Frank Capra News

?Center Stage announces the cast and crew for It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, with performances tonight, Nov. 18 to Dec. 21.

This holiday season, Center Stage will offer four family matinees during the run of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play-from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29; Sunday, Dec. 7; Saturday, Dec. 13; and Saturday, Dec. 20.

A very eventful year for Theatre Unleashed culminates in the return of its annual holiday show and what has become a local seasonal tradition. TU is bringing back its mega-hit show KAWL Presents It's a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play for the Stage, this time presented in the company's newly redesigned home The Belfry Stage in North Hollywood from Dec. 4-21.

Gerard McCarthy has been cast as the central role of George Bailey in the UK premiere of a stage adaptation of Frank Capra's 1946 film classic It's A Wonderful Life.

Producing Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside and American Blues Theater, Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, are proud to announce the return of the critically acclaimed It's a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!, directed by Marty Higginbotham on the mainstage of the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., November 23 - December 28.

What better way to celebrate Halloween then to take your children trick or treating and then take them in costume to a live theater performance of 'It's A Wonderful Life' at Leddy Center! All costumes will be judged on stage following the performance tonight, October 31, and the best costume will win a $50 prize!!

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, inspired by the classic 1946 film starring Donna Reed and James Stewart, returns to Shakespeare & Company for a limited run this December. Adapted by Joe Landry from the original screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra and Joe Swerling, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play reunites director Jenna Ware with the stalwart cast from our 2013 hit production, all of whom made the play one of most successful holiday shows to date! Filled with just the right hint of nostalgia and charm, audiences will once again step back in time to the Golden Age of radio with this poignant, funny and unique play-within-a-play that may just leave you believing in angels!Visit: www.shakespeare.org for tickets and further information.

?Center Stage announces the cast and crew for It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, with performances Nov. 18 to Dec. 21.

What better way to celebrate Halloween then to take your children trick or treating and then take them in costume to a live theater performance of 'It's A Wonderful Life' at Leddy Center! All costumes will be judged on stage following the performance on Friday, October 31, and the best costume will win a $50 prize!!

General Director Plácido Domingo has announced final details for LA Opera's first revival of Florencia en el Amazonas, an enchanting and romantic opera by composer Daniel Catán. Co-commissioned by LA Opera in 1995, the opera returns to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for six performances from November 22 through December 20, 2014. In the exquisitely beautiful opera, inspired by the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez, a steamboat passage along the fabled Amazon becomes a poignant voyage of discovery for all seven travelers on board.

No one is born to be a failure. No one is poor who has friends. Simple thoughts that were the inspiration for one of the richest, most uplifting, most beloved American films ever made. Frank Capra's classic tale of George Bailey and his Christmas Eve visit with a guardian angel was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. After 68 years, it remains as powerful and moving as the day it was made.

getTV pays tribute to Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday with a special block, every Thursday in November at 7 p.m. ET.

This winter, Steve Murray's adaptation of Frank Capra's holiday classic, It's a Wonderful Life, returns to Theater at Monmouth. With its hilariously touching message of hope and love, This Wonderful Life reminds us of the power of perspective, family, and community just in time for the holiday season.

The Sherman Playhouse has announced its December debut of the Holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: THE RADIO PLAY, by Philip Grecian.

The Grove Theatre announces the opening of You Can't Take It With You tonight, October 17th at 7:29 pm and running on weekends through November 2nd.

No one is born to be a failure. No one is poor who has friends. Simple thoughts that were the inspiration for one of the richest, most uplifting, most beloved American films ever made. Frank Capra's classic tale of George Bailey and his Christmas Eve visit with a guardian angel was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. After 68 years, it remains as powerful and moving as the day it was made.

South London's newest fringe theatre, Bridge House Theatre SE20, will be officially launched with the UK premiere of the Christmas classic It's A Wonderful Life, performed as a live radio play in front of a studio audience.

Off Broadway at the Marcus Center is excited to bring IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE LIVE FROM WVL RADIO THEATRE to the Wilson Theater in Vogel Hall on December 18-21. Tickets are $38.00 and are subject to change. Tickets go on sale this Sunday, October 12 at 12:00 pm at the Marcus Center Box Office at 929 North Water Street, Downtown Milwaukee, by phone at 414-273-7206, or online at MarcusCenter.org or Ticketmaster.com. Groups of 10 or more SAVE by calling 414-273-7121 ext. 210. This limited engagement is sponsored by the Ambassador Hotel.

The Grove Theatre announces the opening of You Can't Take It With You on Friday, October 17th at 7:29 pm and running on weekends through November 2nd.

Leddy Center in Epping is proud to present the stage production of Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life', for three weekends and two Wednesday matinees at 2:00pm, October 24- Nov. 9.