BWW Interview: Dennis Hensley MISMATCHing & Working With Divas
by Gil Kaan
- Sep 17, 2020
Dennis Hensley's long-running THE MISMATCH GAME has reinvented itself to the new normal of ZOOM for two weekend nights, September 26 and 27, 2020. Dennis shared some history of his charitable project, produced pre-pandemic on the stages of the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Dennis dons his hosting polyesters as Gene Rayburn.
Los Angeles LGBT Center's THE MISMATCH GAME ONLINE Set For This Month
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 9, 2020
Just when we need it the most, The MisMatch Game rises from the pandemic miasma to make a triumphant return a?" online! All the elements of the beloved, long-running comedy hit are back and ready to deliver their outrageous laughs via ZOOM on Saturday, September 26, and Sunday, September 27, at 8pm. There will be gift card prizes for winning contestants chosen from the audience via lottery.
Netflix Announces Cast of Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Aug 19, 2020
Netflix announced today the cast of Academy Award® winner Guillermo del Toro's upcoming stop-motion animated musical feature Pinocchio. Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio with Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley (Harry Potter franchise, Game of Thrones) as Geppetto.
Book Review: A STAR IS BORED, Byron Lane
by Jonathan Marshall
- Jul 1, 2020
Charlie hates his job and loathes his life even more. Suicide is never far from his thoughts. His car, like his life, is idling outside the Hollywood home of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's worst dressed list. The award winning actress, known for her role as Priestess Talara in an iconic blockbuster sci-fi film, has battled both mental health and drug abuse and is in search of an assistant who might encourage her to focus on her writing.
So begins a working relationship quite unlike any other, which gradually blossoms into a deep, candid and heart-warming friendship. Kathi may be centre stage but Charlie learns it's about time he put his own life and his future under the spotlight.
BWW Interview: Byron Lane Talks Tilda Swinton, Carrie Fisher and Debut Novel A STAR IS BORED
by Jonathan Marshall
- Apr 6, 2020
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craig's List is as wonderfully original and outlandish as its title suggests. The show has become a cult comedy classic, delighting audiences not once but twice at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as the VAULT Festival and in its writer's homeland, with sellout performances in New York, San Francisco and LA. Actor and writer Byron Lane spoke with BroadwayWorld about the creation and subsequent success of the play, as well as his newly penned novel A Star Is Bored.
OVID.tv Celebrates One Year
by Sarah Jae Leiber
- Mar 3, 2020
It's been a year since OVID.tv was launched by a collection of 8 top U.S. Indie film distributors. Since then OVID has been consistently adding 20+ titles per month and has grown its collection from approx. 300 titles when it launched, to almost 800 today. One reason OVID has been able to grow its offerings so much has been the steadily increasing list studios and distributors adding content, which now numbers more than 20, with the British Film Institute due to come on board next month.
Celebration Theatre Will Present AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Feb 11, 2020
CELEBRATION THEATRE presents, as part of its Celebrating New Works reading series, AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN by Terry Guest and performing one night only on Tuesday, February 25th at 7:30pm at The West Hollywood City Chambers, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd in West Hollywood.
THE MISMATCH GAME Returns To Los Angeles LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre
by A.A. Cristi
- Jan 17, 2020
It's time once again to a?oeget ready to match the starsa?? with a new edition of Dennis Hensley's The MisMatch Game. The side-splitting parody of the '70s game show has set the rafters ringing with laughter since its debut in 2004. The show the LA Times calls, a?oewitty, ribald a?? an adventure in surrealist era bendinga?? returns to the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre for two hilarious shows on Friday, February 7, and Saturday, February 8, at 8pm.
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