Staging a production in an open-air Elizabethan-style theatre such as Shakespeare's Rose is a feat rife with both challenges and potential. Joyce Branagh's jubilant adaptation of Twelfth Night fulfils that potential and then some, in a triumphant production that pulses with brightness and energy from start to finish.
Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey, Co-Heads of TIFF, today announced the TIFF Tribute Gala, an annual awards fundraiser to support TIFF's year-round programmes and core mission to transform the way people see the world through film, and to celebrate the film industry's outstanding contributors. The event takes place Monday, September 9 at the Fairmont Royal York, during the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. To recognize their leadership in creating a union between social impact and cinema, the TIFF Tribute Gala will introduce the new TIFF Impact Award. Participant Media will receive the inaugural award, which will be accepted by Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and CEO David Linde, marking an incredible 15 years of social action through storytelling. The TIFF Tribute Gala will also include the new Mary Pickford Award, honouring a female emerging talent in the industry. The inaugural award is given this year in celebration of United Artists' 100th anniversary. The recipient of this award, as well as additional honourees for the TIFF Tribute Gala, will be announced in the coming weeks.
Her fans ate it up, with calls of 'We love you, Regina,' peppering her two-hour concert, the latest entry of the theatre's In Residence On Broadway series, presenting a variety of artists in short runs until TINA, the new Tina Turner musical, starts previewing in October.
A thinly-disguised parable of the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui may have been written in 1941, but it may as well have been addressed directly to Americans of 2019.
Missoula native and Hellgate High School graduate, Bill Bowers, has been to "places so unbelievable, they could only be true." An award-winning actor, writer, teacher, and mime, Bill will share those places and experiences at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Tuesday, July 2, at 7:30 pm with his original show, All Over the Map.
HOME, Manchester has today announced its theatre programme for Autumn 2019 into Spring 2020 featuring brand-new HOME commissions, returning favourites, UK premieres and brand-new work.
Having performed Blanc de Blanc in the Hippodrome Casino for several months a few years ago, I jumped at the chance of creating a new work within this amazing space at Lola's Underground Casino.
All the way from Australia, Chores tells the story of two brothers who don't want to do their chores and tidy their room so they can ride their bicycles. A storyline we can all relate to, this show is jam-packed full of cool stunts, acrobatic flips, unicycles, juggling, and the infamous toilet paper guns. In this award-winning comedy circus show, highly-trained clowns perform death-defying stunts the whole family will love! Chores is at the Pavilion Theatre on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July 2019, with performances at 11:30am and 2:00pm.
The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall (SPMH) announces the return of its popular Silent Film Concert Series with 130 Years of Chaplin: Silent Movies Made Musical with the Mighty Wurlitzer at Cincinnati's Music HallBallroom on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 10:30 AM and 7:00 PM. This popular Spring organ concert is the perfect Thursday Throwback for the entire family!
After sold-out seasons at Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes in 2018, Chores is coming back to the UK for a new tour which includes two shows at Storyhouse in Chester.
With Home, I'm Darling currently running in the West End, and rehearsals underway for Orpheus Descending, Theatr Clwyd today announce the full cast for the world première of Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye, adapted by Emma Reeves. Christian Patterson directs Courtney George (Shirley), Victoria John (Chubby/Doris/Mrs Henshaw), Sean Jones (Kevin/Will Waverley/Male Doll), Kerry Peers (Mrs Mad/WVS Volunteer/'Charlie Chaplin'/Marilyn Henderson/Landlady) and Sam C Wilson (Shirley's Dad (Pete Smith)/Mr Bentley/ Kevin's Dad (Joe Moffatt), Gerald Pendleton/Uncle Mick). The production opens on 25 April, with previews from 23 April, and runs until 4 May.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA Los Angeles) is pleased to announce that this year's British Academy Britannia Awards will take place on Friday, October 25, 2019 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Desert Theatreworks' (DTW's) encore presentation of Billy Van Zandt's and Jane Milmore's LOVE, SEX AND THE I.R.S. is a riotous farce with fabulous acting, brilliant direction, exquisite comic timing, and nonstop laughs - an evening of fun not to be missed.
On Friday, April 5, I had the pleasure of seeing a phenomenally performed comedy about comedy! As expected, the Connecticut Cabaret Theatre in Berlin, CT has delivered another high quality show, THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF COMEDY (ABRIDGED) by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor. Not only is it highly entertaining to watch, but I feel my takeaway from it has helped make me a better person, which to me is the ultimate sign of success for any show!
The regional premiere of Chaplin has announced its principal casting. Zane Hadish will step into the shoes of Charlie Chaplin. Hadish steps into the role after his recent work on (9 to 5 and Sunday in the Park with George with RTC.) Loralee Songer will play Hannah Chaplin (Parade with RTC), Greg Smith as Mack Sennet (Pippin with RTC) and Mia Fryvecind Gimenez makes her Revival debut as Hedda Harper.
New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) will bring its signature blend of inventive choreography and striking visual design to a modernist masterpiece of German theater with its production of 'Electronic City' (2003) by Falk Richter, translated by Marlene J. Norst, adapted and directed by Ildiko Nemeth. Performances are April 12 to May 10 at The New Stage Performance Space, 36 West 106th Street (basement level).
Aziz Ansari brings his Road to Nowhere stand-up comedy tour to BAM on May 18. Ansari stars in, writes, and directs Master of None, a Netflix original comedy series that he co-created with Alan Yang (Parks and Recreation). Aziz won the 2016 and 2017 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series" and has received five additional nominations for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" (2016 and 2017), "Outstanding Comedy Series" (2016 and 2017), and "Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series" (2016).
SFDanceworks is pleased to announce its fourth season featuring a West Coast premiere by Alejandro Cerrudo, a Bay Area premiere by Olivier Wevers, as well as newly commissioned works by Brett Conway,Laura O'Malley and Andrea Schermoly. SFDanceworks' Season Four takes place at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Tickets, $20 - $60, will go on sale next month via a direct link at sfdanceworks.org or by phone at (415) 345-7575.
With Home, I'm Darling currently running in the West End, and rehearsals underway for Orpheus Descending, Theatr Clwyd today announce the full cast for the world premiere ofJacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye, adapted by Emma Reeves. Christian Patterson directs Courtney George (Shirley), Victoria John (Chubby/Doris/Mrs Henshaw), Sean Jones(Kevin/Will Waverley/Male Doll), Kerry Peers (Mrs Mad/WVS Volunteer/'Charlie Chaplin'/Marilyn Henderson/Landlady) and Sam C Wilson (Shirley's Dad (Pete Smith)/Mr Bentley/ Kevin's Dad (Joe Moffatt), Gerald Pendleton/Uncle Mick). The production opens on 25 April, with previews from 23 April, and runs until 4 May.
Physical Theater Festival Chicago organizers have revealed a second wave of international live theater acts ready to delight Chicago and defy all norms, to complete the 2019 festival's nine-day line-up, May 31-June 8 at Chicago's Stage 773.
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