Mr. Jenkins News

Tony Award nominee Daniel Jenkins (Oslo, Kid Victory, Big River, Mary Poppins) and Drama Desk nominee Melissa van der Schyff (Big River, Bonnie & Clyde) are teaming up to perform at Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) in a creatively refreshing concert, 'BORROWED CASH: BUSTED! The Reunion Tour' on Saturday, January 21 and Sunday, January 22 at 8:00 PM. 

Unemployed Eric Swann, has duped the British welfare system for years by claiming every type of benefit for the numerous imaginary tenants "living" in his apartment building.  He's sent scrambling when welfare investigators show up and he is forced to prove all of his boarders are in fact real. A bright comedy full of mistaken identities, slamming doors, and a con that spirals hilariously out of control.

Unemployed Eric Swann, has duped the British welfare system for years by claiming every type of benefit for the numerous imaginary tenants "living" in his apartment building.  He's sent scrambling when welfare investigators show up and he is forced to prove all of his boarders are in fact real. A bright comedy full of mistaken identities, slamming doors, and a con that spirals hilariously out of control.

Mr. Jenkins, a history buff, science fiction fan, avid reader, devoted writer and author, has completed his new work 'Diary of a Robot': a gripping and potent journey of intrigue, mystery and manipulation with several unexpected moments.

St. Ann's Warehouse continues inaugural season in its new theater on the waterfront in Brooklyn Bridge Park with the NYC premiere of the A.R.T.'s NICE FISH, conceived, written and adapted by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, directed by Claire van Kampen, and starring Rylance. The production will run for six weeks, now through March 27, in the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Theater. Let's see what the critics had to say...

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Diane Quinn, is pleased to present the new American play Nice Fish, conceived, written, and adapted by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, and directed by Claire van Kampen.

Bay Area Musicals! (BAM!), the newest non-profit theatrical organization to join the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area arts community, kicks off its inaugural season with the nine-time Tony Award winning musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Curve today announces casting for the theatre's productions of Roald Dahl's THE WITCHES and Lionel Bart's classic musical, OLIVER!

Bay Area Musicals! (BAM!), the newest non-profit theatrical organization to join the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area arts community, kicks off its inaugural season with the nine-time Tony Award winning musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

With some of the greatest voices in opera gathering together for one night only in a red-carpet affair, Seattle Opera's Speight Celebration Concert and Dinner thrilled more than 2,500 fans at McCaw Hall and raised more than $1 million on Saturday, August 9.

Bang on a Can's exhilarating marching band Asphalt Orchestra has been invited to join the Pixies on their 2014 winter tour, bringing selections from the radical performance Asphalt Orchestra Plays the Pixies: Surfer Rosa

General Director Speight Jenkins announced the singers selected for Seattle Opera's popular International Wagner Competition on August 7, 2014, where emerging artists will go head-to-head American Idol style.

Now entering its 7th season, Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) continues its tradition of bringing the haunting, expansive, and multi-ethnic music of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins to America. On January 20 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, DCINY presents the U.S. premiere of Jenkins' The Bards of Wales, a setting of a heroic poem by Hungarian Janos Arany, as well as the composer's Stabat Mater and the "Benedictus" from The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Jonathan Griffith leads the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and a truly international chorus, comprised of singers from the U.S., Canada, The Netherlands, France, Hong Kong, and Argentina.

Broadway's most daring, curious, and talented artists are preparing to gather at Cielo for the Fall 2013 BC Beat on Monday November 11th, the showcase and dance party with it's own rules for sharing work and connecting artists. Doors open at 7pm and guests are welcomed by the evening's choreographers, Charlie Sutton, Cindy Salgado, Caleb Teicher, Kyle Mullins, Tricia Brouk, Josh Assor, Rickey Tripp, Jennifer Jancuska, and performers including Daniel Watts, Jennifer Locke, Ephraim Sykes, Aurelia Michael, Voltaire Wade-Greene, Masi Yahya James, Amber Jackson, Elizabeth Burke, Macy Sullivan, Ryan VanDenBoom, Matthew Steffens, Heather Hamilton, Shiloh Goodin, Liz Piccoli, Paul Romero, Borris York, Rachel Guest, Matthew Oaks and Michael Williams as Broadway veteran Justin Johnson curates music.

Syria's escalating civil war has raised concerns about the security of the country's arsenal of chemical weapons. The Pentagon reportedly has secret plans to secure Pakistan's nuclear weapons against terrorists, a jihadist coup, or civil war. It also has conducted war games to explore how it might try to secure North Korea's nuclear arsenal in case of a coup or collapse of the regime. Against this worrisome backdrop, international counterterrorism authority Brian Michael Jenkins, director of the Mineta Transportation Institute's Transportation Safety and Security Center, has released a new eBook, When Armies Divide.It is available for download at Amazon.com www.amazon.com/dp/B00BX5SD1O and the Apple iBookstore bit.ly/whenarmiesdivide.

Fresh off its National Tour PCPA puts its spin on Legally Blonde, the Musical playing tonight, July 27 - August 19, in the Solvang Festival Theater. It is directed and choreographed by Michael Jenkinson.