Alexis Laurence News

This August, Fringe audiences can enjoy Cirque Eloize's stunning Cirkopolis at the Pleasance, an imaginative and funny show seen by over 450,000 spectators in 100 cities in 30 countries and which won the Drama Desk Awards for Unique Theatrical Experience in 2014.

The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts and Canadian Stage are pleased to announce that tickets are on sale today for their inaugural co-presentation of the English Canadian premiere of Cirkopolis, the critically acclaimed show by Montreal-based troupe Cirque Eloize. Cirkopolis will be on stage at the Bluma Appel Theatre March 1-12, 2017.

Drama Desk and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti ('The Sound of Music Live!', Gypsy, Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) will host the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards tonight, June 1, 2014 at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). BroadwayWorld will be updating you with winners throughout the night. Check back later for the full list!

Eligibility and award category designations for the productions under consideration this season were determined by the Drama Desk board of directors with recommendations from the nominating committee. Because of the abundance of great work throughout the season, the Board also authorized the increase in the number of nominees allowed in select categories.

CIRKOPOLIS, the critically acclaimed show by Montreal-based troupe Cirque Eloize is currently being presented by NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. CIRKOPOLIS opened on Thursday, December 19th, 2013 and the strictly limited engagement will conclude this Sunday, January 5th, 2014 at NYU Skirball Center (566 LaGuardia Place, New York, New York, 10012).

This past Thursday, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and the artists of CIRKOPOLIS, the critically-acclaimed show by Montreal-based troupe Cirque Eloize, teamed up with photographer Jordan Matter to create Circus Among Us, a follow-up to Matter's best-selling photo series and book, Dancers Among Us.

In anticipation of the New York City Premiere of CIRKOPOLIS, the critically acclaimed show by Montreal-based troupe Cirque Eloize, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts will host the panel discussion CIRCUS: FROM EGYPT TO ELOIZE, on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 6:30pm at La Maison Francaise, New York University (16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003).

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts will present the New York City premiere ofCIRKOPOLIS, the critically acclaimed show by Montreal-based troupe Cirque Eloize for a strictly limited engagement beginning Wednesday, December, 18th, 2013 and concluding on Sunday, January 5th, 2014 at NYU Skirball Center (566 LaGuardia Place, New York, New York, 10012).

With Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence's eye-popping 3D video projection design bringing Massicotte's blank urban landscape design to life, the urban dances and circus acts in 'iD' are resoundingly funky, fresh, and beautifully mesmerizing.