Mary Ellen News

Longhouse Projects presents Mary Ellen Strom's exhibition Stand by Snow, her first solo show with the gallery.

On tonight's episode of CBS's HOSTAGES titled 'Hail Mary,' Ellen and Brian agree that they need to take down Duncan to have any chance of escaping, so she sneaks away to see a man who has previously helped her solve problems.

Dixon Place presents The Junket, written and performed by Mike Albo. One Gift Bag Can Change Your Life...Forever! The show will run tonight and tomorrow, November 1 & 2 at 7:30pm and November 8-9 & 15-16 at 10pm.

Heiress Productions, a company whose mission is to fight cancer one show at a time, is teaming up with Uniting Against Lung Cancer to bring Jessica Anderson's My Purple Wig to the stage.

Longhouse Projects presents Mary Ellen Strom's exhibition Stand by Snow, her first solo show with the gallery.

The U.S. government shutdown is fodder for satire on the next live performance of the award-winning comedy show Right Between the Ears - tonight, October 26 at 8:00pm at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS.

The Side Project has announced it will present The Kindness of Strangers: A Festival of Storytelling. Forty storytellers will converge in a three-week festival featuring first-time and experienced tellers nightly, accompanied by live multi-instrumentalist, Matt Wills. The Festival, kicking off today, October 20, will run Sunday through Wednesday eves at 7:30pm through November 6.

The U.S. government shutdown is fodder for satire on the next live performance of the award-winning comedy show Right Between the Ears - Saturday, October 26 at 8:00pm at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS.

Dixon Place presents The Junket, written and performed by Mike Albo. One Gift Bag Can Change Your Life...Forever! The show will run November 1 & 2 at 7:30pm and November 8-9 & 15-16 at 10pm.

Storytelling - part acting, part writing and part solo performance piece - is possibly the world's oldest art form. The original medium for classics like Beowulf and Homer's Odyssey, storytelling as performance will be celebrated in 21st Century style in the side project's second Festival of Storytelling, Each night, three to four different artists will take the stage to perform 5- to 12-minute pieces, prior to a full-length story offered by one of the festival's three headliners. Multi-instrumentalist Matt Wills will provide musical accompaniment. The Festival, kicking off October 20 at The Side Project, will run Sunday through Wednesday evenings at 7:30pm through November 6.

Acclaimed nationwide for eclectic programming and virtuoso performances, string quartet ETHEL returns to the BAM Next Wave Festival to premiere its largest and most ambitious undertaking to date,Documerica. Inspired by the Environmental Protection Agency's Project Documerica-a massive 'snapshot' of America showcased in an astonishing archive of images captured during the recession-plagued, tumultuous 1970s-this multimedia meditation interweaves over 3,000 vintage photographs with commissioned contemporary music for a landmark work.

Acclaimed nationwide for eclectic programming and virtuoso performances, string quartet ETHEL returns to the BAM Next Wave Festival to premiere its largest and most ambitious undertaking to date,Documerica. Inspired by the Environmental Protection Agency's Project Documerica-a massive 'snapshot' of America showcased in an astonishing archive of images captured during the recession-plagued, tumultuous 1970s-this multimedia meditation interweaves over 3,000 vintage photographs with commissioned contemporary music for a landmark work.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Advocate & Gochis Galleries present IDENTITY l RETROSPECT, a retrospective exhibition of photographs by photographer and filmmaker Alexandra Gibson. The exhibit includes selected images from many of her photo series, including From the Outside In, For Consumption Only, A Study of the Nocturnal Spirit, as well as from her extensive work as a journalist. Several of her short films will also be screened throughout the run of the exhibit.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Advocate & Gochis Galleries present IDENTITY l RETROSPECT, a retrospective exhibition of photographs by photographer and filmmaker Alexandra Gibson. The exhibit includes selected images from many of her photo series, including From the Outside In, For Consumption Only, A Study of the Nocturnal Spirit, as well as from her extensive work as a journalist. Several of her short films will also be screened throughout the run of the exhibit.

The Side Project has announced it will present The Kindness of Strangers: A Festival of Storytelling. Forty storytellers will converge in a three-week festival featuring first-time and experienced tellers nightly, accompanied by live multi-instrumentalist, Matt Wills. The Festival, kicking off October 20, will run Sunday through Wednesday eves at 7:30pm through November 6.

The beloved Smurfs are back for some Halloween fun in THE SMURFS: THE LEGEND OF SMURFY HOLLOW, an all-new animated mini-movie from Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment makes its debut nationwide on DVD today, September 10th.

After serving as a professor of behavior science for two different universities during the 1980s and 1990s, author Mary Ellen Stepanich now wants to help educate the world about finding your lost voice, overcoming poor value programming through music and education, and coping with loss.

THE ELEVENTH HOUR will open with a member's preview at Diverse Works on Friday, September 6 at 6 p.m., with the public opening set from 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through October 12, 2013.

In its 2013-14 season of nine shows, the side project continues its drive to create world premiere collaborations. Artistic Director Adam Webster says, 'We are thrilled to present a world premiere from renowned playwright Kathleen Tolan (Goodman Theatre's Memory House), as well as continue the relationship we have with NY-based playwright Daniel Talbott, whose play Slipping we world premiered in 2008, and which was subsequently shortlisted for the 2010 Lambda Award, along with The Brother/Sister Plays. Further, we are excited to team up with Tympanic Theatre Company for our first co-production, Sandalwood.' Tympanic's last co-production was Scott Barsotti's Brewed.

Presented at The Tank Theatre,151 w. 46th St. (b/t 6th and 7th Ave), 8th Floor, New York, NY 10036, tonight, August 22-25th and August 29-Sept. 1st, 2013. Today-Saturdays @ 7pm & Sundays @ 3pm. For tickets and information please visit www.EurekaSuitcase.org. Tickets $18.00, Early Bird Special: $15.00, if purchased before August 22nd with discount Code: TMPSTFNF