David Allen News

Purple Pyramid Records will be releasing on February 12, 2016 the final album from legendary Daevid Allen, one of the most innovative music artists to emerge from this planet! Daevid Allen Weird Quartet is a recording project bringing together Daevid Allen, founder of The Soft Machine and Gong, with Don Falcone of Spirits Burning, Michael Clare of Daevid Allen's University of Errors, and drummers Trey Sabatelli (The Tubes) and Paul Sears (The Muffins).

Purple Pyramid Records will be releasing on February 12, 2016 the final album from legendary Daevid Allen, one of the most innovative music artists to emerge from this planet! Daevid Allen Weird Quartet is a recording project bringing together Daevid Allen, founder of The Soft Machine and Gong, with Don Falcone of Spirits Burning, Michael Clare of Daevid Allen's University of Errors, and drummers Trey Sabatelli (The Tubes) and Paul Sears (The Muffins).

 Lamplighters Music Theatre will produce Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddygore this winter, a comic masterpiece that melds the world of Jane Austen with a good old-fashioned English ghost story and a dash of Wuthering Heights romance. 

The Marsh San Francisco is thrilled to present world-renowned cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, a 20-year member of the Kronos Quartet, and award-winning performer/writer Charlie Varon in a collaborative theatre piece entitled SECOND TIME AROUND, A Duet for Cello and Storyteller. The iPhone generation meets the Greatest Generation in this story of the longing for human connection and continuity. SECOND TIME AROUND, developed with and directed by David Ford, plays March 5 - April 17, 2016 (press opening March 19, 2016). Scroll down for a sneak peek at the stars!

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents SHE LOVES ME, the charming 1963 musical adaptation of Miklos Laszlo's play Parfumerie (which later inspired the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan feature film You've Got Mail), with a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof) and a book by Joe Masteroff (Cabaret).

Experience A CHRISTMAS CAROL like you never have before when three amazing actors, using only the original words of Charles Dickens, give this classic story a vibrant new life. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, Marley's Ghost, Scrooge and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future all make their appearance as the three actors guide us through the story - sometimes as narrators, sometimes as storytellers, and sometimes as characters. This original adaptation is presented by the award-winning Grove Theater Center at GTC Burbank from tonight, November 28 to December 20.

(Boston) Celebrity Series of Boston will present poet Billy Collins and singer-songwriter Aimee Mann tonight, November 21, 2015, at 8:00pm at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge. 

Experience A CHRISTMAS CAROL like you never have before when three amazing actors, using only the original words of Charles Dickens, give this classic story a vibrant new life. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, Marley's Ghost, Scrooge and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future all make their appearance as the three actors guide us through the story - sometimes as narrators, sometimes as storytellers, and sometimes as characters. This original adaptation is presented by the award-winning Grove Theater Center at GTC Burbank from November 28 to December 20.

Co-creators and ONCE cast members Erikka Walsh, Katrina Lenk, and Scott Stangland launch their Seed&Spark campaign for Season One of MISS TERI. The actor/musicians are set to film the remaining episodes in the spring of 2016.

(Boston) Celebrity Series of Boston will present poet Billy Collins and singer-songwriter Aimee Mann on Saturday, November 21, 2015, at 8:00pm at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge. 

MISS TERI is an offbeat comedy about three misfit musicians who look to the stars to find their way. The series is co-created by and features Erikka Walsh, Katrina Lenk and Scott Stangland. The three met while performing in the Tony Award-winning musical ONCE. Click below to watch a promo for the web series!

Below, check out quotables from NBC's THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, September 14 - September 18

Aurora Theatre Company opens its 24th season with the Bay Area Premiere of award-winning playwright Marisa Wegrzyn's (Hickorydickory, The Butcher of Baraboo) MUD BLUE SKY.

Silicon Valley's monthly public PowerPoint throwdown, SPEECHLESS, will launch a pre-show open mic, in which techies used to giving presentations can take the stage. Called Crowdsourced, this warm-up invites the public to try their hand at the hit PowerPoint comedy show, with the winner competing against seasoned professionals at the live show.

Silicon Valley's monthly public PowerPoint throwdown, SPEECHLESS, will launch a pre-show open mic, in which techies used to giving presentations can take the stage. Called Crowdsourced, this warm-up invites the public to try their hand at the hit PowerPoint comedy show, with the winner competing against seasoned professionals at the live show.

Aurora Theatre Company opens its 24th season with the Bay Area Premiere of award-winning playwright Marisa Wegrzyn's (Hickorydickory, The Butcher of Baraboo) MUD BLUE SKY.

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. This production will be co-directed by Milissa Carey and Michael Ryken, with musical direction provided by Katie Coleman. The show will play tonight, July 23, through August 9, 2015 at the Smithwick Theatre, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos Hills. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons have entered into a new partnership to create Classical Live, a unique initiative that offers a new paradigm for the distribution of live recordings of classical music available only on Google Play Music. Classical Live will offer participating orchestras—the BSO, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, and Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra—an opportunity to release up to four live concert recordings each season for download exclusively on Google Play Music with the first recordings to be made available at music.google.com or classical-live.com beginning on June 15.  

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. This production will be co-directed by Milissa Carey and Michael Ryken, with musical direction provided by Katie Coleman. The show will play July 23-August 9, 2015 at the Smithwick Theatre, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos Hills. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!