CINEMA DIVERSE Is Back At Palm Springs Cultural Center
The Sixteenth edition of Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival will soon be underway. The schedule is set and tickets and passes are now on sale. The festival, which includes forty nine feature films and over 100 short films this year, runs for two long weekends at the Palm Springs Cultural Center: September 21-24 and September 28-October 1. Films will be screening in all three of the Camelot theatres.
9/11 Inspires 9 TO 11 MINUTE PLAYS AND STORIES at LOFT Ensemble
The Street Smarts of Acting and Hennessey Productions will present a powerful evening of moving, dramatic, heartwarming pieces that will inspire and perhaps at times put a smile on faces in remembrance of loved ones lost or profoundly affected by the events of September 11th, 2001 in '9 TO 11 MINUTE PLAYS AND STORIES.'
BWW Interviews: Actress PATTY McCORMACK is Miserable with an Ocean View
The Bad Seed, she has worked on stage, in film and on television to great acclaim for over 60 years. Now she is onstage once more in a hilarious world premiere dark comedy Miserable with an Ocean View playing Saturdays only at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks. She recently sat down to chat about the play and about highlights of her long career.
BWW Reviews: World Premiere Dark Comedy MISERABLE WITH AN OCEAN VIEW at the Whitefire
Dysfunctional families provide delicious humor for stage and film, because most everyone can identify with one or more of the characters. And if they plan a mercy killing? The irreverent humor quadruples. In Howard Skora's new world premiere comedy Miserable with an Ocean View, we come face to face with a Jewish family on Long Island - a mother, who is wheelchair-bound and dying, two sons - one gay and one super macho straight - and one daughter, a horrible interior designer whose long-term marriage is on the rocks. Now for a limited run through July 18 at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, Miserable is laugh.out.loud funny with fluid direction from Jim Fall and a marvelous cast headed by Patty McCormack as grandma Rhoda.
BWW Reviews: West Coast Premiere of DATES AND NUTS Recounts a Sweet and Crazy Romantic Encounter
Wilson Milam directs the West Coast premiere of DATES AND NUTS, a romantic comedy by Gary Lennon ("Orange is the New Black" and "Justified"), about Brooklyn animal rights activist Eve who has just been dumped by her fiance - for a man. Angry at the male species, she becomes increasingly frantic as she searches for love in the dating jungle of New York City. Will she ever find the man of her dreams? Can she learn to keep her mouth shut and not scare all of them away?
DATE AND NUTS to Run 5/31-7/13 at the Bootleg
An animal rights activist in Brooklyn searches for love in the dating jungle of New York City. Wilson Milam (The Lieutenant of Inishmore on Broadway, for the RSC and at the Taper) will direct the West Coast premiere of Dates and Nuts, a romantic comedy by Gary Lennon (Orange is the New Black for Netflix, Echo Theater Company's A Family Thing). Opening night is set for May 31 at the Bootleg Theater.
Photo Flash: First Look at Echo Theater's A FAMILY THING World Premiere
Three estranged brothers reunite to settle unfinished business in the world premiere of A Family Thing, a darkly funny new drama about the meaning of family by Gary Lennon (The Interlopers). The Echo Theater Company presents a five-week run at Stage 52, now through March 17, directed by Chris Fields. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show in the photos below!
Echo Theater Company Presents A FAMILY THING, Beginning 2/16
Three estranged brothers reunite to settle unfinished business in the world premiere of A Family Thing, a darkly funny new drama about the meaning of family by Gary Lennon (The Interlopers). The Echo Theater Company presents a five-week run at Stage 52, February 16-March 17, directed by Chris Fields.