Jean Cocteau News

Proud Image Theatre Company, a new theatre company dedicated to showcasing works primarily from the LGBTQIA+ community, today announced that it will present its maiden production TOMORROW WE LOVE, a gender-bending, comedic homage to the classic romantic films of the mid-twentieth century. Written by Jeffrey Vause and directed by Grant Neale, the production will run March 5 - March 22, 2020 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue. The official press opening will be on Thursday, March 12.

Rendezvous with Marlene started with a letter. A young Ute Lemper explodes onto the French stage playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the next day the French press proclaimed her, a?oeLa nouvelle Marlene!a??.

The Broad Stage continues its collaboration with Red Hen Press for the second event of the 2019-2020 season, Red Hen Press: Facets of Fatherhood, on Sunday, January 26 at 2:00pm in The Edye at The Broad Stage. The afternoon will feature performance and poetry with Carlo Ponti, Edoardo Ponti and the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra.

The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble presents a staged reading of Peter Danish's stunning new play 'LAST CALL (at the Hotel Sacher Wien)' directed by Elise Stone. The play tells the story of the final encounter between Leonard Bernstein and Herbert Von Karajan.

Julesworks Follies 61st Edition Annual (Ish) Year End Blow Out will be on Sunday Dec 29th at 7 pm at Le Jean Cocteau Cinema. In past years, the year end show has been extra ruckus fun draw falling between the holidays with more people in town looking for a safe (mostly) place to enjoy! Julesworks has been presenting its live variety show for some seven years, having just performed the 60th episode of their not quite monthly live showcase of an array of performers in many styles, genres, and tastes.

Inspired by LA Opera's upcoming world premiere of Eurydice - a new opera created by composer Matthew Aucoin and librettist Sarah Ruhl - artists, scholars and community members across Los Angeles will come together in 2020 to share their stories and their art through Eurydice Found, a festival dedicated to new perspectives on the enduring Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

On December 5th, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe proudly presents a panel with Jeremiah Moss (author of Vanishing New York), Sarah Schulman (author of Gentrification of the Mind) and Betty Yu (co-founder of the Chinatown Art Brigade). These activists and authors will discuss the personal and social impacts of gentrification, and explore effective forms of anti-gentrification activism. The talk will center on the history, and current state, of gentrification in the Lower East Side. Poetic performances by muMs, Caridad De La Luz, and Darian Dauchan will finish out the night.

Highways Performance Space & Gallery presents Film Maudit 2.0, its inaugural film festival dedicated to outré films, inspired by the legendary artist Jean Cocteau's 1949 Festival Du Film Maudit, which celebrated a group of films that were criminally overlooked and neglected at the time. The event will be held Thursday, November 14 - Sunday, November 17 at Highways Performance Space & Gallery at 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404 http://www.filmmaudit.org

Julesworks Follies 60th Edition No Politics Fall Intoa??. will be on Sunday November 10th at 7PM at Le Jean Cocteau Cinema.

Following English National Opera's (ENO) acclaimed Satyagraha and the Olivier Award-winning Akhnaten, this season brings a new staging of Philip Glass's Orphée to the London Coliseum.

Join me in my theater, Jean Cocteau Cinema, for the Desert Nightmare event on Halloween Night in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We'll hang out before the show. Then, you and a friend will sit VIP with me during the event. The Desert Nightmare event provides student tuition assistance at Desert Academy, the #1 private school in Santa Fe, and is an opportunity to showcase student work.

In producing, writing and directing 'Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future,' award-winning filmmaker and eight-time Emmy Award nominee Douglass M. Stewart Jr. takes viewers on an extraordinary voyage into the life and career of 'the Father of Space Art.' Bonestell is credited with helping inspire America's Space Program and Stewart likes to point out that 'Chesley Bonestell is the visionary artist who took us to the Moon, not with technology, but with a paint brush.' Winning two prestigious Best Documentary Awards, one at Comic-Con 2018 and a second one at the 2019 Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, the film has screened to enthusiastic audiences across the country, including the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and 'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin's Jean Cocteau Cinema in New Mexico. The film lands next in 'The City of Good Neighbors' for a special two-day limited engagement at the historic North Park Theatre on September 14 and 15 at 11:30AM. 'The world of science fiction has been blessed with the contributions of many great artists as well as writers,' said George R.R. Martin in a special Santa Fe introduction to the film this past April. 'One of the greatest was Chesley Bonestell, the great astronomical artist, whose visions...reached the covers of many science fiction and science magazines in the 50s, 60s and 70s...I'm proud to present a documentary about the life and work of Chesley Bonestell.' It's a fun piece of irony that the historic North Park Theatre, which recently celebrated an architectural milestone in its 'Centennial Restoration' project, should host a film about Bonestell, who started his career as an architect. Chesley's visionary art did more than inspire America to reach for the stars. His architectural visions literally attained new heights here on Earth when he helped design the tallest skyscraper in New York City in 1930 - the iconic Chrysler Building. A few years later, Bonestell turned blueprints into beautiful paintings for the tallest and longest bridge in 1937, San Francisco's majestic Golden Gate Bridge. When he moved to Hollywood, his architectural background served him well in his new career as a visual effects matte painter. He created movie magic for classic films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Citizen Kane, Destination Moon and The War of the Worlds. 'Those who have seen Bonestell's work are amazed at how accurate his depictions of planets and stars are, even though they were painted long before high-powered telescopes and space probes existed,' says the film's Producer/Writer/Director Doug Stewart. 'The film is called 'A Brush with the Future' because of that uncanny accuracy. Now that we are going back to the moon, and then onto Mars, one can appreciate Bonestell's ability to inspire and influence the future even today.' 'The documentary is both remarkable and fascinating,' said a Southern California KPFK radio review. 'In part, this is because Chesley Bonestell was a remarkable and fascinating man who inspired people to majestic achievements...His paintings are speculative in nature, fueled with imagination and romantic vision, yet they make you feel like you're there, that you'd like to be there...and that you could be there.' 'Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future' will screen at 11:30AM on September 14 and 15 at the North Park Theatre, 1428 Hertel Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216. To view the film's trailer, please visit www.chesleybonestell.com. For tickets and additional information about this screening, please visit the North Park Theatre website at www.northparktheatre.org. More about the Film: 'Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future' is featured in the September 2019 issue of Sky and Telescope Magazine. The article by journalist Donald Vaughan is titled 'Postcards from the Future.'

With the 2019-2020 season, American Repertory Ballet marks two major milestones in its history a?" the opening of its new home at the state-of-the-art New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) and the company's 40th anniversary as New Jersey's preeminent classical and contemporary ballet company.  

Entre la realidad y la fantasía, Julio Cortázar instauró una nueva manera de hacer literatura al romper con moldes clásicos editoriales, se alejó rutinas y patrones establecidos y renovó los géneros que cultivaron el cuento fantástico; sus relatos indagaban en las facetas más enigmáticas de lo cotidiano y buscó siempre la originalidad y el profundo sentido de lo real.

Julesworks Follies 59th Edition Summer Simplify Episode: Or How To Keep it Cool will be on Sunday August 18th at 7PM at Le Jean Cocteau Cinema.

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce that single tickets for its star-studded 63rd International "Standing Ovation" Season go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. (Central Time).

WriterActor Charles Busch and his muse, Actor Julie Halston are guests on June's episode of THEATER: All the Moving Parts, on the television station of the City University of New York (CUNY TV). The show is now streaming at: tv.cuny.edushowtheaterallthemovingpartsPR2008111

Multi-faceted, creative hyphenate Charles Busch will be appearing in his latest reincarnation of his 1999 classic cult-fav DIE, MOMMIE, DIE! for four performances May 17 through May 19, 2019 for L.A. Theatre Works. Dazzlingly filling out the crazy cast of characters of DIE, MOMMIE, DIE! - Mark Capri, Willie Garson, Ellis Greer, Jeffrey Self and Ruth Williamson. I had the wonderful chance to revisit Charles' gracious wit after almost two decades previous.

American Repertory Ballet (ARB) presents its highly anticipated world premiere, Beauty and the Beast, choreographed by the company's Resident Choreographer Kirk Peterson. Broadwayworld.com had the pleasure of interviewing Peterson about his career and the show.

State Theatre New Jersey presents the world premiere of Beauty and the Beast performed by American Repertory Ballet on Friday, May 10, 2019 at 8pm.