DSI Comedy Theater Welcomes Two Female-Fronted Comedy Tours This JuneJune 1, 2012DSI will welcome The Iddy Biddy Teeny Tiny Sara Schaefer Stand-up Comedy Tour and the Pink Collar Comedy Tour on June 21. The first show is at 7:30 p.m. and the second show is at 9 p.m. Tickets to each show cost $10 All shows take place at DSI Comedy Theater, 200 N. Greensboro Street, located in the Carr Mill Mall between Elmo's and Southern Rail. Tickets are available online: www.DSIcomedytheater.com.
STAGE TUBE: Highlights from Paper Mill Playhouse's ONCE ON THIS ISLAND!June 1, 2012More than 20 years after its premiere, Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens are re-inventing their first musical with Tony-nominated director Thomas Kail (In the Heights, Lombardi, Magic/Bird), choreographer Bradley Rapier (So You Think You Can Dance, Jesus Christ Superstar) and new orchestrations by music director Lynne Shankel (Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Altar Boyz). View highlights of the production below!
Playhouse On Park to Offer Summer Playwriting ClassesJune 1, 2012For the first time, Playhouse On Park, in partnership with Bated Breath Theatre Company, invites aspiring and experienced writers to explore their talents in a special Playwriting Workshop with Michael Bradford.
Hennepin Theatre Trust Announces the Election of Three New Board TrusteesMay 31, 2012Hennepin Theatre Trust today announced the election of three new members to its Board of Trustees. They are Daniel Pierce Bergin, Senior Producer and Partnership Manager for Twin Cities Public Television, Mark Marjala, Senior Director of Human Resources at Best Buy, Co., Inc. in Minneapolis and Tom Vitt, a partner in Dorsey and Whitney's Trial Department and Co-Chair of the IP Litigation Practice Group.
Robert Dubac Brings FREE RANGE THINKING to Act II Playhouse, 7/18-8/12May 31, 2012Robert Dubac brings his new one-man show FREE RANGE THINKINGto Act II Playhouse in Ambler this summer, from July 18-Aug. 12. Dubac's previous show, THE MALE INTELLECT: AN OXYMORON?, was a sold-out hit when it played at Act II last summer. Described as 'channeling Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Mark Twain, FREE RANGE THINKING is fast-paced and loaded with thought-provoking humor.'
TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series Set for Mondays in JuneMay 31, 2012Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 2012 TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series. The three plays that will be presented are Foreclosure by Vincent Delaney, produced by Mondays Dark Theatre Company and Kenny Howard of The Broadway Consortium; Appendage by Derek Murphy, produced by Tweiss Productions (Sharon Weiss & Eileen B. Weiss); and The Sin Eater by Michael Bettencourt, produced by Block & Tackle Productions, Inc. and Elfin Frederick Vogel. The selected plays will be read on Mondays, June 4, 11, and 18 respectively, at 7pm at The Roy Arias Theatre, 300 W. 43rd Street, 5th Floor, Studio 500, NYC. Admission is FREE but reservations are required: email TRUStaff1@gmail.com or call 212-714-7628.
'Rock Center with Brian Williams' to Move to Thursday Nights, 6/7May 31, 2012When 'Rock Center with Brian Williams' returns on Thursday, June 7 at 10p/9c, its time slot this summer and into the fall, the newsmagazine will 'do what it does best - profile remarkable people and deliver groundbreaking stories that touch lives.'
Silk Road Rising Presents SUMMER LAUGHIN: A SEASON OF STAGED READINGSMay 31, 2012Silk Road Rising co-founders, Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Executive Director Malik Gillani, have announced three staged readings for Summer 2012: Danny Bernardo's Mahal, Yussef Guindi's The Mummy and The Revolution, and Shane Sakhrani's The Doctor is Indian. All three staged readings will be presented in the company's venue in Pierce Hall at The Historic Chicago Temple Building at 77 W. Washington St. in Chicago. Tickets are $5.00 for each reading.
North Carolina Symphony Announces MOZART AND MARTINIS, 7/12May 31, 2012The North Carolina Symphony presents a special Rush Hour concert event for Triangle residents later this summer. Join the Symphony right after work for "Mozart and Martinis," an intimate celebration of Mozart's most popular masterworks, music full of passion, power, heroism and grace.
Guggenheim Presents Summer Waterfront Soundwalks for stillspotting nyc: staten islandMay 31, 2012Stillspotting nyc is a two-year multidisciplinary project that takes the Guggenheim Museum's programming out into the streets. Site-specific commissions in all five of New York City's boroughs identify moments of urban quiet and stillness and respond to everyday issues of noise and anxiety. For stillspotting nyc: staten island, the fourth edition in the series, sound artist Justin Bennett and poet Matthea Harvey present Telettrofono, an audio walking tour that braids history with fantasy along and around the waterfront.
Opera House Players to Present TO BROADWAY, LOVE TONY II, 6/22-24May 31, 2012Opera House Players, Inc. will kick off its summer Cabaret series with TO BROADWAY, LOVE TONY II, a musical revue featuring songs from Tony Award winning and nominated shows on Friday, June 22 and Saturday, June 23 at 8pm and Sunday, June 24 at 2pm at the Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main Street, Broad Brook, CT.
Ann Hampton Callaway to Headline JOHNNY MERCER CELEBRATION CONCERT, 6/23May 31, 2012The stars are out for an evening of musical enchantment, sharing songs by the writers who have most inspired them from George Gershwin to Paul McCartney. Featuring one of the leading champions of the Great American Songbook and "the singer who stills the room": Tony-nominated Broadway star Ann Hampton Callaway (SWING!), this one-night-only concert will also include performances from Tony-nominated composer and lyricist Craig Carnelia, Grammy-nominated composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Lari White, emerging songwriters from the 2012 Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project and an appearance by the great Johnny Mercer himself through audio and video recollections where he reveals the writers who most inspired his prolific career.
WAR HORSE Comes to Atlanta, 9/25-30May 31, 2012The National Theatre's WAR HORSE, winner of five 2011 Tony® Awards including Best Play, will make its Atlanta debut at the Fox Theatre September 25-30, as part of the Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta 2012-13 season
Midtown International Theatre Festival Announces 2012 SeasonMay 31, 2012The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) today announced the lineup of full-length plays and musicals for its thirteenthseason, running from July 16 to August 5, 2012 at the June Havoc Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, NYC. Tickets are $18-15. Tickets are available at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-4111.