COCK at the Duke on 42nd Street Announces 8/23 TalkbackAugust 9, 2012The Olivier Award-winning hit play COCK offers a Talkback after the 8pm performance on Thursday, August 23. Written by Mike Bartlett, directed by James MacDonald and starring Jason Butler Harner as M, Amanda Quaid as W, Cory Michael Smith as John and Cotter Smith as F, COCK opened to rave reviews on May 17 (previews began May 1) and is now playing through October 7 only at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET project, 229 West 42nd Street.
Eleventh Annual Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest Set for 8/18-19August 9, 2012The Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest (GAAF) is a free, weekend-long event, drawing approximately 10,000 visitors per day, celebrating its 11th Anniversary. The Fest includes a street art fair, indoor art displays, and live entertainment on three outdoor stages featuring over 40 acts. Experience art, theater, music, as well as food and drink, on the brick-laid streets of the Glenwood Avenue Arts District in Chicago's historic Rogers Park neighborhood.
The Private Theatre Presents PLAYING WITH FIRE, 8/17-24August 9, 2012The team that brought you 2010's heralded site-specific production of Hedda Gabler will present a multi-media version of Strindberg's Playing with Fire, directed by John Gould Rubin, co-conceived by Shane Bly Killoran and adapted by Royston Coppenger, beginning Friday, August 17 at an exclusive location at 189 Chrystie Street.
Mesa Arts Center Presents THE PRICE IS RIGHT LIVE, 9/16August 9, 2012The Price Is Right Live is a hit interactive stage show that gives contestants who are pulled from the audience the chance to 'come on down' to win appliances, vacations and brand new cars by playing classic games from television's longest running and most popular game show.
GAY CAMP Opens at HERE, 8/11August 9, 2012Comedic actors Christian Mansfield (Broadway Bares, National Tour of 42nd Street), Ken Urso, and Philip Mutz (also co-author) will open Gay Camp on August 11th to a sold-out audience. Gay Camp is part of this year's New York International Fringe Festival and runs from August 11 - August 22. The production is directed by Arizona-native Phillip Fazio, best known for his regional work in Phoenix, Boston, and L.A.
NJSO to Perform RHAPSODY IN BLUE in SeptemberAugust 9, 2012Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra open the NJSO's 2012-13 concert season on Friday, September 28, with an Opening Night Celebration featuring sensational pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on a program of Jazz-Age American music. The Orchestra presents works by John Harbison and Ferde Grofe as part of the New Jersey Roots Project, and the concert closes with the work of a master of the Jazz Age-Duke Ellington's Harlem.
Ricardo Gutierrez Named Teatro Vista's New Artistic DirectorAugust 9, 2012Teatro Vista's board of directors announced today that ensemble member Ricardo Gutierrez will step into the role of Artistic Director on March 1, 2013, when Edward Torres, founder and current Artistic Director, will step aside to focus on an increasingly busy schedule of independent directing projects both in Chicago and nationally.
FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival to Feature HOT BOX in SeptemberAugust 9, 2012As part of the sixth edition of FIAF's Crossing the Line Festival, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, and The Chocolate Factory present the world premiere of Hot Box, fromBrian Rogers. Hot Box is a loud, dark, drunken live performance (and endurance challenge) that takes inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo-particularly the extreme physical trials the actors underwent in order to create a genuine experience on screen. Hot Box features dancer Madeline Best and non-performer Rogers, taking center stage in his own work for the first time.
Mettawee River Theatre Company Presents COMMUNICATIONS FROM A COCKROACH, 9/7-16August 9, 2012Ralph Lee's Mettawee River Theatre Company returns to the Outdoor Garden of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with Lee's 'Communications from a Cockroach: Archy and the Under Side,' drawn from the Archy and Mehitabel sketches written by noted humorist and poet Don Marquis for his daily column in the New York Sun starting in 1916.
Round House Theater Presents BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, Beginning 9/5August 9, 2012Round House Theatre launches its 2012/13 season with the regional premiere of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, which runs from September 5 - 30. Jeremy Skidmore directs this 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist, which the Los Angeles Times called, "the most original play about the Iraq war." Opening night is Monday, September 10, 2012.
Cygnet Presents MISTAKES WERE MADE, Beginning 9/20August 9, 2012Craig Wright's Mistakes Were Made is described as 'a furious and funny 90 minutes of theatre.' The comedy, by this prolific writer for theater and TV (Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money), opened in 2010 at the Off Broadway Barrow Street Theatre featuring Michael Shannon. Cygnet will present its West Coast premiere.
Tiger Peach Improv Debuts at Academy Theatre, 8/25August 9, 2012Atlanta's newest improv troupe premieres their show 'Saint Peter's Judgement Theatre' August 25th at the Academy Theatre. Collective 51, Atlanta's all women's improv troupe opens the show.