GIRLS ONLY Comes to Houston, 9/6-10/14August 14, 2012GIRLS ONLY - THE SECRET COMEDY OF WOMEN, presented by I W Marks Jewelers, is an original comedy that 'celebrates the honor, truth, humor and silliness of being female. With a two-woman cast and audiences full of raucous laughing women, the show has found quick popularity in its unique examination of all things girly.'
LEGALLY BLONDE Opens 8/24 at Cecil CollegeAugust 14, 2012The hit musical about a Southern California sorority girl who travels across the country to Harvard Law School is coming to the Milburn Stone Theatre on Cecil College's North East campus, where "Legally Blonde" will be presented Aug. 24, 25, 26 and 31, and Sept. 1 and 2.
Stage Door Inc. Announces FRANKENSTEIN: THE NEW MUSICAL, 8/31-9/23August 14, 2012Frankenstein: The New Musical opens Friday, August 31, 2012 and runs, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm, weekends through September 23, 2012. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for seniors or students with ID. Group rates are available for all performances.
Metropolitan Opera Announces Return of Summer HD Festival, Beginning 8/25August 14, 2012The Met's popular Summer HD Festival returns for its fourth year on August 25, with ten free outdoor screenings of acclaimed performances from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series. The festival, which more than 40,000 people attended last year, kicks off with a screening of the Met's recent world premiere hit The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche which stars David Daniels, Joyce DiDonato, and Placido Domingo.
ReVision Theatre Presents RED, Beginning 8/23August 14, 2012For the first time in its five year history in Asbury Park, ReVision Theatre will be producing a drama, Red. This gripping play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko was originally produced in London in December 2009 and transferred to Broadway in 2010.
GHOST Offers Free Lotto Tickets for Final PerformanceAugust 14, 2012Saturday, August 18th is the last chance to see Ghost The Musical. As a special thank you to fans, producers announced today that all 24 lottery tickets located in the first and second rows of the Orchestra will be complimentary for the final performance on Broadway.
Geva's Director of Artistic Engagement Set for Playwriting Seminar in EstoniaAugust 14, 2012Sean Daniels, Geva's newly appointed Director of Artistic Engagement/Artist at Large, will head off to Estonia this week for "Stage Island" the International Seminar on Contemporary Playwriting on Hiiumaa Island. The seminar gathers a director, playwright, and dramaturg or literary advisor and team of actors from the USA and each of four Baltic nations: Estonia, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland, to develop new scripts from the participating countries and secure English translations for the plays developed during the conference. The conference will also establish new artistic contacts and collaborations between countries.
Peter Gabriel's 'So' Album Remastered And Expanded For 25th Anniversary EditionAugust 14, 2012One of the most successful and iconic music releases of the Eighties, Peter Gabriel's 1986 album, So, has been digitally remastered for a special 25th Anniversary Edition to be released October 23rd (October 22nd internationally) by Real World Records/EMI in multiple physical and digital configurations. Peter Gabriel has confirmed a 16-date North American tour for September and October, with many of the musicians from his 1987 'So' tour joining him to perform the album from start to finish, as well as other hits spanning his solo career.
A FOR ADULTERY Runs 9/14-30 at Little Times Square TheatreAugust 14, 2012'A for Adultery,' a dramatic musical based on Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' by veteran composer/playwright Paul Dick, will be presented September 14 to 30, 2012 by Passajj Productions at Little Times Square Theatre (of Roy Arias Studios & Theatres,) 300 W 43rd Street (4 fl.), Manhattan, directed by Marlene Thorn Taber.
Olney Theatre Center Extends LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Through 9/9August 14, 2012Olney Theatre Center announces the extension of its current production, the musical Little Shop of Horrors. The show, which opened on August 1, is now set to run for two additional weeks through September 9th. This is the first time in Olney Theatre Center's history that a production has been extended for two weeks at one time as a result of positive responses it has garnered from audiences since its opening and the seats are going fast.
Photo Flash: New Artwork Revealed for West End SWEENEY TODD's Final WeeksAugust 14, 2012Sweeney Todd stars Michael Ball as the eponymous demon barber of Fleet Street and Oscar-nominated actress Imelda Staunton as the devoted Mrs Lovett. Jonathan Kent's acclaimed production will have its final performance on Saturday 22 September. View the new artwork, just revealed for the show's final weeks, below!
John Legend Announces Fox Theatre Show, 11/4August 13, 2012Nine-time Grammy Award winner John Legend announced his North American Tour today, which will perform at Detroit's Fox Theatre on Sunday, November 4 at 7:30 p.m.
PCPA Presents THREE SISTERS, 9/6-30August 13, 2012Closing the PCPA 2011-2012 season is the classic masterpiece by Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters. It will play in the Severson Theatre September 6 - 30. Opening performance is Saturday September 8, 7pm. Chekhov's brilliant tragi-comedy invites us to provincial 19th Century Russia, and paints a portrait of a family in crisis and a world in transition. His belief in a dynamic future with all its possibilities is tempered by the harsh light of day, and a duel.
Nine Nobel Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel STARS EARN STRIPESAugust 13, 2012Nine Nobel Peace Laureates today issued an open letter to the Chairman of NBC Entertainment, as well as General Wesley Clark and others involved in the new reality show premiering tonight on NBC-"Stars Earn Stripes"-calling on them to walk away from the show immediately.