Happy Medium Theatre's production of Bert V. Royal's DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD makes good use of the intimate Factory Theatre with some strong individual performances and minimal design elements. If only the playwright had subscribed to the philosophy of less is more…
This April 18-21, some of Houston's most talented improvisers join forces with improv troupes from Austin, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York for this year's uproarious Houston Improv Festival.
Chris Hayes will host MSNBC's 8 p.m. ET hour starting Monday, April 1. The announcement was made today by Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC.
Dig yourself out of the depths of winter doldrums with Trinity Rep's world premiere of Social Creatures, a strangely beautiful, beautifully strange 'dramedy' about the end of the world as we know it. Like nothing Trinity Rep audiences have seen before, this world premiere play was commissioned in 2010 from Jackie Sibblies Drury - a remarkable new playwright and graduate of the Brown MFA playwriting program.
Primitive, the well known Chicago gallery has opened an exhibition of rare, hand woven African ceremonial skirts known as 'heirloom cloth.' Created by the Dida People in the Ivory Coast, the textiles are woven without the use of a loom utilizing a now 'extinct' weaving technique. Dida women assembled bundles of fibers from the raffia palm tree and deftly braided them by hand into tubular skirts with no seams. The result is a distinctive cloth cylinder or tube meant to be worn as a form of finery. This type of weaving is difficult, time consuming, and takes talent and patience. Textile collectors consider the pieces in the exhibition one of the rarest and most sought after forms of African weaving.
The Hangar Theatre's 2013 KIDDSTUFF Season, a series of sparkling live theatre based on favorite children's books and stories, returns with another exciting lineup of plays and musicals for young audiences.
Jason Robert Brown's score is worth the visit.
The largest international improv festival in the world, the 16th annual Chicago Improv Festival, April 1-7, 2013, celebrates the art of improv, showcasing more than 150 acts consisting of 765 improvisers from eight countries with live performances at 20 venues located throughout the city.
Author, Investigative Mythologist, and Host of 'Revelations' Radio, William Henry, has been announced as the Keynote Speaker at the Spring S.T.A.R. Clinic, Becoming a Galactic Citizen.
What really puts the show across, however, is the songs. The wealth of black pop of the mid-70s is on display here, including power-pop ballads (THE FEELING WE ONCE HAD) and disco (EMERALD CITY BALLET), with definite echoes of the Shaft Theme in the TORNADO BALLET. And here this great music is put across by pros.
Artist Colleen Browning (1918-2003) played a significant role in America's contemporary realist movement in the years after 1950. Although she attained sensational early success on the American art scene, her fame has almost entirely evaporated. Fairfield University rediscovers and celebrates the career of this Anglo-American Realist painter with two exhibitions, mounted jointly by the Bellarmine Museum of Art and the Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, and on currently on view through March 24, 2013.
The 30th anniversary season at Stages Theatre Company (STC) showcases nine productions for children and young adults, which includes three world premiere productions. The 2013-14 season promises to give audiences new experiences unlike ever before. In 'The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs' audiences will decide the verdict and how the show ends. The last production on the season, 'The Dandelion Seed' allows parents and children to participate in the performance with hands-on interaction geared for ages 18 months to three-years-old.
A Cicero-North Syracuse High School parent is upset that their musical 'The Wiz' will not have any African American students in leading roles.
Artist Colleen Browning (1918-2003) played a significant role in America's contemporary realist movement in the years after 1950. Although she attained sensational early success on the American art scene, her fame has almost entirely evaporated. Fairfield University rediscovers and celebrates the career of this Anglo-American Realist painter with two exhibitions, mounted jointly by the Bellarmine Museum of Art and the Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, and on currently on view through March 24, 2013. Exhibition sponsors are the National Endowment for the Humanities and Whole Foods Market. The media sponsor is Venu magazine.
Dig yourself out of the depths of winter doldrums with Trinity Rep's world premiere of Social Creatures, a strangely beautiful, beautifully strange 'dramedy' about the end of the world as we know it. Like nothing Trinity Rep audiences have seen before, this world premiere play was commissioned in 2010 from Jackie Sibblies Drury - a remarkable new playwright and graduate of the Brown MFA playwriting program.
On February 9 at their annual Gala, Newnan Theatre Company formally accepted the script for 'Flies at the Well,' to be performed in Newnan's historic courthouse. Commissioned author Jeff Bishop was presented with a check by Project Director Caroline Abbey, NTC Board Chairman Peter Poulos, Artistic Director Paul Conroy, and Managing Director Dave Dorrell.
FRIGID New York presents Bathtub Jen and the Henchmen, written by Jennifer Harder, Glen Heroy, Charley Layton, and David Rosen. Directed by the Ensemble, the show will run tonight, February 20 - March 3, 2013, at Under St. Marks.
A post-show panel discussion featuring Japanese internment historians has been added to the Sunday, February 24 performance of the acclaimed Off-Broadway play HOLD THESE TRUTHS, Jeanne Sakata's one-man show inspired by the true story of second generation Japanese-American Gordon Hirabayashi. HOLD THESE TRUTHS is in Hawaii for a limited engagement of six performances at Honolulu Theatre for Youth's Tenney Theatre, February 21 - March 2, 2013 and features acclaimed actor, Joel de la Fuente.
The beloved children's book written by Jeff Brown in 1964 has become a literary and pop cultural phenomenon - delighting readers and travelers all around the world. And now, TMP and the Tacoma Children's Musical Theater are bringing everyone's favorite two-dimensional hero to the stage - giving him new life in The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley.
Today Chris Brown and Ms. Debbie Allen announced the winners of Brown's Symphonic Love Scholars scholarships.
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