Ragged Wing Presents THE ART OF LEAVING
by Stephi Wild - Mar 3, 2020
Ragged Wing Ensemble (RWE) has announced the program for its final event at The Flight Deck, its brick-and-mortar artistic home since 2014, currently slated to close at the end of March. Conceived as a traveling gallery show and community-engaged ritual performance exploring the experience of displacement and the act of letting go, THE ART OF LEAVING includes participation from The Flight Deck resident companies Lower Bottom Playaz and Kalm Korner in addition to Alena Museum, another arts organization which recently lost its home in Oakland.
SOPAC Announces an Evening with Laura & Linda Benanti
by Julie Musbach - Sep 30, 2019
Tony Award winner and five-time Tony nominee Laura Benanti shares the SOPAC stage with the vocalist who most influenced her life and future career -- her mother, Linda Benanti -- in Laura & Linda Benanti: The Story Goes On, a touching and humorous musical journey through the special relationship between a mother and daughter.
Ragged Wing Celebrates 15th Anniversary With TIME SENSITIVE
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 19, 2018
In celebration of its 15th anniversary season next year, Ragged Wing Ensemble is pleased to present TIME SENSITIVE, with an updated script written and directed by the company's Artistic Director Amy Sass. Time Sensitive opens in preview on Friday, April 5, 2019, and runs through May 4. Opening night is scheduled for Saturday, April 6. Performances run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m. Two Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. will take place on April 27 and May 4. Tickets are $25 - $45, and may be purchased online at raggedwing.org.
THE BIG HOUSE Complete Series Set for DVD Release in 2015
by Tyler Peterson - Oct 24, 2014
On Tues, Jan 13, 2015, Olive Films will release “THE BIG HOUSE” The Complete Series exclusively on DVD. “THE BIG HOUSE” has never before been released on any format and is not available via any digital outlet.
ON KENTUCKY AVENUE Revue to Begin Performances 2/2 at Stage 72
by BWW News Desk - Dec 27, 2013
ON KENTUCKY AVENUE, a musical revue based loosely on fact and mostly fiction about the people and performers who took the stage and filled the tables at the majestic Club Harlem 'on Kentucky Avenue' in the north section of Atlantic City from the 1930s until the late 1980s, will make its NYC commercial stage debut at STAGE72/THE TRIAD, 158 West 72nd Street, on Sunday, February 2, with performances at 3pm and 7pm and Monday, February 3 at 7pm in honor of Black History Month.
Joseph Wise's 'Life Is Like A Train' Single Now Available
by Pat Cerasaro - Aug 13, 2013
Joseph Wise, a performer who portrayed the original part of a Porter - of the famed Four Porters, that is - in the 1978 Broadway premiere production of ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY has released a new dance remix of a favorite track from the glorious Cy Coleman/Betty Comdon/Adolph Green score he once sang on the Great White Way.
NFL Legend Jim Brown Creates Production Company to Showcase Football Players' Lives on Film
by Tyler Peterson - Dec 13, 2012
Warrior's Eyes Productions, LLC and Warrior's Eyes Films have been created by Jim Brown and independent film makers KC Pierson, Innovision Creative Productions, Inc. and D. Keith Davis, The Production Ranch, to provide an 'unbiased forum' for current and former professional football players, and others, to explore the challenges facing the National Football League, the most successful sports and entertainment franchise in the world. Warrior's Eyes' mission is to present a unique view of professional football through the hearts and minds of the warriors who are the NFL.
BET's Urbanworld Film Festival Runs 9/14-18
by BWW News Desk - Sep 14, 2011
The 15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival (www.urbanworld.org), presented by BET Networks, announced today that the world premiere of Diane Paragas' and Nelson George's Brooklyn Boheme (Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, Rosie Perez, Saul Williams) will serve as Opening Night selection for the festival, which will take place September 14-18, 2011 in midtown Manhattan at AMC 34th Street.
BET's Urbanworld Film Festival Announces Lineup and Events 9/14-18
by Gabrielle Sierra - Aug 24, 2011
The 15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival (www.urbanworld.org), presented by BET Networks, announced today that the world premiere of Diane Paragas' and Nelson George's Brooklyn Boheme (Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, Rosie Perez, Saul Williams) will serve as Opening Night selection for the festival, which will take place September 14-18, 2011 in midtown Manhattan at AMC 34th Street.