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Star Trek: Voyager debuted 30 years ago this month, and it’s a kick to look back at the show’s earliest days. For example, the Voyager cast are the old-timers now, as Enterprise, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy, Lower Decks, several feature films, and now Section 31 have all followed. But, when Voyager started, “typecasting” was still very much a thing, the notion being that acting in a Star Trek production could lead to trouble landing subsequent roles after a series ended because the public and entertainment industry so strongly associated an actor with their Star Trek role. More than just about anyone other than Patrick Stewart, Voyager star Kate Mulgrew has avoided that fate.

“This is such a great job and, for me, Janeway is such a great role that even if a stigma were attached to it later on, that would just be tough luck," Mulgrew told me in...

Carlin Glynn, Tony-winning star of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and mother of Mary Stuart Masterson, died after a bout of dementia and cancer on July 13. She was 83.

Glynn’s daughter, Mary Stuart Masterson, confirmed the news in an Instagram post.

“My mother, Carlin Glynn Masterson, passed away. I was with her. I will always be grateful for those last moments, no matter how hard,” Masterson wrote. “Death is like birth in the oddest way. From my first breath to her last. This thread is as fragile as it is strong. She was the most graceful clumsy person you would ever meet. Strong, smart, silly, intuitive, kind, generous, passionate and a deep listener. She was devoted to my father and to the enormous circle of students and collaborators who were considered her chosen family.”

Glynn was an accomplished actor and singer, earning a Tony award in 1979 for her Broadway...

It’s no secret that Mary J. Blige can do it all.

The Grammy Award winner, celebrated for both her singing and songwriting skills, has also been acting for years in TV and film.

But this year the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” has taken her acting career to the next level: Blige was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Mudbound — a Dee Rees film adaption of the 2008 novel — where she plays a mother-of-four dealing with racial prejudice on a Mississippi Delta farm during the Jim Crow South.

Blige also scored a best original song nomination for “Mighty River,...

The series will blend animation, comedy, nonfiction and narrative to investigate the current state of the Us economy. "We the Economy" will launch in October across VOD, online, broadcast, mobile and theatrical platforms. Here's the full list of directors, many of whom are respected film and TV actors and auteur filmmakers: Ramin Bahrani ("99 Homes," "Goodbye Solo")Bob Balaban ("Gosford Park," "The Exonerated")Joe Berlinger ("Brother’s Keeper," "Paradise Lost" trilogy) Jon M. Chu ("Step Up," "G.I. Joe: Retaliation") Marshall Curry ("Street Fight," "If a Tree Falls") Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady ("Jesus Camp," "Detropia")Adrian Grenier ("Entourage," "How To Make Money Selling Drugs") Catherine...

Culture Project Allan Buchman, Founder amp Artistic Director, in association with Innocence Project, Marc amp Steven Kaplan, and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, welcomes Broadway veteran Kathleen Chalfant Angels in America and musical, singer-songwriter, composer Roger Waters Pink Floyd to the rotating cast of the 10th anniversary production of the hit award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, for the final week of performances through December 2nd at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street where performances began September 15th .

Culture Project will welcome Broadway veteran Kathleen Chalfant Angels in America and musical, singer-songwriter, composer Roger Waters Pink Floyd to the rotating cast of the 10th anniversary production of the hit award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, for the final week of performances through December 2nd at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street where performances began September 15th.

Culture Project presents the 10th anniversary production of the hit, award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, presented in special association with The Innocence Project. The show just welcomed Martin Short, Trudie Styler, Joe Morton, Steve Earle, Jim Bracchitta, Amelia Campbell, Bruce Kronenberg, Curtis McClarin, April Yvette Thompson, Jd Williams, and you can check out photos of them in action below...

Culture Project Allan Buchman, Founder amp Artistic Director, in association with Innocence Project, Marc amp Steven Kaplan, and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, has announced a 4-week extension of the acclaimed 10th anniversary production of the hit award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. New block of tickets now on sale through December 2nd at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street where performances began September 15th.

Culture Project Allan Buchman, Founder amp Artistic Director, in association with Innocence Project, Marc amp Steven Kaplan, and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, welcomes Steve Earle The Revolution StartsNow, Grammy Award, John Fort The Score, Grammy nominee, Kathryn Grody Scapino, Marg Helgenberger CSI, Christine Lahti God of Carnage, Richard Masur This is Fiction, Joe Morton Raisin, Martin Short The Goodbye Girl, Danton Stone Ivan in Art, Frank Whaley Blue Bloods, and exoneree Kerry Max Cook, whose story is shared in the play, to the rotating cast of the 10th anniversary production of the hit award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, now in performance at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street where performances began September 15th for a limited seven-week engagement through November 4th.

Culture Project Allan Buchman, Founder amp Artistic Director, in association with Innocence Project, Marc amp Steven Kaplan, and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, will welcome Michael McKean Gore Vidals The Best Man and Brooke Shields The Addams Family to the rotating cast of the 10th anniversary production of the hit, award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, beginning October 2nd through October 7th at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street where performances began September 15th for a limited seven-week engagement through November 4th.

Culture Project presents the 10th anniversary production of the hit, award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, presented in special association with The Innocence Project. Performances began September 15, 2012 at 800 p.m. for a limited seven-week engagement through Sunday, November 4, 2012 at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street. Opening night was lst night, September 19, 2012, and BroadwayWorld was there for all the festivities. Check out full coverage from the star-studded after party below...

Culture Project presents the 10th anniversary production of the hit, award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, presented in special association with The Innocence Project. Performances began September 15, 2012 at 800 p.m. for a limited seven-week engagement through Sunday, November 4, 2012 at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street. Opening night was lst night, September 19, 2012, and BroadwayWorld was there for all the festivities. Check out full coverage from the first official curtain call below...

Culture Project presents the 10th anniversary production of the hit, award-winning play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, presented in special association with The Innocence Project. Performances began September 15, 2012 at 800 p.m. for a limited seven-week engagement through Sunday, November 4, 2012 at Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street. Opening night is this Wednesday, September 19, 2012. Get a first look at the castincluding Stockard Channing and moreonstage in the photos below...

Culture Project Allan Buchman, Founder amp Artistic Director, celebrates its return to the theaters at 45 Bleecker Street with the award-winning 10th anniversary production of the hit play, The Exonerated, written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, presented in special association with The Innocence Project, Directed by Bob Balaban Gosford Park, the rotating cast will feature Stockard Channing, Brian Dennehy, John Fort, and Brooke Shields. Exoneree Sunny Jacobs, whose story is shared within the play, joins the cast for one-week, September 25 30. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

The Reconcilers is a new graphic novel debuting this December. It comes from a highly established and award winning team of writers and artists. It has been described as Gladiator meets Bladerunner. From award-winning writer and actor Erik Jensen (Ron Moore and Peter Berg’s Virtuality, The Exonerated, The Bronx is Burning), DC™, Marvel™, and Continuity™ comics legend Neal Adams (Batman, Deadman, X-Men), and Eisner Award-nominated artist Shepherd Hendrix (Stagger Lee (Image™ Comics) The Lord of the Rings-The Third Age (EA Games), Eisner-nominated Best Single Issue/Best Story “Swamp Thing- Fear and Loathing on the Bayou Trail”), comes the graphic novel The Reconcilers, the story of one man’s quest to bring justice to a dark and broken world. (thereconcilers.com) Take a preview and...

I missed this one when I ran my series of Sundance 2010 previews flicks last month, when the titles were unveiled.

The story goes… Mike is a locksmith. He’s also a prisoner on work release, but you wouldn’t know it. He’s just trying to focus on his house calls and reconcile with his ex-girlfriend – until Margo hijacks his day. A live-wire kook, who’s certain her boyfriend is cheating on her, Margo bulldozes Mike into spying on the alleged cad. The result: an all-day adventure with a (seemingly) stolen vehicle, a visit to an unlikely drug dealer, and a low blood sugar attack. Potential trouble follows these two around – but maybe something good will come of it?

It stars Anslem Richardson, who you might recognize from As The World Turns, The Exonerated, and director Seith Mann’s award-winning short film 5 Deep Breaths, which I posted on this blog last year,...