Dolores News

Firehouse Theatre Project is excited to announce complete casting and the creative team for The Wild Party, a musical with book, lyrics and music by Andrew Lippa. Directed by Jase Smith, The Wild Party will play 18 performances, November 21 - December 28. Opening Night is Friday, November 22.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced today casting for William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines. Embraced by audiences as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, The Merry Wives of Windsor is an energetic romp with the loveable rouge Sir John Falstaff, performed by Scott Jaeck, as he charms and conspires against the townspeople of Windsor, only to be outsmarted by Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, performed by Kelli Fox and Heidi Kettenring. Chicago Shakespeare's production will transport audiences to post-war England in the late 1940s with a soundtrack of spirited dance music. The Merry Wives of Windsor will run in CST's Courtyard Theater December 3, 2013 through January 19, 2014.

Musical-chair-playing penguins, hippos afflicted with insomnia, giant frogs and all manner of inventive, larger-than-life theatrical antics fill The Eccles Center on Sunday, November 3. Imago Theatre returns to Park City with a new show, "ZooZoo," a giggle-inducing performance designed for audience members aged three to 103. Show starts at 6 p.m.

Mama Rose, Baby June, and plain, gawky Louise (but just wait!) hit the boards as the ever-popular musical Gypsy becomes the second production of the Novato Theater Company's 2013-2014 season in its charming new theater. The Arthur Laurents-Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical features songs like 'Let Me Entertain You,' 'You Gotta Have a Gimmick,' and of course, 'Everything's Coming up Roses.'

The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) presents the third annual Morry and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Northwestern Day today, Oct. 13 on the Northwestern University campus, and the seventh annual Hyde Park Day on Oct. 20 on the University of Chicago campus. These two annual events kick off the 2013 Fall Festival, which will explore the theme of Animal: What Makes Us Human with 88 events throughout Chicago in October and Nov. 1-10.

Gemini CollisionWorks and The Brick Theater, Inc. present The Strategist, or: The Woman of Some Virtue, or: Before You Ever Heard of It, running November 8 - 23, 2013. Written and designed by Ian W. Hill & Berit Johnson, the production is directed by Mr. Hill.

GUYS AND DOLLS, a musical fable of Broadway, runs from November 8th through 17th at the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City (2215 Broadway Street, Redwood City, CA).

The American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (AFTAM) Chicago Chapter will host its 2nd Annual Fall Gala, honoring Scott Hodes as the 2013 “Patron of the Arts,” on Thursday, November 21 at the Trump International Hotel & Tower, 401 N. Wabash Avenue. Proceeds will benefit the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA), Israel's leading museum of modern art, and home to the largest collection of Israeli art in the world.

"Extraordinary. Deeply Moving…profound" (Chicago Sun Times). The Eccles Center 2013-2014 Season opens with the powerful and relevant show "Letters Home." This portrait of today's soldier as told by Griffin Theatre's actors - through real dispatches from the front lines -comes to the stage on Saturday, October 26. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

The Eccles Center 2013-2014 Season opens with the powerful and relevant show "Letters Home." This portrait of today's soldier as told by Griffin Theatre's actors - through real dispatches from the front lines -comes to the stage on Saturday, October 26. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

The name has changed, but the mission remains the same: entertaining, educating and illuminating. As always, Park City Institute (formerly known as Park City Performing Arts Foundation) serves up a smorgasbord of eclectic, electrifying, awe-inspiring and internationally acclaimed dancers, musicians, family entertainers, speakers, actors and full throttle performance troupes. Park City Institute presents its 17th season at The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Center for the Performing Arts from October through May. Tickets and season punch cards are currently on sale.

Mezzo Soprano Kate Lindsey, a veteran of the Metropolitan Opera, and Michael Spyres, called 'one of today's finest tenors' by French Opera magazine join the Utah Symphony tonight and tomorrow, September 27 and 28 at Abravanel Hall in Hector Berlioz's dramatic interpretation of Goethe's tale of Faust and his fateful deal with the devil, The Damnation of Faust.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces its fall gallery crawl takes place today, September 27, from 5:30-10 p.m. The crawl showcases a wide variety of thought-provoking art exhibitions in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District. Live bands, DJs, dance, comedy, and participatory activities are also part of the complimentary crawl events.

The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) announced casting today for two theatrical productions in November: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, the Iranian absurdist play about isolation co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), running Nov. 3-9, 2013, and Birds Do It, Bees Do It..., the annual cabaret performance Nov. 5, 2013, created by Rob Lindley and Doug Peck.

Mama Rose, Baby June, and plain, gawky Louise (but just wait!) hit the boards as the ever-popular musical Gypsy becomes the second production of the Novato Theater Company's 2013-2014 season in its charming new theater. The Arthur Laurents-Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical features songs like 'Let Me Entertain You,' 'You Gotta Have a Gimmick,' and of course, 'Everything's Coming up Roses.'

Julien's Auctions, the world's premier celebrity and entertainment memorabilia auction house, announced the exclusive auction of property from the life and career of the first lady of stand-up comedy, Phyllis Diller today, September 22, 2013. The pop culture icon and comedian was known for decades for her self-deprecating humor. In the 1960s, her fame skyrocketed and she appeared on several of Bob Hope's television specials, USO tours and three movies. Her signature blonde wig, long cigarette holder and loud cackling laugh has yet to be duplicated, giving her a place in comedic history as the very first female trailblazer of her time.

Mezzo Soprano Kate Lindsey, a veteran of the Metropolitan Opera, and Michael Spyres, called “one of today's finest tenors” by French Opera magazine join the Utah Symphony on September 27 and 28 at Abravanel Hall in Hector Berlioz's dramatic interpretation of Goethe's tale of Faust and his fateful deal with the devil, The Damnation of Faust.

A third and final show, on Wednesday, October 30 at 8:15 pm, has been added ofDanny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton, a unique concert with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra and the Page LA Choir conducted by John Mauceri, at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE. Performances were already announced for Tuesday, October 29 at 8:15 pm, and Halloween, October 31 at 8:15 pm, which is sold out.

Julien's Auctions, the world's premier celebrity and entertainment memorabilia auction house, announced the exclusive auction of property from the life and career of the first lady of stand-up comedy, Phyllis Diller on Sunday, September 22, 2013. The pop culture icon and comedian was known for decades for her self-deprecating humor. In the 1960s, her fame skyrocketed and she appeared on several of Bob Hope's television specials, USO tours and three movies. Her signature blonde wig, long cigarette holder and loud cackling laugh has yet to be duplicated, giving her a place in comedic history as the very first female trailblazer of her time.