Dan Kelly News

It’s back and better than ever: VAULT Festival, the UK’s leading independent festival of live performance, makes its joyful return in 2023. Running from 24th January – 19th March 2023 in venues across Waterloo, the programme features over 500 of the best theatre, comedy, cabaret and late-night shows from some of the brightest talents across the live performance industry. 

SOHO PLAYHOUSE announced the upcoming engagement of Dear Mom, Sorry for Being a Bitch for its additional run, now on the mainstage. Created by Christine Covode (UCB, Second City), Dear Mom, Sorry for Being a Bitch will begin its 10-performance limited run in-person at Soho Playhouse's (15 Vandam St, New York, NY 10013) Mainstage on November 2, 2022.

Dan Kelly will present How I Came in Third in the North Korean Marathon at an Edinburgh Fringe show at Just the Tonic at The Caves running 4 - 28 August 2022. How I Came Third in the North Korean Marathon is a fast-paced hour of unique, intelligently comic storytelling.

The full music and art lineup has been announced for the BeachLife Festival SpeakEasy Stage presented by Jack Daniel's, curated by Jim Lindberg of Pennywise. The SpeakEasy Stage will feature intimate acoustic sets from an eclectic array of artists from the rock, singer/songwriter, surf, punk, and reggae rock genres, as well as the Punk Rock & Paintbrushes popup art gallery.

Headliners Weezer (Friday), The Smashing Pumpkins (Saturday) and Steve Miller Band (Sunday) will be joined by a wide range of talent rarely booked together for the same event, including 311, Sheryl Crow, Vance Joy, Black Pumas, Lord Huron, Stone Temple Pilots, UB40 feat. Ali Campbell, Cold War Kids and many more, performing on four stages.

Paul Kelly has released an extraordinary 22-song double album that travels across the centuries, from a Latin hymn to well-known carols, from a traditional Irish folk ballad to songs with an unmistakable local flavor, and more.

The festival will feature over 600 shows of the best new theatre, comedy, immersive experiences, cabaret, live performance, and late-night events from the UK’s brightest and boldest independent artists.

 The So Cal powerhouse reggae-rock band Fortunate Youth fifth full length studio album Good Times (Roll On) has impressively debuted on #1 on iTunes Reggae Chart, #5 on iTunes Charts (All Genres) and have become a favorite of the Seattle Mariners who have added the title song to their on-field walk up playlist!

Come see Lady Macbeth Encore at the Cutting Room, a spectacle of witches, sword fighting, and murder! Taking only the original text of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth focuses on a couple in love and the grief they suffer after losing their child.

The release of “Sunlight” and tour announcement is amplified by the news of their sold-out show at Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

Rodgers & Hart's Babes in Arms, with a fresh, witty and relevant script by acclaimed playwright, Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane, is the quintessential 'Hey, kids, let's put on a show' musical.

Born in the throes of lockdowns and conceived around 2018, the new album Good Times (Roll On) is a range of throwback sounds to current vibes.

With more time to craft the new album the band reflected on their ever evolving sound. Over the last 2 years Fortunate Youth had toured with a sax player and trumpeter, so they added parts for a horn section and enlisted premier players John, Art, Bryan, and Geoff.

As one of the first live theater productions since the global pandemic shutdown, Lady Macbeth will open on July 23 in McCarren Park, Brooklyn and bring theater back to New York City.

On Saturday, January 30 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Theater for the New City (TNC), 155 First Ave., will present the twelfth installment of 'Open 'Tho Shut,' its afternoon of 'walk-by theater' that is staged in its set shop and visible from East Tenth Street between First and Second Avenues.

Theater for the New City's Village Halloween Costume Ball, a revered Village tradition that frequently welcomes over 1,200 revelers, will be presented virtually this year with most of its key traditions preserved. Notable artists including Everett Quinton, F. Murray Abraham, Austin Pendleton, Phoebe Legere and Penny Arcade.

Dance the Vote, an intergenerational non-partisan St Louis-based arts group co-founded by Joan Lipkin, Producing Artistic Director of That Uppity Theatre Company, and comprised of white women and women of color have created several initiatives, demonstrating both creativity and resilience in the midst of the pandemic to use the arts to promote civic engagement. 

On December 13, 2019 at the Mark Wilson Theatre on the campus of St. Louis University, Playhouse Emissions: Climate Change Theatre Action St. Louis 2019 was presented as part of the international Climate Change Theatre Action 2019.

On Friday December 13, 7:30-9:00 pm at the Mark Wilson Theatre on the campus of St. Louis University, 'Playhouse Emissions: Climate Change Theatre Action St. Louis 2019' will be presented as part of the international Climate Change Theatre Action 2019. Admission is free.

The Penny Seats Theatre Company has announced that Peter and the Starcatcher, the second show of its seventh summer season, will open today, July 13th. The story is a clever and imaginative prequel to J.M. Barrie's classic tale, Peter Pan.