Syfy Acquires Rights To RANDALL AND HOPKIRK (DECEASED)May 10, 2010Syfy has acquired the rights to the classic British detective series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) from ITV Studios, Inc. for development as a pilot for a one-hour scripted series to be produced by ITV Studios. Josh Bycel (Scrubs) and Jonathan Fener (American Dad) will write and executive produce. Howard Braunstein of Jaffe/Braunstein Entertainment (The Memory Keepers Daughter/Christmas in Canaan) will also executive produce.
Special Benefit Reading Of VERITAS To Be Held 5/25May 9, 2010A special benefit reading of Stan Richardson's Veritas, for Lambda Legal, starring Tate Ellington (Broadway: The Philanthropist; Film: Remember Me), Mitch Dean (Altar Boyz), Matt Steiner (The Acting Company's Jane Eyre) and directed by Ryan J. Davis (White Noise, Broadway Beauty Pageants) will perform on Tuesday, May 25th at 8PM. This performance will include music by Rachel Peters (Stretch [a fantasia]) freely adapted from the Harvard Song Book.
GLEE's Michele Featured By USA TodayMay 9, 2010USA Today features GLEE's Lea Michele in a recent article. In the piece, the newspaper asks: Has it sunk in yet that she's on the hottest show on TV, or on the list of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for, as assistant managing editor Radhika Jones says, being 'such a talented person with so much room to grow and explore'? Well, yes and no, Michele says.
Kim Cattrall Profiled By The ObserverMay 9, 2010Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will appear in a Liverpool run of Antony and Cleopatra. She will play Cleopatra opposite Jeffery Kissoon in the Everyman Theater production, which will feature direction by Janet Suzman. Perormances will begin October 8 and run through November 13.
The North/South Chamber Orchestra Performs 3 Generations Of Composers' Work 5/18May 9, 2010On Tuesday evening May 18 at 8 PM, North/South Consonance, Inc. will continue its 30th consecutive season of free admission concerts with a special program featuring recent works by three generations of composers. The concert will be held at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free.
convergence-continuum Presents DARK RIDE, Opens 5/21May 9, 2010Tremont's resident theatre company, convergence-continuum, continues its 2010 season at the Liminis theatre with the Ohio premiere of DARK RIDE, a convoluted, phantasmagoric and strangely comic tale by Len Jenkin.
LONDON'S SCARS At The Odyssey Theatre Begins 5/13, Opens 5/15May 9, 2010The corrosive nature of blame threatens to exact a huge toll on doctor and patient alike after a London psychologist is informed by a member of the International Counter-Terrorism Branch of the Security Service that the emotionally-damaged woman she's been treating may have played a part in the bombing of a public bus.
Davie And Kirshenbaum Guest At NEW VOICES Concert 5/24May 9, 2010The sixth year of the acclaimed series, Monday Nights, New Voices, will continue on May 24th at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre with special guest host Erin Davie, who is currently starring in the Tony Nominated revival of A Little Night Music as Countess Charlotte Malcolm.