One of Broadway's brightest stars, Tony Award-winning musical force PATTI LUPONE, opens Pacific Symphony's 2009-2010 Pops season with a salute to the Great White Way as well as a tribute to screen legend Audrey Hepburn. Performances are in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, October 8 - 10.
One of Broadway's brightest stars, Tony Award-winning musical force PATTI LUPONE, opens Pacific Symphony's 2009-2010 Pops season with a salute to the Great White Way as well as a tribute to screen legend Audrey Hepburn. Performances are in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, October 8 - 10.
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) will launch its 31st season this fall with the New York premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, LET ME DOWN EASY will begin preview performances on Tuesday, September 15 and will officially open on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:45pm.
One of Broadway's brightest stars, Tony Award-winning musical force PATTI LUPONE, opens Pacific Symphony's 2009-2010 Pops season with a salute to the Great White Way as well as a tribute to screen legend Audrey Hepburn. Performances are in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, October 8 - 10.
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) will launch its 31st season this fall with the New York premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, LET ME DOWN EASY will begin preview performances on Tuesday, September 15 and will officially open on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:45pm.
On Thursday, September 24th, 2009, Chicago Opera Theater (COT) hosted Chicago's first-ever opera cruise: 'High C's on the High Seas.' Just over 150 guests set sail on Kanan Cruises at Navy Pier and enjoyed an evening of song, mingling and dancing.
On Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Chicago Opera Theater (COT) will set sail on Lake Michigan for an evening of song, drink, and dancing! Chicago's first-ever 'Opera Cruise' will feature past COT singers, Andriana Chuchman and Jorge Prego.
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) will launch its 31st season this fall with the New York premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, LET ME DOWN EASY will begin preview performances on Tuesday, September 15 and will officially open on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:45pm.
On Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Chicago Opera Theater (COT) will set sail on Lake Michigan for an evening of song, drink, and dancing! Chicago's first-ever 'Opera Cruise' will feature past COT singers, Andriana Chuchman and Jorge Prego.
The Metropolitan Opera has reason to celebrate; $2.5 million worth of tickets were sold on Sunday, the first day of sales, through its box office, telephone call center and Web site, up from $2 million on the first day of sales last year, according to the Associated press.
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) will launch its 31st season this fall with the New York premiere of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, LET ME DOWN EASY will begin preview performances on Tuesday, September 15 and will officially open on Wednesday, October 7 at 6:45pm.
On June 26, 2009, Chicago Opera Theater (COT) was awarded a $500,000 multi-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant, to be used in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Seasons, will support three contemporary and three Baroque opera productions.
Elena Reinert was named by General Director Brian Dickie as Chicago Opera Theater's new Director of Development. She replaces Marla Krupman, currently the Director of Individual Giving at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
Theatre legend Patti LuPone has issued a response regarding the recent run-in with a Las Vegas audience member who was texting during the show. The action forced LuPone to stop the show, and calmly repremand the texter.
Theatre legend Patti LuPone has once again stopped a show cold. The incident took place June 21, while the actress was performing her brand-new show, Gypsy In My Soul, at the Orleans Showroom in Las Vegas. While introducing the iconic 'Don't Cry For Me, Argentina' LuPone noticed an audience member texting on his cell phone. Steve Friess of VegasHappensHere.com was at the show, and Tweeted (@thestrippodcast) immediately after the event.
Now that her already legendary run in Gypsy is over, Patti LuPone is set for a number of concert dates throughout the year, in addition to the previously announced dates with Mandy Patinkin for 'An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin' she will make a concert stop in Las Vegas at the Orleans Casino & Hotel on June 20th and 21st. She can also be seen (and heard) at the Cincinnati May Festival in Kurt Weil's 'The Seven Deadly Sins', Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. James Conlon will be the Musical Director for the series of concerts. For her complete schedule visit her official website at, www.pattilupone.net. Patti LuPone swept the 2008 theatre awards winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance for her performance as Rose in the critically-acclaimed new Broadway production of the classic Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy, directed by the show's author, Mr. Laurents, currently at the St. James Theatre.
Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, announced last night the three Bay Area high school winners of The Steve Silver Foundation & Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.' The event featured an opening performance from several past recipients of the 'Scholarship' as well as the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon.
NCTC is proud to announce the West Coast premiere of Some Men by Terrence McNally and directed by Ed Decker. The show previews May 29 - June 5, opens on Saturday, June 6th and runs through July 12: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm. (No Shows 6/7, 6/28, 7/4) All performances will take place at The New Conservatory Theatre Center (Decker Theatre), located at 25 Van Ness Ave. near Market St. in San Francisco, 94102.
Following a critically acclaimed season which included the Pulitzer Prize finalist Becky Shaw and the Broadway transfer of its musical hit Next to Normal, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) has announced three of the four plays scheduled for its upcoming 31st Season.
Finally appearing together again after their Tony Award® winning performances in Evita, Patti LuPone joins Mandy Patinkin onstage for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. These Broadway legends will bring their critically acclaimed theatre concert to the Palace Theatre at PlayhouseSquare for 16 performances only, May 5 - 17, 2009.