When the world you've known your whole life starts falling apart due to forces outside of your control, are you able to roll with the punches? When the bubble you've lived in for years starts imploding upon itself due to the choices made by others, are you able to move forward with compassion and understanding? What if the impact of those choices is caused by your friend? Or even your own mother? These are the questions audience members will ask themselves when they step into the world of Reading, Pennsylvania to see Sweat at Everyman Theatre.
PlayGround continues its 25th season of its celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series on Monday, November 26, 8 PM at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Roda Theatre. The topic for November's round, announced this morning, is "FALL DOWN, GET UP". Members of the 2018-19 PlayGround Writers Company have just four-and-a-half days to generate their original ten-minute plays inspired by the topic. The top six scripts will each receive an hour-and-a-half rehearsal and a professional script-in-hand staged reading at Berkeley Rep on November 26. PlayGround writers in Los Angeles are working simultaneously on the same prompt and their finalists will be presented at Hollywood's Broadwater Mainstage (home of Sacred Fools Theatre Company) on November 12. Tickets are $15-$30 and 5-admission series subscriptions are just $75 ($50 for 25-and-Unders). For tickets or more information, visit http://playground-sf.org/monday.
Bluegrass stalwarts, Barry Abernathy and Darrell Webb, have teamed up on a new musical venture, Appalachian Road Show. The debut album is available on BILLY BLUE RECORDS (10-26-18). The new label is headed up by multi-award winning songwriter, Jerry Salley.
When Magic Mike Live in London first went on sale in June, most of the shows for the first six months of the run at the Theatre at the Hippodrome Casino sold out within five days and in September Channing Tatum and his co-producers released an extra 10,000 tickets, including for some extra shows in January. It has now been decided that at 1.00pm each Monday, beginning Monday 5 November 2018, Magic Mike Live will release a certain amount of tickets that have been held for producers and creatives. People will be able to purchase these tickets either in person at the theatre's new box office on Cranbourn Street or online from www.magicmikelondon.co.uk.
Bartlett Theater announces that rehearsals are underway for Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize winning play THE FLICK. Directed by Founding Artistic Director Jonathan Brady, THE FLICK opens Today, November 2nd at The Northgate Stadium 10 Cinema. With the ever increasing need for performance spaces in Durham, like other local companies, Bartlett is seeking out creative alternatives. This production marks Bartlett Theater's first collaboration with Northgate Mall; Bartlett will be the first theater company to stage a play using Northgate as the venue.
Neglia Ballet's The Nutcracker is still going strong as the company gears up to perform its 10th Anniversary presentation of the holiday treat at Shea's Performing Art Center with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The original 2009 premier of perhaps the largest locally-produced production in Western New York was met with rave reviews, including, "From the opening curtain's rise to the dancer's final bows, the much-talked-about production showcased a mix of tradition and wonder that few community productions of the ballet achieve." (The Buffalo News)
Today, Lincoln Center has announced the 20th season of American Songbook, celebrating the ever-expanding American musical canon from January 30 to March 4, 2019. This year's 15-concert series includes legendary songwriters, contemporary storytellers and interpreters of song, and musical projects by multitalented performers pushing the boundaries of pop, alternative, soul, folk, musical theater, jazz, and more.
Casting has been announced for the Detroit engagement of Disney's Aladdin. The hit Broadway musical will begin performances at the Detroit Opera House on December 12, 2018 for a limited engagement through January 13, 2019.
ASCAP, the world leader in performing rights and advocacy for music creators, today announced that it is accepting registrations for the 14th edition of its signature event, the ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, May 2 - 4, 2019. Music creators of all styles and experience levels can visithttps://www.ascap.com/expo to register for the conference.
Clay Epstein's Film Mode Entertainment announces Grindstone Entertainment Group's acquisition of Yale Productions' new crime-thriller, CRYPTO. Film Mode Entertainment will also be presenting first-look footage for buyers at AFM.
Theatre Y is proud to present the English Language World Premiere of MALAGA (Or the Inner Ear), by Lukas Barfuss at The Ready, 4546 N. Western Ave. Theatre Y Artistic Director Melissa Lorraine and Ensemble Member Hector Alvarez direct this brand new translation by Neil Blackadder, featuring Ensemble Members Katie Stimpson and Eric K. Roberts, and introducing guest artist Lane Anthony Flores.
Pacific Opera Project (POP) closes its 2018 season with eight performances of its acclaimed 2012 production of La boheme: AKA "The Hipsters" on December 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 at 8pm at The Highland Park Ebell Club. The opera is sung in Italian with projected "cleverly ironic" English titles, led by Music Director Parisa Zaeri, and directed by POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw.
United States Representative Darin LaHood and City of Peoria, Illinois Mayor Jim Ardis have honored country music veteran Tim Atwood with both a Proclamation from the 18th Congressional District of Illinois and the City of Peoria. Both Proclamations acknowledge and honor the contributions that Tim Atwood has made in his nearly fifty year career in country music.
Transport Group's world premiere musical, Renascence, just opened at the Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street. Renascence has music by Carmel Dean (musical director If/Then, American Idiot), book by Dick Scanlan (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Everyday Rapture), and lyrics from the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The musical is directed by artistic director Jack Cummings III and Dick Scanlan.
Theatre Y is proud to present the English Language World Premiere of MALAGA (Or the Inner Ear), by Lukas Barfuss at The Ready, 4546 N. Western Ave. Theatre Y Artistic Director Melissa Lorraine and Ensemble Member Hector Alvarez direct this brand new translation by Neil Blackadder, featuring Ensemble Members Katie Stimpson and Eric K. Roberts, and introducing guest artist Lane Anthony Flores.
The traffic in midtown Manhattan was its usual horror at lunchtime last Friday--and Anna Netrebko was stuck in it. She was on the way to Cipriani 42nd Street, across from Grand Central Station, where the Metropolitan Opera Guild was celebrating the soprano at its 84th Annual Luncheon. Despite her delayed arrival, the soprano made some time to talk to me about her voice, her roles and what lies ahead--and, by the way, to be absolutely charming and laugh prodigiously in between her serious discussions about her voice and career.
She's been a witch, a leading player, a Disney princess, and a DC superhero, but now Ciara Renee is working on a short film called REDDY RECORDS, and she needs your help. The film is in the final days of a crowdfunding campaign, and Renee is heading into the home stretch by doing a 24-hour livestream to get the project over the finish line.
FOX is announcing premiere dates for THE ORVILLE (Dec. 30), GORDON RAMSAY'S 24 HOURS TO HELL AND BACK (Jan. 2), GOTHAM (Jan. 3) and PROVEN INNOCENT (Feb. 15), as well as the all-new COSMOS installment, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS (March 3). As previously announced, new celebrity singing competition THE MASKED SINGER will premiere Jan. 2, new epic thriller THE PASSAGE will premiere Jan. 14 and all-new live musical event RENT will air Jan. 27.
