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Kartemquin is proud to announce a collaboration with Al Jazeera America on Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series scheduled to air in early 2015. Production has already begun on the series, which will explore the lives of five American families striving to keep food on the table and their dignity intact despite the reality of high living expenses and low wages.

Five stories, located in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, and two in the Chicago area, will be intertwined into six one-hour episodes. The series will shed more light on an ever-growing sector of the American workforce. Directing the individual strands are Katy Chevigny (E-Team, Election Day), Maria Finitzo (Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita), Ruth Leitman (Tony and Janina

ABC News Radio Sets Memorial Day Weekend Specials
by Tyler Peterson - May 08, 2013

ABC News Radio announced today the broadcast of three, one-hour specials set to air across Memorial Day Weekend. Check out the breakdowns for each show below!...


Roy Sexton Set for Author Events in Ann Arbor for REEL ROY REVIEWS, VOL. 1 Today
by BWW News Desk - April 10, 2014

Local author Roy Sexton's first book Reel Roy Reviews, Vol. 1: Keepin' It Real was released last month and quickly found itself among Amazon's 'hot releases,' even hitting number one on the site's list of top-selling 'Guides and Reviews.'...


Alexander Barnes & Christopher Preiman Release New Sci-Fi Novel
by Christina Mancuso - May 07, 2013

For centuries, the people had been making the journey out to the Frontier. Out there is freedom to live life the way one chooses. Unfortunately, freedom is never free. As a necessary evil, each colony had to ship resources back home to keep the Earth going. Every year, the Earth's way of life seemed...


HarperOne-Skoll Foundation Publishing Releases HOWEVER LONG THE NIGHT
by Christina Mancuso - April 29, 2013

When Molly Melching arrived in Senegal in 1974, she was a 24-year old graduate student looking forward to a six-month study abroad program. Those months, however, quickly turned to years as she launched a humanitarian campaign dedicated to bringing an innovative educational program to communities in...


James Calderwood Unveils OPAL EGGS OF FIRE
by Christina Mancuso - August 23, 2013

In James Calderwood's Opal Eggs of Fire, the Nickols father and son team try their luck on opal mining in an attempt to rid themselves of the bank overdraft and save the farm from imminent foreclosure. After finding a bonanza find of good opal, however, they stumble upon prehistoric black opal dinos...


BWW Announces Major Expansion of Reviews via New Theatre, Opera, Dance & Classical Music Critics; Plus Launches BWWHub.com Portal
by Robert Diamond - July 11, 2013

In the midst of its highest ever year-to-year gain in visitor traffic, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the net is pleased to announce a major expansion of its unmatched team of live entertainment critics....


Theatre at the Center Stages World Premiere of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, THE MUSICAL, Now thru 8/10
by BWW News Desk - July 10, 2014

After 200 episodes and nine seasons as America's beloved 1960s sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies is making strides on stage as a musical for the first time ever. Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana, presents the World Premiere of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, THE MUSICAL, running from ...


ABC Family Begins Production on Three Drama Pilots
by Caryn Robbins - June 09, 2014

ABC Family has begun production in Los Angeles on three drama series pilots: “Recovery Road,” “Stitchers” and “Unstrung.”...


MoMA Names Dave Kehr as Adjunct Curator in Department of Film
by Tyler Peterson - October 21, 2013

The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Dave Kehr as Adjunct Curator in the Department of Film, Director Glenn D. Lowry announced today. One of the preeminent voices on early American and classic Hollywood cinema, Kehr is a longtime film journalist, who began his career as a film critic in Chicago an...


Photo Flash: First Look at Summer Smart, Kelly Anne Clark, James Harms and More in BEVERLY HILLBILLIES at Theatre at the Center
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2014

After 200 episodes and nine seasons as America's beloved 1960s sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies is making strides on stage as a musical for the first time ever. Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana, presents the World Premiere of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, THE MUSICAL, running now t...


ABC Family Stars Set for Live Twitter Chat, 1/27
by Caryn Robbins - January 24, 2014

“Switched at Birth” star Constance Marie (Regina Vasquez) and Garrett Clayton, who guest stars on “The Fosters” as Mariana's crush Chase Dillon, will live tweet with fans during the East Coast broadcasts of the original drama series on ABC Family, Monday, January 27, 2014....


BWW Announces Major Expansion of Reviews via New Theatre, Opera, Dance & Classical Music Critics; Plus Launches BWWHub.com Portal
by Robert Diamond - July 11, 2013

In the midst of its highest ever year-to-year gain in visitor traffic, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the net is pleased to announce a major expansion of its unmatched team of live entertainment critics....


Willia Winnie Momberere Pens a Heartwarming Tale of Atonement, Faith and Hope
by Robert Diamond - April 26, 2014

Sexually abused at a tender age, Charity grew up bitter and hateful of the world. Decades later, she crafts an open letter to her daughter Savannah relating her shady past and the gems of lessons she picked along the way....


PROTOCULTURE to Release New Album 'Music is More Than Mathematics'
by Danielle DeSisto - April 04, 2014

For some, it's one of the most remote locations on earth, practically the stuff of legends. For Nate Raubenheimer, the tip of the southernmost African country is home....


THE SUNSET LIMITED Starring Tucker Smallwood and Joe Spano opens 10/26 at Rubicon
by Robert Diamond - October 16, 2013

THE SUNSET LIMITED by Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy opens Rubicon Theatre Company's 16th Season on Saturday, October 26 at 7:00 p.m., just on the heels of the October 25 release of McCarthy's highly anticipated blockbuster film 'The Counselor,' directed by Ridley Scott with an all-star cast ...


Philip S. Cheng Releases 'Taming the Money Sharks: 8 Super Easy Stock Investment Maxims'
by Christina Mancuso - August 22, 2013

Launched in printed copy for the first time in the U.S., 'Taming the Money Sharks: 8 Super-Easy Stock Investment Maxims' gives investors easy-to-follow guidelines for simplifying their investments, protecting themselves from the investment sharks, and achieving financial freedom. (Wiley, Aug. 2013, ...


ABC Family Stars Set for Live Twitter Chat Tonight
by TV News Desk - January 27, 2014

'Switched at Birth' star Constance Marie (Regina Vasquez) and Garrett Clayton, who guest stars on 'The Fosters' as Mariana's crush Chase Dillon, will live tweet with fans during the East Coast broadcasts of the original drama series on ABC Family, tonight, January 27, 2014....


William Michals and Christianne Tisdale to Star in WBT's KISS ME, KATE, 9/12-11/3
by BWW News Desk - August 26, 2013

Westchester Broadway Theatre presents Kiss Me Kate with Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter and Book by Samuel and Bella Spewack. Directed and Choreographed by James Brennan with Musical Direction by Leo P Carusone, the show will run September 12 - November 3, 2013....


RECAP: DANCING's Spotlight on Inspiring Dancers
by Devin MacDonald - May 01, 2013

You have to hand it to ABC; if you're going to stretch a results show that should take all of five minutes to fill an hour, it's a respectable and classy thing to bring something to the show that really matters. They may not hesitate to indulge in some sensational packaging, but they definitely kee...


BWW Announces Major Expansion of Reviews via New Theatre, Opera, Dance & Classical Music Critics; Plus Launches BWWHub.com Portal
by Robert Diamond - July 11, 2013

In the midst of its highest ever year-to-year gain in visitor traffic, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the net is pleased to announce a major expansion of its unmatched team of live entertainment critics....


Lisa Kroulik Helps Women in Abusive Relationships with New Book
by Christina Mancuso - August 01, 2013

When Lisa Kroulik was married to her first husband, she didn't realize that his prolonged silent treatments, blaming her for everything and playing the victim were forms of emotional abuse. After ending the marriage five years ago, she researched and wrote on the topic of emotional abuse extensively...


BWW Reviews: GCT's MUSIC MAN Brings Verve, Nostalgia and Hope to Valley Audiences
by Don Grigware - May 20, 2014

What do the 1950s have in common with 1912? Ages of innocence, both. When Meredith Willson wrote his story with Franklin Lacey about a con artist bamboozling an Iowa town in 1912, which formed the substance of his musical The Music Man (1957), the effect became like that of N. Richard Nash's The Rai...


Soho Press Releases SONGS ONLY YOU KNOW
by BWW News Desk - February 03, 2014

Songs Only You Know: A Memoir plunges us into the Detroit hardcore punk scene with eighteen-year-old Sean and spans a dark decade during which his father succumbs to crack addiction, his younger sister spirals into a fatal depression, and his sense of home crumbles. Sean's salvation is music, and th...


RECAP: DANCING's Spotlight on Inspiring Dancers
by Devin MacDonald - May 01, 2013

You have to hand it to ABC; if you're going to stretch a results show that should take all of five minutes to fill an hour, it's a respectable and classy thing to bring something to the show that really matters. They may not hesitate to indulge in some sensational packaging, but they definitely kee...


NewFilmmakers NY to Kick Off Spring 2013 Screening Series This Weekend, 4/7
by Movies News Desk - April 06, 2013

On Sunday, April 7th and Wednesday, April 10th, The NewFilmmakers NY spring series kicks off at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. Tickets for Spring Screening Series 2013 are only $6 and are good for the whole night's screenings and receptions. They are...






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