The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA (CWRU/CPH MFA) Acting Program will present The Three Sisters in the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre ("The Helen") at PlayhouseSquare for 10 performances only, November 12-22, 2014. Written by Anton Chekhov and directed by CWRU/CPH MFA Program Director Ron Wilson, this landmark piece of theatre opens the second season for the MFA Class of 2016.
When ASCAP Award-winning writer/director Chip Deffaa's "The Irving Berlin Ragtime Revue" opens November 9th at the 13th Street Repertory Theater (50 W. 13th Street, NYC), it will include some Berlin rarities and rediscoveries unheard in a century, including some never-recorded Berlin numbers.
HE JEWISH SPIRIT, a new cd on Sono Luminus (DSL-92182), was released today, October 28, 2014, with Essential Voices USA, conducted by Judith Clurman with soloists Ron Raines, Bruce Ruben and Michael Slattery.
OldSoundRoom's production of OCTOBER IN THE CHAIR AND OTHER FRAGILE THINGS, based on the short stories of New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, begins previews tomorrow, Wednesday, October 29th for seven performances only at The American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54 Street). This production brings 90 minutes of absurdist, dark humor, just in time for Halloween. Directed by Michael McQuilken, OCTOBER IN THE CHAIR AND OTHER FRAGILE THINGS will play October 29th and October 30th at 8PM; October 31st and November 1st at 8PM and 10:30PM and November 2nd at 2PM. Tickets are $20. For tickets please visit: www.oldsoundroom.com.
The Sedona International Film Festival and Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley will present the third annual Sedona Jewish Film Festival Nov. 8-12 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
Beginning Monday, November 3, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer free admission to guests bringing non-perishable food items to donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee on Mondays through December. The items most needed by Second Harvest this year are peanut butter, canned chicken or tuna, canned vegetables, canned fruit, pasta and cereal. Since 2012, visitors to the Frist Center have contributed 8,692 pounds of donated food, which equates to 7,243 meals.
For the first time, Pittsburgh will experience the hit comedy My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy! starring the author and Broadway star of the show, Steve Solomon. This show has now become one of the longest running one-man comedies in history!
The South Florida Silver Palm Theatre Awards committee, founded seven years ago to honor theatrical excellence in South Florida, has announced that this year it will present the coveted award to 26 individuals and organizations.
This month, as part of the 2014-2015 Met Museum Presents season of performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the acclaimed male vocal quintet Profeti della Quintamakes a special New York appearance to celebrate the work of the 17th-century composer known asSalomone Rossi Hebreo—Salomone Rossi the Jew.
Four of the best singers in the West End are joining forces for one night only in Stars of the West End... a night celebrating the greatest musicals of all time.
It is the Throne that takes center stage in Jared Sakren's searing production of William Shakespeare's King John ~ and all the men and women in it merely players to its seductions and channels for the issues that try the souls of their time. It is Maren Maclean who supercharges the play with an electrifying performance as Constance, the aggrieved mother who demands that her son Arthur be given that which is rightfully his ~ that Throne. Southwest Shakespeare Company's production is blessed with a rich ensemble on a simple stage dramatically enhanced by Daniel Davisson's moody lighting.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Romanian Film Initiative are pleased to announce the 9th edition of Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, which has been hailed by The New York Times as one of the “annual treasures” of the Film Society's programming.
?Tickets for the 2014-2015 Winter/Spring Season at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts are on sale now. The all-star lineup boasts award-winning musicians, speakers, special attractions, family programming and returning favorites.
Angels in America by Tony Kushner will be revived by Toneelgroep Amsterdam an directed by Ivo van Hove at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) tonight, October 23 & 24 at 7 p.m. and October 25 at 6 p.m.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation today announced the launch of an online gallery featuring the submissions for Stage One of the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition to design a proposed Guggenheim museum in the Finnish capital. The gallery—which can be found on the competition website atdesignguggenheimhelsinki.org/stageonegallery—is the first public presentation of the Stage One entries.
The Curing Room, David Ian Lee's powerful and provocative play, which caused a huge stir at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with brave and critically acclaimed performances from seven actors stripped bare on stage, will transfer to London this autumn with a three week run at the Pleasance Islington from tonight 21 October - 9 November, with a press night tomorrow 22 October. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
?Tickets for the 2014-2015 Winter/Spring Season at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts are on sale now. The all-star lineup boasts award-winning musicians, speakers, special attractions, family programming and returning favorites.
After a triumphant season debut in 2013 heralded as 'broad, wide-ranging and powerful' by The New York Times, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space begins its 2014-15 Choral season tonight, October 22 at 7pm with Mozart's Mass in C minor-a majestic setting featuring double chorus. The Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola and a phenomenal line-up of soloists (Martha Guth and Marguerite Krull, sopranos; Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor; Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone) under the direction of K. Scott Warren offer this iconic work on a program that opens with Haydn's Symphony No. 97. Tickets are $25-$80; purchase by clicking here or call 212-288-2520.
Members of the Canton Symphony Orchestra will be featured as soloists on the concert titled “Orchestra Spotlight”, Sunday, November 2 at 7:30pm at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall (2323 17th Street NW, Canton). The program of classical standards includes Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins in a minor, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds. The soloists will host a question and answer session, known as “Back Talk”, with audience members immediately following the concert.
