The intimate Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse is the setting for the second part of Lincoln Center's 2016 American Songbook series this March with six concerts ranging from folk and rock to Broadway, cabaret, and blues.
Prospect Theater Company, in partnership with The Good to Go Festival, continues its 2015/16 IGNITE Series at The TimesCenter (242 W 41st Street), with the GOOD TO GO SONGWRITER'S SHOWCASE, a concert celebrating new works-in-process created or co-created by women writers from around the country.
In May, the city of St. Louis will pay homage to the city's favorite playwright - Tennessee Williams - with an annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis (TWFSTL). This inaugural celebration kicks off May 11th and runs through the 15th on a variety of both conventional and unexpected stages in the Grand Center and Central West End areas. Highlights from this first festival include a Hirschfeld Exhibition Unveiling and An Evening with Olympia Dukakis. With a focus on St. Louis, the TWFSTL will offer something for all tastes - theatrical productions, movies, a visual art exhibition, readings, panel discussions, a tour, and live music. Tickets will be available through Metrotix.
Lincoln Center and Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Jane Moss announced today the 50th Mostly Mozart Festival, one of the world's major music festivals and a beloved summer New York tradition, with events taking place across Lincoln Center July 22-August 27, 2016.
The Board of Trustees of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is pleased to announce that the theater's annual gala Boundless, was held at the Citi Wang Theatre on Monday, February 29 with over 500 supporters from Boston, LA, and NYC in attendance. The event, which raised just shy of $1,100,000 in support of the theater's artistic, community, and education programs, broke all fundraising records for the A.R.T.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, the most awarded new musical of 2015 and winner of four Tony Awards, will play the Benedum Center for a two-week engagement May 30-June 11, 2017. The first national tour of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS will be presented as part of the Pittsburgh CLO 2017 Summer Season and the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh 2016-17 series.
American Blues Theater continues its 30th Anniversary Season - "Seeing is Believing" - with the comedic rock musical Little Shop of Horrors, with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, directed by Jonathan Berry, and music direction by Ensemble member Austin Cook. Little Shop of Horrors runs April 29 - May 29, 2016 at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago.
The Cincinnati Arts Association is pleased to announce the winners of its Overture Awards Competition, held on Saturday, February 27, 2016 at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater, and the winner of its new 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.
Broadway leading lady Carly Hughes has landed a series regular role on ABC's single-camera pilot THE SECOND FATTEST HOUSEWIFE IN WESTPORT, from ABC Studios.
This March, Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. Scroll down for details!
Taking a page from the NCAA College Basketball Tournament's 'March Madness,' famed comedy venue Carolines on Broadway will present its tenth annual 'Carolines Comedy Madness,' a five-round comedy competition in which 64 comedians will go head to head with audience members deciding who advances to the next rounds and who will be crowned the tournament champion.
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, March 14, 2016 at 7:30pm.
On the next episode of HBO's GIRLS titled 'Japan' - Shoshanna's job in Japan is a perfect fit with an even better boss
Prospect Theater Company in partnership with The Good to Go Festival, led by Producing Artistic Director Judy Zocchi, continues its 2015/16 IGNITE Series at The TimesCenter (242 W 41st Street), Friday, March 4 at 8pm, with the Good to Go Songwriter's Showcase. This concert evening will celebrate new works-in-process created or co-created by women writers from around the country.
The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director) will present their annual FIRST FLIGHT New Play Festival from March 16th-19th, 2016. Five new full length plays will be featured with free public readings. The festival will take place at Studio 501 @ CAP21, 18 West 18th Street in New York City.
Second Stage Theatre will present the world premiere of Sofia Alvarez's FRIEND ART, directed by Portia Krieger, and the New York premiere of Lucy Teitler's ENGAGEMENTS as part of the company's fourteenth annual SECOND STAGE THEATRE UPTOWN SERIES this summer.
Cast members from the North American tour of Disney's NEWSIES will present The Newsboys' Variety Show, a cabaret benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), on Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:30pm at The Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater (650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202).
Winners of the 18th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards were announced last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Betsy Brandt served as host.
I have a confession to make; when the 2015-2016 Broadway Series was announced for Orlando's Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, KINKY BOOTS was not one of the shows that I was most excited to see. Yeah, I knew that the show had won six Tony Awards including Best Musical; yeah, I knew that it had a positive, family-friendly message that I was excited to see on stage; and yeah, I knew that the tour cast was made up of fantastic performers, many of whom I have been a fan of for years. However, since the show opened on Broadway in 2013, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, the shiny, brightly colored costumes and the score's string of pop songs by Cyndi Lauper have always given me the sense that it was little more than a saccharine, bubble gum musical that left audiences feeling good and tapping their toes, but didn't have the emotional or creative substance that I look for in musicals of this caliber. I mean, how could it? Just look at it; based on the show's high-energy production numbers, I assumed that the show was one of those novelties that always leaves you entertained, but rarely leaves you satisfied.
The word 'kinky' doesn't usually come to mind when thinking about family-friendly entertainment. However, with the Tony-winning musical KINKY BOOTS, playing at Orlando's Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts through Sunday, February 28th, that's exactly what you've got. Based on a 2005 British comedy of the same name, KINKY BOOTS tells the story of a shoe factory teetering on the brink of bankruptcy that is brought back to life when they begin making a certain style of fabulous boots.
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