John Armstrong News

Explore the end of the 2023-24 season at Scottsdale Arts with a variety of events and exhibitions. From art to performances, there's something for everyone to enjoy.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) has received an $80,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for exhibition support over two years.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), which will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Feb. 14, 2024, is also opening the first major U.S. museum exhibition on the prolific, yet underrecognized, American painter Dorothy Fratt the same month.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), a department of Scottsdale Arts, will note both the past and the future during its Fall Opening on Sept. 22.

Jeff McBride – MagicQuest, a unique virtual experience created by Jeff McBride, Tobias Beckwith and Scott Steelfyre completed its first weekend of public performances, with audiences logging in from as far away as London, Paris, and Malaysia. Magic's own luminaries including Lance Burton, Mat Franco and Mac King from the US, Paul Gordon and John Armstrong from the UK, and Andrew Lee from Malaysia were all in attendance.

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Aaron Roman Weiner, Associate Artistic Director) announces the selections for their 20th Annual Barn Series, the award-winning company's developmental play reading series. This year's series features seven new plays written and directed by LAB company members and friends. All readings are free and open to the public, and run from January 6-12, 2020 at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, between Barrow and Bedford), where LAByrinth is the Company in Residence. Reservations will open to the public on Dec 20th, 2019.

On Friday, June 28, I had the pleasure of seeing the farcical Monty Python musical SPAMALOT performed outdoors by Musicals at Richter, on the grounds of the Richter House, next to the Richter Park Golf Course in Danbury, CT. I thoroughly enjoyed my first experience with Musicals at Richter. I am very impressed at the high level of talent that they have assembled together to perform what is truly a wonderful production for all in attendance, and all on stage. The show is brilliantly directed by Shannon Courtney Denihan with musical direction by Tracey Marble and Claire Simard.

Musicals at Richter (MAR), celebrating 35 seasons as the longest-running outdoor theater in Connecticut, kicks off its main stage season with 'Monty Python's Spamalot,' the uproariously funny musical based on the classic film comedy 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' playing June 28 to July 13.

If you follow the breadcrumbs to The Court Theatre these school holidays you'll find fairy-tale characters Hansel and Gretel on stage, performing a comedic adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic that's perfect for little ones aged 3 - 7.

Four management consultants have been given 90 minutes to work out if they're saving the world, being tested by their superiors or designing the blueprints for the next holocaust in Ideation, a boardroom thriller playing at The Forge at The Court Theatre this June.  

Actors Valerie Connelly (second from left) and John Armstrong celebrate after performing as characters Nikki and Daniel in the Broadway-style show 'FEARLESS! The Golden Love Musical'.

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Renowned philosophers and authors Alain de Botton and John Armstrong will present their unique take on art through a specially-curated Art as Therapy program, in a collaboration between the National Gallery of Victoria and The School of Life Melbourne. The program will be launched with a Secular Sermon by de Botton at the NGV on Wednesday 26 March, coinciding with the permanent opening of The School of Life Melbourne.

The Mesa Arts Center (MAC) has announced its February 2014 events and shows. Details below!

The Mesa Arts Center (MAC) has announced its February 2014 events and shows. Details below!

On the next episode of ABC's BODY OF PROOF titled "Eye for an Eye" - Megan and Tommy must solve two murders that appear to be the work of vigilante killer. Get a sneak peek below!

On BODY OF PROOF's upcoming episode, titled 'Eye for an Eye,' Megan and Tommy must solve two murders that appear to be the work of vigilante killer. After Megan questions Trent Marsh (Henry Ian Cusick, 'Scandal'), the grief counselor for one of the victim's parents, she decides to take him up on his offer of counseling her on her own issues about her father's suicide. But Megan is shocked by what she finds in his waiting room, on TUESDAY, MARCH 19 (10:01-11:00 p.m. ET) on ABC.