To Be Or Not To Be - 2008 - Broadway Articles Page 12

Florida Studio Theatre will present a summer improv season in Sarasota featuring Orlando's FORGOTTEN BROADWAY and FST Improv's audience competition OUT OF BOUNDS, plus workshops, while the Sarasota Improv Festival takes a one-year hiatus.

Duck Soup Cinema at Overture Center in Madison, Wis., announced its upcoming season lineup, featuring three silent films with live Grand Barton Organ accompaniment, vaudeville acts, and works starring Charlie Chaplin, Pola Negri, and Clara Bow.

Pittsford Fine Art will present UNFOLDING, a featured exhibition of geometric abstract paintings by Rochester artist Mark Stone, including large-scale works shown publicly for the first time.

The cast and filmmakers of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY gathered atop Edge at Hudson Yards in New York City for a photo call. The Marvel film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, is set for an exclusive theatrical release.

Jazz pianist Colin Heshmat will mark his studio recording debut with a live CD release show at Five Spot Jazz in New York, performing post-bop originals and standards with a quartet.

Inspired by William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Festa no Arraial, O Musical (something like “Party at the Country Fair”) brings romance, comedy, fantasy, and the vibrant spirit of Brazil's beloved festas juninas (Saint John's Festival) to the stage. The new family musical follows young lovers Hérmia and Lisandro as an enchanted forest, magical creatures, and unexpected twists transform their dream of marrying during the village's annual celebration.

Four-time Olivier Award-nominee Summer Strallen, will take on the role of Delia Deetz in the London production of Beetlejuice The Musical for a strictly limited season. Learn more here!

Cardiff-based indie folk artist Sad Cypress announced a double A-sided single lifted from her upcoming 'Princess of Cups' EP, featuring the brief, harmony-driven 'Sirens' and the jazz-flecked, piano-laced 'It Means A Lot To Me.'

TRANSART & Cultural Service received a 2026 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from the Preservation League of NYS for rehabilitating the Burger-Matthews House at 107 Henry Street in Midtown Kingston.

It's an outstanding win for Spain in the World Cup – and for the sizzling Spanish National Orchestra in their BBC Proms debut. Both display tremendous talent and teamwork in their respective fields on a night to remember.

Ardeo Theatre Company will present Much Ado About Nothing as the final main stage production of the eighth annual Frederick Shakespeare Festival at Hood College's Hodson Outdoor Amphitheater, featuring an '80s-themed production directed by Aaron Angello.

Separate Ways The Band, a Journey tribute act known for recreating the Steve Perry era sound, is set to perform at SERVPRO After Hours Concerts at The Innsbrook Pavilion in Glen Allen, Virginia.

Children's Theatre Company announced its Acting Cohort for the upcoming season: four Twin Cities-based early career actors who will each perform in two productions and participate in professional development at CTC.

Ben Platt has already had a plethora of career highlights, but in a recent interview, he revealed some of the dream roles he still has on his bucket list, including Sunday in the Park With George and Angels in America.

Firebird Theatre will present a Learning Disabled-led production of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST at Bristol Old Vic, narrated by BAFTA winner George Webster, featuring a cast of eleven performers spanning three decades of the company's history.

Unicorn Theatre released its Creative Schools Programme Impact Report, showing the effect of arts education partnerships on children and teachers, amid data showing only 9% of primary schools have dedicated drama teachers.

Soul Quest Records co-founder Max Sinàl teams with South African poet and singer-songwriter Sio on 'Counting Stars,' a stripped-back deep house single built around swinging drums, warm Rhodes chords and Sio's spoken word performance.

Kettering's Lighthouse Theatre announced the cast for its festive pantomime PETER PAN, featuring Samuel Wright of the Wicked! movie as Captain Hook and Evan Taylor Benyacar of Starlight Express in the title role.

Isobel McArthur’s Olivier Award Winning PRIDE AND PREJUDICE *SORT OF is a fantastically irreverent retelling of Jane Austen’s famous novel of manners.

Finally, prog gets its Prom. The BBC's heart is unarguably in the right place in handing the genre's back catalogue to their Concert Orchestra, in tribute to a 'pioneering, British-driven movement' rendered, as the billing has it, 'on an orchestral scale'. And yet the result falls a fair way short of the ambition.

Talawa Theatre Company appointed six new trustees as it marks its 40th anniversary, bringing expertise in technology, accessibility, communications, and the arts to help shape the future of Black British theatre.

Sheffield Theatres announced the full acting company for its autumn Shakespeare season, with Ian McDiarmid leading KING LEAR and Mathew Horne starring in TWELFTH NIGHT at the Crucible Theatre.

Mirvish Productions will present the Canadian premiere of PRIMA FACIE by Suzie Miller at Toronto's CAA Theatre, starring Bethany Jillard and directed by Seana McKenna.

THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE THE MUSICAL, produced by The Roald Dahl Story Company, will return to London for a 4-week run at Lyric Hammersmith following a 15-venue UK tour.

Philip Stokes' gripping new thriller THIS IS NOT AMERICA hits Edinburgh Fringe at Pleasance Courtyard, 5-31 August. From the creators of award-winning Shellshocked.