ESPN Announces 20-Hour Doumentary, BASKETBALL: A LOVE STORY
ESPN announced today a 20-hour, 10-part documentary 'Basketball: A Love Story' from Peabody Award-winning director Dan Klores. The sweeping project, which consists of more than 60 interconnected 'short stories,' will be available across multiple ESPN platforms in a variety of viewing experiences. Klores has created a vibrant mosaic of the game, featuring 165 exclusive interviews. The cast encompasses basketball's most prominent figures, from Bob Cousy, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Dr. J, Yao Ming, Stephen Curry and Diana Taurasi, to Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant. Klores' short stories explore the complex nature of love as it relates to the game and opens the window to insights and perspectives about race, politics, media, art, business, style and entertainment. The episodes will feature different narrators: Chadwick Boseman, Julianne Moore, Chris Cuomo, Ashley Judd, Michael Che, Ansel Elgort, Ahmad Rashad, Robin Quivers, Daveed Diggs, and Fisher Stevens.
MEETING AMANPOUR AND COMPANY, TRUE CRIME THE ID WAY and More Kick Off PaleyLive Fall 2018
The Paley Center for Media today announced it has selected four outstanding programs to kick off the PaleyLive Fall 2018 season including: Meeting Amanpour and Company; Special Preview: Basketball: A Love Story; True Crime, The ID Way; and Special Preview: New Amsterdam. A limited number of tickets will be on sale for these highly anticipated programs, with tickets first available to Paley Patron, Supporting, and Individual Members. Complimentary tickets to Meeting Amanpour and Company are available to Paley Members only.
BWW Review: MISSISSIPPI GODDAMN at Pyramid Theatre Company
In times of great distress, fear can make people do terrible things. It can push wives to turn on husbands, mothers to turn on children, and neighbors to turn on neighbors. This idea surrounds Mississippi Goddamn, a new play by Jonathan Norton that received its first official staging at Pyramid Theatre Company last night. Norton's new play is a force to be reckoned with, as he looks into the fear and actions of one family living next to Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers while investigating what acts of betrayal lie under one household. Although Mississippi Goddamn could benefit from slightly tightening technical and delivery aspects, Norton's story and sincere performances from the entire cast drive the idea of fear and betrayal home to create a wonderfully tense and exciting performance.
MHA-NYC Hosts Annual Benefit Gala Tonight, 6/5
The Mental Health Association of New York City (MHA-NYC) will host its annual benefit gala tonight, June 5th at Cipriani 42nd Street. The name of the event, "Bridges to Mental Health: A Celebration of Hope" reflects the connection we are making between mental health and brain injury, as well as the new relationships we are building between soldiers, scientists and athletes coming together to advance this critical cause.
MHA-NYC Hosts Annual Benefit Gala, 6/5
The Mental Health Association of New York City (MHA-NYC) will host its annual benefit gala on June 5th at Cipriani 42nd Street. The name of the event, "Bridges to Mental Health: A Celebration of Hope" reflects the connection we are making between mental health and brain injury, as well as the new relationships we are building between soldiers, scientists and athletes coming together to advance this critical cause.