P. Wilson News

Geva Theatre Center presents Slow Food, by Wendy MacLeod and directed by Skip Greer, in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from January 14 through February 9. 

The Phoenix Symphony Board of Directors has selected performing arts industry veteran Suzanne Wilson as the organization's new President and Chief Executive Officer.

Geva Theatre Center presents Slow Food, by Wendy MacLeod and directed by Skip Greer, in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from January 14 through February 9.

Idyllwild Arts Foundation welcomes new year-round Director of Orchestral Programs Ransom Wilson andAssociate Director of Orchestral Programs, Gregory Robbins. Signaling the beginning of an exciting new era, in which the Summer Program and Academy will become more closely integrated, Wilson and Robbins have been brought on board this fall to build on the prestige and prominence of the existing program. Wilson is a world-renowned flutist, recording artist, chamber musician and conductor who joins Idyllwild Arts from Yale University School of Music where he is professor of flute. Robbins is a performer and educator who most recently served as the director of educational outreach at the Geneva Music Festival and executive director of the Young Artists Philharmonic.

Playwright Michael Wilson has turned all of Act I into a walk down the 'yellow brick road' of London, where Scrooge meets three vendors who will resurface more translucently later that night. It's as eye-rolling as it sounds and even more boring than you can imagine. Heads were nodding all around me. Only my coffee kept mine upright.

Deadline reports that Rebel Wilson-penned comedy 'Seoul Girls' has found a home at Lionsgate. The script was recently revised by Young II Kim.

The 2019 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival broke attendance records again, this time with upwards of 100,000 visitors a?" more than 25% over last year's estimated 78,000. Ticket sales were also the highest ever.

The third and final day of the 2019 espnW: Women + Sports Summit, featured NBA Countdown's Maria Taylor, WNBA All-Star A'ja Wilson and Olympic medalists Michelle Carter (shot put) and Ibtihaj Muhammad (fencing), 2020 Olympic hopeful Jordyn Barratt (first-ever U.S. skateboarding team), top women's basketball prospect Azzi Fudd, UCLA softball star Bubba Nickles, and V Foundation CEO Susan Braun.

Deadline reports that veteran actors Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen will star alongside Luke Wilson in '12 Mighty Orphans.'

Geva Theatre Center presents The Niceties, by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Nicole A. Watson, in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from October 22 through November 17. 

Geva Theatre Center presents The Niceties, by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Nicole A. Watson, in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from October 22 through November 17.

Emerging Artists Theatre presents their bi annual New Work Series. The series runs October 2 - 20 at TADA Theater and features new work from a diverse group of artists. Tickets range between $10 - $20 with shows running nightly.

As with most of August Wilson's work, King Hedley II functions as and can be easily accepted as, flavorful, heated melodrama. But, as the second to the last of The Pittsburgh Cycle, it is so much more. Wilson's plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, tell 100 years of African American history in a deeply layered narrative that can only be excavated through time. One single production will never capture it all, particularly if the audience is not familiar with the other plays in the series.

Dedicado a una de las figuras prominentes de la danza contemporánea en América, con una amplia trayectoria como bailarín, maestro y coreógrafo, el libro Wilson Pico de Ecuador. Cronología de un apasionado camino en la danza, de Patricia Aulestia, destaca el trabajo de este artista que, a sus 70 años, se ha convertido en una leyenda viva de la danza latinoamericana y mundial.

The second act of the Northland Performing Arts Center & Vaud-Villities Production of KISS ME KATE opens with Cole Porter's classic 'Too Darn Hot.' It turned out to be a fitting anthem for the evening production. The temperatures hit in the high 80s-90s mark on the thermometer and the performance of the 22-member cast made the shirts of the audience sit to the back of their chairs.

PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly opens its 2019/20 Mainstage season with Nambi E. Kelley's powerful and heart-stopping adaptation of Richard Wright's “Native Son”. Directed by Colette Robert, and featuring original music by G. Clausen, the production runs from September 11 to 29, 2019. 

According to The New York Times, Dallas Opera has cancelled their previously announced gala starring Placido Domingo due to multiple sexual harassment allegations against him.

Geva Theatre Center presents La Cage Aux Folles, with book by Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, based on the play by Jean Poiret, directed by Melissa Rain Anderson, with musical direction by Don Kot, and choreography by Sam Hay in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from September 3 through October 6. 

Rebel Wilson, a star of the “Pitch Perfect” trilogy, will host “Pooch Perfect” for Australia's Network Seven, according to Deadline.

Deadline reports that Ty Roberts' '12 Mighty Orphans' has tapped Luke Wilson to star.