Ted Swindley News

Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown has announced its upcoming events this fall and winter at CRT Downtown, 24 Port Watson Street, Cortland. Scroll down for details!

Cortland Repertory Theatre is proud to announce their first mainstage production at 'CRT Downtown', the newly renovated arts center in downtown Cortland. Chosen for this inaugural production is a revival of one of the most successful shows ever staged at CRT, 'Always...Patsy Cline'. Written by Ted Swindley, this heart-warming, family-friendly musical features some of Patsy Cline's greatest hits including 'Crazy', 'Walkin' After Midnight', 'I Fall to Pieces' and many more. The production will begin a three week run starting on October 22.

Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown has announced its upcoming events this fall and winter at CRT Downtown, 24 Port Watson Street, Cortland. Scroll down for details!

Director Christopher Quigley takes the popular Ted Swindley musical back to some comic and musical roots at York's Studio Theatre

THE HONKY TONK ANGELS is running at Stages Repertory Theatre through September 6, 2015. The show made for a fun evening of entertainment, upholding the reputation of high quality productions that Stages Repertory Theatre has always been known for. The show, directed by Mitchell Greco, serves as a nostalgic piece of musical theatre that leaves the audience talking about it long after the stage goes dark.

Popular across the country for many years, Always Patsy Cline celebrates country/pop singing superstar Patsy Cline, her music and her warm down.to.earth persona. Endearing from the get go, the show's success depends on the right casting. Its two actresses must be perfect fits for their roles. Louise Seger is a diehard fan of Patsy Cline. She's all Texan, has an exuberant personality and is over.the.top humorous, and of course, Patsy is Patsy. The actress playing her must look pretty and just right in those curly black wigs, and most urgently be able to duplicate Cline's unique vocal stylings. Well, the Sierra Madre Playhouse and director Robert Marra have hit the jackpot with its two leading ladies, Nikki   D'Amico as Louise and Cori Cable Kidder as Cline. With the overabundant charm exuded by both stars and backed by a superb five-piece combo that includes terrific musical director Sean Paxton at the piano, Always Patsy Cline should take audiences over the rainbow, through September 12.

This week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Chicago, Maine, New Orleans and more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include Ogunquit's NICE WORK, DAMES AT SEA at The Winter Playhouse, and LIZA in New Orleans, just to name a few.

Stages Repertory Theatre Company opens it 2015 - 2016 season with the bright lights, big city musical revue, HONKY TONK ANGELS. The show includes country classics 'Delta Dawn,' 'Stand By Your Man,' 'Harper Valley PTA' and more!

Stages Repertory Theatre's brand-new production of The Honky Tonk Angels by Ted Swindley is the first production of Stages' 2015-16 season. The Honky Tonk Angels was previously produced by Stages in 2005.

Last December, Texas treasure Holland Vavra made her 54 Below debut in Cuz We're F#cking Talented, a concert where a handful of artists showed off their skills. Last night, she made a special trip from Houston to premiere her tribute to Frank Sinatra, Holland at the Sands: My Blue Eyed Sinatra. With her own brand of lovable, quirky humor and her golden instrument, Vavra made her solo cabaret debut a delightful spectacle.

Big Fish, a new musical by Andrew Lippa and John August, joins Stages' lineup for its 2015-16 season.

Stages Repertory Theatre's brand-new production of The Honky Tonk Angels by Ted Swindley is the first production of Stages' 2015-16 season. The Honky Tonk Angels was previously produced by Stages in 2005.

We pride ourselves on our bounteous Southern hospitality here in Nashville, so who's gonna explain this: On Thursday, as thousands of country music fans gathered downtown for CMA Fest and thousands more fans of every musical genre you can think of were headed southward for the Bonnaroo Music Festival - just another summer in Tennessee, mind you - a truck spilled its load all over Interstate 65-S, adding to the hot, humid atmosphere with a whole mess of fish parts. Yep, you heard it right: smelly, disgusting fish parts baking on the hot asphalt under the blazing sun.

It's another busy theater week in Tennessee, and in Nashville there are an extra 50,000 to 100,000 country music fans jamming up traffic and increasing wait times at local restaurants, thanks to CMA Music Fest, which natives and longtimers will remember as Fan Fair. So while you're steering clear of our version of Broadway in downtown Nashville, which will be teeming with more people than you can shake a stick at (as my mama would say),  you should instead make reservations to see some local talent onstage at some of the shows included in our Critic's Choice column today!

That will also explain my rapturous response to the performance of A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, a dramatized tribute to the country music superstar that opened at Dickson's Gaslight Dinner Theater on Thursday, June 4, running for a much-too-short two weekends at what was once known as The Renaissance Center.

ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE, now on stage at Actors' Summit, is a well formed musical review in which a Patsy Cline-imitator wails away Cline's signature songs, including 'Walkin' After Midnight,' 'I Fall to Pieces,' 'She's Got You,' 'Anytime,' 'Stupid Cupid,' 'Lovesick Blues, 'Faded Love,' and 'Crazy.' The songs are interspersed with comments by a Cline fan and Cline, 'herself.'

Flat Rock Playhouse is kicking off its 2015 mainstage season with the hit musical Always…Patsy Cline. Presented by The Cliffs with BMW of Asheville serving as Opening Night Sponsor, Always…Patsy Cline is a heartwarming celebration of down home country humor, true emotion and twenty seven timeless classics including Crazy, Walkin' After Midnight, Sweet Dreams and I Fall to Pieces.

Flat Rock Playhouse is kicking off its 2015 mainstage season with the hit musical Always…Patsy Cline. Presented by The Cliffs with BMW of Asheville serving as Opening Night Sponsor, Always…Patsy Cline is a heartwarming celebration of down home country humor, true emotion and twenty seven timeless classics including Crazy, Walkin' After Midnight, Sweet Dreams and I Fall to Pieces.

Gina D'Arco and Taylor Novak will lead the cast of William Inge's Picnic, in a revival of the classic play helmed by Jeffrey Ellis, for Nashville's Circle Players, which this season celebrates its 65th year of bringing live theater to audiences throughout Middle Tennessee. Picnic will run tonight, March 27 through April 4, and will be performed at the theater at Hillsboro High School.