St. Ann's Warehouse is pleased to begin its 2013-14 season with the American Premiere of the Donmar Warehouse's highly acclaimed, all-female production of Julius Caesar, October 3 - November 3. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, an ensemble including Harriet Walter (Brutus), Frances Barber (Caesar), Jenny Jules (Cassius) and Cush Jumbo (Mark Antony) play prisoners and guards performing Shakespeare's great tragedy in the hard, grim surroundings of a women's prison.
Bradenton, Florida's Have Gun, Will Travel have a natural instinct for combining folk, pop, rock and classic country influences to create a sound all their own.
Sheffield Theatres and HighTide Festival Theatres present the world premiere production of Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards, written by Jack Thorne. Will Adamsdale will play the role of Alexander and Fraser Ayres will play the eponymous role of Stuart.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE-arguably William Shakespeare's most controversial play, is being tackled this season at the Stratford Festival for the first time since 2007. Under the direction of (Artistic Director) ANTONI CIMOLINO, this production does not shy away from the controversial nature of many characters' anti-Semitic views, and in fact, highlights the danger of such views by placing this production in a timeline leading up to the Holocaust. The constant reminder of what is to come provides a dark and almost eerie backdrop to this production, creating a thought-provoking dark 'comedy' for the ages.
In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, Anders Lustgarten's Black Jesus receives its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre, playing for a four week season from Tuesday, 1 October 2013 (Press Night: Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 7.30pm). A sold-out workshop production of Black Jesus at the Harare International Festival of Arts, Zimbabwe, was described by the Guardian as 'a highlight of the festival'.
As part of Curve's celebratory 5th Birthday Autumn Season, the Leicester theatre reunites with New Persepectives Theatre Company, the East Midlands' leading touring theatre producer, to co-produce the world premiere of David Rudkin's; The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock.
First Floor Theater is pleased to announce its 2013/14 Season, featuring one world premiere, one Chicago premiere, and the return of its annual literary festival. In the fall, FFT takes on Naomi Iizuka's masterful mash-up of Roman myth and documentary theatre with Polaroid Stories, directed by Hutch Pimentel at Red Tape Theatre. In the winter, FFT presents the deathbed meeting of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe and the Roman emperor Caligula in the Chicago premiere of Nat Cassidy's The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots, a metaphysical buddy comedy directed by Gus Menary at The Den Theatre. In the spring, Will Bishop & Scott Ray Merchant team up to present the world premiere of Tollbooth: A Clown Show, a clown and object theater piece for all ages. And concluding the season, FFT's Annual LitFest, returns with new works from celebrated Chicago playwrights all based around the work of an author to be selected by the attendees of FFT's season kick-off party.
Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), Houston's leading performing arts presenter, is teaming up with local celebrity chefs and restaurants for a special event titled 'A Taste of SPA' on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, at 7 p.m. All proceeds from this event will go toward the newly created Theresa Mallett Scholarship for Young Artists.
Bradenton, Florida's Have Gun, Will Travel have a natural instinct for combining folk, pop, rock and classic country influences to create a sound all their own.
Hot on the heels of its critically-acclaimed world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sheffield Theatres and HighTide Festival Theatres' production of Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards comes to the Studio Theatre from Wednesday 11 - Saturday 28 September.
From the multi-award winning team behind shake & stir's 1984 and Animal Farm, comes a brand new production, Tequila Mockingbird, inspired by the themes, characters and relationships from the classic novel by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Now in its fifth consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - the coalface of British Theatre - presents Vibrant 2013 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, its annual explosion of new writing, running between 6-25 October 2013
The music was captured by Dean Tzenos and Ian Gomes in an empty, small town church completely cut off from the outside world. HSY's first effort comes out of the church and on to 7' Vinyl September 17th on Buzz Records. They will embark on tour alongside Hand Drawn Dracula's newest signing, Doom Squad. Pitchfork recently premiered the group's abrasive new single 'Milk Chug.' Today the band shares the murky black-and-white music video for the track - check it out below!
BRIEFS: THE SECOND COMING will play the London Underbelly Wonderground Southbank, September 19-28. Press night, September 20, 2013. Press night, September 20, 2013.
What happened when C.S. Lewis met Sigmund Freud? Australian audiences will soon find out when Freud's Last Session opens at Sydney's Theatre Royal tonight, August 15, 2013. Winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play, Freud's Last Session tells of an exquisite intellectual duel between two great minds of last century.
Saturday morning in Brisbane, in the middle of winter. I got up a little early to treat myself to one last Aussie cafe breakfast, worth it. It was beautifully sunny, I had to keep reminding myself that it is, technically, winter.
Stax Records, a division of Concord Music Group, has partnered with ABC Studios to release Songs from Scandal: Music for Gladiators on September 3rd, 2013.
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