Working to address a long-standing career issue in the opera world, The Dallas Opera is delighted to announce that applications are now being accepted for a unique residential program designed to provide training and career support for distinctively talented women conductors: The Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera.
The Dallas Opera resumes the 2015-2016 Season in early spring with Jules Massenet's heart-wrenching and seductive tale of love, lust, and spectacularly bad choices: MANON, opening March 4, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House for the first of four performances.
Tonight, before a gathering of theatre artists and patrons, theatreWashington announced the nominees for the 2016 Helen Hayes Awards, drawn from 202 eligible productions presented in the 2015 calendar year. Scroll down for the full list of nominees!
There's currently a live version of the classic movie Dirty Dancing touring, and it's in Denver through the end of the month. I'll admit, I've never seen the film version of Dirty Dancing. (I swear, it's the truth.) But I had the time of my life. (OK, sorry.)
The Dallas Opera is proud to announce its spectacular 2016-2017 Season, consisting of five brilliant mainstage productions, including two repertoire classics never before performed by this company.
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts announced that individual tickets for the Fort Lauderdale premiere of DIRTY DANCING - THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE will go on sale Friday, January 15 at 10:00a.m. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in action below!
Broadway Across Canada welcomes the Calgary premiere of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage. The musical version of this worldwide smash-hit film will play the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium from tonight, December 29, to January 3.
The Dallas Opera is the proud recipient of two extraordinary new gifts, totaling $2 million, from The Eugene McDermott Foundation and Mrs. Eugene (Margaret) McDermott, who have requested that the position of Dallas Opera General Director and CEO be known henceforth as the “Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO” in honor of the longtime Dallas Opera Board Member and Past Chairman. Dr. Wildenthal currently serves the company as an Officer-at-large on TDO's Executive Committee.
As the Billboard Top 40 Rap Chart features Broadway's own Hamilton at the top of the page, it's exciting to remember a time where hearing Broadway tunes on the radio, and having them performed by top talents was not such a rarity. If you need a reminder of the timelessness of a good melody, of the allure of crisp, intelligent lyrics, go no further than the Sidney Harmon Theatre in downtown D.C. Under the direction of Alan Paul, with smooth and sexy choreography from Michele Lynch, Shakespeare Theatre Company's KISS ME, KATE opened last week to a well-deserved standing ovation.
Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage, the staged musical of the worldwide smash-hit film, will play the Ed Mirvish Theatre from tonight, November 24, through the 29th, 2015.
The Omaha premiere of DIRTY DANCING - The Classic Story On Stage will find its way into your heart when the touring stage musical of this world-wide smash-hit film comes to the Orpheum Theater, tonight, November 17, through Sunday, November 22. DIRTY DANCING is presented by Omaha Performing Arts as part of its Broadway series.
Broadway Across Canada announced today that individual tickets for the Calgary premiere of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage will go on sale Monday, November 16 at 10am.
The staged adaptation of the worldwide smash-hit film, DIRTY DANCING - THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE is coming to Wharton Center tonight, November 10-15, 2015.
To begin at the end: the stage production of Dirty Dancing brought cheers and screams from the opening night audience of the Broadway in Louisville at Johnny's iconic line about Baby and at the even more iconic dance number following that flooded the stage. Gillian Abbott and Christopher Tierney, respectively, inhabit these roles with enough of a nod to the originals (Jennifer Grey and the late Patrick Swayze) that audiences are swept back to the 1987 movie.
It's not just 'another op'nin' of another show,' it's the classic musical the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) was destined to produce: Kiss Me, Kate. STC Associate Artistic Director Alan Paul, director of last season's smash hit Man of La Mancha-the best-selling production in the Company's history-and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director, Resident Musical) helms Kiss Me, Kate, with choreography by Michele Lynch (Washington National Opera's Show Boat).
The Omaha premiere of DIRTY DANCING - The Classic Story On Stage will find its way into your heart when the touring stage musical of this world-wide smash-hit film comes to the Orpheum Theater, Tuesday, November 17, through Sunday, November 22. DIRTY DANCING is presented by Omaha Performing Arts as part of its Broadway series.
This week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Long Island, Rhode Island, Dallas and more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include The Engeman's WEST SIDE STORY, the kick off of BEAUTIFUL: A CAROLE KING MUSICAL Tour in Rhode Island, and MOONSHINE in Dallas, just to name a few.
You don't have to be an aficionado of Dirty Dancing, the 1987 film starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey as a mismatched romantic duo brought together by some sexy dance moves at a Catskills resort, to find yourself loving every moment of Dirty Dancing, The Classic Story On Stage, now ensconced at Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall through Sunday.
Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts announced today that individual tickets for the Raleigh premiere of Dirty Dancing -- The Classic Story On Stage will go on sale July 20 at 10 a.m.