Joyce Carol Oates News

The producers of LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy directed by Shelagh Carter and written by Bill Connington, have just released a second music video for the film.

The 2021 NEA Big Read in San Diego focuses on The Essential Emily Dickinson, poems selected and with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. 

Join The National Arts Club for an online performance of Joyce Carol Oates's one-act play Wild Nights!, directed by Michael Parva.

Chicago Humanities Festival will host a special one-hour, live streaming event with acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates on Thursday, March 25th. 

The producers of LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy directed by Shelagh Carter and written by Bill Connington, have just released a music video for the film.

LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy film, is available starting today to rent and own on Amazon, FandangoNOW and other North American digital HD internet, cable and satellite platforms and DVD through Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.

LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy film, will be available to rent and own on Amazon, FandangoNOW and other North American digital HD internet, cable and satellite platforms and DVD on December 22, 2020 through Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.

The historic Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, CT has announced that Michael K. Baldwin will join the staff as Director of Education/Associate Artistic Director beginning on November 1, 2020.

BAM today announced plans for virtual programs including theater, kids and family, literary, and film events. The fresh slate of offerings include the world premiere of V's (formerly Eve Ensler) That Kindness: Nurses in their Own Words; a talk with co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Alicia Garza; and more!

Film at Lincoln Center announces Talks for the 58th New York Film Festival (September 17 – October 11).

Three powerful cultural voices - author Roxane Gay (Ayiti, Not that Bad, The Best American Short Stories), singer/songwriter, Toshi Reagon, and singer/songwriter, Celisse Henderson - come together for a special evening dedicated to the exploration of inspiration, presented by SongWriter and Harlem School of the Arts, live on Zoom, Saturday, July 11 at 8:00 pm.

Food For Thought Productions, the award-winning theatre company, which began life in September 2000, may be the answer to the questiona?"How do you provide live theatre during a time when we are told to isolate and keep a distance?

Write Out Loud is a recipient of a grant of $15,000 to host the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read in San Diego. An Arts Endowment initiative in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book.

Burien Actors Theatre's 2020 season consists of five plays read over nine weeks. These five plays are the Artistic Director's choice, with only limited oversight. That means they will be different than what you can find anywhere else on social media or streaming.

In today's Quarantine Qs, we check in with Lorin Latarro- choreographer of Mrs. Doubtfire.

Wynn Handman, the famed New York acting teacher and Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre, died at home April 11, 2020 of Covid-19 related pneumonia. He was 97.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Wynn Handman, co-founder of the American Place Theatre, has died at age 97. Handman's daughter, Laura Handman, confirmed that his cause of death was COVID-19-related illness.

Renowned actor-writer Bill Connington presented his first feature film Love, Repeat at the prestigious Dolby Screening Room in Midtown, Manhattan on December 16th, 2019. The film received its first private screening for an audience of industry professionals, cast and crew.

Legendary, multi-award winning actress/singer Betty Buckley returns to Café Carlyle, March 10 a?" 21. Her career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world. She's received a sea of accolades including a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS. She's a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and the 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Award from The Actor's Fund for Artistic Achievement. Betty Buckley just completed a national tour of the new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! produced by Scott Rudin.

Westside audiences are in for a treat. Last season's acclaimed, Ovation recommended production of The Gin Game, directed byChristian Lebano at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, will be re-staged outdoors atWill Geer's Theatricum Botanicum, with real life husband and wife teamAlan Blumenfeld andKatherine James reprising their roles. With Lebano again at the helm,performances of D.L Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning two-hander will run Aug. 17 through Sept. 29 in Theatricum's intimate S. Mark Taper Pavilion.