Leonardo News

The fascinating autobiography CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, by Frank Abagnale, Jr., first made into a movie starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio is now a musical adventure. Debuting on Broadway in 2011 to mixed reviews. As a character study the story is engrossing, but as the basis for a musical, it's problematic. While it has some great moments of comedy with a touch of drama and lots of jazzy 60's music, there are certainly better crafted musicals around.

Six-time Academy Award Nominee and two-time Golden Globe Winner Amy Adams (Vice, Sharp Objects, upcoming: Woman in the Window) has joined the cast of HILLBILLY ELEGY.

Smack - il musical e il primo musical originale italiano a tematica gay. Sull'onda di successi internazionali come Priscilla, Kinky Boots e Everybody's talking about Jamie, Smack si configura come un musical comedy brillante e pop con l'obiettivo di raccontare a un pubblico vasto e trasversale - il pubblico del musical, appunto - il mondo lgbt, contribuendo cosi a combattere la discriminazione e la diffidenza.

Enjoy an all-new restaging of The Mikado, as performed by the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 3 at 8 pm. Tickets are $29-$69.

Bailar es comunión. Bajo esta consigna, el Centro de Producción de Danza Contemporánea (Ceprodac) hizo una invitación especial a diversas compañías para compartir un mismo espacio escénico y mostrar que, más allá de lo disímil de sus propuestas, existe un lazo en común: la pasión por el arte del cuerpo en movimiento.

Wine Spectator, Veronafiere, and Vinitaly are pleased to announce that OperaWine, Finest Italian Wines: 100 Great Producers selected by Wine Spectator, will take place on Saturday, April 6 in the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in the city of Verona as part of Vinitaly's grand opening. For the 8th year in a row, Wine Spectator has selected over 100 of the finest Italian producers after rigorous blind tastings in their New York City headquarters. The exclusive tasting event invites producers to pour their wines in Verona as international journalists, sommeliers, and wine professionals alike experience the excellence of Italian wine.

Sony Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. 

It's just been announced that two-time Academy Award® winner Leslie Bricusse and Emmy, Grammy and Tony nominated composer Frank Wildhorn's Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde is being reimagined for the big screen by Academy Award winner Alexander Dinelaris (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), The Revenant).

Deadline has revealed the poster for Quentin Tarantino's latest film, 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.' 

A homage to major composers including Richard Wagner, Philip Glass, and Louis Andriessen, an ode to power women such as Harriet Tubman and Sylvia Plath, dozens of pioneering makers and young talent plus a brand-new edition of GALA! Experience all of this and more at the 14th edition of Operadagen Rotterdam. The festival, which comprises over 100 performances, both in Rotterdam's large theatres and in unexpected locations across the city, runs from 17 through 26 May. The online ticket sales have been started.

Dopo un debutto romano di successo e un rovinoso incidente di percorso (il furto delle attrezzature tecniche durante la tournee) e arrivato a Milano la versione italiana dell'off-broadway MURDER BALLAD firmato da Julia Jordan e Juliana Nash. E per fortuna! Perche si tratta di una delle proposte di genere piu interessanti di questa stagione teatrale.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's West End production of Matilda The Musical has announced that Hannah Selk and Zoe Simon will join Isobel Hubble and Francesca McKeown in the title role of Matilda from 19 March 2019.

Great success of the theatrical season in Rio de Janeiro, the musical 'O Frenetico Dancin'Days' finally arrives in Sao Paulo. The show rescues the mythical aura around the Frenetic Dancing'Days Discotheque, which was a milestone in the Brazilian night, especially the carioca, with only four months of operation, establishing fashion, behavior and celebrating freedom, when the country was in full military dictatorship. Musical by Nelson Motta and Patricia Andrade, directed by Deborah Colker, will open on March 15 at Teatro Opus.

In an extraordinary concert-film event, only the second such screening ever in the United States, the blockbuster film Titanic will be shown on a vast LED outdoor screen with James Horner's epic score performed live by the New West Symphony's renowned orchestra on Saturday night, June 22, in Thousand Oaks.   The special showing will take place at the William Rolland Stadium on the campus of California Lutheran University.

In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY announces Tobia Rossi's play Hide and Seek (Nascondino) as the 2019 Mario Fratti Award winner. The award ceremony will take place on Monday, May 13 at 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute (686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021) where the reading of the translation of the play, made by the official translator of the award Carlotta Brentan, will be presented together with the award to playwright Tobia Rossi. Special mention goes to Ulisse-L'ultimo Inganno by Antonia Brancati in second place and third place goes to L'Annunciazione by Pasquale Faraco.

About 40 successes of singer and songwriter Lulu Santos' career will be in the repertoire of the musical 'Meu Destino e ser Star, ao som de Lulu Santos', with premiere scheduled for March 15, 2019, at Teatro Frei Caneca. The show, directed by Renato Rocha and musical direction and arrangements, by Ze Ricardo, singer and curator of the Sunset stage at the Rock in Rio festival, will narrate the trajectory of young people who seek to realize their professional dreams and achieve a great role in their artistic careers.

En esta época de postmodernidad y de concomitantes consumistas, en que ya no se piensa acerca del valor que le damos al tiempo –señalan Patricia Marín y Leonardo Beltrán, bailarines, coreógrafos y directores de la compañía Danza Visual- es como deciden presentar una propuesta dancística que exhorta al espectador a reflexionar sobre la vida y el tiempo.

Durante el mes de marzo la voz será protagonista de los conciertos que la Secretaría de Cultura y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), por medio de su Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera (CNMO), ofrecerán como parte del ciclo Los colores de la voz.

It's usually the vocalists who garner the most enthusiasm and devotion from the music loving public.  The human voice and a singer's personality are able to convey emotion and musicality in a very distinct way.  Then there is the the charisma and trumpet of Chris Botti to challenge that hypothesis.  Chris Botti has become the largest-selling American instrumental artist because of his artistry and ability to electrify an audience with his music and his gracious and elegant personality.  Early on in his concert last night Botti referred to The Kravis Center as Carnegie Hall South. With music programming like this in West Palm Beach he might have to greet a New York City audience at the legendary Concert Hall on 57th street by saying welcome to the Kravis Center North!

Presented by National Dance Company Wales (NDCWales), Awakening is a tour that marks the company's entry into a fresh phase of its development under the leadership of new artistic director, Fearghus Ó Conchuir. As part of the opening season of the Royal Opera House's newly designed Linbury Theatre, Awakening is a good indicator of the choreographic emphasis of showcasing new voices intended for this sleek and intimate space.