FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Ally Bonino (Dogfight, Merrily We Roll Along, Myths & Hymns, The Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza) with the Nikita Morozov Quartet in Showers/Flowers, a celebration of the transition from winter to spring. Features songs by Shirley Manson, Jolie Holland, The Zombies, Deerhoof, Simon & Garfunkel, and more, reimagined for string quartet with orchestrations by Jeremy Yaddaw. Leave your hat and coat at home and join us as Ally takes an emotional journey into this most vibrant time of year.
ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com is proud to celebrate their Fifth Anniversary at The Green Room 42 with a star-studded concert packed with great contemporary musical theatre songs on Monday, March 5 at 9:30 PM. Curated by Laura Josepher & David Sisco, Contemporary Writers' Circle: Fifth Anniversary Concert represents the best of today's wide range of contemporary musical theatre styles.
The Pittsburgh CLO Membership is proud to announce the election of Helen Hanna Casey as Pittsburgh CLO's new Chairman of the Board of Directors. She is the 15th Chairman in the organization's history and the first woman to serve in this role. The membership also elected two new directors during its Annual Meeting on February 1, 2018 at the Duquesne Club, Downtown. This annual gathering of Pittsburgh's finest working professionals and community-oriented individuals commemorated an exceptional year at Pittsburgh CLO - highlighted by the culmination of the Next Generation $10 million Capital Campaign, welcoming home the Pittsburgh Premiere of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS in tandem with a celebration of Van Kaplan's 20th year at the helm of Pittsburgh CLO and launching the precursor of the SPARK festival with Pittsburgh CLO's inaugural New Musicals Weekend.
Actress and Emmy award-winning commentator Nancy Giles (CBS News Sunday Morning) curates / hosts 'The Mosquito' her free, fast and furious monthly variety show with stand-ups, sit-downs and music at the Dixon Place Lounge on Manhattan's Lower East Side on Monday, February 19th at 7:30pm.
Highland Park Players Theater for Young Audiences will perform Busytown, the Musical, based on the books by Richard Scarry. Busytown, the Musical runs from February 10th through February 18th at Elm Place Middle School, 2031 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. Performances are at 11:00 am and 1:00 pm.
Seattle-based artist ELYXR and Kurt Harland Larson from legendary synth band Information Society have teamed up to present their collaborative single 'Strange Stubborn Proud'.
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is proud to present the 2018 Overture Awards Finals Competition. The Overture Awards provides $4,000 to six area high school students for education and training expenses, with eighteen finalists each winning $1,000. The program also provides a $2,500 Arts Educator Award for Excellence in Arts Instruction.
Dorothy, Toto, the Munchkins and the Tin Man will follow the Yellow Brick Road into a whirlwind production of Wizard of Oz this month at Congregation Ohev Shalom in Wallingford, Pa. Presented by the Ohev Players and under the direction of Ryan Stone, the classic will debut Saturday, February 17 at 7:30pm, in the Ohev Shalom auditorium located at 2 Chester Rd. Three additional performances are slated-February 18 at 2 p.m., the following closing weekend, February 24 at 7:30p.m., and February 25 at 2 p.m.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, the most awarded new musical of 2015 and winner of four Tony Awards®, will play at Overture Center for one-week engagement Tues., Feb. 27-Sun., Mar. 4, 2018.
In response to popular demand, Soho Rep. (Sarah Benson, Artistic Director; Cynthia Flowers, Executive Director) extends the world premiere of Aleshea Harris's Relentless Award-winning Is God Is, directed by Taibi Magar by two weeks, through March 25. In this play, which dauntlessly cracks jokes as it eviscerates, twin sisters Anaia (Alfie Fuller) and Racine (Dame-Jasmine Hughes) undertake a murderous journey from the Dirty South to the California desert, seeking payback for a horrendous act. Is God Is treats both morality and genre as notions to be exploded, drawing on the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk in its subversion of theatrical constructs.
PRIMARY STAGES (Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Shane D. Hudson, Executive Director; Casey Childs, Founder) announced today Saturday Night Strings, a special post-show concert series following select Saturday night performances of A WALK WITH MR. HEIFETZ, written by James Inverne and directed by Andrew Leynse. All ticketholders for the evenings of Saturday, February 10 (Mariella Haubs); Saturday, February 17 (Edward W. Hardy of Sterling Strings); and Saturday, February 24 (Luisa Bastidas) are invited to remain after the performance to enjoy live music performed by special guest violinists. The concerts are free for all ticketholders for that evening's performance.
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Witness the VICE team's squad of fearless correspondents and documentarians as they continue to deliver powerful, hard-hitting stories from around the world when VICE: Season 5, is available on Digital Download February 12th, 2018.
National Chorale, New York's premier professional choral company under the Artistic Direction of Everett McCorvey, continues its 2017-2018 Season at Lincoln Center with the New York Premiere of Angela Rice's Thy Will Be Done on Friday, March 16, 2018 at 8pm at the David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC. Tickets are $30-100 and are available at www.nationalchorale.com or by calling (212) 333-5333.
Viewers will have the opportunity to catch up on the hit drama THE CHI when SHOWTIME airs mini marathons of the first four episodes on Sunday, February 4, starting at 12 p.m. ET/PT and 8 p.m. ET/PT. The series will resume with a new episode on Sunday, February 11 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. All episodes of THE CHI are also available on SHOWTIME streaming, SHOWTIME ANYTIME® and SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®. Created and executive produced by Emmy® Award winner Lena Waithe (Master of None) and executive produced by Academy Award®, Emmy and Golden Globe® winner Common (Selma), THE CHI explores the humanity behind the headlines sensationalizing the South Side of Chicago.
PITTSBURGH CLO is pleased to welcome a collection of writing teams from across the country to Pittsburgh for the inaugural SPARK festival in March. These teams were chosen from a highly-selective submissions process and will have the opportunity to rehearse and revise their work in residencies ranging from two days to three weeks. SPARK will provide dramaturgy and production resources to 10 new musicals at all stages of development, in addition to the world premiere of UP AND AWAY. As a part of the development period, eight of the musicals will receive public presentations through which the writing teams can gather audience insights and focus their intentions for the next phase of development. A major initiative of Pittsburgh CLO's recently completed Next Generation Capital Campaign, SPARK is designed to cultivate new and innovative work from emerging and established musical theater artists.
Building on the Blaine County School District's mission of inspiring, engaging, educating and empowering every student, Company of Fools announces the 21st year of Stages of Wonder-an in-school dramatic arts program that has served as the theatre curriculum in local elementary schools since 1997.
In a cramped, secret Amsterdam annex, alongside seven other refugees, a Jewish girl hides from the Nazis. In the midst of this nightmare scenario, Anne Frank channels her lively intelligence into a diary that resonates decades after her death. Wendy Kesselman's adaptation captures the immediacy of Anne's unique voice, and the courage and terror of a life evading Hitler's genocide of the Jews.
