Christopher Nolan ('Interstellar,' 'Inception,' 'The Dark Knight' Trilogy) directs the epic action thriller DUNKIRK, from his own original screenplay. The film will hit theaters July 21, 2017 from Warner Bros.
Gabrielle Stravelli performed at SubCulture last night to celebrate the launch of her new CD Dream Ago and BroadwayWorld was there.
On January 7, celebrate the New Year with artists and change makers at Target First Saturday. Highlights include performances by Tank and The Bangas, Discwoman, and Cakes Da Killa; a pop-up feminist publishing workshop with Pilot Press; and a screening of Suited.
One of Hollywood's most treasured holiday films, "It's A Wonderful Life," gets a fancy Hollywood send up Saturday.
Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets go on sale to the general public today, Dec. 14 for the world's best-selling touring magic show, THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE FROM BROADWAY.
The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre - the monthly gathering of the International Order of Sodomites, the centuries-old organization which sets the mythic Gay Agenda - will continue its final season on Sunday, December 18 with the 8th Annual Holiday Spectacular! with two different shows at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater.
It wouldn't be the holidays without Christmas Ghosts rattling chains.
???????Calendar Girls, a 2009 play based on a hit 2003 film, is Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi's true-to-life comedy about six middle-aged women from a village in Yorkshire, England who raise money by posing nude for a calendar, in the process becoming a worldwide sensation. The women's goal was to honor one of their members' husbands, who had died from leukemia, by raising money to purchase a settee to be dedicated to his memory. The 2003 motion picture starred Helen Mirren and became a major success, grossing nearly $100 million and garnering Golden Globe nominations for Mirren and co-star Julie Walters. The play is being presented at the Santa Paula Theater Center through December 18.
Mirror Visions Ensemble (MVE) celebrates its 25th anniversary on Monday, January 16 at 8:00 p.m. at the Loreto Theater at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture with a concert entitled Reflections and Projections: 25 Years of Mirror Visions.
Marilyn L. McCoy completed her doctorate at the University of Chicago with a dissertation entitled 'Gustav Mahler's Path to the New Music: Musical Time and Modernism.' Her research explores the ways in which Mahler evokes a sense of timelessness in his music, a compositional strategy which plays an important part in many of the songs on this program. Professor McCoy is much in demand as a concert lecturer. She has had a long association with the MahlerFest in Boulder, Colorado, where she has served as pre-concert lecturer and symposium participant since 2002. In February 2012 she gave several lectures at Disney Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 'Mahler Project,' led by Gustavo Dudamel. She has spoken at Carnegie Hall and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, and at the Bard Festivals 'Berg and His World' (2010) and 'Mahler and His World' (2002). Other speaking engagements include lectures for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Berkshire Choral Festival, and the Ravinia Festival of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Though primarily a 'Mahler scholar,' she served as Assistant Archivist at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles for the last 3 years of its existence (1995-98). She is presently at work on a translation of the correspondence between Alma Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg.
KPFK Radio's Arts in Review, Los Angeles's longest-running radio showcase on live theater and cabaret, presents its annual Holiday Drama Marathon, featuring the AIR Repertory Players under the direction of Irene Arranga, highlighted by the premiere of Christmas in Tinseltown by Julio Martinez, the encores of To All a Good Night: The History of Santa Claus, Dreidels and Donuts & The Christmas Eve Truce and the 13th annual concert presentation of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales, featuring actor Al Alu. Also featured is the holiday music of Al Jarreau.
Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, Dec. 14 for the world's best-selling touring magic show, THE ILLUSIONISTS - LIVE FROM BROADWAY.
Broadway performer and BackStage Bistro Award-winning recording artist Rebecca Spencer will celebrate her return to the Los Angeles concert scene when she headlines at The Sorting Room at The Wallis, LA's newest nightclub, at 8:00pm on Tuesday, December 13.
Award winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is set to tour the UK in 2017 opening at New Wimbledon Theatre on Tuesday 17 January.
From January 16-21, 2017, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute (WMI) presents The Song Continues, an annual series led by revered mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne that explores song repertoire through master classes and concerts with the goal of encouraging, supporting, and preserving the art of the vocal recital.
The Drama League presents DirectorFest 2016: The 33rd Annual Directors Festival, an evening of four short plays staged by The Drama League Directors Project Fall Directing Fellows Candis C. Jones, James Dean Palmer, Jesca Prudencio, and Shaun Patrick Tubbs.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Donna Frisby Greenwood, President & CEO of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, visited K-3 classrooms with the Right Books libraries at the George W. Nebinger School, a K-8 school in Bella Vista last week for Giving Tuesday. Mayor Kenney read Exploring Matter by Marilyn J. Salomon to a first grade classroom as part of his visit. The visit was the latest step in the campaign to raise a total of $3.5 million dollars in an historic literacy effort to have every public school student reading on grade level by 4th grade. 'If our students are not reading on grade level in the fourth grade, this deficit follows them throughout their academic careers,' said Mayor Jim Kenney. 'Having the right books in our classrooms means that teachers and students have the tools to develop early literacy and a love of reading. This important campaign is a way we can all do our small part to support our local schools.' The Right Books effort has drawn support of an unusually large and broad coalition, including the School District, the William Penn and the Lenfest Foundations, READ! by 4th, and local corporations including a $250,000 donation from Vanguard Capital for Kids Program. 'We are thrilled to have Vanguard Capital for Kids Program as our newest partner in this early literacy initiative,' said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, president and CEO of The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia. 'Their contribution will support Right Books libraries in 50 classrooms.' The Fund hosted a week-long online appeal to help raise awareness for the Right Books on Giving Tuesday, a day dedicated to online giving which kicks off the end of year charitable season; the online campaign is fueled by social media messages. Funding for Right Books installs special grade level libraries in every K-3 elementary school classroom. These teaching libraries are designed to enable every Philadelphia public school students to read on or above grade level by 4th grade. On #GivingTuesday, the Fund raised nearly $253,000 toward the final $3.5 million in matching dollars required to meet the overall campaign goal. Mayor Kenney, School District Superintendent William Hite and other city leaders also supported the campaign, urging the public to allocate their First Tuesday giving for Philadelphia's public school students and help them obtain 'the Right Books.' 'The right books in the right hands at the right time can change a child's whole world and we are very close to our goal of generating the resources to make sure all of our children have the reading skills they need to succeed,' according to Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite. The $3.5 million campaign, first launched in November 2015 and was the feature fundraising activity of Mayor Kenney's inaugural block party. Donors at the inaugural block party on January 4, 2016 raised $556,329 for the Right Books campaign. To date, the Right Books Campaign has raised $2.1 million of the $3.5 million in required matching dollars from the Lenfest ($4.5 million) and William Penn ($6 million) Foundations for a total of $14 million needed to train all K-3 teachers, provide a literacy coach in all 149 elementary schools, and to establish classroom leveled libraries in all elementary schools that will help more than 48,000 children to read at or above grade level. Each classroom library, with about 500 books, costs approximately $5,000 to fund. About The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia is an independent 501 (c) 3 not for profit organization that serves as a fiscal intermediary between the private sector and the Philadelphia public education system. We are the only philanthropic organization that works directly with school leadership to align the investments of partners - private foundations, corporations and businesses, community organizations and individual donors - with the strategies that will impact the success of students attending our neighborhood public schools.?
Holiday cheer is considerably tenuous this year, in much of the country, anyway. But damn if that would prevent Megan Hilty from delivering abundant joy in her four-show engagement at Joe's Pub, a run which began December 2. The concerts were intended to celebrate the release of Hilty's new Christmas album, A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, which she recorded live with her four-musician band. Six months pregnant and glowing as bright as the Rockefeller tree herself, Hilty jovially commandeered the evening and not once acknowledged the state of the world outside, making it possible for a room full of New Yorkers to temporarily suspend their shared cynicism or desolation, and plunge into 80 minutes of glee.
The Drama League has announced full casting for DirectorFest 2016: The 33rdAnnual Directors Festival, an evening of four short plays staged by The Drama League Directors Project Fall Directing Fellows Candis C. Jones, James Dean Palmer, Jesca Prudencio, and Shaun Patrick Tubbs.
Beverley Bryann, GMCHC (Gold Medal Cocktail Hour Chitchat), business woman, devoted writer and author, has completed her new book 'The Best Cocktail Hour War Stories, Vol. I': a light-hearted and amusing compilation of the best cocktail hour stories.
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