Today, the Newseum announced that Cultural Icon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, retired professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers, will be presenting Dr. John Carlos and Dr. Tommie C. Smith with their 2018 Free Expression Awards on April 17, 2018.
Dean on the Scene talks to actress Caitlin Blackwood at AwesomeCon 2018, she plays the young Amelia (Amy) Pond in the Doctor Who episode “The Eleventh Hour”.
Check out Dean on the Scene’s Exclusive interview with Planet Power’s writer/director Pascal Vuong!
TRR would like you to follow your dreams and ENTER to win a Family Four of Tickets for Disney on Ice presents Follow Your Heart coming to EagleBank Arena in Fairfax VA – April 12-15
Lionsgate & Tyler Perry Studios present Tyler Perry’s Acrimony which reunites Taraji P. Henson with director Tyler Perry for the third time The film opens up in a courtroom with Robert Gayle (Lyriq Bent) receiving a restraining order against his wife Melinda Gayle (Taraji P. Henson). In addition to the restraining order, Melinda is also ordered to undergo from the judge. From there Melinda tells her story and how over time her marriage to Robert became undone.
(Photo courtesy of Cheston Reisler)
Some would say that a convention allows one to be a kid at heart. I believe this to be true. Someone at the ReGeneration Who Convention (in Baltimore March 23-25 www.regenerationwho.com) even gave me a ribbon which quoted The Doctor Saying, “There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.”
The National Theatre confirmed today that the pre-Broadway world premiere of the new musical comedy BEETLEJUICE will open its 2018-19 “Broadway at the National” season. This will be the second consecutive year the National Theatre opens its season with a pre-Broadway world premiere, following last season’s sold-out engagement of MEAN GIRLS.
Grown-ish closes out its stellar freshmen season with the aptly titled “Back & Forth.” At the closing of last week’s episode, Zoey (Yara Shahidi) found herself in a predicament when both Aaron (Trevor Jackson) & Luca (Luka Sabbat) confessed their feelings for our heroine. The love triangle gets worse when Cash (Da’Vinchi) returns, deciding that he wants Zoey back.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces Drew Gehling (Waitress, Jersey Boys) will play both President Bill Mitchell and the title role in Dave, the world-premiere musical debuting this summer, based on the blockbuster Academy Award-nominated comedy. The production, by three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan (Annie, Hairspray, The Producers), Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin (Mean Girls, Legally Blonde) and Pulitzer Prize and two-time Tony Award winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, If/Then), is directed by Tina Landau (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) and will run July 13-August 19, 2018 in the Kreeger Theater.
Exceeding expectations, a huge throng of peaceful but passionate demonstrators filled the streets around the U.S. Capitol for today’s March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C. Addressed by teenage speakers from around the country who have been affected by gun violence, attendees rallied to demand legislative action.
