Lady Parts Justice League (LPJL), the comedy-driven reproductive rights organization announces their summer tour bringing their unique combination of comedy, activism, and on-the-ground support to abortion providers and audiences across the nation. After a wildly successful debut last summer, the 2018 Vagical Mystery Tour (VMT) returns with an even more ambitious national tour that promises not only to make audiences laugh and dance, but the VMT performers will work with fans to get them to become activists in their own communities.
Encore telecasts of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” have delivered a 0.45 rating in adults 18-49 and 2.1 million viewers overall for the late-night ratings week of May 28-June 1, to outrate CBS' rebroadcast week of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in all key demographics – adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54.
Take a walk on the wild side! Dressed to impress, Todd Almond steps back into the title role of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati's season closer Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Written by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, this award-winning rock musical is an innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny story of a gender-crossed glam rocker determined to become a superstar. The regional revival of ETC's 2001 and 2003 hit production is a rocking ride, entertaining, touching, and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile. Playing June 5-July 1, 2018. Directed by D. Lynn Meyers. Presented by The Rosenthal Family Foundation and sponsored by LPK.
The Last 5 Years is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical about a man and a woman who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The musical's unconventional structure consists of an aspiring actress Cathy Hiatt (played by Jenna Pastuszek) telling her story backwards, while budding novelist Jamie Wellerstein (played by Max Meyers) tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
Elevator Repair Service, "one of the city's few truly essential theater companies" (New York Times), is pleased to present the world premiere of Everyone's Fine With Virginia Woolf, a new play written by longtime company member Kate Scelsa and directed by Elevator Repair Service Artistic Director John Collins.
At long last, Kinky Friedman's second musical act begins. With the proclamation that here “is what music was, before it came homogenized, trivialized and sanitized,” Kinky is dropping his first all-new CD of original tunes in four decades. Called Circus of Life, it presents a side of Kinky that few would have suspected in the halcyon days of his Texas Jewboys, laying perhaps legit claim to the title “The Leonard Cohen of Texas.” On July 3, 2018, he will release it on his own terms and on his own Echo Hill Records.
ABC News' “Nightline” averaged 1.225 million Total Viewers, 407,000 Adults 25-54 and 309,000 Adults 18-49, during the week of May 21, 2018, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “Nightline” defeated CBS' “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (1.158 million and 275,000, respectively) in Total Viewers (+67,000) and Adults 18-49 (+34,000).
'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has won the late-night ratings week of May 21-25 in adults 18-49 and most other key demographics, while delivering a seven-week high in total viewers, according to “live plus same day” figures from Nielsen Media Research. Note that “Jimmy Kimmel Live” aired a Friday encore and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” excluded a Friday rebroadcast from its averages.
Richard Kind (Red Oaks, A Serious Man), Stephanie March (Law & Order SVU), Jackie Hoffman (Feud) are set to star in The Social Ones, the first long-form content film from The New Potato Studios. Debra Jo Rupp (That 70s Show) and Peter Scolari (Girls) will also co-star in the indie written and directed by Laura Kosann.
Comedy Central announced today that it has ordered Stupid Questions with Chris Distefano, a weekly interstitial series created to intertwine Comedy Central's stand-up world premieres with its deep archive of classics during the network's stand-up heavy Friday nights. Stupid Questions premieres on Friday, June 1, with host Chris Distefano joined by guest Nikki Glaser. Glaser is host of You Up w/ Nikki Glaser on SiriusXM's Comedy Central Radio.
Indie rock act HAERTS is excited to start the next chapter of their story as they announce that they've officially signed with influential Toronto-based record label Arts & Crafts and will be releasing a new full-length studio album in the fall of 2018. The new album is the follow-up to the band's self-titled debut and finds HAERTS – Nini Fabi (vocals) and Benny Gebert (piano, guitar, production) – returning to their songwriting roots, focusing on deeply personal expression sonically driven by unpolished emotion, undeniable hooks and rich production.
A riff on Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, UNREEL recreates a foolish young man's uncertain journey to his dark side, on the night before his college entrance exams. A comedic and poignant personal journey, demonstrating the confusing truth of philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's maxim: "Life must lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards." UNREEL, written and performed by actor, theatre clown, and Comedy Death Star podcast host DENZIL MEYERS premiers at 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Opens June 3rd at Studio C Artists - 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, LA CA 90038. Five shows.
Eggbone, now comprised of cornetist Dan Clucas, saxophonist Chris Jonas, bassist Casey Andersen, and drummer Dave Wayne is an ad hoc musical ensemble that just keeps happening every once in a while. When asked to discuss the nature of the band and its music, drummer Wayne mutters "I just just keep getting roped into these things. There's really nothing I can do about it besides play my butt off and hope for the best."
Mindy Kaling talks about Ocean's 8, the text chain she shares with her castmates and an absurd question she received during a press tour on Late Night with Seth Meyers!
Excited to share that today, POPSUGAR Play/Ground, will announce the schedule and lineup for their two-day interactive summer festival that will be happening in New York City on June 9th & June 10th. Play/Ground will be an irl experience that brings POPAUGAR's award winning content to life across fashion, fitness, beauty, living, culture and music. See schedule below with panel topics, talent and timing.
Premiere violinist Anne Akiko Meyers returns to play with Pacific Symphony for "A Hero's Life" to close out the 2017-18 Classical series, joined by Concertmaster-Designate Dennis Kim.
