Jaclyn Bethany News

The Fire Weeds, a new female-centric theatre company, will debut its inaugural production, OUTRAGED HEARTS, in NYC.

Exciting news is happening in New Orleans for Tennessee Williams enthusiasts. The Fire Weeds, a new female-focused, grassroots theatre company, is currently running their debut production OUTRAGED HEARTS: THE PRETTY TRAP and INTERIOR: PANIC in association with the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival.

The film’s cast features Fallon Goodson (Maladies), Sky Hardison (Dear Annabelle), Mary Stieffel (Preacher), Logan MacRae (Where the Crawdads Sing), Ayla Miller, Summer Joy Campbell (Bottoms), Ajaye Hopper and Sarah Schuler in the title role. Ruby Green cast the film.

Two staged readings focusing on women who love women will occur at the Allways Lounge Twilight Room on May 12 at 7 p.m.

Haven Chicago presents its first annual Festival au Cinéma, the company's new platform for visionary and innovative filmmakers and media artists staking their claim in the future of digital storytelling.

The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans will partner with The Historic New Orleans Collection and Loyola University New Orleans Department of Theatre Arts & Dance to stage The Six Blanches, a deep exploration of the main character from A Streetcar Named Desire adapted to be a part of celebration of the 75th anniversary of Streetcar.

INVULNERABLE NOTHINGS, a US/UK theatre collective, will present the World Premiere of Matthew Gasda's new play All the Mournful Voices. Opening night is slated for April 15 and coincides with the 157th anniversary of President Lincoln's assassination, a major subject of the work. The site-responsive immersive production runs through April 29 at Forgotten Works in DUMBO. The company's Facilitating Director C.C. Kellogg,directs. The script was previously developed in 2021 by Gasda as part of Invulnerable Nothings''s annual Barn Lab, a generative residency which focuses on new play development.

Giant Pictures is set to release up-and-coming filmmaker Jaclyn Bethany’s independent feature INDIGO VALLEY nationwide on September 8, 2020.

AFI Graduate Jaclyn Bethany's indie drama INDIGO VALLEY has found a home. Giant Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to the film.

New Ohio Theatre's annual New York Indie Theatre Film Festival (NYITFF) a?" a unique presentation of film works by New York theatre makers a?" returns in 2020 with a stellar lineup, including a special screening of a feature directed by downtown legend Charles Busch, with a talkback with the artist, and a reading of a new screenplay written and directed by playwright, filmmaker, and author Brooke Berman (Hunting and Gathering). The festival events, including screenings, panel discussions, and social gatherings, will be held at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street) in NYC's West Village from February 6 to 9, 2020. Tickets (reading, $5; any single screening, $10; Friday pass, $15; Saturday pass, $20; all-event pass, $30) can be purchased online at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1004347 or by calling 866-811-4111.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

2nd Annual Mammoth Film Festival Sets Josh Duhamel's Directorial Debut THE BUDDY GAMES, STARRING Olivia Munn, Dax Shepard, and More as Closing Night Gala World Premiere

2nd Annual Mammoth Film Festival Sets Josh Duhamel's Directorial Debut THE BUDDY GAMES, STARRING Olivia Munn, Dax Shepard, and More as Closing Night Gala World Premiere

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents The Rehearsal Webseries in Concert. Jaclyn Bethany, Dalal Bruchmann and the cast of their Broadway centric digital series The Rehearsal are proud to bring their celebration of New York jazz in conjunction with the upcoming release of the show. Music inspired by The Rehearsal will feature Cole Porter tunes, jazz classics, original music by Dalal & friends + an exciting preview of the film and talkback with the cast including Caitlin Carver (I Tonya), Rileigh McDonald (title role in Matilda), Tina Benko (The Crucible, The Public's Julius Caesar), Adam David Thompson (Godless, Mozart in The Jungle), James Udom (Mies Julie) , Alex Hurt and Shay Lee Abeson. Join us of a night of music and fun inspired by The Rehearsal.

The Rehearsal has wrapped principal photography. A new pilot written and directed by Jaclyn Bethany the ensemble cast features Caitlin Carver (I Tonya, Dear White People), Adam David Thompson (Godless, Mozart in the Jungle), Tina Benko (Broadway's The Crucible, Mapplethorpe, The Greatest Showman), Rileigh McDonald (title role in Matilda on Broadway, The Sinner), Alex Hurt (Placebo, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), Jaclyn Bethany, Shay Lee Abeson (The Tale) and James Udom (Crown Heights, The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll'd).

Notable film producer Mikhail Makeyev (“Delta Girl”) has finished filming the production of the upcoming independent feature film “Indigo Valley,” from writer/director Jaclyn Bethany (“Between Departures”).

Oscar Qualifying 14th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival Unveils Star-Studded 2018 Lineup

Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter will be presented in a special one night only event October 29th at 7:30 PM at Henningson & Co. in Downtown Los Angeles. The cast includes Jaclyn Bethany, David Gangel-Guerrero and Vincent Santvoord. The performance will feature a pop-up gallery featuring work from artists around their world, created in response to the text. The evening will be produced by BKE Productions with Yvonne Reddy and production/lighting design by Mollie Wartelle.

Leo Tolstoy's ANNA KARENINA adapted by Helen Edmundson (currently represented on The West End with Queen Anne) was presented as a developmental reading at The Arcola Theatre on July 23 in London. The 'electrifying' adaptation was devised by Jaclyn Bethany with company members James Barnes, Jasmine Blackborow, Peta Cornish, Aisha Fabienne Ross, Will Haddington, Kate Handford, Blake Kubena, William Sebag-Montefiore and produced by Joanne Williams.

BKE Productions presents a rehearsed reading of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, adapted by Helen Edmundson Sunday July 23rd at the Arcola Theatre at 4 PM. Admission is free