Jim Jones News

Producers have announced the full cast for iLLA! A Hip Hop Musical at the 2017 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference (NMTC) this July.

The Urban Fitness League (UFL), a new professional league launching in 2018 featuring extreme calisthenics athletes, today announced the entertainment line-up for its “UFL World Cup” event on July 4th at Coney Island.

Following a sold out "Best of Fest!" win at 2017's New York Musical Festival (NYMF), plus sold out runs in Ohio and Atlanta, iLLA! A Hip Hop Musical is headed to the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference (NMTC) this July.

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Fresh off of his sold out 'Best of Fest!' win for iLLA! A Hip Hop Musical at this summer's New York Musical Festival (NYMF), plus sold out runs in Ohio and Atlanta, iLLA!'s Composer-Lyricist, Ronve O'Daniel, will perform Songs From iLLA! A Hip Hop Musical, at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater on Sunday, November 6th at 9:30PM.

Rapper Jim Jones and his longtime fiancée Chrissy Lampkin are back on reality television in the new series JIM & CHRISSY: VOW OR NEVER premiering Today, September 1 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on WE tv.

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Rapper Jim Jones and his longtime fiancée Chrissy Lampkin are back on reality television in the new series JIM & CHRISSY: VOW OR NEVER premiering Thursday, September 1 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on WE tv.

TACT kicks off its 2016 - '17 season with its 6th annual newTACTics New Play Festival (Owen Thompson and Yetti Steinman, Producers, with Lauren Miller, newTACTics advisor), a fresh collection of four unpredictable and engaging new works. The original plays at newTACTics always invite you to expect the unexpected, and this year's offerings are no exception.

Teri Buford O'Shea was the last person to escape Peoples Temple, three weeks before the Jonestown massacre killed over 900 people in November 1978. Now, she's speaking about the tragedy and her own survival in her book 'Jonestown Lullaby: Poems and Pictures' (published by iUniverse).

The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director will present Rex Isenberg's Messiahs: False and True, for chorus, narrator, organ, and bass drum on Sunday, March 6 - 3:00 PM at Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 E. 88th Street (between First and Second Avenues) in New York, NY.

Today Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes announce the release of “MeltDown”, the latest single Nashville recording artist by Phenix. The single is currently available for streaming and download at the Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes website.

iLLA! A Hip Hop Musical won the 2015 Award for Excellence for the NYMF Developmental Reading Series. Even more recently, iLLA was announced as the first 2016 Next Link Project for NYMF 2016. 

A&E Network, Academy Award(R) and Golden Globe(R) nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (End of Watch, Nightcrawler, Southpaw), Nine Stories Productions and A+E Studios (UnREAL, Roots) are partnering on the premium series development of an anthology

Below, BroadwayWorld sends a fond farewell to those who passed away in 2015.

Quentin Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT original motion picture soundtrack is available for purchase worldwide today via Decca Records.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that stage and screen actor David Canary passed away on November 16 from natural causes. He was 77 years old.

Marquis Publishing, an affiliate of the Marquis Gallery announces the release of author and photographer Marques Vickers' 'Murder in California: The Topography of Evil.' The 417-page edition is a visual return to 101 infamous crime scenes detailing the shocking and often searing narratives behind each tragedy. Over 200 images amplify the experience by escorting the reader to the crime location, offering a critical context and perspective for understanding. The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. California has been the residence for many notorious individual and serial killers including the Zodiac, Ted 'Unabomber' Kaczynski, Dan White, Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Jim Jones, Richard Allen Davis, David Carpenter, Menendez Brothers, Juan Corona, Rodney Alcala, Phil Spector, Juan Corona, Richard Ramirez and Scott Peterson. The media has renamed some such as the Trailside Killer, Co-ed Killer, Children of Thunder, Vampire of Sacramento, Zebra Killers and the Death House Landlady. The region has also buried notables among the profiled victims including Senator Robert Kennedy, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, Supervisor Harvey Milk, Mobster Bugsy Siegel, Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Journalist Chauncey Bailey, Nicole Simpson-Brown, Rapper Christopher Wallace a.k.a. Notorious B.I.G., Actors Haing Ngor, Ramon Novarro and Sal Mineo, Singers Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke, Polly Klaas, Lacy Peterson and members from the People's Temple Massacre in Jonestown, Guyana and Heaven's Gate cult suicide in Rancho Santa Fe. 'The Murder in California' edition is segmented into nine categories including assassinations, abductions, historical legacies, reckless homicides, chance encounters and manslaughters, law enforcement fatalities and controversies, unsolved murders, rampage and serial killers. An extensive listing of fatality victims is included along with convicted and deceased killers. Each living convict still registered within the California and other state penal systems is identified by their respective current penitentiary residence. A paperback edition is available through Amazon.com and in electronic format via the Amazon Kindle online store. Supplementary videos on numerous prominent chapters are available on YouTube.com and Vimeo.com. For further information regarding Marquis Publishing, visit MurderInCalifornia.com and InsiderSeriesBooks.com.

The United Kingdom's greatest cult band Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats have returned with their fourth full-length studio album The Night Creeper which is out today, September 4, via Rise Above Records. The first single from the album is “Waiting for Blood” and just last month they released their music video for the second single, “Melody Lane” The album is available for purchase now on iTunes and Amazon.