Way Off Broadway to Present FOOTLOOSE, 6/15-8/25May 18, 2012The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre is getting ready to cut loose this summer with the dance musical Footloose. The stage production, based on the Paramount Pictures film, will open at the Frederick theatre on Friday, June 15th and run through August 25th.
2012-13 Accordo Concert Season AnnouncedMay 18, 2012Accordo, established in 2009, is a Minnesota-based chamber group. Its fourth season (2012-13) will be presented by The Schubert Club, Northrop Concerts and Lectures, and Kate Nordstrum Projects at the National Historic Landmark Christ Church Lutheran, one of the Twin Cities' great architectural treasures designed by the esteemed architect Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero Saarinen.
Buck Creek Players to Present THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, 6/1-17May 18, 2012The most celebrated musical of the 2006 Broadway season, The Drowsy Chaperone, a new musical comedy, is coming to the Buck Creek Playhouse, 11150 Southeastern Avenue, for nine performances, June 1-17, 2012. With music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, this musical within a comedy takes a modern-day spin on musical comedies of old.
Kai Talim to Host WALK WITH CHILDREN Concert, 5/25May 18, 2012Kai Talim, an alumnus of the Music Institute of Chicago's Academy for gifted pre-college musicians, hosts the second annual Walk with Children benefit concert featuring other Academy alumni, current students, and friends. The program includes works by Handel, Schubert, Prokofiev, Ravel, Villa-Lobos, Smetana, Piazzolla and more.
Peoples Improv Theater Presents BEAUTY LOVE TRUTH, 5/31May 18, 2012After a decade of performances at bars and theaters (UCB, PIT, Magnet, Barrow Street) Beauty Love Truth- improvised scenes inspired by a live musician - will hold a residency at the PIT on the last Thursday of each month at 8pm.
Vienna State Opera Releases Statement on the Passing of Dietrich Fischer-DieskauMay 18, 2012Die Wiener Staatsoper trauert um den legendären Bariton Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, der am heutigen Freitag, 18. Mai 2012 im 87. Lebensjahr in Berg bei Starnberg verstorben ist. 'Mit Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ist ein einzigartiger Gestalter von uns gegangen, der mehrere Sängergenerationen inspiriert und uns Musikliebhaber stets berührt hat.
Brooklyn Museum Announces Borough-Wide Initiative, Beginning 12/1May 18, 2012The Brooklyn Museum is launching a borough-wide initiative in which Brooklyn-based artists will be invited to open their studios, allowing community members to visit and nominate artists for inclusion in a group exhibition to be held at the Museum.
Jazz at Lincoln Center to Present Tribute to Phoebe Jacobs, 5/24May 18, 2012The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and Jazz at Lincoln Center invite you to the Tribute to Phoebe Jacobs, in memoriam. The event will be held at Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 1 p.m. There will be no printed tickets for this event. Doors will open at 12:30pm, and attendees will be seated on a first come, first served basis.
PSYCHO THERAPY Begins Final 11 Performances; Concludes 5/26May 18, 2012Frank Strausser's hit Off-Broadway comedy PSYCHO THERAPY must end its run at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) on schedule on May 26th, 2012 to make way for the previously scheduled Women's Project Theater's production of WE PLAY FOR THE GODS.
Billy Boyd, John Challis and More Announced as Special Guests for THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY RADIO SHOWMay 18, 2012Billy Boyd, John Challis, Neil Gaiman, John Lloyd, Terry Jones, Phill Jupitus, John Lloyd, Rory McGrath, Roger McGough, and Andrew Sachs are amongst the special VIP guests who will join the original cast of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY RADIO SHOW - LIVE! at various venues over the UK tour in the summer of 2012.
Zack Calhoon, Mark Souza to Lead Boomerang Theatre Company's HAMLETMay 18, 2012The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Sue Abbott, Managing Director) announced addition casting for their 2012 outdoor production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted and directed by Artistic Director Tim Errickson and starring Zack Calhoon as Hamlet and Mark Souza as Laertes. The production opens June 23rd, 2012 in Central Park, and is free to the public. Check out www.boomerangtheatre.org for more information.