Daniel Cooper News

Winner of the inaugural Through the Mill Prize and shortlisted for the Papatango Prize, Park Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre present brand-new play ANIMAL, exploring how disability, sexuality and lust co-exist for people who require round the clock assistance.

Boston Ballet’s digital season will conclude with BB@yourhome: Process & Progress, an approximately one-hour long program featuring a collection of dance films by international choreographic and new-to-North America voices Ken Ossola and Nanine Linning, boundary-breaking choreographer Lex Ishimoto, and Boston Ballet Principal Dancer John Lam.

As we all daydream of mystical beaches, magical experiences, and those metamorphic dance floor moments, the Envision team is on a mission.

Choreographers Lesley Bandy and Hayz Pincheira Rowe along with Conductor Chad Davenport, have collaborated to create 'Imaginarium' a fusion of story, dance, band and song. The 55 members of the West City Concert Band are front right and centre in this performance, becoming integral visual parts of the story as they move and infuse within the the dynamics of the choreography.

Lucky Bird Media — comprised of Daniel Cooper, Susan Hubbard, Jake Lanier, and Maddie Corbin — is elated to announce Tom Avis of Hive Mind PR as the newest member of their growing team. Avis brings over half a decade of experience as well as critically acclaimed artists including Pile, Weaves, Jesca Hoop, Ellis, JEFF The Brotherhood and Homeshake, to the roster. Avis will maintain Hive Mind as Lucky Bird's Toronto branch, expanding the US company into Canada.

 Boston Ballet presents BB@home: ChoreograpHER, a program dedicated to emerging female choreographers from Boston Ballet Company dancers featuring six original works by Principal Dancer Lia Cirio, Second Soloist Hannah Bettes, and Artists Jessica Burrows, Lauren Flower, Sage Humphries, and Haley Schwan. Performances will be held November 1-2, 2018, at 7:30 pm at Boston Ballet's South End headquarters (19 Clarendon Street) in an intimate, black box theater setting.

Bringing a book about volcanoes, tunnels, mud aliens and magical stones to the stage makes for some unique challenges and there had been a lot of talk of how it could be staged. Director Sara Brodie, who gained notoriety with her direction of the highly successful The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Auckland Theatre Company 2016), has melded a technical team who have created a landscape of tension , thrill and drama for the performers to tell their story.

Six Boston Ballet dancers will present premieres of their own choreography, featuring fellow Company members, at Dancer/Dance-makers, October 6, 2017, at 7:30 pm at Boston Ballet's South End headquarters (19 Clarendon Street).

Catastrophists is a darkly comic new play about class, canapes and cults. In the Cotswolds. It is the debut play of Jack Stanley - a member of the award-winning Soho Theatre's Writer's Lab which has produced some

Catastrophists is a darkly comic new play about class, canapes and cults. In the Cotswolds. It is the debut play of Jack Stanley - a member of the award-winning Soho Theatre's Writer's Lab which has produced some

Let us take your coat. Pull up a chair. Have a drink. On the menu tonight: primordial soup, 'apocalypse of lobster,' and, for dessert, froze waste. While the actual meal and the company may leave a lot to be desired, this is one social event you won't want to miss. Wasatch Theatre Company will present the regional premiere of Moira Buffini's Dinner, the Oliver-nominated play. If you're hungry for a well-executed, superbly-acted play with decidedly adult appeal, this is your ticket.

Billy Elliot is the first production in the new ASB Waterfront theatre. Auckland Theatre Company's new home is a stunning venue with acoustics second to none.

Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has announced the 2016-2017 season roster. A total of 71 dancers make up the Company roster, with 57 in Boston Ballet, the main professional company, and 14 in Boston Ballet II (BBII), the second company.

Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has announced the 2016-2017 season roster. A total of 71 dancers make up the Company roster, with 57 in Boston Ballet, the main professional company, and 14 in Boston Ballet II (BBII), the second company. A total of 17 nationalities are represented, with dancers from Brazil, South Korea, France, Georgia, and Australia, to name a few.  More than 32 percent of the main company are BBII alumni and 18 percent are Boston Ballet School alumni. This year marks Principal Dancer Erica Cornejo's final season with Boston Ballet after dancing with the Company for 11 seasons. Cornejo will retire from Boston Ballet in May 2017 with final performances in The Sleeping Beauty.

Pandora Productions 2011-2012 Season bows Thursday evening, September 8, with A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, a tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with one's identity.