Brilliance - 2022 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 18

The new album features guest performers Sammy Hagar, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Gregg Bissonette, Gary Husband, Eric Johnson, Bill Frisell, Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, Alex Ligertwood, Scott Henderson, Marcus Miller, Ron Carter, Tony Levin, Michael League, Nathan East, Mark King, Bruce Guttridge, Billy Sheehan and Johnny Hiland.

Japanese free music provocateur Keiji Haino and expressionist metal trio SUMAC have announced their new collaborative album Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood to Pour Let Us Never. SUMAC will be touring throughout the US this summer with labelmates BIG|BRAVE, as well as in Europe this fall. Check out the complete list of tour dates now!

Leeds Playhouse has announced that Gareth Snook will play Willy Wonka in its new production of Roald Dahl's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY – THE MUSICAL presented in association with Neal Street Productions and Playful Productions. The show is set to premiere at Leeds Playhouse from 18 November 2022 – 28 January 2023, ahead of a major UK Tour.

The audience love for Yve Blake’s musical comedy thriller FANGIRLS stays strong as the celebration of the power of female emotion, energy and enthusiasm remains important as society continues to need to shift views on the joyous devotion women of all ages display for strangers they see on stage and screen.

The Minnesota Orchestra announced today that Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård will succeed Osmo Vänskä to become the 11th music director to lead the Orchestra in its 120-year history.

Carnegie Hall announced that its performance by Jon Batiste, originally planned for May 2022 has been rescheduled for Thursday, September 22 at 8:00 p.m.

Written by Rita Kalnejais and directed by Jack Serio, This Beautiful Future is a story of young love set during World War II. The production, which was twice-extended at Theaterlab and marked the playwright's New York debut, was embraced by critics and audiences alike during its limited run in January 2022.

Theatre Three’s Every Brilliant Thing is sheer brilliance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Center's Principal Dance Company and America's cultural ambassador to the world, announces highlights of its always-anticipated annual season at New York City Center. Returning to its “home” theater for four weeks from November 30 - December 24, 2022, the Ailey company will present a world premiere by Kyle Abraham, the company premiere of Twyla Tharp's Roy's Joys, and a new production of Alvin Ailey's Survivors.

Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse announces its new programme of work, the first under Creative Director Suba Das. It confirms the venues' commitment to artistic innovation, talent development, and social change, whilst reflecting and entertaining the people of Liverpool and beyond.

The North American tour of Six, the musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, launched a return engagement of the show in Chicago and is currently playing at the National Theatre in Washington, DC. Read all the reviews for Six here!

Fountain Hills Theater has annnounced that, for their upcoming production, the multiple Tony and Edgar award-winning author of Solitary Confinement, Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Curtains, Say Goodnight Gracie) will be updating his already clever thriller exclusively for FHT. 

When she went into the studio to record her award-winning cabaret show, Elizabeth Ward Land documented her own genius as an artists, along with Linda Ronstadt's.

Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows, supported by blues and roots dynamo Lecia Louise, herald the start of the 2022 Adelaide Guitar Festival's Adelaide performances with a sold-out evening in the Dunstan Playhouse tonight, as the first of thirteen ticketed shows taking place at Adelaide Festival Centre and Her Majesty's Theatre until Sunday 24th July.

Merola Opera Program continues its 2022 season with a fully staged production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), giving the public the opportunity to see Merola's exciting 2022 participants performing full operatic roles, conducted by Kelly Kuo, Associate Director of American Lyric Theatre and Music Director of the Reno Chamber Orchestra.

Otherworld Theatre Company, the premier sci-fi and fantasy theatrical production company in North America, announced meow details and cat-sting for KITTIES IN SPACE: THE SAGA, opening August 5 and running through September 4, 2022.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has announced the company’s 45th anniversary ‘sapphire’ season: a dynamic mix of world premieres and revivals of company and audience favorites.

A British Museum Spotlight Loan Gathering light: A Bronze golden sun announces the full schedule of the tour, which gives an insight into the cosmology of Bronze Age Britain. A key component in the major The world of Stonehenge exhibition currently in its final week, the tour will travel to Truro, Lincoln, Sunderland and Stornoway between August 2022 and September 2023 with the support of the Dorset Foundation.

The Public Theater celebrated opening night of Free Shakespeare in the Park production of RICHARD III at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The shows marks Robert O'Hara's Free Shakespeare in the Park debut and welcomes Danai Gurira back to The Delacorte after 11 years in the title role. Read all of the reviews for Richard III here.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has announced the company’s 45th anniversary ‘sapphire’ season: a dynamic mix of world premieres and revivals of company and audience favorites. The 2022/23 Season 45: Sapphire Season begins with HSDC’s fall series Refraction at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

Berkeley Symphony announced that it renewed its contract with Music Director Joseph Young through the 2024-25 season. Young made his debut with the Berkeley Symphony in February 2019 and is the fourth Music Director in its 51-year history.

BroadwayWorld speaks to actor Richard Katz about his entrance into director Rebecca Frecknall’s thrilling version of Kander and Ebb's legendary musical, Cabaret. We chat about his extensive theatre CV and the excitement around going into a show that is already soaring.

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company will open its 2022 annual tour Saturday, August 6 with 'Teacher! Teacher! or PS I Love You,' a rip-roaring original musical which tells the story of a struggling teacher in an underserved neighborhood who puts her life on the line for her kids.

Acclaimed mezzo soprano Sally-Anne Russell will join the Adelaide Baroque Orchestra for its second concert for 2022, entitled Jewel of the City: Music of Dresden. The concert will be performed on Sunday 7 August at 3.00pm in Elder Hall, Adelaide. A pre-concert talk by Dr Jan Stockigt takes place from 2.00pm.

The Dramatists Guild of America and National Queer Theater will present “Dreaming the Queer Future: TGNC Representation and Playwrights in the American Theatre” on July 10 at 11:20am at BroadwayCon.