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The Brothers Patterson — Dan, 48, Joel, 45, and Andy, 43 — all work together making doors, tables, hearths, and other works of art out of metal and spend their spare time playing heavy metal music together. It’s early on a Wednesday and there’s plenty of work to do (Andy already has his coveralls on and protective eye gear resting on his head), but today they’ve gathered in a small office of their shop, Santa Barbara Forge, for a Zoom call to reflect on All Things Metal, a new short film streaming...

All Things Metal, a documentary about a family of metal workers forging their craft with their love of heavy metal, will premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 6 after being acquired as part of a partnership between Rolling Stone Films and streaming platform Documentary+.

“Three brothers run the Santa Barbara Forge + Iron together, where they smith bespoke metal work,” the film’s synopsis states. “After hours, their forge turns into an impromptu film set where they make heavy metal music as an ode to their favorite genre. Their creative...

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The Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center 'the Pac' today announces the establishment of a core team of artistic leaders David Lan Artistic Director of London's Young Vic as Consulting Artistic Director Lucy Sexton artist, producer, and Director of the New York Dance amp Performance Awards aka The Bessies as Associate Artistic Director and Andy Hayles, Managing Partner of Charcoalblue London's National Theatre, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, and the future home of Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse, as theater design consultant. Stephen Daldry director of the films The Hours, Billy Elliot, The Reader and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and of Billy Elliot the Musical, and former Artistic Director of London's Gate Theatre and Royal Court Theatre has joined the Pac's Board of Directors. The artistic team is collaborating with the Pac's staff, board and numerous consultants to create a place that is unique on the cultural landscapes of New York,...

Despite film hits such as Billy Elliot and The Reader, theatre is 'home' to Stephen Daldry and now he's back in the West End, directing a regal Helen Mirren. Here he talks about communal living, depicting Hm on stage – and those Olympic ceremonies

It's been a long day at the end of a long week and Stephen Daldry needs a drink. But before that a cigarette. "I'm on a pack-and-a-half a day at the moment," he says, as he ducks out of an airless, windowless rehearsal room that smells, in the opinion of the Observer's photographer, "of actor". He continues: "I blame it entirely on Peter Morgan."

Daldry, the director, and Morgan, the writer, have been stuck in here for weeks working on a new play called The Audience, which opens at the Gielgud on Friday. The premise is enticing: since the second world war, the British sovereign has met...

Actor/writer Spalding Gray's widow is keeping her late husband's legacy alive by writing a book about her time with him and a play and film based on his journals. Kathleen Russo was left devastated when Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York in 2004, and she's committed to keeping her dead husband's memory alive.

Currently producing Steven Soderbergh's documentary about Gray's life, "And Everything is Going Fine", the Hollywood costume designer has big plans for 2011. She tells WENN, "There is so much work that I'm doing. There's a book for (publishers) Knoft next year and I'm doing a play based on his journals that will tour Britain, called 'There Are Stories to Tell'. It comes to Glasgow next March. It's a cast of five people that represent a part of his life - the adventurer, the journal reader, the family man, the lover and the career person.

Actor/writer Spalding Gray's widow is keeping her late husband's legacy alive by writing a book about her time with him and a play and film based on his journals.

Kathleen Russo was left devastated when Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York in 2004, and she's committed to keeping her dead husband's memory alive.

Currently producing Steven Soderbergh's documentary about Gray's life, And Everything is Going Fine, the Hollywood costume designer has big plans for 2011.

She tells WENN, "There is so much work that I'm doing. There's a book for (publishers) Knoft next year and I'm doing a play based on his journals that will tour Britain, called There Are Stories to Tell. It comes to Glasgow next March. It's a cast of five people that represent a part of his life - the adventurer, the journal reader, the family man, the lover and the career person.

"It will also be a film; Whoopi Goldberg is one of the producers on the film. John C. Reilly is gonna be in it, we think, as The Family Man and John Leguizamo as The Lover and Whoopi as The Career Person. Lucy Sexton and I worked on the script and we're starting to get the money together."

Sexton, who will direct the film, is married to filmmaker Stephen Daldry.

Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry has become the proud father of his first child. Daughter Annabel Clare was born to the publicity-shy bisexual director, and wife Lucy Sexton, six weeks ago in America. Daldry, who is also responsible for Oscar-winning film The Hours, returned to the UK this week to help run workshops for the upcoming stage version of his Billy Elliot, about a young boy with a passion for ballet dancing. The stage version will feature songs specially written by Sir Elton John. Daldry is set next to direct the film Everest.