Rink-A-Dink Inc. News

Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc. supporters gathered on May 18th, 2024 for the Playhouse’s annual fundraiser, ENCORE! This year’s theme was MADLY MARVELOUS: A RETRO BASH, and the evening included dinner, drinks, live/silent auctions, dancing with the Latanya Farrell Band, and live performances.

Discover the webseries by New Musicals Inc., 'Can AI Write a Musical?' where musical theatre artists collaborate with AI to create a new musical narrative. Experience the fusion of art and technology in North Hollywood. Set in North Hollywood, 'Can AI Write a Musical?' invites audiences to delve into the world of musical theatre production.

Dink Productions will present 'In a Pickle: A Comedy. With Balls,' the first feature film about the popular sport of pickleball. Coming summer 2024.

Join Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc. for their annual fundraiser, ENCORE! It will be held on Saturday, May 13th, 2023. The theme this year is RAZZLE DAZZLE: A TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF JOHN KANDER.

TimeLine Theatre Company is presenting the world premiere of Campaigns, Inc. Campaigns, Inc. begins previews August 3, 2022. Press Night is Wednesday, August 10 at 7:30 p.m. Opening Night is August 11. Performances run through September 18 at TimeLine Theatre. Get a first look at the cast here!

On Veterans’ Day - November 11 - at 7pm, New Musicals Inc is hosting a special online concert to help celebrate the day and pay respect to veterans around the world. The free concert will feature excerpts from the musical webseries, “So Proudly We Hailed” which honors veterans by dramatizing and musicalizing their story in their own words.

Helping to raise funds for a grossly underfunded disease is something you rarely see from a theater company. Yet, that is exactly what Ruth Stage, Inc., a nonprofit theater company, is doing with an expected portion of its ticket sales from the Off-Broadway run of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” to the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation.

The Florida Professional Presenters Consortium, a statewide organization of over 60 performing arts venues, including Old School Square Center for the Arts in Delray Beach, FL, is joining a?oeRed Alert,a?? a nationwide effort to encourage Congress to provide relief for the live entertainment industry, which has been uniquely affected by the pandemic.

Students who had their school show canceled have the option to sing a song from the show or perform a monologue from the role they didn't get the chance to play on stage by filling out the google form linked through the theater company's website. The producers will put together a lineup based on the submissions they receive so interested schools and performers have an opportunity to share a piece of their show's story that didn't make it to the stage this year.

Playscripts is hosting an Instagram livestream Q&A with Lauren Gunderson, hosted by Laura Laura Heywood on Thursday March 26 at 3 pm EST on @playscripts

Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc. today received a $4857.14 grant from [United Illuminating/Southern Connecticut Gas/Connecticut Natural Gas] under Connecticut's Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credit program. The funding will help with energy efficient stage lighting.

In keeping with the mission and vision of The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc, the company will present 'a photograph / lovers in motion,' written by Ntozake Shange and adapted and directed by Ifa Bayeza, from February 5 to 29 at Theatre 80 St. Marks, 80 St. Marks Place. The play was first produced at The Public Theater as 'a photograph / a study in cruelty' in 1977 then revised and produced at the Houston Ensemble Theater in 1982 under its current title, 'a photograph / lovers in motion.' It was presented as a feature in NEC's annual reading series in 2015, Year of the Woman.

North/South Consonance, Inc. kicks off its 40th consecutive season and celebrates the arrival of the New Year with a free-admission concert on Sunday afternoon January 12, 2020.

The Snowman skates into its magical 22nd year at The Peacock from 21 November – 5 January pictured here at the Natural History Museum Ice Rink, now open until 12 January. 

Circuit Playhouse, Inc. which includes Playhouse on the Square, The Circuit Playhouse, and NewWorks@TheatreWorks at the Square will celebrate its 50th Anniversary with a weekend of events November 15 to November 17, 2019.

Illinois-based Frail Body embodies the spirit and soul of what many define as “screamo;” their songs are lamentations about nihilism, death, anxiety, existentialism and hopelessness of existence in modern American society, and both lyrically and sonically they unfurl with ground-shaking emotion.  Their forthcoming album, A Brief Memoriam, will be released November 1st via Deathwish Inc.

The nonprofit organization Planet Improv, Inc. kicks off their a?oe2020 FOR 2020a?? fundraising campaign with A CELEBRATION EVENT. The event is scheduled for Saturday, October 5 @ 8p (seating begins at 7:30PM) at the Community Matters Café, 821 West 1st Street, Charlotte, NC 28202. Tickets are $25 in advance at www.planetimprov.com via Eventbright and $35 at the door on event night. 704-301-1564 scott@planetimprov.com

The nonprofit organization Planet Improv, Inc. kicks off their a?oe2020 FOR 2020a?? fundraising campaign with A CELEBRATION EVENT. The event is scheduled for Saturday, October 5 @ 8p (seating begins at 7:30PM) at the Community Matters Café, 821 West 1stStreet, Charlotte, NC 28202. Tickets are $25 in advance at www.planetimprov.com via Eventbright and $35 at the door on event night. 704-301-1564 scott@planetimprov.com

CBS and Girls Inc. have joined together to create a CBS Cares public service announcement set to air during the CBS Television Network's SUPER BOWL LIII coverage, Sunday, Feb. 3, and after the Super Bowl on the CBS Sports Network. Featuring the voiceover of CBS THIS MORNING co-host Gayle King and players from the New York Giants, the PSA encourages girls to believe they can succeed at the highest levels, especially when they work together.