Barry Johnson News

CMPAC announces the Cast of our Season 44 Closing Show: CMPAC Presents: Nice Work at The Noel S. Ruiz Theatre, running July 13 - August 10.

Joyce Manor have announced an extensive U.K. Tour in April next year. Please find the full list of dates below:

In a superb offering, Oakdale's CM Performing Arts Center (CMPAC) presents Phantom at the Noel S. Ruiz Theatre. Not to be mistaken for the famous Andrew Lloyd Weber musical Phantom Of The Opera, this is a different take - though based on the same novel - that gives us more insight into who the Phantom, the man, is. Running through November 3rd, Ashley Nicastro directs and choreographs this boffo incarnation.

Today, Joyce Manor release their new album Million Dollars to Kill Me, the California band's fifth studio effort. Produced by Converge's Kurt Ballou, Million Dollars to Kill Me came to life at Ballou's own GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. Additionally, Million Dollars to Kill Me was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Weezer, AFI, Green Day).

Today, Joyce Manor release their new album Million Dollars to Kill Me, the California band's fifth studio effort. Produced by Converge's Kurt Ballou, Million Dollars to Kill Me came to life at Ballou's own GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. Additionally, Million Dollars to Kill Me was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Weezer, AFI, Green Day).

Joyce Manor have premiered a new song and video titled “Think I'm Still In Love With You.” The track is set to appear on their forthcoming album Million Dollars to Kill Me, due out on September 21.

*Joyce Manor have announced a U.K. tour in November 2018, supporting Basement. Please find the full list of dates below:

On September 21, Joyce Manor will release their fifth full-length effort, Million Dollars to Kill Me. The album follows 2016's critically lauded release Cody.

Winner of four 2000 Tony Awards, Elton John & Sir Tim Rice (Official)'s AIDA is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and betrayal, chronicling a love triangle between Aida, a Nubian princess stolen from her country, Amneris, an Egyptian princess, and Radames, the soldier they both love.

While disco may be dead, its spirit is alive and well at the Noel S. Ruiz Theatre at CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale through August 19.

The Bee Gees celebrate the 40th Anniversary of 'Saturday Night Fever'. Now what sets The Noel S. Ruiz Theatre's reasoning to do the show apart from everyone else, is that this just so happens to be the last show of their 40th Season.

Forward Flux Productions announces their 2017 season, running from February to October. This marks the company's third full year of programming in Seattle. Forward Flux is a dynamic live arts production company that presents innovative projects designed to connect people with art in unexpected ways. The company is focused on presenting new works by women and artists of color, and cultivating a new, younger audience.

Seattle Opera rings in the New Year with some of the most glorious music in all of opera: Verdi's La traviata, the original Moulin Rouge. German Stage Director Peter Konwitschny has created an "excitingly rebellious" (A Younger Theater) production that takes an uncompromising look at moral hypocrisy. In this story, practically all of Paris rushes in as voyeurs to watch the demise of the town's dying "It Girl"-a modern-day courtesan named Violetta. The crowd, withmore concern for their entertainment than her health, foists a new admirer on her: a young, socially awkward bookworm named Alfredo. While love seems like it could be a distraction, there's ultimately no denying the darkness that descends on Verdi's heroine. Presented without intermission, the "non-stop music keeps the audience riveted throughout" (Express, UK).  

Being there are many productions of the iconic musical West Side Story running at any one time, it is imperative that the cast be absolutely brilliant. Indeed, the company at The Noel S. Ruiz Theatre at CM Performing Arts Center does not disappoint under the outstanding direction of Martin Aviles, who has been in several productions of West Side Story himself. This dazzling production, playing through August 28th at the Oakdale venue, will leave you extremely impressed with the incredible talent Long Island has to offer.

To kick off their 2016 season, Forward Flux Productions will present a reading of Lauren Yee's existential slasher comedy, "Hookman" at the XII Flux Salon gathering in Seattle.

Philadelphia's Hop Along have been making waves since the release of their sophomore album Painted Shut earlier this year on Saddle Creek.

Forward Flux Productions will present the North West Regional premiere reading of Sarah Bernstein's dark new play The Summer House at the eighth Flux Salon gathering in Seattle.

Forward Flux Productions with Parley and Nate Omdal Productions presents 'Your [ ____ ] Neighborhood' an exhibition of new works exploring the theme of gentrification and the impact of progress in Seattle. This one-night-only event (Wednesday, May 6th from 7-10pm at Fremont Abbey Arts Center - 4272 Fremont Ave N. Seattle WA 98103) marks the completion of an artists' residency program called collaborate:create, in which 21 artists spend three weeks working together across disciplines to develop new works centered on one socially relevant theme.

Forward Flux Productions will present the North West Regional premiere reading of Sarah Bernstein's dark new play The Summer House at the eighth Flux Salon gathering in Seattle.

The shows must go on! Seattle Opera concludes its 2014/15 season with Richard Strauss' delightful opera-within-an-opera: Ariadne auf Naxos. A rich Seattleite is throwing a dinner party and asks his hired entertainment for the impossible: the capering troupe of comedians must combine their performance with an opera company's rendition of the mythical love and loss of the ancient Greek princess Ariadne. Comedy meets tragedy, and fireworks result!