Street Theatre Company brings Nashville yet another local premiere with the rock musical PASSING STRANGE. With book and lyrics by singer/songwriter/playwright Stew and music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, PASSING STRANGE tells the tale of a young African American man's journey to discover who he is and to find meaning in life. A charming mix of performance art, philosophical existentialism, comedy, and rock, this coming of age story will have audiences redefining what the American musical means to them.
What often makes a trip really special is finding something great that everyone else somehow missed. The hard part is actually finding those gems and recognizing them when you see them.
For its 2014 Countryside series, Apollo's Fire proudly premieres 'GLORY ON THE MOUNTAIN: An Appalachian Journey.' Created and directed by Jeannette Sorrell and starring singers Amanda Powell and Ross Hauck, the program will be performed in 8 concerts in rustic venues in Hunting Valley, Chardon, Bay Village and Bath, today, June 12-22.
The much-loved tale of a dingo who catches a wombat and decides to make wombat stew has been cleverly developed into a 'true-blue-dinky-di-big-Aussie-musical' complete with blobs of mud, very fine feathers, creepy crawlies, flies, gumnuts and a big bubbling billycan.
Street Theatre Company brings Nashville yet another local premiere with the rock musical PASSING STRANGE. With book and lyrics by singer/songwriter/playwright Stew and music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, PASSING STRANGE tells the tale of a young African American man's journey to discover who he is and to find meaning in life. A charming mix of performance art, philosophical existentialism, comedy, and rock, this coming of age story will have audiences redefining what the American musical means to them.
For its 2014 Countryside series, Apollo's Fire proudly premieres "GLORY ON THE MOUNTAIN: An Appalachian Journey." Created and directed by Jeannette Sorrell and starring singers Amanda Powell and Ross Hauck, the program will be performed in 8 concerts in rustic venues in Hunting Valley, Chardon, Bay Village and Bath, during June 12-22.
Synetic Theater's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is an ingeniously witty exploration of the trials and tribulations of traveling all told through the exploits of three men and their dog cruising the Thames.
Time Square Arts, in partnership with Allied Partners and Brickman Real Estate, will present Jim Findlay's Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience, produced by Collapsable Giraffe and 3-Legged Dog.
Cooking Channel welcomes Rev Run and his family to the lineup with the premiere of new series Rev Run's Sunday Suppers showcasing the true joy of family and great food on Sunday, June 8th at 10:00pmET/7:00pmPT.
The schedule for this summer's Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, which runs from July 20 to August 10, was announced today by Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center's Director of Public Programming. Nearly 100 free performances will take place across the plazas of Lincoln Center during three weeks. A special Memorial Concert for Pete and Toshi Seeger on July 20 will be followed by the official opening concert on July 23 with Larry Harlow's Hommy: A Latin Opera, the landmark work's first performance in 40 years. Complete festival details and a chronological listing of events follow.
The cast and creative team of the hit Off-Broadway musical Murder for Two are teaming up with some of New York's brightest up and coming composers and BroadwayWorld.com every Monday night for their spring concert series, Murderous Musical Mondays. Composer Joe Iconis contines the series on Monday, May 5, 2014, immediately following the 7pm performance of Murder for Two at New World Stages (Stage 5 - 340 West 50th Street).
Performers will include Liz Lark Brown, Katrina Rose Dideriksen, Seth Eliser, Lauren Marcus, Jeremy Morse, Lance Rubin, Jared Weiss, and Jason "SweetTooth" Williams.
After her passionate, pulsating and highly praised Spring 2013 show The Sound of Blue, at Iridium Jazz Club, a prominent cabaret critic called Billie Williams, "An emotionally resonant vocalist . . . pithy, powerful, and sure of the terrain. She GIVES a performance." Now a year later--on May 25 at 7:30 pm--Billie Williams makes her debut at New York City's Joe's Pub in a show celebrating the release of her new original single Lonely Night in Harlem, a song inspired by life in her long-time Harlem neighborhood. Billie's concert will also feature other new original songs and she'll be supported by an amazing group of seasoned Blues and R&B professionals, including Stew Cutler: guitar; Double-Z: bass; Tony Allen: drums; Ron Thompson: keyboards; Birch Johnson: trombone; Charlie Lagond: sax; and Marty Bound: trumpet.
The PEN World Voices Festival is an annual, week-long festival of international literature founded by Salman Rushdie and Paul Auster. This year, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center will host readings of nine seminal plays from five continents by some of the world's most important and exciting dramatists at their PEN World Voices: International Play Festival.
As part of the second annual Live Ideas festival, James Baldwin, This Time!, New York Live Artspresents Baldwin Through Dance: Charles O. Anderson and Dianne McIntyre. The shared program features the world premiere of Time is Time created and performed by acclaimed dancer and choreographer Dianne McIntyre, and the New York City premiere of Charles O. Anderson's Restless Natives.
Time Square Arts, in partnership with Allied Partners and Brickman Real Estate, will present Jim Findlay's Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience, produced by Collapsable Giraffe and 3-Legged Dog.
Genre-defying sextet Umphrey's McGee announces their first concert at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis August 15, 2014, as part of a summer tour that includes performances at Summerfest, Bonnaroo, and Red Rocks Amphitheater. The summer tour follows the release of their highly anticipated seventh studio album Similar Skin (June 10). Similar Skin will be released via the band's newly formed independent label, Nothing Too Fancy Music, named after one of their most beloved songs. As one of the most progressive and forward thinking DIY bands around, Umphrey's McGee continues to set new industry standards where music and the fan experience intersect.
As part of New York Live Arts' second annual Live Ideas festival, James Baldwin, This Time!, director Patricia McGregor (Katori Hall's Hurt Village, Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand) and actor Colman Domingo, of Lee Daniel's The Butler and Stew's Passing Strange,present the world premiere of Nothing Personal. This production, which shares the name of the exceptionally powerful 1964 volume by James Baldwin and renowned photographer Richard Avedon, brings the collaboration to life in a wrenchingly original stage adaptation.
