Treasured for her groundbreaking poetic and inventive language, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) has drawn a family portrait shattered by issues of rage, revenge, power and betrayal. When a young man returns home to South Texas to confront his father, everyday life erupts into a battle for personal survival. At once fiercely intimate and explosive, THE BOOK OF GRACE weaves the story of three people bound together by love and longing, passion and ambition.
The Book of Grace contains adult content including, but not limited to, sexually explicit imagery.
In conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, a new musical work by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Mark Campbell will have its world premiere performances beginning April 12, 2011 the same day that Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in 1861.
Actor Nora Armani and cellist David Bakamjian lead a cultural journey through the spirit of Armenia in the company of poets, composers, folk songs, and sacred chants in English and Armenian. This presentation premiered to a sold-out audience in the Met Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in 2007.Actor Nora Armani and cellist David Bakamjian lead a cultural journey through the spirit of Armenia in the company of poets, composers, folk songs, and sacred chants in English and Armenian. This presentation premiered to a sold-out audience in the Met Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in 2007.
Aaron Louis (Producing Director, 3LD Art & Technology Center) in association with New Georges and The Essentials, will present the world premiere of THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, written by Marielle Heller, adapted from the hit graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Rachel Eckerling in a multi-media production. Performances will begin on Sunday, March 15 at 8:00 p.m. at 3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (just south of Rector Street). The official opening night will be Sunday, March 28 at 8:00 p.m. (Performances will run through Monday, April 12.)
Armed with astounding technical virtuosity and a rare gift for composition, singer, pianist and composer Gabriel Kahane is at the forefront of a generation of musicians who find their voices, outlets and audiences in unexpected and exciting places. On the heels of his Lincoln Center American Songbook debut, Kahane brings his 'music for the ears, the intellect and the soul' (Prefix Magazine) to the Southern Theater by way of For the Union Dead, a song cycle on poems by Robert Lowell, written specifically for yMusic
UNCHAIN MY HEART, The Ray Charles Musical, featuring the music of Ray Charles with a book by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Sheldon Epps will begin previews October 8, 2010 and open officially November 7, 2010 on Broadway at a Shubert Theatre to be announced.
Sean Hayes, set to make his Broadway debut with Kristin Chenoweth in the revival of PROMISES, PROMISES, talked to 'The Advocate' in a recent interview about his sexual orientation. Hayes, who played the flamboyant Jack McFarland on the popular show 'Will and Grace,' has been somewhat cautious about the topic in the past.
Broadway In Chicago has announced the complete 2010/2011 Broadway In Chicago Season Series. The shows in the 2010/2011 Season Series include the Chicago premieres of FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP, ROCK OF AGES, TRACES, GOD OF CARNAGE and 9 to 5: THE MUSICAL. BURN THE FLOOR also makes a special return to Chicago as part of the Season Series. Smash-hits WICKED and THE LION KING return to thrill Chicago audiences as off-season specials. The 2010 Season Series emphasizes Broadway In Chicago's long-standing commitment to bring the best of Broadway to Chicago.
Aaron Louis (Producing Director, 3LD Art & Technology Center) in association with New Georges and The Essentials, will present the world premiere of THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, written by Marielle Heller, adapted from the hit graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Rachel Eckerling in a multi-media production. Performances will begin on Sunday, March 15 at 8:00 p.m. at 3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (just south of Rector Street). The official opening night will be Sunday, March 28 at 8:00 p.m. (Performances will run through Monday, April 12.)
Marin Theatre Company Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and Producing Director Ryan Rilette are pleased to announce the winners of MTC's two American Play Prizes.
Actor Nora Armani and cellist David Bakamjian lead a cultural journey through the spirit of Armenia in the company of poets, composers, folk songs, and sacred chants in English and Armenian. This presentation premiered to a sold-out audience in the Met Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in 2007.Actor Nora Armani and cellist David Bakamjian lead a cultural journey through the spirit of Armenia in the company of poets, composers, folk songs, and sacred chants in English and Armenian. This presentation premiered to a sold-out audience in the Met Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in 2007.
The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, general managers, venue owners, press agents and marketing personnel, will hold the first in a series of planned seminars focusing on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway theater.
Women writers, directors, performers featured in 9th annual festival, April 8-May 1; World Premiere of The Wind and Rain by Claytie Mason; plus a new staging of A Most Notorious Woman by Maggie Cronin featuring Christina Augello; readings by poet Diane di Prima - and Lady of the ‘Loin returns
San Francisco.
Grace in Winter Silver Ball will be held to honor the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Evidence, A Dance Company. The Gala Will Honor Ronald K. Brown, Reginald Van Lee & Booz Allen Hamilton. The event will take place at the Grand Ballroom, in the The Plaza Hotel, New York, Monday February 8, 2010.
The Sundance Institute has chosen 8 playwrights to take part in their annual Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat, Variety is reporting. The retreat began Monday, February 1st, and the residency will last through February 19th. The residency will take place in Ucross, Wyoming.
Weekend Movie Box Office Update: January 29 - January 31, 2010
The 2010 Sundance Institute's Playwrights' Retreat at Ucross Begins Today and will run through February 19, 2010.
Weekend Movie Box Office Update: January 22 - January 24, 2010
Sean Hayes made an appearance on the 'Ellen Degeneres Show' today following a four-year absence. During the course of the interview, Hayes recalled an awkward incident involving Ellen and a glass partition at a restaurant, admitted his addiction to the reality television show 'Hoarders', and also talked about his upcoming role in the Broadway production of PROMISES, PROMISES where he'll star opposite Kristin Chenoweth.
Weekend Movie Box Office Update: January 15 - January 17, 2010
If, indeed, 'it takes a village,' and if, as the poets say, 'no man is an island,' then perhaps no art form is more collaborative than live theatre. With a village of artists backstage and offstage assuring that each production is mounted, then coming to life during each performance, the collaborative effort is renewed. And what audiences see onstage is the collaboration of artists, the people who comprise the acting ensemble, the folks who bring the stagebound script to life, sending it soaring into our imaginations.
With the strains of 'Auld Lang Syne' mere moments away, minds are apt to be caught up in reflection, remembering the year now ending as a new one awaits just over the horizon. Certainly that's what I've been doing lately, looking back over the past year in Nashville theatre as I pencil in dates in my new 2010 (Here's a question to ponder: Is it 'two thousand ten' or 'twenty ten'...think about it and get back to me) calendar for the shows set to open in the months ahead.
NATIONAL THEATRE: JANUARY - MARCH 2010 Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw lead the cast of Boucicault's LONDON ASSURANCE, directed by Nicholas Hytner in the Olivier
LOMBARDI, a new play by Oscar winner and Steppenwolf Theater Company member Eric Simonson, is based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered, by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss. Opening on Broadway in the fall of 2010, this original work will bring the audience into the life and times of one of America's most inspirational and mercurial personalities, Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi.
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Theater celebrates the work of playwright, poet, and essayist Adrienne Kennedy with the study and presentation of three of her groundbreaking pieces during its 2009-2010 season.
The New York Post's Michael Riedel is reporting this morning that Kristin Chenoweth has been nabbed by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for their upcoming Broadway revival of PROMISES, PROMISES. The Post reports that while not yet signed, a deal appears to have been reached for the always-in-demand star to take on the role of Fran Kubelik opposite Sean Hayes as Chuck Baxter.
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