The Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and actress Melissa Manchester will be the recipient of a Special Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Popular Music at the 27th annual Bistro Awards on Monday, April 23 at 6:30pm, at Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street.
Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars (History Channel) attended the March 14 performance of Jersey Boys at its new home, Paris Las Vegas. Check out the photo of the star at the show below!
Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner David Strathairn (Dr. Austin Sloper) will join Academy Award® nominee Jessica Chastain (Catherine Sloper) in the Tony Award®-winning play The Heiress. Written by Ruth Goetz & Augustus Goetz, The Heiress will be directed by Tony Award® nominated playwright and director Moisés Kaufman and will open in the Fall of 2012 at a theatre to be announced.
WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced the cast and creative team for Boeing-Boeing. Directed by Robin Armstrong, the cast includes Ashley Wood as Bernard, Andy Baldwin as Robert, Sherry Hopkins as Gloria, Emily Scott Banks as Gabriella, Morgan McClure as Gretchen and Lulu Ward as Bertha.
Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) presents a new world premiere adaptation of Sophocles' tragic classic greek tragedy, Antigone, which pits the courageous title character against King Creon and the laws of Thebes in defense of her brother's honor with fatal consequences. Antigone will run from March 22nd to April 15th every Thursday through Sunday except Easter (4/8) at Maryland Ensemble Theatre (31 W. Patrick St. Frederick MD 21701). All shows are at 8pm except Sundays at 7pm and one Sunday matinee at 2pm on April 1 which will be followed by a talk back with the writer, director, cast and special guest Linda Pappas Funsch, a Middle East scholar from Frederick Community College . Tickets are $15 - $24 (except $5 preview performance on 3/22) and may be purchased online at marylandensemble.org, by phone at (301) 694-4744 or in person at the MET box office. The opening will be celebrated on Sunday, March 25th at 6pm with a pre-show reception catered by The Greene Turtle preceding the performance at 7pm.
Sarofim Hall is set to bring the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to the stage in JERSEY BOYS. The national tour will stop in Houston from March 13 through 30th.
Texas-based playwright/screenwriter Thomas Ward will premiere his new play International Falls at the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at Water Tower Theatre in Addison.
On Friday, March 9, 2012 Capital Stage's new midtown venue at 2215 J Street will host popular actress/comedienne Katie Rubin performing her one-woman comedy show My Spiritual Death, a Comedy Show!
The singer, actress and comedienne Kaye Ballard, the Grammy and Tony Award-winning singer/songwriter and actress Dee Dee Bridgewater, and the jazz trumpeter and cornetist Warren Vaché will be the special honorees of the 2012 Bistro Awards on Monday, April 23 at 6:30pm. Taking place at Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street (between 7th & 8th avenues), the 27th Annual Bistro Awards gala, which celebrates outstanding achievement in New York cabaret and jazz, will also recognize 22 other artists and shows.
5th Avenue Theatre Executive Producer and Artistic Director David Armstrong yesterday announced the seven productions making up the celebrated Seattle musical theater's 2012-13 season. The program features a mix of contemporary musicals and timeless classics, plus Seattle's first peek at some of Broadway's greatest new hits.
Tigers Be Still, rising star Kim Rosenstock's savagely funny dark comedy about a young woman who stops being a total disaster and gets her life back on track, is ready to take a bite out of Chicago's theater scene.
ShenanArts at the en Telos Theatre presents WOODY on February 24 & 25 & March 2 & 3 at 7:00 pm, and February 25th & March 4th at 3:00 pm. Dinner theatre option available on both Saturdays.
Texas-based playwright/screenwriter Thomas Ward will premiere his new play International Falls at the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at Water Tower Theatre in Addison.
Dallas Theater Center presents Tigers Be Still in the Studio Theatre at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center March 2 - May 13, 2012. Hal Brooks returns to DTC to direct the play, which stars DTC Brierley Resident Acting Company members Abbey Siegworth and Chamblee Ferguson.
WaterTower Theatre's Producing Artistic Director and Out of the Loop Fringe Festival Producer Terry Martin today announced that for the first time in the Festival's history many of the performances will be streamed live on WTT's Ustream channel. In addition to the live streaming of shows, the channel will also feature backstage interviews with several artists.