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MCT's Young Playwrights Festival Showcase Set For This Weekend

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) is celebrating young writers with its seventh Young Playwrights Festival Showcase, today, March 19-22, 2015. The Showcase features three one-act plays from the winners of our high school playwriting competition and is directed, designed, and performed by up-and-coming local professionals.

Lyric's Rising Stars in Concert to Showcase Ryan Opera Center Members, 3/21

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago celebrates its 40th season with its annual Rising Stars in Concert program Saturday, March 21, at 7:30pm at the Civic Opera House. The talented singers and pianist of the 2014-15 ensemble will perform with members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra in works of Bellini, Berg, Berlioz, Bizet, Debussy, Donizetti, Floyd, Gounod, Handel, Korngold, Mozart, Puccini, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Rossini. Rising Stars in Concert is offered in celebration of an exceptionally successful year of study and performance for these up-and-coming artists.

MCT's Young Playwrights Festival Showcase to Run 3/19-22

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) is celebrating young writers with its seventh Young Playwrights Festival Showcase, March 19-22, 2015. The Showcase features three one-act plays from the winners of our high school playwriting competition and is directed, designed, and performed by up-and-coming local professionals.

RECORDED IN HOLLYWOOD to Run 4/11-5/17 at Lillian Theatre

In 1948, a decade before Motown, black businessman and entrepreneur John Dolphin opened his soon-to-be world famous Dolphin's of Hollywood record store in South Los Angeles, just off legendary Central Avenue. Bringing this little-known slice of L.A. history to life on stage, the world premiere of Recorded in Hollywood opens at the Lillian Theatre on April 11.

Opening Night of Circle Players' PICNIC Set for 3/26

In its 65th season, Middle Tennessee's oldest community theater company presents an exciting and challenging new revival of playwright William Inge's seminal 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about repressed desires and haunting recriminations: Picnic. Opening Thursday, March 26, at Hillsboro High School Theatre in Nashville, Picnic runs through April 4.

Mezzo-soprano J'nai Bridges to Compete for BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, 6/14

CHICAGO - American mezzo-soprano J'nai Bridges is one of 20 international finalists for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015 competition. Bridges, a third-year member of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is currently portraying Vlasta in Lyric's mainstage premiere of Mieczys?aw Weinberg's The Passenger.

Kathleen Gullickson of Best Buy Joins Hennepin Theatre Trust Board

Hennepin Theatre Trust today announced the election of Kathleen Gullickson, Director of Talent Acquisition for Best Buy, to its Board. The Trustees bring to the organization skills and experiences that include those in the arts, philanthropy, retail, politics, communications, real estate, business, law and finance.

BWW Reviews: Off the Wall Shines GOD OF CARNAGE in Combative and Comedic Light

Milwaukee's Off the Wall Theatre stages a pared down production of a 2009 Tony Award winning play--God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza originally wrote the script in French, which Christopher Hampton then translated for British and American audiences, a popular production until this day. The four person cast streamlines the performance to two sets of parents attempting to reconcile their sons after a physical playground incident knocks 'two incisors' from one of the boy's mouth.

Circle Players' PICNIC Poster Art Unveiled

Initial artwork for Circle Players' upcoming production of William Inge's Picnic, with art by Arthur Henry Kirkby IV and graphic design by David Arnold, has been released just as rehearsals get under way for the show's March 26-April 4 run at Nashville's Hillsboro High School.

BAGGAGE Opens 3/6 at Stage Coach Theatre

Ah, romance! The happy endings: dashed. The class reunion buffets: devastated. The rules: broken. The building staffs: flashed. But let's face it, who hasn't accumulated a little baggage by the time they're 30-something?

Mercer County Artists Award Announced

The Mercer County arts community came out in force to view the rich and varied works of fellow artists at the Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception for “Mercer County Artists 2015” on February 4. The exhibit is on display through February 27 at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College (MCCC), located on the second floor of the Communications Building on the college's West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.

BWW Previews: D'Arco, Novak Lead Circle's PICNIC Cast

Gina D'Arco and Taylor Novak will lead the cast of William Inge's Picnic, in a revival of the classic play helmed by Jeffrey Ellis, for Nashville's Circle Players, which this season celebrates its 65th year of bringing live theater to audiences throughout Middle Tennessee. Picnic will run March 27 through April 4, and will be performed at the theater at Hillsboro High School.

New Contemporary Art Museum, THE BROAD, Opens in LA, 9/20

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Broad, the new contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles, announced today that it will open to the public on Sunday, September 20, 2015.

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