Leonardo News

TELEMUNDO Studios announced the production kick off of its new telenovela “Quién es quién,” starring Danna Paola, Eugenio Siller, Laura Flores and Kimberly Dos Ramos.

Independent Theatre is poised to roar into The Space with a new version of what is considered the greatest American novel of the twentieth century.

Single-ticket sales for Opera Santa Barbara's 2015-16 season will begin on Saturday, August 15. Ranging from $29 to $204, tickets can be purchased at www.granadasb.org or by calling 805-899-2222. Opera Santa Barbara will open its 22nd season with Mozart's timeless drama Don Giovanni on November 6 and 8, followed by Donizetti's bel canto masterpiece The Elixir of Love on March 4 and 6, and a twin bill consisting of Puccini's compelling one-act operas Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi on April 22 and 24. Performances will take place at the historic Granada Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara.

Leonardo DiCaprio will once again team up with director Martin Scorsese for the big screen adaptaton of Erik Larson's best-selling novel, The Devil in the White City.

Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), the world's leading Internet television network, will premiere the outrageous original Spanish-language series, Club de Cuervos, from Mexican filmmaker Gaz Alazraki ('Nosotros los Nobles'), in all Netflix territories today, August 7, 2015.

What are asteroids, comets, and meteorites and where do they come from? The Space Science Institute's National Center for Interactive Learning, with funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA, has developed a national traveling exhibition called Great Balls of Fire: Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors, that will open on October 1, 2015 at the Museum of Discovery and Science.

Idle Muse Theatre Company will open its tenth season with the Chicago premiere of The Woman Who Amuses Herself, by Victor Lodato, directed by Idle Muse ensemble member Nathan Pease and featuring an all-company member cast from Idle Muse Theatre Company. In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, a worker at the Louvre, committed the crime of the century by walking out with the Mona Lisa hidden under his coat. Peruggia then spent two years in his Paris apartment alone with the mysteriously smiling woman as his muse. But was he an Italian patriot who believed 'La Gioconda' should be returned to her native Italy? Or was he a not-so-common thief seeking his fortune? Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece has attracted, inspired, and perplexed millions of admirers across generations and continents but what makes the Mona Lisa so special? Was it her theft alone that brought her the world's attention? Meet Vincenzo and others affected by the smiling lady in this intriguing whydunnit. Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (playscripts.com). Nathan Pease directed last season's Jeff Awards Nominated production, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Idle Muse Theatre Company.

August marks Art Appreciation Month, and the DOHVINCI brand from Hasbro, Inc. (HAS) is putting a creative spin on the occasion this year by honoring six seminal works of art with incredibly detailed recreations made out of 100% DOHVINCI design compound! The collection features classic paintings 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch, 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' by Georges Seurat, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Johannes Vermeer, 'The Starry Night' by Vincent van Gogh, 'Sunflowers' by Vincent van Gogh, and 'Mona Lisa' by Leonardo da Vinci, each uniquely reimagined entirely in colorful DOHVINCI compound.

PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presents “Neighborhood Week,” an entire week of classical orchestral and chamber music in some of Pittsburgh's most beloved locales. Beginning on Monday, August 31, the Pittsburgh Symphony will be bringing music to the community with different events each day through Friday, September 4. All details about Neighborhood Week, including locations and ticket information, can be found at pittsburghsymphony.org/neighborhood.

With Emmy(R) voting season underway, SundanceTV today announced the episode roll-out of its new original non-fiction series 'Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter,' produced in partnership with The Hollywood Reporter.

Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced at today's Starz Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation at the Beverly Hilton that all episodes of the third and final season of “Da Vinci's Demons”

Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced at today's Starz Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation at the Beverly Hilton that Starz is developing Entertainment One Television's (eOne) “Havana Quartet”  starring international film star Antonio Banderas

According to Deadline, stage favorite Ana Gasteyer has a pair of new television gigs lined up.

This collaborative exhibition with the National Gallery of Art, Washington charts for the very first time the development across Europe of metalpoint through six centuries from Leonardo to the present day. The show presents a unique gathering of around 100 of the best examples of metalpoint loaned from collections across the globe and also highlights the remarkable graphic holdings of works held in the British Museum. Spanning across centuries and countries, this exhibition is the first to look at the whole history of a technique, providing both an introduction to the medium and seeking to explain the longevity of metalpoint as an art form.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Ryan Murphy, just announced that Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon will return to Broadway as "James Tyrone, Jr." in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, joining the previously announced Academy and Emmy Award winner Jessica Lange as "Mary Tyrone," Golden Globe winner and Tony Award nominee Gabriel Byrne as "James Tyrone," and Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr. as "Edmund Tyrone." Jonathan Kent will direct, as part of Roundabout Theatre Company's 50th anniversary season. 

Famous con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. managed to pass himself off as a pilot, an ER doctor and a lawyer between the ages of 15-21 before finally getting caught. Although he never tried his hand as an actor, Frank Jr.'s biography, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, created dramatic opportunities for two other young stars, first on-screen with Leonardo DiCaprio, and later on Broadway with Aaron Tveit. Although the Broadway producers failed to find the financial (and critical) success that Abagnale and the film producers celebrated (closing after only 6 months), the musical launched a non-union production, which toured the US for another 7 months before rights were released to regional theatres. Now, marking its local debut, Uptown Players' new production is here - and it definitely makes the most of the musical's victories to create a fantastic opportunity for another star in our midst.

As previously reported, a 'grittier' big screen version of Lionel Bart's OLIVER! is aiming to start production next year in London, via Cameron Mackintosh and Working Title Films. Now, the Daily Mail writes that the filmmakers are planning a nationwide search for the title role and The Artful Dodger.

Stage Scene & Song Performing Arts, a 501(c)(3) non-profit Bergen County, NJ youth theater arts company, is thrilled to present their Summer Youth Theater Collaborative 2015 production of Catch Me If You Can, the high-flying musical comedy about chasing your dreams and not getting caught. Well, almost.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is an engaging musical about a teenager with boyish charm, a big imagination and millions in forged checks who successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer -- until an FBI agent catches up with him, and the two form an unlikely friendship.