Eryc Taylor, Artistic Director of ERYC TAYLOR DANCE, will present the Eryc Taylor Dance New Choreographer Grant (ETD/NCG) winners in two showcase performances at Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune Street (Greenwich Village) this Saturday, October 13, at 7pm and 8:30pm.
Psychologist Pumla confronts imprisoned ex-officer Eugene in this searing account of the atrocities committed by the South African police force under apartheid. On October 26, EgoPo Classic Theater presents Nicholas Wright's adaptation of Pumla Gobodo-Madikidela's award-winning book about her time serving on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The sizzling Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has become the bestselling musical in Milwaukee Repertory Theater history, surpassing the record held by Ragtime in the 2013/14 Season. Now running through October 28, 2018 in the Quadracci Powerhouse, In the Heights is a musical filled with hip-hop beats, salsa and Latin soul featuring a cast of more than 20 of the country's most talented Latinx performers.
NBC's Writers on the Verge has named comedy writers Bernard Badion, Edward Excaliber, Joanne Lee and Sara White, and drama writers Pamela García Rooney, Marissa Lee, Tiffany Shaw Ho and Margot Ye as its 2018-19 class. They were chosen from an applicant pool of more than 2,200 submissions to be part of the long-tenured initiative for emerging diverse writers.
Ninefold returns to PACT Theatre, Erskineville this October with its acclaimed Wyrd: The Season of The Witch. Audiences are invited to witness this unmissable event; a story of malevolent ambition and uncanny horror performed with Ninefold's hallmark power and precision for a strictly limited season of only four shows.
Encompass New Opera Theatre will present the World Premiere of Anna Christie with music by Edward Thomas, set to a libretto by Joseph Masteroff, with 12 performances beginning today, October 4, 2018 at 8pm and running through Sunday, October 21, 2018, at the Baruch Performing Arts Center (at 55 Lexington Avenue, entrance on 25th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues) in Manhattan.
12 years after landing in London's West End, Wicked continues to delight audiences with the tale of what happened before Dorothy landed in Oz. The cast and creatives share with BroadwayWorld how they first fell in love with the show and why they think it's still playing eight gravity-defying shows a week after all this time.
Black Button Eyes Productions is pleased to announce casting for the Chicago storefront premiere of EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL, a parody of Sam Raimi's classic Evil Dead horror films, with book and lyrics by George Reinblatt and music by Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt.
Folk Alliance International (FAI) is proud to announce the 2019 Official Showcase artists* representing 23 countries (*confirmed to date and subject to change) for the 31st annual conference taking place February 13-17, 2019, at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Habitat for Humanity New York City (Habitat NYC), a major builder, preserver and advocate for affordable homeownership throughout the five boroughs, hosted Broadway stars, producers and writers for the second Broadway Builds event on Monday, October 1st. More than 25 notable names from Broadway volunteered to revitalize the Grand Street Settlement BEST Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) on the Lower East Side.
The stars shone last night on NOVA Senior Executive Producer Paula Apsell, who was presented with the News & Documentary Lifetime Achievement Award at the 39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony in New York City. Family and friends, along with WGBH and industry colleagues past and present gathered to honor her more than four decades in science journalism, and 33 years at the helm of NOVA.
Eryc Taylor, Artistic Director of ERYC TAYLOR DANCE, will present the Eryc Taylor Dance New Choreographer Grant (ETD/NCG) winners in two showcase performances at Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune Street (Greenwich Village) on Saturday, October 13 at 7pm and 8:30pm.
Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, announced the winners of the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival where Brian Banks won the Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film. This award is given to the fiction feature audiences liked most as voted by a tabulated rating system. Select fiction feature-length films screening in the following sections were eligible for the Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature: U.S. Fiction, World Fiction, LA Muse, Nightfall and Premieres.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit School of Rock - The Musical has announced new casting for the 2018-19 season. Merritt David Janes, previously from the original Broadway company and the Dewey Alternate on tour, is taking over the role of Dewey. Also joining the cast are Madison Micucci as Patty, Layne Roate as Ned, Gary Trainor as Dewey Alternate, Brian Golub as a swing and Jonathon Timpanelli as an ensemble member.
"A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear change places and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief." - William Shakespeare
New Line Theatre, "the bad boy of musical theatre," opens its 28th season of adult, alternative musical theatre with the world premiere of THE ZOMBIES OF PENZANCE, Gilbert & Sullivan's newly discovered, original 'operatic abomination,' in its world premiere, running Sept. 27-Oct. 20, 2018 at the Marcelle Theater, in the Grand Center Arts District.