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Champagne Taittinger has been the official sponsor for The Screen Actors Guild Awards for the last 16 years. And Leonardo DiCaprio was honored at the celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the SAG Foundation.

The new David Mamet play starring Al Pacino and directed by Pam MacKinnon will open two weeks later than scheduled.

The Breakthrough Prize and its founders last night announced the recipients of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics.

The World Premiere of DaVinci & Michelangelo: Titans Side by Side Original Museum Theatre Performance will make its debut at the Glitter Dome Event Center in the RINO Arts District of Denver, CO beginning with an evening performance on November 27th, 2015 at 7:30pm and playing selected matinee and evening performance through December until New Year's weekend January 3, 2016.

The World Premiere of DaVinci & Michelangelo: Titans Side by Side Original Museum Theatre Performance will make its debut at the Glitter Dome Event Center in the RINO Arts District of Denver, CO beginning with an evening performance on November 27th, 2015 at 7:30pm and playing selected matinee and evening performance through December until New Year's weekend January 3, 2016.

CBS THIS MORNING, network television's only morning newscast posting year-to-year growth in viewers, will mark its 1,000th broadcast today, Oct. 30 (7:00-9:00 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation announced today the actors, filmmakers, and musicians who will present and perform at the nonprofit's 30th Anniversary Celebration.

Mixed martial arts fighter Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson has conquered opponents in the ring and receipts at the box office with his star turn in The A-Team. Now the former UFC Light Middleweight Champion takes on a whole new challenge: giant monsters and super villains. In a new graphic novel releasing today from Lion Forge Comics, Jackson isn't just a tough street brawler; he's a super-werewolf fighting for the people.

CBS THIS MORNING, network television's only morning newscast posting year-to-year growth in viewers, will mark its 1,000th broadcast on Friday, Oct. 30 (7:00-9:00 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Next up for Daron Bruce's students involved in theater at Hume-Fogg Academic High Schools (one of the nation's highest rated secondary schools) is a much-anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, running November 5-7 at the iconic and historic high school, located on Broadway naturally - in downtown Nashville. Taking on the challenging role of Mrs. Lovett in the school edition of Sondheim's musical is Darby Kolwyck, a talented student with an already enviable resume: She's played Rusty in Act Too's Footloose and was part of HFA's acclaimed production of Cabaret.

Over the weekend, the Environmental Media Association (EMA) announced the 25th Anniversary EMA Award winners, presented by Toyota and Lexus.

20th Century Fox has shared new poster art for THE REVENANT, hitting select theaters on Christmas Day, before expanding to theaters nationwide in January.

The Battles Musical LLC will present a second developmental reading of the new musical, THE BATTLES, with music, book, and lyrics by Ned Massey, at the New 42nd Street Studios today, October 23rd, at 3 pm.

The limited Broadway engagement of David Mamet's new play China Doll, which stars Academy Award winner Al Pacino under the direction of Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon (The Heidi Chronicles, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), begins previews starting tonight, October 21, 2015, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with an opening night set for Thursday, November 19, 2015.

Amphibian Stage Productions (Kathleen Culebro, Artistic Director) has announced the creative team for its third developmental staged reading of the 2015 season, Daedalus by David Davalos.

Dorian Baroque launches the 2015-16 season with an orchestral concert titled The Galant Violoncello Piccolo: Milan to Naples celebrating the late baroque music in the Italian Galante style featuring guest soloist Elinor Frey on the five-string piccolo cello.

As the grand finale to their spectacular 25th Anniversary 2015 Season, Theatre at the Center presents the beloved holiday classic, A Christmas Story, running November 19 through December 27, with a press opening on Sunday, November 22 at 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana. Based on the award-winning film, the play by Phil Grecian tells the story of Ralphie Parker, who longs for a genuine Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. The source material for the film was the warm and hilarious story collection In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by local Hammond, Indiana native Jean Shepherd. The holiday classic will be directed by Jeff Award-winner Linda Fortunato (Monty Python's Spamalot, A Christmas Carol, 42nd Street at Theatre at the Center).

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation announced today its tributes to award-winning director/producer/writer Lee Daniels, award-winning producer Megan Ellison, and award-winning director/producer Rob Marshall with the first “Patron of the Artists Awards”