These contributions will grant a combined $2.8 million to No Kid Hungry's work to ensure that kids are fed, both during this crisis and throughout its aftermath.
Setting themselves apart from other festivals, and being in the unique position to move forward with this year's event, in lieu of streaming live performances, the organizers of PYGMALION has made a major pivot to a diverse set of discussions, interactions, and activations that intends to delight and engage as many people as they possibly can.
Due to the constraints of COVID-19, PYGMALION has moved all programming to the virtual space.
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ABC and the Television Academy have announced additional talent who will be making special appearances during the “72nd Emmy® Awards.”
Due to the constraints of COVID-19, PYGMALION has moved all programming to the virtual space.
The producers and songwriters of SATURDAY NIGHT SEDER have announced today's release of singles, 'When You Believe,' with powerhouse vocalists Cynthia Erivo and Shoshana Bean, accompanied by esteemed composer Stephen Schwartz, as well as the original song, 'Next Year,' sung by composer/musician Shaina Taub and actor/singer Skylar Astin.
'Saturday Night Seder,' the star-studded virtual Passover Seder that premiered Saturday night on YouTube via www.SaturdayNightSeder.com and Buzzfeed's Tasty YouTube, has raised more than $2,350,000 for the CDC Foundation's Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Response Fund, it was announced today.
Watch 'Saturday Night Seder' a virtual Passover Seder to benefit COVID-19 first responders!
Bette Midler and Sarah Silverman have joined the 'Saturday Night Seder,' a virtual Passover Seder streaming on www.SaturdayNightSeder.com on Saturday, April 11 at 8 PM EST, to benefit COVID-19 first responders.
Saturday Night Seder — a Passover Seder on Saturday, April 11 (the fourth night of Passover) — will be different from all other nights, as a panoply of performers, musicians, and religious scholars come together (digitally, from their own homes) to celebrate through music and comedy, the original story of the Exodus, and raise money for COVID-19 first responders.
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Caitlin Cook in Death Wish on April 23 at 9:30pm. Since she was seventeen, Cook has lived by a code: if something scares her, she has to do it. Join this LA-born, NYC-based, Oxford-educated, hyphen-addicted raconteur for a raucous hour of music, comedy, and bathroom stall graffiti art to find out why.
The Den Theatre has announced the Chicago debut of the Off-Broadway hit Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees, the most highbrow show about blow jobs you'll ever see! Written and performed by comedian Jacqueline Novak, directed by John Early, executive produced by Mike Birbiglia and presented by Natasha Lyonne, Novak's one-woman show will play May 29 - June 18, 2020 on The Den's Heath Mainstage, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago.
The Kimmel Center Cultural Campus, along with Resident Company support from Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and The Philadelphia Orchestra, celebrates Women's History Month in March 2020 with an array of programming honoring a breadth of female artistry and expression. Additionally, in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Philadelphia and Drexel University's Vision 2020's 'Women 100' National Women's Equality Initiative will host a series of events, including the Seat at the Table FREE and interactive exhibition, opening in March and running through September in the Kimmel Center's Commonwealth Plaza.
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens has amassed 3.8 million total viewers including replays, streaming and premiere simulcast on a total of seven Viacom networks. Including L+3 playback, the January 22 premiere of Awkwafina is Nora From Queens is Comedy Central's best primetime series launch in more than three years, notching a .56 P18-49 rating and 818,000 total viewers on Comedy Central.
At the Television Critics' Association (TCA) Press Tour, AMC Networks and AMC Studios announced a partial list of current projects in development. The broad slate, which includes potential AMC Studios series being developed for the company's Entertainment Group and also projects being developed for potential sale to other content companies, reflects fresh ideas and strong voices from creators and talent including Scott Z. Burns, Katie Couric, Owen and Stephen King, Megan Mostyn Brown, Armadu Garba, Eliza Clark, Mark Johnson, Zack Whedon, Scott Gold, Ilana Glazer, T Bone Burnett and many others.
Comedy Central today announced a season two pickup for the highly-anticipated Awkwafina is Nora From Queens, ahead of its series premiere on Wednesday, January 22 at 10:30pm ET/PT.
Amazon Studios today announced the launch date for Emmy Award-nominated Ilana Glazer's debut stand-up special. Ilana Glazer: The Planet is Burning will premiere on Friday, January 3, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
Netflix has released the trailer for its new animated series Green Eggs and Ham, featuring the voices of Adam Devine, Michael Douglas, Ilana Glazer, Diane Keaton, Keegan-Michael Key, Eddie Izzard, Jeffrey Wright, Jillian Bell, John Turturro, Tracy Morgan and Daveed Diggs.
Sesame Street got its start at the height of the civil rights movement and the war on poverty, in answer to a simple but powerful question: could television help prepare less advantaged children for school? In 1969, the show's founders tapped researchers, entertainers, and other visionaries to create a “street” like no other, where colorful monsters, humans, and even grouches lived side by side. Today, Sesame Workshop – the nonprofit organization behind the iconic show, which has grown to reach kids and families in more than 150 countries and 70 languages – is proud to announce the start of Sesame Street's landmark 50th season.
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