Hartley News

kef theatrical productions will present IT'S ONLY KICKBALL, STUPID - the new play by Caroline Prugh and directed by Adam Fitzgerald - from August 28 to September 14 at The Hartley House (413 West 46th Street). IT'S ONLY KICKBALL, STUPID is a sly time-bending comedy in a special immersive production that tosses the audience into the center of the action.

What do you get when you mix a great script, a perfect ensemble and Karla Hartley's exemplary direction? A show that is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Yasmina Reza's play, 'God of Carnage,' aims to destroy the facade of civility initially presented by the four characters on stage.

The New York Philharmonic will return to Bravo! Vail in Colorado for the Orchestra's 12th- annual summer residency there, performing six concerts today, July 18-25, 2014.

Penobscot Theatre Company's Dramatic Academy is readying for its first youth production of the summer, Hairspray. Set in Baltimore in the late 1960s, this hit Broadway musical follows big-haired and big-hearted Tracy Turnblad, a spunky teenager who realizes her dream of dancing on a popular television program then launches a campaign to integrate the show. 'As a musical theatre junkie, I am thrilled to be producing Hairspray,' said Christie Robinson, who is directing along with Ben Layman, assisted by Alek Sayers. 'A feel-good, sparkly musical with big dance numbers, big notes, and big hair? What's not to love?'

Located in San Francisco, the Museum of Performance + Design (MP+D) is the only independent, non-profit art organization in the United States devoted to the history of performing arts and theatrical design. Founded in 1947 by Russell Hartley, a dancer and designer with the San Francisco Ballet, the organization was long known as the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum (SFPALM) until it changed its name to Museum of Performance + Design in 2007. MP+D has served the arts community for over sixty years as a cultural resource and an archive for some of our nation's most important performance related materials. It manages a rare collection of 3.5M items on the history of performances in San Francisco and the Bay Area, maintains a comprehensive Research Library, and hosts a variety of engaging public events onsite and online. MP+D recently moved from the Veterans Building in the Civic Center to a creative loft space in SOMA in the Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood.

INVENTING VAN GOGH is a beautifully written and acted time-skipping love letter to art history, an accurate examination of the struggles each artist (not just Van Gogh) faces in the creation of something new, and a mystery in a world that has a hard time telling the difference between what is genuine and what is imagination.

Patrick Stone is a Van Gogh-hating painter suffering from artist's block. He is approached by an unscrupulous art dealer who convinces him into attempting to produce a forgery of Van Gogh's last work - which may or may not actually exist.

Jobsite wraps their most successful season to date with Steven Dietz's quasi-historical mystery Inventing Van Gogh. This potent meditation on the nature of truth and art is on stage through August 3, 2014, in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Straz Center where Jobsite is resident theater company. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Center Stage previously announced that its acclaimed digital theater project My America has become a feature length film, which had its premiere on July 4, 2014, exclusively through streaming service Fandor. A special screening is set for tonight, July 9, at the IFC center in New York City.

Jobsite wraps their most successful season to date with Steven Dietz's quasi-historical mystery Inventing Van Gogh. This potent meditation on the nature of truth and art is on stage tomorrow, July 9, through August 3, 2014, in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Straz Center where Jobsite is resident theater company. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

This Today night, July 5th, 2014, The Dr. Susan Block Show, broadcasting live from Bonoboville, on 4th of July Freedom Weekend, will celebrate and investigate sexual freedom. How sexually free are we? How free do we want to be? Joining international sexologist and sexual freedom fighter Dr. Susan Block live on the air in-studio will be world-renowned sexual freedom spokeswoman (and sex symbol!) Nina Hartley, representing the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance. Also in-studio will be Woodhull Alliance spokesman Danny O'Neill, as well as Dr. Block's husband Max Lobkowicz, former publisher of The LA Star and longtime sexual freedom fighter.

Center Stage previously announced that its acclaimed digital theater project My America has become a feature length film that will premiere on July 4, 2014, exclusively through streaming service Fandor, followed by a special July 9 screening at the IFC center in New York City.

Penobscot Theatre Company's Dramatic Academy is readying for its first youth production of the summer, Hairspray. Set in Baltimore in the late 1960s, this hit Broadway musical follows big-haired and big-hearted Tracy Turnblad, a spunky teenager who realizes her dream of dancing on a popular television program then launches a campaign to integrate the show. 'As a musical theatre junkie, I am thrilled to be producing Hairspray,' said Christie Robinson, who is directing along with Ben Layman, assisted by Alek Sayers. 'A feel-good, sparkly musical with big dance numbers, big notes, and big hair? What's not to love?'

This Saturday night, July 5th, 2014, The Dr. Susan Block Show, broadcasting live from Bonoboville, on 4th of July Freedom Weekend, will celebrate and investigate sexual freedom. How sexually free are we? How free do we want to be? Joining international sexologist and sexual freedom fighter Dr. Susan Block live on the air in-studio will be world-renowned sexual freedom spokeswoman (and sex symbol!) Nina Hartley, representing the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance. Also in-studio will be Woodhull Alliance spokesman Danny O'Neill, as well as Dr. Block's husband Max Lobkowicz, former publisher of The LA Star and longtime sexual freedom fighter.

Center Stage previously announced that its acclaimed digital theater project My America has become a feature length film that will premiere on July 4, 2014, exclusively through streaming service Fandor, followed by a special July 9 screening at the IFC center in New York City.

Recording artist China Anne McClain (Hollywood Records' McCLAIN and Disney Channel's 'A.N.T. Farm') and Kelli Berglund (Disney XD's 'Lab Rats') star as tech whizzes who computer-program the perfect boy and in the process trigger a national incident in 'How to Build a Better Boy'

The New York Philharmonic will present a semi-staged production of Kern & Hammerstein's Tony Award-winning musical Show Boat, November 5 - 8, 2014. Vanessa Williams will star as Julie, Julian Ovenden will star as Gaylord Ravenal, and Lauren Worsham will star as Magnolia, all in their Philharmonic debuts. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

Jobsite wraps their most successful season to date with Steven Dietz's quasi-historical mystery Inventing Van Gogh. This potent meditation on the nature of truth and art is on stage July 9 - Aug. 3, 2014, in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Straz Center where Jobsite is resident theater company.

The KBT Productions presentation of Bernard Slade's Tony-award-winning play, SAME TIME NEXT YEAR, directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime Achievement Award winner Christopher Weare, will be performed at the Fugard Studio Theatre from 17 to 28 June 2014. Featuring Paul Du Toit and Julie Hartley, the production received rave reviews when it opened last year at the Kalk Bay Theatre and won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at last year's National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.