee's classic Inherit the Wind, starring Tony Award-winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, is now slated to begin March 19th at the Lyceum Theatre and to open on April 12th