Premium pay television network EPIX®, an MGM company, today announced that production is underway on its critically-acclaimed original series Get Shorty, with Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning and Academy Award®-nominated actress Felicity Huffman (Transamerica, Desperate Housewives) joining the cast as a recurring guest star. Huffman will play Clara Dillard, a mothering, high-level special agent for the FBI, described as hippie therapist meets J. Edgar Hoover.
The Black Maria Film + Video Festival The Black Maria Film Festival, now in its 37th year, features some of the best short films and videos being made today. Programs are custom curated for each site, featuring a rich international selection of narrative, documentary, animation and experimental works. Festival representatives are on hand to provide perspective and a post-viewing discussion. Selected trailers and clips from the films can be viewed on the Black Maria Website.The Madison lineup is listed below. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door. Student Discount $5 with valid ID Tickets can also be purchased in advance through Writers Theatre of New Jersey's online service. (a $2.00 processing charge per ticket applies) Tickets can be purchased online until 7 pm Saturday, February 17 Doors open at 7:30 pm for the 8:00 pm screening.
When it rains it pours! This saying applies to our lives when things are either going for or against us. For Mae, the central character in Clare Barron's YOU GOT OLDER now in its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, life changes have poured on her. And these changes are certainly not for the better. Or are they?
Ida's family is throwing her a birthday tea for her eighty-sixth birthday. Their efforts to be cheerful and make the event a success verge on the desperate. Ida is racked with pain and feels she has lived too long. As the painfully laboured celebrations go on, her third daughter Susan returns unexpectedly after an absence of 25 years. Tensions immediately flare between the sisters, whilst Ida struggles to recognise her.
CAST Foundation, the nonprofit 501c3 arm of CAST Centers, today announced its second CAST on Tour, joining Demi Lovato in 20 cities with pre-concert experiences featuring special guests and speakers to discuss change and inspiration to a large number of attending concertgoers. The Grammy®-nominated, multi-platinum singer and songwriter is taking the nation's premier mental health and wellness advocate on herNorth American tour starting Monday, February 26th at the Viejas Arena in San Diego.
Originally seen as a staged reading as part of Vibrant 2017 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, the world premiere of Checkpoint Chana by Jeff Page starring Geraldine Somerville runs at the Finborough Theatre, playing Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from Sunday, 4 March 2018 (Press Night: Monday, 5 March 2018 at 7.30pm).
This spring, Matthew Needham will feature in Summer and Smoke at the Almeida Theatre. Rebecca Frecknall's production marks his third show at the theatre this year, having never previously performed there before.
Catching up during rehearsals, Matthew reflects on his time at the Almeida so far, his journey to becoming an actor, and the career paths less traveled.
Actor and playwright Valerie David is debuting her critically acclaimed, comical one-woman show in L.A., in association with Whitefire Theatre's Solo Play Festival 2018. The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within is about Valerie becoming a two-time cancer survivor, and how she beat the odds by finding her inner super powers.
Megan Bandelt is pleased to announce that the world premiere of her latest work, what she found, will be presented at the 12th Annual FRIGID Festival. The festival will take place February 14th through March 4th 2018 at The Kraine and UNDER St. Marks Theaters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat 62 years ago was only the beginning. Premiering on TV One on Sunday, February 11 at 7/6C, “Behind The Movement” offers a closer look at how the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott was planned in just three days and ultimately led to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is celebrating a quarter century of laughter and friendship with THE SANDLOT – 25TH ANNIVERSARY Collector Edition, arriving on Blu-ray March 27.
The Falmouth Chorale, led by Artistic Director John Yankee, presents In Paradisum, a "heavenly" selection of choral works from 19th and 20th century composers, on Saturday, March 10, 4 pm, and Sunday, March 11, 3 pm, at Falmouth Academy's Simon Center for the Arts, 7 Highfield Drive, in Falmouth.
In The Body of the World opened last night, February 6, at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say...
Censored in the late 18th Century by the Catholic Church, Astucias por heredar un sobrino a un tio (Tricks to Inherit: A Nephew from his Uncle) was the first play ever performed by Hispanic settlers in Central California where the original manuscript was preserved in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area. The original is now in the Bancroft Library at the University of Berkeley and the critical annotated edition by Dr. Pedro Garcia-Caro of the University of Oregon was published in 2016 by Arte Publico Press (Houston.) This will be the play's first production in over 200 years, presented in masterful commedia dell'arte style by director Robi Arce and a superb cast in the original Spanish verse with English supertitles.
AnaOno, the leading lingerie and loungewear line designed for breast cancer survivors, by a breast cancer survivor, is thrilled to return to Art Hearts Fashion New York Fashion Week this February, a philanthropic-minded runway collective showcasing both emerging and established designers. The much anticipated follow up to AnaOno's ground-breaking NYFW debut in 2017, this year's show will again be held in partnership with #Cancerland: a New York based non-profit dedicated to changing the conversation about metastatic breast cancer through the honest voices of those living with the disease every day. An army of thirty courageous individuals diagnosed with varying stages of breast cancer will take the runway clad in AnaOno's Spring/Summer 2018 Collection, previvor to stage I to stage IV metastatic, showcasing the beauty, strength and determination of those living with the disease while boldly redefining what it means to be a breast cancer patient. AnaOno x #Cancerland 2.0 will take place at Art Hearts Fashion New York Fashion Week on Sunday, February 11th at 1:00pm, at the Angel Orensanz Center (172 Norfolk Street) on the Lower East Side.
The little OPERA theatre of ny (LOTNY), in collaboration with New York based period ensemble New Vintage Baroque, presents the New York City Premiere of Piramo e Tisbe at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, NYC, from March 22-25, 2018, with performances on Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are $35 and are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/35006. Based upon the story of Pyramus and Thisbe from Ovid's Metamorphoses with a libretto by Marco Coltellini, Piramo e Tisbe is byJohann Adolph Hasse, a pivotal opera composer of the 18th Century celebrated for his sweet and tender melodies. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
With Christine Pedi's return engagement in NEWSical The Musical, Vogue Magazine's long running interview series '73 Questions With…' gets the NEWSical treatment with '73 Questions with Liza Minnelli' starring Pedi as the legendary performer.
