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As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness airing nationally,Tuesday, August 4, 2015
The Flat Rock Playhouse 2015 season will continue with the Pulitzer Prize winning Driving Miss Daisy, which will run from tonight, July 9th, through July 26th at the Playhouse Downtown.
An inspiring story about love, life and real estate unfolds in 5 Flights Up, coming to DVD and Blu-ray with Digital HD today, July 7, 2015, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) recently announced its full lineup of productions, readings, and concerts for NYMF 2015. From today, July 7, to July 27, NYMF 2015 will present almost two dozen productions of new musicals, including the newly announced Passing By and Summer Valley Fair. In addition, NYMF 2015 will also feature staged readings and the debut of brand new concerts.
Producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, and Jam Theatricals just announced that Tony nominee JESSICA HECHT (A View From the Bridge, “Breaking Bad,” The Last Night of Ballyhoo) and ADAM KANTOR (The Last Five Years, Next to Normal, Rent) will join the cast of Fiddler on the Roof. Hecht will play the role of Golde and Kantor will play the role of Motel. Further casting will be announced soon.
ARE YOU THERE, MORGAN FREEMAN?, a new song cycle extravaganza written and performed by Brittany Velotta, will be presented in the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Sean Hayes and husband Scott Icenogle celebrated today's Supreme Court ruling on Marriage Equality with a joyous new Facebook video to the tune of 'Fit as a Fiddle.'
Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane are back, reprising their roles in the sequel to the 2012 comedy TED.
From the producers of NIRBHAYA, The Exonerated, Guantanamo and Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel, Culture Project along with Rosie O'Donnell will present the world premiere of MotherStruck written and performed by Staceyann Chin and directed by Cynthia Nixon, beginning Thursday, September 24th, 2015 at Culture Project's Lynn Redgrave Theater. Opening Night is set for Wednesday, October 7th.
The Flat Rock Playhouse 2015 season will continue with the Pulitzer Prize winning Driving Miss Daisy, which will run from July 9th through July 26th at the Playhouse Downtown.
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is excited to announce the recipients of the 23rd annual Sally Ordway Irvine Awards. The prestigious Sally Awards recognize and honor individuals and institutions that strengthen and enrich the state through their commitment to the arts and arts education.
Big Fish, a new musical by Andrew Lippa and John August, joins Stages' lineup for its 2015-16 season.
Everyone's favorite potty-mouthed TEDDY BEAR will be back in theaters on June 26, 2015. Below, check out an all-new trailer for Seth MacFarlane's TED 2!
Ebony Repertory Theatre (ERT - Founder/Producer Wren T. Brown) announced today that they will present the Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Tony Award-nominated production of THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS starring Tony Award-winner Roger Robinson (Joe Turner's Come and Gone) as Oedpius. The acclaimed production, conceived and adapted by Lee Breuer (Mabou Mines' Trilogy) and music by Bob Telson (Lincoln Center Theater's Chronicle of a Death Foretold), is a soul stirring dramatic-musical which takes place within the framework of a Pentecostal church service set against the tragic Greek background of the story of Oedipus at Colonus, in which the exiled king Oedipus seeks a place where he may be properly buried. ERT's production, directed by Andi Chapman (Actors Co-op's Steel Magnolias - Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Director), will commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Premiere. Performances will run tonight, June 18 - July 19, 2015 with an official press opening on Saturday, June 20 at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center (4718 West Washington Boulevard) in Los Angeles.
CIRCLE THEATRE has announced the full cast and creative team for it's Midwest-premiere production of the hit off-Broadway musical, Triassic Parq! The production will run Friday, September 17th through Sunday, October 4th at the Heartland Studios in Rogers Park, 7016 North Glenwood Ave. Further information on performance dates and times will be posted at www.circletheatrechicago.org/current-season.html.
The Actors Hall of Fame, which will honor 15 exceptional film, television and theatre actors this year, has partnered with Ovation TV, America's only arts network, to present the premiere of the 2015 Actors Hall of Fame inductions specia
You can catch Frank Caliendo's stand-up live at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Friday, August 21 at 8 p.m. with special guest George Kanter.
The Emmy(R)-winning television event, which this year will celebrate the career of actor, comedian, author, playwright, screenwriter, producer and musician Steve Martin, will continue premiering on TNT or TBS through 2018, with encores each year on sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
The Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC) of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) once again saluted a leader in cinematic artistry when it honored two-time Academy Award® nominee Mark Ruffalo
MTV2 previously announced that'Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out,' will return to the network for a seventh season summer run with 12 all-new episodes beginning tonight, June 10 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT.
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