Lisa Miller News

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts will welcome Dr. K's Motown Revue back to its stage on Saturday, October 15 at 8 PM. Channeling the magic of Motown with the iconic sound, full costume, and dance, the 12 performers will transport audiences back to the heights of the era.

Billy The Artist who bridged the divide between the fine art and commercial design worlds with his acclaimed “Urban Primitive Pop Artist,” died in New York City at the age 57 on Saturday, January 22, 2022.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the return of Dr. K's Motown Review on Saturday, October 23, at 8 p.m. Dr. K's Motown Revue features 12 talented and energetic performers showcasing everyone's favorite hits of the 1960s Motown era.

Actress Maura Tierney (ER, NewsRadio) honors Sally Field at the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors in this flashback video!

Casting Society Cares (the nonprofit charitable arm of the Casting Society of America) and Actors Pro Expo will be hosting a 'Meals 4 Monologues' event where actors will be able to perform for casting directors and donate to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.

Actors Pro Expo is back in LA for its 3rd year on November 16th at the Hyatt Regency LAX! It's the only event of its kind in the U.S. and this year it's going to be bigger than ever before!

Stage West presents the regional premiere of The Father, a Tragic Farce, written by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton

GUYS AND DOLLS, at Candlelight through February 24, opened on Broadway in 1950 and is front and center in the pantheon of American musical theatre. I had forgotten how much I treasure this show.

Keeping the spirit alive of his iconic grandfather, famed songwriter Ron Miller, 18-year-old actor/singer Oliver Richman (https://oliverrichman.com/) releases a powerful, piano-only ballad entitled 'I Can See.' Oliver is the first artist to release the track written by his late grandfather when it was discovered after Miller's passing in 2007. The new recording is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and YouTube.

I'm a bit surprised that the News Journal did not report a run on Scottish plaid leading up to Candlelight's opening of BRIGADOON. The tartans from the various clans made for a colorful array by Costumer Tara Bowers and surely enriched the production.

Immediately following the Sunday, August 19th performance of Heisenberg/Actually, written by Simon Stephens and Anna Ziegler, respectively, Theatre Three will welcome speakers from local advocacy groups to speak to the timely issues that arise onstage in Actually. The evening will cover several triggering topics, including Title IX (the law that states a school becomes legally responsible when their response to harassment 'is clearly unreasonable in light of the known circumstances.'), sexual assault, and the urgent understanding of consent. This one-time-only opportunity will follow the 2:30 performance.

In this #METOO world of Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer and Donald Trump, one might look a bit circumspect at the staging of a 'bedroom' farce. As explained in the program notes, flight attendants in the '60's has to be single, between the ages of 21 and 27 and have a 'neatly proportioned figure' and 'pleasing appearance'. They were glamour girls and starlets of the skies.

Lerner and Loewe created MY FAIR LADY from Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion". Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted the 1909 Ferenc Molnar play "Liliom" and transplanted the setting from Budapest to the coast of Maine in CAROUSEL. That's generally how musicals are birthed. Not so with THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, which makes its nascency the more intriguing and Broadway fanciful.

Final bows. Standing O from a boomer ++ crowd on a Sunday matinee opening weekend. I thought to myself how privileged I am to be able to attend and write about DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (DRS) and the hundreds of shows prior over 30 + years.

FUNNY GIRL established Barbra Streisand's career and People became her signature song. It is performed rarely so Candlelight's current production is an excellent chance to add to your musical theatre bucket list.

As summer decides on whether to stick around or not, American Repertory Theater of WNY will come out of the company's season hiatus with one of the first events of the 2017-18 season. August will feature a two-evening stage reading of Mark Humphrey's AN INQUIRY INTO THE FATE OF THE U.S.S. PEQUOD at the company's 330 Amherst location. The reading will feature Buffalo actor Stan Klimecko and the return on Jack Hunter as he will share his directorial eye with the project. .

The Cape Cod Theatre Project presents a staged reading of Bess Wohl's Continuity, July 13-15, Falmouth MA.

The Cape Cod Theatre Project presents a staged reading of Bess Wohl's Continuity, July 13-15, Falmouth MA.

American Repertory Theater of WNY will roll out the company's eleventh season with an artistic direction emphasizing three productions by Western New York playwrights, presenting a contemporary comedic adaptation on a dramatic classic bore, and bringing a legendary rock-opera to ART/WNY's stage.

Kitchen Dog Theater continues its 26th season of theater with the area premiere of Trevor by Nick Jones. Inspired by true events,?Trevor?is a subversive comedy about fame, success, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep people from taking away an erratic, 200-pound chimpanzee. At the center of this hilarious and heart-wrenching play are two individuals fighting against a world unable to understand their love: Trevor, a chimpanzee who once performed in commercials with the likes of Morgan Fairchild, and his owner Sandra, who swears he would never hurt a fly...at least not on purpose. KDT Co-Artistic Director Tina Parker directs this hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of family, flawed communication, and humanity.