Andrew Smith News

Westchester Broadway Theatre presents Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS, based upon the Paramount Pictures film, featuring music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives & Paul Blake, and directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner with musical direction by Andrew Smithson. The show runs tonight, November 7, 2013 - January 12, 2014.

Westchester Broadway Theatre presents Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS, based upon the Paramount Pictures Film, with Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin and Book by David Ives & Paul Blake. Directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner with musical direction by Andrew Smithson, the show will run November 7, 2013 - January 12, 2014. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal below!

Westchester Broadway Theatre presents Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS, based upon the Paramount Pictures film, featuring music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives & Paul Blake, and directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner with musical direction by Andrew Smithson. The show runs November 7, 2013 - January 12, 2014.

This season, the Art Institute of Chicago invites visitors to feast their eyes on the rich tradition of food in American art with the opening of the major exhibition Art? and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine.Exploring the many meanings and interpretations of eating in America, Art and Appetite--on view from November 12, 2013 through January 27, 2014 in the museum's Regenstein Hall --brings together 100 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the 18th through the 20th century to demonstrate how depictions of food have allowed American artists to both celebrate and critique everything from the national diet to society and politics. Following its premiere at the Art Institute, Art ?and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine will travel to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas (February 22-May 18, 2014).

To celebrate the release of his first EP of original music, Gotta Get to You, Andrew Smith will present a release concert at Riverside Theatre Works in Hyde Park, Friday and Saturday evenings, tonight and tomorrow, October 25 and 26 at 8:00 p.m. The evening will be filled with popular jazz songs, standards, songs from his EP and much more. Pulling from major influences such as Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder, Andrew and his nine-piece are sure to provide an extraordinary evening of music.

To celebrate the release of his first EP of original music, Gotta Get to You, Andrew Smith will present a release concert at Riverside Theatre Works in Hyde Park, Friday and Saturday evenings, October 25 and 26 at 8:00 p.m.

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Sex & Violence probes the many emotional gray areas of teen life. Published by Carolrhoda Lab, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Carrie Mesrobian's unflinching YA novel introduces readers to seventeen-year-old Evan, a teen for whom sex has always come easily without consequences. In each new town, each new school, he can count on finding plenty of 'Girls Who Would Say Yes' before he and his father move again. Getting down is never a problem, until he hooks up with the wrong girl and finds himself in the wrong place at very much the wrong time.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 season of its Early Music series with A LOVE AFFAIR featuring THE ORLANDO CONSORT, Saturday, November 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m. at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 W. 46th Street).

Factory Theatre and Obsidian Theatre today announced complete casting and creative team for their upcoming co-production of THE GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF BERNICE TRIMBLE by Beth Graham.

Angelwalk Theatre, Toronto's premiere producer of Off-Broadway style musical theatre, launches its fifth anniversary season in 2013/2014 with a new production of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, tick, tick...BOOM!

Angelwalk Theatre, Toronto's premiere producer of Off-Broadway style musical theatre, launches its fifth anniversary season in 2013/2014 with a new production of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, tick, tick...BOOM!

A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff is produced by the award-winning Project Y Theatre Company at Atlantic Stage II, 330 West 16th Street, previewing Today, September 5, at 8:00pm for an opening Saturday evening, September 7, at 8:00pm and a run through September 28.

Peninsula Community Theatre's praised production of LES MISERABLES has been extended, with an added Sunday performance on August 25, @ 2:30pm. This production has been praised as 'one of the best local productions ever seen.' and performed to full houses and thunderous standing ovations.

Peninsula Community Theatre is opening their 2013-2014 season tonight, August 2nd through August 24 with the Hampton Roads premier production of Les Miserables.

Peninsula Community Theatre is opening their 2013-2014 season on August 2nd through August 24 with the Hampton Roads premier production of Les Miserables.

A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff is produced by the award-winning Project Y Theatre Company at Atlantic Stage II, 330 West 16th Street, previewing Thursday, September 5, at 8:00pm for an opening Saturday evening, September 7, at 8:00pm and a run through September 28.

LOS ANGELES, July 24, 2013 - Destination New South Wales (NSW) is encouraging everyone to 'BE Manly' at the US Open of Surfing (USOS) in Huntington Beach, California this week, with activities to promote the second annual Australia Open of Surfing (AOS). One of the next major ASP Pro Events, the AOS, takes place at Huntington Beach's sister city, Manly Beach, NSW, Australia Feb. 8-14, 2014.

PTP/NYC's 27th anniversary season opened on July 10 at The Atlantic Stage 2. The opening night party guests included five-time Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Jan Maxwell, Kristine Nielsen (Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Jennifer Van Dyck (Broadway: Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa and Two Shakespearean Actors), Quentin Mare (Broadway: Rock 'n' Roll, Coram Boy, Julius Caesar) and Stephanie Janssen (Broadway: Mrs. Warren's Profession). Scroll down for photos from the festivities!