Dolores News

From writer/producer Matt DeNoto comes the world premiere of his new play La Llorona at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.  A terrifying new take on the classic Latino myth, La Llorona tells the story of beautiful Maria, who centuries ago was driven by madness to commit an unthinkable act.  An act so horrific it damns her soul to walk the earth forever, terrorizing children even today.

San Jose City Councilmember Raul Peralez will host San Jose Stage Company's 22nd Annual MONDAY NIGHT LIVE! on June 22. This sellout evening of irreverent satire features political heavyweights, surprise appearances, and celebrity guests including Michael Van Every, CEO of Urban Republic. All proceeds from this annual fundraiser benefit San Jose Stage Company, a not-for-profit, professional theater located in the SoFA district in downtown San Jose. 

Award-winning NYC-based artist and MPress Records founder Rachael Sage has released a Deluxe Reissue of her latest album Blue Roses via MPress digitally today, May 26th (physically on August 28th).

Theatre Artists Studio presents Tina Howe's Painting Churches from today, May 22 through June 7. Howe's play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Rita Moreno California High School Musical Honors - formerly called The California High School Musical Honors - announced today the 2015 nominees who will compete in front of a panel of nationally recognized judges on Monday, June 1, 2015 at San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts.

Gardner and Fanny Church are moving out of their Beacon Hill house and into their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, is now retired and fading. Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them, and they with her.

James Lance, Ruth Gibson and Charles Reston will star in the London revival of Nick Darke's black comedy The Dead Monkey at PARK 90 from 9 June - 4 July, directed by Hannah Price. Commemorating the 10th anniversary of Nick Darke's death, Mongrel Thumb, in association with Falmouth University, are honoured to present The Dead Monkey to London audiences.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today a comedic, dramatic and highly intimate docu-series, “For Peete's Sake” (working title), following the lives of husband and wife duo Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete as they juggle complicated career choices with their bustling family life.

The Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University has announced its newest quintet of plays to be presented this summer in rotating repertory. Ed Herendeen, the founder and producing director of the Theater Festival, has selected from the sea of scripts, five new plays from five celebrated playwrights: Johnna Adams, Sheila Callaghan, Steven Dietz, Barbara Hammond, and Michael Weller.

Edward Allan Baker's one act play DOLORES is presented with passion and pathos and a dose of hilarity at the Old Fitz Theatre.

SHUT UP AND DRIVE with Justin Bell and Rhys Millen will air on Fox Sports 1 today, May 3 at 3:30 ET.

FLY GUY & OTHER STORIES, part of the Act One Family Series, is coming to Wharton Center today, May 2, 2015, for two shows in the Pasant Theatre.

SHUT UP AND DRIVE with Justin Bell and Rhys Millen will air on Fox Sports 1 on Sunday, May 3 at 3:30 ET.

The Chicago stage premiere of Academy Award winning director Taylor Hackford's LOUIS & KEELY 'LIVE' AT THE SAHARA has been extended by popular demand through Sunday, May 17 at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 North Halsted Street. Hackford, best known for his films An Officer and a Gentleman, Against All Odds, The Devil's Advocate,.

in Rock-Star zu Zeiten des Rokoko: MOZART! - Das Musical aus der Feder des Erfolgsduos Michael Kunze und Sylvester Levay beleuchtet den Weltmusiker, die historische Figur, eine Legende der klassischen Musik und kehrt nun an den Ort seines Ursprungs - nach Wien - zuruck! Die Premiere findet am 24. September 2015 im Raimund Theater statt. Ana Milva Gomes (Grafin von Waldstatten), Brigitte Oelke (Cacilia Weber), Barbara Obermeier (Nannerl), Oedo Kuipers (W.A. Mozart), Mark Seibert (H. Colloredo), Franziska Schuster (Constanze Weber) werden auf der Buhne stehen.

“One of the best jazz bands in NY today,” (Forbes), The Hot Sardines boogies onto The Eccles Center stage tonight, April 11. Foot-stomping – there's even a tap dancer – and brassy jazz sizzles as this young group resurrects the music of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, making it hot, hot, hot. Park City is privy to the sizzling Sardines' first ever U.S. tour. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

FLY GUY & OTHER STORIES, part of the Act One Family Series, is coming to Wharton Center on Saturday, May 2, 2015, for two shows in the Pasant Theatre.

For more than 40 years, the world-renowned, physical-theater troupe Mummenschanz has dazzled, delighted - and mystified - audiences. The fun, intriguing and reality-suspending antics of the Swiss-based company arrive on The Eccles Center stage tonight, April 4.

The 2014-2015 Eccles Center season comes to a close with the “gripping, urgently beautiful choreography,” (San Francisco Chronicle) of Alonzo King LINES Ballet on Saturday, April 25. The San Francisco-based troupe comes to the stage with a mixed repertory performance, including King's newest work “Biophony” (which premieres on the company's home stage just three weeks prior to its Park City debut). Performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 435-655-3114 or online at EcclesCenter.org.