Sleeping Beauty or Coma - 1985 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 14

Australian artists can submit works inspired by the theme Beauty for the Kennedy Prize, a national visual arts competition offering a $25,000 award to emerging and established artists.

Filmmaker and author Nelson George will lead a multimedia conversation exploring the Brooklyn Moon poetry scene and its role in the Black bohemian arts movement at NJPAC.

The Broadway musical WAITRESS, featuring music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, will play Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall for three performances. Tickets go on sale October 2.

Calgary Opera will present Puccini's TOSCA, a story of passion, betrayal, and political intrigue featuring a world-class cast and full orchestra at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.

Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess will discuss his award-winning memoir and perform live dance excerpts with his company at Oxford Community Center in Maryland.

the cell in Chelsea will present 22 new projects from over 27 resident playwrights, composers, designers, and interdisciplinary artists developing new work through readings, workshops, and staged productions.

BBC AMERICA released preview clips from the premiere episode of THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW, featuring Tom Cruise discussing his role in the satire Digger, Florence Pugh on her EAST OF EDEN adaptation, and appearances by Lolly Adefope, John Bishop, and Emeli Sandé.

Tickets for the Tony Award-winning musical comedy DEATH BECOMES HER will go on sale for its engagement at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in Greensboro, North Carolina.

In Clue, secret agendas, grizzly murders, secret identities, and things that go bump in the night come together with side-splitting wackiness for an enthrallingly goofy spoof of the mystery genre. Presented without intermission, it boasts a superb cast and loads of humor. The result is a fast-paced production filled with skullduggery and silliness.

HBO's Pet Cemetery Murders docuseries probes the 1985 killing of Dorothy Lou Thompson, ghostly witness accounts, and a Louisiana town's dark past.

Erasure announced their 20th studio album RADIO!! RADIO!!, out March 12, alongside the new single Wings Of Love. The duo will tour UK and Europe arenas beginning April 25 in Cardiff, with North American dates forthcoming.

Casa Mañana Theatre will present a cabaret celebration of folk musician John Denver's life and career, featuring his most well-known songs performed by Andy Christopher, Taylor Isaac Gray, and Esther Stilwell.

The world premiere of Lynn Nottage and John Legend's musical will star Adrienne Warren, Jessica Vosk, Michael Luwoye, and Charlie Thurston at The Griffin Theater at The Shed in a co-production with National Black Theatre.

Stevie Wonder marks the 50th anniversary of SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE with a four-song EP of unreleased recordings from the album's original sessions, mixed by the album's engineering team.

Storyhouse will present RAPUNZEL, a festive pantomime featuring Charlie Mae McKevitt in the title role alongside a cast including Alicia Aquino, Savannah Beckford, and James Colebrook.

On Saturday, September 26th, I had the pleasure of seeing another first-rate musical phenomenally performed at Center Stage Theatre in Shelton, CT, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, which is based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. This unfinished novel was made into a play in 1985 with book, music, and lyrics written by Rupert Holmes. Director Tom Simonetti combines his talents with music director Chrissy Dominguez and choreographer Matt Mancuso to help bring out the best in this first-rate cast that includes Tom Simonetti as Chairman William Cartwright, Dr. Shaun Rimkunas as John Jasper, Emma Kelly as Edwin Drood, Emily Pollack as Rosa Bud, Priscilla Squiers as Princess Puffer, JR Resto as Neville Landless, Liz Joblin as Helena Landless, Bob Hyland as Reverend Crisparkle, Katie Ciurleo as Bazzard, Michael Primorac as Durdles, Luca Moretti as Deputy, Melissa Blanco as Jemma Throttle, Jeanie D Tuzzio as Violet Balfour, Nicole Finlay as Miss Gwendolen Pynn, and Sydney Kishimoto as Isabelle and Wendy. This stellar cast has incredible stage chemistry with each other, each member individually having a strong stage presence and radiating positivity, truly enjoying the performance, as the audience does!

Broadway actor Jenn Collela invites fans to enter a charity sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip for two to Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador to see COME FROM AWAY–You Are Here. The fundraiser benefits Pay it Forward 9/11.

What did our critic think of MÁM at National Arts Centre?

'On songs, surrealism, love letters, and discovering what an album was about after I had already made it.' Melissa Errico shares reflections on her new album, I CAN DREAM, CAN'T I?

Theatre Pro Rata has opened The Hired Man, by Minneapolis playwright Heather Meyer, directed by Jennie Ward. The production is running at the Crane Theater, bringing to the stage a haunting new work that blends classical tragedy and magical realism. Check out the photos!

Seth Rudetsky and Eric Jordan Young join Harbour Lights Theatre's upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors at The Ellison Center for the Arts in Duxbury under the direction of Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, who originated the role of Audrey on Broadway.

Olney Theatre Center will produce LES MISÉRABLES with Tony-nominated director Stephen Brackett and a cast including Broadway veterans Trent Saunders and Kevin S. McAllister. The production marks the first regional staging of the musical in a decade.

Vagabond Players will present Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET in Baltimore, with co-directors TJ Lukacsina and Stephen Foreman bringing an intimate approach to the musical masterpiece.

Janis Siegel, 10x Grammy-winning founder of THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER, released her new album THE ART OF VOCALESE on Origin Records, featuring jazz musicians including pianist John Di Martino, bassist Lonnie Plaxico, and vocalists Lea DeLaria and Raul Midón.

Bring your kids to the theatre and let them fall in love with the tale as old as time, as well as with theatre at all.