SAPPHO...IN 9 FRAGMENTS Extends Sold Out Run, Feb 3January 24, 2013Second Skin Theatre's production of Sappho… in 9 fragments by Jane Montgomery Griffiths has garnered unprecedented success with a sold out run at the White Rabbit Theatre, which has been extended for an extra week to accommodate an overwhelming request for tickets.
MUSE ROUGE PRODUCTIONS and THE SECRET SOCIETY Presents THE COCO & RUBY VARIETY HOUR, 2/15January 24, 2013Courtney Freed and Rebecca Johnson will star in The Coco & Ruby Variety Hour, a dazzling trip down memory lane and a peek into the hilarious and wacky lives of the these two ginger dames. Coco and Ruby mysteriously fell out of their humdrum lives in 1940's Newark, New Jersey and into modern day Hollywood to live the dream! These two characters from the hit web series, 'Coco & Ruby,' written by Rachel Roderman and directed by Steve Brian, will shuffle-ball-change right out of your computer screen on February 15th to bring you a LIVE show full of old-school comedy and musicianship reminiscent of Lucille Ball and Betty Hutton. The Coco & Ruby Variety Hour will include many of your favorite WWII era standards, as well as vintage takes on contemporary pop songs.
Arts Centre Melbourne to be Centrestage at WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE, 2/23January 24, 2013Arts Centre Melbourne will be centrestage at White Night Melbourne from 7pm-7am Saturday 23 February with shows on all five mainstages, a sub-sub-culture sound experience five floors down, ghostly backstage tours, puppets on show, burlesque and revelry in The Famous Spiegeltent, sights and sounds in the popular Sound Lounge, and sustenance throughout at Arts Centre Melbourne's bars and cafés.
FRIGID New York Presents A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MISS HICCUP, 2/20-3/3January 24, 2013Opening February 20th, FRIGID New York Presents A Day In The Life of Miss Hiccup, a solo physical non-verbal comedy show. The show will play through March 3rd.
Tickets are $16 and can be purchased by calling SmartTix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.FRIGIDnewyork.info.
The Childrens Acting Company Presents WILLY WONKA JR at McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Now thru 2/3January 24, 2013The Childrens Acting Company (CAA), an arm of the internationally acclaimed The Children's Acting Academy of New York, will present its production of Willy Wonka Jr for six performances at Manhattan's McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, 4th Floor, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, tonight, January 25, 26 and 27 at 7 PM and on today, Saturday and Sunday, February 1, 2 and 3, at 7 PM.
The Growing Stage Presents WITH TWO WINGS, 2/1-24January 22, 2013The Growing Stage, The Children's Theatre of New Jersey, located in the Historic Palace Theatre on Route 183 in Netcong, New Jersey is proud to present the East Coast Premiere of WITH TWO WINGS from February 1st through February 24th with performances Friday evenings at 7:30 PM, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 4:00 PM.
COTTON PATCH GOSPEL Opens this Friday at Hanover Tavern, 1/25-4/28January 22, 2013Virginia Repertory Theatre announces the opening of Cotton Patch Gospel on Friday, January 25, 2013 at Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road. The show is part of the Acts of Faith Theatre Festival and will run through April 28. Adapted from the books by Clarence Jordan, the musical by Tom Key and Russell Treyz retells the Gospels of Matthew and John set in the mid-20th-century American South.
Comedian JOHN PINETTE Comes To Columbus, 2/23January 22, 2013The 'big man' of stand-up, John Pinette brings audiences to the brink of tears with his food-obsessed, smart, original, Bill Cosby-influenced observations on everyday life. Best know for his current comedy specials 'I'm Starvin' and 'Show Me the Buffet,' Pinette covers every hilarious angle on America's obsession with food and being fat.
Second Show Added for BRIAN REGAN at bergenPAC, 5/10January 22, 2013Due to popular demand, Bergen Performance Arts Center in Englewood New Jersey added an additional show for Brian Regan whose 7:30PM performance is close to sold out! Reserve your tickets now for Brian Regan's second show on Friday May 10that 10:00 PM.
Ubique Cabaret Theatre's ASPECTS OF LOVE Opens 3/11January 22, 2013Aspects of Love, the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart that enjoyed a three-year run in London's West End from 1989 to 1992, will receive a long overdue Chicago mounting when Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre opens its production on March 11, 2013. It will be the musical's first staging in the area since a touring company played the old Civic Theatre in spring 1992.
Caps Lock Theatre to Present PUSSYFEST REDUX, 2/9-10January 22, 2013Caps Lock Theatre, an NYIT-Award nominated theatre company founded by nytheatre.com "Person of the Year" Mariah MacCarthy, will present Pussyfest Redux, February 9-10 at Joria Productions (260 West 36th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue). The two evenings will feature monologues about the body, written for femaleidentifying or female-bodied actresses, as well as some live music by female musicians.
Participating Schools Announced for 2013 FREDDY AwardsJanuary 22, 2013The State Theatre Center for the Arts announces the 2013 FREDDY© Awards, the 11th year of the program, recognizing and rewarding exceptional accomplishments in the production and performance of musical theater in high schools in Lehigh and Northampton Counties,Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey.
State Theatre Presents 17th Annual Elvis Birthday Bash, 2/1January 17, 2013Celebrate the State Theatre's 17th rockin' Elvis Birthday Bash with the Ultimate Tribute Show! The Elvis Birthday Bash pays homage to the King of Rock 'N Roll with Scot Bruce as the young heartbreaker and Mike Albert as the seasoned 'Vegas-style' Elvis. Backed by the fantastic Big 'E' Band, they'll leave you screaming for more.
Neighborhood Classics to Present Contemporaneous' DON'T EVEN, 2/11January 17, 2013The Neighborhood Classics concert series presents new music group Contemporaneous on Monday, February 11 at 7pm, at P.S. 142 (100 Attorney St., NYC) on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The evening, entitled DON'T EVEN, will be hosted by James Matheson, composer and Neighborhood Classics Artistic Director at P.S. 142. The program includes Sean Friar's Clunker Concerto (world premiere, revised version), Jeremy Podgursky's Mindjob (East Coast premiere), Judd Greenstein's Octet 1979, Andrew Norman's Try, and David Lang's increase.
Repertory Theater of St. Louis to Continue Ignite! Festival of New Plays, 3/16-23January 17, 2013The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) continues the Ignite! Festival of New Plays. Taking place in March, the festival will include commissions of nationally recognized playwrights, culminating with three public readings including Soups, Stews, and Casseroles by Rebecca Gilman and directed by Seth Gordon; Tamarack House by Michael Dowling and directed by Anders Cato; and Love in the Time of Cholera by Caridad Svich (based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and directed by Jose Zayas. The festival productions will take place in the Sally S. Levy Opera Center, located at 210 Hazel Avenue, directly behind the Loretto-Hilton Center.
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie Presents FROM THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, 2/14-24January 17, 2013Opening on Valentine's Day, exactly one year to the day Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (CLC) re-opened The Citadel, its Regent Park home, CLC proudly presents a remount of its acclaimedFrom the House of Mirth, directed and choreographed byJames Kudelka, fromFebruary 14-24, 2013.