According to ContactMusic.com, Lee Hall, the creator of Billy Elliot will be teaming up with Pink Floyd's Roger Waters to create a stage adaption of The Wall. The rock opera album, which was released in 1979, was later turned into a movie, which starred Bob Geldof and Bob Hoskins. Waters has reportedy always been interested in turning the album into a musical.
In a recent interview with the associated press, rock legend Roger Waters of the band Pink Floyd discussed the plans of bringing the band's most celebrated album, 'The Wall,' to a Broadway stage. Waters discussed the progress the show is making, as well as his opinions of the most recent rock album to make it to Broadway, AMERICAN IDIOT.
The Literature to Life® program of The American Place Theatre will honor Greg Mortenson, the author and humanitarian, with its 2010 Literature to Life Award and a live performance of an excerpt of Mortenson's book, 'Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time,' at a gala May 18 at The Time Center, 242 West 41st Street. The event will benefit the American Place Theatre's arts and literacy outreach in schools across America. Mortenson will address the gala and see his NY Times bestseller performed for the first time.
After founding the Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) and serving as the company's Artistic Director and Executive Director for the past eleven seasons respectively, Alfred Preisser and Christopher McElroen will depart the Off-Broadway theatre this November.
Born and raised in Columbus, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Washington Post staff writer Wil Haygood brings home his newest work, a sweeping biography-cum-cultural history centered on one of the most iconic figures in the history of boxing. Slated for release from Random House on October 13, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson will be unveiled at an exclusive Columbus preview on October 9, hosted by author Haygood.
Born and raised in Columbus, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Washington Post staff writer Wil Haygood brings home his newest work, a sweeping biography-cum-cultural history centered on one of the most iconic figures in the history of boxing. Slated for release from Random House on October 13, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson will be unveiled at an exclusive Columbus preview on October 9, hosted by author Haygood.
RABBIT HOLE ENSEMBLE, called 'one of the best ensemble performances in town' by nytheatre.com, is pleased to announce the world premiere of CANDIDE AMERICANA by STANTON WOOD, based on Voltaire's classic satire.
Rabbit Hole Ensemble is pleased to announce the world premiere of CANDIDE AMERICANA by Stanton Wood, based on Voltaire's classic satire.
RABBIT HOLE ENSEMBLE, called 'one of the best ensemble performances in town' by nytheatre.com, is pleased to announce the world premiere of CANDIDE AMERICANA by STANTON WOOD, based on Voltaire's classic satire.
Rabbit Hole Ensemble is pleased to announce the world premiere of CANDIDE AMERICANA by Stanton Wood, based on Voltaire's classic satire.
RABBIT HOLE ENSEMBLE, called 'one of the best ensemble performances in town' by nytheatre.com, is pleased to announce the world premiere of CANDIDE AMERICANA by STANTON WOOD, based on Voltaire's classic satire.
Rabbit Hole Ensemble is pleased to announce the world premiere of CANDIDE AMERICANA by Stanton Wood, based on Voltaire's classic satire.
Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher and Managing Director Brian Colburn, announces that outgoing Board President Susan J. Leavitt and William H. Block, a former Intiman Trustee and Director of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County, will be honored for their outstanding contributions to Intiman at the 2009 Gala.
On Sunday, June 21 at 3 PM in Fort Greene Park, three Brooklyn girls Samori Covington (age 9), Alexis Cummings, and Najaya Royal (both age 12) will join the ranks of local Fort Greene poets such as Walt Whitman and James Agee who have had their words turned into music.
The Literature to Life® program of The American Place Theatre (APT) will kick off its newest campaign, Project 451, with a celebrity gala May 17 and 18 in Theater at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street, Manhattan.
The Literature to Life® program of The American Place Theatre (APT) will kick off its newest campaign, Project 451, with a celebrity gala May 17 and 18 in Theater at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street, Manhattan.
On Sunday evening, April 5, at 8:30 PM, E.D.T., a simple toll-free call will admit anyone in the country to a lively examination of the history, significance and controversy surrounding Native Son, the 1941 stage adaptation of Richard Wright's classic novel that sparked a debate about civil rights, social policy and racism that still burns hotly today.
On Sunday evening, April 5, at 8:30 PM, E.D.T., a simple toll-free call will admit anyone in the country to a lively examination of the history, significance and controversy surrounding Native Son, the 1941 stage adaptation of Richard Wright's classic novel that sparked a debate about civil rights, social policy and racism that still burns hotly today.
Novelist Richard Wright's searing novel Native Son aroused violent controversy from the moment it was published. The saga of a young American black man who becomes an unrepentant killer, the book was hailed as an uncompromising indictment of the nation's racial divisions and social injustice, and condemned as feeding white bigotry while excusing crime. Naturally, Orson Welles, then the most dynamic force in American theater, thought it was just the kind of story his Mercury Theater needed to tackle.
Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher and Managing Director Brian Colburn, announces that outgoing Board President Susan J. Leavitt and William H. Block, a former Intiman Trustee and Director of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County, will be honored for their outstanding contributions to Intiman at the 2009 Gala.
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