The Torrington Parks and Recreation Department will present its 13th Northwest Idol Finals on Sunday, August 26 at 7 pm, featuring eleven finalists on the Warner Theatre's Main Stage. Tickets are $10.
This Saturday, August 11, the Warner Theatre will show FINDING NEMO and JAWS on the big screen, sponsored by Elevator Service Company. Tickets for each film are $5!
Florida Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce directors for its 2018-2019 Season and complete casting for five of its upcoming productions. The theatre's 21st season is set to open to previews Sept. 18 with the moving, one-woman comedy, Becoming Dr. Ruth, which kicks off a nine-show season in the theatre's two venues.
Casting is now complete for the Lyceum premiere of the charming and hilarious comedy Souvenir, playing from August 18 - August 26. Souvenir will be directed by BRUCE LONGWORTH (At the Lyceum: The Immigrant, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Miracle Worker, Arsenic and Old Lace and The Importance of Being Earnest). The production features APRIL WOODALL as Florence Foster Jenkins, and PAUL HELM as her hapless accompanist, Cosme McMoon.
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) has announced The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, directed by Melissa Rain Anderson, as its January Studio Theatre production.
Becky's New Car, written by Steven Dietz as part of ACT Theatre's New Works for the American Stage program in 2008, follows the story of Becky Foster, a wife and mother who works at a car dealership. Simultaneously funny and poignant, the play explores the question of what makes life most fulfilling-contentment or adventure. Becky's New Car opened in the studio theatre at DreamWrights Center For Community Arts on August 2.
Rainbow Theatre Project will open its sixth season with Siegmund Fuchs' In the Closet. Presented as a join world premier with Cleveland's Convergence-Continuum, In the Closet will run from August 16 - September 15, 2018 at the District of Columbia Arts Center.
Previews begin today for the world premiere of Erin Shields's exciting new interpretation of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Directed by Jackie Maxwell, the production opens on August 17, and with three performances added to meet audience demand, it now runs until October 21 at the Studio Theatre.
The Delray Beach Playhouse announces their 2018-19 Season of Main Stage Plays, Musical Memories, Feelin' Groovy, Interactive Studio Theatre, Artists Lounge Live, Cabaret and Special Engagements.
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (Eve Wolf, Executive Artistic Director) is proud to announce that the 2018-'19 season, ERC's 18th, will begin September 15th with Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson. Opening Night is set for September 27th. This limited Off-Broadway engagement runs through October 21st only. Performances will be in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues).
Announcing well-known playwright Dennis Danziger, after over three decades away from the stage, returns completing Act Two "Home Plate," along with his original one act play "Pennant Fever,"written 30 plus years earlier. The two-act play titled "DOUBLE PLAY"with a fascinating history is absolutely beautiful and hilarious. The show will premiere October 5 - 28, 2018, at The Stephanie Feury Theatre.
After developmental productions that drew high praise from prominent theatre critics, and left audiences alternately speechless and effusive, engaged and enraged, the Huntington Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Eleanor Burgess's explosive new play, The Niceties, running August 31 to October 6 at the South End/Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. The Huntington is pleased to produce the play in association with two other leading theatre companies. The production will move Off Broadway to Manhattan Theatre Club immediately following the Boston run, and then continue on to Princeton, NJ for performances at McCarter Theatre Center.
Athena Project announces Honor Killing by Sarah Bierstock, which was developed during the 2017 Plays In Progress Series, will make its Denver debut Saturday, September 8, 2018 inside the Elaine Wolfe Theatre at the JCC Denver, 350 S. Dahlia St, Denver, CO 80246.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre today announced final casting for A Doll's House, Part 2, written by Lucas Hnath and directed by Les Waters, which begins previews on Thursday, September 6 and runs through Sunday, October 21. Individual tickets begin at $30 ($15 if you're under 35) and can be purchased online at berkeleyrep.org or by phone at 510 647-2949 beginning August 12, 2018. Subscription tickets are available now. Press night of this first show of Berkeley Rep's 50th anniversary season will be on Thursday, September 13.
New Hampshire Theatre Project will collaborate with RMJD Productions to present The Bodines at West End Studio Theatre August 24 to September 9. This dark and wondrous new comedic drama features Deborah and Jeffrey Kinghorn as Wyatt and Emily Bodine who embark on another boring evening at home that quickly turns into "the day when everything changed." A text message. A neighbor's return from vacation. A homemade pie. It all seems so banal…until it becomes the meaning of life, a glimpse into the cosmos, and an awakening to a whole new world. The Bodines will tickle your funny bone and then leave you wondering…why the heck are we laughing?
A two-man comedy, Irma Vep - A Penny Dreadful, produced by Orlando Shakes in partnership with UCF, runs from October 10 - November 18, 2018 in the Goldman Theater. Tickets (starting at $30) are available now by phone (407) 447-1700 ext. 1, online at orlandoshakes.org, or in person at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center (812 East Rollins Street).
Litchfield Saltwater Grille has nominated the Warner Theatre as its Charity of the Month in August 2018. To participate, make a reservation at Saltwater Grille for any day during the month of August (Friday and Saturday lunch only) and mention the Warner Theatre and Saltwater Grille will donate 10% of your check back to the Warner!
On August 17 and 18, the students of the Warner Theatre Center for Arts Education Summer Arts Program will present their take on a mystical journey to ancient China in the action-packed adaptation of Disney's MULAN JR. in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.