Hans Christian Andersen News

Welcome to the Crown Center, the entertainment hub in southeast North Carolina. The Crown Center consists of five great facilities capable of hosting any type of meeting, convention, entertainment and leisure activity you can imagine. The staff at the Crown Center cordially invites you to experience our Southern Hospitality alongside our "Big City" approach to accommodate the widest range of leisure activities for all of your needs.

WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for Spring Awakening, running September 30 to October 23, 2011 at the Addison Theatre Centre.

Welcome to the Crown Center, the entertainment hub in southeast North Carolina. The Crown Center consists of five great facilities capable of hosting any type of meeting, convention, entertainment and leisure activity you can imagine. The staff at the Crown Center cordially invites you to experience our Southern Hospitality alongside our "Big City" approach to accommodate the widest range of leisure activities for all of your needs.

Upcoming MTI Shows - 9/25 for Warsaw

Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts Theaterfest is pleased to present the American Premiere of My Fairytale, a musical about Hans Christian Andersen. The musical is composed by Stephen Schwartz, the award-winning composer of Godspell, Pippin and Wicked, and will be presented in time for the 2011 centennial celebration of Solvang, CA as a Danish-American community. This exclusive engagement will preview in Santa Maria's Marian Theatre August 12 - 19, 2011, then open under the stars in the Solvang Festival Theater August 26, playing through September 25, 2011.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the Artistic Direction of Diane Paulus, is adding to the already announced season a special family-oriented production - The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen's exuberant ode to childhood. The new stage adaptation for children and their families by Tyler Monroe is directed by Allegra Libonati, with original puppets by Michael Kane, and featuring members of the A.R.T. Institute Class of 2012. The production opens at the Loeb Drama Center on December 10 and runs through December 31.

As we move toward the end of September, I hope you are planning to attend a couple of the live performance and theatre productions currently (or soon to be) running at one of the several live entertainment venues here on the beautiful California Central Coast!

Upcoming MTI Shows - 9/18 for Warsaw

Concurrent with the A.R.T. premiere of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, the A.R.T. has launched Community Connections, an outreach initiative designed to provide memorable arts experiences to the Greater Boston community at large.

As we move toward the middle of September and beyond, I trust you will want to take in a couple of the theatre and live performance productions that are presently showing at any one of the numerous entertainment establishments that make their home here on the amazing Central Coast of California!

Upcoming MTI Shows - 9/11 for Warsaw

Crown Center announces their schedule of events for September 2011- August 2012

On Wednesday September 7 Bruce Kimmel's Kritzerland at the Gardenia celebrated its first anniversary honoring the work of Frank Loesser. Loesser, if you recall, wrote Guys and Dolls, considered by many to be one of the most perfect musicals of all time. He also wrote music and lyrics for 1962's Pulitzer Prize winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying currently receiving a sold out revival on Broadway starring Daniel Radcliffe, or as Kimmel referred to him, Harry Potter. Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, my personal favorite, incurable romantic that I am, has some of the most gorgeous songs of all time like 'My Heart Is So Full of You' and 'Somebody Somewhere'. Participating in the evening were an all female contingent: Laura Wolfe, filling in wonderfully and on short notice for the previously announced Shannon Warne, Kim Huber - such a great singer - Alet Taylor, Ruth Williamson - wonderful character actress and singer - Kelsey Scott, and of course, prolific little Melody Hollis, who has been appearing in Kritzerland shows for several months. And last but hardly least, musical director extraordinaire John Boswell.

The award-winning theatre company Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE) presents the world premiere of What The Moon Saw, or 'I Only Appear To Be Dead' by Stephanie Fleischmann, playing at the Son of Semele Theater in Silver Lake from September 9 through October 9, 2011, in a production scheduled to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.

There have been many theatrical re-imaginings of fairy tales, but hardly a more enchanting one than Stephen Schwartz's new musical My Fairytale now receiving its US premiere in Solvang. A PCPA production which first previewed in Santa Maria, My Fairytale is charming, brilliantly creative fare brought to life by a wildly exciting production team that includes Flemming Enevold, who originally conceived it.

The Kentwood Players will present a Kentwood Kids musical production of 'A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen' by Sue Gordon, on Saturdays, October 8, 15 and 22 at 11:00am and 2:00pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester (LA 90045).

Kentwood Kids are set to presnt A Grimm Night for Hans Christian Andersen.