Robert Redford News

Academy Award-winning director/actor Robert Redford, former Vice President Al Gore, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday are coming together with artistic direction by Sibylle Szaggars Redford at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, on December 1st, 2017 for a musical evening of hope honoring Planet Earth.

Sundance Institute showcases bold, independent storytelling at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, beginning with today's announcement of feature films selected across all categories. The Festival hosts screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort, from January 18 28.

ThePianoGuys come to Washington, D.C.'s National Theatre for a special holiday residency this December with a new live show featuring the album's holiday music and their one-of-a-kind arrangements.

Sundance Institute and Adobe Project 1324 announced the newest round of 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellows today, chosen from a global crop of more than 800 applicants. The fifteen 18-to-24-year-old filmmakers selected to participate in this one-year fellowship hail from five continents, with creative groundings spanning from television writing to documentary photography to narrative short films.

One of the most beloved Christmas stories ever written takes on a decidedly New Hope twist when Buck County Playhouse premieres the new comedy, Ebenezer Scrooge's Big Playhouse Christmas Show, December 8 through December 31.

It was a reunion for two of the lead actors from Broadway's On the Town when Tony-nominee Tony Yazbeck visited New Hope, PA to see Clyde Alves at Bucks County Playhouse. Alves plays the role of Tago in the world premiere of The New World , the musical comedy that is getting raves from critics. John Timpane of the Philadelphia Inquirer said With sneaky brilliance, beginning to end, The New World is fresh, funny, and fluid. Jean Brenner of Bucks County Herald said, Mark my words, The New World is headed to Broadway: it's special, it's funny, it's delightfully entertaining.'

What do you do when the leading man of a world premiere musical suffers an injury less than 48 hours before the first preview? For Bucks County Playhouse, the answer was simple: Call Justin Guarini.

Bringing a personal point of view to a complex, polarizing issue, the uplifting documentary HAPPENING: A CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION debuts MONDAY, DEC. 11 (8:00-9:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS and TRAVIS WALL are pleased to announce casting for the 2018 winter tour dates of their groundbreaking new show SHAPING SOUND After The Curtain, which comes to Washington, D.C.'s National Theatre for one performance only on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 7:30pm.

Documentary HAPPENING: A CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION Debuts 12/11 on HBO. Following one man's journey to discover the leading edge of energy solutions.

HBO's New Documentary 'The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee' will air at 8pm ET on December 4.

A worldwide sensation when she was only ten years old, Jackie Evancho is moving past the exuberant promise of a child prodigy vocalist, toward maturity as a singer, as a creative artist and as a young woman. Fresh from her spotlight performance of the National Anthem at the Presidential inauguration in January, she seizes the moment with the release of Two Hearts, the album not only features popular hits both old and new, and classical crossover Italian songs, but also Jackie's emerging gifts as a collaborative songwriter. With the release of Two Hearts, the amazing journey of Jackie Evancho reaches an exciting new place, both creatively and personally. The album's title says a lot about growth: Jackie's heart is always in the classical crossover singing her fans love, but she is discovering another facet of her work, her range and, thus, her heart - a love of songwriting and a new, expressive pop sound. Jackie Evancho's meteoric rise is already a show business legend. YouTube video stardom led to her spectacular, against-the-odds appearance on America's Got Talent in 2010 that delivered the heat and the promise of a new star, in a luminous performance of the beloved Puccini aria 'O mio babbino caro.' Her breakthrough was transformed quickly into the basis for a serious career. In less than a decade, Jackie has made seven chart-topping albums and DVDs, headlined three PBS television specials, appeared in the film The Company We Keep at the request of her co-star Robert Redford, and tirelessly toured the world, singing for Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, other world leaders and her fans everywhere. In addition to her solo success, Jackie has recorded duets with such notable artists as Tony Bennett, Susan Boyle, Il Volo, Pl cido Domingo, Barbra Streisand, Chris Botti, The Tenors and Joshua Bell.

Mary Kathryn Nagle's daring new work Sovereignty makes its world premiere at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater.

Sundance Institute's Art of Nonfiction Initiative welcomes four Fellows and five Grantees, as well as three Nonfiction Critics Fellows, in its third year of granting key creative and financial support to inventive nonfiction storytellers working in the field today.

Told primarily in his own words, THE NEWSPAPERMAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN BRADLEE is an intimate portrait of this formidable man, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century when it debuts MONDAY, DEC. 4 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Sometimes referred to as the country's most dangerous editor, Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee was largely credited with taking down President Richard Nixon in 1974 after thePost broke the Watergate story, exposing the largest political scandal in American history.

For many, being onstage would be a dream come true, and this holiday season Bucks County Playhouse and gift-givers can make those dreams a reality. Imagine giving a holiday gift that provides the rare opportunity for someone to be a part of a professional theater production!

Denver Center for the Performing Arts Broadway/Cabaret announces an all local cast for the upcoming production of FIRST DATE, playing The Garner Galleria Theatre November 11, 2017 through April 22, 2018. Tickets start at $35 and go on sale to the public August 11 at denvercenter.org.

Musician Don Henley and filmmakers Ken Burns, Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers will host the premiere of Burns executive produced film, 'Walden' on November 8th at Boston College.

After selling out 3 nights of MTH's A Night on the town with Les Lankhorst, the award-winning vocalist and tribute artist is bringing his acclaimed Holiday show to MTH's Stage Two for 3 nights this December. His new Holiday show, Les Lankhorst in A Crooner Christmas Sinatra Style, is a swingin' holiday show for the whole family. Les will be joined on stage by all-star musicians including KC legend Walter Bryant on keys. Lankhorst says 'this holiday show combines swinging standards, holiday favorites and my personal touch of humor into a hip, evening out for anyone who loves great music.'