The off-Broadway hit show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES comes to San Diego for a five week run at the Lyceum Theatre downtown and is sure to make audiences laugh 'til they plotz. Performances run April 23 - May 25. Opening night is Wednesday, April 30.
Acclaimed documentary director Ken Burns sits down with Conan for a sweeping conversation about the roots of the Civil War, how to create a narrative out of chaotic history, and why C-Span is secretly awesome. Check it out below!
Today the talented actor speaks exclusively to BWW about making his Broadway debut as legendary sports hero Joe DiMaggio in BRONX BOMBERS.
PBS today announced at the Television Critics Association a new addition to the Ken Burns pipeline, COUNTRY MUSIC. The film will air in 2018.
By the early 1990s, New York's THIRTEEN, the PBS flagship station, was producing and filling public television screens across the country with award-winning programming such as Charlie Rose, Nature, American Masters, and Great Performances. As the cable and satellite revolution gave way to the digital and internet revolution, THIRTEEN embraced 21st century technology and continued to innovate, proving that public television has ever more value in today's changing media landscape.
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFKCenter.org) launched its Seventh Annual Ripple of Hope Holiday Auction with support from some of the world's most recognizable celebrities spanning entertainment, sports, music, and politics. The online auction is open to bidders internationally through December 17 at RFKAUCTION.COM. Proceeds will support the RFK Center's work to empower fearless human rights defenders and inspire a new generation of defenders through its human rights curriculum.
By the early 1990s, New York's THIRTEEN, the PBS flagship station, was producing and filling public television screens across the country with award-winning programming such as Charlie Rose, Nature, American Masters, and Great Performances. As the cable and satellite revolution gave way to the digital and internet revolution, THIRTEEN embraced 21st century technology and continued to innovate, proving that public television has ever more value in today's changing media landscape.
On this week's LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN on CBS, late night host David Letterman shared an all-new Ken Burns film, featuring Jennifer Lawrence, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Martha Stewart, about crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2013, Youth Communication (YC), the award-winning nonprofit publisher and advocate of reading and writing, will present Listen v. Lock-Up: Unheard Stories from Teens in Trouble. This unique and powerful one-night-only theatrical event features the voices of one of New York City's most marginalized groups: teens who have been through the justice system. The performance will take place at Morgan Stanley and will benefit Youth Communication's literacy and youth development programs.
The Flea Theater invites you to the World Premiere of FAMILY FURNITURE by A.R. Gurney. It is directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail (In The Heights) starring Carolyn McCormick (Law & Order), Peter Scolari (Girls, Newhart, Bosom Buddies), and Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) with newcomers Ismenia Mendes and Molly Nordin. Performances run tonight, November 12 - December 22 at The Flea (41 White Street between Church and Broadway in Tribeca).
The Flea Theater invites you to the World Premiere of FAMILY FURNITURE by A.R. Gurney. It is directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail (In The Heights) starring Carolyn McCormick (Law & Order), Peter Scolari (Girls, Newhart, Bosom Buddies), and Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) with newcomers Ismenia Mendes and Molly Nordin. Performances run November 12 - December 22 at The Flea (41 White Street between Church and Broadway in Tribeca).
Kimmel revealed that he prefers the original Ken Burns version of the singer's life and went on to share it with viewers. Check it out below!
The Flea Theater will present the limited Off-Broadway engagement of FAMILY FURNITURE by A.R. Gurney. It is directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail (In The Heights) starring Carolyn McCormick (Law & Order), Peter Scolari (Girls, Newhart, Bosom Buddies), and Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) with newcomers Ismenia Mendes and Molly Nordin. Previews begin November 12 at The Flea with opening slated for Sunday, November 24.
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership proudly presents an evening of storytelling and laughs with Peter Gethers and Dan Okrent, the creators of the off-Broadway hit comedy, OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES, at Spertus, 610 S. Michigan Avenue, Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7pm. The program will be moderated by Chicago's own humorist Mike Leiderman, and will feature video excerpts from the Chicago stage production which begins performances here at the Royal George Theatre, Sept. 24, and officially opens Oct. 2.
George Eastman House, together with the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF), the Cineteca del Friuli, and Cinemazero today announced the recovery of Mercury Theatre's long-lost Too Much Johnson, directed by Orson Welles in 1938. The silent film was found in a warehouse by the staff of Cinemazero, an art house in Pordenone, Italy.
Summer Guitar Fest will be presented tonight, July 28, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
Rooftop Films has a busy week coming up with a screening every day of the week starting Monday. On Monday, July 29 we head to Coney Island with a free screening of Men in Black III. The new date for The Central Park Five (rescheduled from last month) will be Tuesday, July 30 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in Manhattan. On Wednesday, July 30, join us in Queens for the screening of the Romanian film Domestic. We on a boat Thursday, August 1 with The Expedition to the End of the World in Red Hook (and an after-party at Brooklyn Crab). Four screens, one movie: watch the New York Premiere of North of South, West of East on four different screens Friday, August 2 at MetroTech Commons in Brooklyn. And on Saturday, August 3, we screen the candid documentary Cutie and the Boxer, with a live boxing painting by famed artist Ushio Shinohara in Gowanus.
BANDALOOP, the Bay Area's acclaimed vertical dance company, is proud to present Harboring, a new hour long, multi-dimensional dance by Amelia Rudolph in collaboration with assistant artistic director Rachael Lincoln and the dancers of BANDALOOP, with art direction by celebrated designer Jack Carpenter. Staged in and around Fort Mason Center's iconic Festival Pavilion and inspired by Fort Mason's past and present, this world premiere moves through images of travel, memory, the fluidity of the ocean, rope craft and maritime industry using the medium of site-reactive multi-dimensional dance. Harboring will engage the space and interactive set pieces including a stack of shipping containers and a swinging frame/vessel to draw the viewer into an immersive experience.
Summer Guitar Fest will be presented on Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
BANDALOOP, the Bay Area's acclaimed vertical dance company, is proud to present Harboring, a new hour long, multi-dimensional dance by Amelia Rudolph in collaboration with assistant artistic director Rachael Lincoln and the dancers of BANDALOOP, with art direction by celebrated designer Jack Carpenter. Staged in and around Fort Mason Center's iconic Festival Pavilion and inspired by Fort Mason's past and present, this world premiere moves through images of travel, memory, the fluidity of the ocean, rope craft and maritime industry using the medium of site-reactive multi-dimensional dance. Harboring will engage the space and interactive set pieces including a stack of shipping containers and a swinging frame/vessel to draw the viewer into an immersive experience.
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