Jeff Scher News

The Television Academy tonight presented the 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Ceremonies on Saturday and Sunday night honoring outstanding artistic and technical achievement in television at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The Saturday ceremony, which kicked-off the 70th Emmys, awarded many talented artists and craftspeople in the categories of animation, scripted programming including comedy, drama and limited series. The Sunday ceremony honored performers, artists and craftspeople for excellence in variety, nonfiction or reality programming, reality competition programming, music, choreography, as well as documentary or nonfiction specials, informational series or specials.

The Television Academy announced today the juried award winners for the 70th Emmy Awards in the categories of Animation and Motion Design. The juried awards for these categories will be presented at the 2018 Creative Arts Awards ceremonies on Saturday, September 8 and Sunday, September 9.

Joan Baez will perform “The President Sang Amazing Grace” at this Saturday's Emanuel 9 Rally for Unity in Marion Square in downtown Charleston, SC. The pubic event marks the third anniversary of the Emanuel AME Church shooting and was created to celebrate the lives and legacies of the Emanuel 9 and the survivors and as a call to action to “end gun violence and acquire racial reconciliation.” In addition to Baez, the rally will feature keynotespeaker, the Rev. Dr. Jamal H. Bryant of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore, shooting survivor Polly Sheppard, Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg, Sen. Marlon Kimpson and activist Bree Newsome.

The official music video for Joan Baez's “The President Sang Amazing Grace” is premiering today at The Atlantic. Watch the video below.

When ten-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather, Jack, about the number tattooed on his arm, he sparks an intimate conversation about Jack's life that spans happy memories of childhood in Poland, the loss of his family, surviving Auschwitz and finding a new life in America.

When ten-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather, Jack, about the number tattooed on his arm, he sparks an intimate conversation about Jack's life that spans happy memories of childhood in Poland, the loss of his family, surviving Auschwitz and finding a new life in America.

Directed and produced by Emmy winner Amy Schatz, the short film THE NUMBER ON GREAT-GRANDPA'S ARM weaves in haunting historical footage and hand-painted animation to tell a heartbreaking story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.

On November 9th 2017 at 7pm at the Pit Loft (154 west 29th street) comedian Rory Scholl debuts a reading of his original short musical, ( 55 minute run time) The Thanksgiving Scarecrow with a cast of amazing comics and music by Rory and Dan Reitz.

On November 9th 2017 at 7pm at the Pit Loft (154 west 29th street) comedian Rory Scholl debuts a reading of his original short musical, ( 55 minute run time) The Thanksgiving Scarecrow with a cast of amazing comics and music by Rory and Dan Reitz.

A rotating cast of comedians create a fake religious service of a fake religion on the spot based on YOUR suggestions.

The Nefarious Laboratory presents: An Evening with Handsome Brad and his Naked Friends at UNDER St.Marks on February 5 at 9:00 pm.Tickets ($10 / $8 students & seniors) are available online at http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=nef998&ss=1, or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

Recognizing the extraordinary contribution that the New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Capital has made to sustaining art of the highest quality in the United States, The Museum of Modern Art will present an exhibition of 37 original, impassioned, and rebellious films and videos that Creative Capital has funded and nurtured over the past 11 years.

Recognizing the extraordinary contribution that the New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Capital has made to sustaining art of the highest quality in the United States, The Museum of Modern Art will present an exhibition of 37 original, impassioned, and rebellious films and videos that Creative Capital has funded and nurtured over the past 11 years.