Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS) presents 'A Holiday Concert for Children of All Ages' by Sinfonia New York at Trinity Wall Street Church (Broadway at Wall Street) on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 3 PM.
Kara Oates, the Greenwood girl who has gone from the Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre stage to Broadway to perform in two top shows, has now taken to the recording studio.
B. Someday Productions and Walking Fish Burlesque will present an adult holiday show, THE YOUNG ADVENTURES OF SANTA - A YULETIDE BURLESQUE! Written and directed by Stan Heleva. Runs tonight, December 19-31, 2012 at Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. Tickets are $18, and can be purchased online and at the door.
The cast of A CHRISTMAS STORY,the holiday musical that began performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 7, just performed at JFK Airport as a part of the American Airlines Broadway series. The eight-week limited engagement runs through December 30. Check out their performance below!
Mirror, Mirror on the wall - whose is the loveliest Panto of them all? Well, in Pasadena it's the Playhouse, which has begun a new holiday tradition with this year's debut of Lythgoe Productions' A Snow White Christmas.
BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our December 15th SIP round-up! Yesterday evening's photos featured more heartfelt Newtown wishes from the casts of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Weathervane Playhouse, ELF's Jason Testa and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA's Jeremy Stolle, as well as pics from NEWSIES, THE GRINCH tour, BRING IT ON, THE LION KING, WHITE CHRISTMAS tour, THE ADDAMS FAMILY and a slew of regional productions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, WHITE CHRISTMAS and more.
For three days, the legendary music room Birdland was transformed into a winter wonderland-of-sorts, thanks to the pitch-confused quintuple-threat (actor/singer/dancer/model/magician) Miranda Sings. Check out photos from her performances below!
Today, December 15th, from 4-8 PM, come and enjoy a festive Winter Carnival in Gladstone! The City is excited to host this seasonal event at its new and beautiful Linden Square, located at 70th and North Cherry.
We've all been suspicious of how Mary really became pregnant with Jesus. I mean, Immaculate Conception? Come on! Well last year's sold out hit "Wisemen" is back to investigate just that. And while structurally it felt like it droned a bit, the sacrilegious hilarity is the perfect departure to the usual holiday theatrical fare.
Seattle Public Theater (SPT) is proud to announce a special American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performance of David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries on Friday, December 21st at 9pm.
YLT's annual Christmas variety show, A Musical Christmas Card, runs December 14 - 16. The show is packed with music, and full of delight for audiences of all ages. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at rehearsals below.
Liberally utilizing tried and true heartstring-tugging tropes masterfully displayed in holiday entities as diverse as LOVE, ACTUALLY, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, HOLIDAY INN and even showing some Chanukah action sure to set virtually anybody's menorah fully alight thanks to the Puckerman brothers, GLEE's Christmas episode - this year, aptly titled 'Love, Actually' and written by Matthew Hodgson and directed by HAIRSPRAY and ROCK OF AGES movie musical helmer and a recent participant in this very column, Adam Shankman (available here) - was all in all a quite quintessential quintet of seasonal joy, cheer, and, well, glee, broaching the quoin of many and any a viewer's heart valves in so pleasingly enacting its ample entertainment value over the course of the episode's five featured segments within the winning framework. While the split-location structure of the series as dictated by the new style of GLEE 4.0 is assuredly more pronounced than would be the case had the proposed NYC-set spin-off gotten the greenlight by FOX, the cast and creators are making it all work and it is more seamless as it goes on - and the addictive, giddy, all-consuming glee of it all that drew us all in in the first season is still there to relish by Santa's sleigh-ful.
MSG Entertainment (MSGE) announces an all new production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring The Rockettes, as Chicago audiences will experience the magic of Christmas like never before. In this multi-faceted production, The Rockettes will dance their way through an awe-inspiring journey with new scenes, an array of glamorous new costumes, dramatic lighting effects, and a 50-foot LED screen that will enhance the show with breathtaking new imagery. The Christmas Spectacular will run at the Akoo Theatre at Rosemont from tonight, December 14-30, 2012.
Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) will be hosting a special PlayShop holiday event featuring Santa Claus at today's December 14 performance of The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of 'A Christmas Carol.' This promises to be a magical evening filled with specialty crafts, fun games, and tons of holiday spirit.
Brimming with holiday cheer is YLT's annual Christmas variety show, A Musical Christmas Card, which runs tonight, December 14 - 16. The show is packed with music, and full of delight for audiences of all ages.
A Christmas Story, The Musical arrives on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre just in time for the 2012 holiday season. Based on the 1983 movie perennial, the musical plays an eight-week limited engagement through December 30. Tickets are now on sale at www.AChristmasStoryTheMuscial.com or www.TicketMaster.com. Katy Perry and John Mayor just visited the show and you can check out photos of them backstage below!
Associate Conductor and chorusmaster John Finney returns to once again lead Handel and Haydn Society in a holiday celebration of Bach's music. The Christmas Oratorio continues Handel and Haydn's holiday tradition of bringing the finest gems by Bach following the annual performances of Messiah. The Boston Globe described the 2011 Bach holiday concert as "a whirlwind sleigh ride that even Santa might envy" and in 2010 pronounced that "the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is nearly as crucial to Christmas as Santa Claus, Salvation Army bell-ringers, and eggnog."
The Young People's Theatre of Bay Street Players offers an original holiday musical for the whole family. This production is generously sponsored in part by the Marshall Financial Group of Mount Dora.
In partnership with ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's Central Heating Lab, Rosenstock Productions sets Christmas on fire with their holiday musical, Wisemen.
I love it when the Reduced Shakespeare Company comes to town. Their humor runs the gamut from simple puns and wordplay to sophisticated laughs that require a bit of intellect. The last time I saw them was a couple of years ago at the Edison Theatre on the campus of Washington University. I didn't see the main members that time, but this time the heavy artillery was broken out and Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor and Matt Rippy, all original contributors (Daniel Singer is the actual founding member), made the trip to our fair city. Once again they played the Edison (December 7-8) and, this time, took on the holiday season with THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW(abridged). The production was a pure delight from start to finish.
