Barnes News

'Beautiful,' 'brave,' and 'brilliant' are just a few of the words audience members are using to describe the inaugural YOUNG GIFTED & BLACK, held his past September at Green Room 42.

The world premiere of Natural Shocks starring Tony Nominee Pascale Armand (Eclipsed, The Trip to Bountiful) celebrated opening night last night, check out the photos below!

As reported by Billboard magazine here, Multi-platinum selling artist David Archuleta has released his brand new Christmas album Winter In The Air  via The Orchard (digital) and Shadow Mountain Records (physical product). The album is already in the Top 10 on iTunes Holiday charts and is available at all digital retailers here.

Based on a true story from World War Two, 'Star Of Strait Street' takes us back to the wild days of Valletta's notorious red-light district.

Lee Child, bestselling author of the addictive, 100 million-plus-copies-in-print-and-counting Jack Reacher series, has teamed up with celebrated Americana recording duo Naked Blue to co-write Just The Clothes On My Back, a roots-rock album inspired by Reacher's beloved character.  

Callum Francis, star of the UK and Australian Tours of Boots, will make his Broadway debut as 'Lola' in the Tony Award-winning musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street) beginning on Friday, January 11, 2019.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) has just announced that Heidi Blickenstaff ('Mickey'), Ted Louis Levy ('Mr. Magix'), Michael Park ('Prince Nicolai') and Lance Roberts ('Rev. J.D. Montgomery') have joined Sutton Foster ('Edythe Herbert') and Gavin Creel ('Captain Billy Buck Chandler') in a special one-night-only Benefit Musical Performance of My One and Only, the award-winning musical comedy by Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.

On December 7 and 8 at 7:30 PM, the legendary Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program at New York Live Arts will showcase the work of their five selected emerging choreographers: Emma Rose Brown, J. Bouey, Liana Conyers, Collin Ranf, and Dolores (Lola) Sanchez.

Hartford Opera Theater will offer New in November 9, a collection of short operas and opera excerpts. This opera festival will play Sunday, November 18 (7pm) at The Cathedral House at Christ Church Cathedral, 45 Church Street, Hartford, CT. Tickets are available now at https:// www.hartfordoperatheater.com as well as at the door; $10 students and seniors and $20 general admission.

This is a really brilliant production, full of life, energy, exuberance, and joy. Luke Barnes' script breaks your heart in the subtlest of ways. His writing poetically tells the story of abandoned dreams, working class struggle, and the search for happiness. It's a piece that's full of hope, yet absolutely hopeless at the same time.

Champagne Problems Productions presents A Holiday Comedy ShitSH*W, directed and produced by Jackie Learmond and Megan James.  This will be the second production from a diverse cast of men and women. The first one was the sold out sketch comedy 'Lady Bits'(April 2018).  A Holiday Comedy ShitSH*W will open December 4 - 12, 2018, with 8-performances (two each evening), at The Complex Theatre in Hollywood.