James Miller News

2nd Story Theatre will host a casual conversation with Obie Award-winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo and Artistic Director Ed Shea on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM at 2nd Story, 28 Market Street, Warren, RI. The pair will talk about Becky Shaw, Ms. Gionfriddo's highly acclaimed play set in Providence, RI.

David Elzer & Peter Schneider, producers of the smash-hit, award-winning productions of The Marvelous Wonderettes and Life Could Be A Dream, present a world premiere musical, HAVING IT ALL, music by John Kavanaugh, book by David Goldsmith & Wendy Perelman, lyrics by David Goldsmith, conceived by Wendy Perelman, with musical direction by Greg Nabours and directed by Richard Israel. HAVING IT ALL will star Lindsey Alley, Kim Huber, Alet Taylor, Shannon Warne and Jennifer Leigh Warren. HAVING IT ALL will begin previews on Saturday, February 26 at 8pm and will open on Saturday, March 12 at 8pm and will run for eight weeks through Sunday, April 24 at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood.

Top music industry professionals discuss the realities of the music business and careers in music with more than 700 Los Angeles area high school students at GRAMMY Career Day, a GRAMMY in the Schools® initiative of the GRAMMY Foundation with support from Best Buy. In addition, a significant milestone in support of the GRAMMY Foundation's education programs will be announced at the event, which will take place on Wednesday, February 9 at the University of Southern California.

Animal Planet today announced that character actor Michael Kenneth Williams will narrate the network's upcoming series TAKING ON TYSON debuting March 6 at 10 PM (ET/PT). Most notably known for his roles as Chalky White on 'Boardwalk Empire' and Omar Little on 'The Wire,' Williams' extensive stage and screen career combined with his genuine yet gritty tone was an obvious standout and a perfect match for the series. Over the past decade, Williams has appeared in numerous long-running network television series and feature films including 'Alias,' Martin Scorsese's 'Bringing Out the Dead,' 'Boston Legal,' 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' and 'The Sopranos.' Williams grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn - just minutes away from Tyson's hometown of Brownsville.

Emerging Pictures will present the latest film in their Ballet in Cinema series, a live performance by the Paris Opera Ballet of Caligula, at the BIG Cinemas Manhattan Theater on Tuesday, February 8 at 1:30 p.m. There will be a recorded encore of this film on Friday, February 18.

Due to inclement weather, all activities at Plano Children's Theatre/McKinney Youth Theatre have been cancelled for Friday, February 4. PCT and MYT follow school cancellations for Plano Independent School District.

Baldwin-Wallace College presents ground-breaking, in repertory productions of La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini and Rent by Jonathan Larson being held Feb. 15-27 at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama, 95 E. Bagley Rd., Berea. Rent is based on the story of La Bohème, a tale of struggling young artists facing poverty and the dangers of living life on the edge.

Stories for a Sunday Afternoon returns to the Unicorn Theatre at Berkshire Theatre Festival this Sunday, February 6 at 4pm. This week features three selections for those not caught in Super Bowl Fever or for those who need a unique Super Bowl warm-up.

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: LYV) today announced that Ticketmaster, the Company's ticketing division, has entered into an agreement to acquire ServiCaixa, the largest ticket retailer in Spain from "la Caixa", the leading Spanish savings bank and financial services group. The transaction, which is subject to Spanish antitrust approval, will create the leading ticketing company in Spain through the combination of Ticketmaster Spain, formerly known as TickTackTicket, and ServiCaixa, legally named Serviticket SA.

As such grand dimensions call for grand collaborations, Opera Circle will present 'Aida' hand in hand with The Cleveland Women's Orchestra under the baton of Robert Cronquist and The West Shore Chorale, John Drotleff, Chorus Master. The production will feature a select mix of international, out-of-state, and best local singers.

The Gift Theatre will tackle Richard Greenberg's Night and Her Stars in a new production directed by Michael Patrick Thornton beginning this March. This elegant play is about the quiz show scandals of the 1950's, reacquainting themselves and their audience with the cautionary tale of Charles Van Doren, the young academic who made and destroyed his name on the question-and-answer show '21.' Thornton says, "As Gift marches towards our ten year milestone, we look to a play we fell in love with long ago and has stayed with us ever since. Night & Her Stars is big and messy and smart and beautiful and it is a joy to bring it to The Gift. Enjoy."

The schedule for the five new plays featured in the Great Gay Play Fest as staged readings March 3 - 6, 2011, at the Hoover-Leppen Theater at the Center on Halsted in Chicago, has been set. And five esteemed Chicago directors are working to make these plays a reality. After the final reading on Sunday, Pride Films and Plays will announce both an Audience Favorite Award, and the juried winner, as our reading panel included Marshall W. Mason, Jason Moore, Doug Finlayson, Patricia Kane, Jeremy Cohen, Patrick Trettenero, Brian Fonseca, and theater professionals across the country.

Northern Stage (formerly Newcastle Playhouse) and Sheffield Theatres today announce their first collaboration, a new production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". The production will be directed by Northern Stage's Artistic Director Erica Whyman. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" will play at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre (Wednesday 16 March - Thursday 7 April) and then continue to Northern Stage (Tuesday 12 April - Saturday 30 April).

The World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater will play Merrimack Hall in Huntsville from Tuesday, February 22 to Thursday, 24.

The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program presents the world premiere of acclaimed San Francisco writer Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Litter: The Story of the Framingham Dodecatuplets, directed by A.C.T. Associate Artistic Director Mark Rucker. Litter runs March 3-19, 2011, at Zeum Theater (Yerba Buena Gardens, Fourth and Howard streets, San Francisco). Opening night is Saturday, March 5, 2011, at 8 p.m., and reviews will be allowed for this production. Tickets are $10-$15 and are available at www.act-sf.org or by calling the A.C.T. Box Office at 415.749.2228.

Furious Theatre Company and The Pasadena Playhouse have mutually agreed to the end of Furious' residency in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre. Furious produced 16 premiere productions in the intimate upstairs space, including the Los Angeles premieres of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things and Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle Award winner Grace by Craig Wright as well as the World Premieres of Canned Peaches in Syrup by Alex Jones and Garland Award winner An Impending Rupture of the Belly by Matt Pelfrey, in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre. This body of work earned Furious Theatre Company numerous awards and much critical acclaim.

Noor Theatre announces a general call for submissions of new plays by writers of Middle-Eastern descent. Submissions will be considered for upcoming programming including the fall reading series, Highlight, as well as possible special events, workshops and commissions.

The digital version of 'Love Like Woe,' the first single from Decaydance/SIRE Records artist THE READY SET has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. To support the success of 'Love Like Woe,' The Ready Set has announced his first ever headline tour. The nationwide run, presented by Glamour Kills, kicks off February 23rd in Indianapolis, IN and runs through April 9th in Ft. Wayne, IN.

Wicker Park upscale sports bar and comfort food restaurant The Fifty/50 will host a Blackhawks chartered bus trip to the United Center with The Heckler that will feature tickets to the Hawks v Minnesota Wild game, a hosted private cocktail reception, drink deals, giveaways, and more on Wednesday, February 16.

Due to the recent blast of snowy and icy weather, Civic Theatre of Allentown will delay performances of Lanford Wilson's Tony-nominated play, "Fifth of July," by one week. The show, which was previously scheduled to open on February 18, will now begin performances on Thursday, February 24 and will run through Saturday, March 5. Patrons holding tickets for cancelled performances are asked to contact the Civic Theatre Box Office at 610-432-8943 to receive tickets for a new date.