Broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald is to embark on a 4-date live tour across the United Kingdom, with tickets on sale now, available at www.fane.co.uk/trevor-mcdonald. Beginning on 6th May 2020 at HOME, Manchester, and concluding at Bristol's Redgrave Theatre on 21st June 2020, Sir Trevor McDonald: An Improbable Life is one not to be missed.
This Spring Oldham Coliseum presents a musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's famous story The Jungle Book, a perfect treat for the whole family to enjoy.
Classic Stage Company has announced its 2020-21 season. Bookending the season will be Doyle's new staging of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in fall 2020, and the long-awaited New York premiere of Ten Cents a Dance, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorzenz Hart, in spring 2021. In between, CSC presents the third annual edition of its winter repertory series, this time pairing landmark 1970s prison dramas: the Tony Award-winning, Apartheid-era play The Island and Kiss of the Spider Woman, which inspired the Tony Award-winning musical and Academy Award-winning film of the same name.
Lucie Jones and David Hunter will return to the roles of Jenna and Dr Pomatter in the 2020 Olivier Award nominated musical Waitress from Monday 23 March. Waitress is nominated for Best New Musical and Best New Original Score for music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles who is currently performing with Gavin Creel at the Adelphi Theatre until 21 March. NaTasha Yvette Williams joins the Waitress company in the role of Becky.
LIFT, the leading London biennial festival of international theatre, has today announced the programme for June 2020 a?' its first under new Artistic Director/CEO Kris Nelson and Executive Director Stella Kanu.
On Thursday March 12th, the IRISH REAL LIFE FESTIVAL - WATERLOO REGION is thrilled to present award-winning Irish folk music accordion sensation SHARON SHANNON at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener, Ontario. Shannon is a genre-defying star that has had multi-platinum album sales and several number one albums, singles and DVDs in her home country of Ireland. She is not only best-known for her work with the accordion but also for her fiddle technique.
St. Louis's wonderful Winter Opera closes it's thirteenth season with a fine production of a rarely-seen work by Puccini--La fanciulla del West, or The Girl of the Golden West. Now Puccini was fond of choosing exotic settings for his operas--look at Madama Butterfly and Turandot. Well, to a European, Fanciulla is equally exotic. It's set in a mining camp in the Sierra Nevadas during the California Gold Rush of 1848.
A rising star American baritone who didn't encounter opera until he was 18 won the 2020 Glyndebourne Opera Cup tonight as the major international singing competition culminated in a live broadcast on Sky Arts from the Glyndebourne stage.
The Frank Theatre's production of The Convert is a gripping dramatization that explores the clash between Christianity and African tribal beliefs through the eyes of a young girl caught between the two worlds.
On March 30th, at 7pm, thirteen year old Ayla Schwartz (original Young Elsa/Frozen Broadway), will be hosting Harmonies 4 Hope at The Green Room 42. This magical evening will benefit The Covenant House to better the lives and futures of homeless teens. 'For the first time in forever', ALL the original, former, and current Young Elsas and Young Annas will come together to share the stage. These 14 talented princesses will sing songs with messages of hope, strength and inspiration in a beautiful evening of fundraising.
Catchy melodies, clever lyrics, and a lot of heart go into this concoction about a waitress with a talent for baking pies and forming friendships. WAITRESS, now showing at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln, blends just the right amount of sweet and bitter.
Teatro Paraguas will present two bilingual cuentos (folktales) and an excerpt from a third at all three Santa Fe Public Library branches during the 7th Annual Santa Fe Public Library Cuentos Tour on April 17-19, 2020. The full-length cuentos will also be presented at Teatro Paraguas Thursday thru Saturday, April 16 through April 18, at 7:00 pm in the evenings.
Obie, Lortel, and Drama Desk Award-Winner Michael Urie (Grand Horizons) will reprise his award-winning performance in Buyer & Cellar for two performances only to benefit Pride Plays and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's 25th Anniversary. Performances will take place on April 10 at 8pm and April 11 at 8pm at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (224 Waverly Place).
A feisty, bingo-playing, gun-toting, ruckus raising, independent woman! That's Helen Wheeler, the title character in Pigs Do Fly Productions next outing a?' Cricket Daniel's comedy Helen on Wheels. The show will run from March 6th through March 29th at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale. There will be a preview performance on March 5th.
Cathy Weis Projects announces the spring 2020 season of Sundays on Broadway, an intimate series of performances, film screenings, readings, and discussions on Sunday evenings at WeisAcres.
Country crooner James Robert Webb is gearing up to release his newest and best work to date, a self-titled LP, James Robert Webb. Webb worked with GRAMMY award-winning, iconic producer Buddy Cannon (Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson, Reba McEntire) for his self-titled album. Having seen success with multiple singles off this album already, including “Now We're Gettin' Somewhere,” “Tulsa Time,” “April May” and “Think About It,'' Webb is ready for the rest to come to life. Pre-save the album here.
Devarrow (Graham Ereaux) and his expressive, and at times, intensive brand of folk-pop, manages to help decode our collective struggles, anxieties, and insecurities. From information overload, the absurdity of modern wage labour, fears, loneliness and aging. Devarrow attempts to reconcile these anxieties via his lyrical escapism, tuning out and aiming to provide a roadmap or consideration at the very least, towards a life lived with balance and meaning.
Due to continued audience demand, Florida Studio Theatre (FST) announces the extension of Outlaws and Angels into its 22nd week. Now playing through April 19 in FST's Goldstein Cabaret, Outlaws and Angels celebrates the 'outlaws' of country music and the 'angels' who loved them. Featuring songs from music legends like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, audiences have called the production 'Fun and Uplifting,' 'Outstanding,' and 'The Best Ever.'