NBC Sports presents the 2018 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship this Thursday and Friday from Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., totaling 20 hours of live coverage of the Second Round and Quarterfinals on NBCSN.
The Cincinnati Arts Association has announced the winners of its Overture Awards Competition, held on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater, and the winner of its Arts Educator Award for Excellence in Arts Instruction. The competition awarded $4,000 to six area students for education and training, with 18 runners-up each winning $1,000, while the Arts Educator Award winner received $2,500 and two finalists were awarded $500 each.
Ars Lyrica Houston's A Roman Feast Gala, Honoring Rhonda and Donald Sweeney chaired by Drs. Rachel and Warren Ellsworth IV, and Sarah and Gabriel Loperena took place March 3, 2018 in the historic Esperson building in downtown Houston, an event to raise funds for the organization's first fully-staged Baroque opera, Handel's Agrippina to be produced November 2018. The evening began with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the contemporary Rusk Lobby, filled with fragrant lavender, ferns and Romanesque decor with live harp music. An intimate concert of Handel arias followed, performed by acclaimed countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Artistic Director Matthew Dirst on harpsichord, and violinist Alan Austin in the Esperson Neils Lobby. Guests then enjoyed a grand feast on theme and ended with an Italian disco after party in the transformed Neils Lobby complete with dancing, drinks, light bites, and craft beer sponsored by Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co.
PRIMARY STAGES (Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Shane D. Hudson, Executive Director; Casey Childs, Founder) is proud to announce its complete 2018/19 Season, which will kick off in Fall 2018 with FINAL FOLLIES, by A.R. Gurney (Love Letters, Sylvia, Black Tie at Primary Stages) and directed by David Saint (Clever Little Lies). DOWNSTAIRS by Theresa Rebeck ("Smash," Dead Accounts, Poor Behavior at Primary Stages), directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (What We're Up Against) in November 2018 will star Tyne Daly (Mother & Sons, Master Class) and Tim Daly ("Wings," "Madam Secretary") sharing the New York stage for the first time. Early 2019 will bring GOD SAID THIS by Leah Nanako Winkler (Two Mile Hollow), directed by Morgan Gould (Kentucky); and the season will conclude in Spring 2019 with LITTLE WOMEN, written by Kate Hamill (Pride and Prejudice), based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, and directed by Sarna Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George). Performance schedules, additional casting, and full creative teams will be announced at a later date.
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The world premiere of Pittsburgh CLO's UP AND AWAY will now soar for six more performances through April 22! The production was initially scheduled to close on April 15. Tickets for all remaining performances are now on sale at CLOCabaret.com, by calling 412-456-6666 or visiting the Box Office at Theater Square.
According to Variety, 13 REASONS WHY star Derek Luke is set to star as the lead in the new drama from NBC, titled SUSPICION. The show is based on the book of the same name by Joseph Fuller. Luke will take the role of Danny Goodman. Read more about it from Variety here!
The New York Philharmonic Very Young People's Concerts (VYPCs), for children ages 3 to 6, will continue Sunday, April 8, 2018, at 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. and Monday, April 9 at 10:30 a.m. at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street.
The Boston arm of Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts (PAAL) has planned a welcoming social potluck on Sunday, March 4th, as well as an upcoming calendar of events for all parent theatre artists in the area that include creative and administrative in freelance or employed positions and their families. As part of a national effort to create community and develop supportive relationships for parents in the theatre, PAAL Co-Chief representatives Tareena Wimbish and Lila Rose Kaplan extend the invitation to the potluck as the beginning of a supportive and resourceful initiative for parent theatre artists:
The Boston arm of Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts (PAAL) has planned a welcoming social potluck on Sunday, March 4th, as well as an upcoming calendar of events for all parent theatre artists in the area that include creative and administrative in freelance or employed positions and their families. As part of a national effort to create community and develop supportive relationships for parents in the theatre, PAAL Co-Chief representatives Tareena Wimbish and Lila Rose Kaplan extend the invitation to the potluck as the beginning of a supportive and resourceful initiative for parent theatre artists:
The Seventh Annual 2018 ReelAbilities Boston Film Festival (March 21-29, 2018) has announced its official selections. Fourteen films have been chosen, including the romantic comedy, Sanctuary, which won the Irish Critics Film of the Year Award, and Off the Rails, which tells the story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger's syndrome and a passion for trains, who becomes known as "the transit bandit."
The Stone Witch by Shem Bitterman (A Death in Colombia, Influence) will play it's Off-Broadway premiere. Performances begin Monday, March 12, 2018 for an open-ended engagement at The Westside Theatre - Upstairs (407 West 43rd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). Opening Night is set for Sunday evening, March 25, 2018 at 6:30PM.
Emerging Artists Theatre celebrates its 25th Anniversary by presenting their 20th Annual New Work Series (NWS). Under the direction of Artistic Director, Paul Adam's, the festival runs February 26 through March 18 at TADA Theatre in Chelsea.
Music Theatre Wichita, entering its 47th summer season, today announced the roster of artistic teams who will be guiding the five large-scale summer productions.
The Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) is pleased to announce the 2018 MAC Award nominees. The nominees, in a majority of the categories, were determined by votes cast by the active MAC membership. The MAC Board of Directors selected the nominees for Show of the Year. Special committees selected the nominees in the Ensemble Instrumentalist, Piano Bar Instrumentalist, Piano Bar Singing Entertainer (Female; Male), Recording (LaMott Friedman), Major Recording, Song and Comedy/Novelty Song categories. The names of the songwriters in the Song and Comedy/Novelty Song categories are being withheld during the voting period, but will be announced publicly as soon as the voting period concludes.
Sophia Brown and Nick Narcisi will create the tempestuous relationship between renowned characters Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire," the main stage production of the third annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, May 10-19, at the Grandel Theatre. Tim Ocel will direct the production for this year's Festival titled, "Tennessee Williams: The French Quarter Years."