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Kieran Turner, a documentary filmmaker who created the web series “Wallflowers,” died Dec. 23 in West Hollywood. He was 56.

Turner’s death after a battle with cancer was confirmed by Christy Grosz, president of CLG3 Communications.

In addition to creating “Wallflowers,” Turner wrote and produced the online web series which ran for two seasons from 2013 to 2014 and followed four friends who join a support group to help them get dates. The show starred Gibson Frazier, Sarah Saltzberg, Christianne Tisdale, Susan Louise O’Connor and Ricky Dunlop and is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Through his independent production company Eight Track Tape Productions, which works in both film and television, Turner directed and produced the documentary “Jobriath A.D.” about the ‘70s glam rock musician who died of AIDS. The production company specializes in telling LGBTQ+ related stories both fictional and non-fictional.

While working at Cinemarket, Turner helped finance and market films like “Terminator Salvation,...

Bobby Cannavale and his son Jake Cannavale posed together in New York City for the opening night of Between Riverside and Crazy on Broadway last night.

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The father-son duo both rocked black coats and slacks. The Third Watch star looked cozy in a scarf and fingerless gloves. Jake, 27, highlighted his outfit with a cheetah print button-down and a gold-toothed smile.

Stephen Adly Guirgis‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning play made its Broadway debut Monday night in a Second Stage production at the Helen Hayes Theater. The Cannavales were joined by many for a star-studded Broadway night, including Jonathan Groff, Sarah Saltzberg and Irene Gandy.

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Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (“Aladdin”) are producing

Disney has picked up the rights to the 2005 Broadway musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” and will adapt it into a live-action film, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, who produced the 2019 live-action “Aladdin” for the studio, will produce via their Rideback banner. Rideback’s Ryan Halprin will executive produce.

The musical follows several competitors competing in a spelling bee. Composer William Finn’s musical opened on Broadway in 2005 and earned six Tony nominations while winning two: for Rachel Sheinkin’s book and for Dan Fogler’s featured performance. The show, which also included a pre-“Modern Family” Jesse Tyler Ferguson in its original cast, played for nearly three years and 1,100-plus performances on Broadway.

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Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are producing a Disney film adaptation of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, through their Rideback banner, Deadline can confirm.

Rideback’s Ryan Halprin will exec produce.

Based on the improvisational play C-r-e-p-u-s-c-u-l-e, created by Rebecca Feldman, Jay Reiss, Sarah Saltzberg, and Dan Fogler, Spelling Bee is a musical that follows a spelling bee taking place at the fictional Putnam Valley Middle School. Its main characters include the six quirky adolescents competing in the Bee, and the three equally quirky grown-ups running it. Performed both on and off Broadway, the musical has picked up a number of major awards throughout the years, including Tonys for Best Book and Best Featured Actor.

The musical comedy’s music and lyrics were penned by William Finn, with a book by Rachel Sheinkin and from an initial concept by Feldman, and additional material by Reiss.

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Gettin’ The Band Back Together, the rock musical that just opened August 13 at the Belasco Theatre, has set its last performance for Sunday, September 30. It will have played 30 previews and 40 performances. The producers announced the decision Friday.

“It’s not just the money, but when a team of the most creative people you know spends years of their lives working toward a common goal, and it doesn’t turn out the way you all dreamed..it’s heart-crushing,” producer Ken Davenport wrote candidly in a blog post about the decision, which he said made over the past 24 hours.

Davenport said the call was especially tough as he said “surveys of actual Telecharge ticket buyers and got a 98.2% positive rating, and an exceptionally high “Net Promoter Score.” (How likely they are to tell their friends and family to get tickets.),” he said.

Perhaps with a real estate eye toward a trade up to bigger digs more commensurate with the financial firepower of someone who rakes in an estimated $500,000 per episode for his co-starring role on the long-running hit sitcom “Modern Family,” Los Angeles-based actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson is looking to sell his New York City pied-à-terre for $1.495 million. The eclectically decorated apartment, which carries maintenance charges of $1,877 per month, is also available completely furnished for an additional, undisclosed amount. The ginger-haired five-time Emmy nominee, who voiced the Shangri Llama character in the 2016 blockbuster animated film “Ice Age: Collision Course,” and his prominently eye-browed attorney/bedding designer husband Justin Mikita purchased the approximately 900-square-foot one-bedroom and two-bathroom co-operative unit in early 2015 for $1,232,500.

Located on a middle floor of a 20-story, Art Deco-inspired, full-service brown brick tower built in the early 1930s on a busy corner between Union Square and Stuyvesant Square, the...

The nine original cast members of the hit Broadway musical, The 25Th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Jenni Barber, Derrick Baskin, Deborah S. Craig, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Dan Fogler, Lisa Howard, Jose Llana, Jay Reiss, and Sarah Saltzberg - will reunite for a special one-night-only 10 Year Anniversary benefit concert on Monday, July 6 at 730pm at Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street. BroadwayWorld caught up with the companyin rehearsal - see what they had to say about the nostalgia, the concert and more...

The nine original cast members of the hit Broadway musical, The 25Th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Derrick Baskin, Deborah S. Craig, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Dan Fogler, Lisa Howard, Jose Llana, Jay Reiss, and Sarah Saltzberg - will reunite for a special one-night-only 10 Year Anniversary benefit concert on Monday, July 6 at 730pm at Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street. BroadwayWorld has just learned that Celia Keenan-Bolger, who was originally slated to participate, will no longer take part in the event. A show rep told usDue to the demands of being mom to a newborn, Celia Keenan-Bolgerhas had to withdraw from the upcomingSpelling Beereunion concert. The role of Olive Ostrovsky will be played by Jenni Barber, who took over the role on Broadway.

The nine original cast members of the hit Broadway musical, The 25Th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Derrick Baskin, Deborah S. Craig, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Dan Fogler, Lisa Howard, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jose Llana, Jay Reiss, and Sarah Saltzberg - will reunite for a special one-night-only 10 Year Anniversary benefit concert on Monday, July 6 at 730pm at Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street. Benefit tickets, priced 50, 100, 150, 250, and 500 are available at Ticketmaster.com.

Don't Quit Your Night Job, the longest-running variety show featuring Broadway Stars since The Ziegfeld Follies, awakens from hibernation just in time to present the Don't Quit Your Night Job Holiday Spectacular, Thursday, December 11 at 1130Pm at 54 Below. Special guests will include 16-time Grammy Award winner Sting The Last Ship, Josh Radnor Disgraced, 'How I Met Your Mother', Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart Aladdin, Derrick Baskin Piece of My Heart, Alex Brightman Matilda, Jenn Colella, IfThen, Erin Davie Side Show, Dion Flynn Obama on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon', Asmeret Ghebremichael The Book of Mormon, Jason Kravits Relatively Speaking, Lords of the Playground, Maurice MurphyMotown, Emily Padgett Side Show, Alysha Umphresss On The Town, Kate WetherheadSubmissions Only, The Other Josh Cohen, and more, joining creators Steve Rosen, Sarah Saltzberg, andmusic director Dan Lipton, with a visit from creator David Rossmer.

Don't Quit Your Night Job, returns to its new home at 54 Below in New York City on Thursday, January 16th, 1130pm. Joining creators Steve Rosen, Sarah Saltzberg and Dan Lipton will be Derrick Baskin Memphis, Tony nominee John Ellison Conlee The Watson Intelligence, Lilla Crawford Annie, upcoming 'Into The Woods' film, Lea DeLaria Orange is the New Black, Alexander Gemignani Les Miserables, Jason Kravits Relatively Speaking, 'The Michael J. Fox Show', Tony nominated composer lyricists Benj Pasek And Justin Paul A Christmas Story, Dogfight, Ephraim Sykes Motown, Newsies, Tony nominee Mary Testa Disaster Queen of the Mist, and stage, tv, film icon, and the star of the critically acclaimed and soon to arrive on broadway - Honeymoon in Vegas... Tony Danza With DJ's Andrew Andrew Girls, and a special visit from David Rossmer. Featuring Damien Bassman The Addams Family on drums, Rachel Maier Soul Doctor on...

Funnyman Dan Fogler is looking to embrace his more sinister side with the new film Hysterical Psycho, and we have your first details and artwork! Go ahead, kids! Yuck it up!

Directed by Fogler, Hysterical Psycho stars Noah Bean, Lennon Parham, Deborah S. Craig, Kelly Hutchinson, Ariel Shafir, Sarah Saltzberg, and Gilbert Gottfried.

Look for it on February 18th via Indican Pictures.

Synopsis

The feature debut of Dan Fogler offers up a Hitchcockian homage mixed with fart jokes that will leave you peeing your pants from both comic laughter and horror-induced cringing.

Follow along as Strange Lenny and his merry band of misfits take a trip to the woods of Maine to visit Moon Lake. Unbeknownst to them, Moon Lake is imbued with “lunar radiation” that can unbalance any mind unfortunate enough to come near it. Of course, our nubile youngsters travel to this bed of lunacy, and surprise, surprise...

Don't Quit Your Night Job returns to its new home at 54 Below in New York City on December 19th, 1130pm. Joining creators Steve Rosen, Sarah Saltzberg and Dan Lipton will be Derrick Baskin Memphis, Tony Award Winner Laura Benanti Gypsy, NBC's Sound of Music, Jenn Collela Chaplin, IfThen, Lilla Crawford Annie, Little Red in Into the Woods Film, Tony Award Winner Tovah Feldshuh Pippin, Golda's Balcony, Jeff Hiller Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, 30 Rock, Jason Kravits Relatively Speaking, 30 Rock, Leslie Kritzer Closer than Ever, Elf, Maurice Murphy Motown and more to be announced, with DJ's Andrew Andrew Girls, and a special visit from David Rossmer. Featuring Damien Bassman on drums, Rachel Maier on stage management and presented by Lipton, Rosen, Saltzberg, and Shoshana Feinstein.

Don't Quit Your Night Job recently returned to New York City at its new home, 54 Below. Joining creators Steve Rosen, Sarah Saltzberg and Dan Lipton were Derrick Baskin Memphis, Jen Cody The Frog Princess, Lea DeLaria Orange Is The New Black, Tony Nominee Hunter Foster Hands On A Hardbody,Asmeret Ghebremichael The Book Of Mormon, Jackie Hoffman Xanadu, Tony Nominee Celia Keenan-BolgerGlass Menagerie, Jason Kravits Relatively Speaking ,Zachary Levi First Date, Caleb McLaughlin The Lion King, Maurice Murphy Motown, Brynn O'Malley Annie, Honeymoon In Vegas and Emily Rosenfeld Annie, with DJ's Andrew Andrew Girls, and a special visit from David Rossmer. Check out photos from the concert below...

On November 21, Don't Quit Your Night Job, the critically acclaimed late night happening of music, comedy and offbeat performances, will play 54 Below. Hosted by Steve Rosen, Sarah Saltzberg and music director Dan Lipton with a visit from David Rossmer, plus DJs Andrew Andrew, expect an astounding array of special guests each month. Don't Quit Your Night Job - where Broadway and improv meet... and make out...

In 2006 I think... my mind is a little fuzzy, I had the privilege to be part of the original cast of Dont Quit Your Night Job-- an all Broadway Improv show. The show was created by Sarah Saltzberg, Steve Rosen, and David Rossmer. Ps - go see Steve and David in The Other Josh Cohen which starts previews Wed at the SoHo playhouse all of them comedic gold. Now... it may seem like Im milking my friends here, but I wouldnt post it if it wasnt true Anyhow, I always had a fantasy of writing a sketch for the show involving David Hyde Pierce and Brian dArcy James. Why Let me finish...

The title of Hysterical Psycho (currently playing the Tribeca Film Festival) refers to at least one of the characters and is a pretty good description of the movie itself as well. It’s a berserk, over-the-top, wildly uneven assault of humorous and homagistic horror that’s decidedly not for all tastes—but those who do enjoy its flavor are gonna eat it up.

The feature writing/directing debut of actor Dan Fogler (recently seen paying tribute to a different strain of genre worship in Fanboys) offers up a Hitchcock homage and a fart joke in its first minute, conveyed via old-fashioned black-and-white animation—a fair indication of the breadth and variety of influences at work here. The sequence that follows offers up a history of Moon Lake, which is imbued with “lunar radiation” that can unbalance any mind unfortunate enough to come near it. After a brief color interlude, cut...

Dan Fogler, actor and playwright, steps behind the camera to tell a tale of insanity and horror in grainy black and white. Part of theatre troupe Stage 13 Dan Fogler meant for "Hysterical Psycho," to be a an acting exercise for his cast, but the film blossomed into something grander. Set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, this April 24, the film will offer a deaf mute sister for laughs and various offings of characters that will entertain those fortunate enough to live in the New York greater metropolitan area. Have a look at the trailer and synopsis for the film; then, pray that Tony award winning Fogler makes his way over to the sunny west coast or finds wider distribution for his cabin-in-the-woods thriller.

A synopsis for "Hysterical Psycho," here...

The site of some ancient, angry goings-down between the moon and the earth, rural Moon Lake now holds the strongest...