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Exclusive: Grammy winner and Real Housewives vet Kandi Burruss and husband/entrepreneur Todd Tucker have joined the producing team of next spring’s much-anticipated Broadway revival of Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Burruss and Tucker previously collaborated with Othello producer Brian Anthony Moreland on the Tony Award nominated revival of The Piano Lesson as well as The Wiz and Thoughts of a Colored Man.

Moreland announced the pair’s participation as Othello producers today. Also announced was the co-producing roster, which will include football player-turned-actor Devale Ellis and A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical producer Ken Davenport.

The first Broadway revival of the Shakespeare tragedy since 1982’s production starring James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer and Dianne Wiest, the spring 2025 staging will star Washington as Othello, Gyllenhaal as Iago and Broadway newcomer Molly Osborne as Desdemona. Kenny Leon directs.

The revival’s line-up of co-producers includes Ellis, Adam Zotovich,...

Andrea Martin and Lachanze will join the previously announced Campbell Scott in this holiday season’s Broadway production of A Christmas Carol, an adaptation of the Dickens classic by playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and director Matthew Warchus (Matilda The Musical).

Martin will play the Ghost of Christmas Past, while Lachanze will portray the Ghost of Christmas Present (and pull double duty as Mrs. Fezziwig).

Complete casting for the production was announced today. A Christmas Carol begins previews at the Lyceum Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 7, with opening night set for Wednesday, Nov. 20. The strictly limited engagement runs through Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020.

The holiday show will mark Martin’s first Broadway appearance since she was forced to pull out of Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus this past march following a home accident that left her with four broken ribs.

In addition to Martin, Lachanze and Scott (who plays Scrooge), the production will feature Erica Dorfler as Mrs. Cratchit; Dashiell Eaves (A Behanding in Spokane) as Bob Cratchit; Hannah Elless as Jess; Brandon Gill (Holler if Ya Hear Me) as Fred; Evan Harrington as Fezziwig; Chris Hoch as Father/Marley; Sarah Hunt (The Last Ship) as Belle; Matthew Labanca as Nicholas; Alex Nee (Once) as Ferdy; Dan Piering, in his Broadway debut, as Young Ebenezer/George; and Rachel Prather (The Band’s Visit) as Little Fan. Sebastian Ortiz and Jai Ram Srinivasan will share the role of Tiny Tim.

The production will be produced on Broadway by Tom Smedes, Heather Shields, ShowTown Productions, and Catherine Schreiber, Peter Stern, Xin Wen, Jack Lane/Seth Goldstein, Dan Stone, Nancy Gibbs/Joseph Longthorne, Chase Thomas/Mia Moravis, Brian Mutert & Derek Perrigo/Gary & Reenie Heath, Walport Productions, David Treatman/42nd.club, Bkl Productions/S+D Theatricals, J. Scott & Sylvia G. Bechtel, with Associate Producers Peter Cusick and Sammy Lopez.

The WGA is reaching out to managers and lawyers who represent writers as the guild prepares to order its members to leave their agents if a deal for a new franchise agreement isn’t reached with the Association of Talent Agents by April 6. The guild will be holding informational meetings with managers tomorrow and next Tuesday, and with talent lawyers – one or two per firm – at its offices on Friday. The guild has also offered to resume talks with the Ata either today or tomorrow, but there’s no word yet on that.

“The Writers Guild is in the process of establishing new regulations for agents who wish to represent guild members,” the WGA said in an invitation to meet with managers. “Our goal is to attain a new agreement that eliminates conflicts of interest in agency representation of writers. We invite you to attend an upcoming meeting for managers who represent guild members.

Exclusive: A little over a month after Days of Our Lives was renewed for a record 55th season by NBC, the producers behind the long running and Emmy winning daytime soap today have squared up against Sony Pictures Television in a distribution legal dust-up that could see tens of millions of dollars in damages and the termination of a half a century old deal.

In a breach of contract and fraud complaint filed this morning, Corday Productions accuse Sony as well as its Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems divisions of deliberating hanging the 1965 premiering Dool out to dry distribution-wise in international markets to the advantage of their 100% owned The Young and the Restless.

Represented by Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger’s Pierce O’Donnell, Dan Stone and Joshua Geller, the Corday action also alleges that Sony “treachery” has led to the majority of Dool’s back seasons left “completely unexploited...

Gareth Emery is gearing up to bring his Electric For Life radio show to New York City for a special New Year’s Eve edition next month. The producer and DJ took to Facebook to share a new teaser for the upcoming event, which will be hosted by Rpm Events and is sure to be one of the hottest New Year’s parties on the east coast.

The Nye edition of Electric For Life is already shaping up to be an unforgettable event and is set to feature special guests Christina Novelli, Dan Stone, Standerwick and Will Atkinson. If the prospect of celebrating New Year’s at a Gareth Emery show isn’t enough to get you pumped, the teaser video above will. Clocking in around forty seconds, the clip features Emery behind the decks as he drops an energetic set at a packed venue.

Gareth Emery will be throwing...

On March 27th, trance god Armin van Buuren will release his A State of Trance 2015 compilation, which will contain “26 exclusive and unreleased tracks, including never-before-heard songs from Armada Music artists, Protoculture, Alexander Popov, and Orjan Nilsen, plus two new Gaia songs.”

Spread over two discs, the “seamlessly and continuously mixed” compilation has already been nominated for an International Dance Music Award at the 2015 Winter Music Conference, and is expected to be a huge hit upon its release. Armin has been releasing these compilations since 2004, and each year he impresses with a strong mix of some of the genre’s most exciting tracks.

2015 looks to be no different, as judging by the tracklist below, we’re in for another treat from the Dutch DJ. There’s a ton of tracks to look forward to here and a great collection of artists included on the disc. If you’re a fan of Armin,...

The Vancouver International Film Festival closed out its run for 2009 on Friday, Oct. 16 with a gala screening of French director Caroline Bottaro's Queen to Play (Joueuse). 

I was happy with the range of films I was able to screen and review (with the sole exception of the awful Forbidden Door). 

There were a few that were on my list, though, that scheduling conflicts prevented my from seeing.

Chief among them the new film from Canadian director Atom Egoyan, Chloe. A good sign, though, that it was so popular that its two screenings sold out.

I had also hoped to catch the Wilco concert film, Ashes of American Flags. I'm a big fan of Jeff Tweedy and his band. 

I'm also disappointed that I ended up missing Roceterrania, a documentary film about Renaldo Kuhler, an artist who has, over the years, created an entire imaginary world that exists along the...

Toronto -- U.S. director Bill Guttentag's "Soundtrack for a Revolution," a film about African-American folk music during the U.S. civil rights movement, picked up the top audience award at the Vancouver International Film Festival, which wrapped over the weekend.

Vancouver audiences also picked the Canadian film "Facing Ali," by Peter McCormack, as the top documentary in the festival, which featured 103 nonfiction films against 134 dramas during its 16-day run.

"Facing Ali" sees retired boxers like George Foreman and Joe Frazier who fought Muhammad Ali pay tribute to his career.

The most popular Canadian documentary and top Canadian film, according to Vancouver audiences, was "65 Red Roses," a portrait of a cystic fibrosis patient undergoing a lung transplant.

The local film earlier won Vancouver's juried artistic merit award for director Nimisha Mukerji and co-producer Gillian Lowry, and came in second in the audience award competition at Toronto's Hot Docs festival.

The 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) concluded its 16-day run today with the closing gala screening of director Caroline Bottaro's Queen To Play, in the Visa Screening Room @ the Empire Granville 7 Cinemas, Vancouver. Director Bottaro was present to introduce the film to the audience. The winners of three juried awards and five audience awards were announced prior to the screening; a fourth juried award was announced previously. Juried Awards: Canwest Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: The jury for the Canadian Images program awarded the inaugural Canwest Award for Best Canadian Feature Film and its $20,000 cash prize to director Xavier Dolan of Montreal for the feature I Killed My Mother (J.ai tué ma mere). The winner was selected from 19 films in competition. The jury included Vancouver-based actor, writer, Ben Ratner, filmmaker Lynne "Kissed" Stopkewich, and producer/writer Kevin Tierney. Robyn Rudolph of Global Television presented the award on behalf of Canwest.

The Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) will be held October 1-16, 2009. Founded in 1982, Viff's mandate is "...to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada..." Here is a partial confirmed guest list guest of actors, producers and directors attending the October 1 Opening Night Gala Screening of A Shine Of Rainbows: Vic Sarin, director "A Shine Of Rainbows" Connie Nielsen, actress - "A Shine of Rainbows" Ryan Robbins . "Leslie, My Name is Evil" Christine Solomon, actress, Ahmad Abdella, director . "Heliopolis" Camille Sullivan + Jimmy Sigmund Fiona Forbes Emmauelle Vaugier - ("Two and a Half Men", "CSI NY") Byron Lawson ("Bloodletting") Sonja Bennet Chad Willett Richard de Klerk Agam Darshi Kevin McNulty Gabrielle Rose Paul Skrudland Kristine Cofsky Casey Manderson Bill Guttentag,...

There's no question where director/producer Dan Stone stands on the matter of Japan's incessant drive to kill whales under the guise of doing research in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary. After discovering the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's sometimes illegal efforts to stop whalers as the primarily Japanese fleets prowl the southern ice cap for whale pods, Stone placed a set of five alternating cameramen/cnematographers on two ships, The Farley Mowat and The Robert Hunter to make the documentary At The Edge of The World. As the activists searched for the whalers and engaged them in self-described "direct action" (sabotage, vandalism, etc.), his crew faced frighteningly cold conditions to capture the harrowing experiences of the conservationists. The under-trained and under-equipped international volunteer crew, under the command of long-time activist Paul Watson and first-time captain Alex Cornelissen, apply a combination of bizarre and...

The 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) will be held October 1-16, 2009. Founded in 1982, Viff's mandate is "...to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada..." Over 150,000 people are expected to attend 640 screenings of 360 films from 80 countries. Here is an up-to-date list of directors, confirmed to attend Viff 2009, along with their films : "1428" Du Haibin "1999" Lenin Sivam "65_RedRoses" Philip Lyall & Nimisha Mukerji "Adelaide" Liliana Greenfield-Sanders "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" Vikram Jayanti "Ana & Arthur" Larry Young "The Anchorage" Anders Edström & Curtis Winter "Antoine" Laura Bari "Argippo Resurrected" Dan Krames "The Art of Drowning" Diego Maclean "At Home By Myself... With You" Kris Booth "At The Edge Of The World" Dan Stone...

I'm a big fan of Japanese food, but after watching "At the Edge of the World," I'll be thinking twice about ordering sushi.

The documentary, directed by New Yorker Dan Stone, shows how a poorly funded volunteer group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, does battle with well-equipped Japanese whaling ships that continue to kill the mammals in the Antarctic Ross Sea despite an international ban enacted in 1986.

The Japanese use a loophole in the agreement that allows killing whales in the name of science. In reality, the meat from the slaughtered whales ends up at sushi bars.

This week's slate reinvents the wheel, so to speak, unveiling a vast array of twists, tweaks, role reversals and reinventions to satisfy all tastes.

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"At The Edge of The World"

Made famous by the weekly embedded correspondence of their TV series "Whale Wars," the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society puts the active in activism, taking self-described "direct action" (sabotage, vandalism, etc.) against the predominantly Japanese whaling fleets still hunting these gentle giants of the sea. Joining the battle-ready crew on their third Antarctic campaign, documentary filmmaker Dan Stone delivers a firsthand account of the controversial and dangerous tactics employed by these aggressive eco-warriors.

Opens in New York.

"Big Fan"

Having already explored the symbiotic yet mercurial bond between a sports icon and his fans in last year's indie smash "The Wrestler," scripter Robert Siegel hops...