A Theatre Lover's Guide to DC/Capital Area Theatres – July 2011 Offerings
by Joel Markowitz
- Jun 30, 2011
There's a lot of 'steam heat' on DC area stages and outside, so if you're visiting DC for the annual July 4th fireworks extravaganza, stop by and see a show before you roast on the Mall waiting for the concert and loud "booms" to fill up the sky. And if you couldn't get into the sold-out Oklahoma!, Aquarium, Clybourne Park, or The Importance of Being Earnest - earlier this year - you have a chance now! And then there's The Capital Fringe Festival with dozens of new shows to choose from.
High School Students Selected For 7th ANNUAL GRAMMY CAMP
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Jun 23, 2011
The GRAMMY Foundation® announced today that 111 talented high school students from 93 cities and 34 states across the United States have been selected as participants in the seventh annual GRAMMY Camp®.
Adam Gwon, Michelle Elliott to Be Awarded 2011 Kleban Prizes, 6/27
by Nicole Rosky
- Jun 20, 2011
The Kleban Foundation is pleased to announce that the 21st Annual Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has gone to Adam Gwon and the award for the most promising musical theatre librettist has gone to Michelle Elliott. The 2011 awards will be presented on June 27, 2011, in a private ceremony (by invitation only) at ASCAP.
Signature Theatre Begins Search for the Next Signature Idol
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Jun 14, 2011
The Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre is looking for the next 'Signature Idol,' with the return of the very popular Signature Idol Competition being held during this year's annual Target Open House on July 23rd.
JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK Held Over At 1st Stage 6/25-26
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Jun 14, 2011
1st Stage, Tysons Corner's own, award-winning, professional theater company, in partnership with First Draft, a nonprofit organization devoted to the development of audiences and new plays, today announced that they will extend performances of "Jack and the Bean-Stalk" through June 26 - adding shows at noon and 3 pm on Saturday, June 25, and another show at noon on Sunday, June 26.
Marc Kudisch, Julia Murney Headline Signature's Summer Cabaret Series
by Nicole Rosky
- Jun 9, 2011
Virginia's Signature Theatre heats up during the dog days of summer with their annual Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret, a 3-week series featuring thirteen individual acts sure to keep things red hot. Headlining the talented array of solo artists assembled will be Tony Award® nominee Marc Kudisch (Broadway's 9 to 5, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, andThoroughly Modern Millie) with his What Makes Me Tick cabaret coming straight from Feinstein's. Broadway star Julia Murney (Elphaba in Wicked and a Drama Desk nominee for The Wild Party) will also be performing for two nights with her own mix of renowned stage songs.
Tommy Brent Passes Away At 88
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Jun 7, 2011
A legendary producer on the New England straw hat circuit, most notably for over two decades at Rhode Island's historic Theatre-by-the-Sea theatre, Tommy Brent, the man who single-handedly saved one of the nation's iconic summer stock theater twice -passed away on June 4th, 2011, Even at 88 years old, Brent a non-stop ambassador of theatre was expected to join the theater's opening-night party at the theater Friday (6/3), but did not attend.
MAGIC, PACIFIC OVERTURES headline Blackbird Theater's second season
by Jeffrey Ellis
- Jun 5, 2011
Nashville's Blackbird Theater, fresh off its successful, critically lauded premiere season, is offering two rarely produced shows for audiences in the company's eagerly anticipated second season - G.K. Chesterton's Magic (running August 12-27) and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning Pacific Overtures (February 9-19, 2012) - creating a buzz that other theater companies can only envy and hope to create for their own season announcments.
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