May Night - 1926 - Broadway Articles Page 14

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, featuring music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by Joe DiPietro, stars Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara. The production is directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall and it opens tonight, April 24, 2012 at Broadway's Imperial Theatre! Let's see what the critics had to say...

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's award-winning professional theatre company, continues the 25th Anniversary Season with 'I Left My Heart... A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett.' This jazzy new tribute to the man Frank Sinatra called the greatest singer in the world is from David Grapes and Todd Olson, creators of MTC's sold-out hit 'My Way,' and runs April 20- May 6 at MTC Studio Theatre in Westport.

Village Theatre's complete 2012-2013 Season schedule includes the following.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company "dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," will present the American premiere of Noel Coward's Semi-Monde in a one-night only benefit concert performance at the Scholastic Auditorium (557 Broadway, NYC).

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company "dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," will present the American premiere of Noel Coward's Semi-Monde in a one-night only benefit concert performance at the Scholastic Auditorium (557 Broadway, NYC).

In their 2011-12 Centennial Season Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) will break new ground with a far-reaching month-long American Mavericks Festival of music by pioneers of the American sound at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco March 8-18; on a national tour to Ann Arbor, Chicago and Carnegie Hall through March 30; and with educational partnerships, experiential learning and a host of new media tools to engage audiences in this music.

Seattle Opera today announced its 2012/13 season, featuring six operas that explore the infinite variety of love: obsession, true love, false love, love at first sight, marital love, and love born of hatred.

An all-star cast of Seattle celebrities will waltz onto the stage of The 5th Avenue Theatre in a holiday ball audiences will never forget: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. Under the direction of Seattle's own Brandon Ivie, this enchanting fairy tale features Jennifer Paz of Miss Saigon as Cinderella and Wicked star Kendra Kassebaum as the Fairy Godmother, as well as local luminaries Suzanne Bouchard, Nick Garrison, Sarah Rudinoff, Brandon O'Neill, Cynthia Jones, Allen Fitzpatrick, and Greg McCormick Allen.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic opened its 2011/12 season with Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock with an all-Gershwin concert and evening of vintage glamour, Tuesday, September 27, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Seattle audiences will have the exciting and free opportunity to meet Emmy Award-winning television star Kathie Lee Gifford when she previews her new musical Saving Aimee to the Emerald City at 7:00 PM, Saturday, September 10, at The 5th Avenue Theatre (1308 5th Avenue) as a part of the company's popular Spotlight Night series.

Seattle audiences will have the exciting and free opportunity to meet Emmy Award-winning television star Kathie Lee Gifford when she previews her new musical Saving Aimee to the Emerald City at 7:00 PM, Saturday, September 10, at The 5th Avenue Theatre (1308 5th Avenue) as a part of the company's popular Spotlight Night series.

The 1927 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner '7th Heaven' will be the next film screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series on Monday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The 1927 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner '7th Heaven' will be the next film screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series on Monday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The 1926 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner 'Beau Geste' will be the next film screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series on Monday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The 1926 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner 'Beau Geste' will be the next film screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series on Monday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The 1925 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner 'The Big Parade,' will be screened on Monday, July 18, as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series.

The 1925 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner 'The Big Parade,' will be screened on Monday, July 18, as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series.

The 1923 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner 'The Covered Wagon' will be the next film screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series on Monday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The 1922 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner 'Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood,' will be the next film screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Summer of Silents' series on Monday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner "Humoresque" (1920) will kick off a summer-long screening series of silent films at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off its summer screening series, 'Summer of Silents: Photoplay Award Winners of the Silent Era,' on Monday, June 13, with a big-screen presentation of 'Humoresque' (1920) with live musical accompaniment.

Andrew Upton's adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1926 novel turned play The White Guard, commissioned by London's National Theatre (where it played to five-star reviews last year), is presented in a new production directed by Upton at Sydney Theatre from 7 June to 10 July.

The Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner "Humoresque" (1920) will kick off a summer-long screening series of silent films at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

We're mixing old and new for an exciting week of readings with our monthly Duke Ellington School showcase right in the middle! For advance tickets to the readings, click here. Pay What You Can tickets will be available at the door (Theater Alliance readings only. For Ellington tickets, please click on separate link below).

Gamblers and gangsters, shysters and low-lifes alike will take over The 5th Avenue Theatre when Guys and Dolls swaggers on to the stage in a swinging reimagining of Frank Loesser's iconic hit (book by Joe Swerling and Abe Burrows.)