Nick Hornby News

Production has begun on A Monster Calls, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, Goya Award-winning director of the worldwide smash The Impossible.

MONTPELIER, Vt., July 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), a national center for graduate education in the arts, announced today that best-selling author Cheryl Strayed will be interviewed by VCFA President Thomas Christopher Greene in front of a live audience on Friday, August 15th, 2014 at 5pm. The event will take place in Alumni Hall, 4 College Street, Montpelier.

Tickets are on sale for the Australian premiere of Broadway rock musical High Fidelity, which will debut at Chapel Off Chapel later from September 11th this year.

The Royal Court Theatre announces a new season of work today, Friday 27 June, including new plays from Molly Davies, Zinnie Harris, Rory Mullarkey, Tim Price and Jack Thorne; a debut play from first-time playwright Diana Nneka Atuona; a collaboration between scientist Chris Rapley, playwright and director Duncan Macmillan and director Katie Mitchell and a new production for young people and their families - Enda Walsh's new adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter will make her New York Philharmonic debut in Mary Chapin Carpenter with the New York Philharmonic and Special Guests, a retrospective program featuring songs from throughout her career, some newly arranged for orchestra.

John Tiffany's acclaimed production of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN transfers to the West End having scooped the South Bank award The critically-acclaimed South Bank Sky Arts award-winning production of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN will transfer to London's West End on 26 March for a strictly limited season.

'Veep' actor Tony Hale, who recently took home an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, has been cast in NBC's new comedy series ABOUT A BOY

Lionsgate has released an international trailer for A LONG WAY DOWN, director Pascal Chaumeil's and based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name.

About a Boy will air Tuesdays on NBC (9-9:30 p.m. ET). The series will premiere February 25 with a special preview on Friday, February 21 (10:30-11 p.m. ET), following Olympic Coverage.

NBC has announced premiere dates for five of its upcoming midseason series — comedies “About a Boy” and “Growing Up Fisher,” dramas “Believe” and “Crisis,” and alternative program “American Dream Builders.”

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter will make her New York Philharmonic debut in Mary Chapin Carpenter with the New York Philharmonic and Special Guests, a retrospective program featuring songs from throughout her career, some newly arranged for orchestra.

Reese Witherspoon has revealed via Twitter the first image of her as Cheryl Strayed in the upcoming film WILD, saying 'So excited to play @cherylstrayed in a movie!' Check it out below!

Today Byliner publishes Devotion: A Rat Story ($1.99), by Maile Meloy. Hailed by The New Yorker as 'a wise and astonishing conjurer of convincing realities,' Meloy is one of our country's most celebrated fiction writers. In her scalp-prickling Byliner Original Devotion: A Rat Story, she shows how easily an everyday reality a young woman's struggle for an independent life can become a nightmare, toothy monsters included.

Exploring the latest trends in digital fabrication, Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital at the Museum of Arts and Design is the first in-depth survey dedicated to exploring the impact of computer-asisted methods of production on contemporary art, architecture, and design.

Today Byliner publishes The Man with the Electrified Brain: Adventures in Madness ($1.99), a shockingly frank new memoir by Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, which reveals for the first time how he nearly lost his mind.

Exploring the latest trends in digital fabrication, Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital at the Museum of Arts and Design is the first in-depth survey dedicated to exploring the impact of computer-asisted methods of production on contemporary art, architecture, and design. On view October 15, 2013, through July 6, 2014, this landmark exhibition brings together more than 120 works of sculpture, jewelry, fashion, and furniture by 85 artists, architects, and designers from 20 countries to examine how new technologies are pushing the boundaries of artistic expression and creation. The cutting-edge works highlighted in the exhibition demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between art and technological innovation as well as materials and new techniques—an area of exploration that has long been at the core of MAD's mission and curatorial program.

The U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage made for a historic day. But the struggle for the rights of gay men and lesbians to marry is a tense, complex story that has been unfolding over many years a story told in great sweep and detail by Adam Liptak in The New York Times / Byliner Original To Have and Uphold. The e-book is available for preorder today and will be published July 9, 2013.

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) takes pride in announcing the2013-14 Arts and Ideas Season: an exciting line-up of today's acclaimed writers, renowned scientists and thinkers, and fascinating entertainers. Theatrical and musical highlights include popular actor John Goodman talking about his career, the world premiere of Brenda Wong Aoki's MU, soprano Patricia Racette with her program Diva on Detour,and Isabella Rosellini live on stage with Green Porn.