Newly Formed Theatre Producers of Color Group Sets Tuition-Free Mentorship Program

There’s been a surprising new development in the search for missing 4-year-old Serenity Ann McKinney.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A former department store tycoon is backing Paisley’s future from beyond the grave.The trust Sir Hugh Fraser set up at the peak of his wealth is giving £200,000 to Paisley Museum.Fun-loving Sir Hugh lived the high life but died aged just 50 in 1987.He was once chairman of  House of Fraser, Harrods and whisky firm Whyte & Mackay.Now trustees of his foundation - including his former model daughter Patricia - have backed the £42million museum regeneration.It is hoped the transformation of the museum to tell the town’s story will attract 125,000 visitors a year and put £79million into the economy over 30 years.Dr Kenneth Chrystie, a trustee of the Hugh

Bob Dylan, whose music career has stretched from the early-1960s folk scene to a critically acclaimed album released earlier this year, has sold his entire song catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group.

Bill Nighy To Narrate C5/Smithsonian River SeriesLove Actually and Shaun Of The Dead star Bill Nighy is to narrate a six-part Channel 5 and Smithsonian Channel Canada series, titled World’s Most Scenic River Journeys. The exploration of famous rivers is a co-production between Argonon’s BriteSpark and Blue Ant Studios’ Saloon Media, who will shoot in Europe and North America respectively to get around Covid-19 travel restrictions. World’s Most Scenic River Journeys is executive produced by Tom Porter at BriteSpark, with Helen White acting as series producer. Steve Gamester is executive producer and producer at Saloon. Nighy has previously narrated Channel 5’s World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys, which was also made by BriteSpark.

A charismatic film producer from Brazil who found success in Hollywood on projects like 2019'sThe Lighthouse and the 2017 Oscar winner Call Me by Your Name now finds himself accused by former business partners of fraud, lack of transparency and, according to one complaint, running a Ponzi scheme. The producer is Rodrigo Teixeira, and his relentless drive has made him one of the darlings of Brazil's film industry.

A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art, music and literature to allow nudity, profanity, sexuality and anti-American boilerplate. Now? The left is Victorian — increasingly puritanical, regressive and hypersensitive.

After a recent top-to-toe renovation, this iconic Knightsbridge hotel has a new vibrant incarnation. Think bold art, fabrics in punchy hues and cool lighting set against a classy backdrop of grand pillars and sweeping marble floors.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentProducer of Argentina’s Oscar entry “Sleepwalkers,” Juan Pablo Miller’s Buenos Aires-based Tarea Fina has unveiled “El Hijo Deseado,” the next film by Berlinale Jury Grand Prix winner Ariel Rotter (“The Other,” “Incident Light”).Its announcement comes as Tarea Fina advances on post-production of “La Encomienda,” from Pablo Giorgelli, whose “Las Acacias” was awarded the Cannes Festival’s Camera d’Or for best first feature by a jury presided by “Parasite’s” Bong Joon Ho.Both films maintain Tarea Fina’s hallmark of exacting, carefully crafted movies which break out to big festival prizes and sometimes global art house distribution.“We always work like artisans, producing a small number of films a

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris and New York Theatre Workshop – the Off Broadway company where he developed the acclaimed work – announced today the establishment of two $50,000 commissions for new theatrical works, keeping a pledge the author made when he signed a two-year overall deal with HBO last March.

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe miraculous prospects of international funding initiatives and the opportunities and pitfalls offered by streaming platforms were among the topics discussed by leading Argentine producers during an online Ventana Sur panel on Thursday.Diego Dubcovsky of Varsovia Films, Santiago Gallelli of Rei Cine and Paula Zyngierman of Maravillacine also looked back at the dynamic New Argentine Cinema wave that characterized the 1990s, and addressed the role of state funding for the sector, and the silver lining of the COVID-19 crisis.Already racked by crippling inflation and a plunging peso, the Argentine film industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, which has led to a sharp decline in the cinema admissions and TV advertising

Epic Games Store titles have been announced, and they are two great games from Obsidian Entertainment.A pair of the developer’s critically acclaimed RPGs, Pillars Of Eternity and Tyranny, will be available to claim and keep for all Epic Games Store users next week. The promotion is set to start on December 10 – which just so happens to be the launch date of another highly anticipated RPG, Cyberpunk 2077 – and will run until December 17.The version of Pillars Of Eternity that will be given away is the Definitive Edition.

Electronic Arts, the parent company of BioWare, has revealed that Mass Effect director Casey Hudson and Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah have resigned from the studio.Hudson, who directed and co-created the original Mass Effect trilogy and, as recently as last month, announced that a new Mass Effect game was in development, said in his own statement that he was retiring from BioWare in order to “make way for the next generation of studio leaders”.“Arriving at this point has been an opportunity for me to reflect on my own future, and 2020 has been a year that forced all of us to re-imagine how we think about work and life,” he added.

A new theatre is preparing to open in Manchester in the new year, providing a Covid-safe way for locals to get their culture fix.The DriveINSIDE theatre - which had to postpone its launch because of the spike in coronavirus cases this autumn - also has plans to create 1000 jobs for the region.The drive-in theatre will open next spring at the Trafford Centre and will be permitted to operate even in Tier 3 restrictions.Theatre-goers will be greeted by a 'theatrical drive jockey' who will guide them to their dedicated, isolated area.Each booking will be given its own parking space and adjacent viewing area beneath a 68,000 sq ft marquee that will be the largest in Europe.Visitors will be asked to leave their vehicles on the driver's side to

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PLZ Make It Ruins the London-based label run by Frank Ocean collaborator Vegyn, have announced a 40-track compilation album comprised entirely of original loops. Each track on the album, which was compiled alongside Arts Council England, is 1.8 seconds long and is designed to be played repeatedly with the aim of "creating a uniquely hypnotic rhythm." Among the artists to contribute loops are Haim, 100 Gecs, Clairo, Four Tet, King Krule, Arca, Kenny Beats, and Dominic Fike.

reports. The fire at Camp Hi-Ho in Simpsonville happened on Friday night, and the farm's main barn—which was used for workspace and camp activities—appears to have been demolished.

Tragedy has hit Jennifer Lawrence’s family summer camp over the weekend.

one in four workers over 50 has been furloughed, and a grim ‘second wave’ of job losses is predicted for older workers as the market deteriorates further. Added to this, a recent study from the LSE suggests women are more vulnerable to losing their jobs, as a greater number work in hospitality, leisure, tourism, retail and the arts – industries that continue to be badly hit by Covid restrictions.While it’s grim out there for everyone who loses their income, it’s particularly tough for the over-50s.

ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Group unit, formerly known as its Entertainment & Youth division, has engaged U.K.-based Lost Art TV to help it source "fresh and exciting new formats" from international markets with a focus on comedy and unscripted content. The company said on Thursday that the formats would target its portfolio of brands,which includes MTV, Comedy Central, and others.

"According to these latest rules we can muscle in alongside the Christmas shoppers in all non-essential shops, go for a workout in the gym, get our hair done, and even go to a massage parlour - but we're not allowed to walk around our local art gallery, visit a museum, or sit in a socially distanced seat inside a Covid-secure cultural venue and enjoy a performance. "Our cultural venues here in Manchester are on their knees.