Host and Director Andrew Keates has been joined by two-time Olivier Award winner David Bedella on Arion Productions' The Show People Podcast. David talks about growing up in Gary, Lake Country, Indiana to a family who worked in the steel industry, his showbiz inspirations and challenges he faced during education, his first jobs as a performer - including spending ten years working in Chicago, appearing in the first Broadway production of Smokey Joe's Cafe, his frustrations with being perceived as being 'just a dancer' and why he left America after falling in love with a pastor that would end up seeing him folding towels as a hairdresser in Islington.
There's a definite sense of excitement when you walk into the Underbelly Festival right now. The Southbank has transformed into a magical garden of circus, art and booze. The venue is full of life and it's the perfect home to the exuberant creation that is Circolombia.
LA indie rock band, Beachwood Coyotes release new single 'I Am Just A Stand In' the fast paced single features a driving rhythm section, infectious melodies with a hint of disco blended with garage rock.
Today circus performers brought guts, grace and gusto, direct from Bogota to London's Southbank as Circolombia begins its headline run at the Underbelly Festival until 14th July. Cast members showcased some of the most technically challenging circus skills from the show including; the Russian Bar, the beautiful aerial 'Clowd Swing' and the unconceivable 'Perch', a circus skill which is undertaken by no other circus company in the world.
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.
Mostly Musicals Ltd presents the reimagined musical Renew Ya Hallelujah by Teddy Hayes from Monday 29 October to Saturday 3 November, 7.30pm at Theatro Technis Theatre in Camden, London.
Prohibition in America was an era of profound contradictions – a period of unprecedented government intervention into the lives of citizens, and yet also a time of exuberance, decadence and casting off restraints. Nearly a hundred years later, Smithsonian Channel's DRINKS, CRIME AND PROHIBITION takes a deep dive into the underbelly of a time characterized as much by jazz, illegal booze and female liberation as it was by gangsters and brutality. Weapons experts, historians, museum curators and mixologists weigh in on 'the failed experiment” and the compelling drama it unleashed, with all its unlikely alliances, corruption and machinations of organized crime. The two-part special premieres Monday, June 11 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel.
No Sesame. All Street. THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS is a filthy comedy set in the underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist. Two clashing detectives with a shared secret, one human (Melissa McCarthy) and one puppet, are forced to work together again to solve the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show.
The Traverse Theatre is excited to announce the final additions to the Traverse Festival 2018 programme - including, in what is Scotland's Year of Young People 2018, Festival favourite Breakfast Plays: Youthquake, pairing three young Scottish playwrights from our Traverse Young Writers' group with three leading British writers. Together they will explore how the younger generation can be a catalyst for political and social change.
TEDxAsburyPark "Passion," one of the largest and highest-rated TEDx conferences on the east coast, is set to take the stage at the legendary Paramount Theatre on Saturday, May 19th.
Music! Mystery! Morlocks! A musical adventure from 800,000 years in the future! After premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, this new musical version of H.G. Wells' classic novel comes to Wilton's Music Hall for three performances only.
Manual Cinema has announced a three-week summer run of The End of TV, July 19- August 5 at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.
The intensely socially conscious psychological thriller “M.O.M.” (Mothers Of Monsters) gives audiences a first look with the premiere of its terrifying trailer this Mother's Day weekend. Written and directed by unscripted television veteran and award-winning writer, Tucia Lyman, “M.O.M.” is a gripping tale of a distraught mother who suspects her teenage son may be plotting a shooting at his high school.
Dazzling critics and audiences alike at the Fringe last year with her unique mind and caustic wit in Cake In The Rain. Laura Davis returns with an already winning and acclaimed show Ghost Machine, which won the prestigious MICF Golden Gibbo award for best independent show in 2015.
Today Underbelly announces a further 82 shows, providing a final dazzling flurry to complete it's 2018 Fringe programme, the most ambitious in the company's 19th year run. Featuring a mix of death-defying circus, contagious music and dance with critically acclaimed theatre makers and unforgettable comedy, this year's programme has something for people of all ages, predispositions and predilections to enjoy.
The clue for what this play entails lies within the title. You're probably going to get wet, but don't worry there are plastic sheets available to protect any valuable items in your possession. And if you're in the front row, then you'll be absolutely soaked. But that is where I'd encourage everyone to sit, as it'll allow them to see every wonderful act in its close-up beauty.
We often dream of landing the big one, where we can give the middle finger to the man and say we're going it alone. In 2010, after betting £10 on a horse racing accumulator, Ross Brierley hit the jackpot and decided to quit his job and become a professional gambler. What followed was a year of the inevitable high stakes and crushing lows. In the space of twelve months, he'd lost most of his money and some of his mind.
Water, water everywhere as the slick, wet, headliner German Circus SOAP, splashes into The Spiegeltent at Underbelly Festival Southbank from Thursday 3 May - Saturday 16 June 2018 (Press Night Thursday 10 May 2018 at 7.30pm.)
Prohibition in America was an era of profound contradictions - a period of unprecedented government INTERVENTION into the lives of citizens, and yet also a time of exuberance, decadence and casting off restraints. Nearly a hundred years later, Smithsonian Channel's DRINKS, CRIME AND PROHIBITION takes a deep dive into the underbelly of a time characterized as much by jazz, illegal booze and female liberation as it was by gangsters and brutality. Weapons experts, historians, museum curators and mixologists weigh in on 'the failed experiment' and the compelling drama it unleashed, with all its unlikely alliances, corruption and machinations of organized crime. The two-part special premieres Monday, June 11 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel.
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