Ashlee Latimer

Bellevue Little Theatre's production of  'The Haunting of Hill House', adapted for the stage by F. Andrew Leslie from the novel by Shirley Jackson, will open at the BLT, 203 W. Mission Ave. in Bellevue on Friday Nov. 4, and will close on Sunday Nov. 20.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) will host a special concert on November 4, featuring Alan Pierson, conductor of the acclaimed contemporary music group Alarm Will Sound, directing the SFCM New Music Ensemble in two politically charged works: Ted Hearne's Katrina Ballads and Frederic Rzewski's Coming Together. In a special appearance, activist and author Angela Davis will act as the narrator in Rzewski's Coming Together and facilitate a conversation at the end of the concert about the topics presented in the concert.

An unmissable shining star in the North London Christmas season, Charles Court Opera are back at the King's Head Theatre with their latest dazzling offering of boutique panto, Pinocchio. 

Nexus Arts, the centre of inclusive, culturally diverse arts in Adelaide, will host the inaugural Nexus Arts Fundraising Gala on Saturday the 29th of October 2016.

Cabaret Queen, Trevor Ashley brings his hilarious one-(wo)man show Liza's Back! (is Broken) to the Cremorne Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from 17 to 22 January 2017. 

The KlangVerwaltung Orchestra has been recognized for its superlative technical skill, ability to interact like a chamber music ensemble, vibrant orchestral color, and lively stage presence. Under the direction of conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg, the orchestra has earned rave reviews, both for its live performances and numerous recordings. For its 20th anniversary season tour, the orchestra is joined by the heralded Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern Chorus for performances in Canada and the USA. On Tuesday, October 25 at 8 p.m., they will perform in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. The other tour dates are: Montreal (Place des Arts, October 21), Toronto (Roy Thomson Hall, October 22), New York (Carnegie Hall, October 24) and completing the tour in Boston (Symphony Hall, October 26).  

The Wilbury Group, in association with TAPS at Brown, announces After Orlando, a staged-reading of new plays from noted international playwrights in response the shooting at Pulse Nightclub, presented Tuesday November 1, 2016 at 8pm in Studio 1 in the Granoff Center for the Arts at Brown University.

Step back in time to a decadent Jazz Age blues club. Cabaret diva Mama Alto invites you to a unique and fleeting world: step into a smoky and mysterious 1930s blues club. Welcome to the Jazz Age, doll. The darling of the demimonde is here to sing her heart out for you, despite uncertain winds of change howling just outside. Velvet and smoke, debauchery and treachery, crystal chandeliers and bootleg moonshine, scandal and danger, flappers and politicians, clashing ideologies and syncopated melodies… A world verging on turmoil. Is it so different from our own?

With 'a crash of drums, a flash of light,' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the internationally acclaimed musical/dance extravaganza explodes on Star of the Day Stage. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's spectacular musical will close the company's 2nd season of musicals. The show opens on Friday, December 2, 2016, with performances through December 17. Performance times are Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 pm, with matinees at 2:00 pm Sundays. Star of the Day is located at McCoole's Arts & Events Place, 10 S. Main Street, Quakertown, PA. Tickets start at $18 for students and seniors and $25 for adults. For a full listing of show performances or to order tickets visit www.staroftheday.org, or call the box office at 484-809-9228. 

The Alliance Francaise d'Adelaide will present a weekend of all things French on Friday 18 andSaturday 19 November at the Bonjour Adelaide French Market to be held in the leafy Unley Soldiers' Memorial Gardens, cnr Unley Road and Thomas Street, Unley. (It promises to be the next best thing to being in France!)

Help us put this amazing musical on stage, invite all of your friends that can sing and dance and want to be a part of something amazing in the theatre history of Staunton, Va. From the underground dance clubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, comes the Tony Award winning musical that bursts off the stage with explosive dancing,  irresistible songs  and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love.

West Coast Players will present the hilarious and touching comedy,  A NICE FAMILY GATHERINGby Phil Olson, November 4 - 20, 2016. 

Golden Globe award-winning actress and playwright Regina Taylor is this year's recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award at the 14th Annual Texas State Black and Latino Playwrights Conference Sept. 12-18 at Texas State University. A tribute to the native Texan will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.  

Known as 'the only podcast that shows you Broadway from the inside out,' The Ensemblist podcast has become the champion of the unsung performance heroes and inner workings of the theatre world. Co-created and co-hosted by Nikka Graff Lanzarote (Chicago, Women on the Verge) and Mo Brady (SMASH, The Addams Family), the podcast has covered everything from the Gypsy Robe ceremony, to the audition process, to what it's like to be a Broadway babysitter during its first three years on the air. Now, following a successful first season covering the 'Ensemblist Essentials,' this past spring, The Ensemblist is entering into its second season (check out the first episode below!) and I sat down to talk with Nikka and Mo about how the podcast has grown, what it looks like to balance careers in the arts with being podcast masters, which Broadway ensemble they'd like to join, and more-check out the full interview below!

As the world continues to face dark times, members of the theatre community are choosing to respond to tragedy with art that spreads hope for the future. According to Matthew Curiano, when the cast of the Ogunquit Playhouse's production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame began rehearsing for the show, they 'found truly just how poignant, powerful, and undeniably relevant the story [they] were telling was.' As a result, several of the cast members joined together to film a video using the words of the song 'Someday,' sung by the characters Esmerelda and Phoebus in the second act of Hunchback, as a prayer for the future, and to honor the victims of the Orlando massacre at Pulse Nightclub, the police shooting in Dallas, and to Alton Sterling and Philander Castile, who were both killed by police.

The Internet knows that Lin-Manuel Miranda loves his tennis, but perhaps no match was more exciting for the Broadway powerhouse than the historic women's singles final that took place on Day 8 of the Summer 2016 Olympics. Competing against Germany's Angelique Kerber in an intense three-set match, Monica Puig pulled out a win for Puerto Rico and made history, taking home the first gold medal for the island since Puerto Rico began competing in the Olympics in 1948.

TexARTS' next production in its 2016-17 Professional Series will be a musical inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. Starring Michael Carrasco (North American Tour, Grease!), Rachel Pallante (The Vortex, The Tempest), Polly Seale (Radio City Music National Tour, The Wizard of Oz), Michael Marchese (TexARTS' My Way A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra), Kami Smith (Austin Shakespeare, As You Like It), Kristi King (Doctuh Mistuh Productions, Reefer Madness), Curt Olson (TexARTS, Guys and Dolls), and Toni Baker. All Shook Up runs August 12 - 21 at the Kam and James Morris Theatre.

According to their official website, Tony-winner Savion Glover returns to B.B King's Blues Club and Grill on August 17, 2016 for a solo performance showcasing his signature style, demonstrating tap as both an instrumental and a visual art form.