Simon Lee News

Joining the previously announced Lee Mead as 'Kevin' will be Sherrie Hewson as 'Julia', Jessica Ellis as 'Kelly' and Les Dennis as 'Fergus'. Marc Akinfolarin also joins the cast as 'Alan' with Alex–May Roberts as 'Val'. Further casting to be announced soon.

A new play about iconic entertainer, spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker comes to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre this October half term.

Subtlenuance will present a monumental project Morning Star, featuring some of Sydney's most exciting established and emerging writers, at Marrickville's Flight Path Theatre from 23rd June to 4th July. 

Following a highly successful sell-out tour in 2017, producer Joshua Andrews is delighted to announce that Kay Mellor's smash hit FAT FRIENDS THE MUSICAL will return to tour the UK and Ireland opening at Dartford Orchard Theatre on 14 January 2022.

Lucy St Louis will play 'Christine Daaé' and Rhys Whitfield will play 'Raoul'. They join the previously announced double Olivier Award nominee Killian Donnelly as 'The Phantom'.

Amas Musical Theatre today announced the recipients of the third Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists. Gabe Caruso and Sangwoo ‘Simon’ Lee, 2020 graduates of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, were selected for their full-length musical SETTLE DOWN: A New Hip Hop Musical.

Andrew Lloyd Webber came to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to record a new album with an 81-piece orchestra last week.

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room from March 6 through October 31, 2021. This large-scale installation by New York-based artist Eric N. Mack expands the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and fashion while dynamically reflecting and framing the rich visual experiences of the everyday.

COMUNICATO STAMPA DA UN’IDEA DI ASTRALMUSIC NASCE MUSICLIFE.LIVE il portale dedicato alla musica e all’arte CONCERTI ONLINE, LEZIONI DI MUSICA, SEMINARI DI APPROFONDIMENTO, FORUM PER MUSICISTI… E ALTRO ANCORA! In questo periodo difficile per la musica dal vivo nasce MUSICLIFE.LIVE, la nuova piattaforma digitale creata per la formazione professionale nello spettacolo e nella musica, oltre ad essere un “luogo di in-contro” per musicisti, cantanti, compositori, professionisti, produttori e tutti gli appassionali di musica. Da un’idea di Astralmusic, il portale Musiclife.live (ideato durante il lockdown) permette di poter ascoltare un concerto live online, imparare uno strumento musicale, partecipare a seminari di appro-fondimento, acquistare beat per fare musica, essere informato sui festival e sui vari casting, rimanendo sempre connessi insieme ad altre persone che condividono gli stessi interessi degli utenti. Musiclife.live diventa quindi un modo per accorciare le distanze, mettere in contatto professionisti del settore in modo semplice e diretto, che sia attraverso la piattaforma digitale che de visu, grazie a collo-qui e incontri con i più importanti esperti e appassionati di musica. In collaborazione con l’Accademia Online GLOBAL ARTS, su Musiclife.live è possibile imparare un vero e proprio mestiere. Grazie alla direzione artistica degli artisti internazionali Christine Grimandi (interprete internazionale) e il Maestro Simon Lee (che ha collaborato fra altri artisti internazionali con Björk, Primal Scream, Carreras, Sarah Chang, collaboratore e supervisore musicale da oltre vent’anni di Andrew Lloyd Webber), gli utenti potranno specializzarsi in varie discipline come musica, regia, recitazione, canto, composizione e tanto altro ancora. Dipartimento Direzione d’Orchestra: il supervisore musicale di Andrew Lloyd Webber Simon Lee, il supervisore musicale per Cameron Mackintosh Stephen Brooker, i direttori e arrangiatori Toby Higgins, Rob Rayner e Michael Bradley. Dipartimento di Musica: il direttore John G Smith, il chitarrista Peter Callard, il direttore artistico della London Brass Andrew Crowley, il contrabbassista Rory Dempsey, il flautista Andy Findon, il batterista Andy McGlasson, il violinista Jonathan Hill, il cornista David Lee e il percussionista Julian Poole. Dipartimento Regia / Recitazione, Teatro e Film: il fondatore dell’Opera Factory David Freeman, i registi attori Luca Biagini, Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo, Emmanuel Suarez e Victor Carlo Vitale, i registi attrici Monica Bonomi e Sarah Falanga, la cantante attrice Barbara Lo Gaglio, il coach attore e direttore artistico della PM5 Agency Giuseppe Mastrocinque, il cantante attore Andrea Matthias Pagani e la regista Ilene Winkler. Dipartimento di Canto: i soprano Marie Angel, Janet Mooney e Manuela Ochakovsky. Dipartimento Tecnico: il supervisore sound editor Tim Clark, il lighting designer Maurizio Montobbio e il pluripremiato sound designer Gareth Owen. Appuntamento speciale con il direttore casting David Grindrod. Al progetto collabora anche la NATIONAL MUSIC SCHOOLS, che offre lezioni di musica di alto livello per tutti gli strumenti , corsi tematici, corsi di tecnologia e produzione musicale con artisti di fama nazionale ed internazionale, con la direzione artistica di Diego Peres.Sezione Batteria: Franco Rossi direttore della AMM National Music, David Garibaldi dei Tower of Power, Skip Had-den dalla Berklee College of Music, Israel Varela vincitore dell'Eu-ro Latin Award, Camillo Colleluori, Ignazio Di Fresco, Luca Casagranda, Sergio Pescara, Archelao Macrillò, Paolo Bertorelle, Nicola Montagnoli, Federico Fazi, Carlo Catalano, Diego Dalla Turca, Marco Bellagamba, Ricky Roma e Nico Roccamo, Sezione Chitarra: Roberto Vanni. Sezione Voce: Karin Mensah (Mariah Carey, Anggun, Miguel Bosè). Il sassofonista clarinettista Mauro Negri (Kenny Wheeler, Billy Cobham, Albert Mangesldorff, Gato Barbieri), il contrabbassista Luca Pisani (Barry Harris, Steve Grossman, Bob Bonissolo), il tecnico audio Alessio Malesiani, il direttore d'orchestra Pietro Montanti. Sulla piattaforma sono presenti anche altri prestigiosi insegnanti indipendenti dalle accademie che presenteranno i loro programmi, tra i quali la cantante e coach Roberta Faccani (ex Matia Bazar, musical Rent, Romeo e Giulietta ama e cambia il mondo di David Zard), il trombonista Max Dedo (Max Gazzè, Carmen Consoli, Nicola Piovani), il bassista Mario Guarini (Claudio Baglioni) e il chitarrista Renato Caruso (Consulente Musicale Mediaset), Oltre a tutte le news artistiche, ci sarà una sezione dedicata ai professionisti dello spettacolo di materia burocratica e fiscale con il supporto dell’ufficio legale Vittorio Costa e Associati e Astralmusic. L’idea di MUSICLIFE.LIVE nasce da Astralmusic, agenzia di rappresentanza artistica per tutti gli operatori dello spettacolo che dal 1998 opera principalmente nei settori di consulenza artistica e fiscale, produzione discografica, accademia musicale, promozione e organizzazione eventi con sede legale a Castelplanio nelle Marche e altre sedi a Roma, Milano, Londra e Doha in Qatar. Lo staff di giovani professionisti specializzati nei vari settori è coordinato dai due soci fondatori e titolari, i fratelli Giordano e Graziano Tittarelli. PROSSIMI APPUNTAMENTI ONLINE • 25 Febbraio 2021 – 19.00 (Roma) 6 p.m. (GMT) 'Let's Talk About The Audition - David and Simon are waiting for you online and for the next... audi-tions!' con David Grindrod e Simon Lee Lingua: English Sign Up: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkde-opjgiGNF6tF3bejQ3CcMQOc0CGUBh • 26 Febbraio 2021 – 19.00 (Roma) 6 p.m. (GMT) 'The Role Of The Music Supervisor In Musical Theatre” con Stephen Brooker e Simon Lee Lingua: English Sign Up: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcu6uqz4iGt3I2wwQC9yXQFgE-gt2LhDp www.musiclife.live Milano, 23 settembre 2020 Ufficio Stampa: Parole & Dintorni Francesco Di Mento (francesco@paroleedintorni.it – 02 20404727) Musiclife.live: info@musiclife.live

Even though the curtain's down, the show must go on! 'The Latest Draft' is a podcast celebrating new works from the next generation of great musical theatre authors. Weekly episodes will feature podcast musicals by book writers, lyricists, and composers from around the world.

Chapter NY has announced Willa Nasatir's second solo exhibition with the gallery. For her first show, Nasatir exhibited four photographs; this exhibition will feature four paintings. In her previous photographic work, Nasatir incorporates found objects to restage filmic tropes that connote sensations of suspense, seduction, and crisis. Often alluding to narrative techniques, she simultaneously withholds any coherent message.

A DEAL by Zhu Yi, developed as part of 'New Text - New Stage', an Ibsen International project for the development of new writing.

Chapter NY is pleased to announce False Topiary, Ryan Mrozowski's first exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a series of recent paintings of topiary mazes and a selection of dog drawings, presented together for the first time.   Mrozowski's practice engages seriality and repetition to reveal unexpected nuance in forms derived from the natural world. His banal subjects-often sourced from encyclopedic volumes-assume new meaning within his constructed environments.

The Dallas Art Fair has announced the opening of 214 Projects, a 2,500-square-foot permanent exhibition space and cultural venue in the Dallas Design District. The space will open Saturday, March 2, 2019, with Emmanuel Van der Auwera: White Noise, a solo exhibition supported by Belgian gallery Harlan Levey Projects, who has been a Dallas Art Fair exhibitor since 2015.

Since 2010, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) has hosted the {Re}HAPPENING inspired by John Cage's 1952 Theatre Piece No. 1, an unscripted performance at Black Mountain College considered by many to be the first Happening. The annual {Re}HAPPENING brings together dozens of contemporary artists whose work responds to and extends the legacy of Black Mountain College visionaries such as John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, M.C. Richards and Robert Rauschenberg. The 2019 {Re}HAPPENING celebrates the influence of non-western music on such legendary artists by showcasing contemporary musicians who continue the legacy of experimental music within a global context. As part of the international Merce Cunningham Centennial Celebration, BMCM+AC will juxtapose these contemporary performances and installations alongside projections of historic Cunningham dance footage, including Variations V, a collaboration with John Cage and fellow BMC faculty Stan VanDerBeek.

The Dallas Art Fair is pleased to announce the exhibitor list for its eleventh edition. The fair will take place within the Fashion Industry Gallery (f.i.g.) in the Dallas Arts District from April 11-14, 2019. Close to 100 exhibitors from over 30 different cities across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia will take part in the 2019 fair.

It's almost impossible to put into words just how amazing the year of 2018 has been for A State Of Trance and Trance music as a whole. After drawing over 70 million listeners to the live broadcast of the previous year mix, Armin van Buuren built on the momentum by hosting several phenomenal ASOT events in places such as Utrecht in the Netherlands, Melbourne in Australia, Gliwice in Poland and more, and spoiling his listeners with loads of new, exciting Trance & Progressive tunes every single week. And now, it's time to capture all of those moments in an album so carefully crafted it took 60 hours to complete: 'A State Of Trance Year Mix 2018 (Mixed by Armin van Buuren)'.

Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical BROADWAY BOUND shares his journey from the familial home to his dream career as part of Broadway's entertainment industry. 

The theatre world lost one of its greatest writers with the passing of Neil Simon in August, so New Theatre's programming of Broadway Bound to round off 2019 holds a certain piquancy. It's an opportunity for Sydney theatre lovers to reacquaint themselves with his comic genius.

After selling out venues in Toronto, New York, Winnipeg, Chicago, Hamilton, and Edmonton, the award-winning '90s nostalgia play Hey '90s Kids, You're Old returns to New York City as part of FringeNYC!