Written By: Michael D. McClellan | In 1965, Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) stepped into Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria and fell in love in The Sound of Music. Fifty-five years later, Garrett Marcantel and two others hope to do the same in 12 Dates of Christmas, streaming now on HBO Max. Marcantel, who is […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Lauren Swickard just saved Christmas. In a year that has seen Broadway shuttered, Wimbledon cancelled, and the Tokyo Olympics postponed, the last thing any of us needed was a Christmas season without fresh, high-quality, feel-good Christmas content to consume. Swickard, the multihyphenate powerhouse behind A California Christmas, has delivered […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Borta bra men hemma bäst. Sofia Mattsson is the living embodiment of this uniquely Swedish proverb, the Stockholm-born, Los Angeles-based actor thriving in a year of chaos and confusion, amping up the buzz on her Ava Carrington line of high quality handbags at a time when her soap, General […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | If Liliana Tandon’s name has a familiar ring to it, maybe you’re one of the nearly 2 million viewers who’ve watched her comedic web series, Period Piece, the smartly-written, hilarious sendup that explores women in different periods of history…wait for it…having their periods. The award-winning series serves notice that […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | John Riddle has always dreamed big. Blessed with an active imagination and an equally insatiable curiosity, Riddle, who currently plays Raoul in the Broadway production of Phantom of the Opera, is living out his childhood dream by starring in his favorite play on theatre’s grandest stage. You don’t get […]