![]() by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 22, 2020 In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim.... ![]() by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 25, 2021 Presented by Sir David Attenborough, the program reveals how this crisis has grave consequences for us all—threatening food and water security, reducing our ability to control our climate, and putting us at greater risk of deadly pandemic diseases, including COVID-19. ... ![]() by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 11, 2020 National Geographic announced today that 'The Hot Zone,' the network's highest-rated scripted series to date, has been greenlit for a second season, which will focus on the anthrax attacks of 2001.... ![]() by Macon Prickett - February 21, 2018 Viruses have shaped our health and our history, and, despite all the tools of modern medicine, they continue to kill millions of people every year. Influenza, smallpox, and Ebola are among the three most lethal viruses ever to have plagued mankind. Each has taken a devastatingly large toll on the hu... ![]() by Tori Hartshorn - July 26, 2018 Golden Globe and Emmy Award Winner Julianna Margulies Tapped for National Geographic Scripted Series THE HOT ZONE... ![]() by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 16, 2020 Round House Theatre has announced a new lineup of plays, conversations, and education offerings for its 43rd Season, which includes digital programming for the fall and winter and a return to live productions in its Bethesda theatre in spring 2021. ... ![]() by Kaitlin Milligan - April 23, 2020 The biggest names in comedy are coming together to help health workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic with a special virtual comedy fest on Friday, May 1.... ![]() by Julie Musbach - January 25, 2018 The Kitchen presents Marianna Ellenberg's Pawel & Ebola, a new play that tells the story of the imagined offspring of neurologist and famed hysteric -photographer Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot in order to examine trauma and how notions of hysteria have been projected onto women from fin-de-si cle France ... ![]() by Tori Hartshorn - February 21, 2018 Discovery Shines a Light on Three Deadly Viruses and Their Potential for Catastrophic Outbreaks in INVISIBLE KILLERS... ![]() by Julie Musbach - March 20, 2018 After sold out performances in September 2017, Selwyn & Gabriel returns to the Alexander Bar.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - February 13, 2023 2023 marks the 52nd season of Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning’s (SILL) “Global Issues” series. This hard-hitting series, which runs January 10-March 31, features 25 internationally renowned experts discussing a vast range of domestic and global issues. This month’s lectures feature front-pag... ![]() by Michael Major - July 27, 2022 Now, the new documentary American Masters: Tony – A Year in the Life of Dr. Anthony Fauci captures the most prominent physician in America at work over a period of 14 months, beginning with Inauguration Day 2021, as he strives to improve national public health.... ![]() by Team BWW - April 16, 2022 Veteran Broadway Stage Manager Richard Hester (Jersey Boys) has just release 'Hold, Please: Stage Managing A Pandemic,' a memoir of the year Broadway went dark.... ![]() by Kaitlin Milligan - August 24, 2018 The 2014 Ebola outbreak is remembered as one of the most widely feared epidemics in recent memory. As the virus spread through West Africa, hysterical media reports outside the region fanned the flames of anxiety. However, according to Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, the “role that locals pla... ![]() by Stephi Wild - April 23, 2020 Inspired by listener requests in times of the coronavirus, coupled with the advent of Earth Day, THE LOH DOWN ON SCIENCE is launching a limited radio/podcast series called THE LOH DOWN ON SCIENCE: SPECIAL PANDEMIC EDITION (ldospandemicedition.org) on April 22 for eight weeks.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - October 25, 2018 The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) today honored several outstanding female journalists at the 2018 Courage in Journalism Awards luncheon at Cipriani 42nd Street. This year's honorees included news agency JINHA founder, Zehra Do?an, U.S. freelance photojournalist, Meridith Kohut, unde... ![]() by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 18, 2019 That's a wrap! National Geographic is saying goodbye to 2019 with some of your all-time favorite NGC programs of the year. From the dangerously frigid Alaskan terrain to the 3,200-foot summit of El Capitan, explore breathtaking sights, heart-pounding adventure and groundbreaking science from whereve... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - February 24, 2022 Austin Playhouse announces the return to live performance with The Catastrophist directed by Austin Playhouse Founder Don Toner and starring Company Member and new Co-Associate Artistic Director, Ben Wolfe. ... ![]() by Julie Musbach - March 28, 2018 Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College (MOAD) will inaugurate its newly renovated galleries with two outstanding exhibitions, By the People: Designing a Better America and This Situation, a work by the acclaimed British-German artist Tino Sehgal. The reopening of MOAD's facility in the histo... ![]() by Stephi Wild - January 23, 2019 Two Gents Productions and Tara Arts are delighted to present their co-production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest which has its London Premiere at Tara Theatre from 27 February- 16 March 2019 with press night on 28 February at 7.30pm.... ![]() by Hannah Wing - January 28, 2021 The Catastrophist, co-produced by Round House Theatre and Marin Theatre Company, and directed by Jasson Minadakis, is a surreal and emotional glimpse into Dr. Wolfe’s passion of preventing catastrophe before it happens.... ![]() by Kaitlin Milligan - May 21, 2020 Sundance Institute today named the global cohort of 22 independent nonfiction filmmakers and their projects that comprise the latest Grantees of the Institute's Documentary Fund.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - February 23, 2021 Due to popular ticket demand, Marin Theatre Company and Round House Theatre announced the extension of Lauren M. Gunderson's The Catastrophist, the hit world premiere digital co-production based on the life and work of award-winning “virus hunter” Nathan Wolfe. Filmed on stage at Marin's Boyer Theat... ![]() by Tori Hartshorn - September 10, 2018 The 2014 Ebola outbreak is remembered as one of the most widely feared epidemics in recent memory. As the virus spread through West Africa, hysterical media reports outside the region fanned the flames of anxiety. However, according to Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, the “role that locals pla... ![]() by Macon Prickett - April 11, 2018 The creative, fighting spirit is alive and well in 2018. The newest slate of documentary films from PBS television series POV arrives this June with a lineup of empowering and moving stories about the strength of art and activism. From scientists setting out to save the planet to hip-hop artists car... |