Dark Circles Contemporary Dance's 2018-19 Season continues with its Spring Series including the commission of a world premiere by the highly sought-after choreographer Sidra Bell, founder of the internationally recognized Sidra Bell Dance New York. A new creation by internationally award- winning choreographer and Dance Magazine “25 to Watch” Joshua L. Peugh featuring Tejas Dance—a Bharatanatyam Indian classical dance duo—closes the evening. Performances will run March 22 – 24, 2019 at WaterTower Theatre.
Netflix today announced that it will adapt Nidhi Chanani's highly acclaimed, best-selling graphic novel Pashmina into an original CG animated musical with celebrated writer-director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham), internationally renowned, decorated producer Ashok Amritraj, and Chadha's long-standing writing partner, Paul Mayeda Berges.
Last night (6 March 2019), Andrew Lloyd Webber's award-winning show School of Rock - The Musical celebrated its 1000th performance in the West End at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. The cast were joined in the celebrations by Julian Fellowes, who wrote the book for the show, director Laurence Connor and the show's choreographer JoAnn M. Hunter, as well as VIP guests.
Netflix today announced that it will adapt Nidhi Chanani's highly acclaimed, best-selling graphic novel Pashmina into an original CG animated musical with celebrated writer-director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham), internationally renowned, decorated producer Ashok Amritraj, and Chadha's long-standing writing partner, Paul Mayeda Berges.
Second Stage Theater has announced SOMMER CARBUCCIA, MATT DALLAL, JAKEIM HART, ERIKA HENNINGSEN, KENNEDY KENAGAWA, ALEC MATHIESON, SARAH NAUGHTON, GABRIELLA PEREZ, JONATHAN RAVIV, NATHAN SALSTONE and KYLE SELIG will perform SATURDAY NIGHT as a part of the special concert series, MUSICAL MONDAYS, in celebration of the acclaimed company's 40th anniversary. NOAH BRADY directs the performance on Monday, March 11th, featuring musical direction by ALEXANDER GEMIGNANI.
Rise Above Performing Arts has announced their upcoming season which will include works by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, and Lin-Manuel Miranda among others. Rise Above's mission is to bring exceptional talent with a focus on the education and development of the performing arts in the youth of the South Florida community. This will mark the company's fourth season since!
The Museum of Russian Icons will be presenting Jacques' Menagerie: Hnizdovsky Prints from the Christina and George Gamota Collection,March 16 – July 7, 2019, featuring works by acclaimed Ukrainian-American painter and printmaker Jacques Hnizdovsky. Curated by Anna Winestein, director of the Ballets Russes Arts Initiative, the exhibition includes 40 of the artist's iconic prints depicting animals, plants, cityscapes, and narrative scenes, alongside an early oil painting and several rarely seen early works.
In the bustling and bawdy women's dressing room of a regional theatre on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Nora, an actor playing Blanche in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, is facing a tough decision: should she risk jeopardizing the greatest career opportunity of her life by telling the truth about the terrible thing that just happened to her on stage, or should she push through and keep her head down, eyes on the prize, as she's always done?
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish has extended its run due to popular demand on the heels of its recent opening on Thursday, February 21, 2019.
Random Access Theatre opens its 2019 season with the World Premiere of Miranda from Stormville by Adam Bertocci. The production, a modern retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, runs March 14 - 24 at the IRT Theater in the West Village. Artistic Director and co-founder, Jennifer Sandelladirects. Bertocci's previous productions include the highly acclaimed, Two Gentlemen of Lebowski (published by Simon & Schuster). Miranda from Stormville is part of IRT's 3B Development Series.
The Fountain Theatre opens its 2019 season of fresh, funny and meaningful new work with the West Coast premiere of an award-winning "break beat play" by Idris Goodwin. Social injustice, racial identity, gender inequity, career ambition and friendship converge - and collide - in Hype Man, directed by Deena Selenow. Opening night is set for a Feb. 23, with performances continuing through April 14.
The Brelby Theatre Company, located in Historic Downtown Glendale, is thrilled to present the tall tales of Edward Bloom, spun in the magical musical Big Fish.
Little Women, Luckenbooth Theatre's first Academy show of the season, opens in 2 weeks! Leading the cast of actors is Sophia Zamora as Jo, Hayden Dietrich as Laurie, Emily Kercheval as Beth, Emery Bass as Meg, Kamille Isom as Amy, and, guest artist, Katelyn Barr (FUNimation), as Marmee.
Rivertown Theaters rises to new heights with the upcoming production of one of Stephen Sondheim's most intriguing musicals, Into The Woods, on the Main Stage March 15 - 31.
The Barrow Group, under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors Seth Barrish and Lee Brock and Executive Director Robert Serrell, closes its 2018-2019 season with the world premiere of Perp by Lyle Kessler. Under the direction of Ms. Brock, Perp is scheduled to run at The Barrow Group (312 West 36th St.) from March 16 through April 11, with an opening night of March 25.
On February 15-18, Yes, But I Have To, a new drama, will premier at Hard Bargain Amphitheater in Accokeek, MD. Written and directed by emerging DC playwright, Addison Janney, and starring Hudson Rhotenberry, Katie Gallagher, and Noa Gelb, Yes, But I Have To is the story of a young couple, Grafton (Rhotenberry) and Emily (Gallagher), who must navigate each other, and themselves, under claustrophobic circumstances. Something has gone horribly wrong. We know only that there has been fear and travel and loneliness and death -- and now winter. Temporarily stranded in an abandoned cabin in the mountains, Grafton and Emily are in the process of being distilled down to their barest selves.
The American pie has limited slices. So we determine who gets what based on racism, sexism, classism or any other ism that breeds social oppression. Self preservation subjugates our humanity for the sake of survival. And the pursuit of the American dream causes us to live on the periphery of morality. The Conscious Theater Project is a series of plays written by award winning playwright and social activist Willie Holmes. Holmes explains, 'Each work explores the moral dilemma of a democratic society without social empathy.
Below, check out more photos of Gillian Anderson and Lily James in the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film All About Eve.
Random Access Theatre opens its 2019 season with the World Premiere of Miranda from Stormville by Adam Bertocci. The production, a modern retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, runs March 14 - 24 at the IRT Theater in the West Village. Artistic Director and co-founder, Jennifer Sandella directs. Bertocci's previous productions include the highly acclaimed, Two Gentlemen of Lebowski (published by Simon & Schuster). Miranda from Stormville is part of IRT's 3B Development Series.
The American pie has limited slices. So we determine who gets what based on racism, sexism, classism or any other ism that breeds social oppression. Self preservation subjugates our humanity for the sake of survival. And the pursuit of the American dream causes us to live on the periphery of morality. The Conscious Theater Project is a series of plays written by award winning playwright and social activist Willie Holmes. Holmes explains, 'Each work explores the moral dilemma of a democratic society without social empathy.
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