Peter Larson News

The Midland Theatre will host a fundraiser, The Show Must Go On! to help with financial challenges faced during the pandemic.

Austin Pendleton and Barbara Bleier return to Pangea on May 7, 14 and 21, at 7 PM, with How About Love?, a brand new show about everything you always wanted to know about falling in (and out of) love, but were afraid to ask! Bleier and Pendleton, along with Barbara Maier Gustern and Paul Greenwood, will sing love songs (solos, duets, trios and quartets) by such composers as Richard Rodgers, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kurt Weil, Jonathan Larson, Stephen Sondheim, Peter Larson, George and Ira Gershwin, Francesca Blumenthal and Tom Toce, among others. Paul Greenwood is the Musical Director, and Barbara Maier Gustern directs.

Austin Pendleton and Barbara Bleier return to downtown's hideaway, Pangea, in May, with a brand new show. HOW ABOUT LOVE?  tells you everything you always wanted to know about falling in (and out of) love, but were afraid to ask! Bleier and Pendleton, along with Barbara Maier Gustern and Paul Greenwood, will sing love songs (solos, duets, trios and quartets) by such composers as Richard Rogers, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Kurt Weil, Jonathan Larson, Stephen Sondheim, Peter Larson, George and Ira Gershwin, Francesca Blumenthal, and Tom Toce, among others. There are three performances scheduled: May 7, 14, and 21st.

Vanessa Williams, multi-faceted star of Broadway, film, music videos and television, brings her award-winning talents to Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, April 7, at 8 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts have announced performances for March 2018. See the brand new lineup below!

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced events for February 2018. See the full schedule below:

We are lucky in New York City. The talent here is unbelievable. Sometimes you settle in for an intimate evening at a little local club and you get your socks blown off. On Friday the 13th (of May, to be exact), I had such an experience at the latest monthly installment of Stephen Hanks' Metropolitan Room series (Associate Producer, Fr. Jeffrey Hamblin, MD), New York Cabaret's Greatest Hits. The featured performers were Vocalist Laurie Krauz and her Musical Director Daryl Kojak celebrating their 25-year musical collaboration “It's a 'Greatest Hits' show within a Greatest Hits series!” Hanks extolled before introducing his stars for the evening.

CNN will premiere five new documentary films in 2016, the network announced today prior to its May upfront presentation in Manhattan. Each documentary is a co-production with CNN Films and is expected to premiere in theaters prior to their broadcasts on CNN/U.S.

CNN announced today the exclusive acquisition of the domestic broadcast rights for the critically-acclaimed feature documentary GLEN CAMPBELL... I'LL BE ME from PCH Films.

DINOSAUR 13 was the first film deal closed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it also premiered.

DINOSAUR 13 was the first film deal closed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it also premiered.

How far we've come. Since the release of Lucius' debut album Wildewoman nearly 1 year ago, the band has toured the world several times over, making new friends and collaborating with their musical heroes.

The Kirby Science Discovery Center at the Washington Pavilion will be one of the first theaters to premier DINOSAUR 13, a documentary based on the book Rex Appeal: The Amazing Story of Sue, The Dinosaur That Changed Science, The Law and My Life by Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan. The movie runs August 15th-August 28th and is FREE to Washington Pavilion Members thanks to our generous sponsor, The David B. Jones Foundation. DINOSAUR 13 is a 95-minute feature length science documentary and is not formatted for young children; best for ages 14+. For Wells Fargo CineDome times and admission rates, patrons can visit www.washingtonpavilion.org.

Brooklyn's Lucius will release a special edition Genevieve 7' vinyl on July 1 via Mom + Pop/Dine Alone Records. The vinyl will be available to purchase in the band's online store.

Storming into 2014 Lucius will take their “joyous, melodic anthems” (Billboard) back on tour tonight, beginning at the Southern Café and Music Hall in Charlottesville, VA.

CNN Films and Lionsgate announced today the acquisition of the North American rights to the film DINOSAUR 13, on the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival.

NYC's Lucius features the commanding and intertwining vocals of Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe above a foundation of lush yet danceable instrumentation created by bandmates Danny Molad, Peter Lalish and Andrew Burri. After releasing their debut EP earlier this year, the band put together a special compilation featuring themselves and some very talented musical friends covering each other's songs. Today they share their own version of the Freelance Whales track “Ghosting.'