P. James News

The Mac-Haydn Theatre concludes its 51st season with the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, Oklahoma!, running August 22 through September 1.

Theatr na n?"g's latest sell-out production champions the importance of bio-diversity and conservation by presenting their story of Alfred Russel Wallace.

This November, a triple-bill of current Blue Note artists—Kandace Springs, James Francies, and the James Carter Organ Trio—will embark on a U.S. tour of performing arts centers and theaters around the country in celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Blue Note Records. Each artist will perform a set of their own music followed by a finale with all the musicians coming together to perform a classic Blue Note tune.

'School of Errors - Rethinking School Safety in America' (ISBN: 978-1475837445), authored by David P. Perrodin, Ph.D., and published by Rowman & Littlefield, is being touted as 'the most honest book ever written about the $3 billion school safety industrial complex.'

Elizabeth Stanton (Elizabeth Stanton's Great Big World) and James Maslow (Big Time Rush) host week eleven of the new non-competitive television show, THE BIG STAGE, airing on The CW Network in a new 30-mintue time slot on Friday, August 16, 2019 at 8:30 p.m./7:30 p.m. Central. This week's Encore episode features Dancers Charity & Andres, Acrobat Lina Liu, Juggler Josh Horton, Singer Mikalah Gordon, Balancing Act Cristin Sandu and Ventriloquist Terry Fator and Winston, The Impersonating Turtle. The show is executive produced by David McKenzie and David Martin for Associated Television International.

2019 Tony winner Andre De Shields has been attending The National Black Theatre Festival® (NBTF) in Winston-Salem, N. C. since 1995. Dubbed the 'Black Theatre Holy Ground,' NBTF is the international outreach program of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company, founded by the late Larry Leon Hamlin in 1979. The Festival, also founded by Hamlin, has been held biennially since 1989. The NCBRC celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, while the NBTF celebrated its 30th.

Elizabeth Stanton (Elizabeth Stanton's Great Big World) and James Maslow (Big Time Rush) host week ten of the new non-competitive television show, THE BIG STAGE, airing on The CW Network in a new 30-mintue time slot on Friday, August 9, 2019 at 8:30 p.m./7:30 p.m. Central. This week's original episode features Singer James Maslow, Lady Light Laser Girl, Aerialist Jasmin Rituper, Acrobats Sergey & Sasha, Juggler Jason Garfield and Dancers 34th & Phunk. The show is executive produced by David McKenzie and David Martin for Associated Television International.

CBS All Access, CBS' digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, today announced James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young and Henry Zaga have joined the cast of its original limited event series THE STAND, based on Stephen King's bestselling novel of the same name, and Stephen King will write the last chapter of the series, providing a new coda that won't be found in the book. The announcements were made by Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President of Original Content for CBS All Access, during the service's biannual Television Critics Association presentation.

Exit 63 Theatre is excited to announce the lineup for their third season, titled 'Possessed'. The 2020 season will feature three productions, with two Chicago premieres and one U.S. premiere.

Casting for the latest Agatha Christie drama, The Pale Horse has been announced by BBC One, Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited.

But without songwriters Dewayne Blackwell and Earl Bud Lee, Garth Brooks never would have sung Friends in Low Places. Nor would you ever have heard Before He Cheats or Live Like You Were Dying without Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear to write the former for Carrie Underwood or Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman to pen the latter for Tim McGraw.

Today's top stories: The Jonathan Larson Project celebrates its album release at Barnes and Noble, read the reviews for Into the Woods at the Hollywood Bowl, and more!

Freestyle Love Supreme is headed to Broadway! The full crew, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, James Monroe Iglehart, and more, all posed for a photo together recently, which Iglehart posted on Twitter.

Elizabeth Stanton (Elizabeth Stanton's Great Big World) and James Maslow (Big Time Rush) host week nine of the new non-competitive television show, THE BIG STAGE, airing on The CW Network in a new 30-mintue time slot on Friday, August 2, 2019 at 8:30 p.m./7:30 p.m. Central. This week's original episode features New Wave Dance Troupe Poreotics, Spinning Plates on Steroids Lina Liu, Singer Brandon Rogers, Celebrity Impressionist Ryan Goldsher, Amazing Pedestal Balancing Act by Junru Wang and Insane Roller Skate Spinners Duo Transcend. The show is executive produced by David McKenzie and David Martin for Associated Television International.

The imaginative and increasingly important Key Pianists concert series, founded by pianist Terry Eder in 2015, embarks on its fifth season with a recital by James Dick, whom American Record Guide lauded for his 'patrician civility and lucid, beautiful sonority', on Thursday evening, October 10, 2019, at 7:30 pm at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.

Following their production of Animal Farm on a real-life farmyard in 2014, James Kenworth and James Charlton bring a brand new, contemporary urban adaptation of much-loved fantasy adventure Alice in Wonderland to an adventure playground in the East End featuring tree houses, swings, trampolines, rope bridges and giant slides and a cast of professional actors and local Newham primary and secondary school pupils.

The 37th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards were held on Monday, July 15th at Bard on the Beach in the BMO Mainstage in Vanier Park, an amazing theatrical venue in a magnificent setting. The awards celebrate excellence in professional theatre and salutes all the talent who contribute to  Vancouver's fantastic theatre scene. Fifty theatrical productions were nominated from last years' dynamic theatre season. 

A London institution combining art and music, FOLD announces further shows, as well as details of brand new UNFOLD Sundays.

New York playwright Allston James's drama Reverie 2.0 is a finalist in the 2019 British Theatre Challenge in London. Five winners will be produced for a week-long run, Oct. 1-5 and filmed by Mini-Mammoth Films. This year's competition drew entries from playwrights in 14 countries. London-based Sky Blue Theatre Company, John Mitton, Artistic Director, is producer of the British Theatre Challenge, now in its 8th year.