Stephen Edwards' Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, a musical adaption of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel, is a musical that never found its proper footing. Prior to opening on the West End, the UK tour was met with positive reviews, but poor critical reception at London's Savoy Theatre saw the musical shutter faster than anyone anticipated. Yet, Tess still has life thanks to Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Original Cast Recording.
- 9/29/2014
- by David Clarke
- BroadwayWorld.com
From the press release I received today - in short, Black Panther Party co-founder and Chairman Bobby Seale has launched an IndieGogo campaign to raise $420,000 to begin production of the cinematic life story of the Black Panthers and Seale, which he hopes to see made this year. Titled Seize The Time, The Eighth Defendant, which is also the title of Seale's autobio, a script has already been penned by himself and his partner, Stephen Edwards (a filmmaker and also a former member of the Panthers). Apparently, they'd been shopping around the project as a feature-length doc, but were advised by a exec at Fox Searchlight to make it a scripted, dramatized feature film...
- 1/7/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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