Richard Robinson News

Leigh Barrett, one of Boston's most formidable musical theater talents, makes an impressive professional directorial debut with New Repertory Theatre's CLOSER THAN EVER.

The similarities between music of the European Baroque and Javanese Gamelan are explored in this concert which features Seattle's renowned gamelan ensemble, Gamelan Pacifica, with vocalist Jessika Kenney and four of today's Baroque music specialists Linda Tsatsanis (voice), Nathan Whittaker (cello), Janet See (flute), and Byron Schenkman (harpsichord). Part of the Cornish Music Series, the concert is Sunday, December 8 at 7 p.m. at PONCHO Concert Hall, 710 East Roy St., Seattle.

The Cabaret Series continues to bring local artists and new songs to contemporary audiences at the Central Square Theater. Boston-based triple threats Cheo Bourne, Jennifer Ellis, Brian Richard Robinson, and Kami Smith look and sound great, backed by a trio of talented musicians.

In the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern U.S. will emerge from their seventeen-year cycle, the longest gestation period of any animal. On the occasion of the cicadas' arrival and the release of David Rothenberg's CD and book, Bug Music: How Insects Gave us Rhythm and Noise (St Martin Press, 2013), Ear to the Earth is pleased to present Insect Music - an evening of conversation, film and music on the sonic world of the cicadas. Insect Music will take place at Judson Church, located at 55 Washington Square South (NYC), on Wednesday, May 22 at 7:30 pm. Suggested donation: $15 at the door. For more information, visit eartotheearth.org or email eartotheearth@emf.org

The Lyric Stage Company opens its 39th season with an energetic and virtuosic production of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved operetta, directed by Spiro Veloudos and music directed by Jonathan Goldberg, with an ensemble of fifteen outstanding vocal talents.

RICH ROBINSON will be appearing with Dylan LeBlanc at the Higher Ground's Showcase Lounge on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 8:00 pm. Doors open at 7:30 pm.

RICH ROBINSON will be appearing with Dylan LeBlanc at the Higher Ground's Showcase Lounge on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 8:00 pm. Doors open at 7:30 pm.

The sad exploitation of people in desperate search of celebrity is hilariously but also cleverly skewered in SpeakEasy Stage's controversial season-ending shocker that gilds our basest behaviors with operatic grandeur

Wheelock Family Theatre deftly illustrates Horton the Elephant's philosophy that 'a person's a person, no matter how small' and anything's possible in the land of Dr. Seuss

Deft staging of Kirsten Childs' semi-autobiographical Off-Broadway hit lightly mixes music, humor, insight and heart to deliver a poignant and at times striking message of self-discovery

SpeakEasy Stage production of Kushner and Tesori's ambitious musical treatise of race, class and politics in the early 1960s is less than revolutionary