National Geographic to Adapt Bill O'Reilly's Upcoming Book KILLING JESUS
by TV News Desk - Mar 25, 2013
With the record-breaking success of the National Geographic Channel (NGC) factual drama of Bill O'Reilly's best-selling history 'Killing Lincoln,' NGC President Howard T. Owens announced today that the network will once again join forces with Scott Free Productions to produce a film based on 'Killing Jesus: A History,' the recently announced book from O'Reilly with co-author Martin Dugard, to be published by Henry Holt and Company on Sept. 24, 2013. The announcement comes as the network is also in pre-production on the film adaptation of 'Killing Kennedy,' expected to air globally on National Geographic Channels later this year. (more...)
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Macmillan Launching Library eBook Pilot With OverDrive
by BWW News Desk - Jan 25, 2013
Macmillan Publishers, one of the largest and best-known international publishing groups, announced today an agreement to make a collection of popular eBooks available to libraries via OverDrive before the end of the first quarter. (more...)
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Billy Crystal Signs $4 M Deal for Humor Book on Aging
by BWW News Desk - Aug 09, 2012
According to The Hollywood Reporter, comedian and Broadway vet Billy Crystal has inked a deal with Henry Holt and Company publishers for $4 million to write a humor book on aging. The book's release will coincide with Crystal's 65th birthday in March of 2013. (more...)
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Photo Flash: Tom Deckman of NYMF's ARNIE THE DOUGHNUT at Books of Wonder Reading
by BWW News Desk - Jul 10, 2012
Tom Deckman, star of the delicious new family musical ARNIE THE DOUGHNUT, by the Chicago writing team George Howe and Frances Limoncelli, based on the award-winning children's book by Laurie Keller, visited New York's oldest children's bookstore, BOOKS OF WONDER for a special reading of the beloved book and a meet-and-greet with the children. See photos of Deckman with Keller and more below! (more...)
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Bravo's Andy Cohen to Launch SiriusXM Call-In Series
by TV News Desk - Jun 06, 2012
Sirius XM Radio has announced that Andy Cohen-Bravo's Executive Vice President of Development and Talent and host of 'Watch What Happens Live'-will host 'Andy Cohen is Most Talkative,' a five-week series of live, call-in shows on which the Bravo impresario, bestselling author and late night television talk show host will talk about pop culture and entertainment with the people who make it happen and fans/listeners nationwide. (more...)
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'Sex & the City's' Evan Handler Leads ACAPULCO Reading for SoBe Arts
by BWW
News Desk - Jan 31, 2011
Executive Artistic Director Carson Kievman has announced that SoBe Institute of the Arts (SoBe Arts) will present staged readings of promising new plays, beginning with Acapulco by New York writer Jacquelyn Reingold (HBO's In Treatment, Law and Order, and produced off-Broadway) and featuring L.A.-based Evan Handler ('Sex and the City,' 'Californication,' and films by Ron Howard and Oliver Stone) in addition to local artists. (more...)
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Nadia Dajani, Evan Handler et al. Set for ACAPULCO Reading, 1/30
by BWW News Desk - Jan 30, 2011
Executive Artistic Director Carson Kievman has announced that NY-based actress, Nadia Dajani and South Florida performers Amy McKenna, Elayne Wilks, Ryan George, Glen Lawrence and Brian McCormack have joined Evan Handler, completing the cast for SoBe Arts upcoming staged readings of ACAPULCO by New York writer Jacquelyn Reingold and directed by Michael Leeds. (more...)
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Nadia Dajani Joins The Cast Of ACAPULCO
by BWW News Desk - Jan 25, 2011
Executive Artistic Director Carson Kievman has announced that NY-based actress, Nadia Dajani and South Florida performers Amy McKenna, Elayne Wilks, Ryan George, Glen Lawrence and Brian McCormack have joined Evan Handler, completing the cast for SoBe Arts upcoming staged readings of ACAPULCO by New York writer Jacquelyn Reingold and directed by Michael Leeds. (more...)
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'Sex & the City's' Evan Handler Leads ACAPULCO Reading for SoBe Arts
by BWW News Desk - Jan 14, 2011
Executive Artistic Director Carson Kievman has announced that SoBe Institute of the Arts (SoBe Arts) will present staged readings of promising new plays, beginning with Acapulco by New York writer Jacquelyn Reingold (HBO's In Treatment, Law and Order, and produced off-Broadway) and featuring L.A.-based Evan Handler ('Sex and the City,' 'Californication,' and films by Ron Howard and Oliver Stone) in addition to local artists. (more...)
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Photo Coverage: Michael Caine Poses in New York
by BWW Photo Special - Oct 27, 2010
Actor Michael Caine poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in New York, October 26, 2010. Caine's new memoir The Elephant To Hollywood is published by Henry Holt and Company. (more...)
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Toll-Free Callers Hear Scholars Discussion Of Native Son 4/5
by BWW News Desk - Apr 05, 2009
On Sunday evening, April 5, at 8:30 PM, E.D.T., a simple toll-free call will admit anyone in the country to a lively examination of the history, significance and controversy surrounding Native Son, the 1941 stage adaptation of Richard Wright's classic novel that sparked a debate about civil rights, social policy and racism that still burns hotly today. (more...)
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Toll-Free Callers Hear Scholars Discussion Of Native Son 4/5
by BWW News Desk - Mar 30, 2009
On Sunday evening, April 5, at 8:30 PM, E.D.T., a simple toll-free call will admit anyone in the country to a lively examination of the history, significance and controversy surrounding Native Son, the 1941 stage adaptation of Richard Wright's classic novel that sparked a debate about civil rights, social policy and racism that still burns hotly today. (more...)
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Goteborg Theater In Sweden Offers Two Performances At Yale
by BWW News Desk - Jan 15, 2009
The original cast of the Goteborg Theatre in Sweden will offer two performances (in English) of the one-act play Remembering Miss Meitner by Robert Marc Friedman. Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) was a woman physicist who discovered, in collaboration with Otto Hahn, nuclear fission in 1938, but was overlooked by the Nobel Prize Committee. Otto Hahn received an undivided prize in 1945 for the discovery. Because of her Jewish origin, Meitner fled Germany in July 1938 and settled in Sweden where she worked in the laboratory of Manne Siegbahn, despite the difficulty caused by Siegbahn's prejudice against women in science. (more...)
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