This January, rapper, poet and award-winning Omar Musa brings his critically acclaimed show Since Ali Died back to Griffin Theatre Company for Sydney Festival following triumphant sold-out runs at Griffin's inaugural Batch Festival and Darwin Festival in 2018. Using the death of his hero Muhammad Ali as a lyrical springboard, Musa dives into a furious torrent of poetry, story and song, confronting everything from suburban violence to lost love to his Malaysian heritage-and the dark realities of growing up as a brown-skinned Muslim boy in Queanbeyan. Award-winning director Anthea Williams is once again at the helm of this livewire, hypnotic and totally unmissable hour of theatre.
At last night's performance of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song, audiences were surprised by a visit from Hillary and Bill Clinton. The pair entered, shaking the hands of audience members, who greeted them with a standing ovation.
With 12,248 students and 656 full-time professors, the University of Atlantico is the largest higher education institution in Columbia. As part of a recent move to transform the University's multipurpose auditorium into a full-fledged theatre for its students, local AV specialists Schallertech provided a versatile lighting arrangement, specifying a number of CHAUVET Professional Ovation E-260WW, Ovation E-160WW and Ovation F-95WW fixtures.
THE GREEN ROOM 42 will present Tonya Pinkins and Brad Simmons in a new holiday show 'Naughty & Nice' on Sunday, December 16 at 9:30 PM. The Tony, Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning actress Tony Pinkins is known to theater, film, and television audiences everywhere, and perfectly pairs with Broadway music director and concert artist Brad Simmons. Together they bring a provocative and eclectic evening of music to The Green Room 42, just in time for the holidays.
Following the announcement of their UK headline tour, Folk-Americana four-piece The Wandering Hearts have sold out London's Islington Assembly Hallon 28 November. Having already sold out their three previous London headline dates, most recently Bush Hall, this will be their biggest headline performance yet.
Josh Hartwell's adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' returns to Miners Alley Playhouse November 23 through December 23. Performances are Thursdays, Todays and Saturdays; Tuesday, December 18 and Wednesday, December 19 at 7:30p.m; Sundays at 1:00 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets are $22-$38 and are available by calling 303-935-3044 or online at www.minersalley.com. Miners Alley Playhouse is located at 1224 Washington Avenue. Golden, CO 80401.
The nominees for the 29th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement throughout Los Angeles, were announced this week.
Two new character-driven relationship plays, both by award-winning women writers and both inspired by events currently at the forefront of our national consciousness, beat out 1241 other submissions in the inaugural Moss Hart & Kitty Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative. Hart NPI artistic director Christopher Hart will direct Silver Medallion-winning plays Confederates by Suzanne Bradbeer, opening Nov. 9, and Exit Wounds by Wendy Graf, opening Nov. 16, atGrove Theater Center in Burbank, where the two plays will continue to run in repertory through Dec. 16. One will be named the Gold Medallion winner and open on March 13, 2019 for a six-week, off-Broadway run in the 196-seat "Theater A" at 59E59 Theaters in New York City.
In the play 'Boston Marriage,' dramatist David Mamet famously quotes, 'We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.' Indeed, as life in the present has become ever more stressful, one can always choose to find comfort in the gustatory wonders of a perfect pie.
INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO. (ISC), producers of the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival, presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH CHARLES DICKENS. This holiday season ISC recreates (with a little artistic license) the experience of a reading of A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH CHARLES DICKENS, given by Charles Dickens himself.
In a move sure to make the Sun King proud, Ovation, America's only arts network, will air an extended 90-minute episode of the acclaimed drama series Versailles for the series' final bow. Written by Andrew Bampfield and Tim Loane and directed by Pieter Van Hees, the final episode, entitled 'The Legacy,' airs Saturday, December 8 at 10pm ET / 7pm PT and will be available on OvationNOW as of Wednesday, December 12.
The Soho Playhouse proudly presents Blanket Fort Entertainment's New York premiere of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE, written by Burt Grinstead and Anna Stromberg, and directed by Anna Stromberg, as part of the Fringe Encore Series, running Off-Broadway from December 6 - 15, 2018. The Soho Playhouse is located at 15 Vandam Street between 6th Avenue and Varick Street in New York City.
Tickets for the original pop/rock musical and teen horror comedy WE ARE THE TIGERS, written & composed by Preston Max Allen, will go on sale this Thursday, November 22 (Thanksgiving) at 6:00 PM.
It's easy to lose your way in Hollywood. A homeless gender questioning teenager and Dario Villanova, a former A-list actor who is now doing B movies, are both down on their luck in Los Angeles. When a synchronistic meeting connects these two souls, they quickly bond over music, art, and life's unexpected misfortunes. Sometimes the best way forward is to stop fighting the past.
The starting point of Kornel Mundruczo's 'The Bat' based on 'Die Fledermaus' by Johan Strauss II, is the director's memories from the past about his grandmother. During the last ten years of her life, she began to lose her grasp on reality. On New Year's Eve, the whole family used to meet at her house to celebrate. Each year, from after midnight till morning, the grandmother's sons (who were more than 70 years old) tried to entertain everyone. A pair of slightly drunk old men singing some silly operettas probably seems rather miserable. Nonetheless, they somehow made their mother smile (although she wasn't aware of anything). After that experience, Mundruczo decided to create a performance about one of the most controversial topics: euthanasia.
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) embarks upon its Valletta 2018 Tour, their first-ever American performances, celebrating the Orchestra's 50th Anniversary and the naming of Malta's capital city, Valletta, as a European Capital of Culture 2018. Armenian conductor Sergey Smbatyan leads the Orchestra in performances of late Maltese composer Joseph Vella's symphonic poem Rebbie?a, MPO Composer-in-Residence Alexey Shor's Travel Notebook, Suite for Piano and Orchestra with Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) embarks upon its Valletta 2018 Tour, their first-ever American performances, celebrating the Orchestra's 50th Anniversary and the naming of Malta's capital city, Valletta, as a European Capital of Culture 2018. Armenian conductor Sergey Smbatyan leads the Orchestra in performances of late Maltese composer Joseph Vella's symphonic poem Rebbie?a, MPO Composer-in-Residence Alexey Shor's Travel Notebook, Suite for Piano and Orchestra with Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.
The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) embarks upon its Valletta 2018 Tour, their first-ever American performances, celebrating the Orchestra's 50th Anniversary and the naming of Malta's capital city, Valletta, as a European Capital of Culture 2018. Armenian conductor Sergey Smbatyan leads the Orchestra in performances of late Maltese composer Joseph Vella's symphonic poem Rebbie?a, MPO Composer-in-Residence Alexey Shor's Travel Notebook, Suite for Piano and Orchestra with Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.
