According to the Washington Post, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been honored with the 2019 Berggruen Prize for Culture and Philosophy. This $1 million award is given annually to a a?oethinker whose ideas are shaping human self-understanding to advance humankind.a??
Kesha has returned with a new song 'Raising Hell,' which will be on her upcoming album 'High Road,' coming out on January 10th.
The critically-acclaimed National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) production of Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish with English Supertitles, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 5, 2020.
The 19/20 theatrical season has seen several milestones for many of its area theatres but the biggest by far is the 70th anniversary of the company that helped pioneer the regional theatre movement in this country Arena Stage.
After earning great acclaim for producing the documentary on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Oren Jacoby will share “On Broadway,” his new film that follows the evolution of Broadway and Times Square over the past five decades.
The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF), running Nov. 8 -11, is celebrating the achievements of four film industry luminaries at a red-carpet gala honoring Cloris Leachman with the Legacy Award, Diane Warren with the Transcendent Award, Michelle Phillips with the Cultural Impact Award, and Lois Burwell with Artistry in Filmmaking Award.
Watch as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains the origins and plot of the opera Scalia/Ginsburg! Scalia/Ginsburg is the American opera by composer-librettist Derrick Wang that ushered in the era of Supreme Court-themed books, films, and art.
During the thought-provoking 90-minute play, made even more visually intense via attention-grabbing historical projections of news headlines to forward the progression of time on Rachel Myers exquisitely transformational scenic design, Feldshuh and Faracy fully embody not only the physical presence of Ginsburg and O'Connor but also their dependency on each other to get their voices heard over the gender-biased male members of the Court. Their dedication to justice and the law was solid, although O'Connor felt the need to take it slowly like a tortoise while Ginsburg always felt the need to charge ahead like the hare when it came to issues of sexual harassment towards women.
Shondaland and Netflix today announced Notes on Love, a new original episodic anthology series under Shonda Rhimes' overall deal.
When I reached for my phone to call Tovah Feldshuh to interview her on her upcoming role as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the west coast premiere of SISTERS IN LAW at The Wallis, I never expected to be so enthralled for the fifty minutes that followed; not only by the irascible, most delightful Tovah Feldshuh herself, but by the razor-witted Justice Ginsburg a?' a two-for-one interview!
Producer Jo Schuman Silverannounced today that tickets to the final two performances of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 (New Year's Eve) at 7 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. will be available exclusively through a lottery on Lucky Seat, the only authorized ticket vendor for these performances, beginning on Monday, September 16, 2019 at 10 a.m.
Gloria Allred is one of the top women's rights attorneys in the country. Her firm has fought for more women's rights cases than any other private firm in the nation and this year she will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. On today's episode of Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry and in support of Women's Equality Day, Gloria sits down with Alyssa to discuss her career, the importance of the courts and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, believing victims, and much more.
Variety reports that Ann Shen's book “Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World' will get an anthology series based at Universal Content Productions (UCP).
A summer's trip to Cooperstown, NY, is for two distinct audiences: Those who come for the Baseball Hall of Fame and those, like me, who come for the opera--the Glimmerglass Festival, under General Director Francesca Zambello, where i caught up with the John Corigliano-William Hoffman THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES, the brand-new BLUE by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson and a program with Supreme Court Justice (and opera buff) Ginsburg commenting on some of her favorite works.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, in association with Elizabeth Weber, Dale Franzen (Hadestown) and Don Franzen, presents the West Coast Premiere of SISTERS IN LAW, starring Tovah Feldshuh (Golda's Balcony, a?oeThe Walking Dead,a?? a?oeCrazy Ex-Girlfrienda??) as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephanie Faracy (Hocus Pocus, The Great Outdoors with Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, a?oeSneaky Petea?? and a?oeModern Familya??) as Sandra Day O'Connor. Directed by Patricia McGregor (Lights Out: Nat a?oeKinga?? Cole, Skeleton Crew), with an all-female design team, performances begin Wednesday, September 18 through Sunday, October 13, 2019, in The Wallis' Lovelace Studio Theater.
Organizers of the 2019 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival (Tuesday, September 10 a?" Saturday, September 21) announce the debut of Drag Brunch in the glamorous Crystal Palace Spiegeltent on Sunday, September 15 for two seatings (12:15 p.m. and 2:45 p.m.) Tickets are $38 and now on sale at rochesterfringe.com.
On the anniversary the film's debut (July 13, 2001) Lyric Arts at the Main Stage Theater stages a charming production of Legally Blonde: The Musical This flirty, fun and fabulous production that debuted in 2007 gives the audience Woods, (comma) Elle, a college coed who loves pink and aspires to attend Harvard Law School in the pursuit of true love. For those fans of Elle, Amanda Brown's original novel was actually submitted on pink paper, and the theme continues throughout the show. With music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Neil Benjamin accompanied by Heather Hach's book, the score features numerous Delta Nu sorority sisters, a Greek chorus, a hair dresser confidante and Ellle's famous pooch, Bruiser Woods, housed in a shocking pink carry all.
Michael Sterling, BroadwayWorld's LA On Air Host and Co-Producer for BWW TV and Jerry Evans of JLE Media in Los Angeles spent the day at rehearsal for Hollywood Bowl's upcoming, new production of Into the Woods.
Heidi Schreck is currently starring in her own play, What the Constitution Means to Me, on Broadway, after a tranfer from New York Theatre Workshop. The play received two Tony nominations, both for Schreck as a playwright and as an actress. The Obie winning actress sat down with amNewYork to discuss her whirlwind year and what is next for her.
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music is pleased to announce that it has received a $30,000 gift commitment from Conductor & Pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Artistic Director of Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.
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