Students are self-taping their performances for year-ending theatrical productions, which are geared toward talent rep audiences, in childhood bedrooms and dorms: "I think actually we're going to get the students in front of more people than we would have before." University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student Brian Seungheon Kim passionately recites a monologue about Asian-American typecasting that he wrote himself as he stands in front of a white sheet hung beneath an exposed pipe. After a brief cut, his classmate Emma L. Anderson performs a rendition of a Manson girl's speech from Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from inside a dark, parked car. Dane Brandon follows with dialogue from Jordan Seavey's 2017 play Homos, or Everyone in America, which he performs while sitting on a couch in front of plants, string Christmas lights and windows exposing a cloudy day. … [Read more...] about Amid Lockdowns, Universities’ Actor Showcases Go Online: “Change Needed to Happen Anyway”
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Summer Premiere Dates 2020: Here’s What’s On As Lockdown Starts To Lift
June TBA:Power Book II: Ghost (Starz, new drama series)Syfy Wire’s The Great Debate (Syfy, new late-night series)Served! with Jade Thirlwall (MTV, new docuseries)Tusks to Tails (Facebook Watch, new nature series)The Andy Cohen Diaries (Quibi, new shortform docuseries)The Fugitive (Quibi, new shortform drama series revival)Don’t Look Deeper (Quibi, new shortform drama series)Q Talks (Quibi, new shortform comedy series)Nice One! (Quibi, new shortform docuseries)Killing Zac Efron (Quibi, new shortform adventure series)Last Looks (Quibi, new shortform true-crime series)Murder Unboxed (Quibi, new shortform true-crime series) … [Read more...] about Summer Premiere Dates 2020: Here’s What’s On As Lockdown Starts To Lift
California Reopens In-Store Retail Shopping as COVID-19 Restrictions Loosen
Individual counties' public health departments have the final say on whether the change can be implemented in their areas. If approved by counties' respective public health departments, California retail stores can reopen for business state-wide with special safety measures in place to protect against the spread of coronavirus. … [Read more...] about California Reopens In-Store Retail Shopping as COVID-19 Restrictions Loosen
