Martin Scorsese News

Continuing its mission of bringing the arts to the public during the coronavirus crisis, Gold Coast Arts has partnered with several top film distributors and filmmakers to bring great films to viewers as part of its virtual at-home screening series. 

'Gets Good Lights' director Alejandra Parody and producer/composer Elizabeth Phillipson-Weiner are Tom Needham's special guests this Thursday on WUSB's SOUNDS OF FILM. In addition, the show will feature recent interviews with composer Howard Shore and filmmaker John Barbour.

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the best film musicals since the sound era began; see if your favorites made the list!

Dan Roher, the award-winning director of ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND, is Tom Needham's special guest this Thursday at 6 pm on WUSB's SOUNDS OF FILM.

This Month, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

The Peace Center will screen the documentary film Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band on Saturday, March 14, at 5 and 7:30 p.m. in the Gunter Theatre.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that James Lipton, executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, has died at age 93.

Juliette Lewis talks about her extensive career, her relationship with Martin Scorsese and Sacred Lies.

The Metropolitan Opera will present a new production of Wagner's early masterpiece Der Fliegende Holländer on March 2, 2020, with performances continuing through March 27. Valery Gergiev conducts the new staging from director François Girard, whose interpretation is centered on the young woman Senta's obsession with a portrait of the Dutchman.

Tony winner (and eight-time nominee) Kelli O'Hara returned to her Oklahoma birthplace to wow audiences in the Kristin Chenoweth Theatre at the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center. Just Kelli and a piano, she offered a truly generous concert, performing almost twenty songs over the span of nearly two hours, without an intermission. Ms. O'Hara undoubtedly possesses one of the clearest, crystalline voices of any singer today, yet it was her honesty, vulnerability, and sincerity that truly moved the audience to an immediate standing ovation at the end of the night.

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III brings Surviving Twin a scripted, one man show to The Ridgefield Playhouse on Thursday, March 5th at 8pm, in an evening of music and memories many years in the making. This 'posthumous collaboration' with his writer father, explores the question: What lives on between father and son? This event is part of the Doyle Coffin Architecture Singer Songwriter Series and Northern Trust Broadway & Cabaret Series with support from Teed & Brown. Visit TerraSole (3 Big Shop Lane, Ridgefield) for dinner before the show and get a free glass of house wine or dessert with your entrée when you present your tickets! Media partner for this event is WSHU - Connecticut Public Radio.

A Dark Foe, produced by Amy Williams, directed and co-written by Maria Gabriela Cardenas, will make its World Premiere at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival on Saturday, February 15th at 9:30PM at the Regal Cinema at LA Live. The film stars Selma Blair, Julie Gonzalez, Graham Greene, Glen Morshower, Monte Markham, Beverly Todd and Trisha Rae Stahl.

San Diego band Mrs. Henry is excited to announce their Spring Tour and  Mrs. Henry Presents Music of the Band.

On Sunday, February 9, the 2020 Oscars took place at the Dolby Theatre and aired live on ABC .

Very Intense Productions will present RSO AT F/54, an evening retrospective of musicals by multi-award-winning composer-lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver at Feinstein's/54 Below. Show time will be 7:00pm on March 31, 2020.

The Free Association has announced a star line-up of guests for their run of hit-shows at the VAULT Festival 2020. Running from 4 February - 16 February, this is the first time the Free Association will present a series of the most exciting improvised comedy shows in London.

Centenary Stage Company has announced its cast for the upcoming 2020 production of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys opening February 14 and running through March 1 in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Ave. Hackettstown, NJ.

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Netflix has acquired all rights to Bradley Cooper's untitled Leonard Bernstein film, according to Deadline.  Cooper will direct, star in and produce the film from the script he co-wrote with Josh Singer. Cooper has been working closely with Bernstein's children, Jamie, Alexander and Nina, for the past two years on the film.

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) hosted the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards on the evening of Saturday, January 18 at the Hollywood Palladium. A full list of winners is below.