French Riviera Film Festival 2021 to Honor George Chakiris, Caroline Lagerfelt and Eric Roberts
by A.A. Cristi
- Jul 8, 2021
The third annual French Riviera Film Festival, will present a special Lifetime Achievement Award to Oscar-winning actor George Chakiris and Industry Excellence Awards to Caroline Lagerfelt and Eric Roberts, at an exclusive ceremony on July 14 at the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel, the announcement was made today by festival founders Gotham Chandna and Nicole Goesseringer Muj.
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for MY MEXICAN BRETZEL
by Sarah Leiber
- Mar 16, 2021
A hybrid of fiction and documentary filmmaking, MY MEXICAN BRETZEL, the feature film debut of Nuria Giménez, uses silent home movies, fleeting snippets of sound, and diaristic narration to tell the story of Vivian Barrett, a wealthy Swiss woman, and her husband, Léon, a WWII pilot-turned-entrepreneur.
MRT Celebrates New Playwright Commissions, New Reading Series �" MRT's FIRST LOOK
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 14, 2020
MRT will celebrate the commissioning of two of the country's most adventuresome playwrights, Trista Baldwin and Vichet Chum, with the launch of a new reading series, MRT's First Look. The series will kick off September 24 with a new adaptation of a classic, spinetingling thriller, Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight by Steven Dietz, according to Courtney Sale, the Nancy L. Donahue Artistic Director, and Bonnie J. Butkas, Executive Director.
THE PASSION OF ANNA MAGNANI Documentary Premieres Sept. 15
by Sarah Jae Leiber
- Aug 28, 2020
Filmmaker Enrico Cerasuolo recounts the life of Anna Magnani, Italy’s great screen legend, who embodied the bare-faced, post-war honesty of Italian neo-realism and became a symbol of the city of Rome itself.
CAMERA-THE INGRID BERGMAN MUSICAL WILL OPEN AS SCHEDULED at Spira
by Annette Stolt
- Jul 28, 2020
Today at the collation the director Staffan Aspengren announced that the show will go on as scheduled and open the 19th of September. The size of the audience will be in line with the recommendation size max 50 people. If there is a change in the recommendation it will be adapted to.
VIDEO: On This Day, July 14- Remembering Arthur Laurents
by A.A. Cristi
- Jul 14, 2020
Arthur Laurents was best known for his work as librettist on Gypsy and West Side Story, but was also well known as a playwright, having won a Tony Award® for Hallelujah, Baby! in 1968. Later as a director, he was Tony-nominated for Gypsy in 1975 (and the 2008 revival) as well as the original 1984 La Cage Aux Folles.
BWW Previews: CAMERA at Spira
by Annette Stolt
- May 4, 2020
She is at the top of her career. Hollywood and the whole world love her. Then Ingrid Bergman chooses to follow his heart - to a volcano in the Mediterranean. And hell breaks loose. In the fall of 2020, you have the chance to follow one of the greatest stars of our time, embodied by Åsa Fång, on a stormy journey to the bottom and up again. Via Italy, a passionate love story and in the brutal press.
Rare INVISIBLE MAN Poster to Disappear in Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Auction
by Sarah Jae Leiber
- Mar 9, 2020
One of just a handful of this style poster released to promote Universal's 1933 monster classic The Invisible Man may bring as much as $125,000 in Heritage Auctions' Movie Poster auction March 21-22. The sale is filled with first-time offerings ranging from stone litho masterpieces to early War and advertising posters.
BWW Review: THE VISIT, National Theatre
by Marianka Swain
- Feb 14, 2020
Three years after the National's enthralling revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the playwright returns with his new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragicomic 1956 parable a?' which has also been turned into an Ingrid Bergman-starring film and a Kander and Ebb musical.
2020 Sundance Film Festival Announces Juries
by Sarah Jae Leiber
- Jan 14, 2020
Sundance Institute will gather 25 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture and science to award feature-length and short films shown at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with 31 prizes, announced at a ceremony February 1. Short Film Awards will be announced at a separate ceremony on January 28. The Festival takes place January 23 through February 2 in Park City, Salt Lake City and Sundance, Utah.
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