43rd Annual Gracie Awards Winners Announced by The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation
by Macon Prickett - April 17, 2018 The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) announced the winners of the 43 rd annual Gracie Awards to take place May 22 at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. The event will recognize such esteemed honorees as Ashley Judd, Billie Jean King, Claire Danes, Elizabeth Marvel, ...
Regional Roundup: Top New Features This Week Around Our BroadwayWorld 2/9 - DOGFIGHT, MOTOWN, WAITRESS and More!
by BWW Special - February 09, 2018 BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature DOGFIGHT, MOTOWN, WAITRESS and More!...
VIDEO: OWN Releases Trailer for DAVID MAKES MAN, Premiering August 14
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 19, 2019 OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today that its anticipated new drama series “David Makes Man” from Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”) and Warner Horizon Scripted Television will premiere on Wednesday, August 14 at 10 p.m. ETPT following the network's critically acclaimed ...
THE QUAD, Starring Tony Winners Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson Cancelled By BET After Second Season
by Tori Hartshorn - April 09, 2018 According to Variety, BET has cancelled the original series THE QUAD. The second season finale just aired about a week ago. Read more about the news from Variety here....
Anika Noni Rose to Star and Co-Executive Produce a Pilot for TNT
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 05, 2018 Beast Mode is written and executive produced by David Schneiderman with executive producers Stefanie Huie and MACRO's Charles D. King, Kim Roth and Poppy Hanks...
Five Finger Death Punch Unveil New Song SHAM PAIN from Upcoming AND JUSTICE FOR NONE Out May 18
by Macon Prickett - April 20, 2018 the multi-platinum, hard rock band Five Finger Death Punch have unveiled the new song "Sham Pain," off their long-awaited seventh studio album AND JUSTICE FOR NONE, due out May 18. The new song marks the second of three brand new pre-order tracks and follows last week's release "Fake" (out 4/6) whic...
Muny Announces Full Cast and Creative for THE WIZ; Darius de Haas, E. Faye Butler, and More
by Julie Musbach - May 30, 2018 The Muny announced today its full cast, design and production team for the theatre's centennial season production of The Wiz, June 19 - 25. ...
BronzeLens Film Festival 2018 Brings Diverse Films and Interactive Experiences to Atlanta
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 16, 2018 BronzeLens Film Festival 2018 (BronzeLens) will present an interactive experience designed to stimulate ideation and foster collaborations over the course of five days, August 22-26. Programming includes a diverse mix of cutting-edge panels, workshops, master classes and highly anticipated signature...
High School Horticulture Expo in Bloom at Mercer County Community College This March
by A.A. Cristi - February 28, 2018 Too busy to get to the Philadelphia Flower Show this year? Central New Jersey will usher in spring with its very own flower show March 9 and 10....
Michael Medeiros To Join 2019 Mercer Writer's Colony At Goodspeed Musicals
by Stephi Wild - January 20, 2019 Michael Medeiros will be one of the writers at the 2019 Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals with his rock musical, WILD THING (book, lyrics and music by Michael Medeiros)....
BWW Review: CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL: JAPAN + EAST ASIA Sets the Bar & Demonstrates a New Vocabulary
by Cindy Sibilsky - January 09, 2019 ...
Photo Flash: SAN DOMINO Celebrates Opening Night at Tristan Bates Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - June 07, 2018 Final casting is announced for musical drama San Domino by Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker, based on Mussolini's infamous persecution of homosexuals....
THE QUAD, Starring Tony Winners Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson Cancelled By BET After Second Season
by Tori Hartshorn - April 09, 2018 According to Variety, BET has cancelled the original series THE QUAD. The second season finale just aired about a week ago. Read more about the news from Variety here....
The New York Choral Society To Honor Mezzo-Soprano Stephanie Blythe At Spring Gala
by A.A. Cristi - March 16, 2018 The New York Choral Society (NYCHORAL) will hold its annual Spring Gala at New York's Metropolitan Club (1 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022) on Thursday evening, April 5, 2018, starting at 6:00 pm. The organization will honor renowned opera singer and recitalist Stephanie Blythe with the NYCHORAL Music...
BET Networks, Tyler Perry Studios To Launch BET+
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 24, 2019 BET Networks, a unit of Viacom Media Networks (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), and Tyler Perry Studios today unveiled a new joint venture to launch BET+, a premier subscription video-on-demand service focused on the African American audience. Available to consumers this fall, BET+ will feature more than 1,000 h...
IF THE DANCER DANCES Opens In NYC And LA This Spring
by A.A. Cristi - April 22, 2019 IF THE DANCER DANCES opens theatrically in New York (The Quad) on Friday, April 26thand in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3rd(Laemmle Music Hall) with a national release to follow....
Same-Sex Ballroom Dance Documentary HOT TO TROT Opens Today in LA
by BWW News Desk - September 14, 2018 First Run Features is proud to announce the Los Angeles theatrical premiere of Hot to Trot, a new documentary directed by Gail Freedman. The film will open in Los Angeles at Laemmle Music Hall on September 14, 2018, following the New York premiere on August 24 at the Quad. Runs in select cities nati...
HBO Documentary Films to Release THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 28, 2018 HBO Documentary Films presents THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING, a fascinating deep dive into the contemporary art world directed by Oscar® nominee Nathaniel Kahn, filmmaker (HBO's My Architect). The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and has since traveled to top festivals around the world. I...
Anika Noni Rose to Star in Classic Stage's CARMEN JONES
by Julie Musbach - April 10, 2018 Classic Stage Company announced today that Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose will play the title role in the company's new production of the musical CARMEN JONES beginning performances Friday, June 8....
Purchase College Announces Speakers For 2019 Commencement
by Julie Musbach - April 24, 2019 Purchase College, SUNY will hold its 47th annual commencement ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY. Degrees will be conferred upon more than 1,000 graduating scholars representing dozens of majors and several countries....
Principal Casting Announced For New England Premiere Of BORN FOR THIS - A NEW MUSICAL
by A.A. Cristi - April 30, 2018 ArtsEmerson today announced the principal cast and full creative team for the New England Premiere of Born for This - A New Musical, which plays a limited summer engagement at Boston's Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre from June 15-July 15, 2018....
Photo Flash: First Look at SAN DOMINO at Tristan Bates Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - May 30, 2018 San Domino is the story of a group of men sentenced to five years confinement for degeneracy on the island fortress of San Domino, with actor-musicians conjuring up an intimate tragi-comic world of love, loss and the struggle just to survive. ...
Full Cast And Creative Team Announced For JUBILEE At Arena Stage
by A.A. Cristi - March 20, 2019 Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full company for the world premiere of Tazewell Thompson's inspirational a cappella music infused play, Jubilee. Inspired by the world-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers, this uplifting new work chronicles the bold African American ensembl...
Comedy Central Presents Clusterfest Announces Casting For Must-See Live Reads Of Cult Classic Films
by A.A. Cristi - April 30, 2019 Comedy Central, the #1 brand in comedy, Superfly, the founders of Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands co-producer Another Planet Entertainment, today announced the Live Read castings for cult hits Clueless and Romy & Michele's High School Reunion at Clusterfest in San Francisco June 21-23. ...
Kumail Nanjiani, Issa Rae Join CLUELESS Live-Read at CLUSTERFEST
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 30, 2019 Comedy Central, the #1 brand in comedy, Superfly, the founders of Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands co-producer Another Planet Entertainment, today announced the Live Read castings for cult hits Clueless and Romy & Michele's High School Reunion at Clusterfest in San Francisco June 21-23. Wildly popular, t... |