Second Company News

Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the launch of KCBallet@Home, a compilation of on demand performances, public online dance work outs, classes, podcasts, and more. Details can be found at KCBallet@Home.

3rd Act Theatre Company, a 501(c)3 new non-profit theatre company in Oklahoma City, will announce their second season's theme, POWER, and shows to be performed, via a livestream event on Facebook Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 7 p.m. CT. 3rd Act artists will reflect on the soon-to-be completed first season, including the currently postponed production of Kim Carney's Moonglow, and their home space at The Shoppes at Northpark.

Kansas City Ballet has announced cancellations and postponements due to Covid-19:

Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the choreographers chosen for New Moves, a unique performance event designed to search out, develop and showcase emerging choreographers, both from the national dance scene as well as locally within Kansas City Ballet. New provides time and space for choreographers to create world premiere works with accomplished professional dancers. New Moves features the works of choreographers Melissa Gelfin, Rasta Thomas, Melody Mennite, KCB Company Ballet Master Parrish Maynard and Dancers Christopher Costantini, Emily Mistretta, Courtney Nitting and James Kirby Rogers.

On October 23 & 25, RESONANCE WORKS will open its 2020-2021 season with I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams at the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh's North Side. 

Peterborough Players has announced their 2020 Summer Season, where 'Anything can happen...'! The Players has a lot to celebrate as this summer commemorates not only the 87th year of the Players, but the 25th season of lauded leadership team, Artistic Director Gus Kaikkonen and Managing Director Keith Stevens.

Center Theatre Group has announced its 54th season at the Ahmanson Theatre, which features Hadestown, Dear Evan Hansen, The Prom, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more!

Exploring the breadth and depth of American dance, Segerstrom Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a diverse lineup of programming this Spring. It all begins with the World Premiere of American Ballet Theatre's new work from ABT Artist-in-Residence Alexei Ratmansky titled Of Love and Rage.

Noted author and scholar Lorene Cary, whose first novel, The Price of a Child, was selected in 2003 as the inaugural One Book, One Philadelphia, has received rave reviews for the world premiere of her play, MY GENERAL TUBMAN, at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company. Due to popular demand, the work will now run at the Arden's Arcadia Stage through March 15, 2020. This is the second extension of the production.

Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the company's 2020-2021 season, which opens with Michael Pink's mesmerizing Dracula, continues with Devon Carney's world premiere choreography for the romantic and comedic Cinderella, and closes with George Balanchine's three-part masterpiece, Jewels. The season also includes the annual and always highly anticipated return of The Nutcracker and the intimately intense dance experience known as New Moves.

a??Huntington Theatre Companya??announces a first-ever a?oePink Outa?? performance of The Second City's She the People: Girlfriends' Guide to Sisters Doing it for Themselves in partnership with The Ellie Fund, a breast cancer support organization. The a?oePink Outa?? performance will take place on Sunday, February 23 at 6PM at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA (527 Tremont St. Boston). A portion of the proceeds of ticket sales will go to The Ellie Fund's Healing Together Patient and Family Care Program. All attendees of the a?oePink Outa?? performance are encouraged to wear pink to show support for breast cancer patients and survivors. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone or in person at ticketing services by providing the promo code PINKOUT.

Albuquerque has announced the national tour of COME FROM AWAY, a Broadway musical about the true story of the small town that welcomed the world, will make its Albuquerque debut in Popejoy Hall for a limited engagement June 9-14, 2020. COME FROM AWAY tickets are on sale now! To purchase tickets, visit popejoypresents.com, call 505-925-5858 or visit UNM Ticketing Services located at the UNM Bookstore or visit the new location on south campus at 800 Bradbury Drive SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106. For groups of ten or more inquire at groups@popejoypresents.com.

Tickets are on public sale from Monday 10 February 2020 for new shows announced at Sadler's Wells across 2020, featuring five world premieres, 10 UK premieres, and six Sadler's Wells Productions and co-productions, as well as a host of new creative partnerships involving artists from all over the world.

Ballet Hispanico announces ChoreoLab: Emerging Artist Workshop, a Two-Week Program running June 22-July 2, 2020 for ages 18+ A unique, holistic program, which shapes hirable, competitive dancers who are ready to advance their careers. Audition for ChoreoLaB in NYC! https://www.ballethispanico.org/classes/choreolab

The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts presents two very different works from two of the finest ballet companies in the western half of North America-Ballet West's beautifully traditional production of Giselle, and Ballet BC's stunningly reimagined take on the timeless tale of Romeo + Juliet.

Centenary Stage Company's 2020 January Thaw Music Festival amps up its second weekend with Grammy nominated Diego Figueiredo and clarinetist extraordinaire Ken Peplowski as they bring to life the music of the famous album, 'Jazz Samba.' Diego Figueiredo and Ken Peplowski: The Bossa Nova Wave is set to perform at the Lackland Performing Arts Center Saturday, January 18th @ 8:00 pm.

Artistic Director Paul Vasterling has set Nashville's Nutcracker with the Nashville Symphony at the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Here, Drosselmeyer introduces Clara to the magical imagination and diversity of Nashville. In the ballet's opening, Clara sees a Nutcracker doll made by a German Toy Maker. Following the expo at Centennial Park, Vasterling creates a snowy scene of figure skating at Shelby Bottoms as partygoers head towards the Stahlbaum home. Among other Nashville nuances, Vasterling expands the battle scene to include American Infantry, Native American Soldiers, and Frontier Soldiers, all working together to defeat the Mouse King. The Sugar Plum Fairy holds court in the Parthenon Garden as a final homage to Nashville's branding as the “Athens of the South.'

Nashville Ballet will give away 2,500 tickets to Artistic Director Paul Vasterling's production of Nashville's Nutcracker through the Ballet's Holiday Magic initiative for a thirtieth consecutive year.

Dallas Summer Musicals (DSM) and Broadway Across America (BAA) have announced the national tour of Come From Away, a Broadway musical about the true story of the small town that welcomed the world, will make its Dallas debut at the Music Hall at Fair Park for a limited engagement March 10-22, 2020. Come From Away tickets are on sale now!