Mario News

Second City Hollywood is starting 2017 off combatting xenophobia, racism, and misogyny with satirical comedy.

New York's funniest show, Celebrity Autobiography: THE 2017 EDITION has a NYC show on March 6 at 7pm at The Triad (158 West 72nd Street) which will feature stars of stage and screen, including Academy Award-nominee Jennifer Tilly, Janeane Garofalo, beloved Crossword Puzzle Editor for The New York Times Will Shortz, Tate Donovan (Manchester by the Sea), Michael Urie (Buyer & Cellar, Younger), five-time Emmy-winner & comedy legend Alan Zweibel, Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock) and Drama Desk-winners Eugene Pack & Dayle Reyfel.

WWE Superstar, actor and television host John Cena is set to host Nickelodeon's NICKELODEON'S 2017 KIDS' CHOICE AWARDS, airing live on Saturday, March 11, 2017, from 8-9:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

Following in the footsteps of the great John McCormack, these five exquisitely trained singers-David Martin, Morgan Crowly, Ciaran Kelly, George Hutton, and Alan Leech- fuse Irish wit and boisterous charm, with lyricism, dramatic flair and operatic style to bring you a unique Irish tenor concert experience.

Mannes School of Music at The New School, now celebrating its centennial year, announces a four-performance run of Robert Ashley's groundbreaking opera, DUST, with a new production by William Gustafson and Troy Hourie.

Fadi Khoury's FJK DANCE will bring 10 company dancers to China, kicking off the company's first extended international tour to the Far East, February 28 to April 30. The eight-week multi-city tour will present three FJK DANCE repertory works, Take Two, Echoes and Dum Tak, in 31 Chinese cities including Wuhan, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wenzhou, introducing FJK's unique blend of ballroom, ballet, jazz and Middle Eastern dance to new international audiences. The company's multicultural approach to the medium will be presented in more than 30 theaters throughout the run.

Lovers of opera will be delighted with the opportunity to hear the incomparable voice of  international Mezzo-Soprano Deborah Humble who, accompanied by pianist Sharolyn Kemmorley AM and the ASO's Imants Larsens, performs in Adelaide on 11 February.  Deborah will join the audience for afternoon tea following the performance. which is included in the ticket price.

At last month's concert in Carnegie Hall, Joyce DiDonato was glorious musically but less-than-cheery philosophically--and that was before the guy in the White House started taking aim at arts and education funding. Taking the stage at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on Saturday, at THE MARILYN HORNE SONG CELEBRATION, Marilyn Horne was in a feistier frame of mind about the fight for our hearts, minds and souls--though she admittedly hadn't figured out a way for her personally to take on the battle . It seemed to me that the evening, with emerging singers and the great guest, was a pretty good way to get the ball rolling.

NBC will broadcast live coverage of the 2017 HONDA NHL ALL-STAR GAME from Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 29. Coverage begins at 3:30 p.m. ET. This is the first network-television broadcast of the NHL All-Star Game since 2004.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) today proudly announced that two legendary Hollywood icons, Mary Hart, former host of “Entertainment Tonight,” and Harry Friedman, producer of two of the most successful game shows in television history, “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune,” will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards this year.  Friedman will receive his at the 44th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards on Friday, April 28th, 2017.  Hart will be honored on Sunday, April 30th, 2017 at the 44th Daytime Emmy® Awards.  Both presentations will take place at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Southern California.

NBC Sports surrounds 2017 NHL All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Calif., with comprehensive live coverage on NBCSN and NBC, culminating with the 2017 Honda NHL All-Star Game on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET on NBC, the first network-television broadcast of the event since 2004.

The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival enters its 23rd season presenting five artists over five weeks, from February 24 through March 25, 2017. Centered around the theme of Then, Now + Next, the 2017 Festival features world premieres from two companies and showcases a varied spectrum of work, from revivals of classic works to cutting-edge pieces by emerging talent.

Barrel of Monkeys celebrates its 20th anniversary by traveling back to the year it all began for its annual fundraising soiree: Fancy Schmancy: Flashback to 1997 on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at The Drucker Center, 1535 N. Dayton Ave. in Chicago. Don your favorite fashion track suit and Spice Girls platform shoes for an evening of '90s inspired fun including tunes and dancing with DJ Sadie Woods, live entertainment from Barrel of Monkeys' company members, a Mario Kart Tournament, a '90s photo booth, delectable hors d'oeuvres and an open bar. The event also features a silent action with dozens of great gift packages and a raffle for tickets to Hamilton in Chicago and Saturday Night Live in New York. Tickets are currently available at www.barrelofmonkeys.org/fancy with early bird discounts available through March 3, 2017.

Marisa Merz at the Metropolitan Museum's still new Breuer location on Madison and 75th reveals itself when elevator doors open on the second floor to sculptures from 1967 as the MET Opera hopes to when the curtain rises at Lincoln Center. This is a bravo moment for the curators and the artist. Marisa now in her 90's is so much more than the wife of Mario Merz and the only female member of the Art Povera clan and is both enigmatic and a deep and powerful artist

HERE proudly presents Chiflon, El Silencio del Carbon, by renowned Chilean company Silencio Blanco, a presentation from HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program.  This production plays three performances only, February 24 - 26, 2017 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, just below Spring Street).  This presentation at HERE arrives as part of a U.S. tour, with dates and venues as follows: MCA, Chicago, IL (January 15-24); FUNDarte, Miami, FL (January 25-29); University of Maryland/The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (January 30-February 5); Raritan Valley Community College/The Theatre, Branchburg, NJ (February 6-12); Bucknell University/Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Lewisburg, PA (February 13-19); HERE, New York, NY (February 24-26); UCLA/Center for the Art of Performance, Los Angeles, CA (February 27-March 5); Boom Arts, Portland, OR (March 6-9).

'The Rapture' is a Gospel Musical set in the modern times and it's coming to the Marcus Center's Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall on February 25-26.

ITALIAN BRED comes to the West Coast after a successful Off Broadway NYC run with Sold-Out Crowds and Rave Reviews. After several, standing room only performances at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood, Italian Bred moves to The Colony Theatre in Burbank to accommodate the frequent large crowds.

The two are featured in Brelby's Peter and the Starcatcher, opening Today at the Brelby Playhouse in historic downtown Glendale. Maticic plays the coveted role of the dread pirate Black Stache (who will one day be Captain Hook), and Perovich appears as Lord Leonard Aster.

We are culture. We are exploration. We are The New York Science Fiction Film Festival.

Left Hook, a staged reading of a new drama about gentrification and community displacement in 1970s Portland, set in an Albina boxing club, will run as part of Fertile Ground 2017.