Heartbeat Opera is a new company intent upon re-imagining opera in intimate spaces for a new generation. Employing a minimalism that allows the emotional integrity of the music to shine through, the company's work focuses on the body of the singer and the visceral power of the music. Co-Artistic Directors Louisa Proske andEthan Heard, who trained together in the Directing program at the Yale School of Drama, are committed to nurturing the actor in every singer they work with. The company creates productions of classics and new pieces that are daring and visceral—productions that manifest the emotional grandeur and theatrical power of opera with minimal means. Heartbeat's one-act festival presentation of György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragments, directed by Heard, and the New York premiere of Jacques Offenbach's Daphnis & Chloé, in a new English translation directed by Proske, marks this young company's debut. Heartbeat Opera's resident music ensemble Cantata Profana, described by The New York Times as “a stylish early music ensemble,” will provide musical accompaniment.
BAM and Scott Rudin present the Goodman Theatre's renowned revival of Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH now through March 15. The production opens tonight, February 12, 2015.
Singing duo Todd Sherry & Heather Olt have announced that they're premiering their hit show, Up, With a Twist at Rockwell Table & Stage on Monday, February 16, 2015!
A copyright lawsuit against Frankie Valli and his Four Seasons band member Robert Gaudio has been revived by a federal appeals court over the popular Broadway musical JERSEY BOYS
It's all for one and one for all as THE THREE MUSKETEERS ride into the Houston Family Arts Center (HFAC). Based on the classic novel by Alexander Dumas, Ken Ludwig has adapted this swashbuckling tale for the stage. The adventure begins March 20, 2015 and runs through April 12 in the Garza Mainstage Theatre.
These Trees Are Made of Blood, a new play about Argentina's Dirty War, will play in The Little at Southwark Playhouse from Wednesday 18 March to Saturday 11 April 2015, with a press night on Friday 20 March at 8.00pm.
The Canadian premiere of THE GOODNIGHT BIRD, Centaur Theatre's fourth play of six in the 2014-15 season, plays from February 24 to March 22, 2015. The joint production with Vancouver's Kay Meek Centre, where the production made its Western Canadian premiere in January, is written by Colleen Murphy and directed by Centaur's Artistic and Executive Director, Roy Surette.
In celebration of 35 years presenting the best of Broadway to Atlanta audiences, Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta is rolling out the red carpet for another season of blockbuster musicals, Atlanta premieres and returning crowd pleasers for the 2015/2016 season at the Fox Theatre.
Indianapolis artist Philip Campbell's fully commissioned floor-to-ceiling carved mahogany installation offers iMOCA visitors an opportunity to experience 'work that people can touch.'
Over a year in the making, Campbell's solo exhibition, 'Your Catfish Friend,' opens this Friday from 6 to 11 p.m. at iMOCA's Murphy Art Center location at 1043 Virginia Avenue. It is a touching return to the facility as Campbell revitalized the former five and dime store building as an arts hub in 1999 before moving on to other pursuits in 2009.
Best known for his photo-realistic drawings and paintings, Campbell has also been carving for more than 20 years. The 22.5 by 11.5 foot work made for 'Catfish' and consisting of 26 panels is his first installation. It will fill the middle gallery. The front gallery will feature a plethora or work Campbell used to determine the final installation. It will include studies that determined the type of wood he'd use for carving, color tests and a few paintings also completed during the year it took for him to work on the installation.
Over the last 25 years, Campbell's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and published and collected around the world. He just finished a stint as an Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellow.
WHO: Event chair Jim Toth, Performers John Legend and Common, Host James Corden, Robert Downey Jr., Camila and Matthew McConaughey, Eva Mendes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Tony Hale, Marg Helgenberger, Dan Bucatinsky, Katee Sackhoff, Karl Urban, Stacy Keibler, Poppy Montgomery, Mallory Jansen, Katie Couric, and other SU2C co-founders.
When is a jukebox musical not a 'jukebox musical'? If anything, it's when the musical is by its subjects, when they're an integral part of putting the show together. If JERSEY BOYS were any less a jukebox musical, it would be the original band on stage talking about their story and giving a concert themselves. With music by band member and composer Bob Gaudio, lyrics by 'Fifth Season' Bob Crewe -- in short, with the music and lyrics by the band's songwriters, one of whom was a band member, and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, JERSEY BOYS isn't as much a jukebox musical as it is a musical documentary of a hair-raising story that wasn't in the news at the time.
Jazz headliner Carol Fredette and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Lillias White will be among the eleven performers honored at the 30th Annual Bistro Awards gala, which recognizes outstanding achievement in New York cabaret, jazz, and comedy. The celebration will take place on Wednesday, March 4, at 6:30pm at Gotham Comedy Club, 208 W. 23rd Street.
Wildland Adventures believes that Darwin's survival of the fittest applies to the outcome of its home team, the Seattle-based Seahawks, as they compete in this Sunday's Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, AZ.
Long Island's longest-running classical music festival launches a new spring series this year. The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, which since 1984 has taken place every summer in the beautiful seaside setting of the island's East End, will inaugurate BCMF Spring with two Sunday concerts, on March 22 and April 26, 2015.
When the sun sets, the ultimate underground cake competition begins on new series Duff Till Dawn, premiering tonight, January 29th at 10:30pm ET/PT on Food Network.
Phoenix -- Arizona Musicfest, the premier Winter Music Festival, kicks off today, January 29 and will run throughout the month of February, concluding March 5th.
