Nelson News

Five individuals have been selected as winners of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.

Country music standout Jeff Carson will be hosting Country Classics during the weeks of September 28 and October 5, presented by Springer Mountain Farms Chicken, Cracker Barrel and filmed at The Willie Nelson Museum in Nashville.

Craft Recordings announces the reissue of Charles Brown’s Cool Christmas Blues on vinyl.

Conch Shell Productions, in co-production with HB Studio, will present #BlueLightSeries featuring live streamed performances on Oct. 9, 16, 23 and 30 at 9 p.m. EST.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Stuart Carden today announced the first NEW event for the revised and abbreviated 2020-2021 season. Ghost Light: A Haunted Night of Songs and Stories from KC's Cultural Crossroads will kick off the season with six outdoor performances Oct., 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31.

Through the Mangrove Tunnels, performed by the JACK Quartet with pianist Steven Beck and drummer Russell Lacy, is a 45-minute work inspired by Lee's experiences growing up exploring the swamps and bayous of Florida.

Pork Filled Productions has set directors and dates for its third Unleashed festival, a celebration of new plays by POC playwrights. These scripts push past the bounds of conventional theatre to tell exciting new BIPOC-led stories in genres like horror, science fiction, fantasy and beyond.

Theatre Tulsa has announced an earlier start time for its upcoming outdoor concert on Oct. 2-3.

Conch Shell Productions, in co-production with HB Studio, will present #BlueLightSeries featuring live streamed performances on Oct. 9, 16, 23, and 30 at 9 p.m. EST.

The Rivertones, a?oeCape Town's most loved Reggae banda??, also perform internationally with their upbeat, skanking, joyful, old school reggae sound and their message of a?oeone lovea?? and were invited by the government of Madagascar to perform at awareness concerts across the island. Founder member, Roland Nair, who made his stage debut at the age of 12, has performed in 15 countries to capacity crowds of 75,000 with the likes of Bob Marley's band, The Wailers. 

ODC/Dance will present Fall for Art, a virtual event to benefit ODC on Sunday, October 11 at 11am PST.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre has announced the cast for the re-envisioned revival production of the musical Cambodia Agonistes, from darkness into light, with text and lyrics by Ernest Abuba, original music by Louis Stewart.

Black Pumas, the Grammy®-nominated duo of frontman/songwriter Eric Burton and producer/guitarist Adrian Quesada, appeared on Good Morning America today.

You can call her The Queen of Country, an Award-Winning Songwriter, Actress, Television Star, Philanthropist, Business Mogul, Icon and American Treasure - but to her millions of fans, she’s known simply as Dolly.

HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford, CT's only community-based and ensemble theatre, announced today a diverse and provocative lineup of virtual and audio theatrical experiences for Fall 2020.

Today, Pacific Theatre's Board of Directors announced the appointment of  Kaitlin Williams as the company's new Artistic Director. 

Greater Boston Stage Company welcomes back The Young Company with new adventures in education both on line and in person (safely and socially distanced, of course!). Whether you're looking to support classroom education, expand your theatrical knowledge, or just have some fun, The Young Company has something for you!

Cherry Jones and Jason Segel have joined the cast of 'The Sky is Everywhere,' a film from Apple Originals based on the book by Jandy Nelson.

Today at 2pm Pacific, Matt Berninger—frontman of critically acclaimed group The National—will be livestreaming on YouTube from his home in advance of the premiere of the official Chris Sgroi-directed video for the single “One More Second.'