The Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center's Sandler Center is excited to continue its powerful season line-up at its black box stage theater this February. 'Theater at the J' presents professional musicals, comedy, drama and cabaret performances and has quickly become a destination for theatre-lovers in the West part of South Palm Beach County.
TheaterWorks (Rob Ruggiero, Producing Artistic Director) announced today that CONSTELLATIONS by Nick Payne will extend though February 22, 2018 with four added performances including a Wednesday matinee on February 21st. CONSTELLATIONS is the 2nd show of TheaterWorks 32nd Season.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, the most awarded new musical of 2015 and winner of four Tony Awards, will play at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center for a one-week engagement February 20 - 25, 2018.
Boston Court Performing Arts Center presents a reimagined modern take of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (February 15 - March 25, 2018; press opening, February 24). The community panels and discussions have been announced for this radical re-envisioning of Streetcar which will feature a multicultural cast and modern setting, pushing on the play's present-day relevance. This selection of panel discussions and post-show Illuminations will allow for a deep discussion on A Streetcar Named Desire and its many prevalent themes, especially in regards to this production, which is presented within a contemporary and urban environment, highlighting the pertinence of the play for our divided America.
Katherine Heigl Joins USA Network's SUITS As Series Regular
According to Variety, Katherine Heigl has been cast in the 8th season of the USA hit SUITS. Heigl, known for her role on GREY'S ANATOMY and 27 DRESSES, will play Samantha Wheeler, a talented new partner at Pearson Specter Litt who challenges the status quo and will either become the firm's greatest ally or most powerful enemy. She joins returning series regulars Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty, Rick Hoffman, and new series regular Dulé Hill. The new season begins production this April in Toronto.
Regeneration Theatre presents AS IS by William M. Hoffman. The gay community has the opportunity to look at its historical journal through ground-breaking envelope-pushing works currently in revival in New York. Boys in the Band and Angels in America on Broadway and AS IS opening February 1 off-Broadway.
USA Network and Universal Cable Productions announced today that SUITShas been renewed for an 8th season. Show creator and executive producer Aaron Korsh is set to return, as are stars Gabriel Macht (Harvey Specter), Sarah Rafferty (Donna Paulsen), Rick Hoffman (Louis Litt) and newly-minted series regular Dulé Hill (Alex Williams).
New York's funniest show Celebrity Autobiography has two NYC shows on March 5 and March 10 at 7pm at The Triad (158 West 72nd Street) which will feature Susan Lucci, Janeane Garofalo, Josh Lucas (currently starring opposite Uma Thurman on Broadway in The Parisian Woman), Ralph Macchio, Rachel Dratch, Tate Donovan, Jackie Hoffman (FX's Feud), John Fugelsang (host of Page 6 TV), Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman, 5-time Emmy-winner Alan Zweibel, and Drama Desk-winners Eugene Pack & Dayle Reyfel.
ELECTRICITY, the hit LGBT comedy/drama starring stars TERRY RAY ("My Sister is So Gay") & MEL ENGLAND ("Best Day Ever") returns to Palm Springs with upcoming show dates: February 6-8 & 26-28 & April 9-11, 2018.
How do we talk about race in America? How do the protest songs of our times reflect the evolution of this conversation?
Camden People's Theatre are breaking out the c-word with a new fortnight-long festival of works that asks questions about class. In August 2017, a Labour party report criticised working-class under-representation in the arts, and demanded the cultural sector work harder to fill the "class-shaped hole" in their audience and workforce.
On January 27, 2018, Los Angeles Opera presented the Bernstein work at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with a cast that included Emmy-winning television star Kelsey Grammer. He is best remembered for his two-decade-long portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the situation comedies Cheers, Wings, and Frasier. As Voltaire and Pangloss, Grammer had a huge speaking role that he acquitted with a commanding personality and considerable wit. Surprisingly, he sang quite well, too.
The Chinese Wall/by Max Frisch/translated by James L. Rosenberg/Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre, NoHo/directed by Larry Eisenberg/through March 11 Suffice to say, The Chinese Wall by Max Frisch, written in 1946, after Hitler and World War II, is a cluttered play about facism and those who revolt against it. Its message is repetitious, and the play goes on much too long, but Group Rep's vibrantly colorful production boasts a wonderful cast of 20 actors under the superb direction of Larry Eisenberg through March 11.
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Goodwill Cultural Ambassador Ronald Rand has been invited to represent the United States in the Theatre Olympics, performing as Harold Clurman in his celebrated one-man show, 'LET IT BE ART! Harold Clurman's Life of Passion' in Delhi at the prestigious Kamani Auditorium on February 25th, and at the Kalagram Theatre in Bangalore, India on February 27th, 2018.
There have been starrier casts heading up Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE at the Met--put the opera's name in the NY Times search engine and the first one that shows up is the debut of the famed tenor Tito Schipa in 1932, with bass Ezio Pinza as the quack snake-oil salesman Dulcamara. But this year's principals, soprano Pretty Yende and tenor Matthew Polenzani, gave more than enough pleasure (and then some) to send the audience out cheering.
From the moment the amazing James Conlon-conducted orchestra began their crisp, lively 'Overture' to 'Quartet Finale,' the close of Act One; this remarkable production of CANDIDE entranced the Dorothy Chandler audience. Then after a short intermission, these talented performers and musicians had the audience right back in the palms of their skilled hands, beyond the tears-inducing finale 'Make Our Garden Grow,' to the extended and most deserved standing ovation for the cast, orchestra, and creatives.
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble proudly announces its 2018 Season, "The Reckoning." The season includes three plays about women who come face to face with an essential truth that threatens to shatter the things they love most. The 2018 Season will be performed at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, 5779 N. Ridge Avenue in Chicago.
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