Prairie - 2006 - Articles Page 13

Yoshi's San Francisco has announced newly-added shows fro March, April and June 2013, featuring Jeff Bradshaw, The Family Stone, DJ Afrika Bambaata, The Tubes feat. Fee Waybill, Dawn Richard, Freddie Jackson, Boca Do Rio, Marcus Johnson, Portland Cello Project Play Beck, Brubeck & Bach, Pharoah Sanders, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks and Catherine Russell. More details below.

The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its world premiere of Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, dedicated to Nataasha van Kampen and James Hillman. The production will be directed by Rylance and Claire van Kampen (who also contributes original music) and will feature Rylance as Ron as well as actors Jim Lichtscheidl (Guthrie: Arms and the Man, The 39 Steps) as Eric, Emily Swallow (Guthrie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Television: the upcoming TNT series "Monday Mornings") as Flo and Chris Carlson (Guthrie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, God of Carnage) as Wayne in a humorous and mythic story based on Jenkins' prose poetry and taking place on the frozen waters of the Upper Midwest on the last day of ice fishing season. Nice Fish also features Bob Davis (Guthrie: Tales from Hollywood, Arsenic and Old Lace) as DNR Officer and Tyson Forbes (Guthrie: Peer Gynt, 1776) as Wainwright.

La Jolla Playhouse announces a new play development initiative, the DNA New Work Series, entailing a six-week period of workshop productions and public readings of new plays and musicals, taking place today, January 24 through March 3, 2013. The focus of the DNA New Work Series is to allow playwrights and directors the opportunity to develop a script by providing rehearsal time, space and resources, culminating in a workshop production or public reading.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. The BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards winners and 1/9/13 Celebration, 'Mormon' and 'Les Miz' reaction, 'Oliver!' opens, 'Lucy' extends, StarKid goes sketch, our unofficial Lloyd Webber festival and more!

Digitalspy.com reports that the family of X FACTOR Season 2 runner up, Carly Rose Sonenclar is blaming singer LeAnn Rimes for their daughter's loss on last Wednesday night's episode.

THE X FACTOR named Tate Stevens its winner tonight on part two of the FOX show's season finale. After knock-out performances of Mariah Carey's version of 'All I Want For Christmas' and a duet with Stevens on Miley Cyrus' 'The Climb', Broadway star and singing sensation Carly Rose Sonenclar took the second spot, followed by Fifth Harmony in third. Check out an extended look at last night's finale below!

THE X FACTOR named Tate Stevens its winner tonight on part two of the FOX show's season finale. After knock-out performances of Mariah Carey's version of 'All I Want For Christmas' and a duet with Stevens on Miley Cyrus' 'The Climb', Broadway star and singing sensation Carly Rose Sonenclar took the second spot, followed by Fifth Harmony in third.

On last night's part one of THE X FACTOR season finale, Carly Rose Sonenclar pulled out all the stops to prove she has what it takes to land the $5 million record deal. The 13-year-old gave three performances: a second, more polished version of Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good,' a celeb-duet with LeAnn Rimes to 'How Do I Live,' and finally, Leona Lewis' version of Leonard Cohen's classic 'Hallelujah.'

According to published reports, Broadway veteran Carly Rose Sonnenclar will duet with LeAnn Rimes on the finale episode of X FACTOR this week. Only three contestants remain after an action-packed X FACTOR Semi-Finals results show last week. Now it's up to America to decide who will win a $5 million recording contract, and appear in their own Pepsi commercial to air during the 2013 Grammy Awards.

Only three contestants remain after an action-packed X FACTOR Semi-Finals results show last night. Now it's up to America to decide who will win a $5 million recording contract, and appear in their own Pepsi commercial to air during the 2013 Grammy Awards.

Carly Rose Sonenclar demonstrated that she has more in her bag of tricks than just a stellar singing voice. The 13-year-old played the piano as she sang a moving version of the John Lennon classic, 'Imagine' on last night's THE X FACTOR. The teen sensation then performed Elton John's 'Your Song' as her Contestants' Choice song. Check out her performances below!

It was another rollercoaster of a show last night as the six remaining acts became the final four on THE X FACTOR. Unfortunately for CeCe Frey, the competition came to an end at the top of the show. Following that news, it was announced that Emblem3, Carly Rose Sonenclar and Tate Stevens were safe and therefore immediately advanced to next week's Semi-Finals.

Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar chose to perform Justin Bieber's 'As Long as You Love Me' for her unplugged number and wowed the judges with her vocal abilities. 'I love you so much,' said L.A. Demi concurred saying, 'you sang it better than Justin did.' Simon predicted, 'I am seeing a star emerge.' Check out her performances below!

La Jolla Playhouse announces a new play development initiative, the DNA New Work Series, entailing a six-week period of workshop productions and public readings of new plays and musicals, taking place January 24 through March 3, 2013. The focus of the DNA New Work Series is to allow playwrights and directors the opportunity to develop a script by providing rehearsal time, space and resources, culminating in a workshop production or public reading.

Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar's Pepsi Challenge song on tonight's THE X FACTOR will be Beyonce's 'If I Were a Boy': 'The fans are deciding everything from the costume to the hair to the makeup, so I'm not even sure yet what it's going to be like,' she explained.

Two more contestants were eliminated on last night's THE X FACTOR, leaving only 6 acts left in the competition. Sitting pretty in the number 1 spot for the second week in a row was Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has announced that renowned opera star and Indianapolis native Angela Brown will co-host this year's annual holiday production of Duke Energy Yuletide Celebration with noted Broadway actor Ben Crawford, who starred on the Great White Way in Shrek the Musical. Brown will become the first host of Yuletide Celebration who was born and raised in this city.

Carly Rose Sonenclar slowed things down on last night's THE X FACTOR on FOX, taking on Adele's hit single, 'Rolling in the Deep.' The Top-8 contestants were tasked with performing Number One songs on the episode and the crowd and judges couldn't conjure up a single flaw in Sonenclar's performance.

Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar is moving on to the Top 8 of this year's X FACTOR on FOX. But the good news didn't stop there. This week's rankings revealed that Sonenclar had bumped off Tate Stevens to reach the number one spot! Upon hearing the news she shouted, 'Oh my God! Thank you to everyone who voted for me!'

On this week's THE X FACTOR, Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar blew the competition away with her rendition of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow,' which she dedicated to her older brother. In case you missed the performance, check it out below!

The X Factor's pint-sized powerhouse Carly Rose Sonenclar made the leap to the $5 million singing competition this fall with her audition to Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good,' which has skyrocketed to over 15 million views on YouTube in just over a month.

Double the elimination meant double the drama on last night's THE X FACTOR on FOX. Two of the acts, Lyric145 and Jennel Garcia were sent home, leaving only the Top 10 to move on to next week's round of competition. And sitting pretty once again in the number two spot was Broadway's own Carly Rose Sonenclar.

The first time America saw Carly Rose Soneclar, judge Britney Spears called her a 'little diva' and last night the teen lived up to the title with a beautiful rendition of Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On' from the blockbuster film Titanic. Check out the performance below!

For the first time in the history of any singing competition show,THE X FACTOR revealed exactly how America voted and broke it down by the act with the lowest number of votes to the act with the most votes. Not surprisingly, Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar finished in the Number Two spot on the list.

On last night's THE X FACTOR on FOX, Broadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar sang Bruno Mars' 'It Will Rain' from the movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 at the Top 12 Live Show. The performance made compliments rain down from the judges' table as Simon told the young star 'You've got real guts for someone your age.' Check out the moving performance below!