Freckle Productions' Tiddler & Other Terrific Tales will be playing at Leicester Square Theatre from Tristan Bates Theatre from Saturday 8th July - Sunday 3rd September 2017. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek inside rehearsal below!
"She's a wonderfully layered character," Kristen Hahn exclaims as she describes her newest role. "Most of all in her heart she wants to help people, but she is not quite cut out to rule with an iron fist like her mentor, General Cartwright. I think at first she is feeling a little lost and not willing to admit it. When she meets Sky Masterson, they go head-to-head. She is probably the first woman to challenge him. As the play develops, she realizes maybe she can have both her mission work and love. By letting her hair down a little when she discovers love, she realizes that she becomes of better use to the people she wants to help. It is very liberating for her. Sarah Brown is a strong lady, and that is a wonderful treat for an actress to play!" she concludes.
I find controversy delicious. As an avid theatre goer, there are very few times when I enter a theater with no preconceptions about what I'm about to see. Whether it's just the gossip I've heard around or the ads that I skip after 5 seconds on YouTube, I usually have some prior knowledge about the subject matter. This was especially true when I went into the Delacorte Theater to see the Public's production of Julius Caesar. I learned of Oscar Eustis' choice to make the play explicitly politically relevant when I heard about Delta and Bank of America pulling their sponsorships. As someone who sees herself as a socially active artist, I got excited.
What do you get when you cross Mad Libs with Clue, add a group of theatre vets, and sprinkle in a dash of philanthropy? Why, it must be VILLAIN: DEBLANKS! The comedy event, held at Feinstein's/54 Below, served as a benefit for the ACLU, with Billy Mitchell, who wrote the skeleton script for the show, serving as the night's emcee.
The 5 & Dime held an evening of song at BABS Lab in Riverside Friday and Saturday night. Some of Jacksonville's finest took the stage in a themed 'Miscast' Cabaret, and I was there to speak with the cast and audience members post-performance.
Any time a high school theater department takes on a Stephen Sondheim musical, the intensity level cranks up a notch. So when drama teacher Joseph Donia took on Into the Woods, which the school last did in 2008, he needed some extra expertise behind the scenes to deal with Sondheim's uniquely difficult vocal score. Enter Kayla Bailey, a graduate of Oaks Christian High School (2007), Cal Lutheran University (2011), and a former Miss Ventura County (2012), who has been seen locally mainly as a performer. Donia chose Bailey to be his vocal director despite Bailey never having served in that capacity before. But when, as the saying goes, opportunity knocks, you go for it, and Bailey, who has a uniquely positive spin on life, leaped in feet first and has been having the time of her life. We spoke with Kayla in between performances about this unique experience, one which has already had a major effect on her career outlook going forward.
HIGH ART RETURNS IN 'THE OTHER MOZART' Child prodigies may be rare, but not necessarily that rare if you grew up in the Mozart family of Salzburg. The unknown and until now mostly untold story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's older sister, Maria Anna (Nannerl), is equally as fascinating as that of her infamous brother. Thanks to creator, author, and performer Sylvia Milo, Nannerl's story is given it's due in her ethereal THE OTHER MOZART now playing at Shea's 710 Theatre.
The early summer forecast for City Theatre calls for giggles, guffaws, chortles, and good old fashioned belly laughs...and it's all thanks to the famed Little Sisters of Hoboken.
'Cool poems!' said rock legend Patti Smith. Now, following the unprecedented multi-award winning success of his first stage play, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright is returning to his roots with an extensive tour, performing poems from his new collection The Toll, published by Penned in the Margins).
Adapted from the bestselling books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (creators of The Gruffalo), it's now time for Tiddler & Other Terrific Tales to swim up the Thames and into Leicester Square Theatre for a summer full of fun!
Following sold-out single launch shows in London and Salford, Manchester's Shaking Chains have shared a new music video for 'Drunk No More', taken from their AA-side single, due April 21st via Concrete Recordings.
Comedy Central Presents Colossal Clusterfest, the brand new comedy and music festival experience created by Comedy Central and Superfly, the brains behind Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands co-producer Another Planet Entertainment are excited to announce the daily festival lineup with single day tickets going on sale Wednesday, April 19 at 10am PT.
The early summer forecast for City Theatre calls for giggles, guffaws, chortles, and good old fashioned belly laughs…and it's all thanks to the famed Little Sisters of Hoboken. The City Theatre Company is preparing to get thee to a nunnery with Nunsense, the hit musical comedy celebrating thirty years of success and filled with so much sisterly love and good cheer that it has audiences around the world rolling in the aisles. The nuns strut their stuff May 5 - 28th.
Comedy Central Presents Colossal Clusterfest, the brand new comedy and music festival experience created by Comedy Central and Superfly, the brains behind Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands co-producer Another Planet Entertainment, are excited to announce additional artists to its three day lineup that includes more than 70 comedians and musicians as well as specially curated SF Sketchfest programming.
Shelby Huston says she is 'thrilled to be taking on her first design at Brelby.' She is currently attending GCC pursuing her arts degree and has been involved in theatre production for seven years.
After a 5-year hiatus, the WE'RE FUNNY THAT WAY Festival returns by popular demand! The legendary LGBTQ+ comedy festival and fundraiser will make its triumphant return on May 3 - 6, 2017 with a variety of comedy, music, and burlesque performances to benefit the We're Funny That Way Foundation.
The curtain set sail as the orchestra led an overture riddled with recognizable tunes. Two rows behind me, an adorable little girl clad in turquoise fins and a long red wig bounced up and down in her seat, eager for the show to begin. From behind a brilliantly dressed proscenium, Diana Huey popped out through playful bubbles, singing "This is where I belong!" to open the 5th Avenue Theatre's touring production of Disney's The Little Mermaid. Huey, who leads as Ariel, is absolutely accurate in her first lines. Masterfully assuming the role of the stubborn little mermaid with a show-stopping voice, Huey is joined by a stellar cast of theatrical strength.
Following the unprecedented multi-award winning success of his first stage play, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright will return to his roots in the first half of 2017 with a 21-date tour, performing poems from his new collection The Toll, published in February 2017 (Penned in the Margins).
Following the unprecedented multi award winning success of his first stage play, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, one of the UK's favourite and most accessible poets, Luke Wright, returns to his roots in the first half of 2017 with 25 nationwide dates performing poems from his new book The Toll.
Following the unprecedented multi-award winning success of his first stage play, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright will return to his roots in the first half of 2017 with a 21-date tour, performing poems from his new collection The Toll, published in February 2017 (Penned in the Margins).
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