John Clark News

The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road in Munster, will showcase one exclusive performance of the Pulitzer Prize nominated play by A.R. Gurney 'Love Letters' at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.

Composers Concordance, NYC's longest-running composer collective presents the Licorice Clarinet Quartet on Tuesday April 3rd 2020 at 8pm. They will be performing Clarinet Motion, featuring a concert of new music accompanied by dance.

Michael B. Jordan will receive this year's “CinemaCon® Male Star of the Year Award,” Mitch Neuhauser, Managing Director of CinemaCon, announced today. CinemaCon, the official convention of NATO, will be held March 30-April 2 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Jordan will be presented with this special honor at the “CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards” ceremony taking place on the evening of Thursday, April 2, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, hosted by The Coca-Cola Company, the official presenting sponsor of CinemaCon.

Could Love Letters be headed off-Broadway, starring Elaine May and Frank Langella? According to Showbiz411, the duo will lead the A.R. Gurney play this spring at the Acorn Theater on W 42nd St. The production is expected to begin in March.

InterSchool Orchestras of New York and the Mingus Dynasty are collaborating to present MINGUS.  This concert features never-before-heard full orchestra arrangements of popular Mingus tunes arranged by Earl McIntyre.  It will also feature solo performances by the Mingus Dynasty.

SecondStory Rep has announced shows for its Season 21 Mainstage Series. With eight shows, including four musicals, there is something for everyone!

Celebrated within the jazz community as a multi-talented musician, Lisa Maxwell, finally releases a long-awaited album of her own material, dedicated to a special cohort. The lineup reads like a Who's Who of the music world (see personnel below).

Composers Concordance presents its 8th Annual CompCord Festival. This year's festival theme is 'Animals'. Five concerts, each with compositions focusing on unique musical stories about the animal kingdom, will include multiple world premieres.

Night Terrace ia half-hour narrative comedy series starring Neighbours' Jackie Woodburne (Susan Kennedy) as Anastasia Black, a government scientist who used to save the world, but now wants a quiet retirement. She's understandably miffed when her house unexpectedly starts travelling through space and time. From the ancient past to the distant future, from pre-historic Melbourne to the edges of human understanding, Anastasia fights monsters and solves mysteries, all while trying to find a way home.

The 2019 Ritz Theatre season will open with 'John & Jen' at 7:35 p.m. April 4-6 and at 2 p.m., April 7 at the Ritz Theatre, 111 W. Third St., Sheffield. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students. 'John & Jen' is a musical with music by Andrew Lippa, lyrics by Tom Greenwald, and book by Lippa and Greenwald. Lippa went on to write the music and lyrics for the stage musicals 'Wild Party', 'The Addams Family' and 'Big Fish.'

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Broadway debut of 'Love Letters', a Play by A.R. Gurney, Theatre at the Center (TATC) will showcase one exclusive performance on Sunday afternoon, February 3, at 2:30 p.m. This production, under the guidance of artistic advisor Linda Fortunato, will star Phil Potempa, a noted newspaper columnist for the Post Tribune and Crista Zivanovic, features editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana. The performance proceeds will benefit Theatre at the Center in Munster.

Michael B. Jordan will play Tom Clancy hero John Clark in new Paramount Pictures film series, according to Variety. 

The podcast loved 'round the world, STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW, with John Clark & Chuck Bryant is hot off their 1000th episode. Now they are back on the road treating live audiences to the odd, interesting and hilarious "stuff" that has made them podcast favorites. Their live touring show has proven as popular as their podcasts, selling out in cities across the U.S., Canada, the UK and Ireland.  The duo makes their first Playhouse Square appearance Wed., May 23 with one 8 pm show at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets go on sale today for $27.50, available at 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org and the Playhouse Square Ticket Office.

In 2007, Across the Universe brought the songs of The Beatles to a new generation in the form of a jukebox musical film that incorporated 34 of the band's songs, from the very famous to the more obscure numbers in their back catalogue. Rather than being a band biography, it brought a new story to the screen from Julie Taymor (also director), Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and starred Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood.

Composer Gene Pritsker presents a concert of his vocal music. 'I have written many chamber operas, various chamber music with voice, jazz songs, r&b songs, choral music and songs inspired by various genres and cultures. I thought it would be great to have a concert that features my eclectic vocal compositions. I assembled a group of great singers and picked repertoire that will feature each of their voices as well as combine them to perform some of my choral music.'

Composer Gene Pritsker presents a concert of his vocal music. 'I have written many chamber operas, various chamber music with voice, jazz songs, r&b songs, choral music and songs inspired by various genres and cultures. I thought it would be great to have a concert that features my eclectic vocal compositions. I assembled a group of great singers and picked repertoire that will feature each of their voices as well as combine them to perform some of my choral music.'

Composers Concordance presents its 7th Annual Festival, entitled 'Art of Sound'. Inspired by contemporary art in NYC, the festival consists of five concerts, to be held at a wide array of venues.

Western Connecticut State University will host a community birthday celebration for Marian Anderson, a musical and civil rights icon who lived in Danbury.

The podcast loved 'round the world, STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW, with John Clark & Chuck Bryant is hot off their 1000th episode. Now they are back on the road treating live audiences to the odd, interesting and hilarious "stuff" that has made them podcast favorites. Their live touring show has proven as popular as their podcasts, selling out in cities across the U.S., Canada, the UK and Ireland.  The duo makes their first Playhouse Square appearance Wed., May 23 with one 8 pm show at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets go on sale today for $27.50, available at 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org and the Playhouse Square Ticket Office.