The cast and creative team of the hit Off-Broadway musical Murder for Two are teaming up with some of New York's brightest up and coming composers and BroadwayWorld.com every Monday night for their spring concert series, Murderous Musical Mondays. Composers Brett Ryback and Alexander Sage Oyen contine the series on Monday, April 7, 2014, immediately following the 7pm performance of Murder for Two at New World Stages (Stage 5 - 340 West 50th Street).
Family, faith, and food' are 'the three F's' governing Joe DiPietro's heartwarming comedy Over The River and Through The Woods, which will run from April 4th through May 11th at the Broward Stage Door Theatre. The play, which takes place in Hoboken, New Jersey focuses on the relationship between young up-and-coming marketing executive Nick Cristano, and his four loving and very involved grandparents. When Nick is offered a career advancing opportunity across the country, he is faced with making some tough and life-altering decisions.
In August last year, about 700 Filipino theater fans' Facebook-based petition to bring the smash Broadway musical 'Wicked' to Manila was deemed successful; the 'Ozian' stage spectacle opened at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) five months later, which ran 42 performances. Apparently, these fans are at it again: a newly created Facebook-based petition page to bring the critically-acclaimed reimagined production of Sir Cameron Mackintosh's LES MISERABLES to Manila is up and running--engaging every visitor to like its cause!
Florida Studio Theatre announces the opening of the WORLD PREMIERE of TOM JONES, by Mark Brown. The show will open in the Gompertz Theatre April 11 and run through June 1, 2014.
The old stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood will be shining at the Covey Center for the Arts on March 28th and 29th as a new play about the life of Jimmy Stewart performs on their main stage. Jimmy Stewart Goes to Hollywood, written by national Kennedy Center award winning playwright Mahonri Stewart, and directed by Utah theatre veteran Scott Bronson, is being produced by Zion Theatre Company at the Covey, marking the first time the group has been produced at one of Utah County's most prominent theaters.
'Recording definitely feels more comfortable this time around,' said author Jane Green, chatting during a short break from recording her newest audiobook, Tempting Fate (Macmillan Audio, March 25). 'The last book had lots of teenage tantrums; I got pretty into the screaming and yelling. Now this is a little more temperate.'
Why did Jonathan Dickinson leave Port Royal, Jamaica for Philadelphia, and more importantly, why did he leave his dazzling riches behind? His life spun out of control when he encountered Oumar Seydou and Blair Brannigan. Escape with these three unlikely adventurers and their descendants to Port Royal, Jamaica the wickedest city known to mankind in Leona DeRosa Bodie and G.E. Gardiner's sweeping saga of passion and resistance to tyranny, 'Glimpse of Sunlight' (ISBN: 9780989624756, WRB Publishing,2014).
Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre announces its 25th Anniversary season, illustrating its commitment to provide theater artists a home to create, explore and reinvent new works.
Huntington Theatre Company, the 2013 recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award and Boston magazine's Best Theatre of 2013, announces six productions of its 2014-2015 Season plus one additional title. Continuing its 32-year tradition, the Huntington will present world-class productions of new works and classics made current created by the finest local and national talent. The varied lineup includes a Tony Award-winning Broadway comedy, a thrilling new play set in Boston, a new play by a celebrated local writer that riffs on a beloved classic, a revival of a provocative comedy, a classic American drama, and a topical new play directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois, plus the return of visionary director David Cromer (Our Town).
Liza Minnelli first met Alan Cumming back in 1998. Cumming as performed both on and off-Broadway. His most recent performance was as in Broadway's Alan Cumming's Macbeth in 2013. He has also appeared in The Threepenny Opera, The Seagull, Macbeth, and Cabaret. This year, Cumming gets to return to Broadway in a new revival of Cabaret as the Emcee. Minnelli told Vanity Fair about the first time she met Cumming and her excitement for Cabaret to return to the stage.
From author Blanka Thomas, a woman who forever lost 51 kilograms of excess body weight, The Magickal Vitality in Nine Weeks is a book is created on the basis of strong personal experiences. It is a bridge to a new reality of how people can-in the most natural and fun way-diminish excess weight or 'hitchhikers' or 'stopped energies.'
Drive Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Allison Volk's 'Rite of Seymour' from tonight, March 14 through March 30, 2014 at the Son of Semele Theater in Silver Lake, with a preview performance March 13.
The old stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood will be shining at the Covey Center for the Arts on March 28th and 29th as a new play about the life of Jimmy Stewart performs on their main stage. Jimmy Stewart Goes to Hollywood, written by national Kennedy Center award winning playwright Mahonri Stewart, and directed by Utah theatre veteran Scott Bronson, is being produced by Zion Theatre Company at the Covey, marking the first time the group has been produced at one of Utah County's most prominent theaters.
Michael DuBois has been performing for over eight years with national appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Jay Leno Show and most recently on The Late Show with David Letterman. And he returns to Centenary Stage Company's Family Fun Series by popular demand. This Solo Circus act will keep audiences on the edge of their seats on Sunday, March 16th at 2pm at The Lackland Center. This show is a fast-paced, audience interactive variety show featuring an all-original presentation of magic, juggling, mind tricks, and circus and sideshow stunts all wrapped in a blanket of comedy made for adults just as much as it is for the younger members of the family.
'Creating a fine art exhibit for Mojave National Preserve's Artist-in-Residence program requires reflection, introspection, and then interpretation,' says Linda Slater, Chief of Interpretation, 'because artists have to develop a thematic from 1.6 million acres of visual communities and millennia of history.'
Daniel Mantei joined American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company in 2002 and became a member of American Ballet Theatre in 2003. Through his work, Mantei aims to explore themes of humanism by infusing classically inspired movement with an intention of anatomical and kinetic awareness. In his latest work, he collaborates with the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) representing some of the Tchaikovsky's balletic works through dance both choreographed and performed by Mantei.
With all the turmoil that has hit Mali since singing guitar master Habib Koite's last recording, it is no wonder that today's February 25, 2014 release, titled Soo (which translates to Home in English), was recorded in his own home. But the civil strife in Mali was not what drove the musician to do his first home recording. The real reason simply was-just like many other established musicians-because he could. What started as a logistical decision paved the way for the album's theme.
