Jason Williams News

This summer, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (PCTF), the brainchild of arts professional Glory Kadigan, turns 10 years old. In that decade, PCTF has successfully changed the landscape of the theatre festival and all of New York independent theatre. The multi-award-winning theatre festival will celebrate in a big way by premiering more than 50 timely and topical plays and musicals written by the next generation of playwrights. Each play contains a powerful message serving as a parable of various world themes.

OTHER WORLD, a new musical with an original score and story by Tony Award Nominee Hunter Bell (book), Obie Award winner Jeff Bowen (music and lyrics), and singer-songwriter and author Ann McNamee (music and lyrics) will have an invitation-only developmental lab presentation on Thursday, February 15 and Friday, February 16 at Jerome Robbins Theatre at Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W. 37th Street.

Changing leaves, crisp autumn air and breathtaking views of the Hudson River set the scene for this year's Hudson Valley Dance Festival on October 7, 2017, in Catskill, NY. Two performances of acclaimed and emerging dance companies at Historic Catskill Point raised a record $146,297 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

For one night only, travel back to 1679 Rome to party with The Shrill Collective for Aphra Behn's brilliant battle of the sexes that confronts love, lust, and the perils of the patriarchy... all still relevant over three centuries after it was written.

VIFF today announced that the VIFF LIVE lineup will include a special presentation of The Green Fog - A San Francisco Fantasia, a multi-experiential, visual and sound collage by award-winning filmmaker and cultural iconoclast Guy Maddin in collaboration with brothers Evan and Galen Johnson (The Forbidden Room, Seances) that re-imagines Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

For one night only, travel back to 1679 Rome to party with The Shrill Collective for Aphra Behn's brilliant battle of the sexes that confronts love, lust, and the perils of the patriarchy... all still relevant over three centuries after it was written.

Kevin Wiczer's new play WRECK will have a stage reading at The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W Campbell St, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, today, September 27th, 2017 at 7:30pm.

Kevin Wiczer's new play WRECK will have a stage reading at The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W Campbell St, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, on Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 at 7:30pm.

VIFF today announced that the VIFF LIVE lineup will include a special presentation of The Green Fog - A San Francisco Fantasia, a multi-experiential, visual and sound collage by award-winning filmmaker and cultural iconoclast Guy Maddin in collaboration with brothers Evan and Galen Johnson (The Forbidden Room, Seances) that re-imagines Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Netflix has ordered a second season of CASTLEVANIA, its new animated series based on the popular video game series. In addition, the network has increased the episode order from four in its first season to eight for the second season.

Doc´n Roll Film Festival, the UK´s acclaimed music documentary festival, brings its rich and innovative programming to Hull this week, working with Hull Independent Cinema and supported by the BFI.

Asheville Creative Arts (ACA), Asheville's professional children's theatre announces the first mainstage of its spring season, THE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD SHOW, a postmodern take on the classic tale written by Russell Davis and co-directed by ACA co-founder Abby Felder and resident company member, Katie Jones.

ESPN will televise NBA All-Star Celebrity Game 2017 on Friday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. ET from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, La.

BWW has just learned that funny man Billy Eichner has joined the cast of NBC's HAIRSPRAY LIVE! as Rob Barker, the Baltimore TV newscaster who reports on Tracy Turnblad and her escape from prison in an attempt to integrate the “Corny Collins Show.”

 McAninch Arts Center (MAC) opens its 30th Anniversary Season Performance Series with MOMIX's full-length multimedia spectacular "Opus Cactus," Saturday, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m.This mesmerizing production explores the wonders of the desert through dynamic acrobatic images of cacti, slithering lizards, fire dancers and more. New York Times hails Opus Cactus as "exploding with a sense of magic, danger, sensuality, quirkiness, humor and beauty."

ESPN and The Basketball Tournament (TBT) presented by Jack Link's® Protein Snacks have announced the broadcast teams for the quarterfinals, semifinals and final of the $2 million winner-take-all event

Proprietor and Winemaker, Kirk P. Venge, notes that the purchase of the Rue Winery comes at an ideal crossing point in his pursuit of making Sonoma County Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. States Venge: "My family has been an integral part of the winegrowing community in Napa Valley for several decades now. When I acquired the Venge Vineyards brand from my family in 2008, we often talked about one day crossing county lines to build another winery in Sonoma. It is a dream come true to acquire this gem of a property in the esteemed Russian River Valley."

How many of these great songs do you know from underappreciated musicals?

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS' 'Prince Dauntless,' Jason Williams, is a new papa! His daughter Mara Eleanor Williams was born on December 28, and fellow cast member Jackie Hoffman welcomed her into the kingdom in style. Check out the video below!

Matt Smith and Mark Thomas star as 22 of Tuna, Texas' most illustrious citizens in A Tuna Christmas, playing at the Arts Center of Cannon County in Woodbury December 4-13. The holiday-themed sequel to Jason Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard's Greater Tuna theatrical juggernaut, A Tuna Christmas is directed by Vickie Bailey.