Robert Galinsky's THE BENCH Will Screen in NYC
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 12, 2020 NYC activist artist Robert Galinsky returns from Los Angeles for a one night only screening of The Bench film and brings with him the energy of Skid Row Los Angeles. The film presents a unique mash up from 'the street to the stage' and shows life on the streets through five homeless characters whose...
SAY HER NAME: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SANDRA BLAND Debuts On HBO On 12/3
by Tori Hartshorn - November 14, 2018 On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland, a politically engaged and vibrant 28-year-old African American from Chicago, was arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town. After three days in custody, she was found hanging from a noose in her jail cell. Bland's death was quickly ruled a suicide, sparki...
Kathy Griffin Post-Trump Scandal Performance at Carnegie Hall Sells Out in a Day!
by A.A. Cristi - March 17, 2018 Following the very public fallout with the Trump administration over a controversial photo taken after the 2016 election, comedian Kathy Griffin is back with an all-new show and fans are eager to hear about the aftermath....
VIDEO: Jeff Daniels Says TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a Wake-Up Call to Audiences
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 31, 2019 On Tuesday night's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, actor Jeff Daniels stopped by to talk about his Broadway play, To Kill a Mockingbird....
VOICES FROM THE EDGE Conceived And Directed By Rhodessa Jones Comes to the Gateway
by A.A. Cristi - May 21, 2018 Theatre Rhinoceros has partnered with Rhodessa Jones of Cultural Odyssey to mine Ms. Jones's material from her work with incarcerated women and women living with HIV to develop and rehearse a theatrical presentation focusing on queer-identified or lesbian women who are incarcerated and/or living wit...
Novel Shows Convict's Struggle to Survive and Keep Her Family
by Robert Diamond - September 26, 2018 ...
VIDEO: Netflix Shares Trailer For New Docu-Series HAPPY JAIL
by Tori Hartshorn - August 05, 2019 This five-part docu-series goes inside the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a unique Philippine jail where dancing is part of the inmates' exercise and rehabilitation. CPDRC shot to worldwide fame when its 2007 performance of “Thriller” went viral, but ten years later it ...
A&E Announces THE FIRST 48 PRESENTS: HOMICIDE SQUAD ATLANTA and the Return of 60 DAYS IN
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 14, 2018 This January, A&E Network continues to expand its award-winning justice programming slate with two riveting series. An extension of one of A&E's most coveted brands, 'The First 48 Presents: Homicide Squad Atlanta' follows homicide detectives from the Atlanta Police Department as they unravel the mys...
VIDEO: 50 Cent & Nicholas Pinnock Talk FOR LIFE on GOOD MORNING AMERICA
by Sarah Leiber - February 11, 2020 50 Cent is the executive producer for the new ABC drama about a falsely accused inmate who earns a law degree in jail so he can overturn his life sentence and seek justice for his fellow inmates....
Chapman Student Organization Production to Presents CHICAGO: THE MUSICAL
by A.A. Cristi - March 26, 2018 The 'Kander and Ebb classic', CHICAGO opens this spring at Chapman University. Chapman Student Organization Productions, CSOP, will bring this sexy, bold, and awe-inspiring favorite to the Chapman campus for a very short engagement....
Lena Baker & Sandra Bland Bring AMERICAN CAPTIVES to Dixon Place
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2018 American Captives: Lena Baker & Sandra Bland, will open Thursday, October 4th, 2018. Written and performed by Connie Winston, and directed by Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, this poignant visceral theatrical experience combines the two stories, Lena Baker and Sandra Bland. After a one-day trial in 1945, a...
VIDEO: On This Day, May 3- Chita Rivera Returns to Broadway in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
by A.A. Cristi - May 03, 2018 On this day in 1993, the legendary Chita Rivera returned to Broadway in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. ...
PORN Premieres New Single/Video for 'Low Winter Hope, pt 2'
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 26, 2020 PORN premiered their new single/ video for 'Low Winter Hope, pt. 2' off of their anticipated album No Monsters in God's Eyes, Act III today....
CHICAGO THE MUSICAL to Play at Atwood Concert Hall
by Alan Henry - September 16, 2019 Chicago the Musical will be doing the cell block tango all the way down to the Atwood Concert Hall in Anchorage, AK from February 18 to 23, 2020....
Netflix Unveiled the Cast and Director for Its First Mandarin-Language Original TV Series NOWHERE MAN
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 01, 2018 Netflix, the world leading internet entertainment service today officially unveiled the cast and director for its first Mandarin-language Original TV series Nowhere Man. Erika North, Director of Original content APAC, announced that the series will start shooting on October 3rd and would be shot ent...
VIDEO: Netflix Debuts the Trailer for TIDELANDS
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 23, 2018 Join Cal McTeer as she navigates a world filled with drugs, sex, and power...searching for who she is and what she's meant to be....
Coral Springs Center For The Arts To Present Next Stop Broadway's CHICAGO
by Stephi Wild - July 11, 2019 The Coral Springs Center for the Arts is offering a fun, theatrical-based summer camp for children and teens this summer in conjunction with Next Stop Broadway, the premier training center for young performers in South Florida....
Patricia Heaton To Develop Project Based On PERVERSION OF JUSTICE Epstein Articles
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 13, 2019 Variety reports that Patricia Heaton will produce a series based on “Perversion of Justice,” a series of articles in the Miami Herald which exposed Jeffrey Epstein as a serial child molester. Julie K. Brown's three-part investigative journalism piece was published in November of 2018....
DATELINE NBC Presents All New DEADLY CIRCUMSTANCES & SIMPLY DIABOLICAL On 4/20
by Tori Hartshorn - April 18, 2018 DATELINE NBC Presents All New DEADLY CIRCUMSTANCES & SIMPLY DIABOLICAL On 4/20...
BWW Review: Racial injustice is explored in the confessional A WHITE MAN'S GUIDE TO RIKER'S ISLAND at The Producer's Club
by Joe Lombardi - July 27, 2019 Riker's Island is New York City's notorious jail complex. 85% of the inmates have not been convicted of a crime. Unable to post bail, many defendants are incarcerated until their trial. The rest of the population are convicted criminals serving short sentences. Richard L. Roy tells his own story...
Schimmel Center Presents Screening Of Two Groundbreaking Documentaries This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2018 Schimmel Center screens two groundbreaking and timely documentaries this fall....
The Moon Crew Are Back With An All New Episode
by A.A. Cristi - March 27, 2018 Moon Crew is back with an all new addition to the episodic sci-fi saga that follows the hapless adventures of three emotionally unstable yet lovable astronauts as they cruise the galaxy. Created, written and performed by three Annoyance Theatre NY alums, the Moon Crew brings their latest episode to ...
Robnhood Tra Releases New Video & Track THIRTY8
by Tori Hartshorn - February 01, 2019 Today, Southside Atlanta's newest rising star Robnhood Tra explodes onto the scene with the official track and music video for 'Thirty8,' a soon-to-be certified street anthem. The visual, directed by FoolWithTheCamera, opens with a scene between the young rapper and his real grandmother, foreshadowi...
Cardi B Warned of Arrest if Next Court Date Missed
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 04, 2018 CNN reports that Cardi B might face jail time if she doesn't show to a court hearing scheduled for Friday....
2020: A FANTASY Comes To Theatre 54 October 16
by A.A. Cristi - September 18, 2019 Strange Bird Productions presents '2020: A Fantasy', a new dark comedy by Raven Petretti starting October 16th at Theatre 54. Ken Wolf directs Gabrielle Wagner* and Timothy Babcock* in a satirical look at the relationship of a married couple with opposing political views as the contentious upcoming ... |