The Kentucky Center presents LOVE ON THE FLOOR LIVE DANCE TOUR, starring Cheryl Burke, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, today, November 10, 2017 at 8 p.m. at the Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway.
Make-Believe Association, led by Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, will launch its career as an independent Chicago-based production company by inaugurating a new holiday tradition: a starry free reading of Thornton Wilder's one-act masterpiece, The Long Christmas Dinner.
Queer Art, the New York City-based non-profit, will announce the first winner of The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant during a special edition of Queer Art Film at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue at West 3rd St.) on December 4 at 8pm.
Plan-B Theatre presents THE ICE FRONT, which honors the heroism of and dangers faced by the trilogy of Nazi victims Jews, Roma and Homosexuals by questioning what it means to be an artist, to be a patriot, to be human.
PlayGround is the only theatre company in California to have Statewide, Northern, and Southern California New Play Competitions. PlayGround's 78 Member Statewide Writers Company, primarily based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, compete to write original plays in four-and-a-half days. The tremendous diversity of California has infused the writers pool with many writers new, not only to California, but to the rest of the country as well. The November plays will be inspired by the topic REAP WHAT YOU SOW . As you sow, so shall you reap. (Galatians VI)
The BMO Harris Bank Magnificent Mile Lights Festival invites visitors to two days of free, family fun to celebrate the start of the holiday season November 17 & 18 culminating in an unforgettable tree-lighting parade.
The words 'carefully taught', drawn from a song in Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, promise artistic green vegetables, an edifying moral lesson about the origins of racial prejudice in American society. Cheryl L. Davis's play contains exactly such a lesson, but it is wrapped in an equally edifying story complex enough to promise something other than simpleminded answers.
The sold out house in Portland's Good Theater sat riveted in their seats throughout as the tense, soul-searching drama of J. B. Priestly's An Inspector Calls as its twists and hairpin turns, its emotional revelations and its jarring ending played itself out with a combination of subtlety and punch. Director Brian P. Allen, his cast and creative team have created a mesmerizing theatrical experience that does complete justice to Priestly's passionate and ever-relevant 1945 play.
Good Theater continues its 16th season with J.B. Priestley's award-winning An Inspector Calls, playing now through November 26 at Good Theater's home, the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Continuing to bring the best of music, theater and dance to Southern Nevada, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts announced today that single tickets are now on sale for dozens of winter shows, with additional titles going on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 10. This lineup of more than 60 shows includes Tony Award -winning musicals and world-renowned entertainers, as well as acclaimed productions visiting Las Vegas for the very first time. For more information and the full lineup, visit TheSmithCenter.com.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the addition of a performance by honoree Jana Robbins at its 25th Anniversary Benefit, '25 Years of TRU Love: Creating Community Through the Arts.'
In its first segment, THEATER TALK focuses on the play TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, now in a highly successful run at The Public Theater. It was adapted for the stage by one of the episode's guests, actor/writer Nia Vardalos, who also stars in the production, co-conceived by the other guest in the segment, writer/columnist Marshall Heyman.
The CASA Award, a new playwriting award for women in South Africa, was announced at Playwrights Guild of Canada's Tom Hendry Awards this past Sunday at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presented the 30th Anniversary of No Way to Treat a Lady. A laugh-filled evening featuring songs from the Richard Rodgers Award winning musical by Douglas J. Cohen, based on the novel by William Goldman (The Princess Bride). MAC Award winner KLea Blackhurst (Hello, Dolly!, Goodspeed) and author Cohen co-host the event which will feature many of the performers from past productions, both off-Broadway at the York Theatre and Hudson Guild, and regionally (Florida Studio Theatre, Village Theater, Barrington Stage, TheaterWorks in Hartford, Coconut Grove in Florida, Colony Theater in L.A.), as well as photographs and footage from over a dozen international productions. Cohen will also reveal some of the show's unique history behind the scenes.
Second Stage Theater has announced that Bel Powley will join the previously announced Michael Cera, Chris Evans, and Brian Tyree Henry, to complete the cast of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, directed by Trip Cullman.
A favorite holiday tradition returns to Meadow Brook Theatre for the 36th year with A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and a handful of ghosts will once again return to the streets of London to deliver a message of unity.