Walter Scott News

King Productions' THE FACE OF EMMETT TILL deserves witness for bringing the painful truth of this story to light every night.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler today announced its 2019-2020 season. The season includes four mainstage productions at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, including spectacular productions of The Abduction from the Seraglio and Lucia di Lammermoor that are new to Kansas City, a beloved production of La boh me that was built right here by Lyric Opera, and the KANSAS CITY PREMIERE of The Shining. All performances will be accompanied by members of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra. 

ActorsNET brings in 2019 by promising audiences a "Wilde" time with its presentation of Oscar Wilde's famed comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest.

UNTIL THE FLOOD is a rich and intense 90 minutes of what theatre does best.

Love. Honour. Obey. Tricked into a loveless marriage by her domineering brother, Lucia retreats into silence. Is madness her only escape? Broadway World has the exclusive look !

In 1815, just months after the decisive Battle of Waterloo, in which the United Kingdom and Germany overthrew Napoleon Bonaparte, the great Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott made a pilgrimage to the battlefield.

This morning on TODAY it was announced that Craig Melvin would be joining the weekday team. See the announcement below!

Transgressive Theatre-Opera, one of Chicago's premiere storefront opera companies, presents a Double Bill of Sullivan's Masque at Kenilworth and Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury, on September 21 and 22, 2018, 8:00 pm, in the auditorium space at the historic Ebenezer Lutheran Church, located at 1650 W. Foster Avenue on Chicago's northside.

Third Man Books is thrilled to announce that it will be the exclusive US publisher of Benjamin Myers' celebrated historical novel The Gallows Pole (2017), slated for a winter 2019 release. The novel, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historic fiction and is on its fifth print run in the UK, received global acclaim for its portrayal of the 'coining' gangs of 1760s Yorkshire.

Transgressive Theatre-Opera announces its fifth season, bringing Chicago a staged version of a little-heard Sullivan cantata, an updated gender-rollercoaster of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, a Count Ory transported to a new locale and time, and a concert of arias and ensembles revolving around letters of love and legal documents, the second half of which is Le Nozze di Figaro's Act II in its entirety, in the original Italian.

Tamara Lawrance (Kings Charles III, Undercover) leads the cast as protagonist July in The Long Song, a three-part adaptation of Andrea Levy's award-winning, best-selling novel for BBC One, which will also star Hayley Atwell (Howards End, Avengers), Jack Lowden (War & Peace, Dunkirk) and Sir Lenny Henry (Broadchurch). As previously announced, the series director is Mahalia Belo.

Sera este sabado 7 de julio a partir de las 21.30h, integrada dentro de la Semana de la Ópera

Perhaps it is coincidental that the collaboration between Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman has grown in popularity since its 1990 Off-Broadway debut as the rise of mass shootings in America has increased its grip on the American psyche.  Whether one has anything to do with the other matters little. It cannot be ignored that the nation has a preoccupation with violence and the ideal of the "American Dream."

Today, MSNBC named Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee a Correspondent for MSNBC. Lee – who until now was a National Reporter contributing online and on air for NBC News and MSNBC digital – will remain based in New York City. His appointment is effective immediately.

Piano virtuoso Billy Childs and his quartet are coming to the Holland Performing Arts Center Friday, January 26, 2018 at 8:00 PM. Childs is presented as part of Omaha Performing Arts' 1200 Club series sponsored by C & A Industries and Mutual of Omaha. Even Hotels is a hospitality sponsor.

William Peace Theatre delves into the dark imagination of one of America's foremost authors in An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe, October 26 - 29 in the parlor of William Peace University's Main Building. This anthology work explores six of Poe's short stories, a collection of terrifying and mysterious tales dealing with madness, murder, and mayhem.

The Whispers will bring their timeless hits to Eastside Cannery Casino Hotel's Event Center on Saturday, Oct. 28.

William Peace Theatre delves into the dark imagination of one of America's foremost authors in An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe, October 26 - 29 in the parlor of William Peace University's Main Building. This anthology work explores six of Poe's short stories, a collection of terrifying and mysterious tales dealing with madness, murder, and mayhem.