Boris Karloff News

The Young Vic today announces the complete cast for Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview, directed by the Young Vic's Genesis Fellow and Associate Director Nadia Latif.

The Young Vic Directors Program announces the launch of a new, improved Genesis Network website. The website has been updated and developed to better facilitate the community and peer-support at the heart of the Young Vic Directors Program, the only scheme of its kind, which has been running for nearly twenty years. The program currently serves nearly 1,000 directors, designers and producers living in the UK at the early stages of their career.

After graduating from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts in 1953, Barry Yellen wore many hats: stage manager, lighting designer, car show producer, managing director, touring show booker, film producer and distributor, fund manager.

Newnan Theatre Company opens its historic 42nd season with the classic comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring, on Thursday, August 15th. The show has been hailed as one of the funniest comedies ever written for the stage by many theatre historians and has been performed all over the world.

Profiles in History is proud to announce treasures from the collection of legendary Writer, Director, Producer, Frank Darabont, are going up for auction on July 11th in Los Angeles. Items include comic and illustration art, movie posters, props, costumes and more from some of the most iconic films and TV shows ever made. Highlights are below.

Graveyard Club is excited to announce the upcoming release of Goodnight Paradise, out June 28th (Pre-Order). The Twin Cities band's new album is brimming with haunting melodies, poetic lyric narratives, and enveloping synths. A combination that fans of Stars, Magnetic Fields, and M83 will surely gravitate towards. Sonically the band bridge the gap between 80's goth and synth pop and 50's crooners, creating a distinctly nostalgic feel for a place and time you feel you know intimately, but never really existed. It's Twin Peaks in St. Paul's Cathedral Hill and Boris Karloff at the Under-The-Sea prom of your dreams. Today, Graveyard Club shares their new single “It Hurts”, debuted via Minnesota Public Radio's The Current as their “Song of the Day”, and streaming everywhere. This summer, the band will tour North America, with midwest and west coast dates announced so far. All upcoming tour dates are below.

Tony-nominated LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT announce its 42nd season of shows with something irresistible; something courageous; something grumpy; something killer; something good - in short, a "something for everyone" season! We start off with the West Coast premiere of Hal Linden, Cathy Rigby and Ken Page starring in GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL; followed by the Broadway and London smash-hit, Roald Dahl's MATILDA THE MUSICAL; then, a fresh spin on the hilarious, killer black comedy ARSENIC AND OLD LACE; next, we present one of the all-time great family musicals, Rodgers and Hammerstein's masterpiece THE SOUND OF MUSIC and our season finale will find you "having the time of your life" and dancing in the aisles to ABBA and the irresistible MAMMA MIA! This phenomenal season also includes the bonus options of the legendary ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK, country superstar TRAVIS TRITT, and the soulful sounds of THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS. LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT have everything for the young (and young at heart!) with this extraordinary season of first-class entertainment. Our Southern California subscribers and audiences are not going to want to miss a single spectacular event this coming year at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts!

The York Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce the 2019-2020 season, featuring performances of a variety of classical and popular pieces from the past and present. The 2019-2020 season will offer audiences nine performances, including six Classical Series concerts and three Pops Series concerts.

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is currently playing at Theatre Tallahasse now through March 3rd, 2019.

The disappointment was palpable when midway through the 2015-16 season it became clear that the world premiere of Frankenstein would not go ahead as planned because the set and the special effects were too exacting technically for the temporary infrastructure at Tour & Taxis. Partly because of the many film adaptations, Mary Shelley's modern myth about an idealistic, but arrogant scientist and his 'Creature' still clearly fires the collective imagination, and the expectations of Mark Grey's opera of the same name were running high. However, three seasons later La Monnaie is now more than ready to bring this production to life. All eyes are on the Polish-Lebanese conductor Bassem Akiki and the Spanish director lex Oll .

He really is a heel. He's as cuddly as a cactus and as charming as an eel. He's a bad banana with a greasy black peel. He's a monster. His heart's an empty hole. His brain is full of spiders. He's got garlic in his soul...

This review includes a longer than usual list of credits in the header, and that may point to a deficiency in the posting of other reviews, but the exception made here is to indicate the particularly balanced collaboration among the team members.

Two murderous old ladies, a Theodore Roosevelt impersonator, a Boris Karloff look-alike and a theater critic in love come together for an evening of fun and laughter as Livonia Community Theatre presents Arsenic and Old Lace, a comedy by Joseph Kesselring. The show runs November 16-17, 2018 at 7:30 pm, and November 18, 2018 at 2:00 pm.

Should you ever need to be a lodger in the warm and inviting Brooklyn home of sisters, Abby and Martha Brewster, and you are a male of any age, never admit to being someone without family ties or friends and even more importantly, no matter how delicious the wine is claimed to be, be a teetotaler. Even the tiniest sip of the sister's homemade Elderberry wine should never pass your lips, unless you want an unpleasant surprise and demise.

The Angel's Share presents the world premiere of Gregg Kallor's Sketches from Frankenstein, as well as his setting of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, October 10-12 in the Catacombs of The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn

Thirty of the most iconic cinematic masterpieces starring the most famous monsters of horror movie history come together on Blu-ray for the first time ever in the Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection on August 28, 2018, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Featuring unforgettable make-up, ground-breaking special effects and outstanding performances, the Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection includes all Universal Pictures' legendary monsters from the studio that pioneered the horror genre with imaginative and technically groundbreaking tales of terror in unforgettable films from the 1930s to late-1950s.

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is pleased to be collaborating with the Music Box Theatre on The Faces of Frankenstein: Depictions of Frankenstein's Creature from Mary Shelley to Benedict Cumberbatch.

From the airwaves of the 1930s & 40s to the stage, we present Lights Out in the Hermit's Cave. This is a live double feature performance of radio plays from two classic radio horror shows.

From the airwaves of the 1930s & 40s to the stage, we present Lights Out in the Hermit's Cave. This is a live double feature performance of radio plays from two classic radio horror shows.

From the airwaves of the 1930s & 40s to the stage, we present Lights Out in the Hermit's Cave. This is a live double feature performance of radio plays from two classic radio horror shows.