When disco club singer is placed in protective custody in a dying convent, her unique brand of funk comes face-to-face with the traditions of the church and the strict order is in for a change. Masquerading as a nun named Mary Clarence, this Sister's act will have you laughing and singing in the aisles.
'THE SOUND OF MUSIC' has announced it will be closing on February 21, 2009. The Andrew Lloyd Webber production will be on national tour with Connie Fisher playing the role of Maria. She was the original casting for this role.
After a year long global search, 24 year old US actress Patina Miller has been cast to make her West End debut playing the lead role of ?Deloris Van Cartier' in the divine new musical comedy SISTER ACT . Born and raised in South Carolina, Patina's previous credits include the critically acclaimed 2008 production of Hair in New York. The role of Deloris in SISTER ACT was made famous by Whoopi Goldberg in the movie of the same name, and Goldberg is a co-producer of the stage version.
Tchaikovsky's romantic masterpiece Eugene Onegin, based on the Pushkin poem, returns to the Met on Friday, January 30, with a superb international cast. American baritone Thomas Hampson returns to the role of Onegin, the haughty aristocrat who acknowledges love too late, opposite the Finnish soprano Karita Mattila making her Met role debut as Tatiana, who grows from a love-struck young girl to an aristocratic woman. Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk is her sister, Olga; Polish tenor Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin's doomed friend; and Russian bass Sergei Aleksashkin is Gremin, the elderly prince who marries Tatiana. Aleksashkin will sing the first two performances and American bass James Morris, taking on the role for the first time at the Met, does the remainder of the run. Czech maestro Jiř? Bĕlohl?vek conducts all performances, through February 21. The production is by Robert Carsen, sets and costumes are by Michael Levine, Jean Kalman is the lighting designer, and the choreographer is Serge Bennathan.
'THE SOUND OF MUSIC' has announced it will be closing on February 21, 2009. The Andrew Lloyd Webber production will be on national tour with Connie Fisher playing the role of Maria. She was the original casting for this role.
Critically acclaimed theatre company Circus Theatricals proudly announces that playwright SHEM BITTERMAN has won the 2008 Pen USA Literary Award for Drama for his play HARM'S WAY. Past winners of the award include Sarah Rule, Luis Alfaro, Donald Freed, and Craig Volk.
Critically acclaimed theatre company Circus Theatricals proudly announces that playwright SHEM BITTERMAN has won the 2008 Pen USA Literary Award for Drama for his play HARM'S WAY. Past winners of the award include Sarah Rule, Luis Alfaro, Donald Freed, and Craig Volk.
The upcoming Broadway production of IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, a new musical stage reinvention of the beloved classic film, is pleased to announce that Stephen Bogardus, Kerry O'Malley, Jeffry Denman, Meredith Patterson, Charles Dean and Susan Mansur will lead a cast of 33 in the highly anticipated holiday engagement.
On Sunday, August 17th popular NYC Comedy Troupe FUCT will be performing at the Broadway Comedy Club with special opening act Booth and Pat.
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Theater League presents the world premiere of Love Sweet Love, a new musical featuring 31 songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their legendary collaboration, and book by C. Ben Wolfe. Sha Newman, who staged the Ovation Award-winning production West Side Story, directs and choreographs a cast of seventeen in this new musical starting Tuesday, December 4...
Annaleigh Ashford made her Broadway debut as Margot in the Tony Award-nominated musical Legally Blonde. Prior to this engagement, she was a bright 20-year-old spinning in a grandiose green dress on-stage in the first national tour ensemble of Wicked. Some nights on the road, she would cover the role of Glinda, The Good. But beginning Tuesday, October 9, 2007, Annaleigh returns to the legendary bubble, assuming the role on Broadway! Annaleigh discusses her transition from one thrilling moment in her early performing career to another…
Gretchen Wyler (1932-2007), dancer/singer/actress/activist (Guys and Dolls, Silk Stockings, Damn Yankees, Rumple, Bye Bye Birdie, Sly Fox, Applause) was remembered Tuesday, September 24 in a memorial service at Sardi's in New York City.
The Color Purple, The Musical about Love, announces that tickets will go on sale Sunday, September 23 at 11AM for the Los Angeles engagement of the first North American touring production at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles Music Center for 12 weeks only, December 13, 2007, through March 9, 2008.
Due to popular demand, the first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will add four final weeks to its Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre before moving to San Francisco
Due to popular demand, the first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will add four final weeks to its Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) before moving to San Francisco
The world premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda's 'After the War' at ACT is more a sappy 1940s San Francisco soap-opera than a nod to Japanese-American history.
The first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will premiere at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) April, 17 through July 22, 2007.
WHO: Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia WHAT: George M! WHEN: Through June 10, 2007 HOW MUCH: Go to www.tobysdinnertheatre.com for details and reservations.
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Beloved Baltimore/DC actor, Bryon Predika, passed away on January 6, 2007.
The Pasadena Playhouse has announced that Sister Act the Musical's tickets sales have set a theatre record, surpassing their last record set by August Wilson's Fences, which starred Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett...
White Christmas, based on the classic movie musical, is being presented by Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre from November 25 through December 20
LAByrinth Theater Company's Board of Directors and Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz have announced that Whoopi Goldberg will be joining previously announced celebrity lineup for the Fourth Annual LAByrinth Theater Company Benefit featuring Celebrity Charades on Monday, November 13th
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