After a three-year break from live events because of the pandemic, SCAD TVfest returned February 9 through 11 with its usual assortment of television screenings, panel discussions and special guests. The splashiest presence was that of Sarah Michelle Gellar, making her return to series TV with Wolf Pack, filmed in Atlanta. She received the 2023…
Married couple Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams have each had careers full of resounding TV and film triumphs. While Adams became a household name in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s with movies such as Days of Heaven, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Dead Zone, Shalhoub took home three Emmy Awards for his…
Although playwright Katori Hall is widely known and respected for work such as The Mountaintop — which chronicled the last night of Martin Luther King Jr. — the exuberant Tony Award-winner Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and the locally filmed TV series P-Valley, it was her play The Hot Wing King that landed her a…
Twenty-nine Georgia nonprofit organizations have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for fiscal year 2023, including several in Atlanta. More than $34 million has been funded nationwide, with $500,000 throughout the state. The money to organizations comes via the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects (the agency’s largest grant program), through Challenge…
Cocktails at lunch or various work functions were often the norm, as was vodka poured into a Diet Coke here and there throughout the day. As the years passed, though, it subtly turned into drinking at other times — in larger volumes and more and more by himself. Sean Daniels, the former artistic director and…
When the nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards are announced on the morning of January 24, two local actresses hope to see their names among the acting nominees, as does another who starred in an Atlanta film blockbuster. Atlanta native Danielle Deadwyler has received rave reviews in the Georgia-lensed Till, director Chinonye Chukwu’s film…
When he was first approached about working on a musical adaptation of the acclaimed 2015 children’s book Red: A Crayon’s Story, Grammy-nominated Atlanta-based musician John Burke was intrigued. He had never worked on a project like this before and was excited about the new direction. Burke had no idea, however, that the project would take…
The news landed with sledgehammer force for movie lovers throughout Atlanta and the region: The beloved Tara Theatre shut its doors for good November 10, with its owner, Regal Cinemas, announcing they were closing the location as part of its real-estate optimization strategy. The future of the building remains up in the air. Loew’s opened…
Janelle Monáe was nervous. The Atlanta-based singer and actress was about to head to Greece to begin making Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery last summer with a cast that included Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr. It had been a while since she had filmed anything, due to the pandemic….
Millie De Chirico is known as the queen of TCM Underground, the Friday late-night show that spotlights cult classics and other hard-to-find, under-the-radar fare. The longtime programmer, who has been extolling the virtue of such films for almost 20 years now, has partnered with Quatoyiah Murry for the new book TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films…
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