At the Annual General Meeting of the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) tonight, Chairman Ian Narev noted that 2017 was a notable year for the company, bookended by two landmark moments in the company's history - The Present's run on Broadway - the first production ever on the Great White Way to be performed by an all-Australian cast - and the world premiere of Muriel's Wedding The Musical which was embraced by audiences and critics alike.
Premium pay television network EPIX(R) announced that the second season of its critically-acclaimed original series from MGM Television, Get Shorty, will debut on Sunday, August 12 at 9 PM ET/PT. The dark comedy, based in part on the 1990's bestselling Elmore Leonard novel of the same name and created for television by Davey Holmes (Shameless, In Treatment), is currently in production in Los Angeles.
The Axelrod Performing Arts Center (APAC), New Jersey's newest professional theater, proudly presents Disney's smash-hit, crowd-pleasing musical "Newsies," June 1 - 17. The production is directed and choreographed by Broadway veteran Marcos Santana, whose recent production of Newsies for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre received a Carbonell Award.
Premium pay television network EPIX® announced that the second season of its critically-acclaimed original series from MGM Television, Get Shorty, will debut on Sunday, August 12 at 9 PM ET/PT. The dark comedy, based in part on the 1990's bestselling Elmore Leonard novel of the same name and created for television by Davey Holmes (Shameless, In Treatment), is currently in production in Los Angeles.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, (www.theritzmusical.com) is set for a staged reading for the theater industry at 7pm, Monday, June 18, and 1PM Tuesday, June 19 at the Dramatists Guild Fund's The Music Hall, 356 W. 40th St., 2nd Floor.
Open auditions will be held to cast the group ensemble production of 38 Minutes at Kumu Kahua Theatre. The show is based on the January 2018 ballistic missile scare in Hawaii and will be directed by Squire and Monica Coldwell. The show will run July 12 - July 29, 2018.
"Packed with young talent…in the risk-taking venture that is summer festival-going, encountering talent you want to see more of is a worthy payoff." - Laura Collins-Hughes,The New York Times
Theater for the New City is presenting the Textile Co.'s production of Grace is Good, a new play about relationships and rumors in the workplace and a new story for the Me Too conversation.
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY - Arielle Mandelberg has been cast in the title role of the Textile Co.'s production of Grace is Good, a new play about relationships and rumors in the workplace and a new story for the Me Too Conversation.
Richard Kind (Red Oaks, A Serious Man), Stephanie March (Law & Order SVU), Jackie Hoffman (Feud) are set to star in The Social Ones, the first long-form content film from The New Potato Studios. Debra Jo Rupp (That 70s Show) and Peter Scolari (Girls) will also co-star in the indie written and directed by Laura Kosann.
Not even two months removed from the single's original release, New York-based duo Disco Killerz and dance music veteran Liquid Todd just received the remix treatment for their fourth collaboration, 'Changes' featuring vocalist Sophie Simmons. Out now on Crowd Records, a NYC-based indie dance label thats growing up fast, the production gets a facelift from a breadth of premier rising talents including the likes of Aiden Jude, Gil Glaze & Lanna, Zack Martino & LuxLyfe, Kue along with LA Riots.
For the third consecutive year, Miranda Lambert's MuttNation Foundation will be entertaining CMA Fest fans with Music City's cutest canines, all available for adoption to caring, qualified families. Partnering with Nashville Humane Association, MuttNation will have adorable adoptables available each day from11-3pm at the MuttNation rig located inside the Music City Center. Bev Lambert, Miranda's mom and co-founder of MuttNation Foundation, will be on-site to have photos taken with each adopting family. With MuttNation's support, more than 100 shelter dogs have been rescued by country music fans at CMA Fest over the past two years.
In an upcoming episode, Innovations with Ed Begley Jr. will explore recent advances in substance abuse and mental health. This segment is scheduled to air 4th QTR 2018. Check your local listings for more information.
Delivering bold interpretations of music from one of the most influential artists of the age, composer and musical director Stewart D'Arrietta takes his acclaimed celebration of Leonard Cohen on a tour of UK theatres in summer 2018.
Opera Theatre St. Louis has produced many wonderful productions, and a handful of simply perfect ones. Their production of 'Regina' is among the latter.
Bay Street Theater has announced the three productions planned for the 2018 Mainstage Summer Season. The first will be the World Premiere of FELLOW TRAVELERS, (May 29 - June 17), a new play by Jack Canfora. The second will be FROST/NIXON (June 26 - July 22), by Peter Morgan. The third production is the musical EVITA, (July 31 - August 26) by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
On Monday 13 August, the second instalment of Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit, will take place at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 950 capacity McEwan Hall.
Broadway had never seen anything like it: An anti-war rock musical featuring nudity, profanity and drugs. 'Hair,' premiering on stage in 1968, was a reflection of the turbulent times. Diane Paulus, who fell in love with the show's music at age eight, and would grow up to direct a Tony-winning Broadway revival of 'Hair' in 2009, talked with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Susan Spencer about the importance of the show in musical theater history.
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