Actress/playwright Kres Mersky's solo plays include Isadora Duncan: A Unique Recital (currently touring the West Coast and Canada) and At The Codfish Ball. Her full-length, full-cast plays include Algerian Romance and Flag Day. She has also written numerous one acts. She has appeared extensively on stage, screen and television, and is a member of the prestigious stage company Theatre West. Mersky's newly revised solo play The Life and Times of A. Einstein will open at Theatre West on April 10. In our talk, she discusses the play and what drew her to Einstein among other theatrical interests.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) has announced the Blu-ray high-definition debut of Disney's animated masterpiece, Beauty and the Beast on October 5, 2010.
Puppet theater has an uncanny ability to take on big themes, and such will be the case when Jane Catherine Shaw, co-director of the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, takes on world drought in 'Thirst: Memory of Water,' her newest puppet theater work. It's a big theme, but Shaw is trying to make it manageable by concentrating on themes of women and water because, as she writes, 'around the world women are carrying (literally) the burden of maintaining life by walking for water.' The play, to be presented by La MaMa March 25 to April 11 in its First Floor Theater, will nevertheless have an epic feeling.
The New Orleans Ballet Association celebrates 40 years of Bringing Dance to Life in New Orleans with a superstar-studded Ruby Gala des Etoiles (40th Anniversary Gala of Stars), April 17 at 6:30pm at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts. Ten internationally renowned Principal and Etoiles ballet dancers from the most prestigious ballet companies in the world will perform at this once-in-a-lifetime event!
Bobby Cannavale, Paul Giamatti, and Amy Ryan will star in the upcoming 'Win Win' film that will begin primary production March 15th in New York City, Variety is reporting. Giamatti plays plays a struggling attorney who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach. All aspects of his life are thrown in the air when he becomes the legal guardian of a client whose grandson shows up on his doorstep.
Puppet theater has an uncanny ability to take on big themes, and such will be the case when Jane Catherine Shaw, co-director of the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, takes on world drought in 'Thirst: Memory of Water,' her newest puppet theater work. It's a big theme, but Shaw is trying to make it manageable by concentrating on themes of women and water because, as she writes, 'around the world women are carrying (literally) the burden of maintaining life by walking for water.' The play, to be presented by La MaMa March 25 to April 11 in its First Floor Theater, will nevertheless have an epic feeling.
It has been said that there is approximately only a 1 in 100th of a chance that a person will land a job working in theater in New York. The chances of working successfully in the industry are smaller than that. Sometimes, though, you meet people like EXTINCTION's James Roday (of the hit television series 'Psych') and Michael Weston ('House') who make you forget that the odds of doing so are not stacked so high - who make you truly believe that if one can simply 'find good material, do what you know and grow it into something bigger' (to quote Roday) that enriched careers in entertainment are truly achievable.
Two of Brooklyn's vanguard organizations for African American music and culture, Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium and International African Arts Festival, will collaborate to produce a Community Day Gala Concert, as part of the 11th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, featuring saxophone great Pharoah Sanders. This event will take place on Saturday, March 27th at Boys and Girls High School auditorium located at 1700 Fulton Street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
Christian Youth Theater Kansas City's 'Oliver!' will close on February 21 at the Rose Theater, Rockhurst High School.
Christian Youth Theater Kansas City will present 'Oliver!' showing February 18 - 21 at the Rose Theater, Rockhurst High School.
Capping off a season of new play development-which included performances of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later and Equivocation with Oregon Shakespeare Festival-Seattle Repertory Theatre presents three high-profile new plays under the umbrella of their New Play Program.
New York-based performers Harrington & Kauffman present 'Cabaret Terrarium,' an epic comedy of amnesia and redemption featuring Belgian cabaret singer Gustave and his associate Nhar, the same two characters who starred in the hits 'Hotel California'
(1999 NYC Fringe, 2001 HBO Aspen Comedy Festival) and 'Nharcolepsy' (2003 NYC Fringe, international tour). 'Cabaret
Terrarium' opens its first multi-week New York run Friday, February 5 at 8:00 pm, at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg.
Christian Youth Theater Kansas City will present 'Oliver!' showing February 18 - 21 at the Rose Theater, Rockhurst High School.
Goodman Theatre is proud to announce the Krapp's Last Tape Artists Talk as part of the new 2010 Series connecting theater audiences with the artists who bring productions to life at the Goodman.
New York-based performers Harrington & Kauffman present 'Cabaret Terrarium,' an epic comedy of amnesia and redemption featuring Belgian cabaret singer Gustave and his associate Nhar, the same two characters who starred in the hits 'Hotel California'
(1999 NYC Fringe, 2001 HBO Aspen Comedy Festival) and 'Nharcolepsy' (2003 NYC Fringe, international tour). 'Cabaret
Terrarium' opens its first multi-week New York run Friday, February 5 at 8:00 pm, at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg.
Goodman Theatre is proud to announce the Krapp's Last Tape Artists Talk as part of the new 2010 Series connecting theater audiences with the artists who bring productions to life at the Goodman.
Best known as a creator of broad film farces and uproarious parodies, jack-of-all-trades Mel Brooks has been entertaining audiences for years with his wacky and absurdist humor. Now just in time for the holidays, the king of comedy's brilliant work is available for the first time in high definition in The Mel Brooks Collection on Blu-ray Disc, debuting December 15 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
SecondStory Repertory, Redmond's only professional theater company, faces the most severe financial crisis of its decade-long life, but on December 7, 2009 they passed the half way mark for their $80K fundraising goal. Spirits and momentum are on a holiday high; with $42K collected, $12K in pledges, and an overwhelming outpouring of in-kind and volunteer support. The SecondStory staff is hopeful that they will make their December 31st financial goal so they won't have to shut their doors. SecondStory Repertory, Redmond 's only professional theater company, faces the most severe financial crisis of its decade-long life. SecondStory has entertained tens of thousands from its convenient second story home inside Redmond Town Center. Now, in its 11th season, the theater is faced with the daunting challenge of raising $80,000 by December 31, 2009 or entering bankruptcy and ceasing all operations immediately.
CYT Kansas City North proudly presents Disney's High School Musical, November 5-8, 2009 at YouthFront Auditorium, 4715 Rainbow Boulevard, Shawnee Mission, Ks.
CYT Kansas City North proudly presents Disney's High School Musical, November 5-8, 2009 at YouthFront Auditorium, 4715 Rainbow Boulevard, Shawnee Mission, Ks.
CYT Kansas City North proudly presents Disney's High School Musical, November 5-8, 2009 at YouthFront Auditorium, 4715 Rainbow Boulevard, Shawnee Mission, Ks.
As previously announced, Fela!, the new musical based on the life and music of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, will arrive on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street) where performances will commence on Monday, October 19 with an official opening set for Monday, November 23.
Theatre on Fire opens its fifth anniversary season at the Charlestown Working Theater with a BASH from October 2 - 17, 2009. BASH is a triptych of intense and mesmerizing one-acts depicting the dark heart of ordinary people, revealing the casual evil that surrounds us in everyday life.
The producers of Fela!, the new musical based on the life and music of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, have announced the policy for general rush tickets to this new musical which will begin performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street) on Monday, October 19.
ARTDOCS NASHVILLE (Artists Receiving Treatment Doctors Offering Crucial Services) is a new 501c3 charitable organization in Nashville offering no-cost medical services for artists without health insurance. ARTDOCS was founded in New Orleans in 1999 by art gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara, Vincent Morelli and a group of physicians and volunteers.
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