On June 22, 2018, Bistro Award-winning Cacophony Daniels (aka Jersey Boys's Courter Simmons) marches into New York's storied Don't Tell Mama with 'Wanna Bette?,' a live-singing cabaret tribute to the one and only Bette Midler.
The Classics Theatre Project's Artistic Director Joey Folsom today announced casting and creative team details for the Company's inaugural production, in a new adaptation by Ben Schroth of Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard, directed by Joey Folsom, will run June 21 - July 14, 2018 in the Kim Dawson Theatre at the The Trinity River Arts Center.
Book-It Repertory Theatre brings The Picture of Dorian Gray to Seattle this June. Directed by Victor Pappas, the famously dark 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde was adapted for the stage by Judd Parkin.
LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT invite you to 'Seize the Day' as they present the fifth and final show of its 2017-2018 season (and the 40th anniversary of the iconic theatre) with Disney's NEWSIES, book by Harvey Fierstein, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, musical direction by Brent Crayon and directed and choreographed by Richard J. Hinds. NEWSIES will preview on Friday, June 1, 2018 (with a press opening on Saturday, June 2 at 8pm) and runs through Sunday, June 24, 2018 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada.
Phoenix Theatre founding Producing Director Bryan Fonseca, who guided the original storefront operation to a new $ 11 million dollar theater on the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, has been named the theatre's Founder and Producing Director Emeritus.
800 Pound Gorilla Records announces the June 15 release of Translate This, the highly-anticipated third album from Last Comic Standing season seven winner Felipe Esparza.
On Saturday, June 16, Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) will host an exclusive area appearance of the Vermont-based American roots band Low Lily, a two-time New England Music Awards nominee that has had two #1 songs on international folk radio and was voted #1 Most Wanted at the annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (NY), a popular event held at the foot of the Berkshires for close to 30 years. The concert at WCT will celebrate the release of Low Lily's new album, 10,000 Days Like These, which Folk Radio UK has already dubbed 'refreshing and uplifting... an absolute stunner'; Roots Music Report calls the band's newest music 'as smart with sense of pop phrasing and flair as it is roots-savvy.'
Civic Acts: New Plays Toward The Beloved Community is Civic Ensemble's new play festival in Ithaca featuring new political plays by nationally and internationally renowned playwrights whose work centers on women and people of color. These plays deal with the challenges our communities face in moving society toward what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called The Beloved Community. Civic Acts is one of the rare new play festivals in the United States devoted to socially-engaged theatre. The Beloved Community, first articulated by early 20th-century philosophers Josiah Royce and Randolph Bourne, is a vision where people of diverse racial, ethnic, educational, class, gender, sexual orientation backgrounds/identities seek to realize justice within the community and in the broader world.
Lyric Stage will close its twenty-fifth season with 1951?s Best Musical Tony Award winner, Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows' Broadway masterpiece GUYS AND DOLLS, in association with SMU Meadows School of the Arts.
HBO Sports, one of television's premier storytellers, is teaming up with the Bill Simmons Media Group for COURTSIDE AT THE NBA FINALS, an unscripted one-hour special chronicling the sights and sounds of the 2018 NBA Finals, debuting TUESDAY, JUNE 19 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), with a replay that evening at 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT), on HBO. Bill Simmons will serve as executive producer.
See brand new production photos from the Dallas engagement of Disney's The Lion King, which will leap onto the stage at The Music Hall at Fair Park from Wednesday, June 13 through Saturday, July 7.
Not even two months removed from the single's original release, New York-based duo Disco Killerz and dance music veteran Liquid Todd just received the remix treatment for their fourth collaboration, 'Changes' featuring vocalist Sophie Simmons. Out now on Crowd Records, a NYC-based indie dance label thats growing up fast, the production gets a facelift from a breadth of premier rising talents including the likes of Aiden Jude, Gil Glaze & Lanna, Zack Martino & LuxLyfe, Kue along with LA Riots.
This summer, Sierra Stages is proud to present the musical "Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach" featuring words and music by the Tony and Academy Award-winning songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and book by Timothy Allen McDonald, based on the book "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl. "Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach" plays for four weekends only from July 12 through August 4 at the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City.
Colorful and imaginative costumes, other-worldly lighting and sound effects, and a scenic design that combines magic with urban details, serve as the playground for the Lyric Stage Company's production of the 1975 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, THE WIZ, under the direction of Dawn M. Simmons. Helping her translate her vision of Oz, by way of New Orleans, are Music Director Allyssa Jones, fronting a vibrant eight-piece orchestra, and Jean Appolon, whose inventive choreography anthropomorphizes a tornado, a poppy field, and the eponymous Yellow Brick Road.
This past Tuesday evening, May 22, the National Museum of American Jewish History held the 2018 Only in America Gala at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. This event celebrated the legacy of legendary Maestro and Broadway composer Leonard Bernstein during his centennial year, and honored his children Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein, and Nina Bernstein Simmons.
The WAM Theatre 2018 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series continues with Honor Killing by Sarah Bierstock at 3:30pm on Sunday, June 10, at No. Six Depot Roastery and Cafe in West Stockbridge. Former Fresh Takes curator Molly Merrihew will direct this hard-hitting political play that recently completed its premiere production at Florida Studio Theatre.
Bursting onto the scene in 2010, UK four-piece Bastille have become one of the most instantly recognisable and unstoppable pop forces in British music today, with their highly anticipated third album on its way. Frontier Touring is delighted to announce that Bastille will perform two intimate headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne this September - their first Australian dates in four years - with special guest Nicole Millar.
Eight times a week, the hit Broadway musical Come From Away tells a true story of teamwork and hospitality in the face of difficult circumstances.
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