BOOM Events Launches to Champion Social Justice Causes
Veteran entertainment industry and non profit fundraising event professionals Scott Appel and Kathleen Cahill have teamed up to form BOOM Events, an event production company specializing in creating innovative and exciting special events for organizations supporting social justice issues.
MIRA SORVINO Joins JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER, BRIAN WHITE, MARK PELLEGRINO and More For 110 STORIES Commemoration Benefit
SAG Nominee Mark Pellegrino (Quantico, The Big Lebowski, The Number 23), SAG Award Winner Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Guys With Kids, Entourage, Sopranos), Academy Award Winner Mira Sorvino (Falling Skies, Do You Believe, Mighty Aphrodite), and BrIan White (Chicago Fire, The Cabin In The Woods, Fighting) have joined Image Award Nominee Nicki Micheaux (Animal Kingdom, Lincoln Heights, The Shield), SAG Nominee & American Movie Award Winner Stelio Savante (Where The Road Runs Out, The Making Of The Mob: New York, Eisenstein In Guanajuato) and Golden Globe Nominee Diane Venora (The Insider, Heat, Bird) in the cast of River Street Theater Company's Staged Reading of the Sept 11th play, '110 Stories'.
SOPRANOS Creator David Chase Pays Tribute to James Gandolfini with Touching Eulogy
As BroadwayWorld reported earlier today, friends and family gathered this morning for the funeral of late actor James Gandolfini. The morning service was held at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Sopranos creator and Gandolfini's close friend David Chase spoke at the service, and Alan Sepinwall of Hitflix has transcribed the touching eulogy, which you can read below.
LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE Returns to Scottsdale Center, Now thru 6/16
The international hit play Love, Loss, and What I Wore will return by popular demand to Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts for a limited engagement tonight, June 4-16. The all-star cast features Dee Hoty (Mamma Mia!), Sabrina LeBeauf (The Cosby Show), Amanda Setton (The Mindy Project), Zuzanna Szadkowski (Gossip Girl) and Dawn Wells (Gilligan's Island).
LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE to Return to Scottsdale Center, 6/4-16
The international hit play Love, Loss, and What I Wore will return by popular demand to Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts for a limited engagement June 4-16. The all-star cast features Dee Hoty (Mamma Mia!), Sabrina LeBeauf (The Cosby Show), Amanda Setton (The Mindy Project), Zuzanna Szadkowski (Gossip Girl) and Dawn Wells (Gilligan's Island).
'I Do' Film Now Playing in Worldwide Film Festivals
Hot button issues such as gay marriage and illegal immigration are the focus of I Do, a very timely comedy/drama about an expatriate Brit entering into a sham marriage to stay in the U.S. to care for his family while falling in love with another man. Starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler, David W. Ross, Alicia Witt and Maurice Compte, the Gravitas Ventures release opens in New York, Los Angeles and a host of other markets on May 31st.
LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE to End Off-Broadway Run 3/25
Producer Daryl Roth announced today that the long-running Off Broadway favorite Love, Loss, and What I Wore will close on Sunday, March 25, 2012 after playing for two and a half years and 1,013 performances. (March 15th marks the show's landmark 1,000 performance.)