Positive Exposure, a 501c3 charitable organization that promotes a more equitable and inclusive world through award-winning photography, films, lectures and educational programs, will present Steven Perlman, Dds, MScD, Dhl, with the Spirit of Change Award and Xian Horn with the Rising Leader Award during their virtual 2021 Change How You See Celebration on September 22nd at 7:00 Pm Et.
Highlights of the evening will also include a very special tribute by Bebe Neuwirth to the late Ann Reinking, a longtime champion of disability advocacy and Positive Exposure.
The show is directed by beloved Broadway actor and director, Nick Corley, who acted in She Loves Me, Mary Poppins, You Can’t Take it with You, A Christmas Carol and was the Associate Director on the recent revivals of Burn This and Plaza Suite. Currently he is the Associate Director of Candace Bushnell’s new show, coming to the Daryl Roth Theater this fall,...
Highlights of the evening will also include a very special tribute by Bebe Neuwirth to the late Ann Reinking, a longtime champion of disability advocacy and Positive Exposure.
The show is directed by beloved Broadway actor and director, Nick Corley, who acted in She Loves Me, Mary Poppins, You Can’t Take it with You, A Christmas Carol and was the Associate Director on the recent revivals of Burn This and Plaza Suite. Currently he is the Associate Director of Candace Bushnell’s new show, coming to the Daryl Roth Theater this fall,...
- 9/21/2021
- Look to the Stars
Demi Lovato, who was announced this week as a performer at the Grammy Awards, will sing the National Anthem a week later as part of Super Bowl Liv pregame festivities at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Sunday, February 2, the NFL and the Fox network announced today.
The pregame show, including the National Anthem, will be broadcast live worldwide.
Lovato will join a prestigious line up of Super Bowl National Anthem performers that includes Gladys Knight, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Luke Bryan, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Jennifer Hudson, Billy Joel, P!Nk, Jordin Sparks, Idina Menzel, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and Neil Diamond.
In addition, on behalf of the National Association of the Deaf (Nad), Christine Sun Kim, internationally renowned sound artist and performer, will sign the National Anthem in American Sign Language.
The appearance, combined with the Grammy performance, marks a big return for Lovato, who has been recovering from...
The pregame show, including the National Anthem, will be broadcast live worldwide.
Lovato will join a prestigious line up of Super Bowl National Anthem performers that includes Gladys Knight, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Luke Bryan, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Jennifer Hudson, Billy Joel, P!Nk, Jordin Sparks, Idina Menzel, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and Neil Diamond.
In addition, on behalf of the National Association of the Deaf (Nad), Christine Sun Kim, internationally renowned sound artist and performer, will sign the National Anthem in American Sign Language.
The appearance, combined with the Grammy performance, marks a big return for Lovato, who has been recovering from...
- 1/16/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
A lot happens in eighteen years. Look at Kevin Smith. While his daughter was born two years prior to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, fatherhood had only begun. Then he moved away from the View Askewniverse (with varying success), started a podcasting career, and suffered a heart attack that sparked weight loss and the overdue mending of burnt bridges. So while Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob’s (Smith) first journey to Hollywood wielded them as immature idiots with so little character development that an entire shoehorned subplot about cat burglars was added for hollow drama alongside the lowbrow antics, a more mature Smith couldn’t just go back to that well. These characters now needed to add substance to their own story.
I was skeptical when Jay and Silent Bob Reboot was announced because a majority of diehard fans probably did want more of the same: misogyny and gay jokes.
I was skeptical when Jay and Silent Bob Reboot was announced because a majority of diehard fans probably did want more of the same: misogyny and gay jokes.
- 10/16/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Kevin Smith has released a new video from the set of his new film, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, and in it he introduces us to the new young and diverse Girl Gang. This video pretty much focuses on these characters.
There was a Girl Gang in the first movie, but since this is a reboot, they brought in new cast members to play the characters and those cast members include Alice Wen (Mr. Student Body President), Aparna Brielle (A.P. Bio), Treshelle Edmond (Master of None), and his daughter, Harley Quinn Smith (Yoga Hosers).
It would make sense that Smith’s daughter is in the gang considering her mom was a member of original gang in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The original crew was played by Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, and Ali Larter. Smith explains:
“In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, we had...
There was a Girl Gang in the first movie, but since this is a reboot, they brought in new cast members to play the characters and those cast members include Alice Wen (Mr. Student Body President), Aparna Brielle (A.P. Bio), Treshelle Edmond (Master of None), and his daughter, Harley Quinn Smith (Yoga Hosers).
It would make sense that Smith’s daughter is in the gang considering her mom was a member of original gang in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The original crew was played by Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku, and Ali Larter. Smith explains:
“In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, we had...
- 3/25/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
A single Tony Award nomination for Children of a Lesser God wasn’t enough to keep the production going: Producer Hal Luftig says the Broadway revival will close with the Sunday, May 27 performance.
The Mark Medoff play, originally staged on Broadway in 1980, was revived by director Kenny Leon and stars Joshua Jackson, Lauren Ridloff and Anthony Edwards.
Ridloff, a former Miss Deaf America, was Tony-nominated last week for Best Actress in a Play. Her well-received performance – kudos include award nominations from the New York Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle, as well as a Theatre World Award – faces tough competition for the Tony in Amy Schumer (Meteor Shower), Condola Rashad (Saint Joan) and, especially, Glenda Jackson (Three Tall Women).
But overall mixed reviews have been followed by sluggish box office. For the week ending May 6, Children of a Lesser God, at Broadway’s Studio 54, grossed $297,762, just 30% of its...
The Mark Medoff play, originally staged on Broadway in 1980, was revived by director Kenny Leon and stars Joshua Jackson, Lauren Ridloff and Anthony Edwards.
Ridloff, a former Miss Deaf America, was Tony-nominated last week for Best Actress in a Play. Her well-received performance – kudos include award nominations from the New York Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle, as well as a Theatre World Award – faces tough competition for the Tony in Amy Schumer (Meteor Shower), Condola Rashad (Saint Joan) and, especially, Glenda Jackson (Three Tall Women).
But overall mixed reviews have been followed by sluggish box office. For the week ending May 6, Children of a Lesser God, at Broadway’s Studio 54, grossed $297,762, just 30% of its...
- 5/9/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Audiences have started to listen again at Studio 54. That's because Children of a Lesser God is back, and it officially opened last night on Broadway. Directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon, Children of a Lesser God stars film and television favorite Joshua Jackson and breakout star Lauren Ridloff, alongside Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Anthony Edwards, Drama Desk Award nominee and Obie Award winner Kecia Lewis, Julee Cerda, Treshelle Edmond, and John McGinty. The play will open on Wednesday, April 11 at Studio 54.Check out photos from the opening night red carpet below...
- 4/12/2018
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Audiences have started to listen again at Studio 54. Children of a Lesser God is back, and it officially opened last night on Broadway. Directed by Tony Award winnerKenny Leon,Children of a Lesser Godstars film and television favoriteJoshua Jacksonand breakout starLauren Ridloff, alongside Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winnerAnthony Edwards, Drama Desk Award nominee and Obie Award winnerKecia Lewis,Julee Cerda,Treshelle Edmond, andJohn McGinty. The play will open on Wednesday, April 11 at Studio 54.
- 4/12/2018
- by TV - Opening Night Special
- BroadwayWorld.com
Decades before “mansplaining” came along to fill a void in our national vocabulary, Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning play (and later movie) Children of a Lesser God provided both a case study and a denunciation of the infuriating male inclination to tell women just what to feel and how to say it.
Now, 38 years after the play’s New York debut, a Broadway revival directed by Kenny Leon at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54 starring Joshua Jackson, Lauren Ridloff and Anthony Edwards repeats the lesson to an audience that might not need to be taught. Even with a White House inhabited by a man whose grotesque displays and insults include a resurfaced one aimed at Marlee Matlin, this play no longer has the power to surprise with what was once the unorthodox notion that the “disabled” can speak for themselves, thank you very much, an ability that just might entail rejecting the word “disabled.
Now, 38 years after the play’s New York debut, a Broadway revival directed by Kenny Leon at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54 starring Joshua Jackson, Lauren Ridloff and Anthony Edwards repeats the lesson to an audience that might not need to be taught. Even with a White House inhabited by a man whose grotesque displays and insults include a resurfaced one aimed at Marlee Matlin, this play no longer has the power to surprise with what was once the unorthodox notion that the “disabled” can speak for themselves, thank you very much, an ability that just might entail rejecting the word “disabled.
- 4/12/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon, Children of a Lesser God stars film and television favorite Joshua Jackson and breakout star Lauren Ridloff, alongside Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Anthony Edwards, Drama Desk Award nominee and Obie Award winner Kecia Lewis, Julee Cerda, Treshelle Edmond, and John McGinty. The play will open tomorrow,Wednesday, April 11 at Studio 54.
- 4/10/2018
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
In the last four months of the 2017-18 Broadway season, nine productions of plays (two new, five revivals, two older works making their Broadway debuts) will open. Could we be seeing any of them contend at this year’s Tony Awards?
Below, we recap the plot of each play as well as the awards history of its author, cast and creative types and the opening and (where applicable) closing dates.
“John Lithgow: Stories By Heart” (opening January 11; closing March 4)
Virtuosity and imagination combine in one utterly unique event, as Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow creates a singularly intimate evening. With equal measures of humor and heart, he evokes memories of family, explores and expands the limits of the actor’s craft, and masterfully conjures a cast of indelible characters from classic short stories by Ring Lardner and P. G. Wodehouse.
“Angels in America” (opening March 25; closing June...
Below, we recap the plot of each play as well as the awards history of its author, cast and creative types and the opening and (where applicable) closing dates.
“John Lithgow: Stories By Heart” (opening January 11; closing March 4)
Virtuosity and imagination combine in one utterly unique event, as Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow creates a singularly intimate evening. With equal measures of humor and heart, he evokes memories of family, explores and expands the limits of the actor’s craft, and masterfully conjures a cast of indelible characters from classic short stories by Ring Lardner and P. G. Wodehouse.
“Angels in America” (opening March 25; closing June...
- 1/30/2018
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
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