Porchlight's New Faces Sing Broadway Returns with SONGS OF 2001 and UPTOWN UNDERGROUND
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 4, 2017
Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the second performance in its 2016 - 2017 season of Chicago's hit musical revue series, New Faces Sing Broadway 2001, hosted by Keely Vasquez, is Monday, Jan. 23 at Skokie Theatre, 7924 Lincoln Ave in Skokie and Tuesday, Jan. 24 at the Uptown Underground, 4707 N. Broadway at 7:30 p.m. In tribute to the original New Faces series that ran on Broadway and on film from 1934 - 1968, Porchlight Music Theatre last year created this Chicago musical revue series, New Faces Sing Broadway, as a showcase for the best emerging musical talent now performing on Chicago stages.
2017 Florida Smooth Jazz Weekend Hits Brevard's Beaches!
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 3, 2017
The Brevard Music Group and the Florida Smooth Jazz Foundation bring back the 2017 Florida Smooth Jazz Weekend. Featuring 5 of the biggest stars in smooth jazz, Mindi Abair, Rick Braun, Richard Elliot, Euge Groove and Peter White as well as 3 up and coming stars, Generation neXt, featuring Nicholas Cole & Lin Rountree with special guest Julian Vaughn.
Remount of AN OCTOROON Will Launch Woolly Mammoth's 2017-18 Season
by BWW News Desk - Jan 3, 2017
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces its first production of Season 38, the remount of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Nataki Garrett. The show will reunite the entire cast and production teams from Woolly's 2016 production and will run from July 18 to August 6, 2017.
Kristin Chenoweth Gets Ready to Hit the Road in 2017
by Nicole Rosky - Dec 29, 2016
Earlier this year star of stage and screen Kristin Chenoweth released her latest album- Art of Elegance- and in 2017 she hits the road with her new concert tour. Check out her full itinerary below:
New Philharmonic to Open 2017 with THE MIKADO at the MAC
by BWW News Desk - Dec 27, 2016
New Philharmonic, under the baton of Maestro Kirk Muspratt, opens 2017 with Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado," a comic opera in two acts, stage directed by Michael La Tour at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) Saturday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m. A free MAC Chat will take place one hour prior to each performance.
Emma Hatton and Gian Marco Schiaretti to Star in 2017 UK Tour of EVITA
by BWW News Desk - Dec 23, 2016
Following its smash hit run at London's Dominion Theatre, Bill Kenwright's production of the extraordinary musical, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, is set to thrill audiences once again across the UK, opening in Bromley on Thursday 12 January.
The Ayn Rand Institute Announces Early Registration Open for Objectivist Summer Conference 2017
by Christina Mancuso - Dec 21, 2016
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ The Ayn Rand Institute, the leading center for the advancement of Ayn Rand's writings and philosophy, today announced that early registration is open for Objectivist Summer Conference 2017, which will be held June 1015, 2017, at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel at Station Square in the heart of the industrial center of AmericaPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS Opens In Studio 3, 1/10-2/5
by Molly Tracy - Dec 16, 2016
Walnut Street Theatre's 2016-2017 Independence Studio on 3 season continues with one of Neil Simon's funniest plays, Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Philadelphia audiences will be the first to see this production before it becomes the seventh national tour of a Walnut Street Theatre production.
Traverse Theatre Announces Spring/Summer 2017 Season
by BWW News Desk - Dec 12, 2016
The Traverse announces its Spring/Summer 2017 season today, December 12. The work presented has been selected to directly address a mix of both long-existent and emergent social, political and technological challenges, and comes from some of the most exciting companies in the UK.
Cape Town Opera Announces 2017 Season
by David Fick - Dec 9, 2016
Cape Town Opera's 2017 season launches with an explosive meeting of South Africa's foremost young singers directed by a veteran theatrical innovator. It includes a major new international musical and brings acclaimed international singers to the stage for the third in the Naspers Grand Masters series.