John Brown News

On Friday, August 14, 2009 at 8:00pm, Entrain Dance Party is coming to The Center for Arts at Natick.

With the continued success of its production of Man of La Mancha, Wayside Theatre is pleased to announce the addition of an exciting event to their 2009 summer performance calendar. Wayside's Acting Intern Company will take off their tattered Spanish Inquisition costumes and wipe away their prison dirt for an intimate night of music and cocktails with their first planned 'Intern Cabaret Showcase' of the 2009-2010 Season. For two nights only, Thursday July 2nd and Friday July 3rd, the Curtain Call Café of the theatre will be converted to a piano bar offering a free cabaret to the community.

With the continued success of its production of Man of La Mancha, Wayside Theatre is pleased to announce the addition of an exciting event to their 2009 summer performance calendar. Wayside's Acting Intern Company will take off their tattered Spanish Inquisition costumes and wipe away their prison dirt for an intimate night of music and cocktails with their first planned 'Intern Cabaret Showcase' of the 2009-2010 Season. For two nights only, Thursday July 2nd and Friday July 3rd, the Curtain Call Café of the theatre will be converted to a piano bar offering a free cabaret to the community.

To many, modern art means post-1940s abstraction. Yet American modernism got its start decades earlier and took several forms. The Terra Foundation for American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum and the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation are convening a free two-day, two-city symposium, ?What?s Modern about American Art, 1900 ?1930?? on June 19 (Chicago) and June 20 (Milwaukee). The symposium explores modernism as expressed in American painting and design from 1900 to 1930. Free registration is required, and includes free round-trip transportation between Chicago and Milwaukee for the June 20 programming. For more information and to register, visit www.terraamericanart.org/modernism-symposium or call (312) 654-2278.

Wayside Theatre Artistic Director Warner Crocker announced today the performance of Robert E. Lee and John Brown; Lighting the Fuse in our 2009-2010 Season. This play with music is written by Crocker with music by Wayside Theatre resident composer Steve Przybylski. The production is one of the planned events for the 150th Anniversary of the John Brown 1859 Raid on Harpers Ferry. Robert E. Lee and John Brown; Lighting the Fuse begins performances on August 29 and close on September 26. The John Brown 150 Anniversary Quad State Committee is planning and coordinating events to commemorate the 1859 Raid on the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA.

Kansas City opera fans have been waiting 10 years for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City to produce the audience favorite, La Traviata. On March 14, 16, 18, 20, & 22, 2009 the Lyric Opera of Kansas City will present Verdi's spellbinding tragedy, La Traviata at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Kansas City. Under the spell of one exquisite party, Violetta is tempted - and eventually swayed - to abandon her life of endless immoral pleasure to join lovesick Alfredo in the love affair of a lifetime despite Violetta's secret terminal disease. Violetta's colored past proves to be a hurdle for Alfredo's father, who persuades her to leave Alfredo for his own good. The pair is only reunited for the final moments of Violetta's life.

Kansas City opera fans have been waiting 10 years for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City to produce the audience favorite, La Traviata. On March 14, 16, 18, 20, & 22, 2009 the Lyric Opera of Kansas City will present Verdi's spellbinding tragedy, La Traviata at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Kansas City. Under the spell of one exquisite party, Violetta is tempted - and eventually swayed - to abandon her life of endless immoral pleasure to join lovesick Alfredo in the love affair of a lifetime despite Violetta's secret terminal disease. Violetta's colored past proves to be a hurdle for Alfredo's father, who persuades her to leave Alfredo for his own good. The pair is only reunited for the final moments of Violetta's life.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE'S WORLD'S STAGE SERIES PRESENTS MULTILINGUAL 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Director Tim Supple's Adaptation-a Vivid Dream from India featuring Acrobats, Dancers, Martial Artists and Musicians. November 25 through December 7, 2008

The Brick Theater, Inc. presents LORD OXFORD BRINGS YOU THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, LIVE! being the necessary and appropriate response to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's suppression of the freedoms and dignity of the European-American settlers and their descendants in the Royal Eastern American Colonies and the inordinate conferring of special favours and privileges on the merciless Indian savages and the former Negro slaves, in the year TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT, written by Robert Honeywell and directed by Moira Stone, at the Brick in Brooklyn, New York from October 23 through November 22, 2008.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE'S WORLD'S STAGE SERIES PRESENTS MULTILINGUAL 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Director Tim Supple's Adaptation-a Vivid Dream from India featuring Acrobats, Dancers, Martial Artists and Musicians. November 25 through December 7, 2008

The Brick Theater, Inc. presents LORD OXFORD BRINGS YOU THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, LIVE! being the necessary and appropriate response to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's suppression of the freedoms and dignity of the European-American settlers and their descendants in the Royal Eastern American Colonies and the inordinate conferring of special favours and privileges on the merciless Indian savages and the former Negro slaves, in the year TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT, written by Robert Honeywell and directed by Moira Stone, at the Brick in Brooklyn, New York from October 23 through November 22, 2008.

LORD OXFORD BRINGS YOU THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, LIVE!, written by Robert Honeywell, directed by Moira Stone will premiere at the Brick Theater.

The Bay Area's acclaimed Lamplighters Music Theatre opens its 56th season with Gilbert and Sullivan's delightful tale of star-crossed lovers, THE MIKADO.

Tony Award -winner Linda Lavin will kick-off the fall season of 'Broadway at Birdland' on September 3 and 4 with two 7PM concerts.

Birdland has announced its September line-up

On Monday, September 3rd and Tuesday, September 4th, Tony Award-winner Linda Lavin will appear at Birdland as part of the 'Broadway at Birdland' series presented by Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com