Big Beach News

Facebook has announced the renewal of four Facebook Watch shows for a second season: Five Points, Huda Boss, Sacred Lies and Sorry For Your Loss.

Broadway's Paul Alexander Nolan has been on quite the ride with Escape to Margaritaville - a vibrant, fun, and blissful musical featuring the iconic hits of Jimmy Buffett. With stops in La Jolla, Chicago, Houston, and New Orleans before reaching the Great White Way in early 2018, Escape to Margaritaville has become the vacation we all so desperately need to take -- with an emphasis on living in the moment and savoring the good times.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Starz has decided to renew VIDA for a second season. No date has yet been announced for the series return. Read more about the news from The Hollywood Reporter here!

Starz, a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), announced today that the premiere episode of the critically lauded Starz Original Series 'Vida,' and Audience Award winner at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, will be made available for free nationwide on THURSDAY MAY 10, 2018 starting at 12:00AM ET, midnight in honor of Dia de las Madres. Viewers can see what all the buzz is about by sampling the episode in its entirety online on Starz.com, Starz Youtube channel, 'Vida' Facebook page, and Remezcla.com.

Inspired by her family's construction heritage, contractor and fifth-generation builder Marnie Oursler returns for a new season of DIY Network's Big Beach Builds on Monday, April 9, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Set in the seaside communities surrounding Bethany Beach, Delaware, the eight-episode season will follow Marnie as she revamps rundown beachside properties into stunning dream getaways.

Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) Commissioner Julie Menin today announced details for the 2018 MOME Finance Lab, an afternoon of collaboration and networking that will provide filmmakers with projects by, for or about women with a variety of professional opportunities, including 'speed funding' meetings with financiers to seek support for their projects. On April 17th, thirty women filmmakers will have the opportunity to deliver pitches for their projects to the industry's leading financial backers. The aim of the event is to cultivate films in New York City made by, for, and about women. Now in its second year, the MOME Finance Lab seeks to address the persistent gender gap in the filmed entertainment industry.

Starz, a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), today announced it has signed Starz Original series 'Vida' Showrunner and Executive Producer Tanya Saracho ('How to Get Away With Murder,' 'Looking,' 'Girls') to a three-year overall deal. Under the pact, Saracho will develop new projects for the network and continue as showrunner and executive producer on 'Vida.'

The Huntington Theatre Company's 2018 Breaking Ground festival of new plays will be held February 9 11, 2018 at the Huntington's home for new work, the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. The festival is a vital part of the Huntington's new play development efforts and highlights the work of locally-based Huntington Playwriting Fellows and national writers in partnership with the Huntington. Over the last decade, Breaking Ground plays have gone on to appear at the Huntington as well as theatres in Boston, across the country, and internationally.

Today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter 2018 Press Tour, Starz President of Programming Carmi Zlotnik announced premiere dates for three new originals including the eagerly-awaited STARZ Original Limited Series Howards End, premiering on Sunday, April 8. Half-hour dramas Vida and Sweetbitter will premiere on Sunday, May 6.

Beginning today and continuing through 5 p.m. ET on Friday, February 16, 2018, fans can dream about moving into the HGTV Dream Home in Gig Harbor, Washington, one of the most charming towns in the Pacific Northwest.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast of the world-premiere production Amy and the Orphans, by Roundabout Underground alumna Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone), with direction by eight-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis (She Loves Me, On the Twentieth Century).

Starz announced today that Mishel Prada ('Fear the Walking Dead: Passage,' Tell Me How I Die)an more have been cast as series regulars alongside Melissa Berrera ('Club de Cuervos,' 'La Mujer de Judas') in the new STARZ Original series VIDA

Kideko has revealed a new remix of his piano-heavy, samba-influenced instrumental from one of the UK's most consistent and respected electronic music talents, Yousef.

Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht announced today that the development project VIDA (formerly titled Pour Vida ) has been greenlit to series.

Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht announced today that the development project Vida (formerly titled Pour Vida ) has been greenlit to series.

DIY Network has renewed BIG BEACH BUILDS for a second season. The new eight episodes will showcase Marnie Oursler, a contractor and fifth-generation builder, and her team as they restore beach houses into beautifully charming homes that can withstand hot summers, high tides and hurricane seasons for years to come.

Continuing the fight to achieve gender parity in the American Theater, LA-based playwright/producer collective The Kilroys has facilitated its fourth annual List of industry-recommended new plays.

Kitchen Dog Theater continues its 26th season of theater with the area premiere of Trevor by Nick Jones. Inspired by true events,?Trevor?is a subversive comedy about fame, success, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep people from taking away an erratic, 200-pound chimpanzee. At the center of this hilarious and heart-wrenching play are two individuals fighting against a world unable to understand their love: Trevor, a chimpanzee who once performed in commercials with the likes of Morgan Fairchild, and his owner Sandra, who swears he would never hurt a fly...at least not on purpose. KDT Co-Artistic Director Tina Parker directs this hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of family, flawed communication, and humanity. 

The Brooklyn College Department of Theater will present its third annual New Works Brooklyn festival on April 5 - 9, 2017.

Home improvement powerhouse DIY Network, which delivered its highest-rated and most-watched year ever among primetime viewers A25-54 and W25-54 in 2016, is loading in 301 hours of new original programming in 2017, including 12 new series, 27 returning favorites and 22 one-hour specials.