Stephen Taylor News

On Tuesday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m., the Yale School of Music continues its third annual Yale in New York series with Prokofiev Rediscovered.

Thomas W. Morris, artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival and Ojai's 2009 music director eighth blackbird have announced the final programming for the 2009 Ojai Music Festival, which takes place from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, June 14, 2009. This season, the four-day Festival, which for six decades has become well known for its fearlessness in championing pioneering musical ideas and personalities, pushes the envelope again with programming that reflects the qualities that have made eighth blackbird a growing musical phenomenon-genre-defying variety in wildly collaborative and visually dramatic presentations.

Strawdog Theatre Company completes their 21st season with Peter Barnes' dark comedy 'Red Noses,' directed by House Theatre's Matt Hawkins. In Barnes' 1985 Olivier Award-winning play, the Black Plague has wiped out half of Europe's 14th century population, so God gives the young priest Father Flote a special mission to save his suffering people ... make ?em laugh

Thomas W. Morris, artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival and Ojai's 2009 music director eighth blackbird have announced the final programming for the 2009 Ojai Music Festival, which takes place from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, June 14, 2009. This season, the four-day Festival, which for six decades has become well known for its fearlessness in championing pioneering musical ideas and personalities, pushes the envelope again with programming that reflects the qualities that have made eighth blackbird a growing musical phenomenon-genre-defying variety in wildly collaborative and visually dramatic presentations.

Strawdog Theatre Company completes their 21st season with Peter Barnes' dark comedy 'Red Noses,' directed by House Theatre's Matt Hawkins. In Barnes' 1985 Olivier Award-winning play, the Black Plague has wiped out half of Europe's 14th century population, so God gives the young priest Father Flote a special mission to save his suffering people ... make 'em laugh. Flote gathers a band of desperately untalented misfits, turns them into clowns and together they search for salvation with hilarity. Hawkins, who also directed House's hit production of 'Hatfield & McCoy,' makes his Strawdog directing debut with a 23-person cast. 'Red Noses' runs about two hours and ten minutes with one intermission, and includes free admittance to Strawdog Late Night following the Friday and Saturday shows (Late Night schedule available at www.strawdog.org).

Producer Laura Coker has announced an added performance for Blood Brothers, the Olivier Award-winning, Tony-nominated musical drama by Willy Russell on Sunday, November 23 at 8 pm.

A multi-ethnic cast highlights stinging themes of class and poverty when Whitefire artistic director Bryan Rasmussen directs Blood Brothers, the Olivier Award-winning, Tony-nominated musical drama by Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine). The tragic musical tale opens at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks on October 18 for a six-week run through November 23.

The creative team that captivated audiences in 2007 with the smash-hit The Sparrow, will re-imagine their 2005 hit, DAVE DAVINCI SAVES THE UNIVERSE, this fall for a limited engagement at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division St. Written by Chris Mathews, Jake Minton and Nathan Allen, directed by Nathan Allen, and presented by The House Theatre of Chicago, DAVE DAVINCI SAVES THE UNIVERSE will run September 18 - November 8, 2008. Press opening is Sunday, September 21. Tickets are $10-$29, and may be purchased by calling (773) 251-2195 or online at www.thehousetheatre.com.

The creative team that captivated audiences in 2007 with the smash-hit The Sparrow, will re-imagine their 2005 hit, DAVE DAVINCI SAVES THE UNIVERSE, this fall for a limited engagement at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division St. Written by Chris Mathews, Jake Minton and Nathan Allen, directed by Nathan Allen, and presented by The House Theatre of Chicago, DAVE DAVINCI SAVES THE UNIVERSE will run September 18 - November 8, 2008. Press opening is Sunday, September 21. Tickets are $10-$29, and may be purchased by calling (773) 251-2195 or online at www.thehousetheatre.com.

The creative team that captivated audiences in 2007 with the smash-hit The Sparrow, will re-imagine their 2005 hit, DAVE DAVINCI SAVES THE UNIVERSE, this fall for a limited engagement at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division St. Written by Chris Mathews, Jake Minton and Nathan Allen, directed by Nathan Allen, and presented by The House Theatre of Chicago, DAVE DAVINCI SAVES THE UNIVERSE will run September 18 - November 8, 2008. Press opening is Sunday, September 21. Tickets are $10-$29, and may be purchased by calling (773) 251-2195 or online at www.thehousetheatre.com.