The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious theatre festival, is proud to announce this years line-up which include new works, musicals, adaptations, one-acts, solo shows and more.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA - is thrilled to announce our new exhibition: NEOINTEGRITY: COMICS EDITION on view now through May 30.
'Dialogue puts conversation in motion. Great dialogue moves like a great athlete; it is nimble, precise, and powerful. It commands attention, yet it feels effortless in its execution...If we want our dialogue to move like an athlete, then we must train like an athlete,' says Penny Penniston, author of TALK THE TALK: A Dialogue Workshop for Scriptwriters (Michael Wiese Productions, March 2010, paperback).
On March 26th, The Flaming Dames shed their anything-but-mild-mannered alter-egos to bring your adolescent fantasies to life in 'Nerdlesque', a send up to the classic comic book, sci-fi beauties that most fan-boys have only dreamed of, on the stage at The Spot, located in the heart of Uptown. With the help of hosts, Uber-Nerd JangoFett69 and frat-meathead Randy, and appearances by some of the most famous heroines and sci-fi foxes ever committed to comic book and screen, the Dames promise a night of dreams come true for the 12 year old kid in all of us.
Silhouette Stages' production of the classic comedy Noises Off! plays its final show on March 14 at 3 PM at the beautiful Slayton House Theater in Wilde Lake, Columbia.
UCT Opera School, in collaboration with Cape Town Opera, presents IL VIAGGIO A REIMS (The Journey to Reims) by Gioacchino Rossini from 9-15 May (Theatre).
This production, the second in Motley's intended series of presentations on stage of Hindustani short stories, centres around the word obscene. Two short stories Bu(Odour)by Saadat Hasan Manto, and Lihaaf(The Quilt) by Ismat Chughtai, for which the writers were, in the mid 1940's, accused of obscenity and put to trial by the Lahore High Court, will be presented along with Ismat Apa's account of the trial, called In the name of those married women and another celebrated Manto story The Dog of Titwal.
Williamstown Theatre Festival (Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director) announced today that Terry Kinney (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; reasons to be pretty) will direct a production of Lanford Wilson's modern classic Fifth of July, which will play the WTF Main Stage from August 11 - 22, 2010. A co-production with Bay Street Theatre, this gentle comic drama from Wilson's beloved Talley Trilogy will be the final Main Stage production of the season.
A Red Orchid Theatre Artistic Director Kirsten Fitzgerald announces the extension of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, directed by Shade Murray and featuring A Red Orchid Ensemble Members Kirsten Fitzgerald, Danny McCarthy, Mierka Girten and Larry Grimm, with Natalie West. The hit production now runs through April 25, 2010, at A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells.
When August Wilson died in 2005, America lost one of its most influential playwrights. Wilson's legacy - a cycle of ten plays encompassing the 20th Century, continues to captivate audiences around the world for its poeticism and beauty. Geva Theatre Center, as part of its five-year commitment to presenting all ten plays in 'August Wilson's American Century,' will produce the seventh play of the cycle, Two Trains Running, opening March 30 and running through April 25.
The New York FRIGID Festival is an open and uncensored theater festival presented by Horse Trade Theater Group in association with San Francisco's Exit Theatre.
'That's what it's all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on - getting off. Getting the sardines on - getting the sardines off. That's farce. That's the theater. That's life.'
Silhouette Stages announces their upcoming production of the classic comedy Noises Off! to be held on the evenings of March 5, 6, 12, and 13 at 8 PM and on March 7 and 14 at 3 PM at the beautiful Slayton House Theater in Wilde Lake, Columbia.
n the midst of an ever growing Chicago burlesque scene, The Flaming Dames, the city's premier concept burlesque troupe, continue to make their mark with hit revues and partnerships with some of the Midwest's hottest burlesque acts. 'The Dames Storm Division', is a new greatest hits revue running a limited engagement in January at Finn McCools on Division St. and opening February 5, The Flaming Dames return with the windy city's newest Mardi Gras tradition 'Bourbon Street Burlesque' at The Spot, located in the heart of Uptown.
'That's what it's all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on - getting off. Getting the sardines on - getting the sardines off. That's farce. That's the theater. That's life.'
Fences, August Wilson's powerful story of a fractured African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh, will play its final show on February 21.
A Red Orchid Theatre closes its 2009-2010 season with Abigail's Party, written by Mike Leigh and directed by Shade Murray. The production will run February 12 - March 28, 2010 at A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells. Press opening is February 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM.
A Red Orchid Theatre closes its 2009-2010 season with Abigail's Party, written by Mike Leigh and directed by Shade Murray. The production will run February 12 - March 28, 2010 at A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells. Press opening is February 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM.
August Wilson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning FENCES, currently playing at South Coast Repertory through February 21, certainly has the pedigree of a respected, celebrated play-and it shows. In this hard-working, admirable revival directed by Seret Scott, Wilson's character study of a broken, flawed man and the people that envelope him, is fiercely grounded with raw, irrational emotions, which force the kind of remarkable, impassioned performances that only a cast this seasoned can deliver effortlessly-most notably Robinson, Jennings and Bates.
Partial Comfort Productions presents THE WELCOME MAT SERIES, its 8th annual series of new play readings.
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