Nominations Announced For The 24th Family Film Awards & Telecast
The Family Film Awards announced the nominees for its 24th ceremony honoring the best of Family Television, Film, and Music and its telecast presented by DYF Entertainment. Nominees and award winners in each category are selected by a Blue Ribbon Panel made up of entertainment industry executives.
TheatreC Presents An Online Concert Of CUBAMOR: The Musical
Join us for an online experience of sensuous rhythms and heart-throbbing songs as theatreC brings you a reunion concert of CUBAMOR. Written by James D. Sasser (Book and Lyrics) and Charles Vincent Burwell (Music and Lyrics), CUBAMOR adapts the award-winning film by Joshua Bee Alafia into a musical journey of love, dreams, ambition, and magic.
BWW Review: JUNK at Arena Stage
Arena Stage's production of 'Junk' marks the Washington, DC area premiere of the critically acclaimed play, and, happily, Arena's production is more than up to the task of living up to the show's reputation.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Arena Stage's JUNK
Arena Stage presents Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar's (Arena's Disgraced) timely tale Junk. Inspired by the real junk bond giants of the 1980s, Akhtar explores how the riveting, hostile takeover of a family-owned manufacturing company paved the way to expose the rise of greed, power, race and wealth that led to reshaping the rules of Wall Street and the world.
Full Cast And Creative Team Announced For JUNK At Arena Stage
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full company for Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar's (Arena's Disgraced) timely tale Junk. Inspired by the real junk bond giants of the 1980s, Akhtar explores how the riveting, hostile takeover of a family-owned manufacturing company paved the way to expose the rise of greed, power, race and wealth that led to reshaping the rules of Wall Street and the world. Directed by Jackie Maxwell, Junk runs April 5 - May 5, 2019 in the Fichandler Stage.
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 18th Monte Cristo Award Honors Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center honored multi-discipline creative artist Lin-Manuel Miranda with the 18th Monte Cristo Award, last night at a private dinner at the Edison Ballroom in New York City. An alumnus of the O'Neill, Miranda's first professional production was at the O'Neill's National Music Theater Conference with In The Heights in 2005. The gala dinner featured a conversation with the honoree and raised $575,000 to support the Center's commitment to developing new work and new artists for the stage.
Lionsgate Signs Television Deal with Producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum
Adding to its roster of elite talent relationships, global content leader Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) today announced a multiyear television deal with producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men) to create scripted programming for the studio through their Tannenbaum Company production banner.
BWW Review: Musical Theatre West Presents Vibrant New Production of IN THE HEIGHTS
Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical, IN THE HEIGHTS is now on stage in a brand new Broadway-caliber regional production presented by Musical Theatre West at the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts in Long Beach through November 5. Told as a series of interweaving vignettes about the highs and lows---and the dreams and realities---of life in the Washington Height neighborhood of New York City, IN THE HEIGHTS offers audiences a very likable glimpse into a specific multi-generational Latinx experience that not only feels fresh and new but also feels remarkably relatable no matter what background you come from. Miranda---armed with first-hand knowledge of living in such an enclave and with the obvious imbedded DNA of a musical theatre aficionado---easily made the material both universally appealing and yet refreshingly unique. In its own way, seeing IN THE HEIGHTS now feels very much like looking back at an earlier piece of work from a now more evolved artist and seeing signs of the burgeoning genius still to come---and just how far that genius really grew.
BWW Review: MTW Mounts a Winning IN THE HEIGHTS
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony and Grammy Award-winning show In the Heights had a lot to shout about when it played Broadway in 2008...in fact, it still does. First of all, it's a musical with and about Latinos - way overdue -plus it has a terrific book with a heartwarming storyline about a closely knit community. That's right, a real community, one that boasts a bevy of exceedingly real and likeable characters. Miranda also created a varied score with ballads & traditional pop melodies and salsa meshed together with rap. MTW brings In the Heights to The Carpenter Center with a dynamite cast and slick direction by Benjamin Perez . It's full-out, enjoyable fare!