Focus Features is donating an original costume from its acclaimed new movie Moonrise Kingdom, directed by Wes Anderson, to Variety the Children's Charity of New York for Variety New York's online auction which begins today via www.charitybuzz.com.
Tonight's 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards will be presented by Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Rylance, Justin Bartha, Leslie Odom Jr., Lily Rabe, Michael McKean, Tonya Pinkins, Topher Grace, and Tracee Chimo. The event will feature live performances from David Patrick Kelly of ONCE, Joshua Henry and Sumayya Ali of PORGY & BESS, and Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra of NO PLACE TO GO.
American director Wes Anderson has built colorful, beautifully realized worlds in his seven feature films, from his stunning debut Bottle Rocket to his latest Cannes Film Festival opening feature, Moonrise Kingdom. From today, May 18 through 27, 2012, Museum of the Moving Image will present a Wes Anderson retrospective including all of his features and the short Hotel Chevalier, as well as a special screening of Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons-a film that inspired Anderson. Each screening in the series will open with a personal video introduction by Wes Anderson.
Hunter Parrish, who previously starred in the Broadway revival of GODSPELL, has joined the starry talent lineup of When You Believe: A Conversation With and Tribute To Stephen Schwartz on May 19 in Palm Springs.
Passage Theatre Company, Trenton's only professional theater company, will wrap up its 2011-2012 season with Slippery as Sin, running from May 17 to June 3. David Lee White's comic thriller will be directed by Adam Immerwahr - the same team that delivered the 2010 smash hit, Blood: A Comedy.
Signature Theatre announced today that the Irene Diamond Fund has made a $10 million gift in support of The Pershing Square Signature Center, the Company's new, permanent home which opened on January 31, 2012.
The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced that the 57th Annual Obie Awards will take place on Monday, May 21, 2012, at Webster Hall in the East Village (125 East 11th Street). This year's awards will be presented by: Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Rylance, Justin Bartha, Lily Rabe, Michael McKean, Topher Grace, Tracee Chimo. Entertainment and co-hosts to be announced.
'JKL's' 'Movie: The Movie,' a segment which originally aired on Oscar night as part of Kimmel's Academy Awards special, can now be seen in movie theatres all across the country via a partnership with Screenvision, a leading innovator in cinema advertising and alternative content programming.
Hunter Parrish will release his debut album April 17, which is preceded by his single. Listen to the single, Sitting at Home, in the video below!
Focus Features has announced their 2012 Release Schedule, including upcoming films BEING FLYNN and PARANORMAN.
Signature Theatre opened the world premiere production of Katori Hall's HURT VILLAGE, directed by Patricia McGregor last night, February 27. HURT VILLAGE runs through March 18, 2012 and is the inaugural production in the The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Company's new home The Pershing Square Signature Center. Broadwayworld was on hand for the opening and brings you photo coverage below!
THE BOURNE LEGACY is coming to theaters on August 3, 2012 from Universal Pictures. The action thriller is directed by Tony Gilroy and written by Dan Gilroy, Tony Gilroy and Eric Van Lusstbader. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Scott Glenn, Oscar Isaac, Joan Allen, Albert Finney, Stacy Keach and Eli Harris.
Yesterday, January 30, Signature Theatre celebrated the offical opening of their new space, the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center, located at 480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the celebration and brings you photo coverage below!
Signature Theatre has announced that the Signature Center Opening Gala Celebration will take place on Monday, January 30th and will be a first look at the Company's new home, the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center.
Signature Theatre and The Pershing Square Foundation announced today a $25 million gift to Signature Theatre to fund the innovative Signature Ticket Initiative, as well as dedicating the theatre's new home as The Pershing Square Signature Center.
Signature Theatre has announced that the Signature Center Opening Gala Celebration will take place on Monday, January 30th and will be a first look at the Company's new home, the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center.
Signature Theatre announced today that The Diller - von Furstenberg Family Foundation has made a $3 million gift in support of Signature Center, the Company's new, permanent home opening in February 2012. Spanning an entire city block at 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues, the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center features three intimate theatres, a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, and a public cafe and bookstore. The Center will be both a theatre community hub and a neighborhood destination, and has been designed to foster interaction among playwrights, artistic collaborators, and the public.
Labyrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez, and Managing Director Danny Feldman), Off-Broadway's home of exhilarating and incendiary theater, presents its annual signature benefit Celebrity Charades 2011: Down and Derby on Monday, November 14th at the Highline Ballroom (431 West 16th Street).
Labyrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez, and Managing Director Danny Feldman) will present its annual signature benefit Celebrity Charades 2011: Down and Derby on Monday, November 14th at the Highline Ballroom (431 West 16th Street). Four celebrity teams will jockey their way to the Winner's Circle in a fearsome and hilarious speed charades competition to support Labyrinth Theater Company's 2011/12 season. Celebrity Charades, Labyrinth Theater Company's annual star-studded fundraising event, remains one of the most popular ‘happenings' of the year in New York City.
Welcome to BroadwayWorld's new feature, and first-ever talk show, BACKSTAGE WITH RICHARD RIDGE. Follow Richard as he visits Broadway's best and brightest in their Broadway dressing rooms and favorite hang outs to talk about their lives, careers and all of the things you don't know, but want to know. To date, Richard has chatted with Spidey lovebirds Reeve Carney and Jennifer Damiano, visited with UK's First Lady of musical Theatre, Elaine Paige, headed downtown to meet up with Jonathan Groff, and has spent some quality time with fan favorite Jan Maxwell. Richard's latest guest is Godspell star Hunter Parrish, who has charmed audiences on Showtime's Weeds since 2007 and was last seen on Broadway in Spring Awakening, which marked his Broadway debut. Now, back on Broadway as 'Jesus' in Godspell, Parrish gets candid about life as a young Hollywood star and why he always hopes to come back to the stage.
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