The fourth play of Ross Valley Players 89th season is These Shining Lives which chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their story and its continued resonance. These Shining Lives by award-winning playwright Melanie Marnich, premiered in 2008 at Baltimore Center Stage.
This one-night-only benefit will feature performances by Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins, The Music Man, Show Boat), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Oklahoma, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Gideon Glick (To Kill A Mockingbird, Significant Other), Christian Dante White (My Fair Lady) Samantha Massell (Fiddler on the Roof), Alysha Umphress (On The Town, Smokey Joe's Cafe), Alexandra Silber (The Woman in White, Fiddler on The Roof), Melanie Moore (Finding Neverland, Hello Dolly!), Adam Kantor (The Band's Visit, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Five Years), Will Trice (MAC Award Winner), Haley Swindal (Jekyll and Hyde) and Special Guest Star John Cullum (Shenandoah, On The Twentieth). performing unheralded title songs from musicals written by: Richard Rodgers, Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill, Harold Rome, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Charles Strouse, and many others!
LUMBERYARD Center for Film and Performing Arts joins forces with New York Live Arts (Live Arts) to present the world premiere of Kathy Westwater's Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part, February 14-16, 2019, having commissioned the work by selecting Westwater as the recipient of LUMBERYARD's 2017 Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography. In Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part, Westwater, whom The New Yorker has called "an unconventional choreographer now experiencing a surge of recognition," extends her 20-plus-year exploration of pain and the body, including the pain of others. While contemplating if it is possible to fully communicate the experience of one's own pain-and its opposite, bliss-or to fully know another's, the cast of dancers, including Westwater herself, responds to and celebrates the profound music of post-minimalist composer Julius Eastman.
Following years of sold-out runs at the Prague and Edinburgh Fringes, Scotland's leading improvised comedy troupe, Men with Coconuts, make their Australian Premiere at the 2019 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
The winners of the American Vocal Arts 2019 International Collegiate Singing ChampionshipTM have been announced! The winners have been chosen from all over the world. The competition, sponsored by American Vocal Arts, emphasizes competitive collegiate singing that spans across borders. The goal of the competition is to award the best singers from around the world who are currently enrolled or have recently graduated from an undergraduate or graduate program in music. The winners were selected based on talent, potential, and overall presentation.
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is pleased to announce the winners of its 2018 Craig Noel Awards. Now in its 17th year, the Craig Noel Awards honor the achievements of professional theaters in San Diego County.
The Jeff Awards meeting on Monday, February 18, 2019 at the Greenhouse Theater will include a panel discussion on Latinx Theatre. This is a rescheduled panel from Jan. 28. Latinx groups are dedicated to education, advocacy and community among Latinx performers. In Chicago, one of the most visible of these groups is ALTA (The Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists of Chicago).
Chris Thorpe and Rachel Bagshaw's Fringe First award-winning show about a love affair seen through the eyes of someone with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome returns for UK tour
BroadwayWorld has a first look at FALSETTOS on tour! Check out the photos of the tight-knit family below!
See one of your favorite Broadway shows in a world class concert hall. Stars Broadway performers Evy Ortiz and Bronson Norris Murphy.
La Llorona. The Weeping Woman. A horrifying apparition, caught between Heaven and Hell, trapped in a terrible fate sealed by her own hand. The mere mention of her name has struck terror around the world for generations.
SMTC is excited to announce one of its biggest casts ever for its upcoming production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. TV and stage stars Dawnn Lewis (TVs "A Different World", "Major Crimes", "Veronica Mars"; Dreamgirls and Sister Act: The Musical) and Marc Koeck (50th Anniv. International tour of West Side Story) appear in the jazz-age treat. Performances will take place at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
Joanna Syrokomla and Cynthia Amsden, Co-Chairs of the Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design (CAFTCAD) Awards are very pleased to announce the official winners of this evening's gala. The CAFTCAD Awards congratulate the nominees and the winners and thank the team who worked diligently to make this evening possible, the generosity of the sponsors, as well as all the costumers who submitted their designs. We look forward to the 2020 CAFTCAD Awards.
A Blank stage is set to adorn a combination of a house on one side and what will soon become the work stations of the women in this production. On the projection behind the set were words written to strike a chord with incoming audience members, "If one woman were to tell the truth about her life, the world would split open." These wise words from Muriel Rukyster were the only thing standing between the audience and the works to be portrayed on the stage this night. In the program, Founder and Director Fran Powers wrote, "Directing These Shining Lives has been a project of the heart. "It is vitally important to keep honoring courageous women who sacrificed so much for others." This is the foundation of the Powerstories Theatre mission."With that the scene is set and a whirlwind 90 minutes set to no intermission was about to unfold in front of us.
& Juliet – the joyous new West End musical that imagines Juliet's famous ending as just her beginning – today announces its cast.
The National Theatre's When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, a new play by Martin Crimp is now on stage. It is directed by Katie Mitchell, with a cast including Cate Blanchett, who makes her National Theatre debut alongside Stephen Dillane returning to the National Theatre for the first time since The Coast of Utopia in 2002.
February 7-10, Pontine Theatre continues its Premiere Season at its new performance venue, The Plains School, located at One Plains Avenue in Portsmouth's West End.
Current and past Broadway stars, an Emmy-winning headliner and a young movie star will appear in the reading of Diana Amsterdam's play, 'The Way Out,' at 5 pm February 11 at the Roundabout rehearsal space on 46th Street. Dave Solomon will direct. Seating is limited - Interested parties should contact Sanford Silver Productions at reading@SanfordSilver.com
Admittedly, after experiencing South Coast Repertory's potent and captivating new production of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, I'm hard pressed to remember the last time I was both this deeply moved and this excitedly riveted by Stephen Sondheim's macabre tale of a murderous barber hell-bent on exacting revenge. A curiously odd but strangely engrossing show peppered generously with dark humor, tragically-romanticized notions, and contrasting serious overtones, SWEENEY TODD's latest iteration in Orange County---now on stage in Costa Mesa through February 16, 2019---is a thrilling, quite distinctive new reinvention, that feels like a fresh pop-up play put on by a traveling Vaudevillian troupe that time-travelled from the past to give us modern audiences a live cautionary reenactment of a Penny Dreadful story that may just be too strange not to be true.
The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards announced its nominees for 2018 today. These annual awards are regarded amongst the most valued and prestigious in the South African performing arts industry. This year's ceremony will take place on Sunday, 10 March at 17:30 at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town and promises to be an evening celebrating Vintage theatre and wines.
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