This weekend from Friday, December 15 through Sunday, December 17, Creative Gateways presents Dancing with Light spotlighting the dynamic fused glass artwork of Pilisa Rainbow Lady. The public is invited to join them and meet the artist at the opening reception on Friday the 15 from 5-8pm.
Netflix announced the upcoming January 2018 debuts of two new original documentary series -- DIRTY MONEY (January 26) and ROTTEN (January 5) -- uncovering the pervasive greed and misconduct behind some of the world's biggest corporations and the global food production industry.
In a new essay for the Washington Post, composer Lin-Manuel Miranda sheds light on the continued devastation on the island of Puerto Rico following the horrific events of Hurricane Maria.
The Keegan Theatre's annual holiday classic AN IRISH CAROL, written by Dublin native and Keegan company member Matthew J. Keenan, returns for its seventh season. A beloved holiday tradition that has played to sold-out audiences since premiering in 2011, AN IRISH CAROL runs December 14- 31, 2017 at the Andrew Keegan Theatre in Washington, DC.
The Keegan Theatre's annual holiday classic AN IRISH CAROL, written by Dublin native and Keegan company member Matthew J. Keenan, returns for its seventh season. A beloved holiday tradition that has played to sold-out audiences since premiering in 2011, AN IRISH CAROL runs December 14- 31, 2017 at the Andrew Keegan Theatre in Washington, DC.
Today, Cardiff's pub theatre The Other Room, located in Porter's and winner of The Stage's Fringe Theatre of the Year Award, announces its Spring 2018 season, entitled LOVESICK. The season is the first season of Artistic Director Dan Jones, and sees the company producing Caryl Churchill's A Number, a brand-new play from Matthew Trevannion, and Lucy Prebble's The Effect.
Kentucky based country/AmeriFlow duo Twang And Round are back with another brand new single and video for Dope Boy available online at https://youtu.be/jtkYzGiI8ZQ. The track is the latest single from Twang and Round's upcoming new album, which is scheduled to be released in early 2018 via Thirteen Skulls Entertainment.
BRIC TV, in partnership with Brooklyn Community Services and The Marshall Project, will present Mental Health as a Civil Right, a live-broadcast #BHeardtown hall discussion, Today, December 13, 6:30-8:30pm, at BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn.
Rubicon Theatre Company kicks off its 20th Anniversary Season with the return of the critically-acclaimed holiday hit CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Broadway, TV and film veterans Peter Van Norden (RTC's Taking Sides, Copenhagen) and Emmy Award-winner Joe Spano ( NCIS, RTC's Bucky) reprise their roles as Scrooge and Marley, respectively, in this innovative telling of Dickens' timeless tale of transformation and redemption. Adapted by Producing Artistic Director Karyl Lynn Burns and directed by Brian McDonald, the 27-member cast features many of the same actors from the original production that earned a Critic's Pick in the Los Angeles Times and rave reviews from Ventura County Star, CASA Magazine, VIDA Magazine and the Ventura Breeze. This imaginative version of Dickens' novella offers a revealing portrait of the yearning, lost child inside the cold-hearted miserly man. Actors perform in the storytelling style of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Nicholas Nickleby, playing characters, animals even dressing gowns and doors! CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL opens in Ventura on Saturday, December 9at 7:00 p.m. followed by an after-party at Rhumb Line Restaurant. Low-priced previews are December 6-8. The show runs Todays through Sundays through December 23.
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.
Having confirmed its status as one of the most progressive forces on the opera scene (Opera News) with O17, the first edition of its new annual season-opening festival, Opera Philadelphia forges ahead with back-to-back new productions in the new year. The first of these is George Benjamin's Written on Skin (2012), widely considered the century's most successful new opera (Financial Times). Marking its first new staging in the U.S.A., this major new addition to the canon makes its Philadelphia premiere in an original treatment from director Will Kerley, starring Lauren Snouffer, Mark Stone, and Anthony Roth Costanzo under the leadership of Jack Mulroney Music Director Corrado Rovaris in four performances at the Academy of Music (Feb 9 18).
Segerstrom Center for the Arts welcomes the Center debut performance of the acclaimed Eb ne Quartet on March 4, 2018 at 2: 00pm. Since coming to international attention after winning first prize at the ARD Music Competition in 2004, the Eb ne Quartet has been thrilling audiences and critics with their superb renditions of classical favorites and arrangements of popular and jazz works. What began as a distraction in university practice rooms has re sulted i n one of today's most praised classical ensembles, renowned for its unique style and fresh approach to the chamber repertoire. The Eb ne Quartet won the 2009 Gramophone Awards for both Recording of the Year and Chamber music. Quartet members includ e Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure, violins; Marie Chilemme, viola; and Rapha l Merlin, violoncello.
CENTRAL WORKS 2018 SEASON features 4 plays, all world premieres, beginning February 17 and running through November 2018. This is a season where boundaries, national and otherwise, are no barrier to laughter and genuine engagement with three comedies, two literary adaptations, and one classic. The 2017 Season celebrated Central Works constant commitment to brand new works inspired by urgent social issues, classic texts, and history every production received a TBA Awards Recommendation, and each played to full houses every weekend!
Rhonda's Kiss Chairman of the Board Marc Stefanski, Rhonda's Kiss CEO Kyle Stefanski, Host Greg Behrendt (Sex and the City, He's Just Not That Into You), Performers Jane's Addiction and Hellcat Saints - Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Billy Duffy (The Cult), Josh Freese (Devo, Nine Inch Nails), Dave Kushner (Velvet Revolver), Franky Perez (Apocalyptica), Scott Shriner (Weezer), Healing and Hope Award Honoree Dr. Keith Black, Joey Castillo (Queens of the Stone Age), Jaime King (Hart of Dixie), Drea de Matteo (Shades of Blue), Soleil Moon Frye, Joy Bryant (Parenthood), McG (Producer), Stevie Guttman, Pilar Holland (Grey's Anatomy), Emily Ruhl (Newness), Celeste Thorson (How I Met Your Mother), The Classless Act - London Hudson, Hunter Kebat, Nico Tsnis, and many more.
Mohegan Sun Arena recorded yet another successful year of A-list national tours and national awards in 2017. Two major awards were 'Prime Site' and 'Casino of the Year,' bringing the total to 15 national awards for the Arena over nine years. Named in Connecticut Magazine as 'Best of Connecticut 2017' for large entertainment venue, Mohegan Sun Arena continues to be one of the busiest venues in the world, and surpassed 11 million guests this year as well.
The seventh annual MOONTOWER COMEDY FESTIVAL, along with producers the Paramount Theatre and sponsors Cap City Comedy Club, has announced additional comics to the 2018 lineup, including multiple headlining acts performing at Stateside at the Paramount as well as a variety of comedians playing shows at Moontower satellite venues throughout Austin. Further additions to the lineup will be announced in the months ahead, including the Moontower Podcast Series.
BRIC teams up with the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival and CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) to present the New York premiere of Roger Guenveur Smith and CNP's The Hendrix Project, January 11-14, 2018, at BRIC House (647 Fulton Street, Downtown Brooklyn), as part of the Public Theater's 2018 Under the Radar Festival.