The Chelsea Symphony, featured in the hit Amazon show Mozart in the Jungle, begins 2019 with a concert on January 25 and 26 featuring Jean Sibelius's Symphony No 2, famously called by the composer "a confession of the soul.' (more...)
Daniele Rustioni, 35, Principal Conductor of the Opera National de Lyon, will make his American orchestral conducting debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, January 31-February 2, 2019. Rustioni will lead the orchestra in performances of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, Respighi's Fontane di Roma, and Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 with soloist Julian Steckel. Later in the season, Rustioni will conduct a new production of Tchaikovsky's rarely-performed The Enchantress for Opera National de Lyon, make his debut at the Teatro Real Madrid with Verdi's Falstaff, lead the Orchestra della Toscana in a three-city tour of Italy, and return to conduct the Staatsorchester Stuttgart. (more...)
A special 2-LP red vinyl edition of PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING) from Atlantic Records, produced by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, will be available for purchase through select retailers, including the official Atlantic Records store and at the Nederlander Theatre, beginning Friday, January 18, 2019. PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING) is also available on all DSP's and on CD wherever music is sold. (more...)
Casting has been announced for the return engagement of Disney's The Lion King in the Fox Cities. The Lion King will leap onto the Fox Cities P.A.C. stage Thursday, Feb. 7 for a 3-week engagement through Sunday, Feb. 24. (more...)
Wheaton Drama's next show, WIT by Margaret Edson, is set to open THIS FRIDAY, January 18th. The cast & crew have been working diligently to bring this poignant story of adversity, humanity, & hope to life. We hope you will join us for this truly transformative piece of theater. WIT is sure to be a show you will remember. (more...)
Love is in the air with Opera Theater of Cape Cod's (OTCC) Valentine's weekend benefit concert Some Enchanted Evening: A Valentine's Gala on Saturday, February 16, 7:00 pm, Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., Wellfleet. Joseph Turbessi serves as music director, and Ethan DePuy is stage director. Black-tie dress is encouraged, but optional. Proceeds from the performance fund OTCC's expenses for its production of Puccini's La boheme, being performed this summer. (more...)
South Orange Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce its nomination for Favorite Small Performing Arts Center in the 2019 JerseyArts.com People's Choice Awards. Now in its 11th year, the annual awards program run by Discover Jersey Arts pays tribute to the work of New Jersey's vital, vibrant and diverse arts organizations. With the ballots now prepped, it's time for arts lovers across the state to vote for their favorite local arts organizations. (more...)
Broadway Records today announced that Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) will be released digitally and in stores on Friday, January 25, 2019. The album is currently available for pre-order at www.BroadwayRecords.com and Amazon.com. (more...)
Award-winning, internationally acclaimed Atlantic Records a cappella group STRAIGHT NO CHASER has today announced a new string of East Coast and Midwest shows added to their North American "One Shot Tour." After closing 2018 with nearly five months of touring in support of their seventh studio album One Shot, the guys are back on the road this spring for another run of live performances. The dates kick off on April 23 at Columbia, MO's Jesse Auditorium and culminate on Sunday, May 5 at 3P at the venerable Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, RI. (more...)
Classic Stage Company today announces the official unveiling of the Lynn F. Angelson Theater, named for its most devoted supporter and long-standing board chair, and the John Doyle Artistic Director's Circle donor doors, on Wednesday, January 23 at 5:30pm. The installation was designed by Tony Award winner David Rockwell and the ceremony will take place prior to the evening's performance of Conor McPherson's new version of August Strindberg's The Dance of Death, helmed by Tony Award winner Victoria Clark (part of CSC's Strindberg repertory engagement with director Shariffa Ali's production of Yael Farber's Mies Julie, running through March 10 at 136 East 13th Street). Lynn F. Angelson, John Doyle, and special guest John Turturro (The Cherry Orchard, CSC 2011) will be on hand for the celebration. (more...)
Barter Youth Academy is a performance-based educational program that allows students of all ages the chance to learn and develop their performance and storytelling skills. Using the acting and rehearsing techniques of the Barter Resident Acting Company, students work through the theatre experience from the audition to the final performance onstage in front of a live audience. BYA provides a safe, positive environment to enhance the abilities for the beginning performer, as well as shaping the talents of the advanced youth actors. (more...)
The Actors' Gang will begin previews for Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, written by Italian playwright and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, on Thursday, January 24th with a Pay What You Can first preview. Directed by Will Thomas McFadden, this wickedly funny satire will run Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, through March 9th. The press opening is Saturday, February 2nd. (more...)
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will celebrate the rich world of African American puppetry in the United States with a four-day series of performances, presentations, discussions, film screenings, and workshops on Feb. 7 to 10, 2019 in Hartford and Storrs. (more...)
DanceHouse, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, and Talking Stick Festival are honoured to present the West Coast premiere of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company's Blood on the Dance Floor by Jacob Boehme, on stage February 6-9, 2019 at 8pm at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Rooted in Aboriginal Dance, theatre, and storytelling, this award-winning work, written and performed by Jacob Boehme, choreographed by Mariaa Randall, and directed by Isaacc Drandic, is based on the deeply personal experience of Boehme, a renowned dancer, writer, and choreographer from the Narangga and Kaurna nations of South Australia. Blood on the Dance Floor unapologetically shares Boehme's emotionally honest story of gay, Blak, and poz identities; and explores the struggle, heartache, and enduring spirit of someone living at the intersection of Aboriginal, queer, and HIV-positive communities. (more...)
Magician, comedian and improv artist Michael Carbonaro announces his first New York City engagement at The Town Hall Theatre on Thursday, February 14th at 8:00PM. (more...)
After a successful, sold-out run this past August, Max Stossel will return to New York City with two more performance dates of Max Stossel Live: Words that Move. It will play the historic Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, NYC) Monday, December 12, 2018 and the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street, NYC) on Monday, January 28, 2019, then Max Stossel Live: Words that Move, will move to San Francisco on Monday, February 4, 2019 at the SF Playhouse (450 Post Street, San Fran). (more...)
Pacific Symphony's "Lunar New Year," an evening of rich, colorful and festive music and dance, welcomes the Lunar New Year with a special, inspiring concert performance. Ushering in the "Year of the Pig" (according to the Chinese zodiac), Music Director Carl St.Clair leads the orchestra as it is joined by a range of talented dancers and singers for a program that is both a visual and aural spectacle. Intertwining Eastern and Western cultures for a celebration unlike any other in Orange County, this concert offers a program of considerable breadth, covering a wide spectrum of entertainment, all in celebration of the Lunar New Year, the first day of which falls on Feb. 5. (more...)
China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) is proud to present a concert performance of Image China: Xuanzang's Pilgrimage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), January 29, 2019 at 7:30pm. Performed by the China National Traditional Orchestra (CNTO), the original production is the first concert drama by a traditional Chinese orchestra. For tickets and more information, please visit: www.njpac.org. (more...)
Described by the Los Angeles Times as a "cultural phenomenon," Dear Evan Hansen comes to Seattle's Paramount Theatre from January 23 through February 2. In advance of the start of performances, the production announced today that it will host a digital ticket lottery offering fans the chance to purchase a limited number of $25 tickets available per performance. (more...)
Rehearsals are underway for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath, helmed by celebrated director Robin Witt and featuring ensemble members Celeste M. Cooper (Emmy), Sandra Marquez (Nora), Yasen Peyankov(Torvald) with Barbara Robertson (Anne Marie). This Chicago premiere of Hnath's bitingly funny play will feature fully accessible onstage seating. (more...)
Tonight Center Theatre Group opens Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Linda Vista written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ensemble member Tracy Letts, directed by Dexter Bullard, who also directed the world premiere at Steppenwolf. The production features Steppenwolf ensemble members Ian Barford, Tim Hopper, Sally Murphy and Caroline Neff with Chantal Thuy, Cora Vander Broek and Troy West. (more...)
Official character portraits of the Australian cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have been released ahead of the first preview performance at Melbourne's Princess Theatre tonight. See the family photos below! (more...)
Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman - the critically-acclaimed new play recently named to an industry-leading 25 Best-Of-The-Year lists - will welcome many new cast members beginning Tuesday, February 19, with Brian d'Arcy James leading as Quinn Carney. (more...)
David and Katie Get ReMarried pairs David Carl (Gary Busey's OneMan Hamlet, Trump Lear) and Katie Hartman (Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting, Netflix's The Week Of) in a real time sweet and sour wedding betwixt a starcrossed couple who has broken up and reunited more frequently than Spiderman has been rebooted. (more...)
Announced today, Playing on Air's Winter/Spring 2019 season will include work by playwrights Gracie Gardner and Chiara Atik. The season will also include the April release of the highly-anticipated live recording of David Auburn's AN UPSET, starring David Harbour (Netflix's "Stranger Things," Hellboy) and Steven Boyer (Hand To God, NBC's "Trial & Error") and the re-release of Lynn Nottage's POOF! with Audra McDonald, Tonya Pinkins, and Keith Randolph Smith. (more...)
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents West End star Zachary Morris (Secret Garden, Spring Awakening, Rocky Horror) and international conductor Ben van Tienen (Funny Girl, West Side Story) making their Feinstein's/54 Below debut with Instructions for Dancing, a night of singing and storytelling. In a time filled with so much doubt and unrest, let yourself be transported into their world of acceptance and empowerment, reminding you through their heartfelt stories that we are all good enough as we are. Take a haunting journey through words, music, and consciousness as they cover the songs from Alan Menken and Jerry Herman to Fleetwood Mac and the Magnetic Fields. Mesmerizing and magical, Instructions for Dancing invites you to come and rediscover yourself at Feinstein's/54 Below. Instructions for dancing the album was created by Zach and Ben in 2016 during their time on the Rocky Horror Show and is available for download on all major music retailers. http://www.instructionsfordancing.com (more...)
On a night known for loud screams, heightened anticipation and thrilling performances by some of the nation's most talented athletes, THE WOMAN IN BLACK is inviting guests to wear their favorite NFL team's jersey to receive tickets for just $39 at the door on Sunday, February 3 at 2:30 p.m. Guests are also encouraged to let their scream fill the theatre in an exclusive contest judged by the cast just following the performance. An experience surely not to miss, the production has been called "Spectacular" by the Chicago Sun-Times, and dubbed "A ghost story everyone will love," by the Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones, receiving rave reviews from critics across the board. (more...)
Recovering executive, Keith Alessi, reinvents himself as a writer-performer and banjo enthusiast to tell us about a boy's life, a man's meteoric rise to business fame, and the shocking event that slammed on the brakes. Engaging and uplifting, Alessi encourages us to pursue our passions! Audiences are enamored with this unique one-man show, a true story told with humor, warmth, music, and banjos! Tomatoes Tried To Kill Me But Banjos Saved My Life is an inspiration. (more...)
Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) has announced the second-ever recipients of the DGF Writers Alliance Grants. These Grants provide $5,000 to both a non-profit theater's production of a new work and $5,000 to the writer or group of writers whose work is being produced. Gary Garrison, who serves on both the DGF Advisory Board and the Writers Alliance Grant selection committee, said: "The DGF's Writers Alliance Grant is the perfect combination of support for both writer AND theater. It acknowledges that the writer has a story that should to be told while also smartly pointing to the theater that should be telling it." (more...)
Highly-acclaimed funk, soul, R&B and old school entertainers from the 1970s and 1980s, including Midnight Star, Color Me Badd, Tierra, Ready 4 The World featuring Melvin Riley, Evelyn Champagne King, The Jets, Malo, Peaches & Herb and Blue Magic, will bring romantic throwback hits to Old School 105.7's Love Affair Concert at the Orleans Arena on Saturday, Feb. 9. (more...)
10 Hairy Legs, the male repertory dance company will teach Int/Adv Contemporary Classes at STEPS on Broadway every Friday beginning January 18 from 3:00 - 4:30 pm. (more...)
Northglenn Arts presents two performances of the Cleo Parker Dance Ensemble on February 1. Cleo Parker Dance is a Denver institution, based in Five Points, that has served the community for 48 years, teaching generations of families the beauty, fun and healing power of dance. (more...)
Core Dance will continue its collaboration with international dance-makers Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor when it presents two works by the acclaimed Israeli choreographers: American Playground, a humorous, high-intensity homage to American culture, performed by Core Dance; and the U.S. Premiere of The Third Dance, performed and choreographed by Sheinfeld and Laor, that explores, through dance, the evolution of a relationship over time. The performances are January 31 - February 3, 2019 at 7:30 pm at 7 Stages in Atlanta. Tickets are $20 and are available online at coredance.org. (more...)
Matthias Pintscher will make his New York Philharmonic subscription debut conducting the New York Premiere of his mar'eh, with Renaud Capucon as soloist; Ravel's Alborada del gracioso; and Stravinsky's The Firebird (complete). The concerts will take place Thursday, February 21, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, February 22 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, February 23 at 8:00 p.m. (more...)
The Chelsea Symphony's January Concerts Feature Jean Sibelius' Symphony No 2
Daniele Rustioni Makes American Orchestral Conducting Debut With the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Special 2-LP Red Vinyl Edition Of PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL Cast Recording Available Tomorrow
Release: Cast Announced For Disney's THE LION KING At The Fox Cities P.A.C.
Photo Flash: WIT Comes To Wheaton Drama Stage This Friday
Opera Theater Of Cape Cod Announces Valentine's Celebration Gala
SOPAC Nominated For 5th Time As Favorite Small Performing Arts Center
Broadway Records Releases BULLDOZER: THE BALLAD OF ROBERT MOSES, 1/25
CSC And John Turturro Unveil David Rockwell Installation At Newly Named Lynn F. Angelson Theater
Actors' Gang Announces ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST
The Ballard Institute And Museum Of Puppetry Presents African American Puppetry Festival And Symposium
Indigenous Artist Jacob Boehme Explores Queer And HIV-Positive Identity In New Solo Show
Magician Michael Carbonaro Brings His Live Show To The Town Hall Theatre
Pacific Symphony's Lunar New Year Concert Welcomes The Year Of The Pig
Xuanzang's Pilgrimage A Concert Performance Comes to NJPAC On 1/29
Digital Lottery Announced For DEAR EVAN HANSEN in Seattle
Photo Flash: in Rehearsals For Steppenwolf's Production of A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2
Photo Flash: Steppenwolf's LINDA VISTA Opens At Center Theatre Group
Photo Flash: First Look At The Witches And Wizards Of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Melbourne
Photo Coverage: Brian d'Arcy James And The New Cast of THE FERRYMAN Meet The Press
DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED Announced At Frigid Festival 2019
David Harbour, Sue Jean Kim, Ciaran Hinds, And Molly Bernard Set For Playing On Air's Winter/Spring 2019
Zachary Morris Comes to Feinstein's/54 Below
THE WOMAN IN BLACK Hosts Scream Contest & Offers Guests Discounted Tickets
TOMATOES TRIED TO KILL ME BUT BANJOS SAVED MY LIFE Comes to Under St. Marks
Three Notable Authors Discuss 'Displacement' During Happy Hour In FiDi
Old School 105.7's Love Affair Concert Brings Romanic Old School Jams To Orleans Arena
10 Hairy Legs Begins On-Going Teaching At STEPS ON BROADWAY
Northglenn Arts Presents Cleo Parker Dance Ensemble
NY Philharmonic Matthias Pintscher With Violinist Renaud Capuçon
