The Skylight Opera Theatre is please to announce that it has received gifts from nine generous donors to create a challenge fund of $250,000. The challenge fund will match dollar-for-dollar new money from first-time or increased gifts to its 50th anniversary campaign. To date the Skylight has raised $120,000 toward matching the $250,000.
When Skylight audiences last saw Figaro in The Barber of Seville, he was triumphant after engineering a romantic coup.
Goodspeed Musicals, under the leadership of Michael P. Price, is thrilled to announce the 2010 musical season at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. The 47th season includes three fantastic musicals that are sure to delight theatregoers: the fun and frolicking Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun will run from April 16 - June 27; the second production, Carnival! featuring such memorable classics as "Love Makes the World Go 'Round," will run from July 9 - September 18; and the Tony Award-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will run from September 24 - November 28.
Red Elevator Productions presents: TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: an evening of original and premiere short plays:
'Dear Ann Landers...' For decades, renowned advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others.
Aurora Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of lauded Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson's THE FIRST GRADE. Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross directs this new play from Johnson, whom The Chicago Reader declared 'balances gallows humor with acute insight and compassion. He creates characters so real you wonder what will happen to them after the final blackout.' Featuring Julia Brothers and Warren David Keith, along with Rebecca Schweitzer, Paul Santiago, Tina Sanchez, and Adrian Anchondo, THE FIRST GRADE plays January 22-February 28 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.
Red Elevator Productions presents: TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: an evening of original and premiere short plays:
Columbia Stages presents Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov, directed byMikhael Tara Garver and produced in association with The New Ensemble. On astormy night, Sergei sits alone with his first great novel in a small room inMoscow. A knock at the door propels him down the rabbit hole into an adventureof ridiculous proportions. This world premiere event melds together thehilarious and stunning adaptation by Keith Reddin with an epic original scoreby Andrew Gerle and Royce Vavrek. From the thunderous sound of the keys, thetrue music of a man's voice battles with your expectations. Performances for 'Black Snow' will be held February 3-6.
Goblins, ghouls and ghosts of the 1980s haunt SCR's latest world premiere, Doctor Cerberus, which makes its debut April 11 - May 2 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.
RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS' PROVOCATIVE PRODUCTION OF ‘BLACKBIRD' EXAMINES THE QUESTION 'WHEN IS IT SEXUAL ASSAULT?' By David Harrower
For decades the most trusted person in America besides Walter Cronkite was very likely the woman known as Ann Landers.
When Skylight audiences last saw Figaro in The Barber of Seville, he was triumphant after engineering a romantic coup.
Pioneer Theatre Company presents the world premiere of TOUCH(ED) by Bess Wohl, the first production of the theatre's recently instituted New Plays Initiative.
'Dear Ann Landers...' For decades, renowned advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others.
Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents THE NUTCRACKER on Tuesday, December 29 at 1pm and 4pm and Wednesday, December 30 at 1pm and 4pm in the Claire Shulman Playhouse Main Stage Theatre at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.
Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents THE NUTCRACKER on Tuesday, December 29 at 1pm and 4pm and Wednesday, December 30 at 1pm and 4pm in the Claire Shulman Playhouse Main Stage Theatre at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.
TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley presents a festive holiday offering, the West Coast premiere of A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.
Pioneer Theatre Company presents the world premiere of TOUCH(ED) by Bess Wohl, the first production of the theatre's recently instituted New Plays Initiative.
Following enthusiastic reviews, The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will extend THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau and Robert O'Hara, through Sunday, December 20. THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS began previews October 21 and was originally scheduled to close on Sunday, December 13.
TheaterWorks Launches its 24th Season with "Shakespeare's R&J", a provocative adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, running November 12th through December 20th. Called "electrifying", "magical", "inspired", and "dreamlike", "Shakespeare's R&J" is Romeo and Juliet as it has never been seen before. Set in the repressed atmosphere of a modern Catholic boarding school, this brave and original adaptation spins the tale of "star-cross'd lovers" into a journey of astonishing discoveries.
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