Edward Gorey News

In one of its final performances as a full-time dance company, the Boise-based Trey McIntyre Project (TMP) will present the Harris Theater-commissioned Chicago premiere of The Vinegar Works: Four Dances of Moral Instruction. The performance on Thursday, April 3 at 7:30PM will include live musical accompaniment from the young stars of the Music Institute of Chicago. This exciting work, organized and led by the Harris Theater, pairs one of the city's finest cultural institutions with one of the country's foremost contemporary dance ensembles. The commission centers on the Theater's mission to collaborate with, and present, Chicago's midsize and emerging arts organizations in innovative ways.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces its 2014 summer dance productions.

Be amazed and amused by a fun-filled spectacle in miniature when Blair Thomas & Company presents The Vinegar Works, a puppet show inspired by the works of Edward Gorey, every Saturday through June 14 at the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), 820 N. Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago.

Actors Theatre of Louisville Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the three ten-minute plays chosen to premiere during the 38th Humana Festival of New American Plays (February 26 - April 6, 2014). This year's ten-minute plays are Winter Games by Rachel Bonds, Some Prepared Remarks (A History in Speech) by Jason Gray Platt and Poor Shem by Gregory Hischak.

Following the record-breaking attendance of Festival 2013, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival announces the 2014 Festival schedule. Jacob's Pillow is a National Historic Landmark, home to America's longest-running dance festival, and a recipient of the National Medal of Arts. Noted dance writer Jennifer Dunning has called the Pillow "the dance center of the nation, possibly the world."

Highline Ballroom is located at 431 West 16th Street between 9th Avenue and 10th Avenue. Tickets may be purchased through Ticketweb, online at ticketweb.com or at the Highline Box Office from noon until doors close at 866-468-7619.

Barefoot Theatre Company presents 'A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley', an adaptation of the Dickens novel by Israel Horovitz, in a cartoonish and lackluster production.

The singular images of master illustrator Edward Gorey will inspire the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players' City Center season this January as they mount a new production of the rarely produced G&S classic Ruddigore, a supernatural opera with a Harry Potterish plot, to be performed in rotation with the big three all-time G&S favorites: The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado.

On Sunday, December 7, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at historic Mead Hall at Drew University, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey presents A Very Gorey Christmas, a frighteningly festive shopping and silent auction event inspired by the work of artist Edward Gorey.

The Seven Deadly Virtues, Those Ghastly Little Traps

Contest Closed! Winners of tickets to the 2002 Olivier Award-winning 'Shockheaded Peter' courtesy of BroadwayWorld.com Announced!