FOR PBS: ART HAPPENS HERE with JOHN LITHGOW
Premieres Friday, April 26, 2024, on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the PBS App
Join the Emmy and Tony Award-Winning Actor as He Goes Back to School to Celebrate the Transformative Power of Arts Education
LA TIMES
LA Times Today: Actor John Lithgow immerses himself in SoCal art classes in new PBS special.
We know him for his role as an extraterrestrial in the hit sit-com “3rd Rock from The Sun,” as Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Netflix series “The Crown” and most recently as a prosecutor in the film “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Actor, author, humorist and renowned performer John Lithgow is an accomplished Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, and SAG Award winner and he attributes his success to his childhood exposure to the arts.
DEADLINE
A new PBS special features an awards-laden actor celebrating how arts education nurtures and inspires the hearts and minds of students of all ages.
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow follows the six-time Emmy winner sharing his passion for arts education by joining students and teachers at four Los Angeles organizations and diving into four arts disciplines: dance, ceramics, silk-screen printing and vocal jazz ensemble.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
I wanted to be an artist. But by the time I was a teenager, my father had started the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland and I apprenticed under him for two summers. I turned into an actor with no intention of doing it for a living.
Initially, I was a shy kid and hated each move. My ability to be liked quickly was partly an outgrowth of my desire to fit in fast. I also was involved in theater in schools.
Despite the moves, I somehow remained a fabulous academic student with a 4.0 average. I’d cultivate a fleeting passion for whatever class material I had to master.
AMERICAN PRESS
Join the Emmy and Tony Award-Winning Actor as He Goes Back to School to Celebrate the Transformative Power of Arts Education.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In the new PBS special ART HAPPENS HERE follows Lithgow as he tries his hand at singing, dancing, printmaking, and pottery, working alongside and learning from young people whose lives are being transformed by art. The one-hour special ART HAPPENS HERE WITH JOHN LITHGOW premieres Friday, April 26, 2024, 10:00–11:00 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings) on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS App.
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Among the Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) educational slate of news, arts, and music are two programs about the impact of arts education to new perspectives on environmentalism, both cut by Emmy Award-winning editor and CalArts alum Suzanne Méjean Pinney (Film/Video-Art MFA 09).
Pinney recently lent her talents to Art Happens Here with John Lithgow, an hour-long special featuring the Oscar-nominated actor returning to school to “demonstrate the transformative power of arts education.” By exploring dance, ceramics, silkscreen printing, and a vocal jazz ensemble alongside teachers and fellow students, Lithgow celebrates how “arts education nurtures and inspires the hearts and minds of students of all ages.” The documentary, which aired on April 26, is the first from PBS SoCal brought to the national schedule in partnership with PBS National.