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On view through February 4, the paintings include the iconic Flaming June by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais’s The Escape of a Heretic, 1559, and Edward Burne-Jones’s Small Briar Rose Series

New York, N.Y. (January 9, 2024) -- New York, New York) An installation of five Victorian masterpieces from the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, is entering its final weeks at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. On display through February 4, 2024, the paintings have been on loan to The Met for over a year. This successful collaboration between the institutions includes the loan of Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June (1895), an icon of Victorian painting; John Everett Millais’s The Escape of a Heretic, 1559 (1857); and three scenes comprising the Small Briar Rose Series by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (all painted 1871–73).

New York, N.Y. (January 8, 2024) – Emerging Artists Theatre in association with No Anita No Productions presents Deadly Stages, a gender-bending homage to the backstage murder mystery movies of the '40s and '50s written by Marc Castle and Mark Finley. Finley will direct a cast of six including Marc Castle* (1^st Nat.: Camelot), Tom Gilantich* (Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, War Paint), David Leeper (Internat’l: At The Flash), Dani Marcus* (1^st Nat.: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) and Ellen Reilly* (Off-Bway: Penny Penniworth), with understudies Jonas Cohen* and Sarah Ellis*, and additional casting to be announced.

Astoria, NY (January 5, 2024)—The Hellenic Film Society kicks off 2024 with a screening of Maria Douza’s moving film, Listen on Sunday, January 14 at 3pm at the Museum of the Moving image in Astoria. The screening is part of the Society’s Always on Sunday monthly Greek film series.

Listen, a major hit at the New York Greek Film Expo 2023, has been acquired for international distribution by Srceenbound Entertainment UK, as it continues its run at major festivals around the world, most recently representing Greece at the European Union Foreign Film Festival in both Toronto and Ottawa.