Gigantic - 2015 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 13

Pivot Arts has announced the full line-up for the 3rd annual PIVOT ARTS FESTIVAL, featuring dozens of innovative performances and events throughout Chicago's Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods from May 28 - June 7, 2015. Tickets, ranging from free to $20, are currently available at ?www.pivotarts.org/festival. All-access passes cost $45.

The Lyric Hammersmith today announces its programme from September 2015. Laura Wade and Lyndsey Turner reunite after the success of Posh, to bring a new adaptation of Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet to the Lyric's main stage in September.

This Spring, The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool, will showcase its first in-house production since reopening two years ago - with Liverpool actress Pauline Daniels at the helm as director. Waiting for Gateaux is a whopping slice of comedy with HUGE belly laughs and comes to the Epstein Theatre in April 2015.

BOMBSHELL is gigantic smash!

New York Live Arts today announced details for 2015's third Open Spectrum, titled Post White America: Can Art Deracialize The Nation? and taking place Sunday, April 26 at 5:00pm in the New York Live Arts Theater. Open Spectrum provides an intimate conversational platform that engages participants in active listening, constructive discourse and action planning.

Skylight Music Theatre is creating a new production based on Wagner's Ring Cycle. The work, titled The Skylight Ring, will run May 15 through June 7, 2015 in the Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center (158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee WI).

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's classic novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, critically-acclaimed theatre company Les Enfants Terribles (The Vaudevillains; The Trench) will bring Wonderland to the capital with Alice's Adventures Underground, in an adaptation by Oliver Lansley and Anthony Spargo. Producer Emma Brunjes (Meow Meow: Wonderground; Secret Cinema: Miller's Crossing) joins the team to bring this ambitious theatrical experience to life on a grand scale. Leading agency Creature of London are also on board as creative collaborators.

Fresh off of her Tony Award-winning run as Yitzhak in the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lena Hall makes her Cafe Carlyle debut with SIN AND SALVATION. With her rocker sensibilities, she is turning the intimate venue on its head with a show that features a fascinating blend of rock, pop, blues, and even a touch of rap.

The London cast of Let It Be held a special intimate concert with songs from the show performed in a Beatles themed suite at the landmark Waldorf Hilton in Central London.

Portland Players has mounted a sensitive and thought-provoking production of Tom Griffin's 1988 play, Boys Next Door, about four colorful residents of a group communal home and their social worker. Griffin's work deals perceptively and sympathetically with the limitations and hopes of his characters, their skewed realities and their often hilarious interactions. In the person of Jack, the burned-out, yet compassionate counselor, the playwright is able to help the audience gain insight into the world of these mentally challenged adults and to appreciate their humanity.

Today we are talking to one of the biggest stars to break out of Broadway and make a major mark on the music scene in recent years thanks to her hit album HUNTER and an ever-expanding series of incredibly impressive viral music videos, the soulful and passionate Morgan James. Discussing the impetus behind many of the selections on HUNTER as well as sharing stories of how the album all came together, James generously details the process in creating her first album of original material while looking ahead to this week's live concert event at the Highline Ballroom which will showcase many of the standouts from the album as well as some special surprises. Furthermore, James opens up about her growing series of music videos covering many classic pop and R&B songs, both vintage and brand new, as well as the worldwide acclaim she has received for them - enough to inspire a recent European tour with innovative music collective Postmodern Jukebox, as matter of fact. Plus, James gives the 411 on her theatre background and Juilliard training while also reflecting on some of her Broadway appearances in musicals such as MOTOWN, GODSPELL, THE ADDAMS FAMILY and WONDERLAND while also commenting on some dream roles she would ideally enjoy pursuing in the future, near and far. All of that, thoughts on social media, favorite albums and much, much more!

Masi Oka (NBC's 'Heroes,' 'Hawaii Five-0') will reprise his Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated role as Hiro Nakamura for a guest-starring arc of episodes on NBC's new event series 'Heroes Reborn,' which will premiere in fall 2015.

Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, featuring a score by Tony-nominated songwriters Justin Paul and Benj Pasek and a book by Timothy Allen McDonald, has been acquired for licensing in the TYA, student and community theater markets by Music Theatre International (MTI). The musical is based on the beloved best-selling book of the same name by Roald Dahl.

Atlanta's nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre and Jennings Hertz Artistic Director Susan V. Booth are pleased to announce the 2015/16 Season for the Alliance Stage, Hertz Stage, Theatre for Youth and Families, and Theatre for the Very Young series. The 47th season includes five world premieres, a musical by BeBe Winans and Charles Randolph-Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, a literary classic featuring an all-Atlanta cast, and exceptional productions for youth and families.

Porter Robinson had a damn good SXSW. The day after his surprise victory over Sam Smith, Charli XCX, Run the Jewels, J. Cole and FKA Twigs for Woodie of the Year at the MTVU Woodie Awards

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Pigeons Playing Ping Pong & Juno What?! with Special Guests at the Fox Theatre tonight, March 21st, 2015.

This summer, Honolulu Theatre for Youth invites children to imagine, create and perform amazing adventures of suspense and dramatic transformation! HTY presents two distinctly different drama programs, one for youngsters and one for 'tweens.

Four productions still remain in Geva Theatre Center's 42nd Season: A Body of Water, Lee Blessing's play of memory and identity; The Mountaintop, a reimagining of Martin Luther King's last night on earth; the world premiere of Cass Morgan's journey to discover her roots - The Road to Where; and the season's grand finale, the laugh-out-loud comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The 2014-2015 Season continued Geva's innovative efforts to connect patrons and artists and art with the community. The 2015-2016 Season will continue to build on that and also usher in a new era as Geva's historic home begins to undergo renovation and transformation.

Trevore Ross stages this splendid revival of a production originally created by Spanish director Emilio Sagi for the Teatro Real in Madrid. Thanks to his stellar ensemble who do the lion's share of changing the sets while playing multiple roles, the opera is just as lovely to watch as it is to hear with the entire cast harmonizing spectacularly and playing their parts for all the laughs they can muster. THE BARBER OF SEVILLE is performed in Italian with simultaneous English translations projected over the stage.

Kicking off the new year, Michal Menert announces he will be joining Big Gigantic for a large, enormous performance at the Aragon Ballroom in the windy city tonight, March 14th.

The Henry Ford IMAX Theatre and Jean-Michel Cousteau invite audiences to dive into a spectacular underwater experience in “Jean-Michel Cousteau's Secret Ocean 3D,” narrated by oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, premiering today, February 27, 2015

?Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Kyle Hollingsworth Band Feat. Jason Hann with Special Guests at the Fox Theatre tonight, February 27th, 2015.

The Henry Ford IMAX Theatre and Jean-Michel Cousteau invite audiences to dive into a spectacular underwater experience in “Jean-Michel Cousteau's Secret Ocean 3D,” narrated by oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, premiering this today, February 27, 2015

As part of the launch of Greenlight Media and Marketing's 'Evolution of an Artist' digital content series, critically acclaimed musician and Washington native Allen Stone will perform five hometown shows in Seattle, WA April 13-18, 2015.

Today we are recapping the highlights of this week's lovingly presented 54 SINGS CHESS at 54 Below.