Leopold News

When British label CORO Connections released their first recording from Toronto's Eybler Quartet last spring, they may have been surprised to have a controversy on their hands.

The Bridge House Theatre in Penge present their first venture outside of producing their Christmas season: a bold new take on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night starring Olivier Award winner George Maguire as Malvolio/Orsino in his Shakespearean debut, adapted and directed by Artistic Director Guy Retallack and produced by Rob Harris at Bridge House Productions

Shakespeare in the Squares today announces the full cast for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the company's fourth production touring London's glorious private squares and gardens. Tatty Hennessy directs Gemma Barnett (Hermia/Snug/Fairy), Paul Giddings (Theseus/Oberon/Quince), Jodie Jacobs (Bottom/Egeus), Sioned Jones (Hippolyta/Titania), David Leopold (Lysander/Starveling), Riad Ritchie (Demetrius/Snout), Hannah Sinclair Robinson (Helena/Flute) and James Tobin (Puck/Philostrate). The production runs from 19 June to 11 July, with press night at Arundel and Ladbroke Gardens on 25 June.

Arizona Broadway Theatre (ABT), Arizona's Leader in Musical Theatre, opens the summer with the ghoulishly entertaining 2010 Broadway hit The Addams Family, onstage June 7-July 6, 2019, followed by a run at The Herberger Theater Center July 12-28, 2019.

Irish Repertory Theatre, in association with Gabriel Byrne (Long Day's Journey into Night), is proud to present the world premiere of Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom.

Winner of the Best Fringe Theatre at the 2019 Stage Awards, The Barn Theatre's upcoming production of the classic comic thriller, The 39 Steps, which opens at the Cirencester theatre in July 2019, will now transfer to the Theatre Royal Windsor from 12 - 17 August 2019. The production launches the theatre's Built By Barn initiative, transferring shows from the venue across the UK.

Hailed as one of Walt's finest films, Fantasia is also the focus of this month's 10th Anniversary celebration at the Walt Disney Family Museum. Through this special talk, speaker Fabrizio Mancinelli, a composer and conductor, will help honor the film's enduring legacy.

Theater Terra, bekend van onder andere De Kleine Zeemeermin, Kikker en de Vallende Ster en Aladdin, brengt komend seizoen twee compleet nieuwe familiemusicals naar de theaters in heel Nederland en Vlaanderen. Vanaf september 2019 is Kikker en het Avontuur te zien, gebaseerd op de bekende boeken van Max Velthuijs en vanaf januari 2020 is de avontuurlijke musical Peter Pan te zien.  

Rope, a masterfully written psychological crime drama, by Patrick Hamilton begins previews April 12 at the Shaw Festival's Royal George Theatre. Jani Lauzon directs this riveting "can-they-get-away-with-it" that's loosely based on the infamous Leopold and Loeb 1924 murder case.

'Savage' is a powerful new musical conceived and developed by UAB Professor of Theatre Karla Koskinen. The touching story is based on the tragically true story of the life of Ota Benga played by the dynamic Royzell D. Walker. This young man from the Congo was paraded as an exotic attraction. This sheer cruelty and inhumane mindset is almost unimaginable. But then again American history has a predictably formulaic way glossing over racial autocracies. This wonderful musical boldly asks 'What makes a man a civilized man?'

The crimes perpetrated by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1920s-Chicago have gone on to become interwoven in popular culture and have generated a multitude of films, plays, and fiction. They were barely 20 years old when they ensnared and murdered 14-year-old Bobby for no other gain but the thrill they'd get from killing a human being. They were sentenced for life plus 99 years but while the latter was attacked and killed in prison, Leopold was granted parole and released in 1958 - 33 years after being convicted.

The baritone Steven Eddy, a native of Laurel, MD, is the First Place winner of the Oratorio Society of New York's 2019 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition. The awards to the eight finalists were announced by Competition Chairwoman Janet Plucknett following their performances in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, April 6. The Oratorio-Solo Competition, the only competition to focus exclusively on oratorio singing, is now in its 43rd year. The full list of finalists and prizes is:

Dentro del marco de las actividades que se han organizado para dar cuerpo a la novena edición del festival de piano en Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, se tienen contemplados tres recitales, como parte del ciclo Bellas Artes a todas partes, en los que se presentarán distintas obras clásicas interpretadas por tres reconocidos pianistas nacionales, Mauricio Náder, Erik Cortés y Héctor Rojas.

La Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA) llevará a cabo su programa 9 de la Temporada 2019. En esta ocasión tendrá como invitado a un ensamble que llega después de una serie de exitosos conciertos en Estados Unidos: el Dúo Petrof, con quien compartirá escenario por segunda ocasión.

Moogfest 2019 reveals the latest additions to its performance lineup plus details of its daytime programming for its 15th anniversary celebration in Durham, N.C., April 25–28. 

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents The Philadelphia Orchestra today, March 15, at 8:00 P.M.

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America's longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 57th season, July 28 - August 11, 2019, with a remarkable women-centric season, featuring a series of relevant and forward-looking commissioned works. 

American Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2018-19 season on a high note by offering an exceedingly rare performance of Bohuslav Martin 's opera Julietta at Carnegie Hall on Friday, March 22.

The York Theatre Company, as part of its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series, will present a staged reading of the new musical Monet, with music and lyrics by Carmel Owen (Asylum: The Strange Case of Mary Lincoln), and book by Joan Ross Sorkin (In the Theatre). Monet will play two performances only on Friday, March 8, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (619 Lexington Avenue, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

​​​​​​​Plácido Domingo has announced the latest details about LA Opera's company premiere of Mozart's The Clemency of Titus.