Barnes News

American Lyric Theater today announces that three composers and three librettists have been selected from over 200 applicants to join the Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) as Resident Artists this season. The artists selected for this prestigious fellowship are composers Jasmine Arielle Barnes, Johanny Navarro, and Alex Weiser; and librettists Joshua Banbury, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, and Marcus Yi.

The hilarious and moving memoir, 'Second Half: Surviving Loss and Finding Magic in the Missing', documents her experience losing her husband, NFL football player Nate Hobgood-Chittick, when he was 42 and then navigating love, loss and widowhood while raising two children.

Up and coming director, Anastassia Vertjanova (Philly Fringe: We're Here Because You Are, The Illustrated Woman; Philly Women's Theatre Fest: Zachary Hates Everything), leads an artistic team in a new devised piece inspired by Ilya Kabakov's early 80's installation 'The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Own Apartment'.

Echoing “An American Pageant for the Arts,” the 1962 fundraising telecast for the National Cultural Center hosted by Leonard Bernstein, one of Falletta’s early teachers, this special celebration will be hosted by Tony Award® winner Audra McDonald with special guest Caroline Kennedy. Falletta will share the podium with conductors Steven Reineke and Thomas Wilkins.

The Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert, to be held on September 14 in the Concert Hall, will now be broadcast across the nation on October 1 at 9 p.m. ET as THE KENNEDY CENTER at 50 on PBS.

This season, tickets for every performance of every show at Montana Repertory Theatre will be available at Pick What You Pay prices.

Zions Bank Broadway at the Eccles has announced the First National Tour of Mean Girls—the record-breaking new musical comedy produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, and Paramount Pictures based on the hit film—will be coming to the Eccles Theater from November 30 to December 5, 2021 as part of the 2021–2022 Broadway Season.

Additionally, an inspiring PSA aired during the show featuring Chris Evans, Danai Gurira, Jodie Comer, Karen Gillan, Michelle Dockery, O-T Fagbenle and Paul Rudd, showing that when we come together, cancer doesn’t stand a chance.

Repulsing the Monkey sees the 1641 historic tavern, located between the skyscrapers of NYC's Financial District, become Jablonski's, a shot and beer tavern set in a rapidly gentrifying Pittsburgh. Daniel Leeman Smith directs.

‘=’ - the fourth instalment in Sheeran’s symbol album series – is Ed’s most accomplished work yet; the evolution of an artist who continues to tread new ground.

Tobacco Factory Theatres has announced many of its new season of inspiring and entertaining shows from September, including the biggie…..Christmas at Tobacco Factory Theatres! Follow the yellow brick road this Christmas with OZ – a brand new in-house production, created and co-produced with award-winning Bristol-based company Pins and Needles.

The Brooks Atkinson Theatre box office (256 W 47th St, NYC) is now open for the Broadway production of SIX, the musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, which will resume performances on Friday, September 17, 2021. SIX will celebrate its long-awaited official Broadway opening night on Sunday, October 3, 2021.

Wieland is the CEO of MH Equipment, a Peoria, Illinois-based material handling company. In the 27 years that Weiland has served as CEO, MH has grown from a small, virtually bankrupt company with three branches and 50 employees to a thriving one with over 900 employees and over 30 branches.

Second Stage Theater has announced complete casting for the Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's CLYDE'S. Edmund Donovan (Greater Clements) joins the previously announced Uzo Aduba, Ron Cephas Jones, Reza Salazar, and Kara Young.

Since the release of his last solo album, 2014’s Dean Wareham, Dean made a film soundtrack -- Mistress America --  with his wife, Britta Phillips, released an album and toured with his recently reunited group Luna.

Broadway superstar and Tony Award-nominee Adam Pascal (Rent, AIDA, Something Rotten) will once again step into the well-heeled shoes of Edward Lewis after thrilling audiences on Broadway for a limited set of performances in 2019. He will be joined by rising star Olivia Valli (Jersey Boys, Wicked) as the charming and charismatic Vivian Ward.

Two River Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Dias and Managing Director Michael Hurst, has announced the lineup of productions for its 2021/22 Season. 

After more than a year of isolation with various forms of virtual and socially distant performances, dancers from three major ballet companies from across the United States will take the stage together in Ballet Coast to Coast at Jacob's Pillow. Leading artists from Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet will perform on the Henry J. Leir Stage from Aug. 25-29 in this Pillow-exclusive event.

Michael Morpurgo will make a special appearance for a post-show Q&A session following the opening night performance of Simon Reade's critically acclaimed play adaptation of his children's novel An Elephant in the Garden on 31 August.

The event starts with a master class with Zalman Raffael, Carolina Ballet artistic director, and a conversation with curating director Richard Glover, choreographer Darius Barnes, and Moses T. Alexander Greene, Museum director of film and performing arts, before the original works are performed.