If you’re one of the many who caught “Wicked” in a theater, you’ve probably attended a sing-along screening – albeit unintentionally. As a theater kid, I understand both sides; it’s hard not to croon ...
Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley are launching a new company with the hopes of making independent filmmaking more sustainable. Part of their pitch? Paying everyone on set — from the PAs to the star — the ...
Sing Sing opened in theaters July 12 and was re-released in a wide engagement on Jan. 17. The official summary for Sing Sing reads, “Divine G (Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Sing Sing—A24’s prison drama starring Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin—appears to be coming ...
A film like “Sing Sing” is a rare, precious achievement — a cinematic work of unique empathy and hand-turned humanity, hewed from the heart, with rigorous attention paid to the creative process. How ...
A deep-tissue turn by Colman Domingo and a breakout performance by Clarence Maclin lift this moving drama about a prison theater program. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an ...
Director Greg Kwedar and creative partner Clint Bentley follow 'Jockey' with another boundary-pushing project, mixing actors with members of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program. The creative ...
The new prison movie “Sing Sing” begins with a glorious, if short-lived, escape. There are no secret tunnels, no stolen cellblock keys. At Sing Sing Correctional Facility, in Ossining, New York, a ...
Growing up in Brooklyn, John “Divine G” Whitfield was a natural performer. As a Bruce Lee-obsessed teenager, he and a friend would create karate movies, charging 10 cents a pop to view the ...
The actor flexes his range in Greg Kwedar's feature about incarcerated men trying to stage a theater production inside their maximum security correctional facility. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture ...
Over Thanksgiving of 2002, an NBC Dateline producer named Dan Slepian paid a visit to Greenhaven Correctional Facility, a couple hours north of New York City, to see David Lemus. That year, while ...
Sing, Unburied, Sing opens with the slaughter of a goat. "The goat makes a sound of surprise, a bleat swallowed by a gurgle, and then there's blood and mud everywhere." Yes, blood and mud are ...