On Sunday November 6th, the Broadway Advocacy Coalition held the first in a series of monthly events called The Invitation. The theme was Political Participation. The Coalition has teamed up with professors, lawyers, and students at Columbia Law School in an effort to bring the arts and policies together. The Broadway Advocacy Coalition was formed after a social media post from Amber Iman became a movement. Her fellow Broadway actors Adrienne Warren, Britton Smith, Cameron J. Ross, Christian Dante White, and Jackie Bell came together with her to organize an event to bring to light the plight of Black people in America. After the success of that first event, Broadway for Black Lives Matter, they decided to expand their programming to include The Invitation.
Dante Jones and Drew Love - better known as THEY. - return with a new track from their forthcoming Nü Religion: HYENA debut. 'What You Want' premiered on BBC Radio's MistaJam's 'Inbox Fresh' on Wednesday November 9th.
Tennessee Shakespeare Company today announced its 26-member Board of Directors unanimously approved the elections of three new members and a slate of new Officers to its Executive Committee for FY17.
Little Shop Of Horrors the musical hit, will 'plant' itself at Atlantic City's historic Dante Hall for a limited run of performances starting October 28th at 8pm, just in time for the Halloween holiday! Little Shop Of Horrors is presented by JRL Productions in association with Musical Theater International and Dante Hall Theater.
Summary: Forefathers' Eve [Dziady] is a four-part dramatic work begun circa 1820 and completed in 1832 - with Part I published only after the poet's death, in 1860. The drama's title refers to Dziady, an ancient Slavic and Lithuanian feast commemorating the dead. This is the grand work of Polish literature, and it is one that elevates Mickiewicz to a position among the 'great Europeans' such as Dante and Goethe.
With its Christian background of the Communion of the Saints, revenant spirits, and the interpenetration of the worlds of time and eternity, Forefathers' Eve speaks to men and women of all times and places. While it is a truly Polish work - Polish actors covet the role of Gustaw/Konrad in the same way that Anglophone actors covet that of Hamlet - it is one of the most universal works of literature written during the nineteenth century. It has been compared to Goethe's Faust - and rightfully so. Forefathers' Eve initiated the great contribution of Poland to world theatre: Monumental Drama, which stretches from him through Stanis?aw Wyspia?ski to Tadeusz Kantor in our own day and age.
About the Author:
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) is the national poet of Poland. He was successful in every genre at which he tried his hand, setting the benchmark for excellence in poetry, prose and drama for all the writers that came after him. His lyric poems, collected in Ballads and Romances [Ballady i romanse, 1822], ushered in the Romantic Movement in Polish literature. His Erotic and Crimean Sonnets [Sonety mi?osne and Sonety krymskie, 1826] form one of the most accomplished cycles in that demanding form since Petrarch. His narrative poems, Konrad Wallenrod (1828) and Gra?yna (1823), reveal his sustained mastery with longer poetic genres. Mickiewicz's epic in twelve cantos, Pan Tadeusz (1834), is universally recognized as Poland's national epic, as well as the last Vergilian epic written in Europe.
Prose occupies a rather minor niche in Mickiewcz's corpus of writings. The quasi-Biblical Books of the Polish Nation and Polish Pilgrimage [Ksi?gi narodu i pielgrzymstwa polskiego, 1832] put the English reader in mind of a more practicable William Blake. With their socially and politically-applied Christianity, Mickiewicz had an appreciable influence on the thought of his friend, Lammenais. Finally, his Cours de litte?rature slave professe? au Colle?ge de France, delivered during his exile in Paris, and published posthumously in 1860, is one of the first balanced and comprehensive accounts of the Slavic traditions in literature and culture to meet Western eyes.
It is impossible to assess the importance of Adam Mickiewicz to the Polish consciousness. During the period of the Partitions, which lasted from 1795 until 1918, Poles looked to Mickiewicz for the guidance that political figures could not supply them. He died in exile, trying to raise troops in Turkey for the Polish independence struggles.
About the Translator:
Charles S. Kraszewski (b. 1962) is a poet, translator and literary critic. He has published three volumes of original verse: Beast (Alexandria, 2013), Diet of Nails (Boston, 2013) and Chanameed (Atlanta, 2015). Among his critical works is Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czes?aw Mi?osz (Newcastle-on-Tyne, 2012); many of his verse translations are collected in the volume Rossetti's Armadillo (Newcastle-on-Tyne, 2014).
Review copies are available upon request.
Title: Forefathers' Eve
Author: Adam Mickiewicz
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Language: English
ISBN: 9781911414001
Extent: 414 pages
Format: paperback, hardback, e-book
Based on the motion picture, a young boy named Ralphie Parker only wants one thing for Christmas: a Red Ryder BB gun. However, he is not sure he will ever make it to Christmas, between his brother Randy and the school bully Scut Farkus. A classic holiday favorite!
Music Director David Hayes will lead the New York Choral Society and Orchestra (NYChoral) in the United States premiere of Maltese composer Joseph Vella's The Hyland Mass: A Prayer for Unity in Diversity.
Little Shop Of Horrors the musical hit, enters its final week at Atlantic City's historic Dante Hall Theater. Little Shop Of Horrors is presented by JRL Productions in association with Musical Theater International and Dante Hall Theater. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
The Drama Group's production of 'Clybourne Park' by Bruce Norris, directed by Marc C. Johnson, continues Friday and Saturday evenings, November 11, 12, 18 and 19, at 8:00, in Pilling Hall at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Avenue. Tickets are $15.00 at the door ($10.00 for students with ID). Pictured: Dante Zappala, Bradley Moore and Ed Marcinkewicz.
The New York premiere of THE PORTAL began an Off-Broadway open-ended run on October 27, 2016 at the Minetta Lane Theatre. THE PORTAL is a rock odyssey conceived and directed by Luke Comer, with original music composed by Tierro Lee and Luke Comer, starring Billy Lewis Jr. (Mason McCarthy on the Fox series 'Glee'), and choreographed by Jessica Chen. Opening night is set for Saturday, December 3.
"3-D Auteurs," a 19-day, 34-film festival spotlighting stereoscopic movies by some of history's most distinguished directors, will run at Film Forum from Friday, November 11 through Tuesday, November 29. The festival spans 3-D's earliest days (including some turn-of-the-century films by pioneer Georges Melies) to the present, and represents virtually every genre, including Westerns, Film Noir, and Science Fiction.
Little Shop Of Horrors the musical hit is currently running at Atlantic City's historic Dante Hall for a limited run of performances through November 11th. Little Shop Of Horrors is presented by JRL Productions in association with Musical Theater International and Dante Hall Theater. Scroll down for a first look at the cast and a peek behind the scenes!
16th Street Theater announces their 10th Anniversary Season 2017: The Journey featuring three exceptional plays about journeys by writers Jon Steinhagen, Karen Zacarias and Minita Gandhi as well as a return to nine plays by past playwrights-in-residence.
Renée Marino, who played Mary Delgado in the film 'Jersey Boys' directed by Clint Eastwood, is performing her solo show 'I Am Me, Because Of Three' on Monday November 7, 2016 at 8pm in Los Angeles at Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal.
Little Shop Of Horrors the musical hit, will 'plant' itself at Atlantic City's historic Dante Hall for a limited run of performances starting October 28th at 8pm, just in time for the Halloween holiday! Little Shop Of Horrors is presented by JRL Productions in association with Musical Theater International and Dante Hall Theater.
MCC Theater announced today that breakout actor Lucas Hedges -- whose performance opposite Casey Affleck in the film festival favorite Manchester by the Sea, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, is garnering rave reviews ahead of its November 18 theatrical release -- will lead the cast of the American premiere of YEN, Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, directed by MCC alum Trip Cullman.
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky.'
Little Shop Of Horrors the musical hit, will 'plant' itself at Atlantic City's historic Dante Hall for a limited run of performances starting October 28th at 8pm, just in time for the Halloween holiday! Little Shop Of Horrors is presented by JRL Productions in association with Musical Theater International and Dante Hall Theater.
Below, check out THE PORTAL's Billy Lewis Jr. (Fox's "Glee) and cast in a "Gearing Up" video as they prepare for the New York premiere of THE PORTAL, which begins an Off-Broadway open-ended run on October 27 at the Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane)!
