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Jennifer Garner and Alfred Molina star in SERENA, a short film written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, a co-founder of WIGS along with Jon Avnet and Jake Avnet. Garner plays Serena, a woman who makes a series of shocking confessions to her Priest (Molina). (more...)

Today, award-winning filmmakers Jon Avnet ("Black Swan," "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Risky Business") and Rodrigo Garcia ("Albert Nobbs," "In Treatment," "Mother and Child") launch "Jan," the first WIGS series from a comprehensive slate of new, original programming.The digital channel's premiere series, "Jan," is written and directed by Jon Avnet. The series stars Caitlin Gerard ("The Social Network"), Virginia Madsen ("Sideways"), Stephen Moyer ("True Blood"), along with Alexandra Holden ("Friday Night Lights"), Jaime Murray ("Dexter," "Spartacus"), Kyle Gallner ("A Nightmare on Elm Street"), Iddo Goldberg ("Diary of a Call Girl," "Uprising"), Laura Spencer, Dorothy Davis, Allison McAtee, Andrea De Oliveira, John Ales, and Cass Castelow. Watch the first episode below! (more...)

According to NY Magazine, Angela Lansbury, who is currently starring in GORE VIDAL'S THE BEST MAN on Broadway, has signed on to star alongside James Earl Jones in an Australian tour of DRIVING MISS DAISY next winter. (more...)

Carol Irvin, Michael Ruff and Daniel W. Black star in Cumberland County PlayhouseÂ’s 48th season-opening production of Alfred UhryÂ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, which opens this Saturday, January 21. (more...)

As the final of three mainstage productions during the two-month Eugene OÂ’Neill Festival spearheaded by Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, Long DayÂ’s Journey into Night rounds out this celebration of OÂ’NeillÂ’s life and work. The English-born and Canadian-based director and former Stratford Festival Artistic Director Robin Phillips makes his Arena Stage debut to direct his fourth production of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a theatrical career spanning more than 50 years. (more...)

The American Rep Theater of WNY starts the New Year and the second-half of the 2011-12 season with a production of D.L. Colburn's classic work, THE GIN GAME, to be presented at the Buffalo East, 1410 Main Street, January 20th through February 12th. (more...)

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, now celebrating its thirty-fourth year. The ten Finalists for the 2011-2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, chosen from over 100 submitted plays, are: (more...)

The New York Film Academy (NYFA) has a long and impressive list of speakers who have shared their insight and knowledge with students who have chosen acting and/or filmmaking as a career. Previous guests have included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Glenn Close, Dennis Hopper, John Carpenter, Kevin Klein, Jon Voight, Kevin Spacey, Ben Stiller, Ron Howard, Juliette Lewis, Sir Ben Kingsley, Andy Garcia and Steven Spielberg. (more...)

Carol Irvin, Michael Ruff and Daniel W. Black star in Cumberland County PlayhouseÂ’s 48th season-opening production of Alfred UhryÂ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, which opens this Saturday, January 21. (more...)

The American Rep Theater of WNY starts the New Year and the second-half of the 2011-12 season with a production of D.L. Colburn's classic work, THE GIN GAME, to be presented at the Buffalo East, 1410 Main Street, January 20th through February 12th. (more...)

Carol Irvin, Michael Ruff and Daniel W. Black star in Cumberland County PlayhouseÂ’s 48th season-opening production of Alfred UhryÂ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, which opens this Saturday, January 21. (more...)

The American Rep Theater of WNY starts the New Year and the second-half of the 2011-12 season with a production of D.L. Colburn's classic work, THE GIN GAME, to be presented at the Buffalo East, 1410 Main Street, January 20th through February 12th. (more...)

The American Rep Theater of WNY starts the New Year and the second-half of the 2011-12 season with a production of D.L. Colburn's classic work, THE GIN GAME, to be presented at the Buffalo East, 1410 Main Street, January 20th through February 12th. (more...)

The Joyce Theater Foundation will present the NYC premiere of Angel Reapers, a new dance/theater piece with text by Alfred Uhry and direction and choreography by Martha Clarke for a two-week limited run from November 29 - December 11. (more...)

The Joyce Theater Foundation will present the NYC premiere of Angel Reapers, a new dance/theater piece with text by Alfred Uhry and direction and choreography by Martha Clarke for a two-week limited run from November 29 - December 11. (more...)

In advance of the highly anticipated New York premiere of Angel Reapers, the new dance/theater/music piece with text by Alfred Uhry and direction and choreography by Martha Clarke, the two creators will sit down with Gideon Lester (Director of Columbia University's Arts Collaboration Lab) to discuss this provocative work on Monday, November 21 from 6pm-8pm at Joyce SoHo (155 Mercer Street, between Houston and Prince). (more...)

In advance of the highly anticipated New York premiere of Angel Reapers, the new dance/theater/music piece with text by Alfred Uhry and direction and choreography by Martha Clarke, the two creators will sit down with Gideon Lester (Director of Columbia University's Arts Collaboration Lab) to discuss this provocative work on Monday, November 21 from 6pm-8pm at Joyce SoHo (155 Mercer Street, between Houston and Prince). (more...)

The Joyce Theater Foundation will present the NYC premiere of Angel Reapers, a new dance/theater piece with text by Alfred Uhry and direction and choreography by Martha Clarke for a two-week limited run from November 29 - December 11. (more...)

Producers Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich announced today that Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave will return to the New York stage this Fall to star opposite one another in the Broadway Premiere of Alfred Uhry‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy. Directed by David Esbjornson (The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?), Driving Miss Daisy will begin performances on October 7, 2010, at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street), with an official opening on Monday, October 25, 2010. (more...)

Critics and audiences alike have struck a perfect balance with Edward Albee's A DELICATE BALANCE. Due to popular demand, Aurora Theatre Company announces that it will add an additional second week of performances of its current hit production of A DELICATE BALANCE, the company's 20th anniversary season opener; the production, originally extended through October 16, will now extend through October 23. (more...)