Photos: Inside the 2024 Fort Lauderdale ArtServe Impact Awards
by A.A. Cristi - May 7, 2024
Broward’s creative community was buzzing during April as they gathered for ArtServe’s second annual Impact Awards, a celebration of unsung heroes in the arts world who exemplify the organization’s core mission of talent-driven inclusivity and the soaring achievements that emerge and thrive because of it. See photos from the event.
Hollywood Comes To Palm Springs For UNSUNG MIDLER
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 26, 2023
Popular (and most times infamous) podcaster, journalist, on-air personality, and former Palm Springs Pride Media Grand Marshal Alexander Rodriguez returns to the stage after a five-year absence (thanks to procrastination and COVID) for an irreverent night of storytelling and song with Unsung Midler, celebrating the great, lesser-known hits of the Divine Miss M from The Rose, For the Boys, and Beaches to her numerous albums and covers.
Dapper Companies Purchases Huntridge Theater in Downtown Las Vegas
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 1, 2021
Dapper Companies, headed by homegrown real estate developer J Dapper, announced today the company has closed on the purchase of the Huntridge Theater in Downtown Las Vegas. The company will spend the next three years renovating the theater and the retail buildings on the western side of the property.
Documentary On Iconic Hollywood 'Rosary Priest' Debuts Theatrically October 9
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 30, 2020
In 1945, an immigrant Irish Catholic priest newly arrived in Los Angeles called Bing Crosby, and asked him to help create a radio program to talk about prayer. Bing, along with many other big named stars, said yes, igniting a family and faith-based production company that still exists today.
Kathleen Hughes Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
by Stephi Wild - Jun 27, 2020
Festival Founder Clinton H. Wallace of The Cote D' Azur 2020 Web Fest is thrilled to honor Silver Screen Legend Kathleen Hughes with A Lifetime Achievement Award. The Web Fest is hosted by BJ Korros, best known for That Hollywood Moment.
Applications Now Being Accepted For Corrieri Literary Prize At Two NYC Drama Schools
by Stephi Wild - Oct 4, 2019
Applications are being accepted from October 1, 2019 until February 29, 2020 for the Corrieri Literary Prize, a scholarship fund to be awarded to actors, playwrights and screenwriters at two institutions: Manhattan's Barrow Group Theater Company and School and Brooklyn's Terry Knickerbocker Studio. The grants, valued at $1,500 each, will help fund writing classes to be selected at the student's discretion at both schools.
BWW Review: ANN KITTREDGE Triumphs at Feinstein's / 54 Below
by Brady Schwind - Sep 25, 2019
Even before she takes the stage, Ann Kittredge is a knock-out. Emerging from the back of the theatre in a red satin robe, hands playfull sparring in black boxing gloves, Ms. Kittredge seems poised for victory. And by the end of her superbly crafted musical revue, Fancy Meeting You Here, An Evening of Ahrens & Flaherty, you'd be hard pressed to find a challenger to disagree. For in this, Ms. Kittredge's follow up to her 2018 Mac Award winning cabaret debut, she emerges as story-songstress supreme: a title that may be undefeated for some time to come.
Claudia Corrieri Literary Prize Will Fund Writers' Scholarships At Two NYC Drama Schools In 2020
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 22, 2019
In 2020, for the second year, the Claudia Corrieri Literary Prize, a scholarship fund, will be awarded to actors, playwrights and screenwriters at two institutions: Manhattan's Barrow Group Theater Company and School and Brooklyn's Terry Knickerbocker Studio. The grants, valued at $1,500 each, will help fund writing classes to be selected at the student's discretion at both schools.
Patrick Cassidy to Perform At Inland Pacific Ballet's SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 29, 2018
Actor Patrick Cassidy, best known for his roles in musical theatre and television, headlines Some Enchanted Evening ~ A Night of Broadway Song & Dance to benefit Inland Pacific Ballet, the professional ballet company based in the Inland Empire. This 2nd annual intimate cabaret evening features song and dance by Inland Pacific Ballet dancers and Academy students, cocktails, hor d'oeuvres, dessert, silent/live auction, and is hosted by IPB Associate Director Jonathan Sharp (The Red Shoes, Carousel, The Rocky Horror Show Live, The Dance of the Vampires, Fiddler on the Roof). Some Enchanted Evening takes place on Saturday, September 22 at 6 p.m., at Inland Pacific Ballet located at 9061 Central Avenue, Montclair, 91763.