Fun Home - 2019 - Immersive Articles Page 10

Today’s subject Burke Swanson is currently living his theatre life playing the iconic role of George McFly in the North American tour of Back to The Future The Musical. The show is currently playing in the Opera House at Kennedy Center through August 11th.

Actor’s Express transforms into the Kit Kat Club, a decadent hotspot in anything-goes 1929 Berlin. An idealistic young American meets an eclectic circle of Berliners, most notably Sally Bowles, the outrageous chanteuse determined to keep the party going at all costs.

Hot on the heels of Simple Plan’s “Can You Feel The Love Tonight,” Disney has unveiled the second single from their upcoming album A Whole New Sound. Magnolia Park will be offering their take on 'I2I,' originally performed by Tevin Campbell (as the fictional rock star “Powerline”) in the 1995 film A Goofy Movie. Listen to it now!

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. Check out the full lineup here!

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will operate this August with a full slate of nightly performances.

BroadwayWord chats with perennially popular solo performer Don Reed about his show 'The DMV' playing at The Marsh Berkeley on Saturdays through September 14th

Vancouver's alt-rock sensation Mossy Ledge has just released their brand new single, 'All You Need To Know,' on all major streaming platforms. This single marks the beginning of a series of new tracks the band plans to record, following their recent success with singles 'Departure' and 'Get to Me' from the Project Ithaca soundtrack.

Alec Wild was Founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning Folio Theatre in Chicago, and Founder/Producing Director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Minnesota. As the recipient of a Fox Fellowship, Mr. Wild traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he studied Directing and Biomechanics at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Theater.

When I heard about the West Coast premiere of Abby Rosebrock’s Dido of Idaho by The Echo Theater Company at Atwater Village Theatre starring Alana Dietze (pictured), I knew I had to speak with her about the “wonderfully off-beat, darkly hilarious (in a truly cringeworthy way) comedy about female identity and the lengths to which some women will go for the love of a man.”  

It’s Christmas in July and vocalist Staci Griesbach’s popular holiday hit “You and Me at Christmastime” will make its feature film debut in the new A Very Vermont Christmas on HALLMARK CHANNEL on July 20th at 8/7c. “You and Me at Christmastime” is the lead single off Griesbach’s 2024 holiday album entitled “Christmastime.” Listen to it now!

Broadway In Chicago has revealed six new shows joining its lineup. SHUCKED and KIMBERLY AKIMBO are in the next Broadway In Chicago Season, on sale this fall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

See the full cast of Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shaw. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Set in a house on the very, very outskirts of London, five housemates; an art student, dancer, writer, climate activist and parliamentary assistant are living in the strange liminal post-university years waiting for their lives to really begin.

PROUD Tina: The Ultimate Tribute to Tina Turner will play the UIS Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, September 4, 2024.

Theater Latté Da brings SCOTLAND, PA to The Ritz Theater from September 18 to October 20, 2024. Enjoy this dark comedy adaptation of Shakespeare's MACBETH set in a 1970s Pennsylvania diner.

Birdland has announced jazz programming running at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater July 15th - July 28th.

Hundreds of lovers of new theatre will gather this August for an advance look at tomorrow's hits at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 21st Annual New Works Festival, running August 9-18. See the full lineup here!

Grab the sticky geckos, break out the duck cakes and alert the grannies! It’s time to meet the much-loved Heeler family, who will be returning to the Washington Pavilion with two performances of Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show July 23–24 at 6 p.m.!

Front Porch Theatricals (FPT) has announced the final show of their 2024 season. From August 16 - 25 the company will present the Pittsburgh premiere of Bandstand, an unflinching and honest story about confronting the cost of war and finding salvation in the notes of a song

BroadwayCon has revealed the lineup for its First Look and Showcase, treating attendees to performances from some of the newest and most talked-about shows on stage this year. BroadwayCon 2024 First Look and Showcase will take place Friday, July 21, 2023.

It has been 5 years since I last saw a production at Beavercreek Community Theatre. It didn’t hit me until writing this, but it was June 2019 when I saw CABARET at BCT, and it’s a little baffling to me that it has been that long.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this July with a full slate of nightly performances.

At the height of its fame, the musical Les Misérables was the Dorsia of Broadway, a hot-ticket event that reached Hamilton levels of excessive prices, elite A-list attendees, and legions of fans who’d revisit the show through repeat viewings, memorization of the cast recording, and fierce debates of West End vs. Broadway performers.

Recently, I watched and chuckled at an early rehearsal of a show called BIG TROUBLE AT LITTLE YALTA.  Bob Paisley's Central Standard Theatre presents the World Premiere of YALTA scheduled for July 3 through July 7 at the Just Off-Broadway Theatre at 3051 Central in Kansas City.

Amanda McCarthy's new single 'Vodka' explores candid confessions and chaotic truths, touching on her place in the LGBTQ+ community, baby daddy drama, and high school trauma in a playful yet poignant anthem.