Sundance Institute will curate dozens of offscreen events, including behind-the-scenes panels on the art of filmmaking, musical performances and a?" around the theme of Imagined Futures a?" a public Bonfire and several extended post-screening conversations (known as IF Screenings), at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival taking place in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance, Utah, January 23 through February 2, 2020.
The Paley Center for Media will present A Salute to Black Achievements in Television Presented by Citi from February 1-March 1. This monthlong celebration will include an interactive exhibit focusing on comedy, spotlight BET Network's 40th anniversary, as well as family activities, education classes, and screenings featuring some of the most influential names in entertainment. Entry to the exhibit and screenings are free and open to the public.
The League of Professional Theatre Women (Shellen Lubin and Catherine Porter, Co-Presidents), an organization which has been championing women in the professional theatre for over three decades, is producing an Oral History Project event with renowned Broadway publicist Irene Gandy on Monday, February 10 beginning at 6pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (111 Amsterdam Avenue at 65th Street). Admission to the event is FREE and seats are available on a first-come-first-seated basis. Doors will open at 5:30pm.
It was a point of pride to interview celebrated local playwright, Christopher Demos-Brown, about his play, American Son, which opened on Broadway last November and starred Kerry Washington. South Florida's theater community celebrated one of our own as the play had a wildly successful run on Broadway. American Son will have its Florida premiere at the Arsht Center as a co-presentation with Zoetic Stage of which Demos-Brown is Zoetic Stage's founding artistic director.
Actress, singer, author, and activist Eartha Kitt might be best known as the singer behind 'Santa Baby' and 'C'est si bon,' or as the third Catwoman on the sixties Batman TV series.
New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian's world premiere stage adaptation of his novel MIDWIVES is set to kick off 2020 in George Street Playhouse's new home at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. Performances begin January 21st.
GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today announced that it will honor global superstar Taylor Swift and award-winning director, producer, writer, and advocate Janet Mock at the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, April 16, 2020.
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts today announced three dynamite additions to its 2020 performance schedule. Tickets for these shows go on sale to donors this week, and to the general public on Saturday, January 11 at 10 am.
Tim Allen (Golden Globe Award winner and five-time nominee), Jennifer Aniston (Golden Globe Award winner and four-time nominee), Ana de Armas (Golden Globe Award nominee), Christian Bale (Golden Globe Award winner and five-time nominee) Antonio Banderas (five-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Jason Bateman (Golden Globe Award winner and five-time nominee), Cate Blanchett (Golden Globe Award winner and ten-time nominee), Matt Bomer (Golden Globe Award winner), Pierce Brosnan (two-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Glenn Close (Golden Globe Award winner and fourteen-time nominee), Daniel Craig (Golden Globe Award nominee), Ted Danson (Golden Globe Award winner and twelve-time nominee), Leonardo DiCaprio (Golden Globe Award winner and twelve-time nominee), Ansel Elgort (Golden Globe Award nominee), Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Will Ferrell (two-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Lauren Graham (Golden Globe Award nominee), Tiffany Haddish, Kit Harington (Golden Globe Award nominee), Salma Hayek (Golden Globe Award nominee), Scarlett Johansson (five-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Elton John (Golden Globe Award winner and five-time nominee), Nick Jonas (Golden Globe Award nominee), Harvey Keitel (Golden Globe Award nominee), Zoë Kravitz, Rami Malek (Golden Globe Award winner and four-time nominee), Jennifer Lopez (Golden Globe Award nominee), Kate McKinnon, Helen Mirren (Golden Globe Award winner and sixteen-time nominee), Jason Momoa, Gwyneth Paltrow (Golden Globe Award winner and two-time nominee), Brad Pitt (Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time nominee), Amy Poehler (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time nominee), Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Margot Robbie (two-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Paul Rudd (Golden Globe Award nominee), Wesley Snipes, Octavia Spencer (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time nominee), Bernie Taupin (Golden Globe Award winner and four-time nominee), Charlize Theron (Golden Globe Award winner and six-time nominee),Sofia Vergara (four-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Kerry Washington (two-time Golden Globe Award nominee), Naomi Watts (Golden Globe Award nominee), Rachel Weisz (Golden Globe Award winner and three-time nominee) and Reese Witherspoon (Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time nominee) have been announced as presenters by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 77th Annual Golden Globe® Awards. Ricky Gervais will host the high-profile ceremony airing live coast to coast on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 from 5-8 p.m. PT/8-11 p.m. ET on NBC from The Beverly Hilton. Previously announced eight-time Golden Globe Award winner and fifteen-time nominee Tom Hanks will be the recipient of the 2020 Cecil B. deMille Award. Three-time Golden Globe Award nominee Ellen DeGeneres will receive the Carol Burnett Award. Dylan & Paris Brosnan will serve as this year's Golden Globe Ambassadors.
Zoetic Stage and the Arsht Center present the highly-anticipated Florida premiere of AMERICAN SON, a topical drama by multiple Carbonell award-winning playwright and Zoetic Stage co-founder Christopher Demos-Brown.
The Boch Center and Live Nation announced that Bill Maher will take the Boch Center Wang Theatre stage on Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 8:00PM. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, December 20, 2019 at 10:00AM.
Hulu has announced that Little Fires Everywhere, staring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, will premiere Wednesday, March 18th only on Hulu!
Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, will present a developmental presentation of a new dance musical, A CROSSING, on December 13 at Alvin Ailey Dance Studios.
“Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times'” adds even more star power to the highly anticipated live sitcom holiday special airing on ABC, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18 (8:00-9:32 p.m. EST). In this one-night-only event, an all-star lineup of talent will tackle the roles first portrayed in the iconic television sitcom “Good Times,” including Viola Davis and Andre Braugher as Florida Evans and James Evans, Jay Pharoah as J.J Evans, Asante Blackk as Michael Evans, Corinne Foxx as Thelma Evans and Tiffany Haddish recreating the role of Willona Woods. Jharrel Jerome is also confirmed to join the star-studded cast. Joining forces for a show-stopping musical performance will be ABC's Anthony Anderson and the legendary Patti LaBelle. This holiday-inspired live event produced by Sony Pictures Television will recreate installments of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin's Emmy® Award-winning series “All in the Family” and groundbreaking sitcom “Good Times,” created by Mike Evans, Eric Monte and developed by Lear.
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) hosted its 28th annual Women in Entertainment breakfast gala presented by Lifetime today, honoring Reese Witherspoon with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award and Ronan Farrow with the Equity in Entertainment Award. This year's honorees were joined by best-selling author, entrepreneur and political activist Stacey Abrams, who delivered the keynote speech. The event – held at MILK Studios in Los Angeles – coincided with the publication of THR's annual Power 100 Women in Entertainment issue, guest edited by Olivia Wilde.
After their unforgettable live performances charmed audiences last May, all-star cast members Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Ellie Kemper and Ike Barinholtz are set to reprise their iconic “All in the Family” roles as Archie and Edith Bunker, Gloria Stivic and Meathead in “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times,'” set to return to ABC on Wednesday, Dec. 18 (8:00 p.m. EST). Esteemed cast members joining the “All in the Family” cast include Kevin Bacon, Jesse Eisenberg and Justina Machado. This holiday-inspired live event produced by Sony Pictures Television will recreate installments of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin's Emmy® Award-winning series “All in the Family” and groundbreaking sitcom “Good Times,” created by Mike Evans, Eric Monte and developed by Lear. Talent taking on the iconic roles featured in “Good Times” will be announced at a later date.
JORDAN RICE of ATLANTA, GA , has been named a 2020 National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) Finalist in DISCIPLINE, the organization's highest honor. RICE is a homeschooler and has been recognized for her artistic achievement and joins 686 of the nation's most accomplished artists in the visual, literary, and performing arts. RICE was selected by an esteemed discipline-specific panel of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process. This year's award winners represent the top 9.5% of applications across ten artistic disciplines. YoungArts award winners gain access to one of the most prestigious programs for emerging artists in the United States in which they will have opportunities for creative and professional development throughout their entire careers. A complete list of the 2020 winners, all 15-18 years old or in grades 10-12, is available online at youngarts.org/winners.
Metropolitan Entertainment and the Rochester Broadway Theatre League (RBTL) welcomes the return of comedian Bill Maher to Western New York. He performs at RBTL's Auditorium Theatre in Rochester on Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 7:30pm.
The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the showcase of new independent feature films selected across all categories for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival hosts screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort, from January 23a?"February 2, 2020. The Sundance Film Festival is Sundance Institute's flagship public program, widely regarded as the largest American independent film festival and attended by more than 120,000 people and 1,300 accredited press, and powered by more than 2,000 volunteers last year.
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