(11/20/2009) The Toxic Avenger had its official opening Hallowen night at The Music Hall on the Danforth. Since then it has been delighting audience with its unique blend on music, humour and campy fun. BWW got the chance to sit down and talk with Brittany Gray about her role as Sarah, the blind librarian and object of "Toxie's" love. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) The cast and creative team of Glory Days, Signature's world premiere musical, will reunite to celebrate the cast recording of the show in a special concert on Monday, November 30 at 8:00 pm in Signature's MAX Theatre. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Mark your calendar now for Fuse Feast on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 1:30 pm ?at Theatre Noir @ Theater!Theatre! 3430 SE Belmont. The cost of tickets range from $10 to $50. The portion of the ticket price over $5 is a tax-deductible donation. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Trustus & Front End Audio & AT&T, THE REAL YELLOW PAGES and THE TALKING PHONE BOOK, Present The Trustus 25th Anniversary Season Rent, Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson, Musical Arrangements Original Concept/Additional Lyrics, Steve Skinner Billy Aronson, Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements Dramaturg Tim Weil Lynn Thomson (read story...)
(11/20/2009) The New York Times has revealed that the York Theater's production of ENTER LAUGHING, based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Carl Rainer about a young actor managing his life and women, that ran off-Broadway last season will head to the Great White Way in the 2010 - 2011 season. No theater has been booked. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) On Saturday, December 12 at 7:00pm, composer Phil Kline will lead a massive chorus of boomboxes from the West Village to the East Village in the 18th annual holiday presentation of UNSILENT NIGHT. People gather at the arch in Washington Square Park, and less than an hour and mile later, end up in Tompkins Square Park. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) As the New Jewish Theatre continues its Bat Mitzvah Season, we take another look at Father-Son relationships with Donald Margulies' brilliant BROOKLYN BOY which opens with a preview performance on Wednesday, December 2 and runs through December 20. For this production, we will once again return to Clayton High School's more intimate Little Theatre. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) The Nashville Associaton of Art Dealers (NAAD), an art gallery membership located in neighborhoods all over Music City, will continue its citywide gallery alliance with Art After Hours on Thursday, December 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. December's event offers an array of special holdiay offerings, art openings and art talks - and an art book signing - providing art lovers and patrons an opportunity to explore Nashville's visual art scene. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Following a three-year run on Broadway as Mrs. Brill, the harried cook and housekeeper in the beloved musical "Mary Poppins," Jane Carr returns to her hometown to play the role in Los Angeles, beginning Friday, November 20, 2009 at 8 p.m. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Houston's seasonal favorite that the Houston Press described as having "Spectacular London sets ...the inimitable Dickens' tale - spiced with the usual fog and an unusual twist on the ghosts past, present and future." (read story...)
(11/20/2009) ABC and SOAPNet will present their annual "Salute Broadway Cares" benefit on March 21, 2010. The benefit will support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids and will take place at Town Hall in Manhattan. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Responding to the popular demand for tickets, Philadelphia Theatre Company is extending its production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazz, until Sunday, December 13. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Responding to the popular demand for tickets, Philadelphia Theatre Company is extending its production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical, The Light in the Piazz, until Sunday, December 13. Performances for the extension week will follow the current schedule, with shows on Tuesdays at 6:30, Wednesdays at 1:00 and 7:00, Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00, Saturdays at 2:00 and 8:00, and Sundays at 3:00. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) JUNIOR CLAUS, the heart-warming and hilarious new musical, is coming to the Twin Cities South Metro for a limited run December 10-27, 2009 at the all-new Burnsville Performing Arts Center. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) dre.dance, the contemporary dance company, celebrates it's fifth anniversary with Broadway Celebrates dre.dance on Monday, December 14th at New World Stages (350 W. 50th Street). (read story...)
(11/20/2009) The White Plains Performing Arts Center has announced the casting for their upcoming WE ARE LIGHTS holiday concert. The event will feature Broadway vet Melba Moore, as well as West Side Story's Kathy Deitch, A Tale of Two Cities' Kevin Early, and more. The concert will take place at White Plains PAC from December 11th through the 13th. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Spin the Bottle -- Annex Theatre's late night variety show! Friday, December 4, at 11 pm at the Annex Theatre -- 1100 E. Pike St (which is actually on 11th at the corner of 11th & E. Pike) (read story...)
(11/20/2009) After the success of 3-night Brooklyn Burlesque Blitz, The Burlesque Alliance bring their teasing talents to The Big Apple for five nights of winter hotness! (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Burning Coal Theatre Company's 2009/2010 Lobby Lecturers Series continues with Dr. Maureen Quilligan, Duke University R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS' PROVOCATIVE PRODUCTION OF ‘BLACKBIRD' EXAMINES THE QUESTION "WHEN IS IT SEXUAL ASSAULT?" By David Harrower (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Gift-giving may take a different form this year, and the Chinook Book Green Gift Guide aims to help Portland-area residents shop locally, give experiences and save money. A partnership of the Portland Arts Coalition and Chinook Book, the guide was released today and is available free in print and digitally at www.greengiftspdx.com. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) "RENT" fans around the world have a new chance to re-experience the show with some one-of-a-kind experiences - dinner with the stars, a walk-on role in the show and a guitar made especially for the tour. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Celebrants of the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, and other children and parents who enjoy good rock music will enjoy Yosi and the Superdads' Rockin Hanukkah Concert at McLean's Alden Theatre. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) The Hartt School presents Free Improvisation Concert
The Hartt School presents a performance by students from the Free Improvisation course on Wednesday, December 2, at 8:00 PM in Berkman. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Additional casting has been announced for the upcoming THE MUSIC MAN concert produced by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops in the NSO Pops series. Todd A. Horman will play the role of Marcellus and Joseph Serafini will play Winthrop. Horman and Serafini join Shirley Jones, the original Marian from the film version of The Music Man, as well as Rebecca Luker and Patrick Cassidy as Harold Hill. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) In collaboration with The Broadway League, the Orange County Performing Arts Center has scheduled special Kids' Night on Broadway performances of XANADU on Tuesday, December 15; Wednesday, December 16; and Thursday, December 17 at 7:30 p.m. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) New York Musical Theater Festival Announces Sixth Season Awards Gala To Honor NY1 ON STAGE and Sh-K-Boom /Ghostlight Records Sunday, November 22nd (read story...)
(11/20/2009) In January 2010, The New York Philharmonic This Week — the two-hour, national, weekly radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin — begins with a Summertime Classics program from July 3–4, 2009, with conductor Bramwell Tovey: Gershwin’s Strike Up the Band, Variations on “I Got Rhythm,” and Rhapsody in Blue with Marc-André Hamelin as soloist; Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite; and Sousa’s Hands Across the Sea March and Washington Post March. The following week, Music Director Alan Gilbert leads the Orchestra in Webern’s Im Sommerwind, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with Leif Ove Andsnes as soloist, Webern’s Symphony, Op. 21, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. The third January broadcast, also conducted by Mr. Gilbert, features Yefim Bronfman as soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 concluding the program. In the final January broadcast, Mr. Gilbert conducts Haydn’s Symphony No. 49, La passione; John Adams’s The Wound-Dresser, with baritone Thomas Hampson, the Orchestra’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence; Schubert’s Symphony in B minor, Unfinished; and Berg’s Three Orchestral Pieces. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) On Monday, November 24, 2009, The Westchester Broadway Theatre will be hosting the Cab Calloway Lifetime Achievement Awards (read story...)
(11/20/2009) In honor of Black Friday, otherwise known as the day after Thanksgiving and largest shopping day of the year, Performance Network Theatre is holding a holiday sale. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) The McCarter Theater Center has announced that they will premiere a new play by Will Power (Flow, The Seven), Fetch Clay, Make Man, about boxing legend Muhammad Ali. The production, starring Ben Vereen and Evan Parke, will be directed by Jersey Boys helmer Des McAnuff and run from Janaury 8 - February 14, 2010. (read story...)
(11/20/2009) Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London. (read story...)