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Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are heading to Broadway later this month in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, producers announced today.

The production, which opened a sold-out run Off Broadway at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February, is now set to be the final production of the 2022-23 Broadway season. Opening night for the limited, 80-performance run is Thursday, April 27, at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Directed by Anne Kauffman, the revival will mark the first time the Hansberry play has been produced on Broadway in more than 50 years, and the first Bam-produced production to transfer to Broadway since The Gospel at Colonus 35 years ago.

Producing on Broadway will be Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, with Jeremy O. Harris and Bam.

The follow-up to Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window debuted on Broadway...

"I saw it and felt something I'd never felt before." The easiest way to introduce this: what if someone made Ghostbusters gritty & real, like how Christopher Nolan made his Batman movies gritty & real? Deadlock is a sci-fi short proof-of-concept created, produced, written & directed by filmmaking team John X. Carey + Aqsa Altaf. In a world where the living have the imprisoned the spirits of the dead in a server facility called "Deadlock" - an officer there is having a day from hell. The film tells a few stories about people involved in running the facility, mainly the crew who round up the ghosts. The short stars Joey Auzenne, Langston Fishburne, Jenna Qureshi, Brandon Scales, and Christopher Newman. This features an impressive amount of world-building and style, one hell of a proof-of-concept for sure. A refreshing take on ghosts, too. Thanks to Short of the Week for the tip on this one.

Sundance top brass celebrate the tenth anniversary of the New Frontier programme with an exhibition of new work that includes Vr projects involving Björk and Ridley Scott’s global hit The Martian.Scroll Down For Full List

The dynamic roster encompasses features, a live performance, documentary and narrative mobile virtual reality experiences and a look inside the innovations at some of world’s leading media research labs.

Tenth anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.

The New Frontiers line-up will take place in Park City’s Claim Jumper, The Gateway, a large-scale installation on Swede Alley by Chris Milk and a performance by Gingger Shankar at Festival Base Camp Presented by Canada Goose.

Beyond the dedicated physical exhibition spaces, audiences can experience more than 20 virtual reality pieces on mobile Vr headsets. This year’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews

(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)

Directed/Written by: Dee Rees

Starring: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Nina Daniels, Charles Parnell and Joey Auzenne

There’s no doubt that Alike (Adepero Oduye) would like the acceptance of her parents — who deep down already know that she’s a lesbian, even if they won’t admit it to themselves. But she’d also like to lose her virginity. Such is the scattered mind of youth captured so well in “Pariah,” Dee Rees’ film about the hope, frustration, confusion, heartbreak and anger that comes with coming of age. It doesn’t rely on any single achievement to give Alike’s story a tidy narrative conclusion but allows its characters to live and breath — and figure out where they’re going.

“Pariah” will almost certainly earn some comparisons to 2009′s “Precious.” Both films came out of Sundance...

Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews

(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)

Directed/Written by: Dee Rees

Starring: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Nina Daniels, Charles Parnell and Joey Auzenne

There’s no doubt that Alike (Adepero Oduye) would like the acceptance of her parents — who deep down already know that she’s a lesbian, even if they won’t admit it to themselves. But she’d also like to lose her virginity. Such is the scattered mind of youth captured so well in “Pariah,” Dee Rees’ film about the hope, frustration, confusion, heartbreak and anger that comes with coming of age. It doesn’t rely on any single achievement to give Alike’s story a tidy narrative conclusion but allows its characters to live and breath — and figure out where they’re going.

“Pariah” will almost certainly earn some comparisons to 2009′s “Precious.” Both films came out of Sundance...