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On September 29th at 2:00pm, the award-winning theatre company, Food For Thought Productions will present the third show in its current season with a common thread – comedy (something we can all use a bit of in our present world)!
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will stream a benefit online workshop reading of Pandora, an intriguing new work by acclaimed playwright Laurel Ollstein. TheatreWorks's production of Ollstein's play They Promised Her the Moon, an inventive look at women's early efforts to join the space race that was a hit among audiences and critics, was abruptly closed in March when shelter-in-place orders went into effect.
On August 17th at 2:00pm the award-winning theatre company will present Delphi Harrington (Noel Coward's a?oeHands Across the Seaa??) and Nathan Darrow (a?oeHouse of Cardsa??) in a?oeMrs. Sorkena?? by Christopher Durang and a?oeI Can't Imagine Tomorrowa?? by Tennessee Williams, directed by Antony Marsellis.
Following its initial successful production in this era of isolation and social distancing - Marilyn Sokol & Bob Dishy in plays by Robert Anderson and Arthur Miller on July 13th - Food For Thought Productions will continue presenting monthly programs of staged readings at its new home of Theatre 80 St. Marks.
Food For Thought Productions, the award-winning theatre company, which began life in September 2000, may be the answer to the questiona?"How do you provide live theatre during a time when we are told to isolate and keep a distance?
Looking to hone your acting chops while stuck inside? Preparing for your next big audition, whenever that may be? We've rounded up 10 MORE monologue books that are sure to fit the bill!
Wynn Handman, the famed New York acting teacher and Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre, died at home April 11, 2020 of Covid-19 related pneumonia. He was 97.
Whatever you think Dorothy Parker was like, she wasn't.
Curated by Pacific Theatre's three 2019/2020 season apprentices, Feb Fest is a one act festival, including Third and Oak: The Laundromat by Marsha Norman, Nosegate written and performed by Chantal Gallant, and Here we Are by Dorothy Parker. The festival is light-hearted and varied exploration of the nuances of human connection: What does it take to connect meaningfully with a stranger? What happens when you use your voice? What does an enduring connection look like?
The new intimate concert venue will present acclaimed jazz vocalist Samantha Sidley in the New York launch engagement for her debut album Interior Person from Thursday, February 6 to Saturday, February 8. Fresh from touring with Foo Fighters and indie pop duo The Bird and the Bee, Sidley released Interior Person this past fall to rave critical reviews.
This February, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond celebrating Valentine's Day. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present a one night only production of Michael Valenti's Lovesong on Tuesday, February 11th, at 9:30PM. Enjoy this romantic and tuneful musical as a special pre-Valentine's Day treat!
Three inspirational women take the Benaroya Hall stage in April to delight of Seattle audiences. The Elliott Bay Book Company will sell the author's books at these events, Samantha and Lindy will autograph books in the lobby following their talk. Northwest Associated Arts (NWAA), KNKX (88.5 FM) and The Stranger present both events. Tickets are available through the Benaroya Hall Box Office, at 206.215.4747 or online at www.benaroyahall.org.
The award-winning Impro Theatre kicks off 2020 with a?oeWINTERFEST,a?? its 4th annual international improv festival, January 6-12, 2020. This year's a?oeWINTERFESTa?? expands to 7 days with nearly 3 dozen events celebrating the art of narrative improvisation around the world. a?oeWINTERFESTa?? takes place at the intimate Impro Studio, located in the heart of Los Feliz, CA.
One of the great songwriters, performers, and all-around creative figures of late-20th-century, Prince Rogers Nelson, known to the world simply as Prince, told his story in song and on film. But when he died unexpectedly in April of 2016 at 57, he had just started a tantalizing project -- writing his memoirs -- and it appeared to have been lost with him. It was not.
The Hucksters is an acid-tongued exploration of a casual sexual encounter gone awry. A man and a woman meet after not seeing each other for years and what starts off as a romantic, booze fueled evening, slowly begins to unravel into a psychological mystery as an incident from their shared history rears its head. The mistakes of the past become the horrors of the present as these two broken people dig into their previous lives and the lies that lead them to each other.
Run, don't walk, to see the brilliant CANDIDE at the Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis! This is the opening production of their twenty-fifth festival season, and it is, for my money, the most wonderful of the many lovely shows they've done.
This week, the Broadwaysted crew is thrilled to be mixing it up and talking about one of our favorite parts (ok, Bryan's favorite part) of many musicals: The Megamix!
After an absence of 22 years, Tom Orr -- the creative mind behind the award-winning musical parody revue Dirty Little Showtunes!, a long-running smash hit at Re-bar in 1997-98 -- is back in Seattle with a new solo cabaret and a multitude of new perverted twists on classic showtunes.
CDI/Concert Dance Inc. (CDI) returns to the Ravinia Festival as part of the annual Ruth Page Festival of Dance Saturday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 2 at 4 p.m. in Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall, 418 Sheridan Rd. Gates open on Saturday, June 1 at 4 p.m. and Sunday, June 2 at 3 p.m. Regularly commissioned by Ravinia to present new works, CDI Artistic Director Venetia Stifler's 2019 program will include Colandd's El Salon Mexico in Berstein's two-piano arrangement.
