The Collegiate Chorale has announced casting for their upcoming production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's 'Knickerbocker Holiday,' a romantic musical concert set to debut at Alice Tully Hall on January 25 and 26 at 8 PM. The company will feature Broadway veterans Victor Garber (Stuyvesant), Ben Davis (Brom), Kelli O'Hara (Tina) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Tenpin), along with Bryce Pinkham (Washington Irving), David Garrison (Tienhoven), The Collegiate Chorale and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Madison Opera continues its 50th anniversary season with the company premiere of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera in The Playhouse at the Overture Center for the Arts, Feb. 4 - 13, 2011.
Performing Arts Fort Worth welcomes the return of acclaimed singer-songwriter and pianist Randy Newman to Bass Performance Hall on Sunday, January 23, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $22-$55, and are on sale NOW!
No Song is Safe from Us, a ground-breaking new weekly radio series from NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS), produced by the WFMT Radio Network of Chicago and hosted by legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, premieres January 2 at 8PM (CST).
No Song is Safe from Us, a ground-breaking new weekly radio series from NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS), produced by the WFMT Radio Network of Chicago and hosted by legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, premieres January 2 at 8PM (CST).
What started out as a simple schoolgirl crush has now grown into a serious passion of the highest order for the multi-award winning Rosemary Loar. For only four performances, she brings her new show Sting, Stang, Stung: Swingin' The Music of Sting! to the Metropolitan Room at Gotham on four dates in January and February where she will sing the songs of pop legend Sting.
Based upon the Paramount Pictures film written for the screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank. Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin. Book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Tony Award-winning playwright Edward Albee, Obie Award winner and founder of the Living Theatre Judith Malina, and director of the archives of La Mama Experimental Theater Ozzie Rodriguez, will join in a discussion with Village Voice theatre critic Michael Feingold on Sun., Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street.
Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel award nominee Amy Warren (The Adding Machine, August: Osage County), Zachary James (South Pacific, The Addams Family), Rebecca Ringle (The Metropolitan Opera's upcoming Nixon in China and Die Walkure), Ryan Bauer-Walsh (Chicago's Billy Elliot), Mellissa Hughes (The Little Death, Volume 1), and mezzo-soprano Flora Mendoza join previously announced Megan Stern (Straight Up Vampire, CHURCH) and Lauren Worsham (New York City Opera's Candide, Goodspeed Opera House's Carnival!) for The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12, at Joe's Pub on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
The Coterie (Royce Vavrek and Lauren Worsham, Co-Artistic Directors), a downtown opera-theater company devoted to developing contemporary music theater works, will present The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12 an evening of twelve world premiere songs from new musicals and operas by twelve different composers on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
The Hartt School of the University of Hartford is pleased to welcome Pulitzer and Grammy winning composer Jennifer Higdon as its 2010 "Unclaimed Property" Composer-in-Residence this December.
The Hartt School of the University of Hartford is pleased to welcome Pulitzer and Grammy winning composer Jennifer Higdon as its 2010 "Unclaimed Property" Composer-in-Residence this December.
Tony Award-winning playwright Edward Albee, Obie Award winner and founder of the Living Theatre Judith Malina, and director of the archives of La Mama Experimental Theater Ozzie Rodriguez, will join in a discussion with Village Voice theatre critic Michael Feingold on Sun., Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street.
Looking for a truly unique holiday gift this year? How about a once-in-a-lifetime experience? The upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), which holds the spotlight for three and a half weeks next spring (April 7 to May 1), has you covered, with a slate of unprecedented programming featuring virtually every artistic genre, targeted to the young and young-at-heart alike. Today, with an eye towards making this year's gift-giving season the easiest yet, festival organizers announce a full menu of special ticket packages sure to please everyone on your list. Additionally, PIFA Holiday Ticket Packages are discounted 10% when bought together vs. single ticket prices. Any or all of the Ten Holiday Ticket Packages, each including 3 diverse programs, can be purchased online at www.pifa.org, or at the Kimmel Center Box office, and the newly re-designed PIFA website provides easy access to detailed information on all PIFA partner organizations and events.
Looking for a truly unique holiday gift this year? How about a once-in-a-lifetime experience? The upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), which holds the spotlight for three and a half weeks next spring (April 7 to May 1), has you covered, with a slate of unprecedented programming featuring virtually every artistic genre, targeted to the young and young-at-heart alike.
Two stars of the stage - Kelli O'Hara and Nathan Gunn -will join the New York Philharmonic for an evening of songs and duets from the Golden Age of Broadway, conducted by Tony Award winner Ted Sperling, Monday, March 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. Ms. O'Hara, fresh off her highly successful run as Nellie Forbush in South Pacific at Lincoln Center Theater, returns to the New York Philharmonic following two previous appearances, including her acclaimed starring role as Eliza Doolittle in the Orchestra's 2007 production of My Fair Lady. Baritone Nathan Gunn returns after winning hearts as the swashbuckling Sir Lancelot in the Philharmonic's 2008 Camelot production and his featured role in last season's SONDHEIM: The Birthday Concert! The two stage luminaries will perform selections from classic Broadway musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, and Stephen Sondheim, ranging from Carousel to Follies.
Performing Arts Fort Worth proudly welcomes back Dallas-bred singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs to Bass Performance Hall on Monday, February 14, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $27.50-$60.50, and will go on sale THIS SATURDAY, December 11, at 10:00 a.m.
