Ed Williams News

The Revivalists and Moon Taxi will be heading out on the road together to co-headline eight shows beginning April 4, 2014 in Auburn, AL. The tour will hit Baton Rouge (LA), Oxford (MS), Charlottesville (VA), Philadelphia (PA) and will include two Brooklyn (NY) shows before wrapping in Washington (DC) on April 19, 2014.

Surviving. A rock band and a television show may have named themselves after the concept and Gloria Gaynor may have sung about it. For the last 50 years, Otis Williams and the Temptations have lived it out.

Cabaret, in a provocative staging directed by the nationally acclaimed Peter Rothstein, continues the Broadway Re-Imagined series, a collaboration between Theater Latte Da and Hennepin Theatre Trust. This production of Kander and Ebb's groundbreaking musical also features a stellar cast showcasing such local talent as Sally Wingert, just named the Star Tribune's 2013 Artist of the Year, Jim Detmar, Tyler Michaels, Kira Lace Hawkins and Sean Dooley. Cabaret runs today, January 15-February 9, 2014 at the historic Pantages Theatre, 710 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis.

Surviving. A rock band and a television show may have named themselves after the concept and Gloria Gaynor may have sung about it. For the last 50 years, Otis Williams and the Temptations have lived it out.

Cabaret, in a provocative staging directed by the nationally acclaimed Peter Rothstein, continues the Broadway Re-Imagined series, a collaboration between Theater Latte Da and Hennepin Theatre Trust. This production of Kander and Ebb's groundbreaking musical also features a stellar cast showcasing such local talent as Sally Wingert, just named the Star Tribune's 2013 Artist of the Year, Jim Detmar, Tyler Michaels, Kira Lace Hawkins and Sean Dooley. Cabaret runs January 15-February 9, 2014 at the historic Pantages Theatre, 710 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis. Tickets are on sale now at HennepinTheatreTrust.org, by calling 1.800.982.2787 and in person at the State Theatre Box Office.

EDMUND DONOVAN (Snow Geese), JON BASS (Book of Mormon) and others to bring HOT FUN IN THE WINTERTIME to Cherry Lane Theatre Dec. 12-21

Michelle Williams will make her Broadway debut next season as 'Sally Bowles' in Cabaret (set to open at Studio 54 on April 24, 2014)!

NYC Parks Deputy Commissioner Robert L. Garafola and Bronx Parks Commissioner Hector M. Aponte today joined State Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, Councilman-elect Andrew Cohen, and members of Community Board 7 and the Friends of Williambsbridge Oval to cut the ribbon on the newly renovated Williamsbridge Oval Recreation Center in the Bronx. The Recreation Center underwent extensive interior and exterior renovations totaling $5.2 million. NYC Parks and community partner organizations celebrated the center's opening day with a 'Kids and Adult Fitness Festival' featuring a variety of free activities, events, and prizes.

Author, speaker, and parenting coach C. Lynn Williams has a gift for helping parents develop better relationships with their teenagers. She shares that gift once again with the release of the third book in her Staying Sane parenting series: "Raising Your Daughter Through the Joys, Tears and Hormones!" (220 Publishing) Williams offers the benefits of her years of experience raising two girls as well as her own experiences as a daughter to help mothers better understand the intricacies of the mother/daughter relationship. It was a concern with the lack of communication she noticed between parents and teens in homes today that prompted Williams to write a series of books that would assist parents as they work through the challenges of raising young adults. The author said in a recent interview, 'there is so much dissatisfaction and sometimes hatred that exists between mothers and their daughters,' it is her hope that the book 'begins a dialogue that needs to take place in households the world over.' With 'MsParentGuru,' as Williams has come to be known, and Raising Your Daughter in their corner, mothers can look forward to gaining new insights on coping with the strain that the transition of a child to an adult can bring to the dynamic of their connection with teenage daughters. More information on and advice from Williams can be found at her parenting blog: http://www.clynnwilliams.com/ or website: www.clynnwilliams.com/

Everyman Theatre has announced its new officers and the appointment of four new members to its Board of Directors. These additions and appointments to the board ensure Everyman will continue to benefit from a diversity of experience and opinions.

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center has launched its 2013-14 Season with Tennessee Williams' classic drama A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, directed by Christopher Pazdernik, playing now through September 28, 2013 at the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center, 3801 S. Central Ave. in Cicero. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Set for general release on September 10th, Ted Williams' new film 'Houseless' documents the lives of several individuals, many of them military veterans, living in a park near Santa Barbara, California.

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center will launch its 2013-14 Season with Tennessee Williams' classic drama A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, directed by Christopher Pazdernik, playing September 13 - 28, 2013 at the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center, 3801 S. Central Ave. in Cicero. Tickets are available at www.jpactheatre.com or by calling (708) 656-1800. Check out a sneak peek at the cast below!

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center is pleased to launch its 2013-14 Season with Tennessee Williams' classic drama A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, directed by Christopher Pazdernik, playing September 13 - 28, 2013 at the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center, 3801 S. Central Ave. in Cicero. Tickets are available at www.jpactheatre.com or by calling (708) 656-1800.

A bomb goes off in New York City. The course of nine lives and a nation are irrevocably changed. Sifting through the pieces of the past and the future, Somewhere Safer's provocative story examines questions of polarization, citizenship and idealism in modern America. This fast paced and fiercely intelligent play was the inaugural recipient of Square One development with On the Square Productions and was twice featured as part of the company's Write Angle Reading Series. It was also a finalist for the 2012 Old Vic/New Voices Playwrights' Exchange, and featured in Flux Theatre Ensemble's 2013 Have Another series. Atmospheric and evocative, Somewhere digs into the serious and timely questions America faces today about what kind of nation we can and should be, and who will lead us there.

Blame it on Valentine, Texas - Jaston Williams' hilarious new comedy will play a limited engagement in Galveston at The Grand 1894 Opera House today, June 15th with two terrific performances at 2 and 8pm.

Esther Williams, who starred in more than two dozen MGM 'aquamusicals' during the 1940s and '50s died today in her sleep in Beverly Hills. She was 91.

This September theater artists from around the globe will converge on the seaside village of Provincetown, where Williams worked over several summers, to celebrate America's great playwright with a program of plays, dance, film and performance art organized around the theme of Tennessee Williams and Women: 50% Illusion.