Ordway News

World Premiere of Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963 by Christina Ham closes February 27, 2011

Get Up Your Irish: A Celebration in Music & Dance March 11-20, 2011

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts today unveiled its 2011-2012 performance season. The diverse schedule will offer a full menu of entertaining experiences, from dinner with The Addams Family to the amusingly intimate car ride during a blind date, and transport audiences from the streets of Africa to the darkened stage of a Parisian opera house.

Arizona-based actress and Invisible Theatre's Managing Artistic Director, SUSAN CLAASSEN, most recently completed a sold-out 5 week run at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood.

World Premiere of Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963 by Christina Ham runs February 4-27, 2011

Theater Latté Da's Board of Directors announced today that John Thew has been selected as the organization's new Managing Director effective immediately. Thew replaces Kimberly Motes who was recently appointed Vice President of Institutional Advancement at the College of Saint Benedict.

According to the New Haven Courant, two-time Tony Award-nominee Terrence Mann will star as Professor Henry Higgins in the musical 'My Fair Lady' at the Nutmeg Summer Series at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the UConn campus in Storrs.

For more than two decades, Terrance Simien, an eighth-generation Louisiana Creole, has been sharing the joy of his indigenous Creole zydeco music.

Bringing her contagious world pop sound to the stage, international recording star Angelique Kidjo performs works from her latest Grammy Award-nominated album, "Oyo" live at the Ordway on January 21 as part of the 2010-2011 Target World Music Series.

The Guthrie Theater welcomes Penumbra Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's gripping drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by Penumbra artistic director Lou Bellamy.

World Premiere of Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963 by Christina Ham runs February 4-27, 2011

Bringing her contagious world pop sound to the stage, international recording star Angelique Kidjo performs works from her latest Grammy Award-nominated album, "Oyo" live at the Ordway on January 21 as part of the 2010-2011 Target World Music Series.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's story of 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' will close on January 2.

2 PIANOS 4 HANDS brings fabulous music, hilarious one-liners, and razor-sharp insights into the world of competition to the Park Square stage for the holiday season.

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit Broadway musical, will welcome James Moye (Ragtime, Happiness) to the role of ‘Sam Phillips' starting tonight at the Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street).

2 PIANOS 4 HANDS brings fabulous music, hilarious one-liners, and razor-sharp insights into the world of competition to the Park Square stage for the holiday season.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full company of the new Broadway production of Anything Goes, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as 'Reno Sweeney' and Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey as 'Moonface Martin.'

Burning Coal Theatre Company announces a new Integrated Acting Class to be taught by Broadway veteran Lori Mahl. The class will run Tuesday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m., January 4 through February 1st, 2011 in Raleigh. Tuition is $100 for the five week class. Please contact Burning Coal at 919-834-4001 or visit us online at www.burningcoal.org for further details and to enroll.

It's going to be a Technicolor holiday as the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts produces Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's story of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."

Two time Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals is delighted to announce the cast of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. The musical comedy will run from Sept 24 - Nov 28 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, sponsored by Liberty Bank, Connecticut Light and Power and Continental Airlines.