John Graham News

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, James Graham is collaborating with music legend Elton John and Jake Shears of The Scissor Sisters on a musical take on the life of infamous TV evangelist, Tammy Faye Bakker.

The Herberger Theater Center will open its new outdoor stage, The Pavilion, to the public this upcoming Saturday, November 14. Built with the safety of guests, staff, and volunteers in mind, the outdoor space welcomes guests back to the theater with socially distanced seating at the Festival of the Arts.

Henley Literary Festival moves online for the first time from this weekend, with speakers including John Grisham, Candice Brathwaite, Graham Norton, Joanna Trollope and Michael Morpurgo.

Today, American Conservatory Theater announced the lineup that will make up the 2020-21 season for the acclaimed Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program. All MFA productions in 2020 will be performed virtually and are included as part of A.C.T.'s newly-announced A.C.T. Anywhere season pass which gives patrons discounted access to all InterACT at Home programming, including virtual live-streamed (fixed viewing dates), on-demand (flexible viewing dates) streaming theater, and more.

A new documentary about Elton John will be released by BBC One, according to Deadline. In the film, John be interviewed by Graham Norton and open up about his struggles with addiction, his career, and fatherhood.

Following his performance as Chef Louis in the Hollywood Bowl production of a?oeThe Little Mermaid,a?? two-time Emmy®Award-nominated actor and producer John Stamos will reprise his role as the eccentric French cook in a?oeThe Wonderful World of Disney presents The Little Mermaid Live!,a?? airing TUESDAY, NOV. 5(8:00a?'10:00 p.m. EST), live on ABC. Joining Stamos and the previously announced cast including Auli'i Cravalho (Ariel), Queen Latifah (Ursula) and Shaggy (Sebastian) is Graham Phillips, most known for his work on a?oeThe Good Wife,a?? who will return to his live theater roots in the role of Prince Eric.

The tenth annual Herberger Theater Festival of the Arts returns to downtown Phoenix on Saturday, October 26, 2019, 11:30am-5:00pm, at the Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe Street.

The Board of Directors of The Serenbe Institute for Art, Culture, & the Environment has appointed Jennifer Bauer-Lyons as their second Executive Director succeeding Founding Executive Director John Graham who retired in December 2017. The Serenbe Institute for Art, Culture, & the Environment is the parent company for three award-winning and nationally recognized programming units: AIR Serenbe (founded in 2007), Serenbe Playhouse (founded in 2009) and Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre (founded in 2017). As the Executive Director, Bauer-Lyons will lead the execution and oversight of the strategic direction, operations, and business practices for the $3.5 million organization, while collaborating with the leaders of each of the programming units.

The recent inaugural Roady4Roadiesevents proved a stunning success in so many ways! The national event, an audacious campaign held on 10 March in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth and 24 March in Adelaide, raised $65,470.00, with a nett profit of $56,790.00 going towards the Support Act 'Roadies Fund'.

Johnson Gallery is proud to present Zapf Dingbats, an exhibition of new works by Jim Drain, opening with a public reception on December 3, 2018, and remaining on view until January 5th. The exhibition will comprise sculptures, drawings, and wallpaper, furthering Drain's explorations of disparate materials, as well as the history of assemblage, in order to emphasize the liberating potential of intuitive making. These works, which obliquely or explicitly engage the history of utopianism, come at a dark time in American history, and yet, they suggest something brighter, more inclusive. 

After Kat'a Kabanova (2010), Jen?fa (2014) and recently Foxie! The Cunning Little Vixen, there is still more Leoš Jana?ek to come at La Monnaie. In November 2018 the opera house is presenting Z mrtveho domu (From the House of the Dead), the Czech composer's last and perhaps most powerful opera. It is based on Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel Memoirs from the House of the Dead (1862), an account of the Russian writer's own experiences as a political prisoner in a Siberian gulag. It is a mosaic of loosely-knit episodes about the inhumane conditions in a labour camp, punctuated with the stories and life histories of his fellow prisoners.

The Jewish Museum announced today that it has received a major gift from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, established in 1996 by Annalee Newman, the artist's widow. The gift includes artworks from Barnett and Annalee Newman's personal collection and works created by artists who were recipients of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Award. The gift also includes $10 million, for the endowment of the Museum's first curatorial position dedicated to contemporary art; for the care and exhibition of the collection; and a promised gift for future institutional use.

With summer in full swing, it's time for a new group of former breakout bachelors and bachelorettes to take another shot at love as they live together in a dreamy oasis in Mexico when “Bachelor in Paradise” returns TUESDAY, AUG. 7 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand. Starting the following week, the show will air Mondays and Tuesdays (8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT).

Julien's Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, has announced that HENDRIX ERA: PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MITCH MITCHELL will hit the auction stage for a special one time only engagement on November 4, 2017 in Los Angeles and live online.

Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis has withdrawn from making his Royal Opera debut conducting Krzysztof Warlikowski's new production of From the House of the Dead at the Royal Opera House.

The Rose Art Museum presents the first large-scale exhibition in North America devoted to the work of celebrated New York-based artist Joe Bradley, October 15, 2017 - January 28, 2018.

Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has announced the 2017-2018 season roster. A total of 65 dancers make up the Company roster, with 55 in the main company and ten in Boston Ballet II (BBII), Boston Ballet's second company.

Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, and Rockingale Records will release Carole King - Tapestry: Live at Hyde Park (CD/DVD or digital) on Friday, September 1. Carole King - Tapestry: Live at Hyde Park may be pre-ordered here: http://smarturl.it/CaroleKing_HydePark

Veteran stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson, who received a 2015 / 2016 Elate Season Ticket Holder Award Nomination as Best Actor for his performance as the debonair, but aging, leading man Ernest in Tad Mosel's "Impromptu" as part of the Elate staging of four one-acts entitled "Just 4 Fun," returns to the stage of the Lincoln Stegman Theatre of North Hollywood to play District Attorney Flint, a prosecutor deeply involved in the case of "The People of The State of New York vs. Karen Andre" in The Emmanuel Lutheran Actors Theatre Ensemble - ELATE revival of Russian-American author and playwright Ayn Rand's 1935 classic Broadway courtroom drama "Night Of January 16th."

Veteran stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson, who received a 2015 / 2016 Elate Season Ticket Holder Award Nomination as Best Actor for his performance as the debonair, but aging, leading man Ernest in Tad Mosel's "Impromptu" as part of the Elate staging of four one-acts entitled "Just 4 Fun," returns to the stage of the Lincoln Stegman Theatre of North Hollywood to play District Attorney Flint, a prosecutor deeply involved in the case of "The People of The State of New York vs. Karen Andre" in The Emmanuel Lutheran Actors Theatre Ensemble - ELATE revival of Russian-American author and playwright Ayn Rand's 1935 classic Broadway courtroom drama "Night Of January 16th."