Strand Theater Company Presents WHAT A GIRL WANTS, Beginning 12/6November 23, 2012The Strand Theater Company welcomes Baltimore playwright, performing artist, and educator Deletta Gillespie with her original show, What A Girl Wants. Start with seven women preparing for a charity clothing sale and fashion show. Add copious amounts of coffee, wine, arguments, gossip, a copy of Playstud magazine, and an eight-hour deadline, and you have the recipe for a comic romp through the minds and lives of women, who have lived enough to know exactly what they want out of life...or...not. The cast includes Peg Nichols, Erica Poe, Signe Renn, Cheri George, Renee Timms, Tiffani Bliss Brown, and Lisa F. Scott, with Monica Clory understudying the role of Patience, played by Erica Poe.
Pianist Inna Faliks Performs at Brooklyn Library's Classical Interlude Series, 12/2November 23, 2012Pianist Inna Faliks (www.innafaliks.com) will appear in the Brooklyn Public Library's free Classical Interludes Series, on Sunday, December 2, 2012, 4 pm at the Central Library, Dweck Center, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. The mixed program will include works by Beethoven, Schumann, Shchedrin, and Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin. Subway: B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic Ave. For more information, visit www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/culture-arts/ or call 718-638-1531.
Horse Trade Theater Group Presents RadioTheatre's KING KONG, Beginning 12/19November 23, 2012Horse Trade Theater Group will present RadioTheatre in the only LIVE ON STAGE performance of KING KONG in the history of the universe! Join us for this monumental yarn of grand adventure and fabulous fantasy, complete with our cast of storytellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects that turn the theater itself into an environmental experience! Just bring your imagination!
The Aurora Fox Presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Opening TodayNovember 23, 2012A Christmas Carol, as adapted by David and Julie Payne (with original music by Martha Yordy), opens at The Aurora Fox the day after Thanksgiving November 23rd. Tickets are $26 for adults, $22 for Students/Seniors, $20 each for groups of 10+ and $13 for children 12 and under. Family 4-packs are $65 (two adults and two kids). Performances are at the Aurora Fox (9900 East Colfax Avenue, Aurora, CO 80010) from November 23rd - December 16th. Call 303-739-1970 or visit www.AuroraFox.org.
NYC Dance Community Launches It Gets Better CampaignNovember 23, 2012This latest contribution to the It Gets Better Campaign spotlights the dance community's unique culture of support for LGBT youth and growing political dynamism. It features a broad spectrum of community members-choreographers, dancers, dance writers, educators, and managers alike, including: Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Monica Bill Barnes and Anne Bass, Janis Brenner, Tim Cynova, Alberto Denis, Jennifer Edwards, David Harrison, Lane Harwell, Judi Huck, Jeffrey Kazin, Larry Keigwin, Marc Kirschner, Aaron Mattocks, Brian McCormick, Harold Norris, Emmanuel Obasuyi, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Sydney Skybetter, Gus Solomons Jr, Ivan Sygoda, and Ian Archer-Watters.
Eagle Theatre's 2012 CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR Opens Next FridayNovember 23, 2012The Eagle Theatre, located at 208 Vine Street in Hammonton, NJ, will present the 2012 Eagle Theatre Christmas Spectacular, an original musical production designed to give families an entertaining and heartwarming way to celebrate the holidays.
Kerry Godliman Will be Featured on Live At The Apollo TomorrowNovember 23, 20122013 is going to be a mammoth year for actress/ comedian Kerry Godliman. Co-starring opposite Ricky Gervais in his new drama comedy 'DEREK', on channel 4 (due for transmission in early 2013), Kerry plays society outsider Derek's (Gervais) unlucky in love, nursing home co-worker and friend in the new series. She will also make a lead appearance in 'OUR GIRL' alongside Lacey Turner for the BBC (due out in Spring 2013) and has a guest lead in the new series 'FRANKIE' also for the BBC later next year. As a comedian she has made a big leap by both writing and starring in 'KERRY'S LIST' for Radio 4 (f2013) and an appearance on the highly prized LIVE AT THE APOLLO for BBC1 on 24th November this year.
Photo Flash: Jim Caruso's Cast Party Features Julie Garnye, Mira Awad and MoreNovember 23, 2012This week's 'episode' of Jim Caruso's Cast Party started off with a bang, as the National Yiddish Theater Company's cast of The Golden Land stormed the stage with two wonderful songs. Not to be outdone, Mira Awad came all the way from Israel to serenade the sold-out house with a song from her native land.
BW Productions and Santa Monica Playhouse Announce UNBUTTONED, 12/2November 23, 2012From the Bavarian beer houses of his native Germany to "Manhattan, America," to Hollywood - one day, and one lady, at a time - Andreas Beckett unfurls his heartfelt, candid life story with song and dance under the masterful hands of legendary Mitzie and Ken Welch in a special one night return engagement Friday, December 2, 2012.
Dancers Over 40 Fourth Annual Legacy Awards and Holiday Dinner Set for 12/10November 23, 2012At this year's dinner and holiday party, Dancers Over 40 honors the some of our outstanding - and long-time -- members: Advisory Board Member Carol Lawrence (West Side Story, Subways are for Sleeping, New Faces of 1952), Board Member Lee Roy Reams (Sweet Charity, Applause, 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, The Producers), Advisory Board Member Larry Fuller (Evita, Sweeney Todd, On the Twentieth Century, Merrily we Roll Along - choreographer), former Board Member George Marcy (West Side Story, Damn Yankees, Carnival, Man of La Mancha) and Norma Doggett-Bezwick (performed in Jack Cole's first Broadway musical, Magdalena, the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Bells are Ringing, on Broadway). Every one of our members know them, the theater and dance community here and around the country seek them out. Each has a very passionate following. And their fans are legion.