The Sound of Music Live! - 2013 - Motion Picture Articles Page 8

Theatre Now is accepting submissions for SOUND BITES XII, the 12th Annual Festival of 10-Minute Musicals, through January 3rd, 2025. 10 finalists will be selected for presentation on Monday, May 5, 2025 at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center.

New York trio Sunflower Bean—vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her)— recently announced their first fully self-produced and recorded project, Shake. The band has now debuted a new single from their EP 'Teach Me to To Be Bad.'

Bay Area-based contemporary music group Ensemble for These Times has announced its 17th Home Season entitled 'Women in Transit,' the first in a two-year exploration of the transformational effects of women's border-crossing and liminality in 'our times.'

Five-time GRAMMY®️ Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame®️ Inductee Janet Jackson, has announced her all-new Las Vegas residency and venue debut at Resorts World Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas launching New Year’s Week.

We spoke to Natalie Joy Johnson, most recently seen on Broadway in Lempicka about starring in Barrington Stage's Next to Normal, directed by  Artistic Director Alan Paul, in a co-production with Round House Theatre in Washington, DC. 

Japan Society launches its 2024-2025 Performing Arts Season with Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi, a 20th anniversary revival of Twist’s Bessie award-winning fusion of mind-bending contemporary puppetry and nearly extinct traditional puppetry techniques from Japan’s Awa region.

Go To Productions has announced the launch of its inaugural 2024 Go To New Play Fest, a dynamic showcase featuring seven short plays by acclaimed playwrights Darren Canady, Stuart Day, and Douglas Post.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat and the Aspen Music Festival and School have announced that Hannah Rice, a composition student at AMFS, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Hermitage Prize in Composition.

Tickets for BEETLEJUICE, RENT, Itzhak Perlman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and more go on sale August 13 at the Lied Center. Don't miss these exciting performances and events.

America's oldest Bach Choir, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, has announced that the Moravian Church Settlements of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, together with Herrnhut, Germany, and Gracehill, UK have just been granted UNESCO World Heritage status.

GRAMMY Award-nominated composer David T. Little has unveiled his latest work for the stage, an opera for tenor and chamber orchestra in three parts based on Garth Greenwell's critically acclaimed debut novel, What Belongs to You.

On July 31, 2024, I had the privilege of seeing an incredibly scintillating production of MatildaThe Musical, presented by Music Theatre Wichita in the Century II Concert Hall. I’m ashamed to say I knew next to nothing about the book, but I have seen myriad clips of the musical numbers.

JACK Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with a 2024-2025 season featuring international tours and the release of John Zorn's complete string quartets on Tzadik.

JACK Quartet will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a 2024-2025 season featuring a world premiere by Anthony Cheung and much more!

Birmingham Rep has released selected tracks from the exclusive cast recording of Becoming Nancy ahead of its UK Premiere in October 2024.  

PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now has announced the lineup for 2025, set to resume January 9-19, 2025. This will mark the final season co-produced by HERE and co-curated by Kristin Marting, who founded the Festival together with Beth Morrison and Kim Whitener, and who is also the outgoing Founding Artistic Director of HERE.

GRAMMY Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers share the third single, 'Can't Get Home (Live),' from Live at Greenfield Lake, the band’s first live album of original material, out August 30. The band recently headlined Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium and are on tour for the remainder of the year, including a series of headlining dates out West and performances with Steve Martin and Martin Short. Listen to the new single!

Once Upon A Mattress will begin previews on Broadway tonight, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The revival will celebrate its opening night on Monday, August 12, 2024, for the limited engagement through November 30, 2024, at The Hudson Theatre. Meet the cast of Once Upon a Mattress here!

TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL will open at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne in September and producers have announced a new release of tickets that will go on sale this Friday.

SMOKE Jazz Club will continue its 25th anniversary season with a month of album release shows and club debuts.

Musicals at Richter will celebrate its 40th season with the classic high school musical GREASE. Learn how to purchase tickets.

10 years after the release of Alvvay's self-titled debut, the band will be reissuing the album on vinyl. The newly reissued vinyl will feature remastered audio, as well as the bonus track “Underneath Us,” and be available on cerulean blue vinyl with a hand drawn poster by Chad Van Gaalen. It will be out on November 15th.

Britton & The Sting's new show MAMA will debut at Little Island. The cast and creative team have been announced, promising an exciting production.

The Kennedy Center announces the 2024–2025 season of Renée Fleming VOICES, featuring a diverse lineup of artists and performances that celebrate the power of the human voice.

Birdland has announced jazz programming running at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater July 15th - July 28th.