Leonardo News

Cutting Ball Theater opens its 14th season with Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep, a festival of August Strindberg's five Chamber Plays in new translations by Paul Walsh.

The second official trailer for Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED featuring Jonah Hill and starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chrisoph Waltz and Kerry Washington has just been released. Check it out below!

Lookingglass Theatre Company announces a four week extension of Metamorphoses, based on the myths of Ovid from a translation by David Slavitt, written and directed by Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman. The revival production, coinciding with the 10th Anniversary of the Broadway production, is now playing through December 16, 2012, at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson.

Lookingglass Theatre Company announces a four week extension of Metamorphoses, based on the myths of Ovid from a translation by David Slavitt, written and directed by Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman. The revival production, coinciding with the 10th Anniversary of the Broadway production, is now playing through December 16, 2012, at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson.

According to Variety, Beyonce Knowles has left Clint Eastwood's remake of A Star Is Born, which is still on the search for a male lead. Sources told Variety that because the film had no start date, this made the scheduling difficult for the already busy singer.

The 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, presented by the Los Angeles Times, is pleased to announce that screenwriter/director Quentin Tarantino will be given the 'Hollywood Screenwriter Award,' at this year's awards gala.

MYTHBUSTERS returns starting Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 8/7c on Discovery.The series experts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage teamed up with Hollywood director James Cameron, to figure out: if Titanic's Jack [Leonardo DiCaprio] and Rose [Kate Winslet] had both fit on the wooden piece of debris would they have survived the diaster together? Check out a sneak peek of the upcoming episode below!

Prince Charming George Hamilton and callipygian Christopher Sieber are now on stage at the beautiful Fisher Theatre, in the outrageous and wacky musical "La Cage aux Folles". Broadway In Detroit is always working hard to bring entertainment that appeals to diverse audiences, and this is one of those niche productions that had audiences rolling in the floors with laughter.

Adult Swim announced today it has picked up the hilarious live-action comedies CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, the Emmy(R)-winning series created by Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), and NTSF:SD:SUV::, created by Paul Scheer (The League), for an additional season of each.

A new discovery from the hands of Leonardo da Vinci, 'Horse and Rider' is on display to the public for the first time at Da Vinci - The Genius at The Venetian in Las Vegas, presented by Imagine Exhibitions. Visitors to the exhibition now have the rare opportunity to see the mold and original bronze cast of the only known Leonardo da Vinci sculpture surviving today.

Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello - aka the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - made a triumphant return to television in their new Nickelodeon series premiere this weekend (Saturday, Sept. 29, at 11 a.m., ET/PT), ranking as the week's top telecast with kids 2-11 (6.2/2.1 million) and boys 6-11 (8.2/837,000) across broadcast and cable TV, and the number-one kids program on basic cable with total viewers (drawing 3.9 million) for the week. Additionally, the new CG-animated version of the series hit a ratings high for Nickelodeon with boys 2-11 (7.5/1.3 million), and was the network's top-rated premiere for an animated series since 2009. During its premiere weekend the series reached nearly 12 million total viewers.

According to the Associated Press, Broadway vet Christine Ebersole will star in 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Martin Scorsese will direct the film, in which she will star as DiCaprio's mother.

Labyrinth Theater Company, the award-winning, downtown ensemble announced today the complete cast and creative team for their World Premiere production of Radiance, written by Cusi Cram and directed by Suzanne Agins. The complete cast of the upcoming production of Radiance includes Kelly AuCoin (Julius Caesar, Julie & Julia) and Ana Reeder (Top Girls, Sight Unseen), as well as Labyrinth Company Members Kohl Sudduth (The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Take Me Out) and Aaron Roman Weiner (Thinner Than Water, The Glass Menagerie).

This holiday season, Berkeley Repertory Theatre welcomes back a beloved artist for an alluring and hypnotic world-premiere production. Mary Zimmerman is mesmerizing. From Metamorphoses to The Arabian Nights, audiences have embraced her enchanting adaptations of epic tales. Now the Tony Award-winning director casts a spell with The White Snake, a classic romance from Chinese legend. As she falls for a charming young man, a snake spirit discovers what it means to be human. But a monk objects, and the bride must unveil her magical powers to save their love.

El próximo lunes 1 de octubre visitarán el programa Claudio Pazos, reciente ganador del Premio Hugo a Mejor actor en Musical Off por la obra 'Cachafaz', Mara Ferrari, actriz, cantante y educadora, integrante de 'Mujeres quemando' y Carlos Iaquinta, tenor, director y actor en 'Lo que el generalísimo se llevó' espectáculo cómico musical estrenado en el Margarita Xirgu.

Nickelodeon will debut the all-new, CG-animated series TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES with a one-hour special event today, Sept. 29, at 11:00 a.m. (ET/PT). The 26-episode, half-hour action-comedy series breathes new life into the wildly popular band of reptile brothers played by Jason Biggs (American Pie) as 'Leonardo,' Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings) as 'Raphael,' Greg Cipes (Teen Titans) as 'Michelangelo' and Rob Paulsen (Planet Sheen) as 'Donatello' (Paulsen also voiced the original 'Raphael' from 1987-1996 in the very first TMNT series).

Legendary gypsy guitarist/composer Dorado Schmitt from the Lorraine area of France, in the tradition of Manouche gypsy life and culture, taught his 3 sons to follow in his footsteps and become jazz afficionados in the style of the great late Django Reinhardt, renowned gypsy guitarist. Schmitt is known for his harmonious melodies, brilliant improvisations and extraordinary technique. He has performed at festivals around the world and with top Jazz luminaries Oscar Peterson, The Pizzarelli's , George Benson, Paquito D'Rivera, James Carter and more.

Members of the original cast of The Public Theater's critically-acclaimed musical February House will reunite at Joe's Pub on October 16th at 7:00pm for an evening of song, and to celebrate the release of the official February House original cast recording (StorySound, 10.16) produced by Gabriel Kahane and Ted Sperling.

Passage Theatre Company will produce its first main stage play of the 2012-2013 season at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton October 18 - November 4.

On the occasion of the UN General Assembly, composer, singer, author, actor, and activist Sting and Trudie Styler, actress, film producer, director, human rights activist, environmentalist and UNICEF Ambassador, will be honored for their worldwide environmental work today, September 25 at The Harvard Club in New York City by the Cinema for Peace Foundation and the BMZ, Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.