Addison News

WaterTower Theatre Board President Grace Daniels announced today that Artistic Director Joanie Schultz will be leaving the organization on Monday, December 31, 2018. 

Following four sold-out performances of Joshua L. Peugh's Aladdin, Habibi in the Elevator Project at AT&T Performing Arts Center in October, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance (which is being featured as WaterTower Theatre's Guest Company in Residence) moves to Addison Theatre Centre-the company's new home theatre for 2019-for a Winter Series featuring three world premieres centering on gay identity in America. The new works will explore gay narratives, themes, and ideas and will be performed by a mostly queer company of dancers. Dark Circles has commissioned budding gay choreographers Mark Caserta, Eoghan Dillon, and Mikey Morado for the program. A new creation by Peugh-in collaboration with queer multimedia artist Brian Kenny-closes the evening. Performances will run January 24 - 27, 2019 at Addison Theatre Centre.

The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards, founded eleven years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced that this year it will present the coveted award to 30 individuals and organizations.

The two teenage actors who play the Creature in Outcry Youth Theatre's Frankenstein are going to great lengths to embody the classic horror character. In this version of Mary Shelley's novel, adapted by Nick Dear, Frankenstein's Creature is the central character.

The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2018) returns to the Barbican for its fifteenth year with an extensive ten-day celebratory feast of forums, screentalks and over 200 of the best recent, historical and retrospective animated shorts and features from around the world.

Sony Crackle, the free streaming network, today announced that the third season of its scripted original drama series, 'StartUp,' will premiere Today, November 1 with a sneak peek on Amazon devices through the Sony Crackle app starting Monday, October 22. In ten all-new episodes, friends will be fighting it out for power and will be threatened by what might be the most dangerous criminal organization of all: the U.S. Government.

A beloved Atlanta holiday tradition, Madeline's Christmas will return to the stage at Horizon Theatre, December 1-30 to bring merriment and cheer to all! Families are invited to join Madeline and friends for a magical musical adaption of Ludwig Bemelmans' classic children's tale. Featuring 24 local girls performing alongside professional actors in collaboration with The Atlanta Children's Theatre Company, this show is a must-see holiday hit!

Prop Thtr is pleased launch its 2018-19 season with the world premiere of NEVERLAND, a new devised riff on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, devised by The Ensemble and directed by the Prop's new Artistic Director Olivia Lilley.

Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Managing Director Joshua Borenstein, presents Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Awoye Timpo, from November 21 through December 16, 2018.

The National Tour of Anastasia had its official opening night in Schenectady, New York earlier this month and BroadwayWorld has an exclusive look inside their opening night cast party!

Participants in the topical, interactive series for academic year 2018?19 include artists Rina Banerjee and Isaac Julien, curator and author Helen Molesworth, and Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art Adam Weinberg

This Thanksgiving, MASTERCHEF JUNIOR gives fans something to be thankful for, when multi-Michelin star Chef Gordon Ramsay and award-winning chef Aarón Sánchez invite celebrities, their kids and some fan-favorite alumni into the MASTERCHEFJUNIOR kitchen, where they'll show off their culinary skills in exciting contests for charity on the all-new MASTERCHEF JUNIOR: CELEBRITY SHOWDOWN, airing Thanksgiving night, Thursday, Nov. 22 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX, immediately following NFL ON FOX, in which the Dallas Cowboys face the Washington Redskins.

Tthe winners of the 2018 Achates Philanthropy Prize, the only annual Prize that celebrates first-time cultural giving in the UK, were announced last night at a special event hosted by the eminent cultural philanthropist, Sarah Kowitz DL, at London's Roundhouse.

If you've been ROFL at every one of Jackie Hoffman's tweets during her run in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's (NYTF) production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, then head to @folksbiene on Instagram this Sunday: the Emmy Award nominee is taking over Instagram.

Today, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) Artistic Director Dr. Timothy Seelig and Executive Director Chris Verdugo announced Brassy and Sassy-a brand-new show celebrating the holiday season featuring the 250 men of the chorus and special guest, acclaimed coloratura soprano Marnie Breckenridge-performing at San Francisco's Nourse Theater (275 Hayes Street) on Friday, December 7 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, December 8 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets for Brassy and Sassy ($25-110) are on-sale now by visiting www.SFGMC.org or by calling 415-392-4400.

UNCLE BEN'S Brand is thrilled to announce the finalists of the 2018 BEN'S BEGINNERS cooking contest. After receiving hundreds of entries from across the country, UNCLE BEN'S has narrowed it down to only 25 for the chance to be one of five grand prize winnerseach of the five grand prize winners will receive$15,000cash and a$30,000 cafeteria makeover for their school. Families entered by creating a rice-based dish together and submitting a photo to the contest.

The National Tour of Anastasia had its official opening night in Schenectady, New York last week!  Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

The National Tour of Anastasia had its official opening night in Schenectady, New York last week! The production stars Lila Coogan as Anya, Stephen Brower as Dmitry, Jason Michael Evans as Gleb, Joy Franz as Dowager Empress, Tari Kelly as Countess Lily, Edward Staudenmayer as Vlad and Victoria Amelia Bingham as Little Anastasia. The ensemble includes Brianna Abruzzo, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., Alison Ewing, Peter Garza, Jeremiah Ginn, Brett-Marco Glauser, Lucy Horton, Mary Illes, Fred Inkley, Kourtney Keitt, Beth Stafford Laird, Mark Mackillop, Kenneth Michael Murray, Taylor Quick, Claire Rathbun, Michael McCorry Rose, Matt Rosell, Sareen Tchekmedyian, and Addison Mackynzie Valentino.