Rejoice, rock 'n' rollers: San Francisco's Flamin' Groovies are returning with Fantastic Plastic, an all-new album of high-energy, pop-inflected original songs that bring together the band's prime movers of the '70s, singers-guitarists-songwriters Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson for the first time in 38 years. Produced by Jordan and Joel Jaffe (who also contributes guitar) mostly at Studio D in Sausalito, Calif., and due Sept. 22, 2017 on the band's own independent imprint Sonic Kicks Records and Severn
Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, today announced that it has convened more than 60 of the most respected figures from the worlds of business, law enforcement, government, fashion, media, entertainment, tourism, the military, and the arts in its Conservation Council, a global advisory board.
Dustin Rothbart and Danny Kapinos, Co-Artistic Directors, are excited to announce the formation of BLANK THEATRE COMPANY. Blank Theatre Company aims to present our audiences with work that is both timely & timeless.
CBS News will deliver a full day of division-wide coverage of the first total solar eclipse since 1979 on Monday, August 21 on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including CBS THIS MORNING (7:00-9:00 AM); CBS News' Special Report: SOLAR ECLIPSE 08.21.17 (1:00-3:00 PM, ET); the CBS EVENING NEWS (6:30-7:00 PM, ET); CBSN, CBS News' 24/7 live, streaming news service; CBS News Radio; and CBS Newspath.
CBS News will deliver a full day of division-wide coverage of the first total solar eclipse since 1979 on Monday, August 21 on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including CBS THIS MORNING (7:00-9:00 AM); CBS News' Special Report: SOLAR ECLIPSE 08.21.17 (1:00-3:00 PM, ET); the CBS EVENING NEWS (6:30-7:00 PM, ET); CBSN, CBS News' 24/7 live, streaming news service; CBS News Radio; and CBS Newspath.
Stars from Broadway's HAMILTON, GROUNDHOG DAY, THE BOOK OF MORMON, and FUN HOME will gather for "Bad Year/Good Music," featuring the work of emerging musical theater writer Rebekah M. Allen (L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Winner, Best Lyrics/Composition for WE ARE THE TIGERS).
Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis is pleased to present The National Theatre of Ghana's 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, written by Tennessee Williams, directed by David Kaplan and produced by Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival.
Experience the greatest music of the '60s, '70s and '80s with Decades Rewind - a brand new theatrical concert extravaganza featuring a live fourteen-piece band performing medleys of hit songs spanning thirty years - plays the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater for two performances today, August 17 and Friday, August 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Off the Grid, the bold young company that brought you the critically acclaimed and award winning production of Blasted last season, is brewing up something completely new. At the intersection of witchcraft and politics is The Weird, a play that explores varying degrees of magic in a way that communes with the contentious time our nation is in.
The Kitchen, founded in 1971, has continued to serve as an important catalyst for a broad community of groundbreaking artists working across disciplines. In today's landscape, where contemporary artists and arts institutions are collaborating in new ways and generating new contexts for the continuing evolution of multi-disciplinary art, The Kitchen, as a nimble, smaller-scale organization, plays an especially vital role: it provides emerging and established artists a hot-house environment for the presentation and discussion of their work, supporting and seeking to foster a vibrant, living dialogue among artists from every field and area of culture.
Last Poet Standing IV (LPS) returns to the Aronoff Center! Last Poet Standing IV is a head-to-head spoken word competition which will be featured as a part of the tenth season of the Off-Broadway Theatrical Revue The Signature: A Poetic Medley Show. This 'Unorthodox SPOKEN WORD Competition' has brought the best performing artists across the Midwest to the stage! Last Poet Standing IV has a large individual grand prize of $1,000, and this summer OFP Productions will collaborate with several organizations to present LPS in the Aronoff Center's intimate and beautiful Jarson-Kaplan Theater in downtown Cincinnati at 650 Walnut Street on Friday, August 25 from 8:00 PM-11:00 PM. The Signature Lounge opens in the lobby at 7:30 PM, featuring live music and a full bar.
What can we do when it's too late to fix the mistakes of the past? 'Letters,' written and composed by Daniel Schwartzman, is a musical about Frida, a middle-aged writer of children's books long estranged from her parents.
On August 21st, cast members from the Broadway hit Newsies will reunite on the stage of Feinstein's/54 Below, for the forth year in a row. Audience members can expect to hear a variety of styles of music as well as stories and memories shared by the cast.
The Acting Company has announced its 2017-18 season, which exemplifies the venerable organization's commitment to cultivating a national audience for the theater with exceptional touring productions of classical and new works; developing the best young American actors by giving them an opportunity to practice their craft in a wide-ranging repertory; and educating students that have limited access to the arts.
The Chicago Humanities Festival revealed its next round of headliners for its upcoming Fallfest/17: Belief today announcing that Ta-Nehisi Coates, 'On Being' host Krista Tippett, Jill Soloway (Transparent), acclaimed biologist Edward O. (E.O.) Wilson, actor Alan Alda, astronaut Scott Kelly, and novelist Marilynne Robinson have joined the lineup.
CRT's Headwaters New Play Festival is the source of new plays in the West, and fosters the development of new plays for CRT's stages and beyond. 2017 Playwrights will spend one week in development with a cast, director, and dramaturg at Creede Repertory Theatre, culminating in public readings and performances August 25th-26th.
Christiane Noll (Ragtime, Chaplin) and Mariand Torres (Wicked, In Transit) will be the featured vocalists in the next installment of 'Russ Kaplan's Broadway Jazz Session,' the new monthly series which presents In Transit composer Kaplan's innovative jazz interpretations of current Broadway favorites.
Irish Arts Center (IAC), the arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, has announced its fall 2017 season. The lineup epitomizes IAC's commitment to building community with a diversity of arts institutions, artists and audiences - in New York, across America, and abroad.
