Florida Grand Opera (FGO) has announced a new three-year program entitled 'Unexpected Operas in Unexpected Places,' designed to bring less-known works to unique venues throughout South Florida in an effort to expose new audiences to opera, with the support of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knights Arts Challenge. The first installment of this new initiative will bring operatic productions to the Midtown neighborhood for the first time with a tango double-bill featuring Robert Xavier Rodriguez's Tango and Ástor Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires, held at the popular Midtown music venue The Stage tonight, March 21-24, 2013.
Tristan Grigsby is a young, tall, virile, dark-haired, handsome, muscular actor and playwright whose first New York play, 'Passing Through,' is a deceptively spare, often humorous disquisition on loneliness. The play presents five characters, all of whom are in a particular state of loneliness, who go through brief dramatic encounters with each other and a visitor/messenger who has been sent by the gods to investigate their peculiar predicament. It has a gentle touch, a distilled style and a Beckettian effect. Theater for the New City will present the work April 10 to 28, directed by Guenevere Donohue.
On March 3, The Martha Graham Dance Company finished its season, entitled 'Myth and Transformation,' at the JoyceTheater. Since the company lost many of their costumes and sets to Hurricane Sandy, the great legacy Martha Graham-- that force of nature and company founder--created, has been tested. However, this year's engagement proved to be the gift that legacies are built on.
Tiggy and Tobias, brother sea-cats who live in a lighthouse on a beach, don't seem to have much in common. In this new illustrated children's book, sibling rivalry takes its toll, must as it does in human families. Rough-and-tumble Tiggy tells sea-glass-collector Tobias that he doesn't act like a real cat. Tobias, whose feelings are hurt, begins to hang out with a pelican who shares his interest in art. But when Tiggy gets in real trouble, it's Tobias who must come to his rescue.
Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre's 2013 Season continues their tradition for producing exciting new plays, presenting four new works from the latest generation of writers, including the OBIE Award winning playwright Annie Baker (The Aliens, Circle Mirror Transformation).
Friends Always Creating Theatre has announced the presentation of the Jack Dyville - John Stutte Family Musical, 'Eeek! A Mousical'. Beginning April 6 at 3pm, at Stage 72 @ The Triad Theatre, 158 W. 72nd Street, (2nd Floor) NYC. The show is to run in Rep with their current hit production celebrating it's 7th month Off Broadway, 'A Mermaids' Tale'. They will alternate each Saturday.
The Goodman Theatre just announced its 2013/2014 season. For tickets or more information, visit: http://www.goodmantheatre.org/upcoming-season/?id=&epslanguage=en
Elephant Theatre Company, David Fofi and Lindsay Allbaugh, Co-Artistic Directors, has announced its 16th season, which will kick off on April 26 with the Los Angeles premiere of The North Plan by Jason Wells, followed by the world premiere of Revelation by Samuel Brett Williams, and concluding with two plays in repertory by Timothy McNeil, a new production of Anything and the world premiere of The Twilight of Schlomo.
Peter Barnes' The Ruling Class, the third production in UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Main Stage 2012/2013 season, opens March 8 in Zellerbach Playhouse. The work deals with Jack Gurney, a member of the upper class who inherits his father's position of Earl. Jack's aristocratic family expect him to use his new position to advance the household's wealth and power, but Jack believes he's the "God of Love" and wants to give the money away. Through increasingly brutal means, his family attempt to cure him of his liberalism with hilarious and terrifying results. Through a darkly satirical approach, the work explores the themes of class difference and the complexity of the human. Director and TDPS lecturer Christopher Herold has relished the chance to direct the show that is, in his words, "the kind of work creative artists hope to do."
Peter Barnes' The Ruling Class, the third production in UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Main Stage 2012/2013 season, opens March 8 in Zellerbach Playhouse. Click below to see production photos!
Sometimes a task that should be easy turns out to be incredibly difficult. This phenomenon, what the author of this new book calls "everything is harder than you think," happens to everyone. Although it's not a disease, Brett Hirsch writes in the introduction that he suspects it is contagious and may be inherited. As evidence, he points out that his mother says she inherited the condition from her children. "I will take her word for it," he writes, "as I am sure that I was harder to raise than she thought I would be."
"Myths are public dreams," wrote the renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell, "and dreams are personal myths"-a sentiment echoed by the therapist in Mary Zimmerman's 'Metamorphoses,' now playing at Arena Stage. Yet, Zimmerman's 'Metamorphoses' is so much more than dream. It is theatre as ritual, as rite of passage deep as an archetype, humorous as a limerick, and as universal as our need to love. It is a full-scale baptism in the journey of the soul as it finds its way to love. If you let yourself, especially if get front row seats, you'll get more than a gentle sprinkle of this production's amazing theatrics; you and your companion will get splashed in the waters of redemption.
With music lovers still atwitter over the Grammy Awards, two guests who enjoyed Sunday night's ceremony already are looking to the future. With a brand-new song and hot new video, Russian-born pop sensation Grace Valerie is off to yet another successful year. Grace's fans have plenty to celebrate as her fresh tune already is making a splash.
OUR TOWN gets a reverent 75th anniversary production at Ford's Theatre. Thornton Wilder's classic drama still shines, in spite of some forced moments. Director Stephen Rayne allows the play to remain imaginative, while not offering a definitive take on it.
As the New Year resolutions begin to falter for most, the human desire to self-improve becomes even more transparent. In News From Wandaland, a collection of short stories written by Author Kodell Parker, he includes 'Self Improvement,' which implies a gentle reminder that no one is perfect and all can benefit from inward self-reflection in an effort to progress as an individual.
