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PLIMPTON! Screens in NYC, 5/22 by BWW News Desk - Apr 23, 2013
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself is a new documentary that will open theatrically in New York on Wednesday, May 22nd - just in time for the long holiday weekend - at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The release is timed to help celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Paris Review. The movie is directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling and is produced by Terry McDonell and Adam Roffman. The theatrical distributor is Laemmle/Zeller Films. www.PlimptonMovie.com. (more...)
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Chris Curren named Executive Chef of The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group by BWW News Desk - Apr 15, 2013
Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner - co-owners of The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group - have hired Chris Curren as an Executive Chef. Curren will helm the kitchens at both the "literal farm-to-table restaurant" Homestead and craft cocktail lounge The Berkshire Room in addition to working on other facets inside the growing restaurant group. (more...)
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The 26th Columbia University Film Festival Runs 5/3-9 by BWW News Desk - Apr 15, 2013
Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program and The Film Society of Lincoln Center have announced they will co-present the 26th Annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF), a week-long program of screenings, dramatic readings and special events in New York. The celebration will continue with events to be announced for June in Los Angeles. This marks the second year that the festival is co-presented by the Film Society. (more...)
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SALOON to Open Peninsula Players' 78th Summer Season, 6/11 by BWW News Desk - Apr 12, 2013
The 78th season of summer stock theater along the shores of Green Bay opens in Juen when the Peninsula Players raises the curtain on 'Saloon' by Terry Twyman. Summer stock theaters sprang up in the early decades of the 20th century in empty barns, old mills and haylofts across the country. They became venues for movie studio producers to scope out new talent. (more...)
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Disney Channel Picks Up JESSIE for Third Season by TV News Desk - Mar 28, 2013
Jessie and the Ross kids will return for a third season in the popular comedy series for kids and families 'Jessie,' it was announced today by Adam Bonnett, Senior Vice President, Original Programming, Disney Channels Worldwide. Production resumes in Los Angeles in July. Season 3 is scheduled to premiere in fall 2013. (more...)
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2013 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Presents Cowboy Artist Jason Rich as Featured Artist by BWW News Desk - Mar 28, 2013
Acclaimed cowboy artist Jason Rich has been chosen as featured artist for the 2013 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, September 5 - 15, 2013, announced Maureen Murphy, Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce Events Director. Each year the Jackson, Wyoming, arts event selects a featured artist, whose work graces the annual festival poster - which then becomes a collectible in its own right. Rich credits his Western roots as the inspiration behind his work, which draws on his experiences from riding beside cowboys in a corral to packing through the mountains to create paintings, that reflect the authenticity of the cowboy way. (more...)
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8th Annual Mission Creek Festival Announces Literary Lineup, 4/2-7 by BWW News Desk - Mar 04, 2013
The eighth annual Mission Creek Festival has announced its slate of literary events alongside the full lineup of musicians and artists performing from April 2nd to 7th, 2013. As with past festivals, writers, presses, and literary journals from across the country will appear alongside acts such as Grizzly Bear, Divine Fits, Deerhoof, Tig Notaro, Killer Mike, Iris Dement, Janeane Garofalo, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, and many more. All literary events are free and open to the public. (more...)
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WB & TCM to Launch Gene Kelly, John Wayne, & Paul Newman DVD Collections by Movies News Desk - Mar 04, 2013
Warner Home Video (WHV) and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) are adding four new collections to their TCM Greatest Classic Films line, which spotlights Hollywood's most legendary actors and actresses in classic cinema. Available June 18, the newest additions are: TCM Greatest Classic Films: Legends - Gene Kelly, starring one of the most dominant forces in Hollywood musicals during the mid-1940s; TCM Greatest Classic Films: Legends - John Wayne Action, featuring the Academy Award winner who landed Best Actor in a Leading Role for "True Grit" in 1970 and drew some of the top box offices for decades; TCM Greatest Classic Films: Legends - Paul Newman, starring the Academy Award winner who received the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for "The Color of Money" in 1987; and TCM Greatest Classic Films: Romantic Affairs, featuring some of the silver screen's most sizzling love interests including, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Carol Lombard, and Cary Grant. Each star-studded collection features four classic films and is affordably priced at $27.92 SRP. Orders are due May 14. (more...)
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BWW Review: STONES IN HIS POCKETS a Showcase for Acting Duo by Nancy Grossman - Feb 25, 2013
Daniel Berger-Jones and Phil Tayler play more than a dozen characters between them in Marie Jones' 2001 Olivier Award-winner for Best New Comedy. They make it look easy, but their achievement is no small feat as they breathe life into the citizens of a rural Irish village in County Kerry who vie for roles as extras in an American film. The experience changes many of them, not all for the better. (more...)
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Reagle Music Theatre Dedicates LITTLE BIT OF IRELAND to Larry Reynolds, 3/15-17 by BWW News Desk - Feb 15, 2013
Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston is once again serving up its warm Irish brew, 'A Little Bit of Ireland,' March 15-17 in the Robinson Theater, 617 Lexington Street, Waltham. Now in its 15th season, this annual musical celebration of St. Patrick's Day is dedicated this year to the memory of the late Larry Reynolds. (more...)
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BWW Interviews: Kim Tobin, John Gremillion, and Kay Allmand Talk Stark Naked Theatre's GOD OF CARNAGE by David Clarke - Feb 11, 2013
Sitting down with any member of the Houston theatre community is one of the true perks of writing for BroadwayWorld. Recently, I got to sit down with three of the four cast members in Stark Naked Theatre's upcoming production of Yasmina Reza's GOD OF CARNAGE. Kim Tobin (playing Veronica), John Gremillion (playing Alan), and Kay Allmand (playing Annette) all talked to me about the show and why Houston audiences will love it. (more...)
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BWW Reviews: Good Acting, Direction, Make All the Difference for STONES IN HIS POCKETS by Lauren Yarger - Feb 01, 2013
When I first saw Marie Jones's play STONES IN HIS POCKETS, I wasn't reviewing, but was working as the Front of House Manager at the Bushnell where Bronson Pinchot was starring in the tour stop there in 2002. About half of the audience left at intermission, most of them asking what the play was about. I couldn't answer. I had no idea myself. (more...)
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Stefanie Powers to Replace Valerie Harper in National Tour of LOOPED by BWW News Desk - Jan 28, 2013
Emmy Award nominee Stefanie Powers will now play the role of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead on the national tour of LOOPED. She replaces Valerie Harper, who was advised by doctors to take an immediate medical leave after having recently been hospitalized; she has flown back to Los Angeles with her husband Tony Cacciotti where she will receive continuing treatment and medical care. (more...)
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