BET Registers for Another Semester of Hit Series THE QUAD, Returning 1/23
by Caryn Robbins - December 21, 2017 BET Networks announces Season 2 of hit series THE QUAD, starring Tony Award winners Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Premiering Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 10 P.M. ET/PT on BET, the new season also sees the return of stars Peyton Alex Smith, Jazz Raycole, Zoe Renee, Jake Allyn, Michelle D...
BWW Interview, Part II: Composer Kevin Puts, Soprano Renee Fleming and Developing LETTERS FROM GEORGIA
by Richard Sasanow - November 11, 2016 Since writing his first opera, SILENT NIGHT--the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for Music--with librettist Mark Campbell, composer Kevin Puts he has done two other operas, also with Campbell. This time around, he has a different collaborator: famed American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose correspondence ...
VIDEO: First Look - Renee Elise Goldsberry Stars in HBO's THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
by Caryn Robbins - March 16, 2017 Oprah Winfrey, Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry (HAMILTON) and Rose Byrne star in this adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's critically acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction book of the same name....
HBO's THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Coming to Blu-ra/DVD 9/5
by Caryn Robbins - June 16, 2017 Led by Oscar® nominee and TV icon Oprah Winfrey and Emmy® nominee Rose Byrne, the “Intriguing and thought provoking” (The New York Times) HBO® Film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is available to own on Blu-RayTM and DVD September 5, 2017.... 
Paramount Network Officially Debuts with Live LIP SYNC BATTLE Episode, 1/18
by Caryn Robbins - September 25, 2017 Paramount Network has set a date for its debut. The network will officially debut on Thursday, January 18 at 9:00pm ET/PT with a LIVE one-hour episode of 'Lip Sync Battle' emanating from the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Details on this star-studded event will be announced in the coming weeks.... 
New Scripted Dramedy AMERICAN WOMAN Premieres on Paramount Network, 6/7
by Caryn Robbins - January 16, 2018 AMERICAN WOMAN, a new half-hour scripted dramedy set amid the sexual revolution and rise of feminism in the 1970s will premiere on Paramount Network on Thursday, June 7 at 10:00pm ET/PT. The 12- episode series from John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television stars A...
THEY PROMISED HER THE MOON Reading to Fly Beyond the Gender Gap at Miranda Theatre
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2016 T minus one week until take-off! Miranda Theatre Company will present readings of They Promised Her The Moon by Laurel Ollstein.... 
SISTAS ON FIRE! Coming to the Duke on 42nd Next Month
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2017 Sistas on Fire! A Newsical by Marcia McNair and Anissa D. Moore, a musical revue that examines pressing social issues from an African-American female perspective, is coming to the Duke on 42nd Street, Saturday, October 7th, 2017 at 7 PM EST....
AN EVENING WITH CS LEWIS and OF WARDROBES & RINGS Set for Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2016 Two giants of British Literature CS Lewis (David Payne) and JRR Tolkien (David Robinson) make their debut at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival in two outstanding productions. An Evening with CS Lewis and Of Wardrobes & Rings (& Other Things) a play about CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien's last ever enco...
Book Now For Classic Spring's Oscar Wilde Season In The West End
by Marianka Swain - July 06, 2017 Classic Spring's Oscar Wilde Season at Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End begins this autumn with A Woman of No Importance and Lady Windermere's Fan. Book tickets here from 25!...
STAGE TUBE: HBO Releases Trailer of THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Starring Winfrey, Goldsberry, and Byrne
by Julie Musbach - February 18, 2017 Oprah Winfrey, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and Rose Byrne star in this adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's critically acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction book of the same name. The film tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell l... 
SISTAS ON FIRE to Light Up the Stage at New York New Works Theatre Festival
by BWW News Desk - October 07, 2017 The personal becomes the political when four passionately-opinionated African American women speak their minds on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Black Lives Matter, missing women and girls, racial stratification on Long Island, sexual exploitation, black-on-black crime, and male/female relation...
Congrats! Cheyenne Jackson & Husband Jason Landau Welcome Twins!
by Caryn Robbins - October 12, 2016 Broadway's Cheyenne Jackson turned to Instagram today to share the joyous news that he and husband Jason Landau are now parents to twins Willow and Ethan. The couple were married on September 13, 2014.... 
Canadian Humor Proves Clean is Hilarious in New Xulon Release
by Robert Diamond - January 11, 2018 ... 
BET World Premieres New Feature Film SECRETS, 9/16
by Caryn Robbins - September 12, 2017 SECRETS, MegaMind Media's first feature film world premieres Saturday, September 16, at8:00 p.m. ET/PTon BET, produced by former teacher, Tressa Azarel Smallwood....
HBO to Debut THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, 4/22
by Caryn Robbins - February 14, 2017 HBO has confirmed that the HBO Films presentation THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS will debut SATURDAY, APRIL 22 at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT)....
Tickets on Sale Now for SISTAS ON FIRE
by BWW News Desk - June 22, 2017 The personal becomes the political when four passionately-opinionated African American women speak their minds on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Black Lives Matter, missing women and girls, racial stratification on Long Island, sexual exploitation, black-on-black crime, and male/female relation...
VIDEO: Rewind! Renee Elise Goldsberry Explains Why She Almost Skipped HAMILTON Audition
by Caryn Robbins - April 18, 2017 Tony Award winner Renee Elise Goldsberry stopped by today's LIVE WITH KELLY to chat about her starring role in Broadway's HAMILTON and explain why she almost didn't audition for the musical....
Alicia Silverstone-Led Drama AMERICAN WOMAN Coming to TV Land in 2017
by Caryn Robbins - November 08, 2016 TV Land announced today the series pick-up of 1970s period dramedyAMERICAN WOMAN, starring Alicia Silverstone ('Clueless,' 'Suburgatory'), Mena Suvari ('American Beauty,' 'Chicago Fire') and Jennifer Bartels ('Broken')....
BWW Review: Gentlemen Prefer Booty in Kirsten Childs' BELLA: AN AMERICAN TALL TALE
by Michael Dale - June 24, 2017 The recent Signature Theatre revival of Suzan Lori-Parks' VENUS, based on the true story of Saartjie Baartman, depicted a 19th Century African woman who was subjected to exploitation because of white people's fascination with her prominent posterior. But the mood is considerably lighter over at Pla...
Misty Copeland to Guest Judge on NBC's WORLD OF DANCE
by Caryn Robbins - June 21, 2017 Ballet dancer extraordinaire Misty Copeland, the first African-American principal ballerina in the history of American Ballet Theatre, will be a guest judge on the July 18 and July 25 episodes of NBC's new high-rated competition series WORLD OF DANCE.... 
Single Carrot Theatre to Launch Season 11 with Young Jean Lee's LEAR
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2017 Single Carrot Theatre's 11th season begins with an outrageously original take on a familiar story: Lear by Young Jean Lee.... 
CURIOSITY, ADVENTURE & LOVE, Inspired by True Story of Jessie Lichauco, to Screen at La Femme International Film Festival
by Caryn Robbins - October 20, 2017 CURIOSITY, ADVENTURE & LOVE, the inspiring true story of Jessie Lichauco, a 105-year-old American woman who journeyed to the Philippines alone in the 1930s at age 18, will make its local debut at the 13th Annual LA Femme International Film Festival, October 19-22, 2017....
Single Carrot Theatre to Launch Season 11 with Young Jean Lee's LEAR
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2017 Single Carrot Theatre's 11th season begins with an outrageously original take on a familiar story: Lear by Young Jean Lee....
VIDEO: Oprah & Renee Elise Goldsberry Discuss HBO'S 'HENRIETTA LACKS'
by Caryn Robbins - March 22, 2017 The stars of HBO's THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, Oprah Winfrey and Tony winner Renee Elise Goldsberry, grace the cover of the April issue of Essence magazine. Below, the stars discuss the importance of honoring Lacks and bringing her story to the forefront.... |
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