Award-winning actor and musician Hershey Felder (George Gershwin Alone, Monsieur Chopin, Beethoven As I Knew Him) returns to Chicago with Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein. Combining first-person narrative with the music of composer Bernstein and the artists who inspired him, Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is the story of the legendary American composer and longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic. Helmed by award-winning director Joel Zwick, Hershey Felder will return to Chicago's Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted, where from September 2004 through January 2006, he held residence with George Gershwin Alone and the World Premiere of Monsieur Chopin, culminating in 70 weeks of live performances. Maestro will begin previews on November 1st with press opening November 9th, and will play through December 30.
Make Way for Cee Lo Green, star of The Voice as he guest stars on next Tuesday's episode of Parenthood. In the episode, titled, 'Tales From the Luncheonette', Cee Lo Green tests Adam and Crosby's new music business while Sarah stands by Seth as he makes an important change.
Lifetime continues to bring big names and acclaimed talent to the small screen with six all-new original movies set to make their world premieres this October.
Award-winning actor and musician Hershey Felder (George Gershwin Alone, Monsieur Chopin, Beethoven As I Knew Him) returns to Chicago with Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein.
Lifetime continues to bring big names and acclaimed talent to the small screen with six all-new original movies set to make their world premieres this October.
Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the return of actor, playwright and Steinway concert artist Hershey Felder in a trio of his critically-acclaimed solo shows. Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone delighted San Diego audiences in 2006 and 2008 and due to popular demand will be revived for 13 performances from July 1 - 10. Felder will lead audiences on a musical journey through a century of American music in Hershey Felder in Concert: The Great American Songbook Sing-Along from July 11 - 17. The latest addition to Felder's ambitious 'Composers Sonata,' Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein, will receive its Globe debut from July 22 - Aug. 28. Previews run July 22 - July 28. Opening night is July 29. Both George Gershwin Alone and Maestro are directed by Joel Zwick. All three events will run in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Single tickets range from $39 - $90 and may be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office.
NOVEMBER CHRISTMAS, a new 'Hallmark Hall of Fame' presentation starring Emmy Award nominee Sam Elliott ('Buffalo Girls'), Emmy award and Golden Globe award nominee John Corbett ('My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' 'Sex and the City'), Karen Allen ('Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'), Golden Globe award nominee Sarah Paulson ('Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,' 'Deadwood') and Emily Alyn Lind ('The Secret Life of Bees,' 'All My Children') has started production in Halifax, Canada for broadcast Sunday, Nov. 28 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Multi-faceted comedian and actor Eddie Izzard and multiple award-winning actress Frances Conroy will guest star on the SHOWTIME series UNITED STATES OF TARA. Izzard will appear in eight episodes and Conroy in one episode of the third season opposite Toni Collette, last year's Emmy(R) Award winner and this year's Emmy(R) nominee for her role as Tara Gregson, a wife and mother who struggles with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Izzard will play Tara's brilliant psychology professor who is at first a DID skeptic, but becomes fascinated with Tara as a subject, leading him to further explore the condition. Conroy will star as Max Gregson's (John Corbett) mother, a recluse with a compulsive hoarding problem. Production on season three begins mid-September in Los Angeles for a 2011 premiere.
According to a report by Deadline.com, Eddie Izzard, who recently starred in the Broadway production of Race, is set to join the third season of Showtime's 'United Sates of Tara'. Though details on his character remain unknown, Izzard will appear in more than one episode.
NOVEMBER CHRISTMAS, a new 'Hallmark Hall of Fame' presentation starring Emmy Award nominee Sam Elliott ('Buffalo Girls'), Emmy award and Golden Globe award nominee John Corbett ('My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' 'Sex and the City'), Karen Allen ('Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'), Golden Globe award nominee Sarah Paulson ('Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,' 'Deadwood') and Emily Alyn Lind ('The Secret Life of Bees,' 'All My Children') has started production in Halifax, Canada for broadcast Sunday, Nov. 28 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Cori Abraham was named to the newly created position of Senior Vice President of Development for Oxygen Media effective immediately. The announcement was made by Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development, to whom she will report. For the past six years, Abraham has served as the Vice President of Development for Bravo where she executive produced such hits as the two time Emmy-Award winning 'Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,' and developed the upcoming 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' and 'Thintervention with Jackie Warner,' as well as the just launched freshman series 'Bethenny Getting Married?,' which became Bravo's highest rated series premiere in the network's history.
Nick at Nite will kick off the second season of its original stop-motion animated comedy series, Glenn Martin, DDS, on Friday, June 11, at 10:30 p.m. (ET/PT) with all-new episodes packed with celebrity guest stars including Bret Michaels, Mel Brooks, Fergie, Kristen Bell, Sean Hayes, Betty White, Jimmy Kimmel, John Corbett, Fran Drescher, Bradley Whitford, Cheri Oteri, MC Hammer, Jason Alexander, George Takei, Howie Mandel, Don Johnson, Ty Burrell, Ashley Tisdale, Jim Parsons, two-time Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston and Oscar nominated actresses Gabourey Sibide and Ellen Page, among others.
Sex and the City 2 had its official New York City premiere last night, May 24th at Radio City Music Hall. The film will hit screens in the same date slot that Sex and the City did in 2008 on May 27.
The Laguna Playhouse will end its run of the critically acclaimed first movement of Hershey Felder's 'Composer Sonata,' Beethoven, As I Knew Him on May 23.
The Hollywood Reporter today writes that Tony-nominated BEHANDING IN SPOKANE star Christopher Walken is in talks to join the film 'Wild Oats' written by Claudia Myers and being directed by Scott Marshall.
Nick at Nite will kick off the second season of its original stop-motion animated comedy series, Glenn Martin, DDS, on Friday, June 11, at 10:30 p.m. (ET/PT) with all-new episodes packed with celebrity guest stars including Bret Michaels, Mel Brooks, Fergie, Kristen Bell, Sean Hayes, Betty White, Jimmy Kimmel, John Corbett, Fran Drescher, Bradley Whitford, Cheri Oteri, MC Hammer, Jason Alexander, George Takei, Howie Mandel, Don Johnson, Ty Burrell, Ashley Tisdale, Jim Parsons, two-time Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston and Oscar nominated actresses Gabourey Sibide and Ellen Page, among others.
