TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has the perfect Mother's Day entertainment for you! On Sunday May 10th at 5pm PDT, they will band together with a number of theaters across the country to present a livestream of the hit show 'Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin,' a tribute to America's greatest songwriter. Tickets to the livestream are available on TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's website (www.theatreworks.org) with proceeds to benefit TheatreWorks while the Tony-winning regional theatre remains dark due to COVID-19. BroadwayWorld recently caught up with TheatreWorks Artistic Director Robert Kelley to chat about the company's ongoing relationship with Felder, and also to check in on how they've been managing to juggle so many unknowns in planning their 2020-21 season. Kelley remains steadfastly upbeat and enthused about future possibilities even as he winds down his astounding 50-year tenure as Artistic Director under decidedly different circumstances than he had originally envisioned.
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights announces the lineup for the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley, Artistic Director Designate Tim Bond, and Executive Director Phil Santora announced changes to TheatreWorks's 2020-21 Season, which is now scheduled to begin in October 2020.
Thwarted in their attempt to hold their annual Spring awards Gala by the Covid-19 pandemic, the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle took their Gala to cyberspace and held a virtual event in celebration of the excellent worked produced by Bay Area theatre artists in 2019. The event was sponsored by Actors' Equity Association.
Hershey Felder Presents has announced a one-time-only live stream musical event to benefit 13 theatres and arts organizations across the United States, as they work to offset the devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join us for an online experience of sensuous rhythms and heart-throbbing songs as theatreC brings you a reunion concert of CUBAMOR. Written by James D. Sasser (Book and Lyrics) and Charles Vincent Burwell (Music and Lyrics), CUBAMOR adapts the award-winning film by Joshua Bee Alafia into a musical journey of love, dreams, ambition, and magic.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces HERSHEY FELDER as IRVING BERLIN, a one-time-only live streamed broadcast musical event presented live from Florence, Italy, to benefit The Wallis, on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10, 2020, at 5 pm (PST).
The story and music of America's Composer comes to you live in the comfort of your own home when Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents a live broadcast of Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, a play-with-music written and performed by award-winning actor and musician Hershey Felder (George Gershwin Alone, Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro).
Songwriting duo Thomas Mizer & Curtis Moore, who wrote five original songs for the Amazon Original Series 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Season 3, channeled their creativity into reuniting the show's dynamic singing trio The Silver Belles (Alysha Deslorieux, Brennyn Lark, and Markita Prescott) to perform an unreleased original song from the show entitled “Madly in Love.”
It is important that our community has a place to come together and express itself artistically. We at Desert Theatreworks believe that it is more important that the community be a healthy and vibrant one, strong and able to enjoy the arts to the fullest. That is why DTW has decided to take a brief a?oeintermissiona?? and will pause our operations until it is completely safe for us to come back together and enjoy what we do as a healthy and stronger community.
Producer Bren Rapp has used the power of the arts and entertainment to help a multitude of causes over her career locally and nationally. Now, she is putting what she has learned by doing so to work for 16 independent performing arts groups in Dallas/Fort Worth with a 30 day GoFundMe campaign aimed at raising relief funding for COVID 19 related setbacks: SMALL CHANGE-BIG HELP
Producer Bren Rapp has used the power of the arts and entertainment to help a multitude of causes over her career locally and nationally. Now, she is putting what she has learned by doing so to work for 16 independent performing arts groups in Dallas/Fort Worth with a 30 day GoFundMe campaign aimed at raising relief funding for COVID-19 setbacks.
As a part of the mitigation efforts surrounding COVID-19 (Coronavirus), TheatreWorks Silicon Valley announces the cancellation of programs beginning in June 2020 including its planned production of The Book of Will, its celebration of founder Robert Kelley entitled Sunday in the Park with Kelley, and summer Playmakers Camps, as well as its 2020 Summer Internship Program.
San Francisco Playhouse announced their new Empathy Gym Fireside Chat series which will be streamed live for free on YouTube. Each week, Artistic Director Bill English invites playwrights to join him for a one-hour conversation about playwriting, business, and the future of theatre. Audience members can participate in the conversation by leaving a comment on YouTube.
Good news for musical theater lovers! TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's recent, acclaimed production of Paul Gordon's Pride and Prejudice will now be available to stream. Presented by Streaming Musicals, Pride and Prejudice will receive a a?oevirtual opening nighta?? on Friday, April 10 at 3:30pm PT/ 6:30pm ET, with an encore presentation at 7:00pm PT/10:00pm ET. Tony Award winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, The Prom) and Julie James, Program Director/ Curator of SiriusXM's a?oeOn Broadwaya?? channel, will host the a?oevirtual opening night,a?? which will include an intermission discussion with the creative team members including TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley, who directed the new romantic musical comedy. Streaming during the April 10 a?oevirtual opening nighta?? will be free. Pride and Prejudice will then be available to stream on StreamingMusicals.com for a minimal fee. BroadwayWorld recently caught up with Robert Kelley to learn more about his production of Pride and Prejudice and also to touch base with him on how TheatreWorks was weathering the current health and economic crisis.
Everyone is watching it. Stars are tweeting about it. Now, the show that has rapt audiences at home is musicalized! That's right, the Netflix phenomenon Tiger King has turned from bizarre docu-series to equally bizarre parody musical, thanks to composer Andrew Lippa. Watch below as he enlists long-time friend Kristin Chenoweth to portray Carol Baskin in a 'Little Pieces!'
Theater Latté Da today announced singer/songwriters Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses, who together form the musical duo, The Kilbanes, and actor/directors Jessie Austrian and Noah Brody as the recipients of the NEXT Generation Commission, a new opportunity for women artists and artists of color
Streaming Musicals has announced a special free live streaming event: on Friday, April 10, the site will host a 'virtual opening night' for the debut of Pride and Prejudice, in a new musical adaptation by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon (Broadway's Jane Eyre). Gordon is also represented on Streaming Musicals with his musical adaptation of Emma.
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