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The Vietnam War was a decade of agony that took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans, and that Not since the Civil War have we as a country been so torn apart. In an immersive narrative, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. The Vietnam War features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

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GI Film Festival San Diego Opens with TAKE ME HOME HUEY Photo GI Film Festival San Diego Opens with TAKE ME HOME HUEY
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 15, 2019

The GI Film Festival San Diego, now in its fifth year, opens with a heartfelt documentary short, “Take Me Home Huey” featuring the transformation of a U.S. Army Huey helicopter into a colorful, inspirational sculpture by contemporary artist and Southern California resident Steve Maloney....


Seacoast Rep Lets The Sun Shine In With HAIR Photo Seacoast Rep Lets The Sun Shine In With HAIR
by A.A. Cristi - July 16, 2019

Seacoast Rep is pleased to present Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical on its second stage at the STAR Theatre at Kittery Community Center from July 18th through August 4th....


Matt Bomer's FELLOW TRAVELERS Series Picked Up By Showtime Photo Matt Bomer's FELLOW TRAVELERS Series Picked Up By Showtime
by Michael Major - April 20, 2022

SHOWTIME announced today that Emmy nominee and Critics Choice Award winner Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart, The Boys in the Band) will star in the limited series FELLOW TRAVELERS, which he will executive produce with Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) and Robbie Rogers (All American, My Policema...


Dick Cavett to Receive WGAE's Evelyn F. Burkey Award at 2022 Writers Guild Awards Photo Dick Cavett to Receive WGAE's Evelyn F. Burkey Award at 2022 Writers Guild Awards
by Michael Major - March 14, 2022

In 1966, Cavett wrote and hosted the special, WHERE IT’S AT, produced by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear. In 1968, Cavett was hired by ABC to host THIS MORNING, which was renamed THE DICK CAVETT SHOW and moved to prime time and then to late night, where it ran opposite THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CA...


Skylight Music Theatre Presents First Developmental Reading of FORTUNATE SONS Featuri Photo Skylight Music Theatre Presents First Developmental Reading of FORTUNATE SONS Featuring Music & Lyrcis by Paul Williams
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 19, 2021

Skylight Music Theatre today announced it will offer a rare insider’s look at the making of a new musical when it presents the first staged concert reading of Fortunate Sons, featuring music and lyrics by legendary Oscar and Grammy Award-winner Paul Williams....


Documentary ALI & CAVETT: THE TALE OF THE TAPES Debuts on HBO February 11 Photo Documentary ALI & CAVETT: THE TALE OF THE TAPES Debuts on HBO February 11
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 21, 2020

Between 1968 and 1979, boxing superstar Muhammad Ali appeared on the Emmy® winning “Dick Cavett Show” no less than fourteen times. With natural charisma, quick wit and playful pugnacity, Ali was a perfect foil for the sophisticated broadcast host, and together they struck television gold. Whether di...


Theatre 55 Re-opens With HAIR Photo Theatre 55 Re-opens With HAIR
by Stephi Wild - June 28, 2021

The Tribe seeks to find harmony, love, and freedom during to the sexual revolution while rebelling against the war and expectations from family and society. HAIR's jubilant score is filled with such timeless favorites as 'Let the Sun Shine In', 'Easy To Be Hard' and 'Aquarius'. The themes and strugg...


TV Exclusive: The Great Facts of THE GREAT SOCIETY- Christopher Livingston on James B Photo TV Exclusive: The Great Facts of THE GREAT SOCIETY- Christopher Livingston on James Bevel & Jimmie Lee Jackson
by Nicole Rosky - October 31, 2019

BroadwayWorld is checking in with the cast to uncover some little known facts about the political giants they play onstage. Today, watch as Christopher Livingston gives us a lesson on James Bevel and Jimmie Lee Jackson....


Vincent Victoria Presents Announces Remount of THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EARTHA KITT Photo Vincent Victoria Presents Announces Remount of THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EARTHA KITT
by A.A. Cristi - October 21, 2019

Vincent Victoria Presents will be remounting its popular play 'The Disappearance of Eartha Kitt' just in time for the Holiday Season. The dramatic production, which chronicles the life of the famed 'Santa Baby' singer Eartha Kitt, is returning for a limited special engagement December 6th-December 1...


TV Exclusive: The Great Facts of THE GREAT SOCIETY- Gordon Clapp on J. Edgar Hoover Photo TV Exclusive: The Great Facts of THE GREAT SOCIETY- Gordon Clapp on J. Edgar Hoover
by Nicole Rosky - November 04, 2019

BroadwayWorld is checking in with the cast to uncover some little known facts about the political giants they play onstage. Today, watch as Gordon Clapp gives us a lesson on J. Edgar Hoover....


Peter Arnett Talks DATELINE-SAIGON, Saddam Hussein & Osama bin Laden On Tom Needham's Photo Peter Arnett Talks DATELINE-SAIGON, Saddam Hussein & Osama bin Laden On Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM
by A.A. Cristi - July 07, 2020

DATELINE-SAIGON director, Tom Herman, and award-winning journalist, Peter Arnett, join Tom Needham on WUSB's THE SOUNDS OF FILM. Maja Zdanowski, the writer and director of IN GOD I TRUST, will also be on the show....


Jeremy Strong Joins Leonard Bernstein Biopic MAESTRO Photo Jeremy Strong Joins Leonard Bernstein Biopic MAESTRO
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 19, 2020

Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong is in talks to join the cast of 'Maestro,' the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic. ...


BWW Interview: Red Concepcion Plays the Engineer in MISS SAIGON Opening in New Orlean Photo BWW Interview: Red Concepcion Plays the Engineer in MISS SAIGON Opening in New Orleans Next Week
by Heidi Scheuermann - January 17, 2020

There are a handful of musicals that I firmly believe every self-proclaimed theatre lover needs to see, if for no other reason, to say they've seen it. Among the ranks are LES MISERABLES, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, WEST SIDE STORY, I think it's now pretty safe to add WICKED to the li...


TV Exclusive: The Great Facts of THE GREAT SOCIETY- Tramell Tillman on Bob Moses Photo TV Exclusive: The Great Facts of THE GREAT SOCIETY- Tramell Tillman on Bob Moses
by Nicole Rosky - November 11, 2019

the political giants they play onstage. Today, watch as Tramell Tillman gives us a lesson on Bob Moses....


BWW Review: MISS SAIGON at Majestic Theatre Photo BWW Review: MISS SAIGON at Majestic Theatre
by Kathy Strain - January 09, 2020

Many people in attendance at the performance of MISS SAIGON at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio have vivid memories of the Vietnam War. Many may have actually fought over there, many protested in the United States in antiwar demonstrations, while others may have been living in the fighting zones ...


IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS Explores True Life Struggles Of Women Veterans Photo IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS Explores True Life Struggles Of Women Veterans
by A.A. Cristi - October 30, 2019

Veterans Day honors those who served our country, but how many of us know the personal stories of those who served?...


Rainbow Theatre Project Kicks Off Season With BLUE CAMP Photo Rainbow Theatre Project Kicks Off Season With BLUE CAMP
by Julie Musbach - September 12, 2019

Rainbow Theatre Project will begin the 2019-2020 season with the world premiere production of Tim Caggiano and Jack Calvin Hanna's Blue Camp, a play that takes audiences inside of the blue barracks on a U.S. Army base. Blue Camp will run October 31 a?" November 24, 2019 at the Thurgood Marshall Gall...


David Mixner To Receive Lifetime Legend Award At GMCLA 40/STONEWALL 50 Concert Photo David Mixner To Receive Lifetime Legend Award At GMCLA 40/STONEWALL 50 Concert
by A.A. Cristi - June 21, 2019

Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA), one of the country's longest-running and largest LGBTQ arts organizations, will honor David Mixner, a leader in LGBTQ and civil rights for the past 60 years with its Lifetime Legend award for six decades of activism, service, and leadership, at its upcoming g...


Evenings@7 Presents 1959 PINK THUNDERBIRD Photo Evenings@7 Presents 1959 PINK THUNDERBIRD
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 18, 2020

It's 1972, two years after Roy Caulder--once the hero of his high school class in Maynard, Texas--has returned from the Vietnam war to find everything he knows changed. About all he has left are memories of his glory days, his adoring younger brother Ray, his wife Elizabeth, and his now-crumbling 19...


Carnegie Hall to Present Kronos Quartet In Premieres By Jonathan Berger, Aleksandra V Photo Carnegie Hall to Present Kronos Quartet In Premieres By Jonathan Berger, Aleksandra Vrebalov & inti Ffiggis-vizueta
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 31, 2022

On Friday, April 23, 2022 at 9:30pm, Carnegie Hall presents the renowned Kronos Quartet at Zankel Hall....


DOGFIGHT is Now Playing at Woodstock Arts Photo DOGFIGHT is Now Playing at Woodstock Arts
by Stephi Wild - November 05, 2021

Currently on stage at Woodstock Arts (formerly Elm Street Cultural Arts Village) is the musical production of Dogfight, a romantic and heartbreaking theatrical journey inspired by the veteran experience of the Vietnam War and the 1991 Warner Brothers film. A young soldier learns empathy when he play...


ROLLING THUNDER VIETNAM Concert To Tour Australia Photo ROLLING THUNDER VIETNAM Concert To Tour Australia
by A.A. Cristi - October 09, 2019

Australian concert drama Rolling Thunder Vietnam a?" Songs That Defined A Generation returns for a strictly-limited tour in March-April 2020, including the Queensland Performing Arts Centre [QPAC] in Brisbane, Hamer Hall in Melbourne and the new Coliseum Theatre in Western Sydney....


John A. Emery MD Releases Medical Memoir A SURGEON'S LIFE WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER Photo John A. Emery MD Releases Medical Memoir A SURGEON'S LIFE WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER
by Julie Musbach - June 10, 2019

John A. Emery MD announces his medical memoir, A Surgeon's Life With Bipolar Disorder....


Little Theatre Of Norfolk Pays Tribute To Women's History In A PIECE OF MY HEART Photo Little Theatre Of Norfolk Pays Tribute To Women's History In A PIECE OF MY HEART
by Stephi Wild - February 29, 2020

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Joel Grey Pens Essay on the Struggle of Life Without Theatre and Looks Ahead to the G Photo Joel Grey Pens Essay on the Struggle of Life Without Theatre and Looks Ahead to the Great Works that Will Come
by Nicole Rosky - April 22, 2020

Broadway fans everywhere continue to feel a void in the absence of live theatre, and Joel Grey is no exception. The Tony winner has written an opinion piece, featured in the New York Times, in which he admits to his struggle with the today's reality....






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