Get ready for goosebumps. Viola Davis is Ma Rainey—and she’s superb.
The screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will premiere on Netflix December …
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Get a head start on Halloween. Phantom of the Opera streams free this weekend.
If you’ve been missing Broadway and local theatre as much as I have over the past 9 months, this announcement …
“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
Do you enjoy the music of film and television? Here’s a streaming event you won’t want to miss.
It’s an all-star cast. Join Sting, Catherine O’Hara, Elisabeth Moss, Anika Noni Rose, William Shatner, Auli’i Cravalho, John Stamos, Patti …
It’s PRIDE month and the 50th anniversary of the post-Stonewall march. Here’s a must-see video.
I know a thing or two about LGBTQ marches and parades—I joined my first one in Greenwich Village five decades …
5, 6, 7, 8! A Chorus Line cast reunites (virtually) to recreate I Hope I Get It, the Quarantine edition.
This video will make you want to jump out of your chair, take a pivot step, and walk, walk, walk. …
What Fun! Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley are hosting ‘Stars in the House’ to benefit The Actors Fund.
As a SAG-AFTRA member, I know that when times are tough—as they are now with the coronavirus continuing to disrupt …
Feel the need to get away from current events? Spend 5 hours touring Russia’s iconic Hermitage.
Yesterday, I shared some avenues that you can use to visit museums virtually, while the institutions are officially closed over …
Coming to Broadway next month: A new-age musical celebrating first love and the power of music.
I have high hopes for this show. Ben Brantley writes in The New York Times, “A boy presses ‘play’ and the …
This fascinating 1928 film, part of a year-long series from The Met showcases the back-of-the-house.
The Met is marking its 150th Anniversary. Throughout 2020, as part of their sesquicentennial, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in …
Online: NYC’s Museum of Modern Art is digitizing every exhibition since MoMA’s opening in 1929.
Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh was name of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art when it opened …
Here’s the complete 2020 Academy Awards Ballot. Download your copy, print, and party on!
Each January, the entertainment community and film fans around the world turn their attention to the Academy Awards. Interest and …
Get ready to vote. Here’s your 2020 Golden Globes Award ballot. Download, print, and party on.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 77th Annual Golden Globe®Awards ceremony will air live coast to coast on NBC from The …
Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
Joy, Joy, Joy. And, Happy Holidays! Here’s a video visit to the 2019 Christmas Windows in New York City.
From Bergdorf to Bloomingdales and Macy’s to Saks—take a video stroll through Rockefeller Center and down Fifth Avenue. @JamesandKarla bring …
Nominations announced for the 26th Annual SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS. Here’s your printable ballot.
On March 8, 1998, John Lithgow took the stage and the 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® and said, “I …
I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but creepy old movies are close to the top of my favorite-things list.
The Old Dark House, produced by Universal Pictures’ Carl Laemmle Jr., is one of those creepy movies. It was previewed in …
And then there was the time that I played a Secret Service Man—in a Ford commercial.
Baltimore. June 1988. Sandy Mislang produced the spot for W. B. Doner Advertising on behalf of their client, Baltimore–Washington Ford …
From the team that brought us the documentary, RGB comes a new film. Working title: Julia.
A party without a cake is just a meeting. — Julia Child The 1961 publication of her best-seller, Mastering the Art …
Actress Eve Plumb—Jan on The Bradey Bunch—has become quite an accomplished artist.
I’m a big fan of film noir. And, I a big fan of Eve Plumb’s film noir series of paintings—her …
