Red Tape Theatre crowned the checklist of honorees introduced Monday evening within the Non-Equity Jeff Awards rite for excellence in native theater. Awards have been offered in 21 classes in a first-ever on-line rite for productions staged all over the abbreviated 2019-2020 season, a results of the mandated shutdown of all theaters because of the coronavirus pandemic. Veteran level and display actor Parker Guidry was once the host for the hourlong, pre-recorded rite streamed on YouTube. Red Tape Theatre’s manufacturing of “All Quiet on the Western Front” gained six awards together with very best play and very best new paintings, Matt Foss; very best ensemble; very best sound design, Dan Poppen; very best lighting fixtures design, Stephen Sakowski,
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2019 Equity Jeff Award nominations: Porchlight Music Theatre
Nearly 200 nominations in 34 award classes had been introduced Tuesday for the 2019 Equity Jeff Awards. Celebrating excellence in Chicago theater productions, the nominations embody 11 world premiere performs and musicals. Leading the pack this yr is Porchlight Music Theatre, which obtained 17 nominations, adopted by Paramount Theatre in Aurora with 16, and Court Theatre in Hyde Park with 15. The most-nominated exhibits are Paramount’s manufacturing of “The Producers,” which garnered 9 nominations general, adopted by its manufacturing of “The Wizard of Oz,” which obtained seven. The winners of the 51st annual Equity Jeff Awards can be introduced at a gala ceremony Oct. 21 on the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace.
John Travolta by chance fingers award to Taylor Swift’s
Call it Adele Dazeem, spherical two. Five years after John Travolta incorrectly pronounced Idina Menzel’s identify on the 2014 Oscars, the singer took the stage on the 2019 VMAs to current the Video of the Year award to Taylor Swift. And whereas Swift’s identify was simple sufficient for him to deal with, it was her face — or quite, that of Swift-impersonating drag queen Jade Jolie — that gave him hassle. Twitter had a discipline day when the cameras captured Travolta handing the Moonman award to Jolie, who appeared in Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” video and took the stage to simply accept the award together with a number of of the video co-stars, quite
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Celtics’ Bill Russell To Receive Arthur Ashe Courage Award At ESPYs
Bill Russell will obtain certainly one of sports activities’ highest honors largely for the work he has performed removed from the basketball court docket. The Boston Celtics legend introduced Thursday by way of Twitter he’ll obtain the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on July 10 on the 2019 ESPYs. “Just found out I will be receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award,” Russell wrote. “Arthur was a man of great courage. Tune in July 10, this is a special honor!” Arthur Ashe Courage Award “recipients reflect the spirit of Arthur Ashe, possessing strength in the face of adversity, courage in the face of peril and the willingness to stand up for their beliefs no matter what the cost,” in
Women’s Ballon d’Or Winner Asked To ‘Twerk’ After Receiving Award
Ada Hegerberg could celebrate her historic feat for but a few seconds before someone tried to drag her back into the stone age. The Norwegian soccer star won the 2018 Women’s Ballon d’Or Award on Monday night in Paris, but her achievement was overshadowed by Martin Solveig, the French DJ who co-hosted the event, asking her to twerk seconds after announcing her as the winner. An uncomfortable Hegerberg brushed off Solveig’s question, but it clearly stunned onlookers. As Hegerberg was turning to walk away, Solveig asked her to dance to Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me To The Moon,” instead, and she did so for a few seconds. Solvei... NESN.com