MUSICAL THEATRE WEST is thrilled to announce, in its 62nd consecutive year (making it one of the country's longest-running continuing musical theatre companies), some really 'Big' news for their audiences and subscribers! For their 2014-2015 season of shows, they will be presenting the first production of the Broadway musical, BIG FISH, since its New York debut with the original Broadway sets and costumes! Continuing with its 'Big' Broadway' season are three more smash-hit shows from the Great White Way - LES MISERABLES, SOUTH PACIFIC and SINGIN' IN THE RAIN! In its 62 years of producing extraordinary musical entertainment, there has never been a season this 'Enchanted' or this 'Big!'
Written by Matthew Baldwin and Thomas Hescott. Performed by Matthew Baldwin. Directed by Thomas Hescott. Fresh from two sell-out runs at Ovalhouse, The Act transfers to Trafalgar Studio 2 for a limited 5 week season.
Too early to go home, too late to stay still... The award-winning Future Disco series sets the tone for 2014 with their seventh instalment 'Til The Lights Come Up'.
Celebrated violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh join the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) and guest conductor James Feddeck for the West Coast premiere of Anna Clyne's impressionistic Prince of Clouds on Saturday, March 22, 8 pm, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and Sunday, March 23, 2014, 7 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall. Clyne's work, heralded by the Washington Post as 'captivating' and 'exhilarating from beginning to end,' is a LACO co-commission with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, IRIS Orchestra and the Curtis Institute of Music. Feddeck, winner of the prestigious Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2013 who is making his Los Angeles debut, also conducts Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043, Mendelssohn's 'The Fair Melusina' Overture, with its distinctive aquatic theme, and Schubert's graceful Symphony No. 3 in D major.
Marsyas Productions honors master composer Chou Wen-chung with a very special 90th birthday tribute concert featuring Boston Musica Viva, Talujon, flutist Jayn Rosenfeld and pianist Christopher Oldfather tonight, February 20th at 8pm.
1967. In Westminster the men in suits are putting the finishing touches to the freedoms we take for granted. In Soho, the men in bars are putting the finishing touches to their hairdos. Caught between these worlds is Matthews, a civil servant with a big heart and a big secret.
When GHOST: THE MUSICAL opened on Broadway it was met by a bevy of critical slams and was plagued by technical issues that would stall the production. Now, the troubled movie turned musical turned theme-park ride is limping, zombie-like, across the nation in a Non-Equity National Tour. Luckily, the production is employing a handful of theatre professionals. In many ways, that is this overblown clunker of a show's only saving grace.
Los Angeles-based indie songstress Kina Grannis celebrated Valentine's Day weekend by delivering her fans a trifecta of details surrounding her sophomore release.
The Sino-American Music Association will perform a Chinese New Year Concert at Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation today, February 15, 2014 at 1:00 PM. This concert features traditional and contemporary Chinese music. A reception with Chinese tea and snacks follows the performance. The concert is presented free and open to the public.
Taking place against the ancient backdrop of the beautiful Italian countryside, this modern tale of love describes the entertaining lifestyle of a flight attendant.
Artistic Director Peter Boal has announced to subscribers the line-up for Pacific Northwest Ballet's 2014-2015 season. Highlights include a program devoted to the work of acclaimed choreographer William Forsythe; the return of popular works by George Balanchine, Alexei Ratmansky, David Dawson, and Nacho Duato; a world premiere by New York City Ballet's Justin Peck, a PNB premiere by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa; and a fond farewell to the Northwest's favorite holiday tradition, Kent Stowell and Maurice Sendak's Nutcracker. (PNB will unveil a new production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker with sets and costumes by Ian Falconer in 2015.)
We Players, in partnership with the National Park Service / Golden Gate National Recreation Area will present a site-integrated production of Shakespeare's Macbeth at Fort Point, the civil war era fortress located beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. The production previews May 30 - June 1, then runs June 5 through June 29, 2014, Thursday through Sunday. Tickets sales begin March 17. For press ticket reservations and more information please call 415.547.0189 or email press@weplayers.org.
Marsyas Productions honors master composer Chou Wen-chung with a very special 90th birthday tribute concert featuring Boston Musica Viva, Talujon, flutist Jayn Rosenfeld and pianist Christopher Oldfather on Thursday, February 20th at 8pm.
We Players, in partnership with the National Park Service / Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will present a site-integrated production of Shakespeare's Macbeth at Fort Point, the civil war era fortress located beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. The production previews May 30 - June 1, then runs June 5 through June 29, 2014, Thursday through Sunday. Tickets sales begin March 17.
Rubicon Theatre continues the company's 16th Not Your Typical Season with sardines and lingerie in NOISES OFF, a comic romp by Michael Frayn about the outrageous exploits of a company of actors which opens tonight, February 1, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main Street in Ventura's Downtown Cultural District. The production continues Wednesdays through Sundays through February 23, with low-priced previews on Wednesday, January 29 at 7 p.m., Thursday, January 30 at 8 p.m. and Friday, January 31 at 8 p.m.
See what so often goes unseen. The extraordinary time-lapse filmmaking of Louie Schwartzberg reveals nature through an exquisite lens: a hummingbird slowed to a pace that allows us to see each wing as it drinks nectar; a flower's golden blossoms opening wide; the clouds and stars moving across the skies; a city awaking at dawn. Park City Institute presents award-winning cinematographer, director and producer Louie Schwartzberg tonight, January 31 as part of the 2013-2014 'Future in Review' speaker series. The evening, Saving Our Planet: Nature's Mysteries Revealed through the Lens, fills the intimate Black Box Theater of Park City's Eccles Center with Schwartzberg's awe-inspiring images and a talk at 7:30p.m.
RH Contemporary Art presents OUTSIDE THE LINES: NEW ART FROM CHINA. On view at the RH Contemporary Art gallery, located at 437 West 16th Street in New York's Chelsea art district, from today, January 31 to April 12, 2014, the exhibition explores the cultural and philosophical concerns of 12 Chinese artists while revealing the dialogue among their diverse mediums, practices and iconography.
