The upcoming World Science Festival is looking to bring high concepts to the general public. Adam Balkin has more.
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In anticipation of "The Big C" return on June 27, a brand new promo for the Showtime dramedy series is released. The clip takes a peek at how cancer-striken Cathy, who is played by Laura Linney, sees life in a whole new perspective. There is no more "the
May 31, 2011, 2:29 am By THE LEARNING NETWORK Test your vocabulary skills with today’s question, created by Danielle Hoagland and Judith McCaffrey at Grammarlogues , from the article “Meryl Streep to Participate in Alan Alda’s Marie Curie Play.” After yo
There’s not long to wait now for The Big C to return to our screens, and we have two new clips for you…
One is a new promo for the ABC series, and the other, a behind the scenes look and chat with some of the cast.
The show returns on June 27th with the
Alan Alda may be best known for his acting prowess -- which has earned him a Tony Award, numerous Emmy Awards, and an Oscar nomination -- but his first love has always been writing. His newest play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, will receive a st
I am away for the next couple of weeks. Please enjoy encore presentations of the Repressed 70s Memories series, originally published on Drawingin.blogspot.com. Back with new tales on June 8.
In 1975, there was plenty of beefcake on primetime TV for the a
Laura Linney returns to The Big C this summer as season 2 kicks off on Showtime.
Are you ready for more The Big C? Come this summer, Laura Linney will make her return to the hit Showtime series about living with cancer. After a great first season, it wil
Alfred Hitchcock once said that actors should be treated like cattle and there are plenty in his profession who quietly agree. But what happens when an actor goes Temple Grandin and moves behind the camera?
Jon Hamm is reportedly about to find out when h
23. THE KING’S TASTER (February 12)
PRINCIPALS: Russell Brand (King Reginald), Taran Killam (Taster), Bill Hader (Chef)
Set in a castle centuries ago, King Reginald and his chef are going through a particularly nasty spat (in which the king disapproved
Woody Allen often takes flack for being stuck in the past. That early 20th-century Windsor font he's used for the opening titles of every film he's made since 1980 (one per year, like clockwork, apart from a double helping in 1987), coupled with the ever
Just a few days after reports emerged that she had signed on to "Still I Rise", actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has locked down both a new film and stage gig.
Gyllenhaal will star in the supernatural thriller "Voice from the Stone", based on Silvio Raffo's nov
May 18, 2011, 12:56 pm By PATRICIA COHEN Citing a scheduling conflict, Meryl Streep has dropped out of a reading of Alan Alda’s new play about Marie Curie at the World Science Festival gala at Alice Tully Hall on June 1. Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose most rec
Not so very long ago, in 2007 it was, Christopher Hitchens wrote "Why Women Aren't Funny," a sourpuss essay that argued gals lack a funnybone, an assertion almost as preposterous Freud's hypothesis that women suffer from penis envy (which, as everyo
That is a crazy table, simply crazy.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
if by crazy you mean gross
"The Dodgers are such a .500 team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they'd find it." - Vin Scully
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Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular articles from Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from today on BroadwayWorld.com!
The penultimate episode of Season Two of GLE
Choosing favorite casts from more than 40 films is no laughing matter. USA TODAY ran these five tip-top ensembles by Woody Allen and casting director Juliet Taylor, who mostly concurred — although Taylor has a soft spot for the Borscht Belt jokers in 198
Award-winning director’s Career Retrospective at the MoMA celebrates
her work and the island that helped shape it
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Martinique is in the spotlight again, thanks to its most celebrated
filmmaker, Euzhan Palcy, whose life’s w
Young people aren't the only ones flocking to colleges these days: celebrities are increasingly heading to campus, only they're getting paid more than a year's worth of tuition to make a brief appearance.
It's become a big deal for many schools to host b
At Ground Zero the memorial trees are springtime-green and the waterfalls are up and running, but there remains much to do. Besides the various incomplete towers, slow progress continues on the transit hub that fills the space beneath the site, where the
(CBS News) – With word from CBS that Ashton Kutcher is replacing Charlie Sheen in the hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men” comes the natural question: Will the show retain its popularity? “Two and a Half Men” airs Monday’s on CBS 5 at 9:00pm PST. The actors t
A few years ago I saw Alan Alda on stage in David Mamet’s Glengarry, Glen Ross. Somehow I had managed to miss seeing either the play or the film before that. Alda was great (I really want to see Jack Lemmon on the film version), and the plot was fascinat
Pippa peepers prompt pique Pictures of Pippa Middleton sunbathing topless on a private yacht have started a legal battle
between the Middleton family and several British tabloids, according to the Associated Press. The
publication of the revealing photos
Image Credit: Joan Marcus It was supposed to be a quiet week post-Tony nominations. Nope! Tony producers confirmed Neil Patrick Harris would be hosting the awards on June 12. Daniel Radcliffe told an audience at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y that he was sho
On the pilot episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore" show, her boss to be, Lou Grant, told Mary Richards she had spunk, and let's hope the actress has it as well: she has elected to undergo brain surgery to remove a meningioma, a benign tumor of the lining tis
If heads are turning more than usual next summer in Los Angeles, it may be because a stage adaptation of “The Exorcist,” about a 10-year-old girl possessed by the devil and the Catholic priest who tries to save her, is set to open there at the Geffen Pla
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3 If Elliot Gould became Wayne Rogers and Donald Sutherland became Alan Alda, who did Sally Kell
Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular articles from Thursday, May 12, 2011. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from today on BroadwayWorld.com!
Amongst the details about the $6 million doll
Following in the glorious footsteps of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the much-reported-about musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, which has been on hiatus since April 17, appeared again May 12 in a revised version at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre. Waggish Broadw
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Hollywood actress Meryl Streep is set to tackle science in her new role as physicist and chemist Marie Curie. The 61-year-old will star in the title role for
Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has lined up three world premieres for its 2011-12 season: a new adaptation of the demonic-possession thriller The Exorcist, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley and the playwriting debut of actor Alan Alda, who
Next Fall, which has already won widespread critical acclaim (nominations for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play) makes its West Coast debut at the Geffen
Meryl Streep is to play scientist Marie Curie in a special reading of Alan Alda's new stage production, it has been announced.
Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is to premiere on June 1 at Lincoln Centre's Alice Tully Hall in New York City as part of
The Geffen Playhouse has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will open with Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety, to run August 30 - October 9. Eddie Torres will direct this play about the world of professional wrestling.
The actor will be holding a special reading of his new play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, which “explores the intellectual passions of the physicist/chemist most famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity, as well as her tumultuous priv
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Hollywood music video and film director Brett Ratner is keen on his Miami Beach roots.
He may have hit the big time with such blockbuster hits as The Family Man, X-Men: The Last Stand, Red Dragon and the Rush Hour series, but he prou
TWC Will Distribute Paul Thomas Andersons Untitled Religious Drama
Do you still remember that untitled religious/Scientology-esque drama that Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) has been wanting to make with his muse, the great Philip Seymour Ho
The play was previously developed under the direction of Daniel Sullivan at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in the winter of 2010. Alda told the New York Times there was a possibility for a full production of Radiance this fall in Los Angeles.
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Quietly but steadily, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has become a major proponent of using the arts to expand the public's understanding of science and technology, the New York Times reports.
The New York City-based foundation has awarded some $5 million
Image Credit: Jennifer Graylock Meryl Streep will play Marie Curie in a special reading of Alan Alda’s new play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie . The cast also includes Amy Adams, Allison Janney, Liev Schreiber, and David Morse. Directed by Bob Bal
'Stargate Universe' (Mon., May 9, 9PM ET on Syfy) and 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl' (Thurs., May 26, 10:30PM, Showtime) air their series finales this month, but it's the end of 'Smallville' -- which flies off into the TV sunset after 10 seasons (Fri., Ma
Wayne Rogers started in business at age 8 with a lemonade stand in his front yard outside Birmingham, Ala.
It was the first of many successes in a lengthy business career that has included banking, money management, convenience stores, viticulture and a
A good science documentary inspires us to reach for more in our lives, to understand new things, and bear witness to the growth of humanity. Too often, these wonderful programs are just fodder for a lazy day in a high school physics class, but they can b
Following the "pile on the couples" rom-com mindset popularized by the likes of Love Actually and Valentine's Day, Lionsgate's plan for adapting the bestselling book What To Expect When You're Expecting is to assault audiences with five different expecti
Anna Ziegler’s play “Photograph 51” focuses the spotlight on Rosalind Franklin, the least heralded of the four scientists who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. Although Franklin’s death from cancer at 37 precluded her sharing the Nobel Prize that
Based on a true story, Quarterback Princess is the heartwarming story of a girl from Oregon who wants to play quarterback on the High School football team.
Beyond achieving success on the field Tami Maida (portrayed by Helen Hunt) proves that being femin
"30 Rock" closes out a strong season tomorrow night.
With a few exceptions (Liz taping the pilot for her failed talk show, Jenna dating James Franco), the fourth season of "30 Rock" was so dire that I came close to walking away from it altogether a few t
The Westport Country Playhouse is currently in its eightieth season, but they are trying to keep things fresh by offering Friday evening tickets for only $25 to patrons aged 35 and under. Beloved Westport resident and acting legend Joanne Woodward presid
(Bloom later apologized privately by saying the Play House is a nonprofit, and trying to scrape together the $30 million or so for that 70-block trip west.)
Things just stopped working. The louvers of the fire doors high over the Drury stage, for inst
