The American Musical and Dramatic Academy News

Gateway Center for Performing Arts' Youth Theatre Company will close its 2017/2018 season with the powerful and stunningly beautiful musical Violet, with a score by Tony-winning Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Shrek) and book by the acclaimed Brain Crawley (A Little Princess). Winner of the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Violet is a Tony-nominated powerhouse production featuring show-stopping anthems ranging from American roots to folk to gospel.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Colombia to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Bogota on 26 September. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Peru to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Lima on 22 September. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Japan to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Tokyo on 22 September. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Brazil to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Sao Paulo on 15 Sept. Rio de Janeiro on 19 Sept. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in South Korea to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Seoul on 15 September. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in the Philippines to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Manila on 2 September. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Indonesia to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Jakarta on 28 August. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Malaysia to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Kuala Lumpur on 26 August. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Argentina to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Buenos Aires on 11 August and 6 October. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Hong Kong to conduct placement and scholarship auditions on 4 August. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

Town Hall presents Broadway Rising Stars, a national showcase that introduces New York audiences to the next generation of up-and-coming talent as chosen by a panel of discerning judges from among the most outstanding new graduates from schools such as the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, CAP21, Circle in the Square Theatre School, Marymount Manhattan College, The New School, NYU's Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and other acclaimed institutions. The 2018 Rising Stars is spearheaded by Scott Siegel, creator/writer/host of Town Hall's beloved Broadway by the Year series.

Town Hall presents Broadway Rising Stars, a national showcase that introduces New York audiences to the next generation of up-and-coming talent as chosen by a panel of discerning judges from among the most outstanding new graduates from schools such as the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, CAP21, Circle in the Square Theatre School, Marymount Manhattan College, The New School, NYU's Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and other acclaimed institutions. The 2018 Rising Stars is spearheaded by Scott Siegel, creator/writer/host of Town Hall's beloved Broadway by the Year series.

Dan Fishbach (last season's award-winning Jacques Brel Is Alive and Living in Paris) returns to the Odyssey Theatre to direct a revival of Side by Side by Sondheim, set to run July 21 through Sept. 16 at the Odyssey's venue in West L.A.

Celebration Theatre is thrilled to announce that their smash-hit third and final show of its 2017-2018 season, CABARET, is extending through Sunday, August 5 at Celebration Theatre @ the Lex Theatre, 6760 Lexington Ave. in Los Angeles (now known as the Kit Kat Klub!).

Johnetta Eula'Mae Ackles, Elizabeth Berrington and Phil Daniels will join the previously announced Jim Broadbent in the world premiere of Martin McDonagh's A Very Very Very Dark Matter.

Feinstein's at the Nikko is thrilled to presentLiberace & Liza Live! A Tribute-a blinged-out and exhilarating night of musical and comical fireworks starring David Saffert and Jillian Snow Harris as the two legendary performers-on Thursday, September 13 at 8 p.m. Delighting in the costumes, music, and glamour of show business's wildest entertainers, guests will be smiling and clapping along to such hits as "Boogie Woogie,' 'Chopsticks,' "Cabaret," and "New York, New York."

Corkscrew Theater Festival presents Field, Awakening, written by Melis Aker and directed by Tatiana Pandiani. Running July 14-22, Field, Awakening is a political drama set in Turkey in 2016, where a group of high school friends reunites at a soccer field on the evening of an attempted military coup. As the night progresses, the friends unexpectedly find themselves at the center of international strife, and they begin to realize that the Turkey they called home may be rapidly disappearing. Performed by Kieron Anthony, Ayse Babahan, Jamar Brathwaite, Sinan Eczacibasi*, Fahim Hamid*, and Nazli Sarpkaya, Field, Awakening is the second production in the second annual season of Corkscrew Theater Festival, a new summer theater festival that provides early-career artists with a high level of production support.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Australia to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Sydney on 16 June and in Melbourne on 17 June. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy will be in Australia to conduct placement and scholarship auditions in Sydney on 16 June and in Melbourne on 17 June. AMDA is a fully accredited, not-for-profit higher education institution devoted to training the actor, singer, and dancer for stage, film, and television.