54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents "24@54' on May 25 at 9:30pm. Hosted by Obie award winning writer-composer Polly Pen (Bed and Sofa, Arlington) it will feature original songs from NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program's cycle 24. Proceeds for the concert will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Organizer Marella Martin says, "This concert represents our public entry into the musical theatre community. We are so happy that the proceeds will go to benefit that community through Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS"
BROADWAY GYPSY TEA DANCE recently gathered at the rooftop bar Top of the Strand at the Strand Hotel (33 West 37th Street) to celebrate Chita Rivera's 2015 Tony Award nomination, enlisting dancers from most of Broadway's shows. Those represented included The King & I, Aladdin, Kinky Boots, Something Rotten, Wicked, American in Paris, The Lion King and gypsies who danced with Rivera in her last Broadway show A Dancer's Life. Check out a look back below!
Grammy winner Robert Cray performs his only Illinois concert this season in An Evening with Robert Cray at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre on June 8, 2015.
ACM PRESENTS: SUPERSTAR DUETS!, a new entertainment special featuring performances by an unprecedented lineup of country music legends and this year's ACM Award nominees and chart topping artists
Artes de la Rosa announces that Martin Antonio Guerra, will take on the dual role of Miguel Cervantes and Don Quixote in Artes de la Rosa's Man of La Mancha which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with this production.
Synetic Theater will produce Everett Quinton's Obie Award-Winning play A Tale of Two Cities tonight, May 13 through June 21, 2015, directed by Studio Theatre's Producing Director Serge Seiden. Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!
Synetic Theater will produce Everett Quinton's Obie Award-Winning play A Tale of Two Cities May 13 through June 21, 2015, directed by Studio Theatre's Producing Director Serge Seiden. Scroll down for a first look at the cast in action!
'The No Rules Sketch Show' at Signature Theatre actually pretty much follows every rule of contemporary sketch work by including some slightly topical humor, some celebrity impersonations, broad physical comedy and a lot of bawdiness meant to be enhanced by the available cocktails.
The award-winning teens of Riverdale Rising Stars presents the critically-acclaimed URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL, a side-splitting send-up of greed, love, revolution, and musicals in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. URINETOWN opens tomorrow night - Saturday, May 9, 2015, and will be presented for six performances only, through May 17, 2015. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
The award-winning teens of Riverdale Rising Stars presents the critically-acclaimed URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL, a side-splitting send-up of greed, love, revolution, and musicals in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. URINETOWN will be presented for six performances only, from tonight, May 9 to May 17, 2015.
Elizabeth Addison is a rising composer, lyricist, playwright, and grateful recovering addict who brings us THIS IS TREATMENT, a powerfully evocative story of women recovering from drug addiction. Described as a 'drama filled, emotional roller coaster, tear jerker of the best variety,' Addison's new musical allows us to enter the world of treatment and forces a light upon issues that are too often kept in darkness. At its heart, THIS IS TREATMENT addresses themes that are both particular and universal: it is a celebration of women helping one another, and it is a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit.
"Brian Regan: Live" will be the first live stand-up special in Comedy Central history, airing live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Saturday, September 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
The Muny announced today several principal cast members for the seven shows in its spectacular 97th season, which opens on June 15 with My Fair Lady. Full casts and companies will be announced throughout May.
Critically acclaimed lute and Baroque guitar virtuoso John Schneiderman showcases his remarkable artistry on Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's (LACO) 'Baroque Conversations' series with a program of concertos by Vivaldi, Haydn, Kohaut and Falckenhagen tonight, May 7, 2015, 7 pm, at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
Today in 2008, Glory Days opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it ran for one performance. Glory Days is a musical with music and lyrics by Nick Blaemire and a book by James Gardiner about four high school friends reuniting a year after graduation. The musical premiered at the Signature Theatre, a professional regional theatre in Arlington, Virginia, from January 15 through February 17, 2008, where it was directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, the Artistic Director of the theatre, with musical staging by assistant director Matthew Gardiner. The producers cited 'low advance sales' in announcing the show's closing.
BroadwayWorld is ecstatic to report that The Muny in St. Louis will welcome Alexandra Silber and Anthony Andrews to the stage in its summer production of MY FAIR LADY, running June 15-21, 2015.
