The grand prize winner of the 48 th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest has been named! After rigorous testing of thousands of entries, four stood out as the best of the best, with the grand prize awarded to Amy Nelson from Zionville, N.C. for her Bejeweled Cranberry-Orange Rolls and her inspiration behind the recipe.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of the award-winning drama, "The Whipping Man" by Matthew Lopez, a tale of loyalty, deceit, and deliverance, on Monday, March 19, at 7 p.m. The reading will be directed by Anne Keefe, Playhouse associate artist and curator of the playreading series. Tickets are $20 each.
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre continues its milestone 30th Anniversary Season with Once, winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical, playing February 28 - March 25, 2018. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, the company's production will include members from the original Broadway cast as well as several actors who have performed the show regionally.
Crib, check. Nappies, check. Weird, breast-pump thing, check. Losing mind, check. Mum on speed-dial, quickest route to hospital mapped. Phoebe discovers she's pregnant again after a miscarriage and wants to talk. You're invited into the bedroom of a girl in her mid-twenties frantically trying to figure out what it means to be a woman, to be an adult, to just be a functioning human. An honest conversation about the unspoken problems we're not allowed to show we're struggling with. A story about big decisions, bad advice, and making it up as you go along. Fresh, frank new solo-show about starting again.
City Theater in Biddeford presents Company, a Tony Award winning musical comedy by renowned composer, Stephen Sondheim. Company has been called one of Sondheim's most beautiful scores and a truly unique look at love and relationships.
Margaret Thatcher Projects is excited to present Nobu Fukui's second solo exhibition, Paradise. This exhibition focuses on a carefully curated selection of large-scaled works created over the last two years. A catalogue with an essay written by Joanne Mattera, includes paintings presented and others from the series. The catalogue is available through the gallery.
Singer, songwriter, and record producer Zola Jesus has announced a new album of previously unheard tracks and remixes titled Okovi: Additions, an experiential interpretation of her 2017 critically acclaimed album Okovi, released on Sacred Bones Records. The news comes with the announcement of the US 'Snow Blood Tour,' co-headlined with Alice Glass, new European dates (full NA + EU dates below) and the release of 'Bound,' the first single from the project which is streamable now via the Adult Swim Singles Program.
Theater goers who like to travel will get a chance to take a journey around the nation and the world in one show, as Theater 294 and the Long Island Repertory Co. present programs with one acts set in different parts of the nation and the globe.
Working intimately with directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa on some of their most important films, Kazuo Miyagawa (1908-99) pushed Japanese cinema to its highest artistic peaks through his lyrical, innovative, and technically flawless camerawork. Considered the greatest cinematographer of postwar Japanese cinema whose career endured through the 1990s, Miyagawa has influenced generations of leading filmmakers around the world.
Check out the exciting lineup of artists coming to City Winery Chicago next month!
My 280-character (or less) review of Theater Mu and Mixed Blood Theatre's first ever collaboration: 'Friends, run don't walk to see #twomilehollow (co-production from @theatermu and @mixed_blood). I can't decide whom I love most in this cast of comic geniuses! But behind all the wackiness and humor is some seriously smart commentary on race and class in America.' If you don't have time to continue reading this post, that pretty much tells you what you need to know. Or stick with me as I expand on this tweet by a few hundred more words. Either way, if you like your theater smart, funny, relevant, and painfully true, TWO MILE HOLLOW is not to be missed.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full company for August Wilson's quintessential epic drama Two Trains Running. Confronted with a rapidly changing world in the wake of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the looming demolition of Memphis Lee's diner, Memphis and his regular customers struggle to maintain their solidarity and sense of pride.
From March 27-April 1, Mabou Mines is proud to present the work of its 2018 SUITE/Space artists in a festival-like setting-two performances each night for 6 nights in a row-in the newly renovated, state-of-the-art Mabou Mines Theater. The inaugural SUITE/Space artists, Tariq Al-Sabir, Tamar-kali, Davalois Fearon and Sanaz Ghajar, work in a variety of disciplines and share Mabou Mines' commitment to breaking new ground in form and content. Founded in the summer of 1970 as an artist-driven collective, Mabou Mines has a long history of fostering the next generation of artists through mentorships and residencies. SUITE/Space is a new performance initiative for artists that reflect New York City's rich cultural landscape and provides artistic advisement, development support, rehearsal space, and opportunities for public performance.
Songstress Powerhouse Meghan 'Big Red' Murphy is a genre-defying, wise-cracking, sparkly gown-wearing, mic-dropping bombshell with a transformative voice and an old school style.
Joining the previously announced women performing in Broadway Baby Mamas in support of Planned Parenthood on March 15th, 2018 at FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, are two time Tony nominee Stephanie J. Block, and Broadway favorites, Sara Jean Ford, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Garrett Elise Long, Megan McGinnis and Natasha Yvette Williams.
Phoenix Productions will celebrate their 30th birthday with a unique and exciting evening of musical theatre on Saturday, February 24th at the Count Basie Theatre This one-night-only celebration, dubbed 'The Phoenix 30th Anniversary Gala, Show Much More' features more than 100 Phoenix alumni and a bevy of songs and dances from Phoenix's first 30 years as well as musical numbers from classic and current Broadway hits that could be their next 30 years.
Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond, March 16-April 7, at the University Theatre (222 York Street). Opening Night is Thursday, March 22. Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 is a co-production with San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, where it will play April 25-May 20.
Before writer/director Aaron Sorkin became best known for tv shows like The West Wing and Newsroom and movies such as The Social Network and Steve Jobs, he penned a stage play that may be more famous as a movie. Sorkin worked on the movie version of his script for A Few Good Men, a play which has more than stood the test of time as a highly entertaining piece of theater that also raises important themes surrounding power, who wields it, and how they use it. It's also getting a first-rate production right now at the Pollard Theatre in Guthrie.
The stage was set for gala evenings with a difference at Birmingham Hippodrome a few weeks ago (Tue 20 - Fri 23 Feb 2018). Alongside the public performances of Sir Mathew Bourne's Cinderella, the city's premier theatre hosted a week of fundraising events and creative learning projects inspired by the re-imagined love story.
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