Oregon Ballet Theatre 2011 Season Begins
by BWW News Desk - Oct 8, 2011
Oregon Ballet Theatre unravels the mysteries of the human heart this season with the help of toreadors and tortured artists, country girls and conjurers in the just announced 2011/2012 season. Our Fall Program will feature World Premiere Petrouchka from Nicolo Fonte coupled with the World Premiere of Carmen from Christopher Stowell. The holiday season features the return of Christopher Stowell's popular A Holiday Revue and George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. The heart of our Winter program is the World Premiere of Lola de Avila's Giselle. In the spring we bring a mixed repertory program, Chromatic Quartet, which features Company Premiere George Balanchine's Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Company Premiere Christopher Wheeldon's Liturgy, Val Caniparoli's Lambarena and a World Premiere new work.
Scott Ainslie Performs and Leads Workshop in McLean 10/28
by Carly Rosemore - Oct 4, 2011
The Alden in McLean opens its new "Live @ The Alden" performance series for teens and young adults with a special guitar workshop and performance by acclaimed blues artist and historian Scott Ainslie. The guitar workshop will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28. Ainslie will perform at 8 p.m. Tickets for the workshop are $10, $5 for McLean tax district residents. Tickets for the performance are $20, $15 for McLean tax district residents. The Alden is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue.
RIALTO CHATTER: Is BARE Back? October Reading Likely
by Rialto Chatter - Sep 29, 2011
BroadwayWorld has learned that the musical BARE may be getting a staged reading in New York in October. Randy Taradash and Martian Entertainment will produce the reading of the Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere piece. Stafford Arima will direct and Lynne Shankel will musical direct. The reading would begin either October 23 or October 24 and run through October 31.
Cardenas, Rua et al. Lead Old Globe's SOMEWHERE this Fall
by Jessica Lewis - Aug 29, 2011
Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Somewhere, a new play by Old Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez. Lopez's play The Whipping Man was a critical success in New York last season after receiving its West Coast Premiere at the Globe in a production directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Sardelli returns to direct Somewhere, which will run in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, Sept. 24 - Oct. 30. Preview performances run Sept. 24 - Sept. 28. Opening night is Thursday, Sept. 29 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are currently available by subscription only. Single tickets will go on sale on Sunday, Sept. 4. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.
Harvey Fierstein, Michael Arden Join Season Three of THE GOOD WIFE!
by Nicole Rosky - Aug 17, 2011
According to EW.com, stage and screen star Harvey Fierstein has signed on to join the third season of CBS' THE GOOD WIFE as a judge. He'll play 'a liberal, ex-hippie type who marches to a different drummer. He'll preside over a case Alicia (Julianna Margulies) is working on with a sharp eye, but rather laid-back speech.'
Tickets for Bushnell Center 2011-12 Season On Sale Beginning 8/1
by BWW
News Desk - Aug 1, 2011
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce its line-up for the 2011-2012 season, sponsored by Farmington Bank, featuring some timeless Broadway classics, family entertainment, comedy, and more. Tickets to the shows listed below will go on sale Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted.
Druid Theatre Co Presents THE SILVER TASSIE 7/24
by BWW
News Desk - Jul 24, 2011
Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes returns to New York on July 24, 2011 with the Druid Theatre Company's production of Seán O'Casey's The Silver Tassie, a searing drama set during and after World War I.
SATURDAY SPECIAL: Amy Winehouse Gone Back To Black
by Robert Diamond - Jul 23, 2011
Music icon Amy Winehouse passed away today at the age of 27. Looking back at her two solo albums - FRANK, and the multi-Grammy-winning BACK TO BLACK, produced by Mark Ronson - as well as her live concert DVD - I TOLD YOU I WAS TROUBLE - it seems difficult to believe an artist with this much cultural impact wrote and produced so little in her impossibly short life - yet, both albums are simply superb and the latter is on the level of the very best American pop/rock records of all time. Evoking Bilie Holliday, Janis Joplin and Courtney Love in almost equal measure - with a healthy dollop of The Shirelles and some Mary J. Blige on top - Amy Winehouse was a complete and total anomaly whose shtick was anything-but: when Amy put on, wore and sold that worn-down, worn-out beehive doo on her head while she sang one of her dirges you damn well bought it, honey - every note, lyric and follicle! From the sugary pop frivolity of 'Rehab' to the jaunty, haunting hip-hop beats of 'Back To Black'; from the searing heartache of 'I Wake Up Alone' to the clear-eyed plaintiveness of 'To Known Him is To Love Him'; all the way to the witty, jokey, grungy fun of 'Me & Mr. Jones' and 'F*ck Me Pumps' - Amy could certainly do it all. And, she did - maybe doing too much of some things in some areas of her life. This special SATURDAY SPECIAL is a generous look back at what and who she was and what she did in her short time on this planet and why she deserves a place at the top.
Druid Theatre Co Presents THE SILVER TASSIE 7/24
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jul 14, 2011
Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes returns to New York on July 24, 2011 with the Druid Theatre Company's production of Seán O'Casey's The Silver Tassie, a searing drama set during and after World War I.
Holland Productions Presents HIDEOUS PROGENY At Boston Playwrights 7/9
by BWW News Desk - Jul 9, 2011
Currently celebrating its 5th season, Holland Productions proudly presents the regional premiere of HIDEOUS PROGENY, a witty and salacious story of Mary Shelley and her peers, by playwright Emily Dendinger, July 9 - July 23 at The Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Tickets for Bushnell Center 2011-12 Season On Sale Beginning 8/1
by Caryn Robbins - Jul 7, 2011
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce its line-up for the 2011-2012 season, sponsored by Farmington Bank, featuring some timeless Broadway classics, family entertainment, comedy, and more. Tickets to the shows listed below will go on sale Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted.