DREAMGIRLS to Dazzle Audiences in Baltimore, 5/4-5March 5, 2013The sparkling new high-tech production of the Tony and Academy Award winning musical DREAMGIRLS will electrify audiences in Baltimore as Big League Productions, Inc. brings this high-energy Broadway hit show to the Modell Performing Arts Center At The Lyric from May 4-5 for three performances only!
Comix At Foxwoods Welcomes DOUG STANHOPE to the Fox Theatre, 5/11March 5, 2013Worldwide phenomenon and Worcester, Mass. native, Doug Stanhope, is coming back to New England to perform for his hometown fans at Foxwoods Resort Casino, as Comix welcomes the comic visionary to the Fox Theater stage on Saturday, May 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available for presale through Comix and Ticketmaster on Wednesday, Mar. 13 at 10 a.m., and regular tickets will go on sale Friday, Mar. 15 at 10 a.m. Fans can purchase tickets in advance for $25, $35 and $45. This show is for mature audiences only.
Sound Opinions at the Movies Series Continues With WATTSTAX, 5/1March 5, 2013The popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series continues with a screening of Wattstax, the 1973 Mel Stuart documentary chronicling the legendary Stax Records-sponsored Watts Summer Music Festival, at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue, Wednesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Chicago Public Media's Sound Opinions, the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show, is co-hosted by acclaimed pop music critics Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune and Jim DeRogatis of WBEZ.org and airs on more than 100 radio stations around the country.
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Opens Canadian Opera Company's Spring Season, 4/17-5/24March 5, 2013Opening the Canadian Opera Company's 2012/2013 spring season is Gaetano Donizetti's bel cantomasterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor, starring American soprano Anna Christy in a production created especially for her by director David Alden at English National Opera. American conductor Stephen Lord, named one of the "25 Most Powerful Names in U.S. Opera" by Opera News, leads the COC Orchestra and Chorus through Donizetti's cascading romantic melodies. Last presented by the COC in 2004, Lucia di Lammermoor returns for nine performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on April 17, 20, 26, 30, May 9, 12, 15, 18 and 24, 2013, and is sung in Italian with English SURTITLES.
CELTIC NIGHTS: THE EMIGRANTS BRIDGE to Play Jorgensen Center, 3/8-9February 28, 2013The Celtic culture is interwoven with journey, comings and goings that shaped family, friends, love and loss. But the thread of music and dance was the constant. Preparing us for the March season of all things Irish, 'Celtic Nights: The Emigrants Bridge' will arrive in Jorgensen's award-winning Cabaret on Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9.
FLASHDANCE THE MUSICAL Comes to The Paramount Theatre, 4/16-21February 28, 2013FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit film that defined a generation, will perform at The Paramount Theatre from Tuesday, April 16, through Sunday, April 21 as part of the KeyBank Broadway at The Paramount series.
Debby Boone Debuts New CD at Café Carlyle, 3/19-30February 28, 2013Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling vocalist, Debby Boone will make her debut at the legendary Cafe Carlyle on March 19 through 30 with her new show "Swing This," featuring a nine piece band.
World-Premiere of SHIFTING GEARS Plays Canyon Moon Theatre, 3/7-24February 28, 2013It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.
More Performances Added for CABARET at Tennessee Repertory TheatreFebruary 28, 2013Due to popular demand, Tennessee Repertory Theatre has added even more performances of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret with book and lyrics by Joe Masteroff and Fred Ebb and music by John Kander. Performances have been added on Tuesday, March 12 and Wednesday, March 13. Cabaret runs through March 16 at TPAC's Johnson Theater.
Last Chance to See FRIGID New York's LOVE IN THE TIME OF TIME MACHINES, 3/1-2February 28, 2013Love in the Time of Time Machines has been selected as one of the best in the Frigid Festival, and given an extra show in the Hangovers. This Monday, March 4th, at 7:00pm is your absolute last chance to see this 'charming and unusual love story'(Hi!Drama) You still have two more chances to see this amazing play that critics are calling 'clever and delightful' (NYTheater.com) and audiences are calling their 'favourite play of the festival'(frigidnewyork.info), before it moves from Under St. Marks to the Kraine Theatre.
Get Inside the Mind of Suzanne Regan, 3/17February 28, 2013Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbor's Professional Theatre, invites audiences to discover the genius behind their award-winning productions through the brand new series, Cultural Conversations, a series of in-depth onstage discussions led by Associate Artistic Director, Carla Milarch. The next installment, on March 17th, 2013 at 5:30pm brings Suzanne Regan, award-winning actress and star of "Good People" to the Performance Network Theatre Stage (located on 120 E. Huron Street, Ann Arbor). Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at performancenetworktheatre.org or by calling 734-663-0681.
Main Street Theatre Presents MISS NELSON IS MISSING, 3/2-4/6February 26, 2013The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing through the air. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school. But when Miss Nelson disappears and the mean-looking substitute Miss Viola Swamp takes her place, the children are so desperate they hire a detective to find Miss Nelson in this wacky whodunit hit!
OIL OF OLE! Coming to LaMaMa, 3/22-24February 26, 2013Oil of Ole! is a dynamic mix of traditional flamenco and outlandish clowning which will be presented March 22-24th at LaMaMa Club, 74A East 4th Street. Kendall Cornell (leader of the all-women clown troupe Clowns Ex Machina) renews her inspired collaboration with flamenco singer Alfonso Cid and guitarist Arturo Martinez in this performance melding masterful flamenco music, dance and imaginative lunacy.