Following a successful inaugural winter season, the Peterborough Players are offering a line-up of plays that will illuminate the festive spirit of the winter season. First is a classic holiday tale told from a new perspective, followed in February by a touching look at all the things worth holding onto in life, and closing out the season with the New Hampshire Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's new comedy.
Featuring a lively cast of dozens, delightful music, gorgeous costumes, and those deliciously spooky ghosts, the Bay Area's favorite holiday tradition returns as American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) presents its celebrated production of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. Now in the theater's 41st year of presenting the holiday classic, this version of A Christmas Carol adapted by Paul Walsh and Carey Perloff stays true to the heart of Dickens's timeless story of redemption and brings a playful sensibility to his rich language. A Christmas Carol runs December 1 24, 2017, at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco). Tickets (ranging in price from $20 $135) are available by calling the A.C.T. Box Office at 415-749-2228 or online at www.act-sf.org. Groups of 15 or more save up to 50% and enjoy free tickets for group leaders. For group sales, call 415-439-2424.
NETworks Presentations has announced casting for the New York engagement of ELF THE MUSICAL. The show will play from December 13 through December 29 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Broadway stars Justin Guarini, Sally Ann Triplett, and Teal Wicks, as well as Grammy Award winning vocalist Shelley Thomas, paid tribute to the work of Park Avenue Armory Artistic Director, Pierre Audi, and writer/director/producer Cherien Dabis, with a performance last night at the 10th Annual Bridges of Understanding (BOU) Building Bridges Award Dinner at the St. Regis Hotel in NYC. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below!
FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present SONGS FOR THE DEAD: THE SONGS OF MATTHEW MCCOLLUM Monday 10/23 at 9:30pm. The cast will feature Maria-Christina Oliveras (Amelie, Pretty Filthy) and Brennan Caldwell (Baghdaddy, Money Talks) and Betsy Struxness (Hamilton, Shakespeare in Love), among others.
George Street Playhouse announced today that legendary actress Kathleen Turner will star as God in the theater's upcoming comedy An Act of God by David Javerbaum.
The legendary Wailers band returns to bring its revolutionary sound to fans around the world. Steered by famed bassist and founder Aston Familyman Barrett, and joined in solidarity with original Wailers' guitarists Julian Junior Marvin and Donald Kinsey, The Wailers continue to create musical history.
The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacke (based upon 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl', newly adapted by Wendy Kessleman), is the next show in Playhouse on Park's Main Stage series, running fromOctober 25-November 19.
The Alley Theatre's holiday production of A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas celebrates the return to the Alley stage and reopens the Hubbard Theatre following Hurricane Harvey.
New Age Beverages Corporation (NASDAQ: NBEV), the Colorado-based leading all-natural and organic healthy functional beverage company whose brands include Xing, Aspen Pure Probiotic, Búcha Live Kombucha, Marley, and Coco-Libre, today announced the expansion of Aspen Pure Probiotic throughout the more than 2,000 Ahold Delhaize banner stores across 23 states, with particular strength along the East Coast in the United States.
Anita picked the title of her independent debut album via Instagram. She reached out to her tens of thousands of fans on social media to help her decide on a title.
Director Adam Adolfo is proud to announce that ELEMENTAL: Nature's Rhapsody has cast Kimberly M. Oliver as Mother in the production receiving its premiere this spring as part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center Elevator Project Season. Ms. Oliver was recently seen onstage as Ursula in Disney's When You Wish at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. She was also featured as Vivienne Kensington in Theatre Arlington's Legally Blonde The Musical, also directed by Adolfo. Kimberly is also the host of Broadway On Tuesdays at Alexandre's Bar. ELEMENTAL: Nature's Rhapsody is still casting its principle 19 performers via video submissions. For more information on auditioning via video submission please visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/1459361837478857/
The Old Globe today announced the complete cast and creative team for the Globe's 20th annual production of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!* The holiday musical will run November 4 - December 24 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.
The White Buffalo has released Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights, the sixth album from LA-based songwriter Jake Smith, and the most hard-hitting record of his career. Stripped-down folk. Electrified swamp-soul.
Today the soundtrack for the documentary Served Like A Girl is available for pre-order. We Are Hear, the artist empowerment record label, publishing, and management company founded by multi-platinum producers Linda Perry and Kerry Brown, are releasing the album, which is comprised of a variety of today's top female musical artists.
Virginia Stage Company continues its 39th Season with The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the '61 Freedom Riders. Co-produced with Norfolk State University Theatre Company, The Parchman Hour journeys through the Deep South with the pioneers who fought discrimination and paved the way for the future. Written and directed by Mike Wiley, this play is adapted from real life accounts of the 1961 Freedom Rides and shares these struggles through music that ranges from spirituals to Bob Dylan.
