Clouds News

Karl Hyde has announced details of the release of his debut solo album. Edgeland will be released through Universal Music Enterprises on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013.

St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back Kneehigh and director Emma Rice for the New York premiere of The Wild Bride. In this adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'The Girl Without Hands,' narrated by Satan himself, a father accidentally sells his daughter to the Devil. When our heroine cleverly escapes, a lyrical love story laced with devilish humor unfolds. The production features a bluegrass score by longtime Kneehigh composer Stu Barker, performed by live musicians and the cast.

Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe may be best known for MY FAIR LADY, their 1956 musical adaptation of Pygmalion. The show was an incredible success and left anticipation high for another Lerner & Loewe musical. After tumultuous writing, casting, and rehearsing processes their follow up opened on Broadway in 1960. The musical, simply titled CAMELOT, was based on T. H. White's The Once and Future King. It opened to mixed reviews, but the Original Cast Album LP was America's best selling LP for a solid 60 weeks. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it was publicized that the original cast recording had been a favorite of the Kennedy family in while in the White House, forever tying Lerner & Loewe's CAMELOT to the glamorous, media culture Camelot era of the Kennedy family.

Living in a time of an economic downturn and high unemployment can weigh on a person. To people suffering, and to readers looking for inspiration to help strengthen their faith in God, R. Alan Krum, Jr. delivers his new book, 'Feathers from Heaven' (published by Trafford Publishing), a collection of inspirational Christian poetry.

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) has named a quartet of iconic Japanese filmmakers - Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Hideo Oguni - as honorees of its 2013 Jean Renoir Award for Screenwriting Achievement, given to an international writer(s) who has advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding contributions to the profession of screenwriter.

CliQr Technologies, the leader in enabling business applications to be moved, managed and secured from any physical or cloud environment to any private, public or hybrid cloud, today announced CloudCenter Connect. An integrated component of its CloudCenter platform, CloudCenter Connect transparently connects and coordinates interdependent applications, data sources and services residing in on-premise physical or virtualized environments with those on private, public or hybrid clouds. With CloudCenter Connect, businesses can intelligently place and manage workloads and information where it makes most sense, while enabling these physical and cloud environments to transparently work together as one.

Fisher Landau Center for Art presents 'Nancy Dwyer: Paintings & Sculpture, 1982-2012', curated by Nicholas Arbatsky, on view today, January 18 - April 7, 2013.

In honor of the recent passing of PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford, the producers of the new musical BARE are proud to invite you to bring a loved one to see the show as a guest of the production with the purchase of your full price ticket. Using the code BMPRNTS13, audience members will receive two tickets to BARE for $92.50 for performances from February 1 - March 3, 2013. To purchase these tickets click HERE or call (800) 432-7250.

BARE's Missi Pyle makes her solo show debut at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) with Sexy as Hell on Saturday, February 16th at 11:30pm. Come experience one of Hollywood's most exciting, hilarious and unpredictable actresses, as she pushes most of your boundaries! Combining Missi's hilarious, quirky, ornery and sometimes heartfelt original music with tunes from her bands (The Nice Ladies, Smith and Pyle and The Tumbleweeds) the show promises an evening of laughter, tears and booze, mixed with stories of love and loss, and an intimate look at Missi's most recent slutty summer. She proves that while funny and with 'strong features,' Missi is in fact Sexy as Hell - she was just waiting until she turned 40 to show you. Guest appearances can be expected from Dave Hill (Vanity Fair's 10 Comedians to Watch), Jenna Price (The Nice Ladies), and cast members from Off-Broadway's BARE.

The Grove Theatre has announced its production of HAIR, the American tribal love-rock musical, opening tonight, January 11th, 2013. HAIR, first opened Off-Broadway in October, 1967, re-opened on Broadway in May, 1968, and the Tony Award-winning show has enjoyed huge success since that time. HAIR portrays a loving, living, realistic look at the flower children of the 60's, who band together as a tribe, complete with bells, beads, incense, flowers, costumes and dreams. HAIR puts rock music and the culture that went with it on stage.

An exhibition of recent paintings by Adam Straus will be on view at Nohra Haime Gallery from February 5 - March 16, 2013. 'Looking for Nature and Singing the Paradise Blues' presents the artist at his most poetic, reflecting on solitude, mystery, and atmosphere. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Fisher Landau Center for Art presents 'Nancy Dwyer: Paintings & Sculpture, 1982-2012', curated by Nicholas Arbatsky, on view January 18 - April 7, 2013.

The Grove Theatre has announced its production of HAIR, the American tribal love-rock musical, opening this Friday, January 11th, 2013. HAIR, first opened Off-Broadway in October, 1967, re-opened on Broadway in May, 1968, and the Tony Award-winning show has enjoyed huge success since that time. HAIR portrays a loving, living, realistic look at the flower children of the 60's, who band together as a tribe, complete with bells, beads, incense, flowers, costumes and dreams. HAIR puts rock music and the culture that went with it on stage.

SPIN is premiering the track "We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)" from Thao & the Get Down Stay Down's forthcoming record We The Common, out February 5 in the U.S. (February 4 throughout the rest of the world) on Ribbon Music.

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The producers of the new musical Bare have announced the upcoming series of speakers for the January TalkOUT events. Audiences at select performances will be invited to stay after the show to participate in a discussion with some of the foremost leaders in the fight for LGBT equality. This month's special guests will include Ross Murray (GLAAD) with Missi Pyle (BARE's own 'Sister Joan'), Nathan Schaefer (Empire State Pride Agenda), Maggie Keenan-Bolger and Derrick Miller-Handley (The Point Foundation), Rabbi Michael Mellen, The Clementi Family (Tyler Clementi Foundation) and Taylor Trensch with Stafford Arima (BARE's 'Peter' and the show's director).

Bare, which is currently playing at New World Stages, has just announced a new performances schedule, which will begin January 28, 2013. THe new schedule is as follows: Monday at 8pm, Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm, Saturday at 2:30pm, and Sunday at 2pm & 7:30pm

The producers of the new musical Bare have announced the upcoming series of speakers for the January TalkOUT events. Audiences at select performances will be invited to stay after the show to participate in a discussion with some of the foremost leaders in the fight for LGBT equality. This month's special guests will include Ross Murray (GLAAD) with Missi Pyle (BARE's own 'Sister Joan'), Nathan Schaefer (Empire State Pride Agenda), Maggie Keenan-Bolger and Derrick Miller-Handley (The Point Foundation), Rabbi Michael Mellen, The Clementi Family (Tyler Clementi Foundation) and Taylor Trensch with Stafford Arima (BARE's 'Peter' and the show's director).

WWD has reported this morning that the search for the plane that went missing on January 4th, carrying Vittorio Missoni, has been stepped up by Venezuelan authorities.

The McCallum Theatre will play host to The Manhattan Transfer for one SRO performance on Saturday, January 18 at 8:00 pm as part of their stellar Fitz's Jazz Café series. For more than 30 years, Manhattan Transfer has remained one of the most popular jazz vocal groups of all time. The quartet (Tim Hauser, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel and Cheryl Bentyne) is known for their amazing harmonies, acapella and vocalese stylings. Manhattan Transfer has earned multiple Grammy Awards, worldwide sales in the millions, and legions of dedicated fans. In addition, in 1999, the Manhattan Transfer was among the first class of inductees into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.