In The Wake - 2010 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 15

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Full casting has been announced for the special 10th anniversary tour of American Idiot - the ground breaking Tony award-winning rock musical with music by punk-pop and multi Grammy award-winning band Green Day. Leading the cast is: Waterloo Road's Tom Milner as Johnny; 2013's X Factor third place runner-up Luke Friend as St Jimmy; and 2016 X Factor finalist Sam Lavery as Whatsername.

Tom Petty's career-spanning box set, An American Treasure, enters the Billboard Top 200 chart at #9, marking his 13th top 10 album, and it is the #1 Rock Album. The collection is available for purchase HERE. 

In the first highlight of the season, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, led by Kazuki Yamada, will perform a Hommage a Nijinsky, consisting of four choreographies in December.

Premier temps fort de la saison, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, accompagnes par l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo dirige par Kazuki Yamada, interpreteront en decembre un Hommage a Nijinsky comprenant quatre choregraphies.

Much to the excitement of Prog fans worldwide, Italian ensemble Syndone is releasing their seventh album “Mysoginia”! Born in 1989, in the wake of the second progressive wave, Syndone – led by Nik Comoglio – have delved into every aspect of niche music during their first quarter of a century. Seven excellent albums (“Spleen”/1990, “Inca”/1992, “Melapesante”/2010, “La Bella è la Bestia”/2012 and “Odysséas”/2014, “Eros & Thanatos”/2016 and the new “Mysoginia”/2018) have come out of this collaboration, contaminated with tones that, more often than not, have gone beyond all codes and frontiers.

The video for “Gainesville”—a previously unreleased song on the Tom Petty career-spanning box set An American Treasure—is premiering today. “Gainesville” was recorded in 1998 during Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' Echo sessions, and the video was directed by Brantley Gutierrez and produced by Michael W. Abbott with Subtractive Inc. Watch HERE.

Superstar singer Carrie Underwood opened up about getting beyond three miscarriages, motherhood and music in a revealing interview with Tracy Smith that was broadcast today on CBS SUNDAY MORNING on the CBS Television Network.

Following in the footsteps of the four-year international touring success of Golem, multi-award winning company 1927 is reviving its smash hit show The Animals and Children took to the Streets. Seamlessly synchronising live music, performance and storytelling with stunning films and animation, this wickedly twisted show returns following its hugely popular premiere in Sydney in 2010, four sell-out, critically acclaimed London seasons, including three at the National Theatre, as well as a global tour which saw the show visit 28 countries.

Broken Nose Theatre is pleased to announce it Seventh Season, featuring a world premiere and two Midwest premieres to presented at its resident home, The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.

In our current political climate, comedians and satirists have fertile ground to cover. Entering this fray is an outrageous new theater production calculated to provoke, offend and get you thinking - no matter what your political affiliation is!

SlashR, a tongue in cheek satire written & directed by Tony Stinkmetal and centered around the fractured culture in the wake of the last national election and inventively staged in the style of the 1970s slasher movies of Dario Argento and John Carpenter, will make its world premiere September 5 - 15th at the Gene Frankel Theatre. The production is intended to convince Americans to liberate themselves from our two party political system.

Fifteen bodies surface in the wake of a disaster. When all is lost, what keeps them afloat?

Encompass New Opera Theatre will present the world premiere of Anna Christie with music by Edward Thomas set to a libretto by Joseph Masteroff, beginning on Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 8pm, running through Sunday, October 21, 2018, at the Baruch Performing Arts Center (at 55 Lexington Avenue, entrance on 25th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues). 

Following the summer release of the single 'Simplify' and a recent performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Young The Giant announce today the forthcoming full-length album Mirror Master, available October 12 on Elektra Records.

SlashR, a tongue in cheek satire written & directed by Tony Stinkmetal and centered around the fractured culture in the wake of the last national election and inventively staged in the style of the 1970s slasher movies of Dario Argento and John Carpenter, will make its world premiere September 5 - 15th at the Gene Frankel Theatre. The production is intended to convince Americans to liberate themselves from our two party political system.

In our current political climate, comedians and satirists have fertile ground to cover. Entering this fray is an outrageous new theater production calculated to provoke, offend and get you thinking - no matter what your political affiliation is!

With the original run and first extension completely sold out, Steep Theatre is extending the run of Penelope Skinner's Linda through September 15. Tickets for these eight additional performances will go on sale at noon on Thursday, August 16, and they're expected to sell very quickly.

With the original run completely sold out, Steep Theatre Company is adding eight more performances of Penelope Skinner's Linda. Tickets for the extension are available now at steeptheatre.com/linda and they're expected to go quickly.

The international movement and entertainment company, Pilobolus (Executive Producer, Itamar Kubovy; Renee Jaworski and Matt Kent, artistic directors), kicks-off its first ever Pilobolus Five Senses Festival this weekend. A celebration of arts and ideas convening the company's vast network of creative, world-renowned collaborators in its own backyard of Washington, Connecticut, the festival begins Friday, July 27 and runs through August 11, rain or shine. For more information and to purchase tickets to The Pilobolus Five Senses Festival, please visit www.FiveSensesFestival.com.

The following acts are performing at City Winery Chicago (1200 W. Randolph St) throughout the month.

Animus Theatre Company (Jonathan Judge-Russo, Founding Artistic Director) in association with the Circle in the Square Professional Workshop, has announced the schedule and casting for its annual 12-Hour Reading Festival, which returns to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre this Thursday, July 19, beginning at 11:00am. This year's festival, which will showcase the repertoire of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), will feature company artists will include Haley Bond, Sara Canter, Jonathan Judge-Russo (A Rainy Day in New York, "Law & Order: SVU"), Trevor Kluckman, Alan Langdon, Brad Lemons, Amy Northup, Courtney Shaw and Karen Sours Albisua ("The Chi," "The Bridge").

The Iberi Choir brings Georgian polyphonic singing to Pettoranello Gardens Amphitheater (Route 206 and Mountain Avenue, Princton) while Lakou Mizik from Haiti will supply the danceable grooves on Saturday, July 21 as part of the Blue Curtain series. The concert, free and open to all, starts at 7 p.m.

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On September 28, Reprise Records will release An American Treasure—a career-spanning Tom Petty box set. The 60-track set unveils dozens of previously unreleased recordings, alternate versions of classic songs, rarities, historic live performances and deep tracks that spotlight Tom's remarkable depth and evolution as a revered and tremendously influential songwriter, recording artist and performer. An American Treasure marks the first release of Tom Petty music since the artist's tragic passing in October 2017.