Barnes News

Pass Over, now playing at Luna Stage, will extend through March 8, 2020. The new play, which opened February 6, has received audience and critical acclaim. NJ.com/Star Ledger called it a a?oea 90-minute meditation on much of human history, seen through the experiences of two pulsating and frequently terrified black men.a??

Laugh until you scream at this month's exciting edition of HOFF'S HORRORFEST at 8:30pm on Sunday, March 15th at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective! Host Hoff Matthews (Comedy Central) and co-producers Ian Goldstein (The New Yorker), Tim Barnes (All That) and Andrei Alupului (Come Ova, UCB) present a full screening of Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight, interspersed with comedy bits, host segments and prize giveaways.

'Garden Design Recipes: Design Without the Designer' (ISBN: 978-1734260007) by April Harden is a DIY-garden design book that provides easy-to-follow instructions. Set up in a recipe-style format, there are garden design recipes for how to create 75 different gardens in multiple zones across the country.

The Story Theatre has announced their upcoming March staged readings. Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes by Terry Guest will close out Guest's Emerging Playwright Residency with The Story. They are thrilled to have added Isabel Thompson's Big Kids to their season as well.

There are certainly plenty of movie-to-stage adaptations that have appeared (and continue to pop up) on Broadway, but few can boast being one of the most jubilant and unabashedly open-minded as the gloriously glam 2012 hit KINKY BOOTS, the Tony Award-winning stage musical adaptation of Geoff Deane and Tim Firth's 2005 independent cult film inspired by actual true events. The critical and audience favorite---which features memorable music from Grammy-winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper and a book by Tony winner Harvey Fierstein---enjoyed a healthy run on Broadway and in several national tours that followed, spreading its genuinely heartwarming yet cheekily-delivered message of acceptance and empathy. Now back in Southern California for its flashy, beautifully remounted West Coast regional premiere for 3-D Theatricals, KINKY BOOTS---now continuing performances through March 1, 2020 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts---is just as fun and fabulous as ever.

Jon Robertson, dean of Lynn University Conservatory of Music and Philharmonia guest conductor, today invited fans of classical music to 12 presentations during February and March, including three performances of the Lerner & Loewe hit musical Gigi.

Vocalist and performer Anita Michael returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre with her new show 'I'm a Certified Senior Citizen' on Thursday, April 2, 2020, Friday, April 3, 2020 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 1:00 pm. The Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe is located at 407 West 42nd Street in Manhattan. There is a $20 cover and $20 food/beverage minimum per person. Tickets may be purchased on line at: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10504599

Nickelodeon is expanding the world of the number-one kids' series, Henry Danger, with the launch of Danger Force, a brand-new original live-action spinoff premiering Saturday, March 28, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). Created and executive produced by Christopher J. Nowak (Henry Danger, Sam & Cat), the new series stars two of the most beloved characters from Henry Danger, 'Ray/Captain Man' (Cooper Barnes) and 'Schwoz' (Michael D. Cohen), and introduces four new superheroes-in-training as they team up to fight crime in their town of Swellview. Danger Force (13 episodes) is produced by Barnes and Jace Norman (Henry Danger), and production for the series is currently underway.

Lynn University and Jan McArt, producer and director of theatre arts program development, today announced that the popular Libby Dodson's Live at Lynn Theatre Series is offering three sensational shows this spring.

Deadline reports that Carl Lumbly will star on 'The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.' The series will premiere in August on Disney Plus.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that tickets for the electrifying new musical phenomenon SIX by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss will go on sale Friday, February 21. After a successful North American Premiere at Chicago Shakespeare last summer, SIX will return to Chicago for 16-weeks at Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E Chestnut St.) from July 8 through October 25, 2020.

3-D Theatricals continues its 2019-2020 season with Kinky Boots, winner of six 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical. The production, which will be directed by Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia (Broadway's Avenue Q and Shrek The Musical) and choreographed by Linda Love Simmons (3-D Theatricals' Once The Musical) with musical direction and conducting by Benet Braun (La Mirada Theatre's Grumpy Old Men: The Musical). Kinky Boots will play February 14-March 1 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos, CA).

Hillsborough Community College's Visual and Performing Arts Series presents The Running Show by Monica Bill Barnes & Company on February 28 & 29 at the Mainstage Theatre, HCC Ybor City campus.

Pittsburgh Festival Opera has released the details of its 2020 schedule. Productions this season include classic opera, one world premiere, one Pennsylvania premiere and the conclusion of Pittsburgh's Ring Cycle with scenes from Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods in concert. The Festival also presents a wider breadth of programming in different venues to include lectures, a poetry reading, two concerts by its Young Artists Program and festival favorite Daphne Alderson. The Festival runs from July 11 until July 26, 2020.

Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) has announced that their 2020 national convention is being held in the Kentucky International Convention Center and surrounding theatres and hotels for this year's event. With an estimated 5,000 attendees, this gathering has become the main place for connecting those working, teaching or training in theatre, to opportunities in the industry.

North Carolina Theatre, the region's premier nonprofit professional theatre, presents Kinky Boots, playing February 11-16, 2020 at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh. Eric Woodall is NC Theatre's producing artistic director, and Broadway performer Nathan Peck directs and choreographs the production.

The Un-Common Theatre Company is excited to bring its Young Performers Production of Disney's Frozen JR. to the Qualters Middle School in Mansfield, March 6-8, 2020. Come build a snowman with this talented cast of 31 kids who hail from 15 towns across Southeastern Massachusetts and Northern Rhode Island.

Pennsylvania Ballet begins the spring season with Artistic Director Angel Corella's first ever re-staging of the passionate and dramatic masterpiece La Bayadère. Visually and technically impressive, this iconicballet runs from March 5 - 15 at the Academy of Music.