ABC News Announces Two-Hour Documentary on the Black Widow Killer
With two husbands dying within five years of each other, Stacey Castor appeared to be a victim of terrible misfortune and circumstance. In a bizarre twist, the mother of two from upstate New York became the prime suspect in the sensational case of secrets and lies that made national headlines for the murder of her second husband by poisoning him with antifreeze, and the attempted murder of her daughter whom she tried to frame for the deaths of both husbands. Ten years after Stacey's conviction, ABC News announced a two-hour documentary on the central question – could a mother really be capable of these unspeakable acts against her own family? The prime-time television event on the Black Widow killer digs deeper into how this terrible set of crimes altered lives and this community forever. The special features new interviews with investigators, Stacey's defense team, and family members of her second husband and victim, David Castor; as well as the exclusive jailhouse interview with Stacey and anchor David Muir from ABC News' archives. “20/20” airs Friday, Feb. 8 (9:00 – 11:00 p.m. EST), on ABC.
Total Theatre Awards Shortlist Announced
Today the shortlist for the Total Theatre Awards 2018 was announced. From the shortlist announced today, a total of seven awards will be awarded across five categories: "Physical & Visual Theatre"; "Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form"; "Emerging"; "Circus"; and "Dance".
JACK Presents SEHNSUCHT, Created by Theater Company TV
In this collaboratively-created play by blossoming theater company TV, the ensemble unpacks the longing one can feel for another time and place, whether real or imagined: childhood, years without war, early human history, a time when everyone enjoyed the outdoors and raised chickens and heard gossip from the neighbors, when strawberries were tiny and sour. With choral odes by Deepali Gupta, this whimsical show hops millennia in its exploration of what once was or never was at all.
JACK Announces Summer Season
JACK doesn't go slack in the summer. From a festival of experimental music to a revival of a Wallace Shawn scorcher to poets and rappers reflecting on reparations, JACK brings action to the steamy months. This season features artists we feel are bringing life to our mission of fueling experiments in art and activism, including theater company Sister Sylvester, poet and writer collective Oye Group, director Knud Adams, playwright Amina Henry and burgeoning theater ensemble TV.
CBS Leads Broadcast Networks in Primetime Emmy Nominations
CBS leads the broadcast networks in Primetime Emmy Award Nominations, garnering 60 for the 2011-2012 Season. Julianna Margulies, Archie Panjabi, Christine Baranski, Martha Plimpton, Dylan Baker and Michael J. Fox all received nods for 'The Good Wife.'
Photo Flash: WELCOME TO THE MOON & OTHER PLAYS Come To Uncommon Theater 6/25-28
The Uncommon Theater Company is starting the summer off right with a phenomenal staging of 'Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays'. From the mind of Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, writer and director of the critically acclaimed and film 'Doubt' which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, comes a collection of short plays that examine the full scale of the human condition.
Opening of Premiere Theatre's 'Seven Doors (Sieben Türen)'
Premiere Theatre & Performance, now in it's sixth season, presents the American premiere of Botho Strauss' 1988 dark comedy 'Seven Doors (Sieben Türen),' translated by the late Peter K. Jansen (University of Chicago professor emeritus), sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Chicago.