Uptown Players, a professional theater group located in the Uptown area of Dallas, has announced its programming for its upcoming Gay History Play Festival. From September 28 through October 19, 2018, Uptown Players will present three plays with themes that focus on Gay History.
On September 7th, 2018, Art House Productions' JC Fridays will be holding its 50th festival! Jersey City's premiere quarterly arts festival features art events that take place in restaurants, galleries, stores, and event spaces in almost every neighborhood of our great city. Our 50th JC FRIDAYS will showcase a variety of happenings including visual art exhibitions, live music, performance acts, educational demonstrations, and more. All events are free and open to the public. As one of the preeminent art scenes in the tri-state area, Jersey City is abound with visual and performing artists of all types, musicians, and individuals with unique talent; JC Fridays is one of the best times for them to share their newest projects and works.
Today the shortlist for the Total Theatre Awards 2018 was announced. From the shortlist announced today, a total of seven awards will be awarded across five categories: "Physical & Visual Theatre"; "Innovation, Experimentation & Playing with Form"; "Emerging"; "Circus"; and "Dance".
Art, above all, is subjective. It can be anything and everything if artistic intent is the drive behind the creation. With that in mind, art can come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and quality. Such was the case for the touring production of Waist Watchers, The Musical at Lakewood Cultural Center.
Birdland will kick-off their exciting month of programming with the following acts:
Eggland's Best (EB) fans still have time to sign the Family Meals Pledge by heading to www.EBFamilyMealsPledge.com. With the average family only spending twelve minutes together at the table during mealtime, EB is calling on families from across America to commit to spending an additional "dozen" minutes around the table eating nutritious meals. The Eggland's Best Family Meals Pledge has been developed as part of EB's proud support of the American Heart Association's Healthy For Good movement.
The production that has had audience members "burning off pounds just laughing," according to the Los Angeles Times, WaistWatchers The Musical! makes its Chicago Premiere at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St., this fall. Produced by Dana Matthow and featuring the queen of disco Martha Wash, known for singing the powerful anthem 'It's Raining Men,' and "Everybody Dance Now," the musical takes a lighthearted and hilarious look at women dealing with their relationship to food, friendship and fitness, while celebrating the transformative power of female friendship on the journey to self-acceptance. Capturing audiences of all ages from start to finish, the Chicago production begins September 13 for an open run with a press opening September 21, 2018.
Cheryl A. Young has announced that she will be retiring from her position guiding the MacDowell Colony, one of the nation's leading contemporary arts organizations. Young has served as executive director since 1997, and will remain in her position until her successor is in place in early 2019. The announcement was made at the Colony's annual Medal Day ceremony on August 12, at which the Edward MacDowell Medal was presented to comic artist Art Spiegelman.
The 3rd annual Hip Hop Film Festival was held, fittingly, at the historic National Black Theatre founded by Dr. Barbara Ann Teer who moved to Harlem in 1968 and saw that the once vibrant neighborhood was suffering from a sense of hopelessness after the losses of African American leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and desperately needed a community space and cultural arts institution that would 'be reflective of the power, grace and excellence of a people' (according to her daughter and current CEO Sade Lythcott).
They may be serving up dry martini's in the show, but this production of Blithe Spirit is a fluid concoction of frenetic farce and frolicking fun. Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward at the Kansas City Actors Theatre in Union Station Kansas City Aug 8-25, 2018 starring Cinnamon Schultz, Margaret Shelby, Coleman Crenshaw, Matt Rapport, Cheryl Weaver, Jan Rogge, & Vanessa Severo
Producing Artistic Director Elizabeth Flemming, Associate Artistic Director Ethan Paulini and Managing Director Frank Hartley will present a new adaptation of Alice in Wonderland in Alice's Tea Cup called Alice in Alice's. This brand new adaptation features Book, Music and Lyrics by Joe Barros and Rick Edinger. Performances begin August 11 and run through September 12 at Alice's Tea Cup - Chapter II, 165 E. 64th St in Manhattan. Showtimes are 9am todays and Sundays and 3pm on Wednesdays. Tickets are $18 for general admission and include a tea and scone.
Kansas City Actors Theatre has completed casting for its production of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," the first show of its fourteenth season, which will run from August 8th to the 26th at the City Stage in Union Station. The production will be directed by Doug Weaver and will star Cinnamon Schultz, Coleman Crenshaw, Vanessa Severo, Jan Rogge, Matt Rapport, Cheryl Weaver, and Margaret Shelby. The production team includes Kelli Harrod (Scenic Designer), Bill Christie (Properties Designer), Sarah M. Oliver (Costume Designer), Kylor Greene (Lighting Designer), Shelbi Arndt (Co-Lighting Designer), Jonathan Robertson (Sound Designer), Matthew Schorr (Co-Sound Designer), Alex Murphy (Stage Manager), and Kyle Dyck (Technical Director).
Matthew Morrison will star in The Greatest Dancer, Simon Cowell's British entertainment format, according to Deadline.
The Battle of the Bulge - the struggle to be that perfect weight - a topic women around the world know only too well - comes to toe-tapping, hysterical life in this 90-minute musical tale, set in Cook's Women's Gym.
Amas Musical Theatre is 50! During the coming year, the company will offer a wide array of programming devoted to continuing its mission of promoting cultural diversity in American musicals. A full schedule of events is listed below.
The Battle of the Bulge - the struggle to be that perfect weight - a topic women around the world know only too well - comes to toe-tapping, hysterical life in this 90-minute musical tale, set in Cook's Women's Gym.
When a successful novelist hires a psychic as research for his new book, he ends up encountering the unexpected - the ghost of his first wife! Now he must balance his new (and very-much alive) wife with an increasingly incensed ghost in this classic witty comedy of manners from Noel Coward.
The Battle of the Bulge - the struggle to be that perfect weight - a topic women around the world know only too well - comes to toe-tapping, hysterical life in this 90-minute musical tale, set in Cook's Women's Gym.
Can eating a pie be a religious experience? It can if it was made by Jenna, the diner waitress in the Broadway musical WAITRESS, who turns ordinary ingredients like butter, sugar, and flour into mouthwatering slices of life in a pie tin.
Uncovering the lives and works of four groundbreaking visual artists, American Masters presents an "Artists Flight" of new documentaries, premiering Fridays, August 31-September 14 on PBS (check local listings). Four films tell the stories of four artists: Eva Hesse, the 1960s art world icon who changed art history and women's place in the picture; New York contemporary art maverick Elizabeth Murray; painter Andrew Wyeth, one of America's most popular, but least understood, artists; and Jean-Michel Basquiat, the New York graffiti artist turned '80s art world rock star who died 30 years ago (August 12, 1988). Each film will be available to stream the following day via pbs.org/americanmasters and PBS apps.
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