Simmons News

AXS TV presents season three of the popular reality series EX-WIVES OF ROCK, premiering tonight, February 17, with back-to-back episodes at 9:00pE and 9:30pE.

OSCARS producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin announced today a third slate of presenters for the 88th OSCARS telecast. Among the new names are stage and screen star -- and winner last year for THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING -- Eddie Redmayne, alongside theatre vet Cate Blanchett, INTO THE WOODS' Emily Blunt, THE WIZ LIVE's Common, comedian Louis C.K. and more.

Birdland will kick-off March's programming with the following acts:

Disney's Emmy Award-winning animated series GRAVITY FALLS reaches its final showdown in the highly anticipated one-hour finale episode tonight, FEBRUARY 15 (7:00 p.m. EST) on Disney XD.

? It may be cold outside but things are heating up for Atlanta Lyric Theatre's new production of THE FULL MONTY playing from February 12-28 at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre.

Producer Danna Hyams has announced that Broadway favorite John Bolton has joined a star-studded cast that includes Gerard Canonico, Justin Guarini, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Rupert, Brynn Williams and Emmy Winner Sally Struthers in two special reading presentations of Bret Simmons and David Howard's new musical THE FIRST GENTLEMAN at Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, on Monday, February 22th at 3:00 PM and 6:30 PM.

Casting is complete for Theater for the New City's premiere production of One Love: A New Play. Director-playwright Peter Zachari returns to Theater for the New City after his successful productions of Fat Asses: The Musical and Under the Knife: A Farce with this serio-comic valentine.

Pigs do Fly Productions will return to Ft. Lauderdale's Empire Stage with Curly Tales the first production of their third season, from March 11th through March 27th.  There will be a preview performance on March 10th.

The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture is thrilled to celebrate the release of rapidly rising New York City poet Sarah Kay's newest book, The Type, with a night of poetry and surprise guests on Friday, March 4 at 7:30pm in the Sheen's Loreto Theater. In a rare hometown show, Kay will perform new poems and old favorites, including 'The Type,' the poem that 'explores the promise and complicated reality of being a woman' and which will now be available in a beautiful illustrated hardcover from Hachette Books. After the show, copies of The Type will be available for purchase and signing.

Producer Danna Hyams is proud to announce that director Nick Demos will helm a star-studded cast that includes Gerard Cannonico, Justin Guarini, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Rupert, Brynn Williams and Emmy Winner Sally Struthers in two special reading presentations of Bret Simmons and David Howard's new musical THE FIRST GENTLEMAN at Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, on Monday, February 22nd at 3:00 PM and 6:30 PM.

?A slate of 11 vibrant and kinetic new LGBTQ+ plays and musicals have emerged as Semi-Finalists in Pride Films and Plays' 2016 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest. They come from writers across the United States, and were selected by a reading team from across the country doing blind readings of the manuscripts.

Judith Sloan is a masterful actor/dialectition and a sublime mixologist of sound. She blends both gifts in her newest play, 'YO MISS!,' in which she channels her own family's traumas through the experiences of immigrant and minority teens whom she has taught in arts programs over the last two decades.

 'Blackfish The Musical' makes its World Premiere in Chicago, IL.  Based off of the controversial 2013 documentary, Blackfish The Musical shows audiences the operations of 'the greatest place on Earth,' the marine animal amusement park known as Sea Universe. 

'We are thrilled to bring another line up of the best new plays from emerging playwrights around the country to Seattle,' said Artistic Director Wesley Fruge. After ending 2015 with the hit production of Green Whales by Lia Romeo ('Top Ten of 2015' -David-Edward Hughes), the company will be presenting Romeo's newest play, Ends of the Earth as part of The Flux Salon series. Romeo says, 'Forward Flux does everything right. They present plays that are innovative but also audience-friendly, and they showcase new writers and under-represented voices.'

Full casting has been announced for the Lyric Hammersmith and Filter Theatre Production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, co-directed by Sean Holmes and Stef O'Driscoll. Jonathan Broadbent, Ed Gaughan, John Lightbody, Victoria Moseley and Ferdy Roberts return to the cast and they will be joined by Hammed Animashaun, Andrew Buckley, Clare Dunne and Cat Simmons.

Oscars® producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin announced today the second slate of presenters for the 88th Oscars telecast. The Oscars, hosted by Chris Rock, will air live Oscar® Sunday, February 28, on ABC. 

Peter Shaffer's stirring play "Amadeus" can move you to the point of tears, but only when it's done well. It is by no means a bulletproof play. Unfortunately the current production at Seattle Public Theater, while managing a few interesting performances, really just stands out as having an unfocused concept and is about as engaging as a history lecture.

Show times are 8pm nighty.   Tickets are $5 and available only at the door.  The Lab Theatre is located at 1400 Wheat St., on the first floor of the Booker T. Washington building.

? Comedian, actor, director and producer Martin Lawrence continues his DOIN' TIME: UNCUT LIVE tour-Lawrence's first stand-up tour in four years-bringing the show to legendary venues across the country, including a marquee engagement at Barclays Center-his first NYC show in fifteen years.  Lawrence has made a triumphant return to the stand-up stage wowing audiences with his signature style of hilarious stories, social commentary and more.

Media General, Inc. (“Media General;” NYSE:MEG) announced today that daytime entertainment news and variety show, Hollywood Today Live will return to Media General and FOX Television Stations for a second season.