The Talent Managers Association (TMA) announces this year's nominees for the 14th Annual Heller Awards. Each year, the TMA honors colleagues in talent representation and casting with a live ceremony. Lifetime achievement honors will be presented to legendary agent Jack Gilardi from ICM Partners and casting director Craig Fincannon of Fincannon and Associates. Additionally, awards are presented to agents and casting directors for their work throughout the year, who've been nominated by the TMA members. The organization will host this year's event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM.
As relevant today as they were half a century ago, more than 150 black-and-white images chronicling the Southern Freedom Movement are featured in THIS LIGHT OF OURS: ACTIVIST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, on view September 29, 2016 through May 14, 2017, at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage (2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood, OH 44122; 216.593.0575; maltzmuseum.org). The 4,000-square-foot exhibition is generously sponsored by Cleveland Browns Foundation; Cleveland Foundation; Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Humanities Center at Cuyahoga Community College; Cleveland State University; Milton and Tamar Maltz; PNC Bank and The Treu-Mart Fund.
Coming after the smashing success of their debut full length, 55, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band is proud to present their new 45, “Scorpio” b/w “8th Wonder”, out today on Big Crown Records. The 7-inch features 2 B-Boy classics back to back on this tough two sider that comes in a beautifully illustrated picture sleeve.
GET STOMPERIZED! It's Ladies' Choice, womenfolk! Nab you a partner and head on over to the Bridge Street Theatre Speakeasy at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill for some old school good times this 4th of July weekend!
Ticketfly, the technology company reimagining the live event experience, and a subsidiary of Pandora (NYSE: P), announced today that Jam Productions, one of the largest independent concert promoters in the United States, is the latest to join the Ticketfly platform. Ticketfly will be the exclusive ticketing provider for three of Chicago's best venuesthe Riviera Theatre, the Vic Theatre, and Park Westplus select Jam events throughout the midwest. The deal illustrates Ticketfly's successful and increasingly aggressive move upstream into larger venues and promoters. It also rounds out the company's national footprint: Ticketfly now holds leadership positions in the country's top three live music marketsNew York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
GET STOMPERIZED! It's Ladies' Choice, womenfolk! Nab you a partner and head on over to the Bridge Street Theatre Speakeasy at 44 West Bridge Street in Catskill for some old school good times this 4th of July weekend!
CMX, The VIP Cinema Experience, is preparing to take magic beyond the movies with the announcement of a ground breaking partnership involving world renowned restaurateurs and operators, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. The collaboration is a game changer as it brings together the finest luxury theater environment with the one of the world's foremost restaurant operators. A carefully curated menu with handcrafted cocktails will complement the cinematic sensorial experience all while in the comfort of fine leather recliners.
Boyle Heights will be the setting for a pull out all the stops Cinco de Mayo (May 5, 2016) celebration on the Eastside of Los Angeles as Brown Fist Productions in association with CASA 0101 Theater present the opening night of EASTSIDE HEARTBEATS, A New Rock 'n' Roll Musical.
Boyle Heights will be the setting for a pull out all the stops Cinco de Mayo (May 5, 2016) celebration on the Eastside of Los Angeles as Brown Fist Productions in association with CASA 0101 Theater present the opening night of EASTSIDE HEARTBEATS, A New Rock 'n' Roll Musical.
When accomplished concert singer and cabaret performer Lisa Jason was a child, her family moved from Long Island, New York to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the transition would not be a happy one. A self-admitted "ugly duckling," Lisa endured relentless bullying from other kids-both mental and physical-from early grade school through her high school graduation. At a time when social media has contributed to making bullying a major American societal problem, Lisa Jason wants tell her poignant story through the music of the 1970s that she loved throughout her childhood. Her delightful voice and self-deprecating humor makes BULLIED TO BEAUTIFUL a cabaret show that audiences not only will identify with, but that will also send a powerful message that bullying needs to be stopped. Lisa premiered this show last October at the Metropolitan and now brings it to the Laurie Beechman Theatre (downstairs in the West Bank Cafe, 407 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues).
HONOLULU, April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (HA), has announced its system-wide traffic statistics for the month of March and year to date.
STRANGE BREW, the 1983 cult movie favorite starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as the Canadian beer-guzzling McKenzie Brothers – hops onto HD with a March 1 debut in newly remastered Blu-ray and DVD versions from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE).
Sterling Worldwide Entertainment, LLC ('Sterling') and George Coleman, Jr. announce the start of production for the full-length feature documentary, 'Another Kind of Soul,' The Coleman Family Legacy.
Just over 50 years after the release of João Gilberto's and Stan Getz's classic Grammy-winning album Getz/Gilberto (1964), and its sequel Getz/Gilberto #2
You may have heard about the rebound of vinyl records. But those records are not just the long play 33 rpm and single play 45 rpm discs we know from the past.
STRANGE BREW, the 1983 cult movie favorite starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as the Canadian beer-guzzling McKenzie Brothers – hops onto HD with a March 1 debut in newly remastered Blu-ray and DVD versions from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE).
HONOLULU, Jan. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (HA), welcomed a record 10,672,667 customers in 2015, a 4.7 percent increase over the previous year. Hawai'i's largest and longest-serving airline announced its system-wide traffic statistics for the full year, fourth quarter and the month of December 2015, and also updated its expectations for certain fourth quarter financial metrics.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum's new exhibit Hotter Than That: 90 Years of Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five celebrates these landmark recordings that were the first records ever to be issued under Armstrong's own name. This exhibit represents the ground breaking recorded legacy of Louis Armstrong and this immortal group, whose music will continue to influence future generations. As Armstrong himself said of his Hot Five recordings in 1970, 'Ain't nothing like it since, and can't nobody play nothing like it now. My oldest record, can't nobody touch it.'
Today in 1938, The Cradle Will Rock opened at the Windsor Theatre. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles, and produced by John Houseman. The show was recorded and released on seven 78-rpm discs in 1938, making it the first cast album recording. Following the impromptu opening and a brief run at the Venice Theatre (later renamed the New Century Theatre) in July 1937, the production reopened on January 3, 1938, at the Windsor Theatre under the auspices of the new Mercury Theatre Company. It played a total of 108 performances.
