The Joyce Theater (Linda Shelton, Executive Director), the United States' foremost dance venue, announced today programming for its 2013-2014 Fall & Winter Season featuring extraordinary companies, both international and local - several making their Joyce debuts - and loaded with highly anticipated premieres, including The Royal Ballet's production of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, choreographed by Arthur Pita especially for Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson.
Occupy This Album: A compilation of music by, for and inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99% was NOMINATED FOR “BEST COMPILATION ALBUM” By Independent Music Awards.
Just yeaterday THE GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL hosted a film screening and Q&A with Producer Phil Donahue for his new film, Body of War, at the Great Neck Arts Center Theatre. Check out photos from the event belw!
BODY OF WAR will receive a film screening and Q&A with producer Phil Donahue today, April 7, 2013 at 3:30 pm (doors open at 3pm) at Great Neck Arts Center Theatre (113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck).
American Theater Company (ATC) announces that the final performances for its critically-acclaimed revised version of columbinus, written by Stephen Karam and Artistic Director PJ Paparelli and directed by Paparelli, will be marked by a visit from Tom Mauser, the father of Columbine victim Daniel Mauser. Mauser will be attending the 2:00PM and 8:00PM performances on Saturday, April 6 and will also participate in a post-show talk-back with the cast of columbinus. Prior to Saturday evening's performance there will be a reception for Mauser co-hosted by ATC and the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.
The Flea Theater has announced a unique collaboration between The Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Public Theater, The Flea Theater, and individuals, Luna Kaufman, Emmanuel Ruranga, M.S. L.P.C., Daniel Neiden and Erika Feldman. In commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide, the group will produce a one time only public reading performance of a new play by Jay O. Sanders.
Tonight, March 23rd, MoveOn.org in collaboration with USA Action and Art Not War will be joined by Michael Moore for a screening of his film 'Bowling for Columbine' at the SVA Theatre in New York City on the 10th anniversary of the film winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary and Moore's acceptance speech denouncing the Iraq war.
On Saturday, March 23rd, MoveOn.org in collaboration with USA Action and Art Not War will be joined by Michael Moore for a screening of his film "Bowling for Columbine" at the SVA Theatre in New York City on the 10th anniversary of the film winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary and Moore's acceptance speech denouncing the Iraq war.
Uptown Players presents the world premiere of Re-Designing Women, a new play by Jamie Morris, creator of The Facts Of Life: The Lost Episode, Mommie Queerest, and Silence of the Clams. This unauthorized parody of the popular 1980's sitcom runs April 5 through May 19, 2013 at the Rose Room Theater inside S4 Night Club on Cedar Springs.
BODY OF WAR will receive a film screening and Q&A with producer Phil Donahue on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 3:30 pm (doors open at 3pm) at Great Neck Arts Center Theatre (113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck).
Tickets are currently on sale for UP Comedy Club's roster of stand-up, sketch shows, and newly added special engagements including the Chicago Improv Festival's 30 Rock show (April 7), Greg Proops podcast show (April 10), and CHIRP Radio's First Time: First Crime show (April 17). Also added by popular demand two shows of Team StarKid: Airport for Birds and Other Great Ideas (March 24 & 31) and an encore one-weekend return engagement of Four Girls (And A Guy): A One Night Stand with The Second City (April 11-13). Tickets can be purchased by calling 312-662-4562 or visiting UPComedyClub.com. UP Comedy Club is located at 230 W. North Ave, 3rd Floor of Piper's Alley in Chicago.
The NewFilmmakers LA Film Festival offers a carefully curated evening of films created by a talented group of documentarians, filmmakers, and screenwriters.
Tickets are currently on sale for UP Comedy Club's roster of stand-up and sketch comedy shows running now through June 1 including recently added stand-up comics Jeff Garlin (April 5-6), Ben Bailey (May 10-11), and the Sklar Brothers (May 30 – June 1). Tickets can be purchased by calling 312-662-4562 or visiting UPComedyClub.com. UP Comedy Club is located at 230 W. North Ave, 3rd Floor of Piper's Alley in Chicago. For schedule updates and the latest news about shows at UP Comedy Club visit UPComedyClub.com.
The NewFilmmakers LA Film Festival offers a carefully curated evening of films created by a talented group of documentarians, filmmakers, and screenwriters. I
In the week leading up to the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present five public events celebrating this year's nominees.
The Academy Award-nominated documentary feature 5 BROKEN CAMERAS, co-directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, will return to theaters in New York by popular demand, opening today at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and on January 25 at the Quad Cinema, followed by additional theatrical engagements in select cities. The film is also available nationwide this week on DVD, Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, Amazon and VOD outlets making it the most widely available of all the films nominated in the Documentary Feature category of the 85th Academy Awards.
Bill Maher, the brilliant political commentator who set the boundaries of where funny political talk can go on American television now stretches those limits in an evening of hard-hitting, side-splitting stand up humor on Sunday, April 28, 7:00 p.m., at the DuPont Theatre in Wilmington.
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation in partnership with Film Independent, the Independent Filmmaker Project, and the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway are teaming up again to host the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screening Series from January 16 to February 6.
Uptown Players presents its 11th annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way: Divas Raise the Roof, running January 18 through 27, 2013 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.
