TV: Shoshana Bean, Lorna Luft & More Party at the Actors Fund 22nd Annual Tony Awards Viewing Gala in LA!
by Michael Sterling - Jun 15, 2018
For its 22nd consecutive year, the west coast Actors Fund celebrated Broadway's Biggest Night at their 22nd Annual Tony Awards® Viewing Party on Sunday, June 10, 2018 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA. This year's gala honored Tony-nominated book writer ('Wicked') and Emmy-nominated writer and producer ('My So Called Life') Winnie Holzman with the Julie Harris Award for Artistic Achievement. Kirsten Vangsness hosted with special appearances by Shoshana Bean, Wilson Cruz, Paul Dooley and Jessica Marie Garcia. BroadwayWorld's own Michael Sterling caught the action on the 'green' carpet with many of the night's celebrity guests for BWW TV Los Angeles.
Photo Flash: The Actor's Fund Celebrates 2017 Looking Ahead Awards
by Stephi Wild - Dec 8, 2017
The Actors Fund's Looking Ahead Program, which helps professional young performers and their families address the unique challenges of working in the entertainment industry, celebrated the 2017 Looking Ahead Awards with a star-studded gala on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at the Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood, CA. BroadwayWorld has photos below!
TV: Actors Fund of Los Angeles Raises $225K at 21st Annual Tony Awards Viewing Party!
by Michael Sterling - Jun 19, 2017
Tony Award winner Betty Buckley (Broadway's "Cats," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, "Song & Dance, "Pippin," "1776," "Triumph Of Love" and "Carrie"; M. Night Shyamalan's "Split"; and TV's "Eight Is Enough") was honored with the Julie Harris Award for Artistic Achievement on Sunday, June 11 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
Photo Flash: Stars Were Shining at the Actors Fund's 2016 Looking Ahead Awards
by BWW News Desk - Dec 14, 2016
The stars were shining in Hollywood for the 2016 Looking Ahead Awards on Tuesday night at the beautiful Taglyan Complex, where over 300 guests enjoyed exciting "blue carpet" arrivals, fabulous cocktail hour, fun photo booth, delicious gourmet dinner and a meaningful celebrity-studded awards ceremony. The event raised over $50,000 in support of The Actors Fund's Looking Ahead program.
Photo Flash: Rose Marie, Corbin Bleu, and More Attend the Actor's Fund's Looking Ahead Awards
by Sally Henry Fuller - Dec 6, 2015
The Actors Fund's Looking Ahead Program celebrated the 2015 Looking Ahead Awards with a star-studded gala on Thursday, December 3, 2015 at the Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood, CA. Below, check out photos from the star-studded event, featuring Tatyana Ali, Alfonso Ribeiro, Rose Marie, and more!
Tim Gunn's Under the Gunn Premieres Tonight
by Jennifer Diamond - Jan 16, 2014
With a new Emmy(R) Award in hand, Tim Gunn takes the reigns as host of Lifetime's new fashion competition series, Under the Gunn, premiering tonight, January 16, 2014, at 9pm ET/PT.
Heidi Klum, Neil Patrick Harris to Guest Judge on First Season of Lifetime's UNDER THE GUNN; Competing Designers Announced
by Tyler Peterson - Jan 9, 2014
Lifetime's newest fashion competition series, Under the Gunn (#UnderTheGunn), premieres January 16, 2014, at 9pm ET/PT. The series' Emmy(R) Award-winning host Tim Gunn selected three past Project Runway luminaries, Mondo Guerra, Anya Ayoung-Chee and Nick Verreos, to each lead a group of designers to fashion stardom. They will have to nurture and inspire their band of hopefuls week-after-week to ensure their designers' looks impress the program's judges, including designer Rachel Roy; celebrity stylist Jen Rade, creator of some of the most iconic red carpet looks in Hollywood; and TV fashion correspondent and Marie Claire Senior Fashion Editor Zanna Roberts Rassi. Under the Gunn will feature guest judges Heidi Klum, Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), musician Macklemore, actors Jaimie Alexander (Thor), Zoey Deutch (Vampire Academy), Zendaya (Disney Channel's Shake It Up), designers Georgina Chapman (co-founder of Marchesa) and Trina Turk, and costumer Wendy Partridge, and special appearance by Sarah Hyland (Modern Family, Vampire Academy).
Tim Gunn Lands Own Fashion Competition Show
by Jennifer Diamond - Nov 15, 2013
Can't get enough of Tim Gunn? Me neither. And now Project Runway's network, Lifetime, will air another fashion competition show called Under the Gunn.
Photo Flash: GAME OF THRONES, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA and More Featured at 2013 Emmy Costume Design Nominee Reception
by TV News Desk - Jul 30, 2013
On Saturday, July 27th, the Television Academy's Costume Design & Supervision Peer Group honored the 65th Primetime Emmy Award Nominees for Outstanding Costumes with a special reception that also launched the FIDM Museum & Galleries seventh annual presentation of 'The Outstanding Art of Television Costume Design' featuring over 120 costumes from over 15 featured shows. Among those in attendance included nominated Behind the Candelabra Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick, along with the exhibit's featured Costume Designers from House of Cards, Rectify, SMASH and 2 Broke Girls plus special guests. Scroll down for photos!
The Oscars' Online FASHION FACE/OFF Competition Now Live
by Tyler Peterson - Feb 19, 2013
The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences put three of FIDM's most talented fashion designers to the test as they compete with what they think the five Best Actress nominees and funny man host Seth MacFarlane should wear on the Red Carpet at the Oscars.
Sexy Hair Concepts Joins Battle of the Strands as Exclusive
by Robert Diamond - Sep 11, 2012
Vegas Beauty Unbound, producers of the epic salon competition, Battle of the Strands 2012: Xtreme Beauty, is pleased to announce that hair care pioneer and industry leader Sexy Hair Concepts LLC has agreed to become the exclusive hair styling sponsor for the battle finale.
Vegas Beauty Unbound, producers of the epic salon competition, Battle of the Strands 2012: Xtreme Beauty, has announced that hair care pioneer and industry leader Sexy Hair Concepts LLC has agreed to become the exclusive hair styling sponsor for the battle finale.
Demi Lovato Receives ACUVUE Inspire Award
by Kelsey Denette - Aug 8, 2011
Last night at Teen Choice 2011, VISTAKON Division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., and the makers of ACUVUE Brand Contact Lenses revealed the winners of the 'ACUVUE 1-DAY Contest.'
Photo Flash: Actors Fund Honors Tommy Tune on Tony Night
by BWW News Desk - Jun 19, 2008
Held at the popular Skirball Center in Los Angeles, the Actors Fund's 12th annual TONY Award party was completely sold out well in advance and by far the most successful year ever by raising over $125,000, which is a tribute in itself to honoree Tommy Tune and host Florence Henderson, who was on hiatus from her own program on the RLTV network entitled 'The Florence Henderson Show.'