Hartley News

Lon Chaney, the 'Man of A Thousand Faces', story comes to life in new musical titled A Thousand Faces. The musical takes us from Lon's childhood as the son of deaf parents, through his stage career and tumultuous life with songstress wife Cleva who attempts suicide backstage which drives Lon to try the new industry of movies where he rises to fame as the pioneering silent film star of the original PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Sam Scalamoni (Elf, Disney's Beauty and the Beast) directs.

These young men have got the world on a string.

Celebration Theatre is thrilled to announce that their smash-hit third and final show of its 2017-2018 season, CABARET, is extending through Sunday, August 5 at Celebration Theatre @ the Lex Theatre, 6760 Lexington Ave. in Los Angeles (now known as the Kit Kat Klub!).

Serenbe Playhouse is pleased to present TITANIC: THE MUSICAL, Directed by Brian Clowdus.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Jessica Parker Kennedy is set to be a series regular on the upcoming fifth season of THE FLASH on The CW. Kennedy plays  Nora West-Allen, the future daughter of Iris and Barry. The CW also announced that  Hartley Sawyer will be bumped up to series regular as well. He plays the role of  Ralph Dibny, or Elongated Man. Read more about the news from Entertainment Weekly here!

July brings three Prime Original series exclusively available for Prime members to stream or download at no additional cost to their membership.

July brings three Prime Original series exclusively available for Prime members to stream or download at no additional cost to their membership.

Award-winning actress/producer Nyle Lynn stands her Brooklyn ground opposite acting heavyweight Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos) in the new indie film, THE KIDS MENU, screening as an 'Official Selection' at the SOHO International Film Festival on June 17th.

San Francisco Opera's presentation of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) opens tonight with the first of three complete cycles, each presented over the course of one week as the composer originally intended, from June 12 through July 1 at the War Memorial Opera House. Encompassing four operas-Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung-and more than 17 hours, Wagner's Ring is one of the most ambitious works of music, theater and stagecraft ever created.

Sugar, butter, flour! Sara Bareilles' musical WAITRESS opens at the Saenger Theatre tonight! It's about a young woman named Jenna who works at a bakery and is trying to figure out her life. She's in an abusive marriage, finds out she's pregnant, and it forces her to take a look at what she really wants. With the help of her best friends, an unexpected romance with a doctor, and a pie-baking contest her future starts to look a whole lot brighter.

In an effort to preserve and recount that missing Latin beat of San Francisco, the Poet Laureate Emeritus Alejandro Murguia in collaboration with the Museum of Performance + Design are producing a staged reading of The Latin Quarter: Maclovia Ruiz and the Missing Beat with dance accompaniment by Claudia Deveze as part of its Archive Live series. 

Chart-topping singer Mandy Moore made a successful segue to acting, including playing the mom on “This Is Us.” She joins Hoda Kotb and Kelly Clarkson to talk about the hit drama, which is about to start its third season, as well as voice-acting on the animated series “Tangled.” Regarding her upcoming marriage, she says: “I'm ready. Bring it on!”

The second annual Dance Party to End Alz was held on Sunday, June 3 at Nashville's Wildhorse Saloon. Hosted by Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Blair Garner, the sold-out event raised more than $340,000 for Alzheimer's Association care, support and research programs.

Today, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the largest marketing and advertising association in the United States, announced that it has presented its first #SeeHer programming award to the hit NBC family drama This Is Us. The award, to be given out annually, honors primetime programming that pushes boundaries on changing stereotypes and recognizes the importance of women and girls in media.

Global Digital Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to Matt Hartley's exciting psychological thriller, APOTHEOSIS. The film's release date is set for Tuesday, June 5th!

To close its 2017-2018 season Portland Player's has mounted one of its most ambitious productions in recent memory. Titanic The Musical with book by Peter Stone and music and lyrics by Maury Yeston receives an affecting and effective performance by the forty-nine actors and thirteen musicians.

The crowd on the TODAY plaza is all decked out in red noses to mark the Red Nose Day Special Thursday night on NBC. And so is Jane Lynch, who shares details about the show as well as about a special edition of 'Hollywood Game Night' to mark Red Nose Day.

Chrissy Metz, the Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominated star of the NBC drama This Is Us, will make her stage debut in Neil LaBute's critically acclaimed play Fat Pig at the Geffen Playhouse.

Hold on to your lashes ladies and strap that wig down with a babushka, because @TheBiancadelRio is back and strutting with the Soviets in Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate! @RuPaul eat your heart out! #biancadelrio #rupauldragrace #hurricanebiancafromrussiawithhate #drag #lgbtq #fierce

The “2018 Billboard Music Awards,” hosted by “The Voice” coach, Kelly Clarkson, was an emotional and celebratory night of nostalgic and one-of-a-kind musical performances and touching moments all to celebrate this year's biggest and best in music! This year's show aired live on both coasts from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on NBC.