Jessica Chastain To Produce And Star In New Action Film EVE
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jessica Chastain is set to produce and star in the forthcoming action film EVE, The movie comes from Voltage Pictures, and is written and directed by Matthew Newton. Chastain will produce with Freckle Films' Kelly Carmichael, and Nicolas Chartier and Dominic Rustam. Read more about the news from The Hollywood Reporter here!
SXSW Film Festival Announces 2018 Features And Opening Night Film A QUIET PLACE
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals announced the features lineup and opening night film for the 25th edition of the Film Festival, running March 9-18, 2018 in Austin, Texas. The acclaimed program draws thousands of fans, filmmakers, press, and industry leaders every year to immerse themselves in the most innovative, smart and entertaining new films of the year.
Museum Of Art And Design At MDC To Launch Performance Series & Program, Living Together
Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at Miami Dade College (MDC) is pleased to announce Living Together, an exciting cross-disciplinary series of programs that will galvanize Miami audiences with thoughtful and challenging performances and exhibitions that draw from art, music, theater, politics, and poetry. Spread across the city at a wide array of venues, the series features performances, exhibitions, film and video screenings, readings, talks, and workshops that will reflect the cultural, social, and political realities of how we live now. Living Together seeks to find new ways to think about civic space and citizenship, to instigate actions and conversations that may help us to reimagine our cities and our lives.
BWW Exclusive: Advice from an NTI Alum - Matt Newton
This week students are honing their acting skills on-camera with NTI alum Matt Newton (NTI Fall '97). Matt is the founder of MN Acting Studio NYC and currently the on-set acting coach for Season 5 of the hit CBS show BLUE BLOODS. As well as teaching Auditioning and Business of the Business for NTI, he is a contributor to BACKSTAGE and the author of the book 10 STEPS TO BREAKING INTO ACTING. Scroll down for photos of Newton working with NTI, plus an exclusive Q&A for Risk Again, in which he shares his NTI memories, what it's like returning to campus as a faculty member, and his advice for young actors!
Photo Flash: Sneak Peek - NO ONE ASKED ME Plays FringeNYC Encore Series, Beg. Tonight
BKL Productions in Association with Soho Playhouse and the FringeNYC Encore Series present No One Asked Me, an award-winning play directed by Matthew Newton and written by Kate Ballen, inspired by true stories of undocumented immigrant students. The production will run tonight, September 26-30 at The Soho Playhouse, 15 Van Dam Street, New York, NY. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!
Photo Flash: Sneak Peek - NO ONE ASKED ME to Play FringeNYC Encore Series
BKL Productions in Association with Soho Playhouse and the FringeNYC Encore Series present No One Asked Me, an award-winning play directed by Matthew Newton and written by Kate Ballen, inspired by true stories of undocumented immigrant students. The production will run September 26-30 at The Soho Playhouse, 15 Van Dam Street, New York, NY. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!
Matthew Newton to Direct NO ONE ASKED ME at FringeNYC
NO ONE ASKED ME, a new play inspired by the true stories of undocumented immigrant NYC high school students, will premiere this summer as part of the 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival. Written by Kate Ballen and directed by Matthew Newton, NO ONE ASKED ME is an insider's look at the intimate human struggle behind the current political debate in Congress around the Dream Act.
NO ONE ASKED ME Set for FringeNYC, 8/8-22
The 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC presents NO ONE ASKED ME, a new play by Kate Ballen, inspired by the true stories of undocumented immigrant NYC high school students. Matthew Newton directs a cast of nine including Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Ashlee Danielle, Gary De Mattei*, Alaina Fragoso, Corneilus Franklin, Jessica Maria Kight, Veda Kumarjiguda, Terra Mackintosh*, and Jihan McKenzie. Performances will be stated at Venue #2: The Flamboyan Theatre at the Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street (bet. Rivington and Delancey). *Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association. AEA Approved Showcase.
WITNESS: ART AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SIXTIES to Debut at Brooklyn Museum, March 7, 2014
Activism and artistic practice intersect in Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, a presentation of 103 works by 66 artists that is among the few exhibitions to explore how painting, sculpture, graphics, and photography not only responded to the political and social turmoil of the era but also helped to influence its direction. Debuting at the Brooklyn Museum, where it will be on view from March 7 through July 6, 2014, the touring exhibition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the events leading to this historic moment, and the aftermath of the legislation.
Photo Flash: CHICAGO's Carol Woods and More Perform at Birdland
Jim Caruso's Cast Party continues to dazzle packed houses of showbiz insiders and the folks who love them every Monday night at the historic music room, Birdland. This past week, Carol Woods, currently Mama Morton in Chicago on Broadway, delighted the audience with a soulful performance of 'God Bless The Child,' and her co-workers, Amra-Faye Wright (Velma Kelly) and Patrick Rinn led the applause. Scroll below for photos from the concert!
Photo Flash: Dawn Derow, Adan Canto, and More Visit CAST PARTY
"Strippers and Satchmo and guys who sing gospel' sounds like a bastardized Rodgers and Hart lyric, but it helps explain the variety of talent that showed up for Jim Caruso's Cast Party at Birdland on Monday evening. David Phelps, the award-winning tenor best known for his work with the Gaither Vocal Band absolutely thrilled the crowd with "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Nessun Dorma" (a Birdland first). Jeremy Giraud Abram is currently portraying jazz legend Louis Armstrong at Theater 3 in Manhattan, and impressed everyone with his "Wonderful World." Jaymes and James, Chippendales dancers from Las Vegas currently heating up small screens on "The Amazing Race," charmed the room and gained even more fans! Adan Canto, starring in the new Fox thriller, "The Following," is not just another good looking TV star…he's a first-rate singer. Australian bff's Matthew Newton and Matt Baker performed a gorgeous standard together. Dawn Derow showed off her musical stuff, and promoted her upcoming cabaret act. William Blake sang the blues, like he will at his upcoming Sidewalk Cafe gig. The Cast Party Symphony Orchestra (Tedd Firth, Steve Doyle & Daniel Glass) accompanied the extraordinary talent into the wee hours, as they do every single Monday night.