To Be Or Not To Be - 2008 - Broadway Articles Page 17

Meet the sweetest little old ladies… with a deadly hobby. Tacoma Little Theatre is currently running an audience favorite, Arsenic and Old Lace, written by Joseph Kesselring. Check out the photos!

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is sadly as relevant today as it was when Victor Hugo first penned the story. The stage adaptation is thought-provoking and emotional.

Country artist Cali Tucker will perform an intimate show at The Space Las Vegas, featuring unreleased music and a surprise family duet honoring the Tucker legacy.

​The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The Shakespeare Tavern​ ​Playhouse is set to present ​​Othello​, directed by O’Neil Delapenha​. The cast features: ​Othello - Keithen Neville​, ​Iago - Kevin Roost​, ​Desdemona - Sarah Joyce Hack​.

Another Mr. Wonderful Productions will present a theatrical variety spectacular celebrating Sammy Davis Jr.'s legacy, featuring his defining anthems and showcasing the Golden Era of American entertainment.

Bob Holz will release a compilation album featuring John McLaughlin, Jean Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke, Randy Brecker and other jazz fusion musicians. The album will be available on MVD Audio.

Summer Stock Stage released CURTAIN CALL, a podcast featuring conversations with artists and alumni from the Indianapolis theatre company, including Morgan Anita Wood, Michael Washington, and Matthew David Conwell.

Broadway veteran Sarah Cornell, an Ovation Award winner, has joined the cast of the immersive dinner theater production A KILLER NIGHT IN STUDIO CITY at Vitello's in Studio City, California.

Vancouver Opera will present Puccini's TOSCA at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, featuring soprano Joyce El-Khoury, tenor David Pomeroy, and baritone Gregory Dahl in a co-production with Pacific Opera Victoria.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures held its sixth annual gala, raising over $14 million for exhibitions, education, and public programming. The evening honored filmmaker John Carpenter, actor Colman Domingo, and actress Charlize Theron with special awards.

Lionsgate held an exclusive FYC screening, Q&A and reception for MICHAEL at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles, with cast and filmmakers discussing the Michael Jackson biopic.

Céline Dion completed her first run of 16 sold-out performances at Plenitude Arena in Paris, drawing over 500,000 fans. Additional dates are scheduled for May 2027.

Whether intentionally or not, London’s opera houses have leaned hard into the Halloween season with an unspoken theme of “go bleak or go home”. Over in Covent Garden, there’s a revival of Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis (adapted from Sarah Kane’s final play, completed shortly before she took her life aged just 28). The English National Opera, meanwhile, has plumped for something even darker.

Doja Cat has never been an artist who follows expectations, whether through her music, fashion, or the personality she shares with the world. On Tuesday, October 13, the Grammy-winning rapper and singer brought that same individuality to Vancouver's Rogers Arena for a stop on her TOUR MA VIE World Tour, delivering a two-hour performance that balanced her unpredictable sense of humour with an impressive display of musical talent.

Janis Siegel, nine-time multi Grammy-winning vocalist, arranger, and founding member of The Manhattan Transfer, presents The Art of Vocalese, her first solo project since the legendary group's farewell. She appears in NYC on 11/4

Now in its 37th year, the New York Cabaret Convention is a glittering celebration of the Great American Songbook, where cabaret’s brightest stars and rising voices of the future bring timeless music to life. See photos from October 14.

This is a sensational finale to the company’s Golden Jubilee year.

I wonder what Arrigo Boito might have done with Shakespeare’s “A Comedy of Errors” or “Twelfth Night.” Because, while he’s best known for his libretto for the Bard’s “Othello,” his work on FALSTAFF—based on “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “Henry IV”—is just as marvelous. The trouble, of course, is that FALSTAFF is a comedy. In the new production of the work, which opened at Rome’s Opera House last week, it didn’t help that director Tatjana Gürbaca didn’t seem to have anything particular in mind in her take on it.

With so much time separating our current lives and those of Calgary Opera's TOSCA, you might expect the story to be archaic. It turns out that the central themes are still highly relevant in our modern world.

Whether you leave the theater with intensified despair or renewed hope is up to you — and that’s what makes this terrifying and achingly sad story, with just the right dose of humor, hope, and humanity, a brilliant piece of art. 

What did our critic think of THE GREAT GATSBY at Blumenthal Performing Arts?

KOOM Week, the weeklong celebration of Korean culture, business, and entrepreneurship, culminated with KOOM Live, a lively concert held at Terminal 5 in New York City, featuring Santos Bravos, Dayoung, WAYF BOYS, XngHan&Xoul, and 1VERSE.

What did our critic think of ROCK OF AGES at Glen Eden Playhouse Theatre?

Adam Qualls has portrayed a variety of roles across Twin Cities stages but perhaps he has become most known to younger audience for embodying Grandpa Who in Children’s Theatre Company’s Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This year he will take on the role for his sixth time and Broadway World caught up with Qualls as they begin rehearsals for this year’s production. What follows is that conversation:

She is also one of the busiest writers of high profile award shows in Hollywood, New York and the UK.  She frequently works punching up screenplays and writing special material, comedy and song lyrics for performers. Shelly has doctored scripts or written special material for such artists as Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Sharon Stone, Jimmy Kimmel, Liza Minnelli, Larry Wilmore, James Earl Jones, Kathy Bates, Billy Connolly, Samuel L Jackson, Richard Kind, Jay Leno, Morgan Freeman, Laraine Newman, Hannah Einbinder, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Yoko Ono. Recently, Shelly is known for writing  Sherlock & Daughter (2025), Legend of the Bog (2009) and Flying with Byrd (2011). Shelly is at Catalina’s on Nov 1 in the 4th Annual NAMI Benefit concert (National Alliance for Mental Health.) Produced by Dianne Fraser, MD’d by Brad Ellis. m/event/fraser-entertainment-group-presents-you-catalina-jazz-club-tickets/14297244