Michelle Knight News

Theatre Passe Muraille has just announced their 23.24 season, which includes three exciting world premieres. Get a sneak peek at what's in store for theatre enthusiasts.

One of Toronto’s most storied live performance venues, Theatre Passe Muraille is excited to announce that the 23.24 season will kick off with the World Premiere of the 2-act opera CANOE, presented in partnership with Unsettled Scores, Native Earth Performing Arts, and The Toronto Consort. CANOE will be staged off-site at Trinity St Paul’s Centre, while a transformation is underway at 16 Ryerson Avenue.

With the start of their 22.23 season around the corner, Theatre Passe Muraille welcomes Michelle Knight as the incoming Managing Director, Revenue & Strategy and has announced a new collaborative tri-leadership structure. This new structure will also see current Interim Managing Director and former Associate Artistic Director, Indrit Kasapi, step into the new role of Artistic Producer.

​​​​​​​Rezonance Baroque Ensemble to join Early Music TV with the rebroadcast of “Un Viaggio Fantastico” (A Fantastic Journey).

Spot-on casting is nothing out of the ordinary at Theater West End, nor are tasteful set direction or an overall atmosphere of well-themed festivity. But for all the production's successes, Dennis T. Giacino's musical, as written, never fully realizes its potential...

The Toronto Consort has announced the launch of Early Music TV, the first-of-its-kind, subscription-based video streaming service dedicated to music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. 

Get all the scoop on Coming Up on a Rebroadcast of 20/20, airing on ABC on today, June 19, 2020!

When Michelle Knight and Kristen Sheola met in a production of a musical, they had no idea that their mutual love of flour, butter and sugar would turn into a quarantine business... but it did.

Get all the scoop on Upcoming Guests on TAMRON HALL, 2/17-2/21!

mad Theatre of Tampa did it again! Launching Thursday night was Disenchanted at Jaeb Theatre, a fabulous, bawdy, vaudevillian, royal cabaret featuring ten disillusioned princesses revealing what truly happens after happily-ever-after. The ladies from a?oeSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs,a?? a?oeCinderella,a?? a?oeSleeping Beauty,a?? a?oeBeauty and the Beast,a?? a?oeMulan,a?? a?oeThe Little Mermaid,a?? a?oePocahontas,a?? a?oeThe Princess Who Kissed the Frog,a?? a?oeRapunzel,a?? and a?oeAladdin,a?? took on the man who commercialized and exploited their characters. These were no damsels in distress!

Wishes do come true! Today, October 8, 2019, is the release of the CD and digital download (www.disalbum.com) of the 10th Anniversary Special Edition recording of Disenchanted!, the critically-acclaimed and award-winning musical with book, music and lyrics by Dennis T. Giacino. The album features a reunion of actresses from the 2015 Off-Broadway production, the NYC workshops, as well as the out-of-town tryout productions in Orlando and Tampa. The studio recording will also be available on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, YouTube and other digital streaming services later this month. For more information, please visit www.officialdisenchantedmusical.com.

Direct from New York City after its closing last Fall, The Winter Park Playhouse opens the country's first professional production of the Off-Broadway hit - Desperate Measures - September 20 through October 13.

Direct from New York City after its closing last Fall, The Winter Park Playhouse opens the country's first professional production of the Off-Broadway hit - Desperate Measures - September 20 through October 13. This uproarious musical comedy won both the 2018 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards and is set for its national premiere at The Winter Park Playhouse September 20 through October 13. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Saturday matinee performances at 2 p.m. and select Friday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Circle Gets The Square, LLC announced today the upcoming 10th Anniversary Special Edition recording of Disenchanted!, the critically-acclaimed and award-winning musical with book, music and lyrics by Dennis T. Giacino. The album will feature a reunion of actresses from the 2015 Off-Broadway production, the NYC workshops, as well as the out-of-town tryout productions in Orlando and Tampa.

WILD PARTY is a showcase of everything I love about Theater West End: gorgeous lighting, creative set design, top-notch casting, and a willingness to stage shows that aren't being done somewhere else fifty times a year  - even if this particular musical, about a 1920s love rectangle that implodes during a debaucherous soiree, doesn't quite compel...

After an exciting launch in June at Tokyo Short Shorts for Season 4 of Lexus Short Films, Lexus International and The Weinstein Company have now announced Patty Jenkins, best known for directing Warner Bros. and DC Comics Wonder Woman and her debut feature Monster, and Antoine Fuqua, best known for directing the films The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer and Training Day, to join Taylor Sheridan for the film program's selection committee.

Described as a definitive Gershwin concert experience, Rhapsody & Rhythm: The Gershwin Concert Experience comes to Stage One at the Harris Center in Folsom.

The play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer will be presented by the Inland Valley Repertory Theatre company at the Candlelight Pavilion in Claremont October 26 - November 9.

Over the last several years much attention has been drawn to the abduction of children and, in rare cases, their return. A short time ago, the Cleveland area had the spotlight placed on it when three young ladies, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, were freed after their many years of captivity in the Tremont home of Ariel Castro. This event makes one of the basic tenets of MR. WOLF, now on stage at Cleveland Play House's Outcalt Theatre, quite inciting to local audiences.

MAD COW THEATRE announces the return of a singular downtown Orlando event - the 14th annual Orlando Cabaret Festival, featuring cabaret artists from Central Florida and beyond. Among the headliners for the 2016 Cabfest will be Broadway star Andrea McArdle, a leading lady ever since she played the very first Annie in the beloved Broadway show of the same name.