Apparently, it is Elvis Week in Nashville (at least according to the fine folks at Loveless Cafe), so before we head out to the theater for a full weekend of show openings and the like, a trip to West Nashville for a slice of the Loveless' Elvis pie is in order (for the uninitiated, that's peanut butter, banana, bacon and homemade whipped cream-the four basic food groups, according to The King.), so before we slip into a diabetic coma, here's installment #7 of Music City Confidential, all the news that's fit to print from onstage, offstage, backstage and beyond…
Mind The Art Entertainment is set to present the raunchy spoken word musical Story Time with Mr. Buttermen: Fables for Adults Living in a Modern World at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival this August, running from August 10th through 25th at HERE Arts Center.
Mind The Art Entertainment is set to present the raunchy spoken word musical Story Time with Mr. Buttermen: Fables for Adults Living in a Modern World at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival this August, running from August 10th through 25th at HERE Arts Center.
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) presents Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operetta THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, directed by Broadway veteran Terrence Mann, starring Sean Martin Hingston as the Pirate King, Steven Hayes as the Major-General and Connecticut native Diane Phelan as Mabel.
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) presents Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operetta THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, directed by Broadway veteran Terrence Mann, starring Sean Martin Hingston as the Pirate King, Steven Hayes as the Major-General and Connecticut native Diane Phelan as Mabel.
Expressions Dance Company's (EDC's) Helpmann and Australian Dance Award winning production, where the heart is returns to the Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) for a strictly limited season from the 10 to 18 August 2012.
The Veteran Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening exploring the soldiers experience through the timeless words of William Shakespeare - CRY HAVOC conceived by Stefan Wolfert and directed by Eric Tucker & Bruce Cervi. CRY HAVOC will open tonight, May 26th and run through Monday, June 4th at The Shakespeare Center LA - Studio Space, 1238 West 1st Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
The Veteran Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening exploring the soldiers experience through the timeless words of William Shakespeare - CRY HAVOC conceived by Stefan Wolfert and directed by Eric Tucker & Bruce Cervi. CRY HAVOC will open on Saturday, May 26th and run through Monday, June 4th at The Shakespeare Center LA - Studio Space, 1238 West 1st Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
Ashley C. Williams (the star of the cult horror film The Human Centipede) and Mind The Art Entertainment are set to present an interactive "roll your own adventure" comedy, DIE: Roll to Proceed, which will begin its run at The Red Room in the East Village on March 30th and play every Friday night at 10:30pm through October 19th. The play is written by Joe Kurtz and will feature direction by Christian De Gre, who is also co-producing the production with Emily Meier.
Ashley C. Williams (the star of the cult horror film The Human Centipede) and Mind The Art Entertainment are set to present an interactive "roll your own story" comedy, DIE: Roll to Proceed, which will begin its run at The Red Room in the East Village on March 30th and play every Friday night at 10:30pm through October 19th. The play is written by Joe Kurtz and will feature direction by Christian De Gre, who is also co-producing the production with Emily Meier.
Ashley C. Williams (the star of the cult horror film The Human Centipede) and Mind The Art Entertainment are set to present an interactive "roll your own adventure" comedy, DIE: Roll to Proceed, which will begin its run at The Red Room in the East Village on March 30th and play every Friday night at 10:30pm through October 19th. The play is written by Joe Kurtz and will feature direction by Christian De Gre, who is also co-producing the production with Emily Meier.
At a ceremony last night, the winners of the 2011 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced. Over 300 members of the Sydney theatre community packed the auditorium at Paddington RSL to celebrate the best of Sydney theatre throughout 2011.
Named as First Night's Outstanding Musical of 2011 was Lipscomb University Theatre's production of Hairspray, directed and choreographed by Justin Boccitto. ACT 1's production of American Buffalo, directed by Ryan Williams, claimed top honors as First Night's Oustanding Play of 2011, and the national touring company's Memphis, the Musical, which played Andrew Jackson Hall at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, was named as First Night's Outstanding Touring Production of 2011, besting productions of Spring Awakening, In The Heights, Wicked and Les Miserables.
With a capacity crowd of 200 people on hand at The Keeton Theatre, First Night founder and executive producer Jeffrey Ellis, who covers theater, opera and dance throughout Tennessee for BroadwayWorld.com, unveiled his choices via First Night's Top 11 of 2011, while the winners of the BroadwayWorld.com Nashville and Tennessee Theatre Awards were announced by co-hosts Britt Byrd, Jamie Free, Katherine Sandoval Taylor and Lar'Juanette Williams.
Playwright Nate Eppler, Mas Nashville's FIVE, the Boiler Room Theatre, Lipscomb University's Hairspray, ACT 1's American Buffalo and the national touring company of Memphis, the Musical were the top winners at Sunday night's Midwinter's First Night at Nashville's Keeton Theatre, which also featured the presentation of the BroadwayWorld.com Nashville and Tennessee theatre awards.
Ginger Newman and Kate Adams-Johnson have perfected the recipe for musical success: Take three ginger-haired beauties, pair them with three dark and handsome young men and add a musical score that includes some of the best-known and most-beloved songs of the 1930s and '40s. That's the winning formula the talented duo have mixed together to grand effect in The Keeton Theatre's production of The All Night Strut, the winning musical revue that is as effervescent as a glass of champagne and as entertaining as a Manhattan Transfer concert.
Panasonic Home & Health Company and Good Housekeeping announce the launch of the Tasty Tips Tour, which kicks off Monday in front of the Hearst Tower at 57th Street & 8th Avenue in New York City and then travels to four other Manhattan locations for the rest of the week
As Ensemble Theatre enters it's 54th year, Co-Artistic Directors Sandra Bates and Mark Kilmurry today announced the 2012 season. There's a smorgasbord of choice for audiences with 11 plays on offer.
