This week, DANCING contestants now have double the chances to end up in a full-body cast; for the first time this season, the competitors performed two separate routines, unguided by stipulations or other frivolous themes. Also, with two performances, come two eliminations tomorrow. The second routines featured past DANCING pros (both in the competition and the troupe), creating trios that were often, well, off.
In 2005 Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Theatres sold his four playhouses, the Lyric, Apollo, Garrick and Duchess theatres to Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer who formed Nimax Theatres Limited, adding the Vaudeville Theatre in 2008. Today Burns and Weitzenhoffer are also the proud owners of the spectacular Palace Theatre with its prime location on Shaftesbury Avenue, currently home to Stage Entertainment's hit revival of Chichester Festival Theatre's Singin' in the Rain.
The winners of the 2011 Green Room Awards were announced this weekend. You can see the full list of winners below, including awards presented to LOVE NEVER DIES, ROCK OF AGES, and BODY OF WORK.
Omaha Performing Arts has announced the cancellation of performance artist Meow Meow, originally scheduled to perform in the Scott Recital Hall at the Holland Center April 20 and April 21, 2012. Called a "cabaret diva of the highest order" by the New York Post, Meow Meow was included in Omaha Performing Arts' 2011-2012 Season at the Orpheum Theater and Holland Performing Arts Center.
Roll up, roll up, there are just three weeks left to catch the cabaret, variety, circus sensation that is La Soirée. Following a successful five month extended season the show must close at its decadent London home, the South Bank Big Top, on February 27th 2011.
fortyfivedownstairs is headed to the Helpmann Awards, Australia's major theatre awards, where their 2010 production Do Not Go Gentle.. is up for two awards; Patricia Cornelius, Best Play, and Anne Phelan, Best Supporting Actress.
fortyfivedownstairs is headed to the Helpmann Awards, Australia's major theatre awards, where their 2010 production Do Not Go Gentle.. is up for two awards; Patricia Cornelius, Best Play, and Anne Phelan, Best Supporting Actress.
Cabaret star, international singing sensation and post-modern showgirl, Meow Meow, acclaimed for her current performance in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, returns to the stage with her solo West End debut, Meow Meow In Concert for three nights only on 23, 24 and 25 June
Toronto's Luminato Festival held the perfect post-Tony Awards bash this past Monday with its outdoor concert in David Pecaut Square entitled 'Broadway's Night Out.' Hosted by Toronto's Broadway Babies Sharron Matthews and Shawn Hitchins, the show featured cast members from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of Jesus Christ Superstar, The Shaw Festival's My Fair Lady, Meow Meow and Lance Horne. BWW was on hand to bring you photos of all the Broadway fun.
Its getting so very cold outside, but things are heating up at fortyfivedownstairs..Samuel John Wood, Rhonda Burchmore, Deborah Conway..the list of stars is mind blowing!
Cabaret star, international singing sensation and post-modern showgirl, Meow Meow, acclaimed for her current performance in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, returns to the stage with her solo West End debut, Meow Meow In Concert for three nights only on 23, 24 and 25 June, with a press performance on the 23 June.
The Greenwich Music Festival (Ted Huffman, Artistic Director) will present the international sensation Meow Meow ("a cabaret diva of the highest order" NY Post) June 9, 11 and 12 in Jean Cocteau's epic monologue of heartbreak, The Indifferent Lover, as part of the 2011 Greenwich Music Festival in Connecticut.
In his newest show inventive musician and monologuist Joseph Keckler (New Museum, Joe's Pub, HUMAN JUKEBOX) joins forces with Drama Desk Award-winning director Josh Hecht, and violinist Dan Bartfield to take the audience on a ride through the underworld -- the underworld of low-level jobs the performer has held in the New York art world.
Cabaret star, international singing sensation and post-modern showgirl, Meow Meow, acclaimed for her current performance in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, returns to the stage with her solo West End debut, Meow Meow In Concert for three nights only on 23, 24 and 25 June