Broadway’s Cort Theatre will officially become the James Earl Jones Theatre in an official renaming and dedication ceremony on Monday, Sept. 12, the Shubert Organization announced today.
The ceremony follows a 47 million restoration and expansion of the 110-year-old building on West 48th Street in Manhattan’s Theater District. The dedication ceremony will be open to invited guests and members of the press, and will include special performances, tours of the venue and the unveiling of a new marquee.
Shubert, which owns the theater, commissioned extensive renovations and construction work on the venue over the course of the Covid pandemic years and under the guidance of Francesca Russo Architect. A new contemporary annex, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, expands accessibility, increases public space, adds dressing rooms and rehearsal space.
The venue’s name change to honor the venerable actor was previously announced, and followed a pledge by Shubert and other Broadway...
The ceremony follows a 47 million restoration and expansion of the 110-year-old building on West 48th Street in Manhattan’s Theater District. The dedication ceremony will be open to invited guests and members of the press, and will include special performances, tours of the venue and the unveiling of a new marquee.
Shubert, which owns the theater, commissioned extensive renovations and construction work on the venue over the course of the Covid pandemic years and under the guidance of Francesca Russo Architect. A new contemporary annex, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, expands accessibility, increases public space, adds dressing rooms and rehearsal space.
The venue’s name change to honor the venerable actor was previously announced, and followed a pledge by Shubert and other Broadway...
- 9/1/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jayden Lamb was not even 9 years old when he died the week after last Thanksgiving, two years into his battle against cancer. "It was a short life but a big impact," his father, Tom Lamb, of Midland, Mich., told the MLive.com. "There was something about him, I'm not sure if it was the message he had to get out, but he was so happy." Those who loved Jayden - the many family and friends - have found a way to honor his memory: by spreading goodwill through the generous and genuine helping of others. The local pay-it-forward movement began when Jayden's father and stepmother,...
- 1/3/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Cross-posted from CultureStrike, a new project that fuses arts with activism in the struggle for immigrants' rights.
Their slogan is "Never Stop Improving," but lately, "Never Stop Denying" seems more fitting. Lowe's has rebuffed a 200,000-signature petition to reinstate ads on the new reality television series All-American Muslim on The Learning Channel.
The retail giant stepped into a big political hubbub once word got out that the company decided abruptly to pull its advertising from the show, which depicts daily life in the Muslim American community, shortly after receiving some nasty backlash from a hardline evangelical group, the Florida Family Association. Apparently showing normal people on television who happen to be Muslim is a sin, and a threat to national security, and would make Jesus mad.
These arguments are nothing we haven't heard before of course, but activists were jarred when they heard that a big box behemoth like Lowe's...
Their slogan is "Never Stop Improving," but lately, "Never Stop Denying" seems more fitting. Lowe's has rebuffed a 200,000-signature petition to reinstate ads on the new reality television series All-American Muslim on The Learning Channel.
The retail giant stepped into a big political hubbub once word got out that the company decided abruptly to pull its advertising from the show, which depicts daily life in the Muslim American community, shortly after receiving some nasty backlash from a hardline evangelical group, the Florida Family Association. Apparently showing normal people on television who happen to be Muslim is a sin, and a threat to national security, and would make Jesus mad.
These arguments are nothing we haven't heard before of course, but activists were jarred when they heard that a big box behemoth like Lowe's...
- 12/25/2011
- by Michelle Chen
- Aol TV.
Intimidated? Fuhgettaboutit.
A North Carolina newspaper is reporting that Lowe’s will not back down from its decision to pull commercials from TLC’s All-American Muslim, a reality show that offers a positive portrayal of Muslim life. Its initial move to yank the spots came after a Christian group in Florida encouraged members to email the program’s advertisers because of how the show excludes “many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.”
“The decision was absolutely not, despite what’s been reported in the media,...
A North Carolina newspaper is reporting that Lowe’s will not back down from its decision to pull commercials from TLC’s All-American Muslim, a reality show that offers a positive portrayal of Muslim life. Its initial move to yank the spots came after a Christian group in Florida encouraged members to email the program’s advertisers because of how the show excludes “many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.”
“The decision was absolutely not, despite what’s been reported in the media,...
- 12/21/2011
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
Lowe’s In Hot Water Over Pulling Ads From TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim’ Local Christian clergy from the Charlotte area today delivered a petition with 200,000 signatures to the Lowe’s headquarters, asking the hardware store giant to reverse its recent decision to pull advertising from the TLC reality series All-American Muslim. Lowe’s executives met with representatives of the clergy and spent an hour discussing the controversy that erupted after the company decided to take its ads off the series depicting the life of ordinary Muslim Americans following a campaign by conservative watchdog the Florida Family Association. However, Lowe’s is not changing its position on staying out of All-American Muslim, the company’s VP marketing Tom Lamb told local newspaper The Charlotte Observer, insisting that the decision to pull the ads was not influenced by the Ffa. Lowe’s executives have been taken aback by the magnitude of the...
- 12/21/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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