Jacques Brel News

Cotuit Center for the Arts announced upcoming shows and events.

Tony Award-nominee Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables) and Helen Hayes Award-winner Natascia Diaz (Broadway's Man of La Mancha, The Capeman, Seussical, Carousel) will headline the November 30th at 7pm performance of JACQUES BREL RETURNS...The Music of Brel, Blau, Shuman and Jouannest. Joining them in the cast will be Jim Stanek (Lestat, Little Women, ...Forum), Rick Hip-Flores (who has performed in the pits of Billy Elliot, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular) and Ereni Sevasti (The Bacchae at The Public, Carnival at The Kennedy Center). Rick Hip-Flores will also serve as musical director.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, has announced Three Viewings by award-winning playwright Jeffrey Hatcher.

Cotuit Center for the Arts is looking for dynamic performers for their upcoming production of the Off-Broadway hit Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

MCC Theater has announced the complete cast for the newly reworked and fully re-imagined production of Carrie, the musical. Carrie features music by Michael Gore, lyrics by Dean Pitchford (Academy Award winning composer and lyricist for the original film Fame) and a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (who also adapted the 1974 novel by Stephen King for the 1976 Brian DePalma film). Directed by Stafford Arima, performances for Carrie begin January 31, 2012, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC). The official opening night is set for March 1, 2012.

Set inside the racial tensions of 1940s Mississippi, THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY pulses with revenge and retribution. Some things demand to be remembered, whether we like it or not-especially if we love someone we shouldn't.

Freeport Players presents a new revue of music by Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, conceived and written by local playwright Gar Roper, Chanson, which will have its world premiere at Freeport Factory Stage on November 18 & 19. 2011 will close with the 8th Annual WFCP Home Time Radio Hour, hitting the FPAC stage during Sparkle Weekend, December 2-4.

Freeport Players presents a new revue of music by Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, conceived and written by local playwright Gar Roper, Chanson, which will have its world premiere at Freeport Factory Stage on November 18 & 19. 2011 will close with the 8th Annual WFCP Home Time Radio Hour, hitting the FPAC stage during Sparkle Weekend, December 2-4.

Tony Award-nominee Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables) and Helen Hayes Award-winner Natascia Diaz (Broadway's Man of La Mancha, The Capeman, Seussical, Carousel) will headline the November 30th at 7pm performance of JACQUES BREL RETURNS...The Music of Brel, Blau, Shuman and Jouannest. Joining them in the cast will be Jim Stanek (Lestat, Little Women, ...Forum), Rick Hip-Flores (who has performed in the pits of Billy Elliot, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular) and Ereni Sevasti (The Bacchae at The Public, Carnival at The Kennedy Center). Rick Hip-Flores will also serve as musical director.

It's always such a wonderful treat to witness a living legend speak candidly and honestly about their experiences, looking back fondly at a multi-decade career that few could even dare replicate. Orange County residents now have such an opportunity with none other than two-time Tony Award winning diva extraordinaire CHITA RIVERA, in a charming one-woman cabaret show titled 'Chita Rivera: My Broadway,' now playing at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa through Sunday, November 13. Still spry, spunky, and jazz-kickin' at 78 years old, this pioneering Broadway superstar presents a bawdy, yet no-frills cabaret show that is not only chock-full of her memorable hits but is also peppered with lots of dishy details of her life in the theater.

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Joey Parnes, Interim Executive Director), Producer Mark Russell, and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP President and CEO Mario Garcia Durham) announced the exciting line-up today for the eighth annual UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, running January 4-15, 2012 at The Public Theater as well as at partner venues around the city.

La alemana Ute Lemper volverá a España con 'The Last Tango In Berlín' dentro del Festival Mil·leni 2011-2012 en Barcelona. La cita será el 18 de Enero de 2012, a las 21h, en el Palau de la Música.

Musically Human Theatre Productions (MHTP) has announced casting for the concert staging of 'Nevermore,' a new musical with music by Matt Conner ('The Hollow', 'Partial Eclipse'), book by Grace Barnes and lyrics adapted from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.

Open auditions will be held at Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Rte. 28 in Cotuit on December 5 and December 6 at 7:30 p.m. for the Off-Broadway hit, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

Olney Theater Center, a 73-year-old professional, award-winning, year round Theatre, announces today that the 2012 season will be Artistic Director, Jim Petosa's, last season with Olney Theatre Center, effective January 2013 at the conclusion of Cinderella.

Freeport Players presents a new revue of music by Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, conceived and written by local playwright Gar Roper, Chanson, which will have its world premiere at Freeport Factory Stage on November 18 & 19. 2011 will close with the 8th Annual WFCP Home Time Radio Hour, hitting the FPAC stage during Sparkle Weekend, December 2-4.

OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's destination for theater and nightlife on the fringe of Harvard Square and home of the A.R.T.'s hit productions of The Donkey Show, Cabaret and Prometheus Bound, is thrilled to present The Tiger Lillies for a special Halloween performance.

Oklahoma! will close October 30 at Portland Center Stage. Artistic Director Chris Coleman has set the iconic musical in an all-black town in the Oklahoma territories right as the region gained statehood in 1907.

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. announced today that in celebration of the Statue of Liberty's upcoming 125th Anniversary on October 28th, Macy's has committed the proceeds from the sale of its newly recorded song 'Gift of Light' to benefit the Foundation's non-profit mission for projects at Liberty and Ellis Islands, working in partnership with the National Park Service.

Set inside the racial tensions of 1940s Mississippi, THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY pulses with revenge and retribution. Some things demand to be remembered, whether we like it or not-especially if we love someone we shouldn't.