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T.I., Gary Vee, Bozoma Saint John, Mike WiLL Made-It, Stacey Abrams, Charlamagne Tha God, Dapper Dan & More Announced as the 2019 A3C Conference Official Speaker Line Up

In celebration of the 15-year anniversary, the highly acclaimed A3C Festival & Conference has enhanced the conference by announcing the official 2019 power-house speaker line up. The A3C Conference will host this year over 150 sessions with 250 speakers, including: Bozoma Saint John (Endeavor, CMO), T.I., Gary Vaynerchuk (Vayner Media & Vayner Sports, CEO), Mike WiLL Made-It, Stacey Abrams (Fair Fight, Founder & Chair), Charlamagne Tha God, Cortez Bryant (The Blueprint Group, Co-CEO), Dapper Dan, ET The Hip-Hop Preacher, Ghazi Shami (EMPIRE CEO/Founder), Just Blaze, Kei Henderson (Sincethe80s, Co-Founder), 85 South Show, Kevin Liles (300 Entertainment Co-Founder & CEO), Lenny S. (Roc Nation, SVP), Amber Grimes (Capitol Records, SVP Global Creative), Trickey Stewart, Fadia Kader (Instagram, Music Partnerships) and many more. With a major shift in focus on creating an unmatched conference experience, the 2019 A3C Festival & Conference will provide insight and knowledge from the best of the best in industries such as music, tech, culture, fashion, media and more.

BWW Review: Sun City Shines in its Production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

The Sun City Palm Desert Performing Arts Club has done a wonderful job with its annual musical for 2017, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Although the production ran for only one weekend, the club has other offerings coming up.

BWW 2015 Seattle Critic's Choice Awards (Jay's Picks)

Dear Readers, I hope you've all fared well over the holidays and had a good time with your families. It's been a tumultuous year with lots of great theater for us to take in. And so I'm pleased to share with you some of the best things I saw this past year and the ones that I felt worthy of getting my Critic's Choice Awards for 2015. So settle in and allow me to expound on all the amazing I saw over the year. The envelope please.

BWW Reviews: Seagull Project's THREE SISTERS is So Good it Hurts

Every season productions come along that are so good that they remind me why us theater folk perform, produce and see theater. Personally, these are the shows that recharge my theatrical batteries so I can sit through the not so great ones (I'm looking at you "Flashdance: The Musical"). Such a show is the latest installment from The Seagull Project, Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" which manages such clarity of story, intent and meaning that you can practically feel the pain and frustration in the character's lives along with them.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joins John Goodman in J.J. Abrams' THE CELLAR

According to Deadline Hollywood, Mary Elizabeth Winstead ('Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,' 'Live Free or Die Hard') has been tapped to star alongside John Goodman in the new J.J. Abrams film 'The Cellar.' The story of the film revolves around a young woman who is in a car accident and wakes up living in a fallout bunker with a Doomsday Day prepper who tells her that there has been a chemical attack, and that the outside world has been destroyed. Unsure of what is true and not, Winstead's character decides she must escape and see for herself.