Television icon, Dorothy Lyman, who is well known for playing Opal Gardner on All My Children and Naomi Oates Harper on Mama's Family, will premiere her new play, In the Bleak Midwinter, at Shetler Studios' Theatre 54, in Manhattan. The production stars Blue Bloods series regular, Abigail Hawk. The limited engagement runs September 8 - 23.
Queens-based Rude Grooms announced today initial details for the company's inaugural public production: William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, led by actor-manager Laura Piccoli (Unhealthy at Battalion Theatre Co) and produced in partnership with Long Island City Artists at the Plaxall Gallery and the Astoria Park Alliance. The production will play shows in Queens at the Plaxall Gallery, Astoria Park, Queensbridge Park, and Rainey Park as well as in Manhattan at the West End Theatre. Reservations are strongly encouraged and can be made online at rudegrooms.com.
James asks Mariska Hargitay and Holly Hunter about coming up in New York and learns Holly once had to spend the night in Riverside Park, a place Mariska would fare just fine if she was equipped with Olivia Benson's detective badge. Watch the clip below!
The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills presents Creating Great Characters: Dick Wolf & Mariska Hargitay as part of its PaleyLive Spring 2018 season on June 4, 2018 at 7 p.m.
The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills announced today the latest selections for its PaleyLive Spring 2018 season: Creating Great Characters: Dick Wolf & Mariska Hargitay in Conversation will be held on June 4, 2018, and An Evening with Dear White People will take place on June 5, 2018.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has been renewed by NBC for season 20.
Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Rachael Sage has announced the release of her forthcoming album, "Myopia", out May 4 via MPress Records/ILS/Caroline. In anticipation, Sage has released the first single 'Olivia' via BlackBook. Listen and share 'Olivia' and pre-order the album via Pledge Music. On tour now with Howard Jones.
Documentary 'I Am Evidence,' Revealing the Shocking Number of Untested Rape Kits in America and Showing How Testing Them Can Lead to Solving Crimes, Debuts April 16 on HBO
Despite the power of DNA to solve crimes, hundreds of thousands of rape kits, containing crucial DNA evidence, are currently languishing untested in police-evidence storage rooms across the country. Behind each one of these kits is a sexual-assault survivor waiting for justice to be served, and a perpetrator potentially evading prosecution.
In a case of life imitating art, Younger star Peter Hermann – who plays book publisher Charles Brooks on the hit TV Land show – celebrated the launch of his first children's book IF THE S IN MOOSE COMES LOOSE this past Saturday at Books of Wonder in NYC. The book was released through HarperCollins on March 13.
The New Black Fest and The Lark, two theater organizations dedicated to celebrating and advocating for stories that explore the intersection of art and social justice, are proud to announce the fifth annual The New Black Fest at The Lark. This week-long event is aimed at showcasing diverse and provocative work in a festival of Black theater artists from throughout the Diaspora, and will feature talkbacks, a panel event, and staged readings of four plays-in-progress. The festival will take place April 9-13, 2018, and will include works by 2017 Djerassi Writer in Residence France-Luce Benson (Deux Femmes On the Edge De La Revolution), 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award recipient Donja R. Love (soft), 2015 Princess Grace Award-Winner Jonathan Payne (Brother Rabbit), and artist, activist, and The New Black Fest alum Liza Jessie Peterson (Sistergurls and the Squirrel) who has performed excerpts of her one-person play The Peculiar Patriot in over 35 penitentiaries across the country.
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