John Hudson News

A brand new season of West End musicals, gripping dramas, dynamic dance and one night concerts with RICHARD FLEESHMAN, MAXWELL CAULFIELD, JOE MCELDERRY, LISA RILEY, DOREEN TIPTON, JOE LYCETT, AISLING BEA, NISH KUMAR, GEORGE McCRAE, RAYMOND FROGGATT, JUSTIN HAYWARD, THE STYLISTICS, JIMMY OSMOND, CHRIS PACKHAM and TONY CHRISTIE.

Olney Theatre Center, a mid-Atlantic destination for professional theater performance and education, proudly announces two world premieres, two legendary musicals, a classic thriller, and a rotating rep of Gilbert & Sullivan as part of its 10-play 78th season, the company's largest. Headlining the season is Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical, set in the waning days of Batista's regime in Cuba, written and directed by Tony® Award-nominee Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project Cycle) with music from two-time Grammy Award-winner Arturo O'Farrill. Previously on an annual calendar, the 78thseason standardizes the schedule, running September 2015 through August 2016.

On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 5:30pm, please join John Hudson, on-air personality at radio station KLTY (94.9) and music aficionados from across the Dallas-Ft Worth area, for 'An Evening of Music, Conversation and Hope' - with Christian artist Natasha Owens performing alongside Jason Crabb and Cass Dillon - at the Great Hall of Park Cities Baptist Church.

Terrence McNally's Tony award winning play, Master Class, is certainly an enjoyable night of theatre. This dramatic biographical story of opera diva Maria Callas tells a tale of the retired performer as she conducts a master class cultivating new operatic talent. Jeffrey Sanzel splendidly directs this delightful incarnation running through June 28th at Theatre Three of Port Jefferson, Long Island, culminating their stellar 44th season.

Olney Theatre Center has finally taken the plunge in their intimate black-box space with their inaugural August Wilson production, 'The Piano Lesson.' Blessed with a talented cast, they should enjoy a prosperous run; and the choice of play is appropriate, given the role that Baltimore's own Charles S. Dutton had in its first production. And the piano of the title, with its unique and bloody history, endures as one of the most powerful stage metaphors of our time.

Singer Natasha Owens announced today that she has been chosen by All Access to be a featured artist on the their upcoming radio promotion tour which is beginning in February, visiting radio stations across the country to support her first single 'The Cure'.

In DUDE, YOU'RE SCREWED, five of the world's most elite, thrill-seeking survivalists will find out! The seven-part series is the newest twist in the survival genre, premiering on Discovery Channel tonight, December 8th at 10:00pm ET/PT, and on Animal Planet in early 2014.

In DUDE, YOU'RE SCREWED, five of the world's most elite, thrill-seeking survivalists will find out! The seven-part series is the newest twist in the survival genre, premiering on Discovery Channel Sunday, December 8th at 10:00pm ET/PT, and on Animal Planet in early 2014.

Cornelia Street Cafe presents Shakespeare: A Two-Part Invention featuring Robin Hirsch and John Hudson today, April 28th at 6pm.

Cornelia Street Cafe presents Shakespeare: A Two-Part Invention featuring Robin Hirsch and John Hudson on Sunday, April 28th at 6pm.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar is being presented by the Merrick Theatre in Merrick, Long Island from November 12 to December 11.

The Dark Lady Players, the world's only allegorical Shakespeare company, presents Hamlet's Apocalypse, a black comedy showing that Hamlet is a comic parody of the Book of Revelation (the last book of the Christian Bible which predicts the coming of Doomsday). Direction is by Jenny Greeman, whose production of Screenplay won the 'Outstanding Production Award' at the 2010 Midtown International Theater Festival. This production opens on 7 November for three nights at 8pm at Manhattan Theatre Source, 177 MacDougal Street, New York NY 10011. Tickets $18, reservations 866-811-4111.

The Dark Lady Players, the world's only allegorical Shakespeare company, presents Hamlet's Apocalypse, a black comedy showing that Hamlet is a comic parody of the Book of Revelation (the last book of the Christian Bible which predicts the coming of Doomsday). Direction is by Jenny Greeman, whose production of Screenplay won the 'Outstanding Production Award' at the 2010 Midtown International Theater Festival. This production opens on 7 November for three nights at 8pm at Manhattan Theatre Source, 177 MacDougal Street, New York NY 10011. Tickets $18, reservations 866-811-4111.

'SHAKESPEARE'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN SATIRES: THE VIRGIN MARY PARODIES' Was Shakespeare actually a Marrano Jewish woman? This production, guided by a radical new dramaturgy, demonstrates the idea with performances of anti-Christian satires in three of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies.

'SHAKESPEARE'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN SATIRES: THE VIRGIN MARY PARODIES' Was Shakespeare actually a Marrano Jewish woman? This production, guided by a radical new dramaturgy, demonstrates the idea with performances of anti-Christian satires in three of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies.

'SHAKESPEARE'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN SATIRES: THE VIRGIN MARY PARODIES' Was Shakespeare actually a Marrano Jewish woman? This production, guided by a radical new dramaturgy, demonstrates the idea with performances of anti-Christian satires in three of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies.

'SHAKESPEARE'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN SATIRES: THE VIRGIN MARY PARODIES' Was Shakespeare actually a Marrano Jewish woman? This production, guided by a radical new dramaturgy, demonstrates the idea with performances of anti-Christian satires in three of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies.

Experience The Intimacy And Passion of Carmen in-the-round at The Royal Albert Hall 26th February - 8th March 2009 London will dazzle with fiery passion as Bizet's classic opera, Carmen returns to the Royal Albert Hall in February 2009. The stunning new cast, who will be performing the opera in English, are set to join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in what is one of the most eagerly anticipated performances of the new year.

Experience The Intimacy And Passion of Carmen in-the-round at The Royal Albert Hall 26th February - 8th March 2009 London will dazzle with fiery passion as Bizet's classic opera, Carmen returns to the Royal Albert Hall in February 2009. The stunning new cast, who will be performing the opera in English, are set to join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in what is one of the most eagerly anticipated performances of the new year.