Just under a week ago I finished the gruelling schedule of being the pantomime Dame in Dick Whittington through dark mid-winter in the picture-postcard county town of Hereford in Herefordshire in the UK. Today, however, I am sat on the terrace of a villa in Nerja, about 45 minutes' drive from Malaga on the southern coast of Spain.
In a magical World Premiere, Virginia Stage Company will present the new pre-Broadway musical Frog Kiss, tonight, January 15-February 3, 2013 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. 'Once Upon a Town,' a series of whimsical events designed to delight and engage the community, will complement the musical.
Theatre @ York presents a sparkling new adaptation of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a hilarious parody by 17th century playwright Francis Beaumont, re-imagined for contemporary audiences by director Timothy Askew. Lavish period costumes, romance, treachery and sword-fighting lay siege to York University's Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre January 20 to 26.
The 2013 Music By The Sea Festival, the 11th annual festival of diverse genres - classical, folk, jazz and world music, will take place from today, 11 to 13 January. This summer festival is an absolute favorite of Brisbane urbane cultural events. Excellence is the hallmark of this unique three-day musical bon-bon.
In a magical World Premiere, Virginia Stage Company will present the new pre-Broadway musical Frog Kiss, January 15-February 3, 2013 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. "Once Upon a Town," a series of whimsical events designed to delight and engage the community, will complement the musical.
TheatreSquared will open Stephen Karam's bold, award-winning comedy Sons of the Prophet for a limited run in Northwest Arkansas in its first production since its critically acclaimed New York debut. Winner of multiple awards (including the 2012 Lucille Lortel and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Play) and a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Sons of the Prophet is a contemporary comedy-drama that is 'soul-piercing' and "explosively funny" (The New York Times).
Con la dirección de Ricard Reguant y música de Ferrán González, esta nueva producción de 'El Mago De Oz', estrenada el año pasado en Extremadura, llega al Teatro José Monleón de Leganés este próximo sábado. El musical está protagonizado por Tamara Agudo, Laura Castrillón y Noemi Gallego.
FOX has renewed the hit series BONES for its upcoming ninth season, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.
Bravo's Million Dollar Decorators Martyn Lawrence Bullard and Kathryn Ireland will be guests at Art Van Furniture in Novi (27775 Novi Road) on Sunday, January 20 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at a special 'High Style, High Tea and Hijinks' event. The duo will participate in an informative and entertaining Q&A session, emceed by WDIV TV Style Editor Jon Jordan . Fans of the internationally-known interior designers can reserve a spot by calling 888-619-2199.
Bullard and Ireland will share their style expertise and offer tips on how to make any home 'look like a million dollars!' Guests will be able to ask specific questions and have their picture taken with the popular pair.
2012 was a momentous year for Coach House! Not only did we publish some of our favourite all-time books and work with some of our favourite authors and bookstores, we received some much-appreciated recognition for it
Ryan O'Neal guest stars on tonight's episode of the FOX drama series BONES. In the episode, when a corpse is found in the middle of the woods, the team links the victim to two families that have been feuding for almost a century.
Giving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCM(R) Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League present 'One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day,' a unique one-night event broadcast to movie theaters nationwide on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. local time. This fast-paced, hilarious and entertaining film follows some of New York's top actors, including Cheyenne Jackson (30 Rock, Glee), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) and Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live), as well as teams of writers, composers and directors as they are given 24 hours to write, cast, compose, rehearse and perform four short musicals. At the end of the 24 hours, the musicals make their opening, and closing, night at New York City's Gramercy Theatre. The event will also present exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the stars of 'One Night Stand' as they share intimate stories of life on Broadway.
Burning Coal Theatre Company's 2012/2013 season continues with C.P. Taylor's drama Good, directed by Ian Finley, January 31 through February 17, 2013 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays (1/31 to 2/2, 2/7 - 9 and 2/14 - 16) at 7:30 pm and Sundays (2/3, 10 and 17) at 2 pm. Tickets are $25 or $20 for seniors, and $15 for students and active military. Thursday night tickets are $10. Sunday, February 3 at 2 pm is 'Pay What You Can' day. Tickets are available at 919.834.4001 or at www.burningcoal.org.
Poe Park Visitor Center will host Swamp, an exhibition that explores our shifting relationship with the natural world. The swamp as a bipolar space-half earth, half water-hints at complex connections between the real and fantastic, renewal and abandonment. Fourteen artists explore the delicate balance between visual imagination, illusion and actual environment. Swamp, curated by Kari Adelaide, is on view from December 19, 2012 - January 18, 2013.
On LAW & ORDER: SVU's first new episode of the winter season, entitled 'Presumed Guity,' the SVU's holiday celebrations are disrupted when Detective Tutuola's (Ice-T) ex-brother-in-law (guest star Harvey) is arrested for assaulting a priest (guest star O'Hare.) Convinced of his innocence despite his criminal record, Fin asks the detectives to find evidence that exonerates him, and in the process, a buried church scandal begins to unravel. Also starring Mariska Hargitay (Detective Olivia Benson), Danny Pino (Detective Nick Amaro) Kelli Giddish (Detective Amanda Rollins) and Tamara Tunie (M.E. Warner). Also guest starring Tony Plana and Lisa Gay Hamilton. Check out a first look at the episode below!
The roar of the bullring and the smell of sweat & blood will fill the intimate Trafalgar Studio 2 with the world premiere of FIESTA, the passionate adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's first novel The Sun Also Rises, from TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2013.
As part of the 2012-2013 Velma V. Morrison Family Theatre Series the Morrison Center welcomes World-famous Gregory Popovich and his sensational Comedy Pet Theater today, December 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM.
Lee Summers, a veteran performer having made his Broadway debut in the original production of Dreamgirls, continues as a voice in the American Musical Theater. His works have been presented at numerous New York and regional theatres such as The Milwaukee Repertory, The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, The Long Wharf Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre, Karamu Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre, The Meadow Brook Theatre, The Madison Theatre, Theaterworks Palo Alto, The Triad Theatre, New World Stages, Urban Arts Theatre, AMAS Musical Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, RACCA's Seaport Salon, The Kirk Theatre, The Gramercy Theatre, Radio City Music Hall's workshop spaces and many others.