The Chicago Humanities Festival is moving full speed ahead towards the 27th annual Fallfest, releasing its full line-up of events. Fallfest/16: Speed will feature more than 100 events by prominent artists, authors, historians, scientists, and cultural commentators including Dan Savage, Maureen Dowd, Trevor Noah, and Jonathan Lethem.
Broadway's first a cappella musical will open at the Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street) on December 11, and the cast of IN TRANSIT is well into rehearsals to put finishing touches on the show. The company just met the press and you can check out photos from the special day below!
Lincoln Center Theater's new production of William Finn and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos opened just last night at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48 Street), where it runs for 14 weeks only . BroadwayWorld was on hand for the special night and you can check out photos from the after party below!
The Thrushes are the Blacklisters tonight: THE MAN FROM UNCLE is invoked by villain reference as computer systems fall, relationships prove to be honeytraps, and the search for Agnes closes. Will Mr. Kaplan live? Will Alexander Kirk die? And just which team is Liz Keen playing for?
Pittsburgh CLO has announced casting for the 25thAnniversary production of A Musical Christmas Carol, this December at the Byham Theater.
The Acting Company announces its 2016-17 season and 44th national tour featuring two new gripping dramas in repertory -- the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's X and William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Both will be staged in an exciting artistic and educational collaboration with nearly 30 universities, colleges and community partners. The Company also has announced a five month, monthly Monday night Salon Reading Series in New York City.
Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the 2016 - 2017 season of Chicago's hit musical revue series, New Faces Sing returning to Uptown Underground, 4707 N. Broadway and debuting at Skokie Theatre, 7924 Lincoln Ave in Skokie. In tribute to the original New Faces series that ran on Broadway and on film from 1934 - 1968, Porchlight Music Theatre last year created this Chicago musical revue series, New Faces Sing Broadway, as a showcase for the best emerging musical talent now performing on Chicago stages. Each edition is a journey from the start to the finish of a entire musical season on Broadway, peppered with photos and films of the era in an exciting multimedia presentation with a favorite Chicago theatre veteran hosting and introducing the next generation of music theatre artists and acting as your guide through a past season on the Great White Way. Seating is general admission; tickets are $22, with no drink minimum and are available at porchlightmusictheatre.org.
Spoken word artist, musician and educator Amy Leon's 'Burning in Birmingham' video reimagines the 1963 Birmingham Church bombing that killed Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair and shifted the Civil Rights Movement into full throttle.
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, a two-time Tony Award winner and latest recipient of the National Medal of Arts, is now accepting projects for development during the 2017 National Music Theater Conference. Applicants may submit music theater works for consideration through Friday, November 18th, 2016.
MadKap Productions is pleased to present BEYOND THERAPY for 10 performances at the Skokie Theatre, 7924 Lincoln Ave in Skokie. Nov 4 - Nov 20, 2016. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sunday Nov 6 at 2:30 pm, other Sundays at 2:00 pm, with a matinee on Wednesday, November 9 at 1:30 pm. Tickets are $34 general admission, $29 for seniors, and $24 for students and can be purchased online at SkokieTheatre.org or by calling 847-677-7761. Tickets for Beyond Therapy are included in a 3 show subscription package for $57 which includes upcoming productions of The Seven Year Itch and Equus.
David Mamet's 'Speed-the-Plow' opens on Nov. 4 at The Brookfield Theatre for the Arts.
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined by audience favorite Albert George Schram as conductor for Great American Songbook, the first concert in the Pops Series on October 22 at 2 & 8 p.m.
British actress Lily James (Disney's CINDERELLA) has nabbed the lead role in a big screen adaptation of the best-selling novel, The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society. Mike Newell is set to direct from a script penned by Don Roos and Tom Bezucha.
The Chicago Humanities Festival is pleased to announce a number of additions and a change to its Fallfest/16: Speed line-up including Cards Against Humanity co-creator Max Temkin, One World publisher and editor Christopher Jackson, Chicago Tribune features writer Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell, and Chicago-based poet Roger Reeves.
The NoHo/East Village based Sheen Center for Thought and Culture has announced their inaugural 2016 Fall Classical series made up of three unique concerts that run the gamut of classical chamber music.
Eighth Blackbird today has been named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America, adding to the shower of accolades the group has enjoyed throughout its 20th anniversary (2016). Earlier this month, Eighth Blackbird was named recipient of Chamber Music America's first-ever Visionary Award, and last February the group picked up its fourth Grammy Award along with a prestigious MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Ever in creative motion, Eighth Blackbird propels itself forward from this 20th anniversary milestone by investing its vision, talent, and experience in an ambitious new initiative for the next generation: The Blackbird Creative Lab.
Broken relationships, broken bodies, and a hint of Stephen King - what direction will Season Four ultimately take?
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra will be joined by audience favorite Albert George Schram as conductor for Great American Songbook, the first concert in the Pops Series on October 22 at 2 & 8 p.m.
Freeform grows its production slate by greenlighting the new comedy pilot “Brown Girls” from writers Shilpi Roy and Nastaran Dibai, it was announced today by Karey Burke, Freeform's executive vice president, Programming & Development.
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