Margaret Brown News

The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF), The Music Man Foundation (TMMF) and Music Theatre International (MTI) announced a special partnership that will give up to ten high schools a unique opportunity to perform the new, revised version of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”. Learn more here!

Up to ten $10,000 grants funded by TMMF will be made available for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years to be used toward costs associated with the production of the musical. Any accredited high school based in the United State is eligible to apply.

BANSHEES wins Best Film, but Sarah Polley scores best Director for WOMEN TALKING. In our Female Focus sections, Viola Davis gets the nod for Outstanding Achievement and Danielle Deadwyler's turn in TILL is designated the Breakthrough Performance of 2022. Emma Thompson takes AWFJ's Grand Dame title.

Hale Centre Theatre’s Centre Stage in Sandy is the first place you can see the new revised version of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN post-New York. And it’s a buoyant regional premiere.

In honor of Women's History Month, we're taking a look at some iconic real-life women who have been portrayed on stage in musicals!

Netflix's critically-acclaimed investigative series Dirty Money, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, returns for a second season.

Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey, Co-Heads of TIFF, today announced the TIFF Tribute Gala, an annual awards fundraiser to support TIFF's year-round programmes and core mission to transform the way people see the world through film, and to celebrate the film industry's outstanding contributors. The event takes place Monday, September 9 at the Fairmont Royal York, during the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. To recognize their leadership in creating a union between social impact and cinema, the TIFF Tribute Gala will introduce the new TIFF Impact Award. Participant Media will receive the inaugural award, which will be accepted by Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and CEO David Linde, marking an incredible 15 years of social action through storytelling. The TIFF Tribute Gala will also include the new Mary Pickford Award, honouring a female emerging talent in the industry. The inaugural award is given this year in celebration of United Artists' 100th anniversary. The recipient of this award, as well as additional honourees for the TIFF Tribute Gala, will be announced in the coming weeks.

"The Music Man" is marching into town for a must-see theater experience for adults and children alike! L/A Community Little Theater announces the cast of "The Music Man". Tickets for this upcoming production opening October 19th and running through the 28th are available online and through the box office.

When Margaret Brown managed to scramble onto one of the few lifeboats available when the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, the Denver, Colo., socialite became the stuff of myth and legends. She grabbed an oar and argued vehemently that they turn the boat around and look for survivors. Later, as a philanthropist, Brown spent many years helping families whose relatives had been on the doomed voyage.

L/A Community Little Theatre is excited to announce the cast for their upcoming production of URINETOWN. The 2001 Broadway hit features music by Mark Hollmann and lyrics by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, with book by Greg Kotis. Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, URINETOWN is a hilarious, touchingly honest, musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! This production is being directed by Kay Warren, assistant directed by Nicole Chase, produced by Brandon Chaloux, choreographed by Jake Boyce, with musical direction by Rebecca Caron.

Museum of the Moving Image will present Pushing the Envelope: A Decade of Documentary at the Cinema Eye Honors, from November 4 through December 23, 2016.

The Amarillo Symphony, (www.amarillosymphony.org), the leader of orchestral music in the Texas Panhandle since 1924, today welcomes the new board officers and directors.

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Independent Lens, which just won the IDA's Best Curated Series Award this weekend, announced its 2015 Winter/Spring season lineup today.

RADiUS announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to Participant Media's critically-acclaimed, SXSW Grand Jury Award-winning film, THE GREAT INVISIBLE

I was truly in awe of Candlelight Dinner Playhouse being a cultural beacon in the middle of the north Colorado farm fields.

Brook Forest Voices (BFV) audiobook producer and publisher has signed an agreement with Charlene A. Porter to produce her widely acclaimed "Boldfaced Lies" as an audiobook with a scheduled release in late summer 2013.

The Candlelight Dinner Playhouse will present "THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN", opening Thursday, January 24 and running through Saturday, March 30. This Tony Award-Winning musical by Meredith Willson, (composer of the Music Man), is the irresistible rags to riches story of Colorado's own real life legend, Margaret Brown.

Original, creative and 'absolutely bonkers' - Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory is anew musical written entirely by the incredibly talented Paul Boyd and produced by The Lyric Theatre, Belfast.

SimG Records has released the Original Cast Recording of Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory by Mercury Musical Developments member Paul Boyd.