Dolores News

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced its Children's Theater programming for Spring 2015. The Children's Theater Series hosts charming, delightful and educational performances filled with audience participation and adventure.

Continuing in a tradition of storytelling and music, Hershey Felder announces the star cast for the Chicago stage premiere of Academy Award winning director Taylor Hackford's LOUIS AND KEELY, 'LIVE' AT THE SAHARA.

Growing up in a blue-collar family in Rhode Island, sisters Dolores and Sandra both dreamt of a life more meaningful, far from the home they grew up in. Now adults, both women are dependent on men and both are vulnerable. Sandra has settled for security within the safety of domesticity, whereas Dolores has used her sexuality as currency in the pursuit of a more exciting life. On an unexpected Sunday afternoon, both sisters share a moment of revelation. Dolores takes audiences on a journey that explores universal themes of family, love, relationships and resilience as well as the darker aspects of domestic violence.

Monday's Dancers Over 40's Tribute honored Chicago Ballet's superstar Ruth Page in 'A World Apart' at Off-Broadway's St. Luke's Theatre, March 23, 2015. Check out photos below!

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced its Children's Theater programming for Spring 2015. The Children's Theater Series hosts charming, delightful and educational performances filled with audience participation and adventure.

“One of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation,” (Biography Magazine) folk-pop singer and guitarist Suzanne Vega performs at The Eccles Center tonight, March 21. Concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 435-655-3114 or online at EcclesCenter.org.

A special tribute from New York City Ballet's ballerina Patricia McBride and Dance Theatre of Harlem's Karen Brown will join the Dancers Over 40's Tribute to honor Chicago Ballet's superstar Ruth Page, 'A World Apart' at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th St., NYC at 7PM.

?The 32nd season of the Schwabacher Debut Recitals continues on Sunday, March 29 at Temple Emanu-El's Martin Meyer Sanctuary with soprano Julie Adams and pianist John Churchwell. Adams and Churchwell will present a program of works by Alfred Bachelet, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Edvard Grieg, Sergei Rachmaninov and Lee Hoiby.

On Saturday, March 14, NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, joined City Council Member Eric Ulrich, Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski, Rockaway Rockies Hockey organization President Mike Leahy and members of the league, Community Board 14 Chair Dolores Orr, and neighborhood residents to break ground on renovations to the Rockaway Beach Roller Hockey Rink on Shore Front Parkway at Beach 108th Street in Rockaway Park. Scroll down for photos!

Bestselling and award-winning author Neil Gaiman comes to The Eccles Center on Saturday, April 18. A creative genius and master storyteller, Gaiman mesmerizes - and inspires - his audience on both the page and the stage. Park City Institute's An Evening with Neil Gaiman begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 435-655-3114 or online at EcclesCenter.org.

“One of the best jazz bands in NY today,” (Forbes), The Hot Sardines boogies onto The Eccles Center stage on Saturday, 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. Tickets are available by calling 435-655-3114 or online at EcclesCenter.org.

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 on Saturday, April 4. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 435-655-3114 or online at EcclesCenter.org.

The first-rate cast of L.A. Theatre Works returns to the Eccles stage with a riveting thriller tonight, March 7. Based on John Ball's 1965 novel (which two years later became a ground-breaking, Academy award-winning film starring Sidney Poitier), 'In the Heat of the Night' is a stage performance that is at once relevant and, in the words of a DC Metro reviewer, 'searing, disturbing and flat-out brilliant.'

New Repertory Theatre in Watertown revisits Yiddish Theatre with Robert Brustein's new Klezmer musical comedy THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE.

Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey dance star Mel A.Tomlinson joins Dancers Over 40 tribute of Chicago Ballet superstar Ruth Page in the tribute, 'A World Apart' at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th St., NYC at 7PM. A dance innovator who refused to be pigeon-holed into just one type of dance, Ruth was the first American to dance with Diaghilev'€s Ballets Russes in 1925, first American to dance with Anna Pavlova's company, first to commission George Balanchine to choreograph and the first to present Rudolf Nurevev in America. Prokofiev, Gershwin and Ravel played for her, Isamu Noguchi designed her costumes and she commissioned Aaron Coplandâ€s first ballet score. She dedicated her life to making dance and ballet accessible to everyone. Ruth's work on Broadway includes her professional stage debut in Jerome Kern and Victor Herbertâ€s Miss 1917, a leading role in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue 1923-24 edition, and choreographing 1947's Music in My Heart. A double-bill of her famous opera ballets Revenge and The Merry Widow had a six-day a sell-out run at the Broadway Theater in 1955.

POPULAR New Zealand '80s comic strip Footrot Flats springs from the page in a barnstorm of song and dance this March.

Like all A-Z books, this one illustrates the alphabet—but instead of 'A is for Apple', A is for Angela—as inAngela Davis, the iconic political activist. B is for Billie Jean King, who shattered the glass ceiling of sports; C is for Carol Burnett, who defied assumptions about women in comedy; D is for Dolores Huerta, who organized farmworkers; and E is for Ella Baker, who mentored Dr. Martin Luther King and helped shape the Civil Rights Movement.

Irish Film Festival, Boston presents an epic lineup for the 15th annual Boston Irish Film Festival, from March 19 through 22 at Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA.

The audited financial results for San Francisco Opera's 2013–14 season (FY14) were announced today by San Francisco Opera Association President Keith Geeslin: a deficit of $348,244 on an operating budget of $74,119,493. The Company's 91st season presented eight main stage works at the War Memorial Opera House in addition to numerous concerts, recitals, workshops and community engagement events attracting more than 271,954 individuals.