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The Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 92nd season, titled “In Other Words,” with an appearance at both Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College and the MainStage at Proctors.
Des Moines Metro Opera has revealed updated casting for the company's 2025 Festival Season. The season features the return of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and more.
Internationally acclaimed Brazilian actor Ivo Müller will extend the US Premiere of his hit solo show RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Brazilian actor Ivo Müller will present the US Premiere of his hit solo show RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS at Torn Page.. RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS connects an actor in the present with a poet from the past. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Explore the centennial celebration of Herman Melville's BILLY BUDD at The Grolier Club in NYC, featuring rare editions, manuscripts, and artifacts from the American literary classic.
“The Boy Who Listened To Paintings” is a new musical theater work based on the memoir of the same name by the late visual artist and poet Dean Kostos.The musical will be presented by Theater for the New City(TNC) for its world premiere February 1 to 18.
Con un aplauso final que se prolongó por más de cinco minutos, la Ópera de Bellas Artes llevó a cabo la primera de dos presentaciones en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la ópera de Igor Stravinski, The Rake's Progress (La carrera de un libertino), en lo que representó el regreso a las producciones en amplio formato, luego de dos años de contingencia sanitaria por la Covid-19.
Troupe, in association with Park Theatre, today announce the full cast for the world première of Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man, in a new adaptation from Simon Reade with direction by Philip Wilson.
See Tom Stoppard on Leopoldstadt, Wendell Pierce, Sharon D. Clarke, André De Shields, and Miranda Cromwell on Death Of A Salesman, Joel Grey, Steven Skybell, and Zalmen Mlotek on Fiddler On The Roof In Yiddish and more at 92NY this fall.
The 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center’s 84th season will feature a wide range of acclaimed novelists, playwrights and poets, who will visit to read from and discuss highly-anticipated new books – and pay tribute to other great writers.
Verdi's Falstaff is another glittering gem in the train of Union Avenue Opera. I'm not a big fan of 're-purposing' classic plays. Poor Shakespeare! He's been subjected to such vandalism over the years with modern 'concept' versions of his works. No, I do not want to go to see a trendy lesbian-Hamlet-on-Mars!
Troupe today announces the world première of a new adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man by Simon Reade. Directed by Philip Wilson, the production opens in Park200 at Park Theatre on 21 October, with previews from 19 October, and runs until 26 November.
In light of the closure of theatres across the UK due to COVID-19, the Original Theatre Company's productions of Alan Bennett's THE HABIT OF ART and Ali Milles's THE CROFT, both of which were touring the UK, will now each have an online launch performance.
In light of the most recent government advice due to COVID-19, The Original Theatre Company's production of Alan Bennett's THE HABIT OF ART, which was due to open at Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne on Wednesday 18 March 2020, will now perform a closed filmed performance on Wednesday 18 March 2020 at 2pm.
This spring, the Belgrade Theatre invites audiences to venture into a remote corner of the Scottish highlands in a spine-chilling new play by Ali Milles, showing from 15-18 April.
Following a highly acclaimed tour in 2018, The Original Theatre Company and The Anthology Group in association with Peter Stickney and York Theatre Royal's production of Alan Bennett's THE HABIT OF ART will return and tour the UK in 2020. Directed by Philip Franks and starring Matthew Kelly as Fitz (W. H. Auden) and David Yelland as Henry (Benjamin Britten). The tour begins on 18 March 2020 at Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne.
When the curtain rises for Junk on April 5, it will mark a full circle for Actress Nancy Sun
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey have been named its newest Chancellors, an honorary position that has been held by some of the most distinguished poets in the United States, including W. H. Auden, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Adrienne Rich, and Mark Strand. Poets elected to the Board of Chancellors become an important part of the history of Academy of American Poets and as of 2019, only 115 poets have been elected to this board since it was formed in 1946.
What a bizarre year 2018 has been. In the months that saw too much Trump, devastating Californian wildfires, an escalation in the refugee crisis, not to mention the dreaded 'B' word, it makes me more grateful than ever for the pure escapism that live theatre so often provides.
Following a slew of four and five star reviews for performances in York, Brighton, Salisbury and Oxford, Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art comes to the Belgrade Theatre this November in a new production from Original Theatre Company.
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