Sydney Theatre Company Presents ORESTEIA 1 June to 4 JulyApril 27, 2010A highlight of Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 Main Stage Season, Oresteia, features the Company's permanent ensemble of actors, The Residents, in an adaptation based principally on the first two plays (Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers) of Aeschylus' 5th Century BC trilogy, condensed into one incisive drama. Directed by Associate Director Tom Wright, the production is at The Wharf from 1 June, opening 5 June 2010.
Santa Monica Playhouse Presents Return Engagement Of BACKSTREET, Opens 5/15April 27, 2010Santa Monica Playhouse presents Actor's Repertory Theatre (ART) in the return engagement of the 'dazzling' (Daily Bruin) original Jewish musical, BACKSTREET, a passionate and whimsical portrait of life, love, and loyalty played out by a family of Backstreet Ladies in a house of Jewish 'working girls' in the New York ghetto, circa 1905. This gem from the Playhouse Jewish Heritage Program by the creators of the immensely popular Sholom Aleichem quartet of plays - Author! Author!, Because of You, The Clown Prince and The Great Fair - and part of the ongoing Santa Monica Playhouse (SMP) 50th Anniversary Celebration of Theatre, opens May 15, 2010.
San Jose Repertory Theatre Presents SONIA FLEW 5/8-6/6April 27, 2010San Jose Repertory Theatre concludes the 2009-2010 season with the poetic Cuban American story, Sonia Flew, penned by Elliot Norton and Kennedy Center Charlotte Woolard Award-winner, Melinda Lopez. Directed by Richard Seer, Sonia Flew is a powerful portrayal of a Cuban family profoundly changed by political forces that brings to question: What is owed to one's children, parents and country.
MSNBC Beats CNN for the Third Consecutive MonthApril 27, 2010MSNBC continued to pull away from CNN in April, beating "the most trusted name in news" in every hour from 6 p.m.-12 a.m. and beating CNN in total day for the third consecutive month among the key Adults 25-54 demographic, according to data released today from Nielsen Media Research.
MSNBC.Com Unveils 'Smart' New Mobile SiteApril 27, 2010The Msnbc Digital Network today announced the launch of its new mobile site optimized for smartphones. The enhanced mobile site combines the power of the Msnbc Digital Network with advanced features on smartphones to deliver an immersive and visually-compelling mobile news experience that can't be found anywhere else. Consumers with an iPhone, Android, Palm Pre and other qualifying devices can enjoy the new mobile site today. Msnbc's new mobile site also delivers a unique environment for premium sponsorships, with the Hilton Hotels brand as the inaugural advertising sponsor.
TORI & DEAN Make April 2010 Best Ever For OxygenApril 27, 2010On the heels of its best quarter ever, Oxygen recorded its best April ever among key demos in prime, including women 18-34, women 18-49 and total viewers. Driving April ratings was a combination of programming successes, including the season five premiere of 'Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,' which was the series highest season premiere among A18-49, W18-49, W18-34 and total viewers. The premiere was Oxygen's highest Monday season premiere among W18-49, W18-34 and A18-34, making Oxygen the #5 cable network among W18-49 that night.
WORST CASE SCENARIO Debuts On Discovery Channel 5/5April 27, 2010Discovery Channel's original six-part series WORST CASE SCENARIO, based on the bestselling series of books with the same name, premieres Wednesday, May 5 at 10PM ET/PT. On the show, survival expert and MAN VS. WILD host Bear Grylls portrays potentially life-threatening situations to demonstrate how to survive in a worst case scenario. Filmed like a feature film, Grylls pushes his physical boundaries - part stuntman, part urban survivalist - to exhibit scenarios that viewers could find themselves in and equip them with potentially life-saving information.
RCP's THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR Plays Through 5/1April 27, 2010The River City Players current show is the hilarious farce, 'THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR' by Michael Parker. The production continues this weekend Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1, 2010 with dinner theatre at 6:30 p.m. Curtain at 7:45 p.m.
The Media Theatre Presents RENT 5/6-6/6April 27, 2010One of Broadway's longest-running musicals makes its regional professional premiere at The Media Theatre May 5-June 6. 'Rent', Jonathan Larson's rock and roll odyssey of the lives and loves of a group of friends on Manhattan's Lower East Side, became such a huge phenomenon that it spawned the careers of several popular performers (Adam Pascal, Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, and Daphne Rubin-Vega) and ran for 12 years.
The Drilling Company Presents FAITH Short Plays Project 5/6-23April 27, 2010Declaring 'We all believe in something...don't we?,' The Drilling Company has set a short play project on the subject. The troupe (www.drillingcompany.org), known as a home for award-winning writers, has saved the theater where they made their home for the last ten years and in September 2009, assumed the lease on the venue formerly known as the 78th Street Theatre Lab, citing their faith in the space. To mark the occasion, at the time of the takeover they commissioned nine emerging playwrights to write short works on the subject of faith. The entire project, titled 'Faith,' will be presented as a two hour evening May 6 to 23.