Steve Siegel News

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre company has announced its 2023 season with a full season of musicals and the return of its beloved IVRT performers beginning in February.

On February 19, 2022, I had the opportunity to perform with Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra (ECSO) in the world premiere of Scattering, a ground-breaking electroacoustic piece that explores two of today's most prominent world events: the Covid-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd, all the while including a brand new instrument especially designed for the orchestra conductor to wear on his wrist, performing alongside the musicians. In the months prior to the performance, the ECSO recorded small excerpts which the composer, Joseph Butch Rovan, then analyzed and reimagined, changing the sound entirely and making it coordinate with a special wrist-worn device during the live performance. The device, called TOSHI (The Orchestra Synthesis Human Interface) was expertly worn by its namesake, Toshi Shimada, the ECSO conductor. The piece continues to break barriers with not only the invention of a new instrument, but by making it one that the conductor wears to make him a performer alongside the symphony musicians. Furthermore, the device communicates with the composer’s laptop at the back of the audience, sending out a variety of sounds (including the sound of a person exhaling) through the surround system at the theater. After learning about this novel work, I wanted to learn more, so I sat down with the conductor and composer just before the premiere.

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre company (IVRT) has announced the opening of its 2020 season with 'A Streetcar Named Desire' presented in March at the Candlelight Pavilion.

IVRT presents 'Peter and the Starcatcher' opening Wednesday October 23 in Claremont at the Candlelight Pavilion.

RIOULT Dance NY, a leading American modern dance company with a classic sensibility, along with the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) will present a one-night-only performance of its Bach Dances on October 9, 2013 at 7:30pm at the Manhattan School of music's stunning John C. Borden Auditorium. The school is located on the northwest corner of Broadway at 122nd Street, NYC. Tickets are $12 adults, $7 students/seniors and can be purchased in person at the MSM Box Office (M-F, 10am - 5pm), online: http://www.msmnyc.edu/Concertgoer/Event-Highlights#oct or by calling 917-493- 4428.

Patricia Watt, Andrew Wargo, Wendy Federman, Carolyn Kendall Buchter, Bruce Michael, Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster, Sara Johnson, Jamie Watkins and Bronwen Carson co-hosted a Kickoff Reception for the committee & supporters of the 29th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards at the Gramercy Park home of Clare Aich on November 15.

Carolines on Broadway, 'America's Premier Comedy Nightclub,' announces its all-star line-up of talent for the month of November 2009, highlighted by headliners Mario Cantone, from HBO's 'Sex and the City,' Broadway's 'Laugh Whore' and ABC's 'The View,' November 5 - 8 (as part of the New York Comedy Festival) ; Ruperto Vanderpool, from HBO's 'P Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy,' BET's 'Comic View' and the film 'The Cook Out,' hosts 'El Spanglish Comedy Show,' November 6 and 7 as part of the NYCF; Louis CK, from HBO's 'Lucky Louie' and the film 'The Invention of Lying,' November 8 (as part of the NYCF), and on November 25; Paul Mooney, 'Negrodamus' from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show,' from Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled' and his Showtime special, 'Jesus Was Black,' November 12 -15, 19 - 22 and 26 - 29; 'The Gangster of Comedy' Capone, from BET's 'ComicView,' 'Showtime at the Apollo' and the film 'Death of a Dynasty,' November 20 - 22; and Charlie Murphy, from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show' and the film 'Norbit' hosts 'Charlie Murphy and Friends,' on November 27 and 28.

Broadway's brightest stars came out on Sunday afternoon, September 13th to Times Square to celebrate the annual Broadway on Broadway concert! BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture every theatrical moment!