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SISTER ACT features an original score with music by multi-Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning composer Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Enchanted), lyrics by Tony and Academy Award-nominee Glenn Slater (The Little Mermaid), and a book by multi-Emmy Award winners Cheri and Bill Steinkellner ('Cheers') with additional book material by Tony and Olivier Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu, The Little Dog Laughed).
President Barack Obama was in New York City yesterday to begin fundraising for his 2012 re-election campaign. As part of the visit, he invited potential endorsers to a performance of SISTER ACT as part of an event hosted by producer Whoopi Goldberg. Tickets for the special performance and evening event ranged from $250 to $10,000 (the latter of which includes a photo shoot with the President). Click below to hear from the President following the show, praising the performance and discussing equal rights and the challenges and hope facing our future.
This June, Touchstone Theatre returns to Easton's Abbey Hill Theater, in partnership with Green Leaf Productions, for a production of Walden, a one-man performance adapted from Henry David Thoreau's famous reflections on living in the woods, directed by Augustine Ripa of Lehigh University. The show runs June 24-26.
Million Dollar Quartet, now in its third year, announces a new block of tickets on sale for performances through December 31, 2011. The Tony-nominated musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together legendary rock ‘n' roll icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, celebrates its long run in Chicago, a multiple Tony-nominated New York run and a long-running London production.
Portland Shakespeare Project kicks off its inaugural season with As You Like It, William Shakespeare's comedy about romance in the Forest of Arden starting July 13 and running Thursday through Sunday until August 7.
Marvel Comics announced Tuesday that Parker's alter ego, Spider-Man, will finally succumb to one of his most diabolical foes in the final issue of 'Ultimate Comics Spider-Man' due out Wednesday.
In support of their celebrated community-based original theatre, Touchstone Theatre was recently approved to receive a $31,294 grant from the Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, an initiative that supports new projects spanning all disciplines of the performing arts.
The Shakespeare Players, a program of the Rochester Community Players, is presenting Shakespeare's tragedy Othello this summer as our 15th annual Free Shakespeare at the Highland Bowl. The production is being directed by Stephanie Roosa and produced by Patrick White.
As BroadwayWorld reported earlier this week, Mark Rylance will likely bring JERUSALEM back to the UK this fall, but the Tony winner is also hoping to make an appearance at Shakespeare's Globe, according to Whatsonstage.com. Rylance plans to bring back an all-male version of Twelfth Night, which he starred in in 2002.
Although the series is known for tragic stories like Leif Garrett's, 'Behind the Music' is changing its focus and profiling new stars like Adam Lambert.
JERUSALEM, a new play by Jez Butterworth and starring Tony and Olivier Award-winner Mark Rylance opened April 21 at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street), in a production directed by Ian Rickson. JERUSALEM originally opened at The Royal Court Theatre in July, 2009 with critics praising Jez Butterworth for his beautiful and comic elegy for a disappearing way of life in rural England and actor Mark Rylance, who was lauded as delivering one of the great stage performances of our time. The production played an extended sold out run at the Royal Court, before moving to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in January, 2010, where it received an unprecedented set of five-star reviews from 12 London newspapers.
Yellow Face, the nationally-acclaimed play by Tony Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang, makes its Chicago debut at Silk Road Theatre Project (SRTP), produced in association with the Goodman Theatre.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival expands its ongoing commitment to the development and production of new work with five new commissions announced today.
JERUSALEM is pleased to announce a special giveaway for the show's daily rush tickets, sold every morning at 10:00 AM for the day's performance. The first two customers in line will win a 'Farewell Lee?' t-shirt, fashioned after the costume worn by Tony Award-winner John Gallagher Jr., in the critically acclaimed and award-winning production. The t-shirt is not commercially available.
SISTER ACT features an original score with music by multi-Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning composer Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Enchanted), lyrics by Tony and Academy Award-nominee Glenn Slater (The Little Mermaid), and a book by multi-Emmy Award winners Cheri and Bill Steinkellner ('Cheers') with additional book material by Tony and Olivier Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu, The Little Dog Laughed). In the following video, stars fromt he sho Patina Miller and Victoria Clark and playwright Douglas Carter Beane chat about their journeys with the show. Click below to check it out!
According to the NY Times, President Barack Obama has chosen SISTER ACT for his first Broadway fundraiser of his re-election campaign. The event, which will be held on June 23, will be hosted by producer Whoopi Goldberg. Tickets for the special performance range from $250 to $10,000 (the latter of which includes a photoshoot with the President).
SISTER ACT features an original score with music by multi-Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning composer Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Enchanted), lyrics by Tony and Academy Award-nominee Glenn Slater (The Little Mermaid), and a book by multi-Emmy Award winners Cheri and Bill Steinkellner ('Cheers') with additional book material by Tony and Olivier Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu, The Little Dog Laughed). Watch Tony nominee for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Patina Miller, discuss her journey to Broadway!
This June, Touchstone Theatre returns to Easton's Abbey Hill Theater, in partnership with Green Leaf Productions, for a production of Walden, a one-man performance adapted from Henry David Thoreau's famous reflections on living in the woods, directed by Augustine Ripa of Lehigh University. The show runs June 24-26.
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