The Freestanding Room is proud to present their 3rd annual ShortStanding Festival of Short Performances and it's their biggest one yet, running today, February 16th, through February 28th!
Opera for the 21st century is more than setting RUSALKA in a whorehouse, populating RIGOLETTO with a cast of apes or sending MARIA STUARDA to a maximum security prison. It must start with a different vocabulary for the words and music--one that still appeals to traditional audiences while also being true to new listeners. Achieving that goal is not easy. As American Lyric Theater (ALT)--founded by Lawrence Edelson in 2005--puts it, “Great Operas Don't Just Happen.”
FINDING NEVERLAND has welcomed its new leading man! Tony Award nominee Tony Yazbeck (On The Town) recently took over the role of Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie in the smash hit, record-breaking Broadway musical. BroadwayWorld recently stopped by the the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to check in with Yazbeck about the role and while we were there, he gave us a tour of his new dressing room!
According to the New York Post, current LES MISERABLES star Alfie Boe, who departs that show at the end of February, has his next gig lined up. The paper reports he 'will be stepping into the starring role of "Finding Neverland," ... Boe will play "Peter Pan" creator J.M. Barrie, replacing Tony Yazbeck, and he will then open the show in London's West End in January of next year.' No official announcement has yet been made.
Ruthless! - the show that launched the careers of child stars such as Britney Spears, Natalie Portman and Laura Bell Bundy - opens at Performing Arts San Antonio (PASA) on Friday (February 19) at 15705 San Pedro (behind McDonalds).
The wait is over! Sandy Duncan, the beloved stage and screen actress known for her magical, high-flying, Tony-nominated performance as 'Peter Pan' on Broadway, has returned to Neverland.
The Old Globe's world premiere of Anna Ziegler's THE LAST MATCH, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch (who directed Bethany at the Globe in 2014), will run in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, tonight, February 13, through March 13, 2016.
Springs Ensemble Theatre ("SET") continues its seventh season with Stephen Adly Guirgis's THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT.
Confronting, heartbreaking, and also hilarious, THE PRIDE draws the audience into two worlds, 50 years apart, highlighting that the horrific denial of love was not such a distant memory and still remains a challenge.
Sandy Duncan, the beloved stage and screen actress known for her magical, high-flying, Tony-nominated performance as 'Peter Pan' on Broadway, returns to Neverland. Duncan takes over the role of 'Madame du Maurier' in the hit musical Finding Neverland tonight, February 12.
New York Theatre Ballet will perform at New York Live Arts from February 24-27, 2016. New York Live Arts is located at 219 W. 19th Street, NYC. Performances: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7:30pm; and Saturday at 2pm and 7:30pm. Tickets start at $15, and are available online at http://newyorklivearts.org/event/nytb_2016, by calling the Live Arts box office at 212.691.6500, or by visiting the box office, Monday-Saturday 1pm - 9pm and Sunday 1pm - 8pm.
The San Francisco Early Music Society is proud to present the Bay Area debut of Infusion Baroque. Winners of the Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the 2014 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition, the Montreal-based ensemble will perform three concerts exploring the works of 17th- and 18th-century composers and their tangled, contrary and often scandalous personal lives.
Mix together four strong, unique Southern women, an impromptu happy hour, a dash of fate--shaken not stirred, and you have the recipe for this laugh-a-minute comedy, The Savannah Sipping Society!
The Off-Broadway smash, RUTHLESS! The Musical, marked its 100th performance on January 30th and the company celebrated after the show at Lattanzi with celebrity attendees Lynn Cohen, Mario Cantone and Jerry Dixon.
This spring, the hilarious Off-Broadway hit, Buyer and Cellar by Jonathan Tolins comes to NCTC, starring acclaimed performer and frequent NCTC collaborator, J. Conrad Frank, most recently at NCTC with his acclaimed performance in Charles Busch's Die Mommie Die!. Rebecca Longworth directs. In this uproarious comedy, an unemployed actor is thrust into a close relationship with Barbra Streisand when he is hired to watch over a mall of shoppes she has built in a cellar on her Malibu compound. Soon it begins to take a toll on his patience, his love life, and his view of people (who need people). As Entertainment Weekly declares, 'This show will go down like 'butta'!'
Time Inc.'s (NYSE:TIME) ESSENCE, the preeminent brand for African-American women, kicks off GRAMMY weekend with its highly anticipated 7th annual Black Women in Music event to be held on February 11 in Los Angeles.
Fans will have to wait just a little bit longer for Sandy Duncan, the beloved stage and screen actress known for her magical, high-flying, Tony-nominated performance as 'Peter Pan' on Broadway, to return to Neverland.
The winners of the 43rd annual Annie Awards recognizing the year's best in the field of animation, have been announced! Disney's INSIDE OUT cleaned up with eight, and in television, Disney Mickey Mouse led the winners. Check out the full list below!
Benefit Concert for Broadway Barks: This Monday, February 8 @ 7pm, The Cutting Room NYC 'TIM REALBUTO IS INAPPROPRIATE'
Rehearsals begin Monday, February 8 for the spring Broadway production of Waitress, following its sold-out limited engagement at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
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