The 'West of Broadway' Podcast Welcomes Joshua Holden from 'The Joshua Show'
Segerstrom Center for the Arts' in Costa Mesa, California continues it's 2019 - 2020 Family Series with The Joshua Show: Episode 2. This family-friendly production plays February 1 and 2 in Samueli Theater. Will caught up with Joshua himself. Joshua holden is an Award-winning puppeteer and Ambassador joy. He shares how he uses singing, tap dancing and a cast of zany puppets to thrill audiences of all ages in his whimsical production about friendship and the value of being yourself.
Photo Flash: BROADWAY BACKWARDS, Featuring White, Rivera, Johnson, Brooks and More, Raises Record $480K for BC/EFA
The sold-out audience at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre was dazzled last night, March 21, 2016, by this year's stirring edition of Broadway Backwards. The annual celebration, where men sing songs originally written for women and vice versa offering this audience the chance to see LGBT stories told through the great songs of musical theatre, set a new fundraising record. The evening raised an incredible $480,287 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. Scroll down for stunning shots from the evening!
NY Phil Conductor Joshua Weilerstein Will LA Chamber Orch in West Coast Premiere
Two profoundly gifted 27-year-old classical music artists make their highly anticipated Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra debuts when New York Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Joshua Weilerstein, 'one of the most promising podium presences of his generation' (Los Angeles Times), conducts Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto No. 1 featuring International Tchaikovsky Competition winner Narek Hakhnazaryan, a 'phenomenal cellist (who) produces a powerful and colorful sound... and flashes virtuoso tricks with insolent ease' (The Washington Post), on Saturday, April 18, 2015, 8 pm, at Glendale's Alex Theatre, and Sunday, April 19, 2015, 7 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall. Weilerstein, who won the prestigious 2009 Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen, Denmark, at age 21, also conducts Mozart's Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter,' and the West Coast premiere of imagined landscapes: six Lovecraftian elsewheres, inspired by the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, by composer Joseph Hallman, named one of the top composers under 40 by National Public Radio.