Mark Cornell News

The Sauk, Hillsdale County's community theatre, is excited to announce the cast of the 2022 edition of Sauk Shorts. The annual celebration of the short play will be presented for four performances, April 21-24.

Just last night, two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and two-time Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker made their return to Broadway in the long-awaited opening of Neil Simon's classic comedy about marriage, Plaza Suite under the direction of Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey.

The Sauk, Hillsdale County's community theatre, has announced their complete 2022 season that includes a world premiere drama, an immersive comedy and the return of musicals in the summer months.

Mark Cornell and Sienna Miller presented the Ambassador Theatre Group's (ATG) Summer Party at Kensington Palace Gardens in support of Sam Mendes and his Theatre Artists Fund (TAF) with an auction hosted by Lord Harry Dalmeny, Chairman of Sotheby's.

In addition to their usual season of plays and musicals, The Sauk, Hillsdale County's Community Theatre, is dedicated to developing new works. The Sauk's seventh annual 'Plays-in-Development' will be presented June 25 and 26 at the Sauk Theatre in Jonesville.

Started in 2015, 'Plays-in-Development' is a unique project to help writers develop their scripts. Actors and directors work one on one with playwrights to learn what works and what does not work about their plays.

International Entertainment Holdings Limited, the parent company of The Ambassador Theatre Group, today announced the pending acquisition by IEHL of the iconic Golden Gate Theatre and Orpheum Theatre, both in San Francisco, and the Fisher Theatre in Detroit, as well as its programming operation of the Detroit Opera House and Music Hall in Detroit.

TRAIN STOP, a short film about a romantic chance encounter in a train station, will screen at the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival, Saturday, December 12th, a part of Film Block 15 from 2:30 – 4:30pm at the Grand 14 Theatre at Market Common.

Ambassador Theatre Group has announced that all tickets for the first performance of their pantomimes, produced by Qdos Entertainment in Manchester, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham will be gifted to NHS workers and their families.

Ambassador Theatre Group has announced that all tickets for the first performance of their pantomimes, produced by Qdos Entertainment in Manchester, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham will be gifted to NHS workers and their families.

What do you do when a pandemic closes theaters during film festival season? If you are Method Fest Independent Film Festival, you go retro and re-create the Drive-in movie experience - without the carhops and bobby socks of course!

The Times has reported that Tamara Rojo, the head of English National Ballet, said that it will take three months to get the company's performers ready to perform live once again. 

The Stage has reported that English National Ballet's Tamara Rojo, the Arts Council's chair Nicholas Serota and Mark Cornell, chief executive of Ambassador Theatre Group, will be sitting on a new government-led taskforce aimed at rebuilding the arts and culture in the wake of the health crisis. 

TRAIN STOP, a short film about a romantic chance encounter in a train station, will screen at this year's Ashland Independent Film Festival, that will stream online from May 22nd - June 14th. The festival's mission is to celebrate the diversity of human experience through the art of independent film by enriching, educating and inspiring all audiences. To that end, Train Stop can be viewed online throughout the duration as part of a group of shorts, called Short Stories 1: Couples.

Although the theatre is closed, productions are on hold and rehearsals have halted, The Sauk, Hillsdale County's community theatre, is keeping theatre alive with a new project.

TRAIN STOP, a short film about a romantic chance encounter in a train station, will screen at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival in Beverly Hills on Saturday, March 21 at 3 pm. The film has been selected for several film festivals and has a full schedule for Spring 2020.

The internationally acclaimed, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will make its Japanese premiere in the summer of 2022.

The American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) and The Sauk, Hillsdale County's Community Theatre, are pleased to announce the cast of the AACT NewPlayFest winning play, On Pine Knoll Street by Mark Cornell. The world premiere will open February 7 and run through February 16, 2020. Tickets are available at thesauk.org or by calling the box office at 517-849-9100.

The American Association of Community Theatre and The Sauk, Hillsdale County's Community Theatre, are pleased to announce the cast of the AACT NewPlayFest winning play, On Pine Knoll Street by Mark Cornell. The world premiere will open February 7 and run through February 16, 2020. Tickets are available at thesauk.org or by calling the box office at 517-849-9100.

TRAIN STOP, a short film about a romantic encounter in a train station, will screen at The Valley Film Festival, September 25- 29th at the Laemmle Noho 7 in North Hollywood. Part of 'Girls on Film' Short Film Program, the film was produced by, directed by and composed by women.