Giggles News

Encore! Theatre Arts is proud to announce auditions for its fall production of The Jungle Book, directed and produced by Joshua and Mindy Barker.

The New Victory Theater, New York's theater for kids and families, opens its 2010-11 season on a high note - literally. From New York's Gotham Chamber Opera and celebrated Broadway director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project, Moisés Kaufman, in association with London-based puppet company, Blind Summit Theatre, comes the opera Puss in Boots (El gato con botas), a stunning and entirely new adaptation of the beloved children's story.

USA Today featured an article titled 'Singing 'Sondheim' Praises by Elysa Gardner. The article begins: Don't get theater and cabaret veteran Barbara Cook started on the physical attributes of singer/actress Vanessa Williams, her co-star in Sondheim on Sondheim, the new Broadway musical at Studio 54.

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What do a crawfish, a cowboy mouse, and a 100-year-old woman have in common? They are all characters in Fiesta Mexicana: Mexican Songs & Stories for Niños & Niñas and their Papás & Mamás (release April 24, 2010), the latest recording by Sones de Mexico Ensemble.

What do a crawfish, a cowboy mouse, and a 100-year-old woman have in common? They are all characters in Fiesta Mexicana: Mexican Songs & Stories for Niños & Niñas and their Papás & Mamás (release April 24, 2010), the latest recording by Sones de Mexico Ensemble.

Bad Habit Productions closes out its season of 'Outrageous Fortune' with a story about finding love and finding yourself in the process

Billed as the 'Confucius of Comedy' by the New York Post, Academy Award winner and Grammy nominee Steven Wright brings his trademark wit, absurdist one-liners and monotone voice to The Orleans Showroom, April 11.

Billed as the 'Confucius of Comedy' by the New York Post, Academy Award winner and Grammy nominee Steven Wright brings his trademark wit, absurdist one-liners and monotone voice to The Orleans Showroom, April 10 and 11.

Tomas Kubinek will conclude his One-Man Show at the Discovery Theatre April 10, 2010.

Tomas Kubinek Brings One-Man Show to Discovery Theatre for performances on April 9 and 10, 2010.

TACTA productions on board this week.

Miriam Zendle talks to the stars of the Olivier Award-winning play...

terraNOVA Collective presents a monthly variety show celebrating music, spoken word, burlesque, magic, storytelling, short play readings, and vaudeville acts. The next SUBTERRANEAN is on Friday, March 5 at 10pm in The D-Lounge, a 75-seat cabaret-style venue below the Daryl Roth Theatre at 101 East 15th Street at Union Square. Admission is $10.

Billed as the 'Confucius of Comedy' by the New York Post, Academy Award winner and Grammy nominee Steven Wright brings his trademark wit, absurdist one-liners and monotone voice to The Orleans Showroom, April 10 and 11.

terraNOVA Collective presents a monthly variety show celebrating music, spoken word, burlesque, magic, storytelling, short play readings, and vaudeville acts. The next SUBTERRANEAN is on Friday, March 5 at 10pm in The D-Lounge, a 75-seat cabaret-style venue below the Daryl Roth Theatre at 101 East 15th Street at Union Square. Admission is $10.

Tomas Kubinek Brings One-Man Show to Discovery Theatre for performances on April 9 and 10, 2010.

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 will close MARISA OLSON'S WHEW! AGE on February 14, 2010.

While no audience participation is required, Marisa Olson will invoke the familiar persona of the self-help 'guru' in encouraging viewers to think about the role of mindfulness and positive thinking in their interactions with the environment.

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 PRESENTS MARISA OLSON'S WHEW! AGE Performance art for your chakras (with an erotic twist just in time for Valentine's) WORLD PREMIERE: February 12- 14