Katori Hall on the Importance of Hiring All Female Directors for ‘P-Valley’

Cheryl Dunye in ‘Watermelon Woman.’ (Photo courtesy of First Run Features)

Le Sorelle Macaluso, dir: Emma Dante The World To Come, dir: Mona Fastvold Nuevo Orden, dir: Michel Franco Lovers, dir: Nicole Garcia Laila in Haifa, dir: Amos Gitai Dear Comrades, dir: Andrei Konchalovsky Wife Of A Spy, dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Sun Children, dir: Majid Majidi Pieces Of A Woman, dir: Kornel Mundruczo Miss Marx, dir: Susanna Nicchiarelli Padrenostro, dir: Claudio Noce Notturno, dir: Gianfranco Rosi Never Gonna Snow Again, dirs: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert The Disciple,

Guy Lodge Film CriticIn a normal year, the announcement of the Venice Film Festival lineup — often coming on the heels of its Toronto counterpart across the pond — triggers the first whisperings of awards season.

the problem on Moss Lane in Hale, which bosses say has been caused by a leaking water pipe. But now - a week after a crack in the pavement first appeared - traders say the problem is worse than ever.“Our wall is moving and moving,” says Ian Tootill.“Over the last two days it has just been getting worse.“Just today a big crack appeared on my gable wall.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen Katori Hall was putting “P-Valley” together, music was at the top of her agenda. More importantly, female voices.

coronavirus.As a result of the insolvencies, the 600 capacity venue The Welly and the 200-capacity venue The Polar Bear, which VMS took on in 2018, as well as Hull Box Office are closing down.IQ reports that the remaining four VMS Live companies, which operate/book venues including Eventim Olympia Liverpool (1,960-capacity), Asylum in Hull (1,100-capacity) and the William Aston Hall in Wrexham (1,200 capacity), will continue to operate as before.In a statement, VMS CEO Bert van Horck said: “I am

are dishing on first-day jitters in the operating room, prepping for working with medical equipment and being pregnant on set. In a unique crossover event, actors Chandra Wilson (Dr.

Public media station WETA Washington, D.C. and the National Alliance on Mental Illness are teaming to host a one-hour virtual town hall to launch Well Beings, a public media campaign to address the health needs of Americans with a focus on the Youth Mental Health Project.

hasn’t even premiered yet, and the STARZ series is already being called and The premise: an in-depth look into the lives of the dancers at The Pynk, a strip club set in Mississippi’s “Dirty Delta.” But in the hands of award-winning playwright Katori Hall (The Mountaintop, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), P-Valley isn't focused on the dancing or the men who frequent these clubs—it's about how the women found , and the freedom it offers them. Based on Hall’s critically acclaimed play Pussy Valley,

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticLast year’s film “Hustlers” depicted the strip club as the staging-ground for the revolution, with its arch-capitalist dancers redistributing the wealth of their New York financier clients.

strip club in ‘The Sopranos’.  Oftentimes you had Tony sitting in the front, and women are in the back. All you see is their body or their legs and you don’t even see their faces.“So, because we are always entering our story from the perspective of the women, we really were walking in a woman’s high-heeled platform shoes though this world.”“P-Valley” is an ensemble drama set at Pynk, a strip club in the fictional town of Chucalissa, Miss.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIn 2009, award-winning playwright Katori Hall started research for her play Pussy Valley, which put a spotlight on the world of stripping. She stepped into the heels of these women, took pole dancing classes and even spent her 30th birthday in the locker room of the New York strip club Sin City Bronx.

just fill out the form here.Your free listing will be displayed in an interactive widget in all our What’s On content, putting it in front of millions of readers a day, who’ll be able to search for places open near them by entering their postcode.We also pledge to keep a spotlight on the struggles of theatres, nightclubs, music venues and other establishments not able to safely resume their normal activities yet, and campaign for the support they still need.The council has submitted a bid to the

P-Valley will see why these perceived dens of iniquity hold such an allure within the culture. An adaptation of playwright Katori Hall's play Pussy Valley, P-Valley blends the profane, the sacred, and the politics of the almighty dollar to tell sharp, wildly engrossing stories about Black women on the margins who use their bodies to keep families and whole communities afloat.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe upcoming Venice Film Festival, which is scheduled to run Sept.

Sheffield Star reports.Andrew Snelling, chief executive of Sheffield City Trust, which runs entertainment and sports venues across the city, said: “Clearly these are very challenging times for all organisations operating in the leisure and entertainment industry as we await government guidance on how and when we can open our venues.“Sheffield City Trust runs a variety of facilities across sport, leisure and entertainment.

Manchester town hall’s reopening has been delayed until 2024 due to mounting costs caused largely by the coronavirus pandemic.Problems arising from nesting peregrine falcons in the building’s clock tower, and the discovery of asbestos and hazardous tar, have pushed construction cost up to £214m.Works to pedestrianise Albert Square and transform it into ‘one of the finest civic spaces in Europe’ will also be pushed back.The total cost of the Our Town Hall project to restore the Grade I listed

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorToday we speak with Westworld EP and writer Denise Thé who takes us inside the writers’ room of one of TV’s most genre-bending shows, and how the socially conscious sci-fi action series clicks in all its nuances.Thé wrote two key episodes this past season, episode 3 “The Absence of Field” in which we step inside Charlotte Hale’s (Tessa Thompson) life in the real world, and learn that she’s having connections problems with her ex-husband