Can-Can - 2004 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 6

Top Dawg Entertainment, with Toyota and BET and The Orchard, will bring live performances, career activations and a mobile recording studio to nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Making his debut with the Boston Pops at Tanglewood on August 11, Hugh Jackman dazzled his sold-out audience – under the Koussevitzky Music Shed and stretching as far as the eye could see on the lawn that surrounds it – from the moment he took the stage.

An AI-recreated documentary featuring a 1971 Billy Joel radio interview will open the LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival in Stony Brook, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has revealed Fall performances of its 65th season–featuring dozens of new works from around the world, including La MaMa Block Party celebrating 65 years, the return of the La MaMa Puppet Festival, and more.

Los Angeles Ballet has received a $2.4 million grant from the Perenchio Foundation, the company announced, marking a major financial contribution to its operations.

Ensemble for These Times selected 13 composers for its third Call for Scores for Solo Piano, with works to be performed by pianist Dale Tsang in San Francisco and Berkeley.

Tony Award winner Beth Leavel was inducted into the Muny Hall of Fame, honoring her contributions in more than a dozen Muny productions over four decades. See photos from the ceremony!

Romeo Miller released two new singles, SELFIE and DOIN SOMETHING featuring Trevor Jackson, ahead of his forthcoming album NEW LANE via SRG-ILS Group/PK Carter Music.

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center will present MEAN GIRLS, the musical based on the 2004 film, with performances running on weekends at the venue's East Los Angeles Avenue location.

Japanese band SiM will release the album HOOMAN AFTER ALL via UNFD, with frontman MAH describing it as a tribute to rock's late-nineties and early-2000s era.

The Tony Award-winning Best Musical 'Avenue Q' was groundbreaking when it premiered in 2003, but times have changed — and Ann Harada says that her character Christmas Eve is often a topic of conversation.

FRIGID New York will present its 29th season, including the Days of the Dead Festival, Gotham Storytelling Festival, and The Fire This Time Festival, with performances at UNDER St. Marks.

Theatre has always intersected with politics, and the presence of American presidents in Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre plays and musicals is a major part of this. Did you know that all of our heads of state have been featured in shows, whether as characters or as plot points that are part of the action? Dramatizing current and former leaders of our nation is a way to examine their affect on society at the time and how political events, even those of many years ago, still impact us all. 

Tony Award winner Beth Leavel, who stars as Katie Connelly in the Muny production of Meet Me In St. Louis, will be inducted into the Muny Hall of Fame, honoring her contributions in more than a dozen Muny productions over four decades.

TAKING BACK SUNDAY will commemorate the 20th anniversary of its album LOUDER NOW with a deluxe anniversary edition, according to a release from Big Picture Media.

The Actors Studio of New Jersey announced the full cast and creative team for MEAN GIRLS, THE MUSICAL, set to run at the historic Dunellen Theatre this fall.

Roundabout Youth Ensemble (RYE), an after-school and summer program for NYC public high schools, has announced the world premiere of the new play Stars in Relations by Lauren Urbanec.

Bassist and composer Hannah Marks will bring her quartet to DC Jazz Festival as part of an ASCAP Foundation partnership supporting emerging jazz creators.

Roundabout Youth Ensemble will present the world premiere of STARS IN RELATIONS, a new play by Lauren Urbanec directed by Jonah Fisher, at a Manhattan black box theater.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater in New York revealed a monthlong slate of jazz performances, including Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes, Monty Alexander, and the MIKI YAMANAKA TRIO.

Jesse Eisenberg's new theater-themed film, The Debut, will close the 70th BFI London Film Festival in October. Learn more about the film and its UK premiere here.

Ruth Eckerd Hall will present Home For The Holidays starring All-4-One. Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard and Lindsey Webster, including a tribute to the late Peabo Bryson.

Zingher Productions will stage its debut show, a dark comedy set in 2004 about a teenager who kidnaps Tobey Maguire, at the Warehouse Studio Theatre.

If you have never experienced a Penguin Project production before, you are missing out. It is one of the most inspiring, heart-warming theatre experiences.

City Theatre Austin will present the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q, directed by Matthew Shead with musical direction by Carrie Culver, closing the company's anniversary season.