Joseph - 1930 - Broadway Articles Page 17

The Royal Wedding. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The Olympic Games and Ceremonies. Rubicon Theatre Company celebrates our "love affair" with all things British with Private Lives, an elegant and sophisticated comedy by Sir Noel Coward which previews September 5 and opens Saturday, September 8 at the theatre's intimate home in Ventura's Downtown Cultural District. A co-production of Rubicon and Laguna Playhouse, Private Lives runs Wednesdays through Sundays through September 30. Get a first look at the cast onstage below!

Producing Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside of American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, proudly announces the Ensemble's 27th season will take place at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave.. For more information, visit americanbluestheater.com.

I'll have to admit I'm a sucker for those stories where people find new and wondrous things about themselves and succeed against all odds. Yes, I'm a sap, which is why I found myself tearing up a few times during ACT's current production of "The Pitmen Painters". It's not the most glorious script I've seen but it is a wonderful story of overcoming your given station in life and I have to say has one hell of an ensemble performing it.

Atlanta Opera Zurich General Director Dennis Hanthorn today announced the Atlanta Opera's 2012-2013 season. The Atlanta Opera's 2012-2013 mainstage productions at the Cobb Energy Centre will feature Bizet's popular classic Carmen, November 10-18, 2012; Verdi's tragic and romantic opera La traviata, March 2-10, 2013; and Rossini's comic opera The Italian Girl in Algiers, April 27-May 5, 2013. Season tickets are now on sale for the three Atlanta Opera mainstage productions at Cobb Energy Centre. Also announced were a donor benefits program called MyOpera, a completely new approach to issuing donor benefits in the world of the performing arts; 2012-2013 community engagement initiatives, including the hugely successful 24-Hour Opera Project and High School Opera Institute; and the details of the 2012 Atlanta Opera Ball: A Night in Seville, a fundraiser supporting and sustaining the exceptional artistic quality of The Atlanta Opera. Production, casting, and season ticket information are below, or can be found at atlantaopera.org.

Producing Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside of American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, today announced the Ensemble's 27th season. The season kicks off with the world premiere of Illegal Use of Hands by Emmy Award-winner, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and ABT Artistic Affiliate James Still, directed by Sandy Shinner, August 31 - September 30 and followed by the critically acclaimed It's a Wonderful Life: Live on State Street! , now at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, directed by ABT Artistic Affiliate Marty Higginbotham, November 16 - December 30. ABT's final 2012 -2013 production is Pulitzer Prize playwright Donald Margulies' 2010 Broadway script Collected Stories, co-directed by Steppenwolf Artistic Affiliate Jessica Thebus and Mary Ann Thebus.

The Whitney Museum of American Art today announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming Whitney Biennial 2012, which takes place at the Whitney Museum from March 1 through May 27, 2012.

The Albuquerque Theatre Guild has announced the following upcoming events.

On Thursday, January 26th at 5:30 p.m., the Driehaus Museum in partnership with Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra will present Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan in a celebration of the music of world-renowned French jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt. Formed in 2001, Swing Gitan continues Reinhardt's pioneering style from the 1930's, blending the swing rhythms of early jazz with the dark passion of gypsy music.

The Ovation nominations are in, and once again RTC is once again among the most celebrated theatres in the region - even as the new season progresses, with neither the time nor inclination to rest upon laurels.

On Thursday, January 26th at 5:30 p.m., the Driehaus Museum in partnership with Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra will present Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan in a celebration of the music of world-renowned French jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt. Formed in 2001, Swing Gitan continues Reinhardt's pioneering style from the 1930's, blending the swing rhythms of early jazz with the dark passion of gypsy music.

Albuquerque Theatre Guild has announced the following upcoming events.

In February 2012 The New York Philharmonic This Week - the weekly radio series of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Alec Baldwin - begins with an encore performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah from November 2010 led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, tenor Allan Clayton, bass-baritone Gerald Finley, and the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director. The second program - from the Orchestra's EUROPE / WINTER 2010 tour - is also led by Mr. Gilbert and includes EXPO by The Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg; Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist; and Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 and Valse triste as performed in Cologne, Germany.

The Whitney Museum of American Art today announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming Whitney Biennial 2012, which takes place at the Whitney Museum from March 1 through May 27, 2012.

The Ovation nominations are in, and once again RTC is once again among the most celebrated theatres in the region - even as the new season progresses, with neither the time nor inclination to rest upon laurels.

The OBIE Award-winning NAATCO, The National Asian American Theater Company, is kicking off their 22nd season with Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.

The OBIE Award-winning NAATCO, The National Asian American Theater Company, is kicking off their 22nd season with Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.

Michael Feinstein releases his new CD through Concord Records on October 25, 2011.

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company Presents Noël Coward's PRIVATE LIVES. Husband and wife team Janie Dee and Rupert Wickham star as Coward's most famous sparring partners from tonight through 22 October 2011 at Nottingham Playhouse

The OBIE Award-winning NAATCO, The National Asian American Theater Company, presents Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, which will kick off their 22nd season.

The OBIE Award-winning NAATCO, The National Asian American Theater Company, presents Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, which will kick off their 22nd season.

American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, proudly kicks off its 2011-2012 season honoring the American worker with Clifford Odets' classic one-act play 'Waiting for Lefty' directed by Kimberly Senior Sept. 2 - Oct. 2.

The New York Philharmonic will launch the eighth season of its concert broadcast series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, beginning the week of September 26, 2011.

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company Presents Noël Coward's PRIVATE LIVES. Husband and wife team Janie Dee and Rupert Wickham star as Coward's most famous sparring partners from 7 -22 October 2011 at Nottingham Playhouse

The OBIE Award-winning NAATCO, The National Asian American Theater Company, will kick off their 22nd season with Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors) the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway company 'dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit,' announces complete casting for Children, by A.R. Gurney, the first production of the company's 2011/12 season.