What good is sitting alone in your room this week? If you don't already have plans to see a Broadway show, come out to see your favorite Broadway stars in a cabaret act instead. Highlights this week include:
Write Act Repertory announces $25.00 rush tickets for the current production of LILI MARLENE. LILI MARLENE, which premiered in NYC in July of 2017 after a successful run in LA, recently extended through March 5th, 2018 at St. Luke's Theatre on 46th Street.
Blue Mountain Gallery is pleased to announce 'Anonymous Moments,' an exhibition featuring drawings and paintings by Alakananda Mukerji. The new body of work is from 2017 and 2018.
The Broadway at Birdland concert series is thrilled to welcome Fred Ebb Award-winning songwriters Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond for Kooman & Dimond: The Crowd Goes Mild Monday, February 12th at 7:00 on Birdland's historic stage.
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SGL Entertainment is pleased to announce that they will be releasing LAST RITES OF THE DEAD to Blu-ray, DVD and VOD. Horror fans may remember this cult classic horror comedy film under the name ZA or Zombies Anonymous. This version is a brand new Directors Cut, and has a ton of cool footage that was cut out from the original DVD release. And, the Blu-ray and DVD is loaded with extras.
Write Act Repertory's Producing Artistic Director John Lant and Producer Tamra Pica are pleased to announce the second extension of the off-Broadway East Coast premiere of LILI MARLENE, a new musical about a family's escape from the rising tide of Nazism, with book, music and lyrics by Michael Antin and directed and choreographed by Mark Blowers.
This March, the Chestnut Street Singers, Philadelphia's cooperative chamber choir, presents a program that explores the power of musical storytelling. WHERE THE TRUTH LIES will be performed at 8PM on Saturday, March 24 at the Historic St. George's Methodist Church (235 N 4th Street, Philadelphia) and at 3PM on Sunday, March 25 at First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia).
Artistic Director John Lant and WRITE ACT REP announce a three Production Series in Rep, "THREE BY WILL - IN REP" which includes two World Premiere's, "Their Finest Hour: Churchill And Murrow," "The Wicked, Wicked Mae," along with the acclaimed "PREZ - The Lester Young Story." The three plays will open at Write Act Repertory @ the Brickhouse Theatre beginning February 11th, 2018
Olathe Civic Theatre Association (OCTA) begins 2018 with the award-winning musical Violet, an inspiring story of a girl with a disfiguring scar who sets out on a journey to seek healing and finds her true beauty along the way. With book and lyrics by Brian Crawley, music by Jeanine Tesori, and a story based on 'The Ugliest Pilgrim' by Doris Betts, this production is helmed by local theatre veterans Julie Ewing (director) and Kevin Bogan (music director). Violet runs three weekends February 9-25, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm.
The Newark Museum will mark the opening of a new special exhibition gallery and its newly reopened Washington Street entrance with a major exhibition featuring Hudson River School landscape paintings from the permanent collection and major loans from private and public collections. The exhibition is on view March 24 through August 19.
Artists Repertory Theatre announces it has received an anonymous donation of $7 million. This historic gift is in support of Artists Rep's mission to produce intimate, provocative theatre and provide a home for artists and audiences to take creative risks.
Rising actress and lyric soprano Natalia Ferreiro will shine bright in the Los Angeles premiere of the world's first mariachi musical, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon). at the Valley Performing Arts Center - The Soraya.
Catherine Russell and Her Sextet, Pete Zimmer, Jay Leonhart Quintet and Special Guests, Tribute to Marlene VerPlanck, and more lead the coming week at Birdland!
Carnegie Hall today announced that Rhiannon Giddens, Toshi Reagon, and Young Paris will join Broadway's Carrie Compere (The Color Purple) as guest artists for A Time Like This: Music for Change, a special concert on Sunday, March 11 at 3:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage hosted by Def Jam Poetry veteran Lemon Andersen and featuring a nineteen-piece band led by Kenny Seymour (Amazing Grace, Memphis). The performance also features singers Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Emily Eagen, and Emeline Michel.
After a provocative first season, Chimera Ensemble is launching into Season Two with the world premiere of CAM BABY, an unsettling comedy written by Jessica Moss, a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School. Jesse Roth, renowned in Chicago for her direction of WORLD BUILDERS at First Floor Theater and THE TERRIBLE at the New Colony, will direct.
On Saturday, April 28th, 2018 from 5:00 through 8:00 P.M. Cabell Huntington Hospital will be hosting their annual Uncorked! Wine Festival Fundraiser: A food and wine festival that benefits the Marshall Artist Series. Uncorked! Is your chance to sample different varieties of wine, sample tasty food, and bid on unique and extravagant items at its live and silent auctions. All for a great cause!
The magical world of artist Marc Chagall and his wife Bella will be tenderly brought to life onstage at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis) next month in director Emma Rice's production of Daniel Jamieson's The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk. Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella are immortalized as the picture of romance. On the painter's canvas they flew, but in real life they walked through some of the most challenging times in 20th Century history-navigating the devastation of war, the Russian Revolution and each other. Following the artistic heights of Brief Encounter and 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, Kneehigh and Rice return to The Wallis with a production that combines the visuals of Chagall's paintings with the music and dance of the Russian-Jewish tradition. Performances begin February 23 and run through Sunday, March 11, 2018 with opening night set for Saturday, February 24 at 7:30pm. The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is made possible in part by the generous support of Camille and Arnon Adar. Theater @ The Wallis Series is sponsored by Montage Beverly Hills and Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills.
Pioneer Theatre Company continues its 2017-2018 Play-by-Play new play reading series with Alex Lewin's The Envelope. The staged readings will take place at the Dumke Auditorium of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) on Friday, Feb. 2 and Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018.