Ruby Slippers News

NBC is having an open casting call for the lead role of Dorothy in the network's upcoming holiday special "The Wiz Live!," set for Thursday, Dec. 3.

When BroadwayWorld.com Cabaret Reviewer Billie Roe was invited to the CabaretFest 2015 Provincetown scheduled for June 4-7, it was to attend as a performer, not necessarily as a reviewer. But we couldn't resist the opportunity to have Billie at least report on some aspects of the long, event-filled weekend and record some of her impressions in something akin to a diary. Based on Billie's descriptive account here, this year's Cabaret Festival in Provincetown, MA, sounds like one of the cabaret highlights of the year.

The 33rd Annual Jessie Richardson Award Ceremony will be held at the beautiful Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street, on Monday, June 22, 2015, doors open at 5:30pm, ceremony at 6:30pm. 

The nominees for the 33rd Annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards were announced at the Jessie Nominations Party held on Tuesday, May 19th at the Vancouver TheatreSports League Improv Centre on Granville Island.

Up-and-coming Canadian actress Danielle Wade will star in two productions at the Huron Country Playhouse this summer. She'll start by tackling the iconic role of Anne in the theatre's grand-scale production of the beloved musical Anne of Green Gables, which will launch the 2015 Season at the Huron Country Playhouse. Later in the summer, she will take on the role of troubled teen Ariel in the much-anticipated musical adaptation of Footloose.

There was a time when it seemed as if any talent contender in a beauty pageant would lay into 'Don't Cry Out Loud' (later, Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' seemed to supplant it). It crept out of every radio station ad nauseum. Its almost iconic 'ear candy' status rendered it cringe-inducing, as far as I was concerned. Moreover, its composer and interpreter, Australian Peter Allen, was not the kind of performer I enjoyed - I prefer my talent without the 'over the top' exclamation point; he belonged, to my way of thinking, to the Liberace/Barry Manilow/Liza Minelli kind of performer. (Admittedly, I have a number of friends who take issue with this and who, rope in hand, would gladly pursue me if lynching were acceptable.) Their 'showmanship' and 'over the top' self-promotion proved exhausting. However, the intervening years have reconciled me to Allen's music, and THE BOY FROM OZ. with a book by Martin Sherman and Nick Enright and a parade of Allen songs, has, in Theatre Memphis' latest offering, even somewhat endeared me to him.

?A mesmerizing cascade of light, fog, and draperies send audiences into the colorful Land of Oz at the Fireside Dinner Theatre. Without the sudden Technicolor shock that the film has to offer, the stage adaptation must always concoct a way to conjure their twister to transport their heroine into her fantastical imagination and - per usual - Ed Flesch and his highly capable cast and crew deliver.

Conceived for the 4th installment of SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York City's curator-driven art fair-held during Armory Arts Week and running concurrently with The Armory Show today, March 3 - 8, 2015-AKArt curators Amy Kisch, Ricky Lee, Lizzie Jones, and Alexandra Wagle, present the group exhibition Transgressive Inversions + Identities.

Today we celebrate the surprise musical theatre star of 2015 due to her incredible Oscars performance earlier this week, the one and only Lady Gaga.

Conceived for the 4th installment of SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York City's curator-driven art fair—held during Armory Arts Week and running concurrently with The Armory Show March 3 - 8, 2015—AKArt curators Amy Kisch, Ricky Lee, Lizzie Jones, and Alexandra Wagle, present the group exhibition Transgressive Inversions + Identities. With its commitment to appropriating historic and culturally relevant non-traditional exhibition spaces, this year, SPRING/BREAK Art Show will inhabit a new location within the third and fourth floors of Skylight at Moynihan Station in the former offices of the Post Office at 307 West 31st Street at 8th Avenue.

Camille O'Sullivan is one of the world's greatest and most loved cabaret performers.

Ruby Slippers Theatre presents the touching and captivating double bill: Apres Moi and The List. These English translations of two French Canadian plays will take the audience on a very human journey through love, loss, compassion and memory and remind us that by letting other people in, if only briefly, our life's trajectory can be profoundly altered.

Ruby Slippers Theatre presents the touching and captivating double bill: Apres Moi and The List. These English translations of two French Canadian plays will take the audience on a very human journey through love, loss, compassion and memory and remind us that by letting other people in, if only briefly, our life's trajectory can be profoundly altered.

The Center for the Arts will present The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Directed by Matthew Hayes Hunter, Music Direction by Emily Dennis, Choreography by Hayley Orozco. This musical adventure is a genuine family classic: an orphaned young girl unhappy with her drab black-and-white existence on her aunt and uncle's dusty Kansas farm. Dorothy yearns to travel 'over the rainbow' to a different world, and she gets her wish when a tornado whisks her and her little dog, Toto, to the land of Oz.

Swarovski has collaborated with the Academy Award winning costume designer Sandy Powell to add some fairy tale sparkle to Disney's new enchanting live action film Cinderella. Directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Lily James in the title role, Cinderella is due for release on March 13 th, 2015.

It may have premiered 75 years ago, but it would appear that Wind has still got legs: when asked to name their favorite movie of all time, the septuagenarian Civil War epic Gone with the Wind is Americans' top pick again

Equally enchanting and entrancing in one evening, the Skylight Music Theatre sends Milwaukee audiences to the Emerald City to revisit The Wizard of Oz in grand theatrical style. Over the holiday season, Dorothy and her four friends, Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Man and her beloved Toto, share a journey to where everyone wishes to return: a home overflowing with family and friends.

THE WIZARD OF OZ, a holiday classic in the making, is now delighting audiences at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven.

For Danielle Wade playing iconic, female characters on stage is a dream come true. Fresh off the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Wizard of OZ - which played Toronto during an extended sit down, Wade is trading her ruby slipper for ones made of glass in Ross Petty's annual pantomime production. This year's whimsical tale is Cinderella: The Gags to Riches Family Musical!