Summer in DC brings great opportunities to celebrate and discover new plays, the first of which is CulturalDC's Source Festival, which opened June 5 and runs through June 28 with varied offerings of full-length plays, 10-minute plays and artistic blind dates. Based on Love & Botany, a collection of six 10-minute plays, the Source Festival gives audiences a refreshing range of voices riffing on the intersection of relationships and plant life with plays taking us from a backyard garden to across the universe.
August is National Read a Romance Month, and 93 top romance authors are celebrating at ReadaRomanceMonth.com, sharing their thoughts on why romance matters today. New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery, who has sold more than 25 million books worldwide, kicks things off on August 1 with a provocative essay on how romance novels empower women.
NBC has given full-season pickups to three of its new Fall 2010-11 series, 'The Event,' 'Law & Order: Los Angeles' and 'Outsourced.' The announcement was made by Angela Bromstad, President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios.
