Based on America’s most lurid talk show and host, the opera brings us on a journey through triumph, tragedy and trailer trash...ending in hell.
A new opera based on the life of tabloid queen Anna Nicole Smith will open at Royal Opera House this Thurday, February 17. Already, the production's six shows, which run through March 4, are comletely sold out. The show, entitled ANNA NICOLE is described on their website as 'a celebrity story of our times that includes extreme language, drug abuse and sexual content,' and imposed a minimum age of 16. This new opera is provocative in its themes, exciting in its bravura style and thrilling with its sheer contemporary nerve,' it added in language normally reserved for reality TV.'
A new opera based on the life of tabloid queen Anna Nicole Smith will open at Royal Opera House this Thurday, February 17. Already, the production's six shows, which run through March 4, are comletely sold out. The show, entitled ANNA NICOLE is described on their website as 'a celebrity story of our times that includes extreme language, drug abuse and sexual content,' and imposed a minimum age of 16. This new opera is provocative in its themes, exciting in its bravura style and thrilling with its sheer contemporary nerve,' it added in language normally reserved for reality TV.'
Huntington Theatre Company kicks off its spring of comedy with Educating Rita by Willy Russell (Shirley Valentine, Blood Brothers), welcoming back celebrated British director Maria Aitken.
DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions, Ltd. are pleased to announce that SHREK THE MUSICAL with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, directed by Jason Moore and Rob Ashford, will play DeVos Performance Hall, for one week only, June 21-26, 2011.
Smuggler Films partners, John N. Hart & Patrick Milling Smith and film and theatre producers, Fred Zollo and Barbara Broccoli & Michael G Wilson have announced the creative team for upcoming stage adaptation of the 2007 Academy Award-winning film ONCE, coming to Broadway in Fall 2011. The musical will feature the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter, Enda Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom), direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch, John Tiffany, design by five time Tony Award winner Bob Crowley (The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins). Steven Hoggett (American Idiot, Black Watch) will provide musical staging and Martin Lowe (Mamma Mia!) is the music director.
Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel award nominee Amy Warren (The Adding Machine, August: Osage County), Zachary James (South Pacific, The Addams Family), Rebecca Ringle (The Metropolitan Opera's upcoming Nixon in China and Die Walkure), Ryan Bauer-Walsh (Chicago's Billy Elliot), Mellissa Hughes (The Little Death, Volume 1), and mezzo-soprano Flora Mendoza join previously announced Megan Stern (Straight Up Vampire, CHURCH) and Lauren Worsham (New York City Opera's Candide, Goodspeed Opera House's Carnival!) for The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12, at Joe's Pub on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
Executive producer Jonny Stax Presents, Inc., announces the premiere of The Scooty & JoJo Show's biggest show to date - Alien Queen.
The Coterie (Royce Vavrek and Lauren Worsham, Co-Artistic Directors), a downtown opera-theater company devoted to developing contemporary music theater works, will present The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12 an evening of twelve world premiere songs from new musicals and operas by twelve different composers on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
Executive producer Jonny Stax Presents, Inc., announces the premiere of The Scooty & JoJo Show's biggest show to date - Alien Queen.
Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel award nominee Amy Warren (The Adding Machine, August: Osage County), Zachary James (South Pacific, The Addams Family), Rebecca Ringle (The Metropolitan Opera's upcoming Nixon in China and Die Walkure), Ryan Bauer-Walsh (Chicago's Billy Elliot), Mellissa Hughes (The Little Death, Volume 1), and mezzo-soprano Flora Mendoza join previously announced Megan Stern (Straight Up Vampire, CHURCH) and Lauren Worsham (New York City Opera's Candide, Goodspeed Opera House's Carnival!) for The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12, at Joe's Pub on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
The Coterie (Royce Vavrek and Lauren Worsham, Co-Artistic Directors), a downtown opera-theater company devoted to developing contemporary music theater works, will present The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12 an evening of twelve world premiere songs from new musicals and operas by twelve different composers on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
Producer David J. Foster announced today that Devil Boys from Beyond, by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott, had its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Wednesday, November 3.
Producer David J. Foster announced today that Devil Boys from Beyond, by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott, will have its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Wednesday, November 3.
Producer David J. Foster announced today that Devil Boys from Beyond, by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott, had its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Wednesday, November 3.
Executive producer Jonny Stax Presents, Inc., announces the premiere of The Scooty & JoJo Show's biggest show to date - Alien Queen.
Producer David J. Foster announced today that Devil Boys from Beyond, by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott, will have its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Wednesday, November 3.
Ovation in association with Alex Segal presents The London Fringe Premiere of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE by Lisa Lambert, Don McKellar, Bob Martin and Greg Morrison
On November 4th, a workshop production of JUDGEMENT premiered at The Roy Arias Theater on 43rd Street. In this daring comedy, a Robot from outer space comes to Earth and produces a reality TV show.
Producer David J. Foster announced today that Devil Boys from Beyond, by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott, will have its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Wednesday, November 3.
Ovation in association with Alex Segal presents The London Fringe Premiere of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE by Lisa Lambert, Don McKellar, Bob Martin and Greg Morrison
Carmen Pavlovic, C.E.O. of Global Creatures, the company behind the phenomenal world-wide success, Walking with Dinosaurs - the Arena Spectacular, has announced that a creative team has been assembled and work has begun on KING KONG - Live on Stage, an entirely new production conceived for the Broadway stage. KING KONG - Live on Stage is authorized by the estate of Merian C. Cooper (Creator of KING KONG and director of the 1933 film).
Broadway In Chicago and the producers of the five-time Tony Award® nominated smash-hit musical ROCK OF AGES have announced the cast that will rock the nation in the 60-city, first national tour kicking off at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago on September 21, 2010. Tickets for this exclusive two week engagement are currently on sale.
Ovation in association with Alex Segal presents The London Fringe Premiere of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE by Lisa Lambert, Don McKellar, Bob Martin and Greg Morrison
The very first fringe production of The Drowsy Chaperone, the hit musical comedy that won more Tony Awards on Broadway in 2006 than any other musical, is swooping into Highgate with sequin-drenched costumes, dazzling choreography and tons of laughs.
Audiences will be whisked away to 1960s Baltimore when Pittsburgh CLO presents Hairspray July 20 - August 1 at the Benedum Center. Adapted for the stage from John Water's 1988 film, Hairspray ran on Broadway for over six years and has since become a toe-tapping hit all over the world.
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