During the 2013/14 Season an epic slate of personalities and productions awaits you on the Quadracci Powerhouse stage! The monumental, moving, and Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime gives us a glimpse at the early 20th century life of three distinct groups of people, while the side-splitting comedy, Noises Off, peeks behind the curtain at a group of struggling actors. The tumultuous final days of Judy Garland unfold before our eyes in End of the Rainbow, a single virtuoso artist will lead a blazing, contemporary retelling of a Homer classic in An Iliad, and the dynamic birth of Superman will be explored with The History of Invulnerability, forever changing the way we look at superheroes.
There was a time when boy bands didn't make you cringe. In an age where social media wasn't the norm, "wholesome" was the flavor of the day. There was no Justin Bieber, no Backstreet Boys, no New Kids on the Block. Forever Plaid takes you back to the 1950's, where clean-cut, close harmony groups such as "The Four Freshmen" and "The Four Aces" crooned their harmonious love songs to the top of the charts. Forever Plaid is a musical revue of such an era and will make you laugh while you are warmed with music that is sure to evoke fond memories. The show runs August 14-24 at the Wagon Wheel Theatre in Warsaw.
Shakespeare & Company arrives at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington with a special collaborative production and World Premiere of William Coe Bigelow's Leap Year. Directed by Stephen Rothman and featuring a cast from both Bard College and S&Co., performances run August 23-September 1 in the McConnell Theater, located within the Daniel Arts Center on the campus of Bard College at Simon's Rock- 84 Alford Rd, Great Barrington, MA.
Moonlight Stage Productions' 33rd summer season continues with the Broadway hit YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, presented professionally for the first time in Southern California, with performances from August 21 to September 7. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, based on the hilarious 1974 film by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder that spoofed the horror film genre, opened on Broadway in 2007 and toured the U.S. in 2009. Single tickets are priced $15 to $50 and include price levels for student rush, military, senior, and family discounts. To purchase tickets or for more information, call (760) 724-2110 or visit moonlightstage.com.
Don't let this summer end without seeing 'America's Favorite Original Boy Band'! Olney Theatre Institute presents a limited return engagement of Forever Plaid August 24 through September 15 on Olney Theatre Center's Historic Stage.
Paradise Theatre's 13th season continues with FOREVER PLAID by Stuart Ross, directed by Jeff Richards with musical direction by Vicki Knickerbocker and choreography by Vicki Richards. The show runs today, August 2-18, 2013, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 pm; Sundays at 3 pm. Special dinner theatre performance on August 17 at 6 PM.
Starting The Crazy Coqs' very exciting September schedule is the highly acclaimed Barb Jungr, who returns after a sell out week earlier this year with her new show HERE COMES THE NIGHT (September 3 - 7), followed by one of the country's leading musical stars Dave Willetts, in his show AN EVENING WITH DAVE WILLETTS (September 10 - 12). Making their debut at Crazy Coqs are the unmissable, unique piano duo Worbey and Farrell (September 13 & 14). The wonderfully talented theatre, TV and film actress Celia Imrie performs her debut cabaret show LAUGHING MATTERS (September 17 - 21) and also returning are Kit & McConnel with their new show SECOND MARRIAGE (September 24 - 28).
Milwaukee Repertory Theater announced casting today for I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett, the first production to open The Rep's 60th Anniversary 2013/14 Season, Venus in Fur, coming to the Stiemke Studio in late September, Forever Plaid, opening at the end of October in the Stackner Cabaret and Noises Off, the second production in the Quadracci Powerhouse this season.
Legendary rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd are set to take bergenPac by storm with Vagabonds on Wednesday August 14, 2013 at 8:00PM, it was announced today. Tickets are $149, $99, $79, and available at http://www.ticketmaster.com, www.bergenpac.org, or by calling the box office at (201) 227-1030.
Paradise Theatre's 13th season continues with FOREVER PLAID by Stuart Ross, directed by Jeff Richards with musical direction by Vicki Knickerbocker and choreography by Vicki Richards. The show runs August 2-18, 2013.
After its workshop production at the York Theatre in NYC in Nov. 2011, Chance - A Musical Play about Love, Risk & Getting it Right -will be having the its world premiere staging at The Alcove Theatre in SF, beginning tonight, July 5, and running through July 28, 2013.
The Muny announced two principal casting changes for the 2013 season. Stephen Wallem will play the title role in Shrek, and Dee Hoty will play the Reverend Mother Mary Regina in Nunsense Muny Style!
Gregory Allan Bock & Friends will return to 54 Below tonight, June 9, featuring Gregory Allan Bock, Allan Snyder, Darren Meyer, Casey Erin Clark, Dana Winkle, Ashley Kate Adams and more in 'The Best of Broadway & Beyond', beginning at 5 p.m.
Gregory Allan Bock & Friends will return to 54 Below on Sunday, June 9, featuring Gregory Allan Bock, Allan Snyder, Darren Meyer, Casey Erin Clark, Dana Winkle, Ashley Kate Adams and more in 'The Best of Broadway & Beyond', beginning at 5 p.m.
After its workshop production at the York Theatre in NYC in Nov. 2011, Chance - A Musical Play about Love, Risk & Getting it Right -will be having the its world premiere staging at The Alcove Theatre in SF. July 5 -28, 2013.
This year's main-stage attraction of SCR's annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, SMOKEFALL---a co-production with Chicago's Goodman Theatre directed by Anne Kauffman---starts off initially intriguing, as if first unveiling itself as a dark dramedy that follows three generations of an eccentric family living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the tolls that the passage of time imposes on their lives. But instead, what actually transpires through the course of its three acts is an uneven play that ultimately gets too bogged down in its own randomly structured quirkiness.
